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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Before computer days (BC) I worked as a designer in a small design studio with three employees. Frequently we would have catalog layouts taped down on our drawing tables. It was very important to keep these clean since they would later be sent to the printer. Any dirt or mistakes on the pages would mean a lot of work and another trip to the typesetters. So once, actually more than once, I took some india ink and dropped it onto a piece of clear acetate and let it run down. It made a nice splat and a run. I then let it dry and then carefully cut it out with an xacto knife and lightly spray-glued the back of it. Then I placed it in the exact center of one of my co-worker's layouts. It looked super real. When he returned, he was incredulous. "Look at this!" he yelled, "Will you just look at this!" "Oh, that." I said, and then I simply reached over and picked it up. I think he threw something at me.
Another coworker told me of a trick he played once. Soak a kleenex in milk. Then tape it under someone's desk. After a few days the odor is overpowering.
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Did y'all see the thread about the office pranks that was posted on Wednesday? It's up to 300+ posts :-)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1354412/posts
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You know all those bumper stickers with the hearts on them? Like I "heart" my husband = or = I "heart" my golden retreiver?
I got some stickers that had a picture of a wood screw on them......you place it over the heart.
It's loads of fun!
When I was in Vietnam, someone in Saigon issued a new "authentication codeword" to US forces every day. If we suspected someone we talked to on the radio was the enemy, we would say "authenticate please", and that person would have to use the day's authentication codeword in a sentence. For example, if the word of the day was "class", the person might respond with "history was my favorite class." I began to pay attention to the day-by-day passwords one day when "Poppins" was the word of the day. I remembered the previous day's word was "Mary". The word for the next day was "has". And the following day it was "ghonorreah".
This steel-encased briefcase was discovered outside of the Royal Food Mart on East Market Street Saturday morning, just yards from the store’s gas pumps. The Loudoun County Bomb Squad was called in and members of the squad detonated the briefcase in the afternoon. A computer, left by a traveler, was inside.
Thanks for the heads-up...
faxing a roll of paper towels is fun too. Be sure to get a roll that has a nice floral print....
For the more timorous, plain blue food coloring would probably do just fine.
LOL. Did the same thing to a co-worker, except I used silicone lubricant. The target talked on the phone for a few minutes, all the time wondering why his ear was getting warm. He said he was cleaning that stuff out of his ear for days after. He was the same guy who would leave his service truck unlocked. We'd go in and turn everything (wipers, heater fan, radio) on full blast. Got him on more than one occasion with that one. That and putting a PVC pipe fitting in the hubcap on the drivers' side front wheel. "WHat's that noise?" He actually took it to a garage to see about getting it fixed... heheheh
Another gag was taking the foam ear cover off of a headset and taping over the speaker. The poor receptionist was convinced she was going deaf...
What? And no one distracted you while they replaced the one with the raisin with one with earwax (or similarly appearing substance)?
We used to do the same thing with hats. ...In the military, you can't go outside without a hat on, so they had to wait until it thawed.
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