And you have time to work WHEN?
I work in an office that takes a Darwinist approach to things. See a weakness? Hone in on it and annoy the person relentlessly. Make a mistake and never forget about it, and turn it into a nickname.
For example, Andy - the new guy - got drunk at an industry outing at the country club and puked out the car window when the boss drove him home. I guess that's a story that deserves to live on 2 years later.
Mike was on the quarterly earnings conference call in place of the boss who is hospitalized. When asked a question, he offered a meek five word response that evoked laughter and applause from all of us listening in on the web cast. Fellow worker took a sound clip of his answer and dubbed farting noises in to replay over and over to the department.
At the weekly meeting, someone placed a remotely controlled fart machine to go off when Mike began to speak. Later on, the same fart machine was placed in the roof of his office in such a way that was difficult to find. Mike had to live with dozens of remote controlled farts throughout the day.
And to get back at the guy who sits next to me (Rob), I would call from my cell phone while on vacation and hang up when he answered. See, Rob is studying for a big exam and really hates to be interrupted. I was mean and called when I knew he would be studying. Upon return, he blamed me, but others have joined in. To make matters more fun, I set my cell phone up before I enter his office and click the button to call from the phone in my pocket as I'm talking to him directly, and click to shut off when he picks up his phone. Then I do it again as I'm walking out of his cubicle talking to other people.
I know this is all so unprofessional, but if you don't participate or one up, it gets even worse. It's like working with a bunch of 10 year olds.
No point here, except maybe to vent. Any experiences out there?
And you have time to work WHEN?
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Exactly.Originally posted by gae:
And you have time to work WHEN?
This stuff drives me nuts. Imagine 15 adults with MBAs sitting around a large conference table, giggling repeatedly over a remote control fart machine.
Give the slightest inkling you don't enjoy the pranks or that they are annoying, and you are the target of the next one.
No offense, but those pranks are lame.
Our legal guy pulled one of our analysts into the conference room and then into the boss's office to severely reprimand him for sexual harrassment due to a raunchy story he told the day before in front of a female employee.
It was all bogus.
The same legal guy told me I had to travel to Cleveland to testify before the IRS on an account we manage. Fortunately on that one I wasn't a total believer.
And just the other day, the same legal guy had the department computer dude place David Hasselhoff screen savers on anyone's desktop who didn't lock it when they were away (I lock mine out of habit, so I was spared).
It's all fun and games, let me tell ya.
<font color="#000002" size="1">[ May 28, 2004 08:57 AM: Message edited by: reason ]</font>
I have a good friend who is queen of practical jokes. Therefore, I stay on her good side. LOL
Anyway to mention a few.
She sent an envelope from the "Small Condom Company" Sample enlcosed to my Brother in law's work. The funny part was he works in construction. The VP of the company was the one who hand delivered it to the job site.
She had a boss who took his "dump" the same time every day, same stall. Off he went with paper in hand to do his daily thing. Little did he know, she had put ketchup, mustard, Mayo and what ever else she could find under the toilet seat where the little knobs are. Stuff squirted all over including on and up his butt.
Same boss took vacation day. He came back to work to find everthing...I mean everything removed from his office with a pink slip left on the desk. It was after this prank, he called a truce to the pratical joke war among the two of them.
One of all time greats was another boss, who was quite open about his affairs even though he was a married man. Anyway, she had a friend call the office. She put it through to her boss, and the friend pretended to call from the so and so clinic. His name was give as a sexual partner and he would be wise to come down and get check. Evidiently the door was shut ahlf way through the conversation. Once he hung up, he ran out of the office. She tried to stop him, and literally had to chase him down in the parking lot.
All these guys started the pratical joke war with her....and they now know better. At her now job, one of the guys thought it would be funny to put vasoline on all her door knobs. This guy has NO idea was is in store for him. LOL
One of my all time favorites (I've mentioned it before) was with a woman who just had warts removed from her hand. The guy who sat next to her told her she shouldn't have sex after wart removal because her hormones would spread them throughout her body.
Of course, lickety-split she's on her phone talking (loudly) with her doctor about this particular issue. Was particularly funny when she's answering questions about where the warts were located. Guess you had to be there.
This one's hard to top - the classic cubicle filled with packing peanuts.
Another one that Dave Barry wrote about was a boss who not only turned off his computer each night, he unplugged the socket strip. I have a neighbor who does that during every rain storm, paranoia about the computer getting damaged by a voltage surge even when turned off. Anyway, they plugged a 110 decible Klaxxon into the boss's socket strip so when he plugged the strip back in the next morning they heard the klaxxon sound off, the boss's head hit the underside of the desktop, then the name of the perpetrator screamed loudly...
<font color="#000002" size="1">[ May 29, 2004 02:13 PM: Message edited by: LanDroid ]</font>
I can do you one better than that, Lan.
Years ago, in my past life in the insurance industry, there was a supervisor of Iranian ancestry who seemed to have trouble keeping his hands to himself with certain female colleagues during a business trip to New Orleans. The company politely asked him to leave.
He politely responded with a lawsuit, in which he alleged, among other things, discrimination, i.e. in Iran, apparently, one can grope without consequence and the company was discriminating against him by not recognizing it.
We'll never know how a jury would have decided, they settled for about $250K.
Ha ha ha how's that for a costly prank?
I used to have a buddy at Cincom and we were merciless in pulling pranks on each other. The best of all was when one of us was telling the truth and the other one didn't believe him. Like the time my CEO put a note at my desk telling me to come see him about the convertible he wanted to give me. I thought it was a prank and didn't go see him and he finally came to me. Then there was the time our mutual supervisor asked me to tell my friend he was needed in a meeting. SO I went to him and told him in such a way that he would think I was just messing with him. LOL when our supervisor saw me in the hall again he asked me if I had told him and I said Yes, but he said he was "busy" with something and he could just wait. Hahahaha, he got yelled at good. On his way to the meeting he leaned in close to me and said "I'll get you for this you little bastard..." We went to lunch together later that day...
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