Oh yes they tried but I knew the storeman well, firstly he really didn't have a sense of humour and he really wouldn't play along with the idiots as he called them!
My saving grace, or perhaps not was that my mum was one of the director's PA So Ron the store man would make sure the director would find me sent on the stupid task and he would storm into the workshop demanding to know which A... orifice sent me on the time wasting mission!