I think it may have happened when I was at lunch yesterday…I wasn’t away from my desk long enough at any other point.
I opened Winamp to my usual playlist just a minute ago and went about what I was previously doing.
I started suspecting shortly threafter when a Backdoor boys song came on.
I looked over and hit next…I get N’sync, I hit next…I get Britney Spears…I hit next…I get Mandy Moore. I open the playlist window and its full of this top 40 crap!!!
Now to discover who did this and plan their fate. Oooooh I hope they transferred the files over the network, if they did…their ass is mine!
Anybody elses coworkers play pratical jokes like this on you?
/Walks away shaking head
One day a co-worker of mine suspended a lead-filled safe over my cubicle. When I pulled out my chair to sit down, the safe came down, crushing me.
Hoo-boy, was my face red that day.
I’ve never worked in an office, but when I worked in a bar, I did make shooters of straight Tobasco for my co-worker whenever I thought he would be too drunk to notice…
Yeah I used to do stuff to a buddies computer all the time. I changed his startup background to a monkey, not hard to do but he didn’t know how to change it. I also changed his “Trash” name to Monkey Boy or something like that and even the local “computer geek” couldn’t change it back! if you want to do this look in the regedit.exe file and look for “trash” I think it’s still that way.
Being a Red Wings fan living in Denver, I have had a fair number of aruments over the years, so when the Wings won the cup a couple of years ago it was too much to resist.The next day I syncronized half the workstations in the department to display a nice big picture of Yzerman holding the cup over his head while “We are the champions” played at full volume. From that day forward I made sure to lock my screen every time I left, and made good friends with everybody who had systems passwords. Hehe
Old favourite of mine, for use only on non-technical folks: I had a program which would autochange your desktop picture. It was meant to be set to change say, once a day or once a week. But it could also be set to change once a minute. Add some interesting and entertaining pictures into that mix, and watch them scramble to get it to stop. Fun stuff.
Install one of the gag programs that about once a minute moves the top window a couple of pixels. Or the one that randomly switches the left and right mouse button functionality. (Take that, Lefty!)
Change his desktop to be the mug of Ray at JokeADay.com. (Worst mug on the net!)
Send suggestive e-mail to a coworker with his return address. This is also quite effective when sending “letters to the editor”.
Send at e-mail from the boss, HR, a secretary, or someone of equal reputation to the entire office declaring a holiday tomorrow. Immediately follow it with a message to everyone EXCEPT the perp declaring that the earlier message was a test file that was sent accidentally.
One time we changed all the font to match the background on my supervisor’s computer! He couldn’t figure out where all the words went! It was great watching him. He never did figure it out and we had to show him what we did.
There was a rash of disappearing words over the next month.
Keep it simple, try unplugging the video cable from the back of their pc one day, but make sure it still looks to be in place (at first it looks like things have died to the average person), then unplug the monitor power cord the next. The third day, unplug the keyboard. Once they catch on to that routine, start with the telephone. Then remove ALL pens and pencils and scratch paper from their cube, and call with an important peice of info. Next, try small amounts of salt on the donut you offer them, and perhaps a sprinkle of sugar on the chair. Juvenile? Sure. But fun, and no permanent damage (unless they really take it bad and punch you!)
This was a classic for newbies around our office for a while: We took a file folder full of/covered with anti-holes. It was placed on top of a bookshelf near the victim’s cube where just the tab could be seen. The tab of course read “Top Secret”. Curiousity always got the best of people and when they pulled the file down, instant snowstorm.
