I placed the Annoy-a-tron in the center cube of 2x3 set of cubicles
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Yesterday the occupant of that office, who uses a laptop would ‘slap’ the side of his laptop monitor (I place the unit behind the fluorescent light in the overhead bookshelf) every time he heard it. The funny thing is, because of it’s high pitch, I can’t hear it. Yeah, old age sucks, even at 45.
Today the occupant of that cubicle is working from home, but the neighbors can hear it, and it’s driving them crazy. heh heh heh.
OK, just so you don’t all think I’m a TOTAL asshole. They hid my phone in a ceiling tile a while back (ala Office Space). I sadly didn’t remember that episode when I was looking for my phone that sounded like it was coming from the wall!
I want to let them in on it, but no… a good practical joke has to go a little closer to the edge…
IIRC, the thing has a magnet, so it could conceivably be set under a desk/behind a filing cabinet – even better without cubicles, as you can see what happens.
A friend of mine years ago wanted to make one of these with a light sensor – so it would only make the intermittent sounds with the lights off – even harder to find it! Seriously, I have to stay off that site for fear of buying 6 or 8 of them. Good times would be had by all…no, wait, just me. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA
I wish I had a “real job” just so I could buy one of these. I guess I could stick one in my boss’ office, but she barely ever comes to work anyway; I’d hear it more than she would. And I work in a library so it wouldn’t be polite to the patrons to hear that either. But I could get one for my friends’ apartment…
‘We’ were searching all over for it. Some of my team even began timing it, but that doesn’t work as it beeps at different spans. I shut it off for a couple of hours at lunch, moved it behind a different light, and turned it on again.
we work in large cubicles of four. I put the Annoy-a-tron under person A’s desk. She couldn’t hear it, but person B (who I didn’t really want to mess with) could. Nuts.