Friday, June 17, 2005

Office antics Part 3

Mac Scripting:
Make a Shutdown script and save it as an applet with a name that in no way implies its true nature. Then set it up to run on startup or on login. Now whenever the victim starts up or logs into the computer, it'll shut down. This one is killer for obvious reasons.

Birthday Chair:
Disassemble a musical birthday card and carefully tape it underneath a coworkers chair so that when the chair is leaned back, the card activates.

Word hack:
Subtle in execution, but so hot when it yields results. Change the AutoCorrect on a coworker's Word settings such that when they type in, say "facilitate," it gets auto-corrected to "faliatiate". Don't have the patience to wait for him to type facilitate? Change "the" to "teet", and so on.

Power failure:
Take a co-worker's monitor power cable and run it through a wall or under one's cube into a separate power strip/surge protector so you could turn his monitor on/off at your leisure.

Copier fun:
Put a piece of clear tape on the glass of the photocopier. This is fun, but it has a second part to it. If the sheer frustration of someone having to make 100 copies all over again isn't enough, you could try making 100 copies of the piece of tape, and then load the paper into the paper feed. Funny to see people go crazy trying to figure out why the copy is coming up with this square on every page.

2 comments:

mickey_finn said...

Not to do with copiers, but another office antic! Try putting saran wrap over the top of the urinal - it has to be stretched really snug. I did this as a pay back to office workers removing casters from my chair, hiding my desk drawers, putting vaseline on my telephone, and putting strange symbols into my calculator. One time with the "back splash" and they didn't play such rough games with me anymore!

mickey_finn said...

Hey Wes, have a question for you and couldn't find another spot to put it, so put it here! How the heck do I join blog explosion or whatever you called it?