Don't mess with Steve's desk!
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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.
If it does not happen every day, then just get over it. Getting angry makes you look like a fool and please the pranksters so much that they will surely do it again. Like always: Don't feed the trolls.
"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 -
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.
ChrisElston wrote:
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.
good call!
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader." - John Quincy Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering” - Wernher von Braun -
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.
Brings this scene from Pulp Fiction to mind: Lance: Still got your desk? Steve: Aw, man. You know what some fucker did the other day? Lance: What? Steve: Fucking keyed it. Lance: Oh, man, that's fucked up. Steve: Tell me about it. I had it in storage for three years, it was out for five days and some dickless piece of shit fucked with it. Lance: They should be fucking killed. No trial, no jury, straight to execution. Steve: Boy, I wish I could've caught him doing it. I'd have given anything to catch that asshole doing it. It'd been worth him doing it just so I could've caught him doing it. Lance: What a fucker! Steve: What's more chicken shit than fucking with a man's desk? I mean, don't fuck with another man's desk. Lance: You don't do it. Steve: It's just against the rules. :-D P.S. My desk is my lap, so don't mess with it!
- S 50 cups of coffee and you know it's on! Code, follow, or get out of the way.
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If it does not happen every day, then just get over it. Getting angry makes you look like a fool and please the pranksters so much that they will surely do it again. Like always: Don't feed the trolls.
"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 2011CDP1802 wrote:
Like always: Don't feed the trolls.
Even better: don't be an asshole and prank people.
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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 don't know if this is read or not, but this prank had me rolling: [^]
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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.
Wow, lotta people seem to dislike pranking. I've been working from a home office for nearly 20 years now so I guess I'm out of touch. Seems like it's all in good fun to me. If someone trusts you enough to think they can prank you without you getting all upset with them, well, that's a friend I want to have. I say, prank 'em back! If you wrapped my office in blue towels, you'd find your mouse hot glued to your desktop one day soon after. (Removable glue of course!) So long as it doesn't get hurtful, spiteful, or dangerous, it just sounds like good office fun and comraderie to me. Humm, too bad I only know one guy named Steve and he's a couple thousand miles away.
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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.
Back in the days of punched cards, I took a boot box full of them from the data center and coated the interior and exterior of a coworker's car with 2" thick layer of punches for his birthday. Unfortunately it rained and he let it dry before trying to remove the punches on the outside. It had turned to paper mache and hard as a rock. It took some paint off when he removed it. On the interior, he complained he went through untold quarters pumping them into the vacuum cleaner at the car wash. Later that day he had to turn on the ventilation and punches flew out of the vents and he had to start vacuuming all over again. Luckily he thought it was enemy of his who had done it.
Psychosis at 10 Film at 11
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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.
Funky Jeff was a cool funky guy, into the city life and a self described metrosexual. It didn't take long for me to realize he was easy to poke fun at. One day I put small piece of scotch tape over the contacts on the connector of the ethernet cable for his workstation. We waited a while for him to return but it was worth it. We had an open office with no cubicle walls. It took him seconds to realize he was offline, and from then on we watched him troubleshoot from his workstation, reboot, check the switch reboot that, take the cable out and put back in (he didn't see the tape), check the connections at the other end, and after several minutes of him stomping around and swapping cables and getting more and more frustrated he saw the tape and immediately looked at me! Why me!! LOL. He was very grumpy about and actually very pissed off. To this day I still laugh at it. Another time, he returned to his desk to find that I rotated his workstation's video output 180 degrees using the video card control panel. We had new workstations, so it took him a while to figure that one out. He didn't get pissed off this time, so it was as funny.
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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.
Years ago where I worked, we had one individual in our group, "Glen", who dressed the same every day. White short-sleeve shirt, pocket protector and black pants. Think Dilbert in real life. 5 days a week. I am not exageratting. Halloween rolled around one year and it was on a Friday. We talked amongst our group and got the vast majority of the people in our section of the office, 30 or so, to dress as close to him as possible. The day rolled around, we were sitting in one cube area talking early in the day when "Glen" walked around the corner. He sat down on a the edge of a little table. We just continued with our converstaion. He took a look around at everybody, smiled and said "You guys are looking pretty sharp today!".
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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.
Good sense should be in place here, if you don't know the pranked schedule don't prank him so he looses too much time. I disagree with people that think pranksters are $#$%@#. But they do need to respect short fused people and don't do it again when they realize that someone is short fused. When done in a healthy way, pranks are a great way to lighten up the mood of the work environment and I really support it. Here where I work, we only prank people that we know are light minded and we have lots of fun with it. And what usually happens is that pranksters are also pranked.
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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'm no Steve, but i have been pranked. I left my desk once, and back then i didnt bother about locking my computer when away from my desk, and so im my absence some colleagues took a screen shot, hid my desktop icons, and made that screen shot the background image. I got back to my desk, and got a little frustrated that suddenly all my desktop icons didnt work. After they owned up to it i just laughed. I thought it was a great prank! And now i always lock my PC when i leave my desk ...
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I'm no Steve, but i have been pranked. I left my desk once, and back then i didnt bother about locking my computer when away from my desk, and so im my absence some colleagues took a screen shot, hid my desktop icons, and made that screen shot the background image. I got back to my desk, and got a little frustrated that suddenly all my desktop icons didnt work. After they owned up to it i just laughed. I thought it was a great prank! And now i always lock my PC when i leave my desk ...
This has to be one of my favourite pranks, always good for a new person in the office.. and it teaches a valuable lesson!
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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 have seen a lot of physical pranks like this over the years. Being a developer, I would always go the code route. One of my fellow developers was an avid Solitaire player. He had bragged that Solitaire was the most tested Windows application ever. One evening, I stayed a little later and manipulated the dll with the card bitmaps by swapping two of the images. I think it was something like swapping a Queen for a 10. I put the app on his PC and modified his Solitaire shortcut to point to the altered app. Next afternoon, he is running up and down the hallways of the cube farm telling everyone he has found a bug in Solitaire. He gets to my cube and I can't hold in the chuckle. He knew he had been goofed on. Another favorite was to mess around with the resources in user.dll.
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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."
Office pranks are just stupid timewasters. Once you start down this road, it is the end of productivity. Even if you stay late to perpetrate the prank, the prank-ee has to clean it up during work. Plus they'll want to retaliate, and soon nothing but pranks are getting done. It's not about humor at all. Humor is a dilbert cartoon apropos the situation, or a particularly twisted pun. Making a mess that takes an hour to clean up is just vandalism. The vandals will automatically accuse any who disagree of being humorless drones. It's how you know who they are.
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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.
Well his name was not steve but he was on of those cubical nazi's with massive religions overtones and was always ready to remind you of such or how you are not living up to his standards. You know the type, takes offense to any personal cubical stuff unless it was his religion. We found out he was scared of clowns, so we set up his computer so that when it started the startup sound and image was from Stephen King's IT, with the volume wide open. He knocked down two cubical walls before he managed to get out of the rolling chair and when he got to the front door at a dead run, someone with a clown mask was on the other side of the door looking in. Took them about 30 minutes to get him calmed down. He just kept running in circles. We felt bad for about half a second then decided that in his best interest we would either give him a nervous breakdown or cure him of his clown phobia. Over the next couple of years we would randomly set something up, with similar results.
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Office pranks are just stupid timewasters. Once you start down this road, it is the end of productivity. Even if you stay late to perpetrate the prank, the prank-ee has to clean it up during work. Plus they'll want to retaliate, and soon nothing but pranks are getting done. It's not about humor at all. Humor is a dilbert cartoon apropos the situation, or a particularly twisted pun. Making a mess that takes an hour to clean up is just vandalism. The vandals will automatically accuse any who disagree of being humorless drones. It's how you know who they are.
Member 2941392 wrote:
The vandals will automatically accuse any who disagree of being humorless drones. It's how you know who they are
...or will double bluff by claiming it is "just stupid timewasting..." Hmmm...
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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Well his name was not steve but he was on of those cubical nazi's with massive religions overtones and was always ready to remind you of such or how you are not living up to his standards. You know the type, takes offense to any personal cubical stuff unless it was his religion. We found out he was scared of clowns, so we set up his computer so that when it started the startup sound and image was from Stephen King's IT, with the volume wide open. He knocked down two cubical walls before he managed to get out of the rolling chair and when he got to the front door at a dead run, someone with a clown mask was on the other side of the door looking in. Took them about 30 minutes to get him calmed down. He just kept running in circles. We felt bad for about half a second then decided that in his best interest we would either give him a nervous breakdown or cure him of his clown phobia. Over the next couple of years we would randomly set something up, with similar results.
That was genius. I was at uni with a lad with a fear of sticky things. He thinks it stems from getting sticky medicine spilt on him as a sick child. Regardless of the reason you find out something like that about someone at uni you are going to play on it. They once wrapped sticky tape around his door handle with the sticky side out and he couldn't get into his room. Just little things like that that were a big deal to him. Thankfully he took it well and was eventually cured of his phobia when he became a pest catcher / exterminator after leaving uni and had to work with some very sticky substances on a daily basis.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
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Have you kept that link for 15 years?
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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.
Some of my favourite harmless ones: - Sticker over mouse laser (or remove battery from wireless mouse) - Change keyboard layout in regional settings - E-mail confession of undying love to coworker, victim usually only realises the plot when they receive a rejection letter. hehe - Wallpaper screenshot, as mentioned earlier - Mouse settings - (Clicklock keeps them busy for a while) - Accessibility settings on windows login (this is not really fair, the victim DID lock their workstation) - Swap laptop locks between desks, works especially well in a large open-plan office
