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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That you, Bill?
Since nobody else has mentioned it, how about the classic of putting saran wrap on the toilet and then lowering the seat over it. Almost impossible to spot until...
I've heard of taking one of those carbide rod blades for a hacksaw, a screen door spring and some baling wire and rigging the blade in a loop around the driveshaft, and tensioned by the spring. They say you get about 2 blocks before it saws the driveshaft in two.
ROFL!!! we didn't want to do any real damage. :-)
But i'll remember that one!
We had a crotchety receptionist at one time who also ordered office supplies and managed the 'copy room'.
A co-worker walked back to his desk one time with the 'copy room' stapler. She pitched an incredible fit over the stapler.
That was all the motivation he needed. He kept grabbing the stapler every chance he got, and she would order a replacement.
When he left, we cleaned his office and found 43 staplers stuffed in drawers.
Two pranks always come to mind when this subject comes up.
They were both played on a guy named Joe.
Prank #1: Joe went deer hunting every year with the same group of guys. He played trumpet in a small band and would bring his horn for some "music" around the nightly campfire. First morning, one of the party brought a plastic trumpet they had spray painted gold. They hoisted it up high in a tree with a rope, called Joe out of his tent. The group of guys all were aiming up at the "horn." As Joe looked up they opened fire.
Prank #2: Plywood cutout of a deer with antlers attached. Strategically placed where Joe would see it. As dawn broke, Joe could be heard shooting his rifle, over, over, and over. Emptied his clip, hit the "deer" everytime. The evidence was on display where he worked.
Back in my youth I worked in a mailroom of a large law firm. The Supply Room manager had a huge collection of porn mags (mostly penthouse). He was a disgusting little man that we all called Gollum (he looked very much like Gollum in the old animated LOTR movie).
When he was at luch, the entire mailroom staff broke into the supply room, grabbed all of his mags and took them back to the mailroom. We all then proceeded to color bikinis and one piece bathing suits on all of the pictures with magic markers. We then returned the mags to the supply room....
The nastiest practical joke I've ever heard of involved taking cans of Great Stuff foam sealant and freezing the cans in liquid nitrogen. Then the cans are cut off with tinsnips and welder's gloves, and the slugs of frozen foam pulled out, and stuffed under the dash in a car. Roll up the windows, lock the doors and wait for it to thaw out.
While stationed in Okinawa I got my buddy pretty good. Our covers (hats for you Army, Air Force, and civilian types)have a small pocket on the inside front. I put raw onions in his cover. He walked around for 3 days sniffing his arm pits.
He did get me back about a week later. He snuck into my room and made yellow ice cubes.
That reminded me of my 11th grade english teacher. She drove a Fiat 850 convertible. Four of us picked it up and found it fit perfectly between the two flagpoles in front of the school. heh heh
LOL!!! yeah!!
We did it with a volkswagon bug in the late 60's. Put it in the middle of the school yard. The gym teacher who owned it bought a big old ford the following week. :-)
One place I worked, there was a woman who was fired. She came back to work the next day... and the next... refused to leave. We put a red swingline stapler on her desk... she never got the joke.
Bump for a later read and maybe an Army/Navy Week tale or two.
I don't even get the joke.
One night while waiting tables during college, we snuck out and removed a guy's steering wheel from his Fiero.
He came home and found it in the fridge and was eating straight from the bowl with a spoon when we arrived.
He had a long and loud night in the head.
When we woke up the next morning there he was on the sofa eating the unfinished portion of pudding. Telling us he must have ate something bad the night before.
After that we took turns making more pudding every day until he moved out about 2 months later.
He never figured it out.
"Since nobody else has mentioned it, how about the classic of putting saran wrap on the toilet and then lowering the seat over it. Almost impossible to spot until..."
It also works with urinals.
You've never seen the movie "Office Space", have you?
oooh i get it now :)
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