Simple Email Prank - Do it

[Barnes]

We use dual monitors at work and we removed the the primary monitor cables and switched them from two people that sit right next to each other. The primary monitor was on the other persons desk but they still had their secondary.

[FireFly]

Originally Posted by ken0042

Naw, when a newbie forgets to lock his computer there's only one of two things that are going to happen:

(a) He's offering to buy lunch.
(b) He's coming out of the closet.

Make sure you put a read receipt on the email. If there's time go into his sent items, edit the sent email to include somebody he wouldn't want on there. (A higher tech twist on Fotze's original post.)

We once got in trouble for this so we don't do it anymore, but we have a public email folder for posting miscellaneous things in... when people leave their computer unlocked, they end up posting messages in thei public folder. My favorite one went something like this:

I have lost my left shoe. I HAVE THE RIGHT, I just lost the left one. Can someone please return it to me? My foot hurts.

[mykalberta]

Originally Posted by Burninator

You sound fun to work with.

Also his story doesn't really ad up. This co-worker wore the same pair of pants everyday and somehow took them to and from the dry cleaners on his bike during the week?

You wanna mess with my crap at work? The story i was replying to seemed very creepy. Some despearate housewife was taking a personal article of clothing (a piece that some go comando in) and doing who knows what - we know altering but what else.

I cannot be the only one where that sounds creepy especialling a PC office environment?

That would have been an easy libel case.

MYK

[mykalberta]

Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos

They probably didn't pull the prank on the Head of the Humorless and Angry Department, so I don't think that's a big worry.

It sounds like a pretty funny prank and if someone pulled it on me I wouldn't go crying to either the boss or my lawyer about my floods.

Sorry, I didnt know I had to put up with Borats at work.

Also, i guess my understanding of the English Language is so bad that when I said this:

**START QUOTE**
If that guy ever wanted to quit and get one helluva severence package or libel suit, that would have been the time.
**END QUOE**

Of course you handle the situation differently if you are going to stay, I would have thought that was obvious, I guess my understanding of what WANTED means is different than others www.dictionary.com - oh wait IT ISNT.

MYK

[mykalberta]

Originally Posted by Snakeeye

I would be very interested to know on what grounds he could sue for libel.

Libel is likely the wrong word, but he could easily prove harrasment and malice since this was obviously a planned event and happened over several weeks.

Where is Troutman where you need him.

As someone in IT I have so far had to testify in several wrongful dismissal suits and would be surpirsed what people claim.

MYK

[mykalberta]

Originally Posted by Crazy Flamer

Wow, aren't you a bit of a hard ass...

Its a prank, I thought it was pretty funny.

It was funny - it could also easily been used as grounds for some serious cash if you ever wanted a reason to leave a place.

MYK

[VANFLAMESFAN]

It's all about the gay porn as people's desktop wallpapers. We all do it to each other and the goal is to find the nastiest pic around. Also, the best is when the computer is loading the person's settings and its taking a little too long and someone walks by before he has the chance to change it. Massive.

[Bend it like Bourgeois]

Originally Posted by Agamemnon

Wow... this sounds like it could backfire badly, I'll give 'er a go.

Probably a funnier prank then the one I got off here a few years ago... print off a sheet at the public printer saying "Do Not Discard This Sheet", and see how long it hangs out in the print room. I love the irony... it exists only to preserve itself!

HA. I printed that paper when it was on CP ...geez probably 6 mos ago... and put it in one of the printer rooms.

It's still there. And still makes me laugh.

[RougeUnderoos]

Originally Posted by mykalberta

Sorry, I didnt know I had to put up with Borats at work.

Also, i guess my understanding of the English Language is so bad that when I said this:

**START QUOTE**
If that guy ever wanted to quit and get one helluva severence package or libel suit, that would have been the time.
**END QUOE**

Of course you handle the situation differently if you are going to stay, I would have thought that was obvious, I guess my understanding of what WANTED means is different than others www.dictionary.com - oh wait IT ISNT.

MYK

Yeesh. This was a thread about some harmless pranks. They didn't throw the guy out the window. And I'm no lawyer, but I don't think shortening some guy's pants would be considered "libel".

You should probably go easy on hacking on the English skills of the other posters.

[mykalberta]

Originally Posted by BlackEleven

Sounds like someone's been a victim of a office prank that he didn't find so funny.

Never, I have worked in the corporate world for approx 2 years and 6 months since graduating from the UofA. Pranks are great (taping phone pieces down, disabling phone, changing desktop, TPing a cubicle etc, however something that obviously took planning and involved taking a personal article of someones going to someone elses home goes a little bit above and beyond the prank.

Am I the only one who thinks thats a little close to crossing the line? Did she pay for a new pair of pants for the dude - doubtful.

MYK

[GreenTeaFrapp]

Originally Posted by mykalberta

Libel is likely the wrong word, but he could easily prove harrasment and malice since this was obviously a planned event and happened over several weeks.

You need a dictionary at the very least before you start trying to imitate a lawyer.

[mykalberta]

Originally Posted by the-rasta-masta

Haha! To make your comment even funnier the boss was in on the whole thing! And I'd hardly call it "stealing". Just "borrowing". I can assure you everybody was friends in this office and we weren't by any means out to get this guy. He took it in stride and thought it was hilarious.

If the boss was in on it, then its a rock solid easy case. I was thinking if it was a person below then the case might be harder but if the boss was in on it then its rock solid.

I cant believe I am the only one who thinks what would be easy grounds for a law suit.

Do any of you actually work at an office enviroment where you have to where minimum collared 3 button shirts with no jeans or sneakers with the exception of Friday and the norm for me is full button shirts and dress pants/khakis with a tie being worn on average 2X per week?

MYK

MYK

[GreenTeaFrapp]

Originally Posted by mykalberta

Am I the only one who thinks thats a little close to crossing the line? Did she pay for a new pair of pants for the dude - doubtful.

Did you not read earlier in the thread where it was stated no pants were harmed in the making of this prank?

Or were you too busy looking outside in the hopes of seeing someone stepping over the curb so that you could perform a citizen's arrest on the charges of jaywalking??

[mykalberta]

Originally Posted by BlackEleven

Where I used to work pcAnywhere was installed on all the machines so the HelpDesk could log into your machine if you had a problem.

So we launched it on this one guys machine and hid in the next office. Everytime he would go to click on something we would move the mouse just a bit. And when he was typing we would hit a random letter on the keyboard in the middle of his sentence.

He discovered us after we starting laughing so hard at all the "what the hell??" and other such expressions coming from his office.

Wow - another rock solid case - I will refrain from commenting on specifics since no one on CP works in an office environment where the company employees number into the <2500's

MYK

[mykalberta]

Originally Posted by GreenTeaFrapp

Did you not read earlier in the thread where it was stated no pants were harmed in the making of this prank?

Or were you too busy looking outside in the hopes of seeing someone stepping over the curb so that you could perform a citizen's arrest on the charges of jaywalking??

Have you ever worn dresspants in your life, there is a reason you go to a tailor for hemming, dropping the pants if they have been hemmed incorrectly can easily ruin the pants for someone who might actually own say multiple pairs of dress pants and cares about personal appearance. No offense but she likely bought her knitting guide off Ebay while watching reruns of 3's company with her Cabbage Patch dolls to keep her company. The lady in question either has no life or the life she lives is very dreary.

"
so every friday she would take his pants home with her for the weekend and hem them a half inch shorter
"

I wont call the cops on you for jaywalking but if I noticed you across the street I would likey try to dodge you so I wouldnt have to bother saying no when you ask for spare change for "food" cough cough rum.

MYK

[ericschand]

If your email address has a "m" in it, you can try to send an email to
a co-worker, disparaging your boss. cc it to your boss, but change the
"m" to "rn". Pretty funny, until they catch on.

The other is to change the sounds in his Windows setup. We used
farting sounds, long juicy ones. Absolutely hilarious results when we
did it to one of the upper managers.

He would leave his office with his laptop unlocked, but a 1 minute
timeout (so he figured he was safe). He left, his secretary called us
and we had the .wav files ready to go. Changed the open/restore
window, close window sounds to the juicy farts.

Anyways, what we didn't know, he had stepped out to pick up a
VP coming in from Toronto, and was bringing said VP back to his
office for a meeting requiring him to open and close many many
windows.

I had to leave the office (for real) and the secretary watched in
horror as they went into the office and he unlocked his laptop.
Then he opened the first window...and sat in stunned silence, as
did the VP. Then he shrunk it, opened another...and again...ad naseum.

Then he began to apologize to the VP, over and over. And then figured
out how to mute the laptop.

The VP, however, did see the humour in it all.

However, after the VP left, he came out looking for me, yelling my name
down the hallway. (Why me!?)

When I got back, I was warned to call it a day, manager was on the
warpath, and had my name. So I did the manly thing, and ran.

Next day, he had finally found the humour in it, and I was off the
hook. When I asked why me, he said, "Who else would time it with
the VP?" Even though I protested I had no idea the VP was coming
in, he didn't believe me. We had a good laugh as he described
thinking, "WTF?! Uh, this can't possibly be the best time for this!"
as the VP sat across from him looking blankly. My co-worker
pal and the secretary were more than happy to let me take the hit
on that one.

ers

[mykalberta]

Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos

Yeesh. This was a thread about some harmless pranks. They didn't throw the guy out the window. And I'm no lawyer, but I don't think shortening some guy's pants would be considered "libel".

You should probably go easy on hacking on the English skills of the other posters.

I guess I am the only one who has ever heard the term - "Hostile Working Enviroment" - I am quite sure a planned event that happened over several weeks if not months that also had a managers approval would be considered hostile to someone who again WANTED or needed to have a reason to quit.

Again, I am not a lawyer so I am probably misusing the word libel.

MYK

[Burninator]

Originally Posted by mykalberta

You wanna mess with my crap at work? The story i was replying to seemed very creepy. Some despearate housewife was taking a personal article of clothing (a piece that some go comando in) and doing who knows what - we know altering but what else.

I cannot be the only one where that sounds creepy especialling a PC office environment?

That would have been an easy libel case.

MYK

Pranks all depend on the circumstances. Some work environments are very open to pranks. It is very dependent on the type of people you work with. If you work in a very strict and professional office chances are that a prank like this could result in a dismissal. If you work in a more relaxed environment then pranks on this level can accepted. People have to use their discretion. I'm sure the women hemming his pants knew that he wouldn't blow up when told about the prank. For example I had a friend that got all his underwear put into a plastic bag which was filled with water and was put in the freezer. When he found his frozen ball of underwear the next day he said, "Ha, I am not even mad, that was pretty good." Not everyone is as good natured I guess.

[mykalberta]

Originally Posted by ericschand

If your email address has a "m" in it, you can try to send an email to
a co-worker, disparaging your boss. cc it to your boss, but change the
"m" to "rn". Pretty funny, until they catch on.

The other is to change the sounds in his Windows setup. We used
farting sounds, long juicy ones. Absolutely hilarious results when we
did it to one of the upper managers.

He would leave his office with his laptop unlocked, but a 1 minute
timeout (so he figured he was safe). He left, his secretary called us
and we had the .wav files ready to go. Changed the open/restore
window, close window sounds to the juicy farts.

Anyways, what we didn't know, he had stepped out to pick up a
VP coming in from Toronto, and was bringing said VP back to his
office for a meeting requiring him to open and close many many
windows.

I had to leave the office (for real) and the secretary watched in
horror as they went into the office and he unlocked his laptop.
Then he opened the first window...and sat in stunned silence, as
did the VP. Then he shrunk it, opened another...and again...ad naseum.

Then he began to apologize to the VP, over and over. And then figured
out how to mute the laptop.

The VP, however, did see the humour in it all.

However, after the VP left, he came out looking for me, yelling my name
down the hallway. (Why me!?)

When I got back, I was warned to call it a day, manager was on the
warpath, and had my name. So I did the manly thing, and ran.

Next day, he had finally found the humour in it, and I was off the
hook. When I asked why me, he said, "Who else would time it with
the VP?" Even though I protested I had no idea the VP was coming
in, he didn't believe me. We had a good laugh as he described
thinking, "WTF?! Uh, this can't possibly be the best time for this!"
as the VP sat across from him looking blankly. My co-worker
pal and the secretary were more than happy to let me take the hit
on that one.

ers

The sounds file are great. There are way to many things in IT.

Scripts that open different programs at random intervals based on your PC clock. A Script that changes your date and time randomly (more a small office thing that wouldnt be connected to a domain controller) etc.

MYK.

[mykalberta]

Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos

Yeesh. This was a thread about some harmless pranks. They didn't throw the guy out the window. And I'm no lawyer, but I don't think shortening some guy's pants would be considered "libel".

You should probably go easy on hacking on the English skills of the other posters.

It was either bad English skills, didnt actually READ the post, or grossly misquoting as I clearly said WANTED.

I still cant believe i have posted in this thread more than once - wasting time on CP, what a prank that is - thank goodness the techs at Cisco put you on hold for over 5 minutes - stupid budget routers.

MYK