Prank Idea needed!
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Hey All, As the Subject suggests, I need a Prank Idea. One of the Team managers and me have been pulling pranks on each other over the past week. He started by turning the cache on for my testing server. I retaliated by Defining the "$this->" variable as "null" in a PHP document (that took him 32 straight hours to find). He then continued to move my project folder out of where it was supposed to be and replace it with a link to a back up file of that project. Now I need to get him back. I consulted my maintenance books and was able to obtain the Admin password to his laptop. Any Ideas of what to do?
Brad Australian By contacting your lawyer you negate the right to sue me.
Tell him you can't take the level of unprofessionalism in the workplace, and hand in your resignation. (Though you probably shouldn't wait 32 hours before you tell him you've changed your mind)
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Whilst I agree with Pete's earlier message about pranks getting out of hand, I used to have fun with a colleague when he was annoying me by using psshutdown (http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/utilities/psshutdown.mspx[^]). It allows you to remotely shutdown a computer, either immediately, or with a n second delay. You can also cancel the shutdown remotely (but not locally). It's amusing watching them panic for 28 seconds of a 30 second delay and then you remotely cancel the shutdown. ChrisB
WIN+R -> shutdown /a -> ENTER Easy. :)
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WIN+R -> shutdown /a -> ENTER Easy. :)
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nice.:) the guy whose computer I was shutting down obviously didn't know this!
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Hey All, As the Subject suggests, I need a Prank Idea. One of the Team managers and me have been pulling pranks on each other over the past week. He started by turning the cache on for my testing server. I retaliated by Defining the "$this->" variable as "null" in a PHP document (that took him 32 straight hours to find). He then continued to move my project folder out of where it was supposed to be and replace it with a link to a back up file of that project. Now I need to get him back. I consulted my maintenance books and was able to obtain the Admin password to his laptop. Any Ideas of what to do?
Brad Australian By contacting your lawyer you negate the right to sue me.
Hope the big boss doesn't find out - you two have cost the company how many days of lost work?
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Hey All, As the Subject suggests, I need a Prank Idea. One of the Team managers and me have been pulling pranks on each other over the past week. He started by turning the cache on for my testing server. I retaliated by Defining the "$this->" variable as "null" in a PHP document (that took him 32 straight hours to find). He then continued to move my project folder out of where it was supposed to be and replace it with a link to a back up file of that project. Now I need to get him back. I consulted my maintenance books and was able to obtain the Admin password to his laptop. Any Ideas of what to do?
Brad Australian By contacting your lawyer you negate the right to sue me.
When I first came to work here, one of the engineers was a big prankster, he did a prank on all of the new employees, and many of the old ones, and no one had ever succeeded in getting him back. But we aren't talking code, or lost time, no more than discomfort and that only minor. He greased my phone and then called me as I walked in the door in a hurry so that I wouldn't have time to look at the phone.... My return prank was creative, a bit more lasting than grease, but no more dangerous. To affect the quality of work for the company as a whole, the pranks you are doing are on the boss, not each other. Days, weeks of work lost, and if it continues? months? years? when you add up all the time you waste pulling pranks on each other's code, the company could probably replace you both with one employee and get the same job done in the same time. Be careful they don't figure that out and do it! If it costs time, do NOT do the prank, period. Also, after my return prank, the boss asked us to stop so that it didn't escelate into something much more dangerous. I had done the impossible, and he still had the satisfaction that I was the only person ever to return a prank on him. That was enough. :)
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Hope the big boss doesn't find out - you two have cost the company how many days of lost work?
Trollslayer wrote:
you two have cost the company how many days of lost work?
I don't think the company would mind as long as they can bill the client.
Regards, Nish
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Hey All, As the Subject suggests, I need a Prank Idea. One of the Team managers and me have been pulling pranks on each other over the past week. He started by turning the cache on for my testing server. I retaliated by Defining the "$this->" variable as "null" in a PHP document (that took him 32 straight hours to find). He then continued to move my project folder out of where it was supposed to be and replace it with a link to a back up file of that project. Now I need to get him back. I consulted my maintenance books and was able to obtain the Admin password to his laptop. Any Ideas of what to do?
Brad Australian By contacting your lawyer you negate the right to sue me.
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You could just do nothing, give your boss a big devious smile, as if you've done something, and let him try to find your "subtle" prank.
Tick-tock
Nicola M. wrote:
You could just do nothing, give your boss a big devious smile
or be direct.... do nothing, but act shocked and say, "Wow I am really surprised you hadn't said anything about my latest prank. You did notice it right?" and then he would probably save face by saying, "yeah, but it wasn't much of one, I hardly thought it worth mentioning...." and then he dives in trying to search for it.... however, that would still result in work time lost for the search....
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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Hey All, As the Subject suggests, I need a Prank Idea. One of the Team managers and me have been pulling pranks on each other over the past week. He started by turning the cache on for my testing server. I retaliated by Defining the "$this->" variable as "null" in a PHP document (that took him 32 straight hours to find). He then continued to move my project folder out of where it was supposed to be and replace it with a link to a back up file of that project. Now I need to get him back. I consulted my maintenance books and was able to obtain the Admin password to his laptop. Any Ideas of what to do?
Brad Australian By contacting your lawyer you negate the right to sue me.
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Hey All, As the Subject suggests, I need a Prank Idea. One of the Team managers and me have been pulling pranks on each other over the past week. He started by turning the cache on for my testing server. I retaliated by Defining the "$this->" variable as "null" in a PHP document (that took him 32 straight hours to find). He then continued to move my project folder out of where it was supposed to be and replace it with a link to a back up file of that project. Now I need to get him back. I consulted my maintenance books and was able to obtain the Admin password to his laptop. Any Ideas of what to do?
Brad Australian By contacting your lawyer you negate the right to sue me.
Have you tied his shoe laces together yet? That's usually good for a laugh. Or next time he goes for lunch, while he's out from the cubicle, scotch tape together several hundred styrofoam coffee cups that cover the entire floor of his cubicle. Then fill each of them with water, to the very top. Standby with towels, though. :-D
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Have you tied his shoe laces together yet? That's usually good for a laugh. Or next time he goes for lunch, while he's out from the cubicle, scotch tape together several hundred styrofoam coffee cups that cover the entire floor of his cubicle. Then fill each of them with water, to the very top. Standby with towels, though. :-D
Chris Meech I am Canadian. [heard in a local bar] I agree with you that my argument is useless. [Red Stateler] Hey, I am part of a special bread, we are called smart people [Captain See Sharp] The zen of the soapbox is hard to attain...[Jörgen Sigvardsson] I wish I could remember what it was like to only have a short term memory.[David Kentley]
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Pete O`Hanlon wrote:
Yep. Leave it alone. Pranks have a nasty habit of getting out of hand and upsetting people.
I know that office pranks aren't a good idea, but me and this guy have been working together for years and its just a bit of fun.
Pete O`Hanlon wrote:
This is your opportunity to prove that you are the bigger person.
I am, thats why I'm not worried about getting him too angry.
Brad Australian By contacting your lawyer you negate the right to sue me.
Bradml wrote:
I am, thats why I'm not worried about getting him too angry.
:laugh:
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Hey All, As the Subject suggests, I need a Prank Idea. One of the Team managers and me have been pulling pranks on each other over the past week. He started by turning the cache on for my testing server. I retaliated by Defining the "$this->" variable as "null" in a PHP document (that took him 32 straight hours to find). He then continued to move my project folder out of where it was supposed to be and replace it with a link to a back up file of that project. Now I need to get him back. I consulted my maintenance books and was able to obtain the Admin password to his laptop. Any Ideas of what to do?
Brad Australian By contacting your lawyer you negate the right to sue me.
Put his laptop in the dishwasher, and tell him you're doing a full system cleanup :) Or more subtle, change his From name in Outlook to Sherlock Holmes or something. You don't really notice this unless you look thru your sent mail :doh:
"For fifty bucks I'd put my face in their soup and blow." - George Costanza
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Bradml wrote:
that took him 32 straight hours to find
:omg: and he didn't go ballastic? :wtf: what a waste of time, now if someone had do that to me...
We made the buttons on the screen look so good you'll want to lick them. Steve Jobs
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brianwelsch wrote:
Feta cheese in someone's desk drawer is a prank,
How about some prawns/shrimps? X|
We made the buttons on the screen look so good you'll want to lick them. Steve Jobs
Mhhh.. A prawnprank with prankprawns!
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Put his laptop in the dishwasher, and tell him you're doing a full system cleanup :) Or more subtle, change his From name in Outlook to Sherlock Holmes or something. You don't really notice this unless you look thru your sent mail :doh:
"For fifty bucks I'd put my face in their soup and blow." - George Costanza
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Ashley van Gerven wrote:
From name in Outlook to Sherlock Holmes or something.
:laugh:
If you try to write that in English, I might be able to understand more than a fraction of it. - Guffa
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Trollslayer wrote:
you two have cost the company how many days of lost work?
I don't think the company would mind as long as they can bill the client.
Regards, Nish
Nish’s thoughts on MFC, C++/CLI and .NET (my blog)
Currently working on C++/CLI in Action for Manning Publications. (*Sample chapter available online*)I think I remember him awhile back stating that it was his company.
What's in a sig? This statement is false. Build a bridge and get over it. ~ Chris Maunder
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When I first came to work here, one of the engineers was a big prankster, he did a prank on all of the new employees, and many of the old ones, and no one had ever succeeded in getting him back. But we aren't talking code, or lost time, no more than discomfort and that only minor. He greased my phone and then called me as I walked in the door in a hurry so that I wouldn't have time to look at the phone.... My return prank was creative, a bit more lasting than grease, but no more dangerous. To affect the quality of work for the company as a whole, the pranks you are doing are on the boss, not each other. Days, weeks of work lost, and if it continues? months? years? when you add up all the time you waste pulling pranks on each other's code, the company could probably replace you both with one employee and get the same job done in the same time. Be careful they don't figure that out and do it! If it costs time, do NOT do the prank, period. Also, after my return prank, the boss asked us to stop so that it didn't escelate into something much more dangerous. I had done the impossible, and he still had the satisfaction that I was the only person ever to return a prank on him. That was enough. :)
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
Look at his bio. Its HIS company. He is the boss and I don't think he'll fire himself.
What's in a sig? This statement is false. Build a bridge and get over it. ~ Chris Maunder
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I would stop messing around before you get into real trouble.
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001Well, its his own company so he only has his clients to answer to.
What's in a sig? This statement is false. Build a bridge and get over it. ~ Chris Maunder
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Bradml wrote:
Any Ideas of what to do?
If you're working for a company where you can waste 32 hours of your team manager's time and call it a bit of fun then GET ANOTHER JOB! (and a life)
Phil
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Its his own company, I think that qualifies as his life. Get over it.
What's in a sig? This statement is false. Build a bridge and get over it. ~ Chris Maunder