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Post by swamp on Jan 19, 2011 22:12:48 GMT -5
I wasn't working in either office at the time, but I did get to look at the pictures.
The District Attorney had to go out of town. Her office staff took some random files and put them in a box marked "Smith," a complex case where the Public Defender represented the defendant. The assistant DA's let the Public Defender in the DA's office and took pictures of him pawing through and reading the documents in the file box marked "Smith" and texted them to her.
The DA thought it was hysterical, I think she still has the pictures on her phone.
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Post by MN-Investor on Jan 19, 2011 22:18:46 GMT -5
When I first started in IT, I helped set up PCs. I had a friend in accounting who was so proud of her new PC running Windows. After she had left for the day, I went back to her PC and made a modification. She told me later that she was so happy with her PC that she had to show her boss. So she started it up and - well, my modification. Instead of the boring Windows startup sound, I had turned up the volume and replaced that sound with James Brown's classic scream and "I Feel Good!". She was mortified! (Her boss was a good friend of mine and very PC literate. He appreciated it!)
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Post by ummboutthat on Jan 19, 2011 22:23:33 GMT -5
When I first started in IT, I helped set up PCs. I had a friend in accounting who was so proud of her new PC running Windows. After she had left for the day, I went back to her PC and made a modification. She told me later that she was so happy with her PC that she had to show her boss. So she started it up and - well, my modification. Instead of the boring Windows startup sound, I had turned up the volume and replaced that sound with James Brown's classic scream and "I Feel Good!". She was mortified! (Her boss was a good friend of mine and very PC literate. He appreciated it!) oh yea! I have the "Beep, Beep mail muthafucka" email notification when I get a new email. Swamp that is funny!
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Post by verrip1 on Jan 20, 2011 0:15:51 GMT -5
Well, if we're going into ancient history, I wrote a Basic program and put it on the Security Manager's autoexecute.bat file in DOS 2.x. On startup it gave him a box in which he could press one of two buttons: one said it would delete all data files, and the other said it would re-format his C drive.
Uhhhhhh, it was funny back when dinosaurs made computers.
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Post by The J on Jan 20, 2011 9:14:06 GMT -5
Not funny. Posting pictures of you is waaayyy out of line. Whoever did so should be fired or reprimanded. Completely inappropriate for the work place and totally unprofessional. Time to grow up and get over the frat house. So true. By posting pictures, the people you work with might discover what you look like!
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Post by swamp on Jan 20, 2011 9:22:26 GMT -5
Not funny. Posting pictures of you is waaayyy out of line. Whoever did so should be fired or reprimanded. Completely inappropriate for the work place and totally unprofessional. Time to grow up and get over the frat house. Who are you referring to?
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Post by lisabelle on Jan 20, 2011 9:28:43 GMT -5
Not funny. Posting pictures of you is waaayyy out of line. Whoever did so should be fired or reprimanded. Completely inappropriate for the work place and totally unprofessional. Time to grow up and get over the frat house. Do you have one ounce of sense of humor in your body? A lot of these are funny and meant to be light-hearted fun at the workplace.
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Post by lisabelle on Jan 20, 2011 9:29:55 GMT -5
picture of me shows a beer in one hand and a smoke in the other. Read more: notmsnmoney.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=fun&action=display&thread=1899&page=1#ixzz1BaMslPze How do you know how something like would be received by management? How do you know that such a thing isn't casting that person in a negative light to other coworkers, bosses, etc? I think it is very immature and has no place in the work place. And, most management or bosses that I know would not take kindly to this kind of display at work. Management has had just as much fun with this. Happy employees are productive employees. Thank god I work with people that enjoy having fun and a great sense of humor.
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Post by KaraBoo on Jan 20, 2011 9:34:59 GMT -5
I once covered the departments supervisor's office with pretty ribbons and flowers.
I run the craft portion of an adult cancer camp and the weeks leading up to the event had my office overflowing with craft supplies. He'd walk past my office, stop and sniff, turn his nose up and say - it smells FooFoo in there.
After the retreat, I got into his office and plastered it with FooFoo - ribbons hanging from the ceiling, flowers inside his desk - everywhere he looked - FooFoo.
The managers and directors thought it was hilarious and several pictures were circulated via email with him sitting in the middle of the mess.
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Post by Befferz on Jan 20, 2011 10:21:29 GMT -5
But every office is different. Granted, that type of prank wouldn't even occur to anyone at any of the ones I've ever worked in, but I've known of others that could get away with a lot more.
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Post by KaraBoo on Jan 20, 2011 10:28:27 GMT -5
Sure you have to be careful - you have to know the environment you work in.
If the environment promoted good-natured pranks and taken in fun - I'd be insulted if I wasn't pranked at least once.
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Post by The J on Jan 20, 2011 10:30:49 GMT -5
I think you have to be very careful at work. There are some offices where they promote a sense of fun and nothing wrong with that. But, it can cross the line into being very unprofessional, you could inadvertantly insult clients and on and on. I would err on the side of caution. I do think posting posters of a coworker with a beer and smokes is absolutely outrageous and worthy of filng a lawsuit for harrassment, slander etc. I wouldn't want to be in the position of trying to explain that one. I've drank beer with my coworkers and bosses before. If I smoked, I would have smoked with several of them by now. Hell, I've thrown back a few with heads of other departments (who are technically my clients). If you can't have some fun at your job, then you're in for 30+ miserable years at work.
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Post by lisabelle on Jan 20, 2011 10:42:33 GMT -5
Been here over 17 years. Pranks happen all the time. If you can't be a good sport, you would not belong here. Everyone has been pranked and pulled pranks. I think you are being way to serious for this thread. Everyone had fun with it and it was this time at my expense but I can laugh at myself. All the owners got a kick out of it along w/my coworkers.
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Post by The J on Jan 20, 2011 11:03:30 GMT -5
My work is serious too. That doesn't mean that I have to be miserable for the 40+ hours per week I'm at my job.
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Post by lisabelle on Jan 20, 2011 11:05:08 GMT -5
Well, again after over 17 years here and everyone is a lifer here and we know the environment I think we are good. Like others have said, it may not work in every office, but it works in ours. I am close with all the owners and my coworkers. It is a very social and friendly company. The owners play pranks and well as take them.
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Post by lisabelle on Jan 20, 2011 11:07:53 GMT -5
Everyone had fun with it Just because people are laughing doesn't mean that they like, enjoy or appreciate this. Yeah, they did. Listen, I appreciate your concern for my well being, but I work for a very unique company. We work hard, we play hard and have a lot of fun. Our customers get amazing service from us. Life is good. Glad I don't work for a PC company, I would not fit in. Just saying.
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Post by verrip1 on Jan 20, 2011 11:34:40 GMT -5
There is a lot of area between blowing snot out of your nose as a "joke" and being "miserable". One can enjoy their job, work and coworkers and be professional without actually acting like a frat house teenager. Well, that all depends. Is it just runny, slimy snot? Or is it Booger City? Boogers are hilarious, slime not so much so.
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Post by swamp on Jan 20, 2011 11:49:05 GMT -5
True. A audible fart that doesn't smell is funny. One that is silent and does is disgusting. What are you talking about?! SBD's are THE BEST!!!!
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Post by kkyle on Jan 20, 2011 11:53:01 GMT -5
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Post by kkyle on Jan 20, 2011 11:56:10 GMT -5
With the state of economy we should all take our jobs a lot more seriously instead.
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Post by swamp on Jan 20, 2011 11:57:03 GMT -5
With the state of economy we should all take our jobs a lot more seriously instead. Life is too serious as it is.........
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Post by verrip1 on Jan 20, 2011 12:19:00 GMT -5
With the state of economy we should all take our jobs a lot more seriously instead. Sounds like you are on the receiving end of a lot of office pranks. That or you are some kind of stinkin' boss or something.
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Post by bcdfgh on Jan 20, 2011 13:33:43 GMT -5
Swap adjacent keys from a keyboard (S and D, for example). For someone who looks at the keys when typing, an S-key pressed would show D on the screen. Once done typing, errors would be everywhere.
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Post by thyme4change on Jan 20, 2011 14:51:06 GMT -5
When I started a new job - very first day, I had to call the IT helpdesk and ask if I was being hazed as the new employee. Every letter on my keyboard was switched around - including the number pad. The guy played dumb and brought me a new keyboard. Not sure if they were pranking someone else, and I just got caught in the crossfire. Either way, I thought it was hilarious. I should have asked to keep it.
Another time we were all working, except one employee. We took a bag of jolly roger candies (you know, those hard ones that have the lifespan of 400 years) and hid them all over his office. In his files, in his drawer, in his 3-ring binders, under his keyboard, in his coffee cup. He found most of them in the first few days back. But every once in a while he would open some random file and one would drop out. Worse, about a year later he quit and a new employee came on and found about 10 more.
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Post by tundrated on Jan 20, 2011 17:16:10 GMT -5
Steal a co-workers car keys and move their car. We did this to someone once. Moved their car from the 4th floor of the parking garage to the 2nd where they wouldn't find it. We had to tell them when they were getting ready to call the police to report it stolen.
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Post by thyme4change on Jan 20, 2011 17:39:53 GMT -5
Not an office prank - but one of my friends in high school took his friend's car key and had a copy made (back when it cost a dollar, and you didn't need the fancy alarm, etc.) and he messed with that guy bad! He would move his car over like 3 spaces, or across the aisle - close enough you could see it, but different enough that you would say "Is that where I left it?" He would also change the radio station and adjust the seat and mirrors a little. He would take stuff out of the guy's backpack and put it into the car, and stuff out of the car and put it into the guy's backpack.
It was really kind of mean. The poor kid probably thought he was losing his mind.
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Post by ummboutthat on Jan 21, 2011 20:35:23 GMT -5
U 2!! tundrated and thyme4change need to stop it! Funny but that is just wrong I'm still laughing but to mess with their car is just wrong!
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Post by verrip1 on Jan 21, 2011 21:00:26 GMT -5
U 2!! tundrated and thyme4change need to stop it! Funny but that is just wrong I'm still laughing but to mess with their car is just wrong! I thought the only thing you could do wrong in Camden was to be from Paterson.
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Post by TD2K on Jan 22, 2011 0:54:17 GMT -5
I worked in Saudi. I got hold of one of the Saudi's computer when he was away and calibrated the mouse so that 'up' was about 30 deg to the left. So, when you moved the mouse 'up' on the pad, the cursor would verve off to the right at an angle. I had him in my office about 5 minutes after he got back asking me "there's something really wrong with my computer".
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Post by redracerris on Jan 22, 2011 10:16:18 GMT -5
I heard of someone wrapping everything in a person's office in aluminum foil.
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