I guess you kind of had to be there.
The client (Lyondell) paid bonuses and threw barbecues for the team that was ahead.
I bought a truck that year.
Sorry, S&B!
We tore up the world darn near as good as Halliburton.
Posted on 03/02/2005 11:21:15 AM PST by srm913
One of my co-workers is a saver. About 15 years ago, our insurance company used a new password each week to identify company representatives. About a year ago, my co-worker found a file with all the passwords. He showed it to all of us and we all agreed there was no reason to keep it, so he threw out the file.
We have a sales convention every year and a top management person would leave company-wide e-mails to update us on information for the convention. A couple of days after my co-worker threw out the file, I called a top manager who sends e-mails updating us on the annual sales convention and asked him to send a fake company-wide e-mail to my co-worker announcing that there would be a contest at the convention and the person who could recall the most company passwords from the old days would win.
My co-worker read the e-mail and came out of his office white as a sheet. We only let him suffer for a couple of hours before we told him the truth.
Ann Mikiska, Farmington
The president of the company where I used to work had a very efficient secretary. When she put a stack of letters on his desk to be signed he didn't read them, just signed each letter and sent them back to her. The office jokester slipped in a sheet with the president's resignation on it, and of course he signed it. The jokester had a good time with it and no harm came from it.
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We did almost the same thing with popcorn styrofoam packing material. We rigged the suspended ceiling with a switch and a piano hinge and as the offices were built inside an old warehouse we taped about 4 old refridgerator boxes togeather and filled em with the stuff with a forklift from outside in the warehouse.
We then wired the switch into the bosses center desk drawer by leaving thr drawer open about a foot. Well he walked into his office and closed his door and we heard him angrly shout .....stay out of my ......and slamed the drawer shut.
All functioned as designed...the entire room filled with packing foam peanuts . He had to kick out more ceiling tiles and escape through the roof as the door was blocked. Of course the wingnuts in our unit got to clean up the mess........:o)
He left us alone for a while......
LOL........Scary !
I get to claim this one as an original. The victim was normally the prankster of the office, with lots of brilliant pranks calling other salesmen and pretending to be customers.
I left one of the pink, "while you were out" slips for him while he was taking a call. The message, as best I can remember, was as follows:
Name: Mike Litoris
Message: Please call and tell his receptionist that you have been trying to reach him and that you need her help.
The number I gave him was for a Gynecologist's office.
It worked precisely as I had planned.
He expressed to me afterward that I had earned his respect. :o)
I guess you kind of had to be there.
The client (Lyondell) paid bonuses and threw barbecues for the team that was ahead.
I bought a truck that year.
Sorry, S&B!
We tore up the world darn near as good as Halliburton.
My first submarine had a new Ensign who reported onboard and was way too eager to suck up to the Captain. One day as the sub was making a surface transit to meet a ship for a personel transfer, the other officers informed him that he was designated to be the swimmer to go to the mail bouy. That, they explained to him, was an honor normally reserved for more senior officers, and that he must have really made an impression on the Captain.
They quickly prepared him for the task by having him strip to his underwear and smear himself with Vaseline (to make the water flow over his body easier). After donning flippers, a snorkel and a mask, he reported to the captain on the bridge...
Excellent!
LOL!!!! That's TOO funny!
The captain was not amused, however.
When I was in college, one of the chem E students poured a vial of butyric acid (that's some STINKY sh..) on the ground under the visiting team's bleachers on the football field. Every time the wind shifted, the crowd migrated.
I suppose there'd be jail time for a similar prank these days, but it was a beautiful thing to behold at the time (once we were later let in on the secret to the visitor's behavior).
That is hysterical.
LOL
I can imagine. I'm still bursting into laughter every few minutes envisioning that one!
So many things have changed.
Most of our parents would probably be jailed today for the way they brought us up.
An "ass whuppin" is child abuse now. :-(
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
OMG HAHAHAHAHAHA
Too, too funny.
OMG, that was funny.
You're evil.
Excellent!
That is the best idea ever.
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