Pranks at work
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Tuesday night:
I set up a long series of renders just before I left. Instead of sending them to the network I decide I'll just get it done locally on my machine which means I leave my system unlocked overnight. Normally I lock it or shut it down, but no big deal.
Wednesday morning:
- A bunch of stuff on my desk has been rearranged. Apparently Lightening McQueen has a thing for purple Impalas.
- My monitor is sideways.
- The start bar is missing (auto hidden).
- A giant maximized folder has taken over my desktop and the top bar is missing (actually just scaled and carefully placed).
Its oddly out of character for any of the people I work with to screw with each others systems especially when they're cranking away. I shrugged it off and moved on, thankful the magic shoe ferries didn't stop the 12hr rendering job.
There's only been one other person I've ever gone back and forth with on that level and this smells oddly familiar but I haven't worked with him in years... Turns out a guy he worked with, is contracting for us right now, heh, sneaky bastard.
It got thinkin' is it pretty common to pull pranks wherever it is you work or do most people freak out if you so much as walk by?
I set up a long series of renders just before I left. Instead of sending them to the network I decide I'll just get it done locally on my machine which means I leave my system unlocked overnight. Normally I lock it or shut it down, but no big deal.
Wednesday morning:
- A bunch of stuff on my desk has been rearranged. Apparently Lightening McQueen has a thing for purple Impalas.
- My monitor is sideways.
- The start bar is missing (auto hidden).
- A giant maximized folder has taken over my desktop and the top bar is missing (actually just scaled and carefully placed).
Its oddly out of character for any of the people I work with to screw with each others systems especially when they're cranking away. I shrugged it off and moved on, thankful the magic shoe ferries didn't stop the 12hr rendering job.
There's only been one other person I've ever gone back and forth with on that level and this smells oddly familiar but I haven't worked with him in years... Turns out a guy he worked with, is contracting for us right now, heh, sneaky bastard.
It got thinkin' is it pretty common to pull pranks wherever it is you work or do most people freak out if you so much as walk by?
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once on a biz trip the guy I was travelling with asked me to hold is bag and passport/plane ticket while he went to the loo (he was half drunk) when he came back he took his bag and never mentioned the passport, 15 minutes later he goes "I cant find my passport omg" I let him run round the airport for about 30 minutes, check with lost and found before I gave it back to him.
He put it on one of our programmers boxes and forgot about it, and the programmer ended up dealing with it for a full day. Then on the second day, after about 3 hours of IT going through his machine replacing keyboards, mice, and trying everything else they could think of, they found the chip plugged into the usb port.
That was the only time I've ever seen that guy angry, and boy was he pissed.
Download it here:
http://www.bobotheseal.com/hideme/PP.ico
Oh and we had a dye system so of course I had to make a black dye
Gah I wish I could find that asset for screen shots!
- BoBo
You also like to replace entire player characters with a specific highly detailed 'model'. That was perhaps the best prank at ILE! Is Singh still leaving his computer on at night?? That or the brownie sculpted into a lifelike piece of poo.
Ahhh memories.
B
Just make sure you jiggle their mouse before they reach for the reset switch.
I pranked my neighbor a few weeks ago - settings lots of his stuff up on the ceiling beams where they can be seen but not easily reached (mouse, keyboard, iPod, wallet, etc) - taped over his monitor, stuck his guitar up on the ceiling of one of the nearby rooms, taped his mouse to the ceiling - all sorts of shit. It was fun to watch him discover everything missing
take screenshot of desktop> hide taskbar > move all icons on desktop to a hidden folder> set screenshot as background
still does the trick :thumbup:
it was awesome..
the good ol' print screen, set has background got mr.bromell more than a few times when he was stuck sitting by me.
whargoul that is one awesome prank!
At that same job, my boss use to run around RIGHT on the minute that lunch ended, and make sure we were back to work. We use to play Rollercoaster Tycoon during lunch, so, I once took a screenshot and made it my wallpaper. So, when my boss did his check, he started yelling at me to shut off the game. I was sitting there working (soldering wire), and just responded with a 'what are you talking about?'. It took him a few to realize it was my wallpaper, then walked away pissed
The best part was when I left that job, and he looked through my computer about 2 minutes after I walked out the door on my last day. With all my old co-workers around him, he started opening files. He found the image I made of his head photoshopped onto Hitler's body. He went ballistic
I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE.......
and the subject:
... I LOVE THE COCK!!!!!!!
Then later that day James Hawkins sent another email from Juan's desk that said:
akhfdgpiugpasbvakcnbv ilhgsdaufg['uvaFDSvbh[' ar[ga'df ... sorry, it's hard to type with my balls
Every time he opened max or started windows
when we had later all got frustrated with our jobs being outsourced
all of our workstations mysteriously was replaced with the midi start up
"they took our jerbs!" appon start up
Later they found it funny to prank me and everyone had set there startups to just say my name............over and over and over again
"remiremiremiremiremiremiremiremiremiremiremiremiremiremiremiremiremiremiremiremiremiremiremiremiremiremiremiremiremiremiremiremiremiremiremiremiremiremiremiremiremiremiremiremiremiremiremiremiremiremiremiremiremiremiremiremiremiremiremiremiremiremiremiremiremiremiremiremiremiremiremiremiremiremiremiremiremiremiremiremiremiremiremiremiremiremiremiremiremiremiremiremiremiremiremiremiremiremiremiremi"
we've shrink wrapped two people's cars together, shrink wrapped them to flag poles... that shit is awesome
the best though, was we made some of those bullet hole decals, and slapped them all over one side of this dude's car... he walked out and started screaming at the top of his lungs thinking his car was molested by an uzi.
http://kotaku.com/5300055/like-sands-through-the-warhammer-online-office
Back when you'd dual boot between 98 & NT, the selection screen was just a text file (boot.ini).
So on April 1st, I edited his to reed "April Fools" over and over again, and then mixed up the order of his selections. Well, I went off to school and didn't hear until later that he had been downloading a bunch of warez and such the night before, so when he woke up and saw the screen, he though he'd gotten a virus. He was ready to re-format his hard drive, but had to get to class. He was more than a little upset. So, he got back at me by adding the filthiest porn links he could find (hundreds of them) to the start up folder on my computer. Of course, my mom was visiting that night, so we walk in, I turn on my computer, and porn site after porn site pour onto the screen. :::sigh:::
Here at work, the emailing from other people's unlocked computers got so bad that HR just pulled our junk mail list entirely. Thank You Star Trek Environment Team!
When I had just started, one of my fellow artists had failed to check in his work numerous times. Our then Art Director spent the night putting "Check your Work" post-its all over EVERYTHING in the guy's cube. The whole cube was plastered, and he was still finding new ones weeks later.
Our current Art lead on Champions is the biggest prankster at work. One of his better moments was brining in a bag of oreos to share at work one day. Little did we know that he'd spent the previous night scraping out all the white stuff, and refilling them with toothpaste. One of our programmers didn't get the joke, and ate 4 or 5 of them, thinking they were "NEW MINT OREOS!", saying that they were pretty good.
Since I would hate people messing with my computer though, I tend not to do anything too evil to other people
Some friends throw sugar on the floor, under the chairs (with wheels). One day they put an "used panty" on the keyboard of a coworker (a new and cheap panty, but wet and dirty to fake its look haha).
To put the system in japanese or chinese is another prank. And another very usual is to "tweak" the 3d work/autocad work (changing scales, measures, adding morphs to 3d models, etc.)
they didn't show obsession with penises here lol but instead of that, they act as bastards!
All here is more sad, you can't leave your computer turned on, in some studios you can feel hate everywhere lol, team spirit = zero rivalism = 100. they can delete your licenses, or system files to fuck you in the worse way and nobody will know a shit... and like it's spain, they can't be fired so easily.
cough cough, spain is different lol
Didn't someone also set all the satyrs to use a shrub model, so the bushes would start attacking you while you ran around in game?
The poo was always a good one. Also, taping a 'Don't worry, nothing is broken' sign to Josh's monitor was fun. He was trying to figure out what we did to his computer for hours before he realized the sign was being honest.
wtf blazier. Not working in spain...
A slightly more common and kinda hard to see through tactic, that works the best when the enemy's computer is OFF, is to rip off a tiny piece of post-it note (a corner of the sticky bit) and put it flush against the underside of the mouse so it covers the laser... I have troubles with my mouse at home, so I regularly lift it to see if the light's still on when it's not responding, so it didn't work on me. But another hapless programmer restarted his computer and crawled under his desk twice to unplug and replug the cord. That was fun to watch!
Someone also put an OFFICE sign up on one of the bathrooms... not a prank, but I don't know what the heck it was about...
Parnell once paid an old creepy dude to hit on me in a bar... wait... no, that wasn't a prank. MAYNARD!!!
oh wow, that's a great idear
Well did the creepy dude get lucky?!
I left mine swapped just to mess with IT whenever they tried to do stuff to my machine.
Another simple trick is to get a spare USB mouse and plug it into someones machine and operate it by foot on the floor under the desk, took a long time for the guy next to me to figure out what was going on - I'd slowly nudge it across the screen and he'd be franticly smashing the mouse down and to the right. Nothing suspected as I'd be busy pretending to type something important at the time.
Someone once sellotaped a fish under one of the traders desks that took a couple of days to discover, only got noticed after it began to smell.
Names like:
Adobe Photoslut = Adobe Photoshop
Netcrap Masterbater = Netscape Navigator
Then swapped all of the images he saved on his desktop with tubgirl (but renamed the images so he wouldn't know).
My god was he surprised.
Silly programmers
^_^
One year the entire class changed the configuration of the classroom while he was out photocopying something.
My year, it was a running gag to turn the blowup mummy backwards so the plain grey plastic would face out. So because I wasn't 'seen' in the class turning the mummy around I wasn't convicted :P though, I think there was a circle of about 5 or 6 people doing it. He pulled me out of another class and everything :P
We'd also hide the good white chalk so he only had crappy crumbly yellow chalk... he hated that.
Also creating dialogue boxes professing how much the victim loves (insert emberassing/illegal sexual fetish here) on startup was a favorite.
I SERIOUSLY have to try this one. Sounds exquisetly awesome.
I WANT PICS!
With someone with photoshop you can grab an image (blue screen of death or something similar), open it up, then hit f, f, tab. It hides the tools and the top bar and makes the image take up the whole screen. I've gotten a lot of people with that one.
Unplugging someones headphones just enough to it looks like they're still plugged in and then turning up the volume full blast.
Not too long ago my boss had a promo video for one of our products that had this horrible metal music that he would always play loudly a few times a day cuz he knew how much we hated the song. He had it on his desktop and left his computer one day for lunch so I grabbed it, replaced the audio with Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give You Up, so the next time he played it for someone he got that blasting out of his speakers.
The best though was when one of our programmers was called away to do an install. While he was gone we removed all of his personal items from his desk and replaced them with photos of some random dude and his wife. We made up a name, had business cards printed up, had the network guy set up a computer log in, a new company email address, put a new Employee Handbook on his desk, took down his picture in the break room where there's a wall with photos of all the employees and replaced it with this new random guy. Had HR send a welcome email to this new account and left it up on his screen. He came back and it looked like he had been completely erased and replaced.