So Bad at Their Job: Last Day?

I was flipping channels this morning, looking at the cable the cable previews when I happened upon the classic spy-chase thriller from 1973, “The Day of The Jackal”. For its time, it was amazing… a sort of anti-James Bond
movie where the “hero” has the perfect moves and the government is wildly scrambling trying to stop him from publicly assassinating a world leader (Charles de Gaulle).

Imagine my surprise when I saw that the cable summary read as follows:

MAX-E
“Day of The Jackal”
Monogamous lifestyles among jackals are examined. (Documentary) :confused: :smack:

I’m guessing that somebody either just got published, just hit the lottery, or just got another job.

Don’t get me wrong… hilariously misrepresenting what is showing on the cable guide would be Amazing and should happen to every single channel at once a couple of times a year, just for fun (April 1 comes to mind).

That said, what other famous last day pranks have you seen pulled as a consumer or as a coworker?

There actually is a wildlife documentary from National Geographic called Day of the Jackal. If MAX-E was actually showing the thriller, it’s possible someone pulled the wrong listing off a database.

The guy who confirmed the pilots’ names in the Asiana crash. That was on his last day. :smiley:

In my last week as a projectionist in the 90s I had a little bit of fun.

I had found some trailers from the stone age and started slipping them into the rotation. It was kind of cool to watch a theater full of people being puzzled as a trailer for “Rambo: First Blood Part II” played on the screen, announcing “Coming, May 1985”

I had a CD full of weird sound effects, and I started playing them in the sound system at odd moments while the theaters were filling up (think: “toilet flush” played over the Muzak).

Nothing serious enough to get in trouble, but enough to get a laugh.

Well, we had a guy at work who wrote or installed a virus on his laptop so that when his network account was moved to the Disabled OU (as in “terminated”), it wiped every damn file off it the next time the laptop was booted on the network. This included the Really Very Important Work his former supervisor was frantic to get his hands on. My coworker, who’d been asked to retrieve the files was impressed, amused, and extremely glad it was limited to just the laptop.

it’s been said, that college football players working in auto assembly factories would hang a nut on a wire inside a new vehicle’s body, which would cause a nuisance noise.

think it was Brian Bosworth.

Snopes page which mentions the Brian Bosworth story.

Slightly off topic, but I love love love LOVE this movie.

The only reason the cops have any information to go on at all is because they KIDNAP AND TORTURE TO DEATH one of the conspirators.

Great flick. Have to watch it again tonight.

Probably a mistake rather then a prank, but a friend and I were looking online to see what movies were playing at the local Imax. Each movie listing had a link to the movies IMDB listing.

Presumably a movie called “Black Holes” playing at an Imax would be an educational film about the cosmological objects of the same name, but the IMDB listing that was linked on the page was a movie with the same name but…definately not the same subject matter.

:eek:

I think IMAX porn would be rather too much of a good thing.

…and if Edward Fox had blown the head off of each and every one while calibrating scope accuracy off of a sniper rifle made out of a disassembled crutch while on his way to meet Charles de Gaulle, I suppose it would have added excitement.

Especially at National Geographic…

Oh, Thank You! That was the best laugh I’ve had all week! I read this and started a mental list of every IMAX title I’ve seen, trying to figure out what they would be converted to porn titles… The fist IMAX I remember seeing was “Beavers”. It’s a good thing I’m alone in the office at the moment! :smiley:

This was just too good to pass up.

After 12 years with the local PBS affiliate I decided to quit. No bad vibes, no personnel issues, I just wanted to quit working. Anyway, my job was to prepare the printed TV schedule for our members. As a requirement for mailing our guides the Postal Service requires a “postal permit imprint.” This is the pseudo-postmark thingy on the back that says (among other things) “PERMIT NUMBER 12345.”

For my last issue of the book I substituted a lookalike permit imprint that said “ROAD ENDS.” I also substituted a photo of myself in place of a photo of Richard Attenborough in some NATURE program. Lastly, at 11:59 p.m. on the last day of the month for that issue I appended a bogus program “Jackie Chan, Drywall Hanger!” I have a copy of the printed guide with these things.

Yes, I caught hell for the photo substitution but no one noticed the ROAD ENDS or Jackie Chan substitutions. Yes!!

And remember, there was no bad blood here. I did it just because it was my last issue.