My favorite is sending an apprentice to the tool crib for a long weight.

Tool crib guy will say “Yeah it’s out back, I’ll go grab it”, and then go for a smoke

My senior manager at work once tried to start a vacuum cleaner, apparently he had never used one before. Anyway the cleaners told him the power cable was in fact a rip cord like on a generator.

When I worked in a hardware shop in the 90s an apprentice mechanic came in and asked for halogen for headlight bulbs

I went into the storeroom and brought him one of those giant packing bubbles

He was chuffed as fuck