Best boss I've ever had
I used to work for a bank and it was very stressful on Fridays as we had lots of customers, including a lot of bars and restaurants, coming in for money to last them over the weekend. As a result, our tempers were always frayed and we'd often go home feeling a bit ratty, often ruining our Friday nights. So one day the boss got us all together and proposed that each Friday night, after we'd locked the money away in the safe, we all went downstairs into the basement and had a fight. We thought for a while, tried it out one week, and our regular Friday night "rumble" was born. Worked a treat too. I still think we were the original "Fight Club".

He also decided to scare our only female member of staff one day by climbing into the tiny lift we had to take the tills from the basement safe to the counter, his intention being to leap out at her when she opened the door. He somehow squashed himself inside (he was about 6'6", and the lift was maybe 3' high), we closed the door, sent the lift up, and then let go of the "operate" button which had to be held in to make the lift move. We left him trapped in the shaft for about ten minutes.

His intended target asked after a while what all the banging was. "It's the boss," we replied, "he's trying to scare you, but we've trapped him in the lift." She just nodded her head in response. He was livid when we let him out.
(nasalhair The Twix guy!, Thu 18 Jun 2009, 18:43, Reply)