The mate pulled one on me yesterday.
I took the c/e role to put down the trapdoor when we hit the docks. It went down smoothly, to get it up was where the fun started. I tried to rise it with the remote, and it came up a few inches before it fell down again. I tried it a couple of times and started swearing and cursing, tried it manually…it fell down again.
So I went to the speaker, called the c/e and told hin the teapdoor was broken…he chewed my ass off and told me to tell the captain…who stood three feet away, strange I thought, then I hear the caps voice, laughing, just tell the mate to stop pushing the downbutton…they had seen it on the camera all the time