As a guy who works graveyards, I am extremely bored late at night, especially at this time of year. The only thing that keeps me going is the good old SDMB. However, I could use some other suggestions for what to do for fun once I have read everything that has been posted.
FREX:
Friday night, I switched the settings on all the supervisors computers so the mice were left handed.
Anything else I can do to mess with those who work during the day, knowing they will never suspect innocent old xayoz306 for being the source of all their problems.
I’d just like to thank the powers that run the universe that the word “in” does not really exist in that sentence. My brain inserted it just after “works”.
Would’ve been a cool thread, though.
There’s mothimg wromg with the old classic of switchimg the m amd n keys.
That gives me an idea… change the keyboard configuration as well. ? will appear when they want to type &. It’ll be great. You’ll have something to smile smugly abput.
Take a screenshot of a normal desktop, then make that picture the wallpaper, and hide all the icons and minimize the toolbar. Watch as people restart their computer over and over again trying to fix it.
One read about was the frozen shrimp trick. You put a few frozen shrimp in the hollow part of an office chair, where no one will think of looking. Best applied just before you will be leaving for holidays.
Sooner or later your coworkers will realize that they are experiencing deliberate sabotage and then by process of elimination they will identify who had the opportunity to commit it. You really think nobody will remember you? How 'bout when you take a vacation, and everything works better than when you’re around? And have you noticed how tiny the latest concealed cameras are? I hope you’ve got your next job lined up.
If you’ve got all this time to waste, why not take a book to work? Or better yet, sign up for a course and do your homework on company time.
DreadCthulhu:
We did this in a computer networking/technology class a few years back to mess with the teacher. Mind you, he was computer networking and tech teacher. It took him a good half an hour to figure the problem out. Was one of the funniest things I’ve witnessed.
I’m not too worried about my co-workers getting too upset. We have a fairly lax group here, and as long as nothing malicious gets donme, then its all good. I would never dream of doing something that would hurt or embarass (too badly) anyone.
Correct “Coworkers Name” to “Coworkers ‘Humorous NickName’ Name”. When they sign letters, the magic nickname will appear.
John “Grand Titan and Master of All He Surveys” Smith
Ellen “Always Takes Long Lunches Thursdays” Jones
Fred “Left His Computer Unattended and Logged In” Roberts
Sadly, the last person I did this to never signed his letters with his full name, so the impact of the joke was lost.
I’m sure there are more possibilities for AutoCorrect, however, for the creative-minded.
Autocorrect would work great for the supervisor’s computers. Set it so that only words that would come up in performance review, or something along those lines, would be changed. FREX: “incompentent” becomes “impotent”.
I pulled a trick a couple of years ago. Some mouses have a setting where you can change the orientation. It’s to compensate for some people who move the mouse at a bit of an angle. Anyway, what I did was every day I changed the orientation ever so slightly so that it kept getting further and further off the vertical axis. By the time anybody noticed, people who were using the computer had become accustomed to moving the mouse 90 degrees away from the direction they wanted the pointer to go!
Mine all seem to know what they’re doing. That is until you ask them something. It’s all downhill from there.
Oh, BTW I read IN before graveyard too.
My own $0.02, just move hings around a little. Shift them to the right, push them up. If you do this to all the things they’re used to using, it’ll create a feeling of uneasiness.
I can’t help it… nitpick on a nitpick… since the “small mobile manual device that controls movement of the cursor and selection of functions on a computer display” (as Merriam Webster puts it) is named after the small rodents of the genus Mus, why would it not take the same plural? (as indeed M-W indicates).
