Gas

The Boilermaker Apprentice being a Boilermaker Apprentice farted into the clip-on gas monitor he was supposed to wear clipped to his shirt close to his face. The monitor beeped several times, lights flashed, it vibrated, and finally alarms went off.  Then the monitor died.

The Apprentice laughed.

Then the monitor had to be sent back to the shop to be re-calibrated.

Next morning the Apprentice was called to the General Foreman’s office.  The General Foreman was not known for talking lots.

“Fuck’n around with the safety equipment is a firing offence. Get out.”

“Well how do you know it was me?”

“Those things are downloaded every night onto a computer. We can even tell when you are breathing. You endangered yourself, and the people around you. Like I said, get out.”

And for as long as that General Foreman was working on that site, nobody but nobody touched those monitors, ever.