Reply #16: I worked in a full service restaurant

[hippywife]

with an ice cream counter (not Friendly's) when I was 16 through about 18. I never pulled any pranks but the guys I worked with sure did.

They would send the noob into the ice cream freezer to mop the floor or up on the roof with bread crusts to fill the bird feeders...on a rainy night.

The best one I ever saw was the asst. manager had the new guy on his knees under the cold side of the sandwich board behind the grill. He was standing behind him saying, "Okay, the record time for cleaning out this refrigerator unit is 4 minutes. GO!" The guy is working his ass off as fast as he can and the asst. manager was standing behind him staring at his wrist as if he had a watch on. He didn't. That one was probably a "you had to be there and know the people involved" kind of prank for it to be as funny as it was at the time.