What's the funniest thing a rookie has asked you?

[kyco437]

So, what's the funniest thing a rookie has asked you. One asked me if I was a Captain....... No, I believe they thought I was a Sergeant. Oh well!

[shakedownshorti]

"What time do I get relieved for my lunch break?" and "What are these Big keys for, do they open big doors??"

Lunch break what's that???? I was really amused at that!

[ATW-Hack]

Not a question but still funny. I was acting LT one night and I had the three towers that had rookies in them all call me with their inventories of toilet paper, paper towels and soap...As I was laughing my butt off I had to explain to them that they had been had, and not to fall for that crap again! The next night I had the same thing...and two of the rookies were the same guys as the night before.

[soundboy125]

I had a rookie nurse ask me one night as I escorted her into the old timers unit, "these guys aren't dangerous right?"

Reminding me of pranks, we actually got a rookie to walk and call the captains shack secure on the radio one evening. And then we got another to go out the back door and flash the tower every 1/2 hour and write a report because we told him we were under partial fog condition...lol

[Cory]

we had a guy run all over, for about 2 1/2 hours, to 13 different units for the " beanhole buffer key" this was after we had himwalk around an entire housing unit on the outside and remove all the homemade intennas and put them on the capt's desk ( there was about 50 of them)

[eighty deuce]

Had a rookie ask me what the number was to the powerhouse. I told him that the number was 2223 (which was before we had four digit extensions). It was on morning watch and I notified OPS and control. That was a good thing!

[all4114all]

My first day as a unit manager, I walked into the unit and stopped to greet the midnight shift officer. She (apparently not the brightest) asked if I was her relief. I said no I am the unit manager. She was quite dissappointed!

[Gaoler]

Originally Posted by all4114all

My first day as a unit manager, I walked into the unit and stopped to greet the midnight shift officer. She (apparently not the brightest) asked if I was her relief. I said no I am the unit manager. She was quite dissappointed!

I've had that happen to me way too many times (in reverse). I'm waiting on my relief and an acting supervisor shows up to get his tour done at the beginning of the shift, so here I am thinking my relief has finally shown up.

Sorry to go off topic. Fraid no rookies have asked me anything bizarre yet.

[Mack the Hack]

As I am working as the Compound Officer, the Institutions acting Executive Assitant, comes through giving a tour to two brand new rookies. He takes them into the hobby shot area which was closed at the time. I had to go unlock it so they could get up into it on their tour. As I was standing at the bottom of the stairs waiting for them to come back down from their tour. Up walks the Warden with Harley Lapin. The Warden was escorting him out to the Unicor area of our institution. Harley asks me why I am standing where I am standing. I tell him that I am waiting on the two rookies that are upstairs in their Insitution Familiarization getting their Tour. He tells me he wants me to go up there with him and he wants to talk with them. He tells the Warden to go on with out him and he will meet the Warden at the Factory. I tried to call the Exec Asst on the Radio to warn him we were coming up. Harley and I. He didn't answer. So we still go up, and meet the rookies. They get a chance to talk to Harley, he cracks jokes on them. He leaves and walks back down the stairs. I stay up there with the Rookies and the Exec Asst. One of the Rookies asks me "was that the Captain ?"

[tcurtis76]

had a rookie a few mins ago on the compound ask the compound 1 officer well what do i do now on the radio i would love to know what they were talking about