grogee Posted November 23, 2021 Share Posted November 23, 2021 Bit of a long shot but I wonder if any of you have some great* pictures of wall-scrawling from places you've worked or visited. Back in 2009 I was lucky* enough to visit the Ellesmere Port Vauxhall factory. They had obviously had a good scrub-up before the journo's arrived and the fresh paint was obvious everywhere. However, the eagle-eyed foreman had missed this gem. hennabm, Isopon, BlankFrank and 7 others 2 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamescarruthers Posted November 24, 2021 Share Posted November 24, 2021 We had a tractor tug that had a placard hand amended for years, probably still there, that stated the maximum it could could tow was 1 G.T., which was shorthand for Ginger Tosser. Said “Ginger Tosser” was quite fat but actually a top bloke in my book so no idea why that was there. I actually asked him about it but he didn’t really care. I quite respected that he was above such shit. grogee and goosey 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamescarruthers Posted November 24, 2021 Share Posted November 24, 2021 Oh, and a guy that seemed to constantly injure himself, like majorly, had a sort of crime scene outline of a dead body stuck on the floor outside his locker now and again in masking tape. Rab, grogee, Minimad5 and 1 other 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tooSavvy Posted November 24, 2021 Share Posted November 24, 2021 *motor, anyway..... IN ERS ARSE, on Nissan vans. Had me howling (need 2get out more) 🥺 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamescarruthers Posted November 24, 2021 Share Posted November 24, 2021 Oops just re-read that this is Motor Industry… mine are slightly off topic, sorry! grogee 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grogee Posted November 24, 2021 Author Share Posted November 24, 2021 27 minutes ago, jamescarruthers said: Oops just re-read that this is Motor Industry… mine are slightly off topic, sorry! Not at all, I was casting a very wide net. All defaced workplaces welcome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaseracer Posted November 24, 2021 Share Posted November 24, 2021 38 minutes ago, jamescarruthers said: ...had a sort of come scene outline... 😳 horriblemercedes and yes oui si 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mintwth Posted November 24, 2021 Share Posted November 24, 2021 46 minutes ago, jamescarruthers said: a sort of come scene outline Splashy Tadhg Tiogar 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amishtat Posted November 24, 2021 Share Posted November 24, 2021 55 minutes ago, grogee said: Not at all, I was casting a very wide net. All defaced workplaces welcome. CreepingJesus, Scruffy Bodger, grogee and 7 others 4 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamescarruthers Posted November 24, 2021 Share Posted November 24, 2021 1 hour ago, chaseracer said: 😳 57 minutes ago, mintwth said: Splashy Oh dear! Bad typing on my part: edited original post to be CRIME scene, not come scene! grogee and tooSavvy 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andyrew Posted November 24, 2021 Share Posted November 24, 2021 I once had to take photos for a "how to" instruction manual for a contract at my old job, a small gps unit that would often fail on the equipment we produced. It was a step by step guide that could be sent for people to use for assembling the replacement part on site. Expecting the person i knew who was writing the manual to pick up on them and have a chuckle i had taken the photos but in the background i had placed various items. A handful of set Screws positoned so they spelt various words like "kill me/tits/cock/balls" on numerous photos, also a workmates bare bum cheeks perched upon the edge of the table just slightly out of focus. A good 10 or so photos like this. He never clocked it, and thus a manual with a pair of arse cheeks and rude words was emailed to the customers. Ohh how he didnt laugh. GMcD, Dick Longbridge, Supernaut and 22 others 4 21 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainBoom Posted November 24, 2021 Share Posted November 24, 2021 Not really grafitti, but sort of... In the early 2000's I worked in a High Street bank, I was involved in various schemes that caused trouble. One particular jape got me into a LOT of trouble. In our office, we had a photo board of the staff and management, just 3" x 2" headshots with our names underneath. We had a manager who was a bit of a plum, a David Brent-a-like if you will. One evening, when I had the ground floor to myself, I borrowed this manager feller's picture and wrote 'Do ya think I'm sexy?' onto a sheet of A4, placed his photo above it and photocopied it about 20 times. Once the printer had finished spewing these out. I drew out all of the paper (probably about 500 sheets) from the feed tray and dispersed the 'rogue' sheets face down, in amongst the contents of the tray, purely at random so no two photograph sheets were together. I then left the scene. Nothing happened for a day or so. Then we started getting phonecalls from other branches that had received memos from our office (the bank were very slow to adopt email). The sheets with David Brent-a-like were getting everywhere. Eventually, some senior manager of a processing centre phoned up and complained that he'd had to stop his team working the previous night as there had 'been a data protection breach' or some other cobblers. That's right 'Do ya think I'm sexy?' had turned up and been scanned as a customer's ID document, it was then very difficult to delete from their system or some such twaddle. It got traced back to me somehow, probably because no-one else there had lack of sanity to do such a thing and I got a verbal warning. There is a postscript to this, a bloke who I worked with had applied for a job internally and must have photocopied his CV before sending it. Some weeks later, he was called to interview and the recruiting manager had his CV on the desk in front of him. At one stage the recruiting manager lifted the document up to bring it closer to him, and, you've guessed it, our man, was on the back! The bloke didn't get the job, mainly because he started pissing himself with laughter in the interview... rainagain, Isopon, cort1977 and 24 others 5 22 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Longbridge Posted November 24, 2021 Share Posted November 24, 2021 On 11/23/2021 at 12:01 PM, grogee said: Bit of a long shot but I wonder if any of you have some great* pictures of wall-scrawling from places you've worked or visited. Back in 2009 I was lucky* enough to visit the Ellesmere Port Vauxhall factory. They had obviously had a good scrub-up before the journo's arrived and the fresh paint was obvious everywhere. However, the eagle-eyed foreman had missed this gem. I'd imagine Noel was still pissed off with his kid brother at the time. Interesting to know that he supplemented his early High Flying Birds earnings with those gained from assembling Vauxhall Corsas though. grogee 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timewaster Posted November 25, 2021 Share Posted November 25, 2021 I can't remember where I saw it, it might have been on As, but I remember a picture of a rough gnarly old quarry truck, weather beaten and exposed to the elements. On the dash board were 3 old lucas switches, marked up in hand written tipp-ex "Lights", "Wiper" and "Fuck knows" LightBulbFun, grogee, catsinthewelder and 1 other 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dome Posted November 25, 2021 Share Posted November 25, 2021 TVR were well known for this sort of thing-a big cock and balls drawn on the roof before the headlining was fitted and the like. Apparently the boys building David Beckhams Cerbera left a few choice messages on the panels, hopefully he never had to lift the carpets on his to find a water leak... grogee, CreepingJesus, Lacquer Peel and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sutty2006 Posted November 25, 2021 Share Posted November 25, 2021 It’s everywhere at my garage grogee, CreepingJesus and Scruffy Bodger 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sutty2006 Posted November 25, 2021 Share Posted November 25, 2021 We used to have dicks EVERYWHERE but a lot have been removed including the employees responsible (they left of their own accord) Rab 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grogee Posted December 2, 2021 Author Share Posted December 2, 2021 On 11/25/2021 at 4:20 PM, sutty2006 said: We used to have dicks EVERYWHERE but a lot have been removed including the employees responsible (they left of their own accord) That's a detailed example, the mark of a professional. He's probably moved to somewhere his work is more appreciated. Minimad5 and spike60 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martc Posted December 2, 2021 Share Posted December 2, 2021 On 11/25/2021 at 4:20 PM, sutty2006 said: We used to have dicks EVERYWHERE but a lot have been removed including the employees responsible (they left of their own accord) Do they now work here? Or here? CaptainBoom 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sutty2006 Posted December 2, 2021 Share Posted December 2, 2021 The cardboard penis artist is still here, his are very detailed and very noticeable. The rest of the “not so arty” penis’s have all but vanished now. grogee 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lankytim Posted December 2, 2021 Share Posted December 2, 2021 The intercom buzzer HGV drivers use at the Eddie Stobart “Multi modal gateway” at Widnes had a “all Vauxhall’s are shit” sticker applied by me in 2005ish and AFAIK it’s still there despite various attempts to peel it off. I did have a photo but lost it a while back. The sticker was part of an Autoshite sticker you could buy on the forum years ago. nacho man, catsinthewelder, Crackers and 1 other 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rainagain Posted December 2, 2021 Share Posted December 2, 2021 Not quite graffiti but it used to be common for the cabs of power station turbine hall cranes to be plastered with jazz mag pictures. As they were all switched to remote control they became a bit of a time capsule. A guy I worked with refused to ever do any work that involved going inside the cabins as he had heard rumours his mum had posed for pics when she was younger and he didn’t want to risk seeing far more of her than he ever wanted. Rab, CreepingJesus, grogee and 3 others 4 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grogee Posted December 2, 2021 Author Share Posted December 2, 2021 7 hours ago, Lankytim said: The intercom buzzer HGV drivers use at the Eddie Stobart “Multi modal gateway” at Widnes had a “all Vauxhall’s are shit” sticker applied by me in 2005ish and AFAIK it’s still there despite various attempts to peel it off. I did have a photo but lost it a while back. The sticker was part of an Autoshite sticker you could buy on the forum years ago. I'm loving the AS forum vibe. Are stickers/merch still available? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fumbler Posted December 2, 2021 Share Posted December 2, 2021 49 minutes ago, rainagain said: Not quite graffiti but it used to be common for the cabs of power station turbine hall cranes to be plastered with jazz mag pictures. As they were all switched to remote control they became a bit of a time capsule. A guy I worked with refused to ever do any work that involved going inside the cabins as he had heard rumours his mum had posed for pics when she was younger and he didn’t want to risk seeing far more of her than he ever wanted. <derail> Yup, we have some places on my station like that too, although the turbine hall has disappeared completely. I found this in the redundant main change block once- Next to a telephone within the plant itself there's a bunch of signatures from peple working in the 90s and the obligatory "'x' likes to suck cock", tits and Playboy mags scattered in dark damp corners. </derail> grogee 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard_FM Posted December 2, 2021 Share Posted December 2, 2021 9 hours ago, martc said: Do they now work here? Or here? I remember seeing a sign for a Swimming Pool, which had been turned to Swim in Poo! Crackers 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reb Posted December 2, 2021 Share Posted December 2, 2021 On 11/25/2021 at 9:30 AM, Timewaster said: I can't remember where I saw it, it might have been on As, but I remember a picture of a rough gnarly old quarry truck, weather beaten and exposed to the elements. On the dash board were 3 old lucas switches, marked up in hand written tipp-ex "Lights", "Wiper" and "Fuck knows" It would have been on here, I've seen the very truck in person! Lacquer Peel 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Jetter Posted December 2, 2021 Share Posted December 2, 2021 2 hours ago, Fumbler said: <derail> Yup, we have some places on my station like that too, although the turbine hall has disappeared completely. I found this in the redundant main change block once- Next to a telephone within the plant itself there's a bunch of signatures from peple working in the 90s and the obligatory "'x' likes to suck cock", tits and Playboy mags scattered in dark damp corners. </derail> Hang on, you work where? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fumbler Posted December 2, 2021 Share Posted December 2, 2021 8 minutes ago, High Jetter said: Hang on, you work where? Defunct power station. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Jetter Posted December 2, 2021 Share Posted December 2, 2021 Oh ah - did you get a tv crew there a while back? Was interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fumbler Posted December 3, 2021 Share Posted December 3, 2021 26 minutes ago, High Jetter said: Oh ah - did you get a tv crew there a while back? Was interesting. There mayyyyyyy have... I've been spending so much time in training I haven't been at work all that much to see what's been going on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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