Comments on: I can be annoying

By: HDW

HDW — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 11:22:48 +0000

Very nice. That would be seriously annoying.

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 06:41:29 +0000

They gave us some cheap plastic watches at work, a special thank you for something. Anyway they had an alarm on them so I set mine for 2:15 PM and hid it in the rafters above the suspended ceiling in the office.
Every day for months it would go off! You’d see the office staff just freeze and wait then dash around looking for it! I had a great view of them from the warehouse.
It ran till the battery died, eventually they stopped looking for it.

I wonder if it had a setting to go off once an hour?

By: High Desert Wanderer » You can be annoying too

High Desert Wanderer » You can be annoying too — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 12:35:46 +0000

[...] letting everyone know that I can be annoying, how could I pass up 101 Ways to Annoy Your Co-workers? 22. Make a screenshot of their desktop and [...]

By: HDW

HDW — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 14:27:04 +0000

Those are great! I love the moving the desk gag. I always like the pranks where the victim isn’t quite sure if someone’s messing with them or not.

By: Luke Maciak

Luke Maciak — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 14:22:18 +0000

When I was a GA at school I installed VNC on one of the machines in our office. I fired up the client on the other machine, minimized it and waited for someone else to show up. When the other GA came in and started to use the computer I would wait till she was about to press a button or and icon and I would nudge the mouse just slightly so that she would miss.

I would also type random characters while she was typing. Poor girl couldn’t figure out what was going on. This lasted for few hours where I would mess with her on and off while doing my own work.

Then for the grand finale I just started opening random applications, minimizing and maximizing windows and moving things on the screen which made her scream out: “OMG, my computer was hacked!”

Fun times.

At another time one guy explained to us that he had to chmod his home directory to 777 to get his program working working. This was a NFS setup, and we were all essentially on the same machine. So it was trivial for us to go into his home dir, create the following set of directories and then copy all his files into it:

/home/username/you/should/not/give/everyone/access/to/your/home_dir/

A guy I worked with also had some good ones from his last job. Not particularly geeky things but still good ones:

- every day they would push a guys desk closer to the wall by half an inch or so (so he would have less and less space behind it)

- one guy would always brown bag his lunch, and had a schedule: Monday it was a ham and cheese sandwich and and apple, Tuseday it was a tuna salad and an orange – and etc.. It was always some sandwich and a fruit. Every few days they would switch his fruit of the day with a different one and then watch his expression of shock and disbelief at lunch hour

- one manager had a very ugly yellow tie that he would wear almost every single day. Someone found that same tie at a store bought the whole rack, and handed it out the next day. At the next meeting half the room was wearing the same funky tie as the manager.

- Someone found a box of sugar packets that actually contained salt at one of those stores with joke items. No one saw this coming.