Don't mess with Steve's desk!
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A couple of years ago I worked with a lad called Steve, one day before he came in we wrapped everything on his desk in this sort of large blue toilet roll stuff we use for cleaning. Monitor, keyboard, phone, mouse, tower, chair, photos, everything. He walked in, uttered two words, each of one syllable, one very rude before turning round, walking out and going home again. Last night I tried a different Steve. We had a pile of about a hundred CDs (msdn ones mostly) that needed disposing of so after he went home I tiled his desk with them. Just placed on every available space, it is not like I grouted them or anything. Apparently it did not go down well this morning, but at least he is still here. Has anyone else played a prank on someone called Steve that has not been appreciated? Or do you know a Steve who can take the joke? Is your name Steve, and how do you think you would react? There is one more Steve here, but he is into hunting and eating what he catches, and is very proficient with gun and knife so I am carrying out no further tests for now.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
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A couple of years ago I worked with a lad called Steve, one day before he came in we wrapped everything on his desk in this sort of large blue toilet roll stuff we use for cleaning. Monitor, keyboard, phone, mouse, tower, chair, photos, everything. He walked in, uttered two words, each of one syllable, one very rude before turning round, walking out and going home again. Last night I tried a different Steve. We had a pile of about a hundred CDs (msdn ones mostly) that needed disposing of so after he went home I tiled his desk with them. Just placed on every available space, it is not like I grouted them or anything. Apparently it did not go down well this morning, but at least he is still here. Has anyone else played a prank on someone called Steve that has not been appreciated? Or do you know a Steve who can take the joke? Is your name Steve, and how do you think you would react? There is one more Steve here, but he is into hunting and eating what he catches, and is very proficient with gun and knife so I am carrying out no further tests for now.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
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A couple of years ago I worked with a lad called Steve, one day before he came in we wrapped everything on his desk in this sort of large blue toilet roll stuff we use for cleaning. Monitor, keyboard, phone, mouse, tower, chair, photos, everything. He walked in, uttered two words, each of one syllable, one very rude before turning round, walking out and going home again. Last night I tried a different Steve. We had a pile of about a hundred CDs (msdn ones mostly) that needed disposing of so after he went home I tiled his desk with them. Just placed on every available space, it is not like I grouted them or anything. Apparently it did not go down well this morning, but at least he is still here. Has anyone else played a prank on someone called Steve that has not been appreciated? Or do you know a Steve who can take the joke? Is your name Steve, and how do you think you would react? There is one more Steve here, but he is into hunting and eating what he catches, and is very proficient with gun and knife so I am carrying out no further tests for now.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
Steve is a good name to have here if you want to go places. My boss is Steve, his boss is Steve, the top boss is Steve. There are five managers in this department, 4 of them are Steves. I want to go into management but will have to look elsewhere as I am not a Steve.
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Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together. Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."
My boss would go nuts at those pranks and once he'd stopped shouting ask how the perpetrators were planning to make up the business time they wasted setting them up and taking them down.
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My boss would go nuts at those pranks and once he'd stopped shouting ask how the perpetrators were planning to make up the business time they wasted setting them up and taking them down.
Change your boss: no sense of humour... :sigh: Alternatively, blame him to his boss... (risky, but could work!)
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together. Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."
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A couple of years ago I worked with a lad called Steve, one day before he came in we wrapped everything on his desk in this sort of large blue toilet roll stuff we use for cleaning. Monitor, keyboard, phone, mouse, tower, chair, photos, everything. He walked in, uttered two words, each of one syllable, one very rude before turning round, walking out and going home again. Last night I tried a different Steve. We had a pile of about a hundred CDs (msdn ones mostly) that needed disposing of so after he went home I tiled his desk with them. Just placed on every available space, it is not like I grouted them or anything. Apparently it did not go down well this morning, but at least he is still here. Has anyone else played a prank on someone called Steve that has not been appreciated? Or do you know a Steve who can take the joke? Is your name Steve, and how do you think you would react? There is one more Steve here, but he is into hunting and eating what he catches, and is very proficient with gun and knife so I am carrying out no further tests for now.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
I've got neither the time nor the energy to pull such elaborate pranks. The most I did was that before I went home for the new year's holiday 2010/2011, I covered one of my cow-orker's monitor with green post-it notes and wrote "Happy new year" on them. When we came back to work the first day after new year, he was quite upset and wanted to know who did that - As far as I could tell, the reason for him being upset was that he found it a blatant waste of post-it notes. I never owned up, but I suspect people know it was me anyway. Small innocent prank in my opinion...
Beidh ceol, caint agus craic againn - Seán Bán Breathnach
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Don't tell my folks I'm a computer programmer - They think I'm a piano player in a cat house...
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Da mihi sis crustum Etruscum cum omnibus in eo!
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Change your boss: no sense of humour... :sigh: Alternatively, blame him to his boss... (risky, but could work!)
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together. Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."
I can't, he is THE boss; it's not a big company. Anyway, I (mostly) agree with him, not because I have no sense of humour, but because practical jokes usually end up with making someone look stupid through no fault of their own.
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Steve is a good name to have here if you want to go places. My boss is Steve, his boss is Steve, the top boss is Steve. There are five managers in this department, 4 of them are Steves. I want to go into management but will have to look elsewhere as I am not a Steve.
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Have you kept that link for 15 years?
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Have you kept that link for 15 years?
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Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together. Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."
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A couple of years ago I worked with a lad called Steve, one day before he came in we wrapped everything on his desk in this sort of large blue toilet roll stuff we use for cleaning. Monitor, keyboard, phone, mouse, tower, chair, photos, everything. He walked in, uttered two words, each of one syllable, one very rude before turning round, walking out and going home again. Last night I tried a different Steve. We had a pile of about a hundred CDs (msdn ones mostly) that needed disposing of so after he went home I tiled his desk with them. Just placed on every available space, it is not like I grouted them or anything. Apparently it did not go down well this morning, but at least he is still here. Has anyone else played a prank on someone called Steve that has not been appreciated? Or do you know a Steve who can take the joke? Is your name Steve, and how do you think you would react? There is one more Steve here, but he is into hunting and eating what he catches, and is very proficient with gun and knife so I am carrying out no further tests for now.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
Ah yes, I used to work with a Steve and he took pranks a bit more light heartedly, although our boss (a Kevin) eventually got fed up with our fiddling with Steve's PC to make it say things like "Starting MS-DOG" or, a particular favourite, tweaking the text displayed by an animated gnome when exiting a shareware paint program to say "don't forget your hankey".
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I can't, he is THE boss; it's not a big company. Anyway, I (mostly) agree with him, not because I have no sense of humour, but because practical jokes usually end up with making someone look stupid through no fault of their own.
I don't agree. It's not the joke itself that makes them look stupid. Usually it's their reaction.
"I just exchanged opinions with my boss. I went in with mine and came out with his." - me, 2011 ---
I am endeavoring, Madam, to construct a mnemonic memory circuit using stone knives and bearskins - Mr. Spock 1935 and me 2011 -
I don't agree. It's not the joke itself that makes them look stupid. Usually it's their reaction.
"I just exchanged opinions with my boss. I went in with mine and came out with his." - me, 2011 ---
I am endeavoring, Madam, to construct a mnemonic memory circuit using stone knives and bearskins - Mr. Spock 1935 and me 2011So you turn up to work one day, lots to do, meetings to attend, deadlines to meet, only to find that someone has wrapped everything on your desk so you are going to have to spend at least an hour unwrapping everything. Being pissed off sounds like a perfectly normal reaction to me.
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A couple of years ago I worked with a lad called Steve, one day before he came in we wrapped everything on his desk in this sort of large blue toilet roll stuff we use for cleaning. Monitor, keyboard, phone, mouse, tower, chair, photos, everything. He walked in, uttered two words, each of one syllable, one very rude before turning round, walking out and going home again. Last night I tried a different Steve. We had a pile of about a hundred CDs (msdn ones mostly) that needed disposing of so after he went home I tiled his desk with them. Just placed on every available space, it is not like I grouted them or anything. Apparently it did not go down well this morning, but at least he is still here. Has anyone else played a prank on someone called Steve that has not been appreciated? Or do you know a Steve who can take the joke? Is your name Steve, and how do you think you would react? There is one more Steve here, but he is into hunting and eating what he catches, and is very proficient with gun and knife so I am carrying out no further tests for now.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
Pranks don't go over very well with me. I always question the true motivation of someone who feels they have to prank someone. My question to you would be, what did all these Steve's do to you that makes you want to prank them so badly. They obviously didn't seem to get your joke what dumb asses they are, don't you think?
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So you turn up to work one day, lots to do, meetings to attend, deadlines to meet, only to find that someone has wrapped everything on your desk so you are going to have to spend at least an hour unwrapping everything. Being pissed off sounds like a perfectly normal reaction to me.
:thumbsup:
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Pranks don't go over very well with me. I always question the true motivation of someone who feels they have to prank someone. My question to you would be, what did all these Steve's do to you that makes you want to prank them so badly. They obviously didn't seem to get your joke what dumb asses they are, don't you think?
Quite, I don't see how someone not finding a prank funny is somehow their fault.
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Pranks don't go over very well with me. I always question the true motivation of someone who feels they have to prank someone. My question to you would be, what did all these Steve's do to you that makes you want to prank them so badly. They obviously didn't seem to get your joke what dumb asses they are, don't you think?
Slacker007 wrote:
My question to you would be, what did all these Steve's do to you that makes you want to prank them so badly.
You think that is badly? The first Steve was one of the biggest pranksters I have ever worked with, it was just this one occasion with his desk that he didn't take well. The second has been more than happy to join in with others being done, didn't seem to like being on the wrong end though. And I have been done in various ways many, many times.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
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Quite, I don't see how someone not finding a prank funny is somehow their fault.
I didn't say it was their fault, I was amused by the irony of two Steve's reacting to desk tampering. The coincidence tickled me. Obviously there are two of you who are disgusted with this gentle reverie.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
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I didn't say it was their fault, I was amused by the irony of two Steve's reacting to desk tampering. The coincidence tickled me. Obviously there are two of you who are disgusted with this gentle reverie.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
ChrisElston wrote:
gentle reverie.
Let me shit on your desk and then everyone can laugh at your reaction and then I will call it gentle reverie. You did ask us for our opinions and I gave you mine. :)
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ChrisElston wrote:
gentle reverie.
Let me shit on your desk and then everyone can laugh at your reaction and then I will call it gentle reverie. You did ask us for our opinions and I gave you mine. :)
wait a sec, sh*tting on desks is reserved for a$$hole bosses desks on your last day with a company!
Pete
