Initiating the new guy
Back when I worked at Chick-Fil-A we used to run a lot of gags on the trainees once they were acquainted with everyone and if we knew for fact they’d take it well. Anyways we had a new kid named Lee who was already friends with a few people at the store so we figured we could get him pretty good. We decide to pull our Freon prank. We’d say the walk in is older so sometimes the Freon levels get high and we have to switch the air out or else the food will be contaminated. So right when a rush is about to hit I tell my coworker to come out of the refrigerator and tell me the Freon levels are getting dangerously high. I put on a little show, “Aw shit, the rush is just about to hit, here Lee come here and help me!” I grab a trash bag and an apron and tell him to put the apron on and start removing all the old air from the fridge by using the bag like a net to catch the air and then run outside to release it until the levels were safe. This kid had the most serious, panicked expression ever and instantly SPRINTS into the walk in and starts waving the trash bag around like crazy before running outside (in front of customers in the drive thru mind you) with the bag above his head and shaking it out like that would help. We keep egging him on for about 5 minutes until one of the FOH managers comes back and starts laughing her ass off. The best part is he didn’t realize she was laughing at him so just keeps going. After another few minutes there’s a crowd of like 6 people just dying at the sight of this kid in a dish apron sprinting around with an empty trash bag above his head while he’s holding his breath to not inhale the Freon. Finally I stop him and let him know we were messing with him. He thought it was hilarious which was good, shout out Lee for being a good sport. The video of that went triple platinum on my Snapchat, looked like a deranged dishwasher SpongeBob forgot his net and tried to catch jellyfish with a trash bag.
EDIT: should clarify it was really only people we got hired on we’d mess with besides two exceptions I can think of.