Simple Email Prank - Do it

[ken0042]

OK, if you guys have issues with each other than take it to PM. This has been great thread with lots of laughs and good ideas for pranks. Let's keep it fun.

[mykalberta]

Originally Posted by GreenTeaFrapp

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

Dictionary.com

Harrasment: to disturb persistently; torment, as with troubles or cares; bother continually; pester; persecute

Malice: 1.desire to inflict injury, harm, or suffering on another, either because of a hostile impulse or out of deep-seated meanness: the malice and spite of a lifelong enemy. 2.Law. evil intent on the part of a person who commits a wrongful act injurious to others.


If you dont think it would be an easy case, well then good for you and see you in court.

MYK

[pope04]

[quote=mykalberta;794994
That would have been an easy libel case.
[/quote]

My $.02:

li·bel

1. A false publication, as in writing, print, signs, or pictures, that damages a person's reputation.

[photon]

Originally Posted by mykalberta

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

People will claim lots of things when trying for wrongful dismissal. Most people don't choose to live fearful of every remote possibility of something that might maybe happen if someone might be in a position to want to maybe quit.

If everyone in the office is good natured enough for practical jokes to be common, then doing one is hardly a hostile working environment; it's just a result of the nature of the team.

If the people all pick on one specific person who doesn't particiapte or welcome it, then yes that's hostile.

You're still new to the corporate world though so I guess we have to cut you some slack.

Originally Posted by mykalberta

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

One doesn't have to be a lawyer to use a dictionary...

[pope04]

Originally Posted by mykalberta

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

MYK

No, the word you're looking for is completely.

[RougeUnderoos]

Originally Posted by mykalberta

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

Dude, are you really this bitter in real life? I mean come on, it was a joke. A harmless prank. The victim thought it was funny.

I suppose if the guy in the floods wanted to be an he could use this prank as justification for quitting his job. Good luck to him ever getting another one in whatever industry he's in though.

[mykalberta]

Originally Posted by fotze

Thank God I don;t have to wear a collared shirt like that. I think the only places that do that are law firms and stock brokerages, the only pranks in those places involve snorting coke off hookers chests after hours. Some places of work aren;t miserable hellholes where everyone is looking to stab the back of another to get ahead. All places have people like that, but those are the ones that you would avoid playing this prank on.

I have worked at some places where people have worked together for 25 years, it is like family and in that time you would get to know someone and gauge if they would a.) think its funny, b) use it to extract money. If it was a weasely guy with a $3000 suit in an office where it is not required, then you would avoid this prank on him. If it is the guy that everyone likes and wears khaki pants from Work Wearhouse, then maybe you can go for it.

I wouldn't do that prnak only because it would be too much work and I would be worried that it wasn't funny enough to justify it since my prank formula is Prankgoodness=Funny/Work. Funniness has to at least match the increase in work involved.

Nope, no law firm. O&G industry.

I dont often wear too expensive stuff as I have to alot of times get on my knees to fix stuff but the company pays for drycleaning 10X/month so its ok with me. I am like the person in the to which I first responded to.

I keep alot of my dress shirts, Pants, and ties at the office since I walk to work most days and when I get hemming done it is done so that if someone re-hemmed them "a few inches higher" I would look like an idot and in the IT position I am in, appearance matters and if you were to walk into meetings like some bohunk with non cheap dress pants that are hemmed past your sock line it would be very embarrasing and might cause me my job or at the very least would not look prfessional to the Executives who actually run the company that pays my wages and likely suggest to my bosses on my bonus structure.

Canada and Houston are the most strict for the company I work with. Kuwait, Aberdeen, and Singapore are easily the less restrictive with Norway being somewhere in the middle when I have had to go those places.

Kuwait is easily the most fun - only time when a regional manager has taken me out for lunch at a Strippers - very dodgy mind you but fun none the less.

Last post on the matter since I and the rest of CP obviously differ on what could happen and I will go out on the high note (stippers - I know useless without pics but I dont have anything suitable on a work notebook or photobucket to post )

MYK

[Shazam]

Originally Posted by mykalberta

I dont often wear too expensive stuff as I have to alot of times get on my knees

[Burninator]

Originally Posted by fotze

Hey ken said keep it light. So here's a picture of an abortion protest prank.

Classic

Now if I only could find the picture of the guy holding up the sign "Do my laundry" at a feminist protest...

[Cowperson]

Originally Posted by Burninator

Not everyone is as good natured I guess.

That's right. Not everyone has the same sense of humour. Therefore, choose your victims well.

Err on the side of caution on things like this or be prepared for the anvil that might fall on your head.

The city of Los Angeles right now is looking at a multi-million dollar award to a black firefighter after some of his colleagues tricked him into eating dog food as a practical joke. He didn't think it was funny. He thought it was racist. A court agreed.

Cowperson

[mykalberta]

Originally Posted by Shazam

I have alot of female coworkers and I dont mind making the trip.

Ok, thats my last post, leave it to Shazam, when I wrote that I knew someone would reply.

MYK

[STeeLy]

Originally Posted by Burninator

Classic

Now if I only could find the picture of the guy holding up the sign "Do my laundry" at a feminist protest...

This is the thing I found.

[Burninator]

/\ That's the one. I wonder long he was there before someone noticed and he was crushed by a stampede of angry women.

[GreenTeaFrapp]

Originally Posted by mykalberta

I dont often wear too expensive stuff as I have to alot of times get on my knees to fix stuff but the company pays for drycleaning 10X/month so its ok with me. I am like the person in the to which I first responded to.

I keep alot of my dress shirts, Pants, and ties at the office since I walk to work most days and when I get hemming done it is done so that if someone re-hemmed them "a few inches higher" I would look like an idot and in the IT position I am in, appearance matters and if you were to walk into meetings like some bohunk with non cheap dress pants that are hemmed past your sock line it would be very embarrasing and might cause me my job or at the very least would not look prfessional to the Executives who actually run the company that pays my wages and likely suggest to my bosses on my bonus structure.

So let me get this straight. You can get fired if your pants aren't the proper length but there's no problem if you're walking around with dirty knees?

[SaskaBushFire]

i just got my coworker and bestest friend fired becuz of this prank

his wife is goin to divorse him

[BlackEleven]

Originally Posted by mykalberta

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

You can't be serious. It was totally harmless, and even he thought it was funny after he found out what's going on. You don't play those types of pranks on people who you know can't take a joke (and I'm guessing you fall into this category).

[Burninator]

Originally Posted by SaskaBushFire

i just got my coworker and bestest friend fired becuz of this prank

his wife is goin to divorse him

You're really bitter from that grammar thread aren't yah?

[JiriHrdina]

Originally Posted by SaskaBushFire

i just got my coworker and bestest friend fired becuz of this prank

his wife is goin to divorse him

I'll also put this reminder of our board rules here:
6. Thou shalt pay rudimentary attention to thy grammar and spelling. You don't have to win a Pulitzer for what you post here, but try to show at least a semblance of intelligence.

[SaskaBushFire]

noted

[Lanny_MacDonald]

Originally Posted by 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.

You know, it'd not hard to believe that you would hunting through gay porn sites. What is hard to believe is that you claim you are doing it just to pull a prank on someone!

ZING!!!