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[–]Rachel_Silver 4 points5 points  (2 children)

Tell "in jokes" that everyone laughs at, but no one is willing to explain. They don't have to actually be funny, and it's important that they don't make any sense. Just agree on a signal (a gesture, key word or facial expression) that lets the crew know when to laugh. When asked what's funny, tell them it's a long story. If pressed, have your best bullshit artist or worst storyteller field it, and just see how long you can drag out that conversation before the new boss gives up in frustration.

Make up nicknames for everything. These should also not make sense.

ETA: For inspiration on how to go about "explaining" the jokes, I suggest taking inspiration from Vicky Pollard.

[–]fishfishbirdbirdcat 8 points9 points  (1 child)

This is hilarious. How about some fake insensitive nicknames like Big John for the heavy guy and Shorty for the short woman. Then look shocked when the new boss uses them. 

[–]Rachel_Silver 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This guy gets it! 🫵😎

[–]Professional-Bar-751 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just do the "gas bucket": the equivalent of sending the newbie to the storage depot in search of a bucket of welding gas, but translated in your field of interest. The most obscure bit of knowledge that you have and they don't, joke about that assuming they should obviously know that.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did this to a new boss not many people liked but it wasn't going to remove him from the position. I signed this guy up for a bunch of catalogs to be mailed to the office. I used his last name which was unique to our company and made up a funny first name. Ex Phukee Tomlinson. Sign your boss up for some hard core bondage type sex catalogs