How do y’all prank the new guy?

So I recently hired a cook and the guy is just fantastic. Asks all the right questions and is eager to learn. Strong kitchen background. The whole thing.

Friday we were in the middle of service and my station is directly across from a stack of combi ovens. This guy is behind me loading and unloading things from these ovens and every time he fires something he goes “BOOP” as he presses the start button. He does this at a VERY audible level and with a pretty high pitch. Think what you would say as you “booped” a dog’s nose. but loud enough to be heard in a busy kitchen.

He’s been doing this for a week or so, and it’s now annoying the shit out of me. So I finally turn and say: “BRO, the boop…. What the fuck.” Oddest sentence I’ve ever called out.

He says “oh the guys that trained me told me you like to hear the boops because you look at the clock and keep mental notes to remind us to pull things?” He said it like a question.

I ask “isn’t that what the damn thing chiming is for at the end of the cook?”

And without missing a beat he says “I do now realize as we’re talking that those guys were fucking with me and I’m sorry for distracting you Chef.” With the most “Oh shit” Look on his face. I look over and my crew is just losing it.

I had to admit the originality and the innocence of this one was just magnificent.

Let’s hear some of yours! The harmless, legal ones, of course.

EDIT: WOW! So many of you guys have some super clever ones!