Hi everyone

I’m looking to have a little fun at work. I’ve been there for 4 weeks so far, and I’ve been asked by someone I’m working alongside who has been there for many many years to help get revenge on someone.

I work with an older lady in the mornings (I say older, as in older than me, but I wouldn’t say she’s old), and a team leader from another department regularly comes over and hits on the wall to frighten her as he passes by. She keeps saying she’ll get him back sometime but hasn’t been able to come up with anything.

He did it yesterday while I was there, and she turned to me and said if I have any ideas what to do, let her know.

Well I have an idea. Basically the picture says it all.

So I’m really wanting to know 2 things. (1) Where can you buy airhorn cans like this? and (2) Any other suggestions?

JTQ said:

Hi everyone

I’m looking to have a little fun at work. I’ve been there for 4 weeks so far, and I’ve been asked by someone I’m working alongside who has been there for many many years to help get revenge on someone.

I work with an older lady in the mornings (I say older, as in older than me, but I wouldn’t say she’s old), and a team leader from another department regularly comes over and hits on the wall to frighten her as he passes by. She keeps saying she’ll get him back sometime but hasn’t been able to come up with anything.

He did it yesterday while I was there, and she turned to me and said if I have any ideas what to do, let her know.

Well I have an idea. Basically the picture says it all.

So I’m really wanting to know 2 things. (1) Where can you buy airhorn cans like this? and (2) Any other suggestions?

ebay > air can horn

CrazyNeutrino said:

ebay > air can horn

I didn’t think of that ….

Anywhere else? eBay and I aren’t exactly on speaking terms at the moment.

CrazyNeutrino said:

JTQ said:

Hi everyone

I’m looking to have a little fun at work. I’ve been there for 4 weeks so far, and I’ve been asked by someone I’m working alongside who has been there for many many years to help get revenge on someone.

I work with an older lady in the mornings (I say older, as in older than me, but I wouldn’t say she’s old), and a team leader from another department regularly comes over and hits on the wall to frighten her as he passes by. She keeps saying she’ll get him back sometime but hasn’t been able to come up with anything.

He did it yesterday while I was there, and she turned to me and said if I have any ideas what to do, let her know.

Well I have an idea. Basically the picture says it all.

So I’m really wanting to know 2 things. (1) Where can you buy airhorn cans like this? and (2) Any other suggestions?

ebay > air can horn

Another and better suggestion would be, after four weeks on the job I would not be consorting to get revenge on anyone.

Head down and bum up in your work.

I get the impression you can’t afford to be the new smart arse and not well equipped enough to disengage from conflict.

CrazyNeutrino said:

JTQ said:

Hi everyone

I’m looking to have a little fun at work. I’ve been there for 4 weeks so far, and I’ve been asked by someone I’m working alongside who has been there for many many years to help get revenge on someone.

I work with an older lady in the mornings (I say older, as in older than me, but I wouldn’t say she’s old), and a team leader from another department regularly comes over and hits on the wall to frighten her as he passes by. She keeps saying she’ll get him back sometime but hasn’t been able to come up with anything.

He did it yesterday while I was there, and she turned to me and said if I have any ideas what to do, let her know.

Well I have an idea. Basically the picture says it all.

So I’m really wanting to know 2 things. (1) Where can you buy airhorn cans like this? and (2) Any other suggestions?

ebay > air can horn

classic

foam brick. you can get them from joke shops or probably online, look exactly like a house-brick but made of harmless foam.

I used it once. Asked person if he had the file for “Brick” on his desk. he fumbled around, couldn’t find find it. I said the diary system indicated the file had been allocated to him. He searches more.

nevermind I said, this just came through, can you add it to the file when you find it.

(casually throw foam brick at his chest)

much hilarity…

AwesomeO said:

I get the impression you can’t afford to be the new smart arse and not well equipped enough to disengage from conflict.

Really? wow lol…

I regularly and easily disengage from conflict. It goes with the job. I work in a call centre.

i loaded up someones work stool with throwdowns

they’d tightened my vice a few times at the apprentice centre

i turned up early and balanced the 6 legged stool on throwdowns

as predicted numbnuts turned up late and threw himself onto the stool and leapt in the air as they all exploded at the same time

JTQ said:

CrazyNeutrino said:

ebay > air can horn

I didn’t think of that ….

Anywhere else? eBay and I aren’t exactly on speaking terms at the moment.

Google shopping air can horn

party_pants said:

foam brick. you can get them from joke shops or probably online, look exactly like a house-brick but made of harmless foam.

I used it once. Asked person if he had the file for “Brick” on his desk. he fumbled around, couldn’t find find it. I said the diary system indicated the file had been allocated to him. He searches more.

nevermind I said, this just came through, can you add it to the file when you find it.

(casually throw foam brick at his chest)

much hilarity…

yeah then leave it on someones desk except substitute it with a real one

party_pants said:

foam brick. you can get them from joke shops or probably online, look exactly like a house-brick but made of harmless foam.

I used it once. Asked person if he had the file for “Brick” on his desk. he fumbled around, couldn’t find find it. I said the diary system indicated the file had been allocated to him. He searches more.

nevermind I said, this just came through, can you add it to the file when you find it.

(casually throw foam brick at his chest)

much hilarity…

lol

The ‘worst’ thing they have there are squeaky toys (fart-sounding in the shape of cows and chickens) that are randomly squeezed throughout the day, and stress balls that are thrown at each other.

I’m lucky enough to be in the craziest of all 5 departments, who have been each provided with water spray bottles by the team leader for hot days, with the strict instructions of “don’t squirt each other with them!”. No more than 2 minutes later, there was a water fight. And yes, it included the TL herself.

I’m happy enough to crazy it up a bit.

we used to throw bricks each other at primary school

I was hoping to find air horn cans at a shop somewhere.

spud decided to play the big man and buy a gun and do the gun licence thing and talk about himself shooting things on the weekend

i manufactured a shell and casing on the lathe at the apprentice centre , gave it a dab of paint for realism and left it amongst his shit on his desk, you throw a jumper over whatever it is you’ve left there so they discover it

the look on his face was priceless, bringing ammo to work was frowned upon

i made up a big metal dildo and welded it onto a plate with two big nuts added a bit of steel wool around the base of the shaft and left it to be found in his shit too

i planted some weed in the planters there but they never grew

AwesomeO said:

CrazyNeutrino said:

JTQ said:

Hi everyone

I’m looking to have a little fun at work. I’ve been there for 4 weeks so far, and I’ve been asked by someone I’m working alongside who has been there for many many years to help get revenge on someone.

I work with an older lady in the mornings (I say older, as in older than me, but I wouldn’t say she’s old), and a team leader from another department regularly comes over and hits on the wall to frighten her as he passes by. She keeps saying she’ll get him back sometime but hasn’t been able to come up with anything.

He did it yesterday while I was there, and she turned to me and said if I have any ideas what to do, let her know.

Well I have an idea. Basically the picture says it all.

So I’m really wanting to know 2 things. (1) Where can you buy airhorn cans like this? and (2) Any other suggestions?

ebay > air can horn

Another and better suggestion would be, after four weeks on the job I would not be consorting to get revenge on anyone.

Head down and bum up in your work.

I get the impression you can’t afford to be the new smart arse and not well equipped enough to disengage from conflict.

He’s after ideas to suggest to the other person to carry out,, not necessarily to do himself.

With my brick idea, perhaps she could Google it and buy it. next time he thumps the wall she can say “look what you’ve done, you’ve knocked the bloody wall down!”, then pick up brick from the floor and throw at his head etc.

JTQ said:

I was hoping to find air horn cans at a shop somewhere.

http://www.lombard.com.au/air-horn-supporters-can-ea/

https://www.hartsport.com.au/Coaching/Starting-Devices/Other-Starting-Devices/Air-Horn-9-740

oldie but a goodie.

get on their computer.
create folder named “goat porn”
Screenshot
delete folder
change background to screenshot image…

pour some olive oil on a floor, good times

just make sure you wipe the floor before the ambulance crew get there or people will start asking questions

i hate questions

stumpy_seahorse said:

oldie but a goodie.

get on their computer.
create folder named “goat porn”
Screenshot
delete folder
change background to screenshot image…

Can you still do that with Windows 10?

I recall doing that to some poor bastard at a LAN party :)

load up some illegal porn on to their work computer then call the police and make an anonymous call – good times

CrazyNeutrino said:

JTQ said:

I was hoping to find air horn cans at a shop somewhere.

http://www.lombard.com.au/air-horn-supporters-can-ea/

https://www.hartsport.com.au/Coaching/Starting-Devices/Other-Starting-Devices/Air-Horn-9-740

supercheap auto..

but seriously.. >HR Manager-workplace harassment…

We had another bloke who was a mad Hawthorn supporter, he used to have as screensaver the scrolling text “We’re a Happy Team at Hawthorn”.

I changed it from Happy to Crappy, took more than a week before he noticed.

youtube has plenty of work pranks

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=search_videos&search_query=work+pranks&search_sort=relevance&search_category=0&page=

the office girl who was promoted to a manager was ringing up the dob in line at the company i worked for and accuse someone of doing illegal things with the vehicle – texting whilst driving, or using the vehicle for private purposes

she did it one too many times and people twigged

the next thing you knew the company was looking at her for dangerous driving on the dob in line and mysteriously all the other dob in calls stopped

put a few drops of thallium in their tea – it makes their hair fall out!

stumpy_seahorse said:

but seriously.. >HR Manager-workplace harassment…

really..? hmm

JTQ said:

stumpy_seahorse said:

but seriously.. >HR Manager-workplace harassment…

really..? hmm

Someone advised you to keep your head down and arse up.

That is the best advice you will get this year.

jjjust moi said:

JTQ said:

stumpy_seahorse said:

but seriously.. >HR Manager-workplace harassment…

really..? hmm

Someone advised you to keep your head down and arse up.

That is the best advice you will get this year.

JTQ hasn’t made a habit of following ‘good advice’ though

one trick i was going to play at work was to grab one of the awards off the wall treasured by the second boss leave it on their desk and turn it over so the back of the wooden board was facing upwards and place a pool of cured 5 minute araldite with a mixing stick hanging out the top of it

use some sticky tape to hold the pool of araldite to the board

the person would find an abandoned board used for mixing up glue on their desk turn it over to discover it was their treasured award

stumpy_seahorse said:

jjjust moi said:

JTQ said:

really..? hmm

Someone advised you to keep your head down and arse up.

That is the best advice you will get this year.

JTQ hasn’t made a habit of following ‘good advice’ though

True

stumpy_seahorse said:

jjjust moi said:

JTQ said:

really..? hmm

Someone advised you to keep your head down and arse up.

That is the best advice you will get this year.

JTQ hasn’t made a habit of following ‘good advice’ though

In my defence I am not familiar with call centres and JTQs response might mean they are encouraged to act like clowns.

jjjust moi said:

JTQ said:

stumpy_seahorse said:

but seriously.. >HR Manager-workplace harassment…

really..? hmm

Someone advised you to keep your head down and arse up.

That is the best advice you will get this year.

He is looking for ideas to suggest to someone else.

i did nothing my first few months on the joib at the bank, until the Basil’s Footy Show week.

sport shops > air can horn

i found out one of the service techs had gone on a week long trip into the never never without his MONEY!

i printed up some banknotes and strategically placed them on an A4 sheet so the clear section of the copied notes wouldn’t be exposed as white

i found out where the person would be in say 5 days time and posted off an envelope with 250 dollars with a small note with kisses

the boss then received this paranoid phone call from the service tech as he freaked out where this small fortune had come from addressed to him

after a minute or so the boss twigged and asked him to turn over the notes and all was revealed

we’d been leaving fake money around the workshop ever since i’d had the idea

stumpy_seahorse said:

JTQ hasn’t made a habit of following ‘good advice’ though

lol .. is this going to be about the legal stuff again?

I spoke to them on the phone yesterday and they said they’ll email me brochures. Same as last time.

Today i went in to a legal aid office, and they said they’re not able to help, even with giving advice, because they have a full work load and no room for new clients or time to give advice in person and suggested I call the hotline.

party_pants said:

jjjust moi said:

JTQ said:

really..? hmm

Someone advised you to keep your head down and arse up.

That is the best advice you will get this year.

He is looking for ideas to suggest to someone else.

i did nothing my first few months on the joib at the bank, until the Basil’s Footy Show week.

and when said ‘someone else’ fingers him for the one the Idea came from?

send a fax of a black sheet

it will take hours to print out at the other end

jeez…

seriously you people are no fun.

The place where I work is full of fun people who like to enjoy each others’ company and have a few laughs along the way.

And it’s not a pissy little small company, it’s a multinational multi-billion dollar company manufactures products that almost all of you have in your houses right now.

600 petaflops by 2020

rig up a metal door handle to 240AC

they can’t let go

priceless

stumpy_seahorse said:

party_pants said:

jjjust moi said:

Someone advised you to keep your head down and arse up.

That is the best advice you will get this year.

He is looking for ideas to suggest to someone else.

i did nothing my first few months on the joib at the bank, until the Basil’s Footy Show week.

and when said ‘someone else’ fingers him for the one the Idea came from?

If it’s a harmless prank then it means acceptance into the team, being a team layer with a good sense of humour etc.

i’m still mates with this guy I mentioned before; 15 years later.

JTQ said:

jeez…

seriously you people are no fun.

The place where I work is full of fun people who like to enjoy each others’ company and have a few laughs along the way.

And it’s not a pissy little small company, it’s a multinational multi-billion dollar company manufactures products that almost all of you have in your houses right now.

Have a look on youtube for work pranks

one person i used to know had someone stick a soldering iron into his ear for a joke

he waited for them to go to the toilet and sneaked up behind them with a rubber mallet and whacked them on the back of the head,. the force driving their head into the wall knocking them out

he told me later that the management had installed stainless steel mirrors above the urinals after the third attack

wookiemeister said:

one person i used to know had someone stick a soldering iron into his ear for a joke

he waited for them to go to the toilet and sneaked up behind them with a rubber mallet and whacked them on the back of the head,. the force driving their head into the wall knocking them out

he told me later that the management had installed stainless steel mirrors above the urinals after the third attack

What’s the poiint of putting mirrors above when everyone is looking to try and avoid pissing on their shoes?

roughbarked said:

wookiemeister said:

one person i used to know had someone stick a soldering iron into his ear for a joke

he waited for them to go to the toilet and sneaked up behind them with a rubber mallet and whacked them on the back of the head,. the force driving their head into the wall knocking them out

he told me later that the management had installed stainless steel mirrors above the urinals after the third attack

What’s the poiint of putting mirrors above when everyone is looking to try and avoid pissing on their shoes?

would you rather wet shoes or being knocked out

the last time i saw him he was telling me how he had shot someone he didnt like with his air rifle, a shot straight to the head

the police raided his bedroom and took all his air rifles away bar one and warned him not to do it again

party_pants said:

stumpy_seahorse said:

party_pants said:

He is looking for ideas to suggest to someone else.

i did nothing my first few months on the joib at the bank, until the Basil’s Footy Show week.

and when said ‘someone else’ fingers him for the one the Idea came from?

If it’s a harmless prank then it means acceptance into the team, being a team layer with a good sense of humour etc.

i’m still mates with this guy I mentioned before; 15 years later.

hey, I’m not saying ‘no fun in the workplace’..

Just saying if what TQ has been saying is true, it would be wise to think carefully about minimisig the risks involved in any action taken

stumpy_seahorse said:

party_pants said:

stumpy_seahorse said:

and when said ‘someone else’ fingers him for the one the Idea came from?

If it’s a harmless prank then it means acceptance into the team, being a team layer with a good sense of humour etc.

i’m still mates with this guy I mentioned before; 15 years later.

hey, I’m not saying ‘no fun in the workplace’..

Just saying if what TQ has been saying is true, it would be wise to think carefully about minimisig the risks involved in any action taken

no

go hard in ninja mode

never leave any evidence of your involvement

if it goes pear shaped blame someone else

stumpy_seahorse said:

hey, I’m not saying ‘no fun in the workplace’..

Just saying if what TQ has been saying is true, it would be wise to think carefully about minimisig the risks involved in any action taken

If there was risk involved in getting booted out, of course I wouldn’t even bother.

But knowing everyone there and what they’re like, and the sorts of things people like to do there, simply putting an air horn under someone’s chair really would fit right in.

practical jokes involve upping the ante

wookiemeister said:

go hard in ninja mode

never leave any evidence of your involvement

if it goes pear shaped blame someone else

too right. I’m first in there tomorrow and will be using someone else’s sticky notes to cover another person’s entire workspace.

JTQ said:

stumpy_seahorse said:

hey, I’m not saying ‘no fun in the workplace’..

Just saying if what TQ has been saying is true, it would be wise to think carefully about minimisig the risks involved in any action taken

If there was risk involved in getting booted out, of course I wouldn’t even bother.

But knowing everyone there and what they’re like, and the sorts of things people like to do there, simply putting an air horn under someone’s chair really would fit right in.

how were you to know they had a heart condition

to be safe

always use electricity in your practical jokes

wookiemeister said:

JTQ said:

stumpy_seahorse said:

hey, I’m not saying ‘no fun in the workplace’..

Just saying if what TQ has been saying is true, it would be wise to think carefully about minimisig the risks involved in any action taken

If there was risk involved in getting booted out, of course I wouldn’t even bother.

But knowing everyone there and what they’re like, and the sorts of things people like to do there, simply putting an air horn under someone’s chair really would fit right in.

how were you to know they had a heart condition

to be safe

always use electricity in your practical jokes

Well that would be a lot easier than trying to find an airhorn in a shop. Instead all I’d need is some wire.

stumpy_seahorse said:

party_pants said:

stumpy_seahorse said:

and when said ‘someone else’ fingers him for the one the Idea came from?

If it’s a harmless prank then it means acceptance into the team, being a team layer with a good sense of humour etc.

i’m still mates with this guy I mentioned before; 15 years later.

hey, I’m not saying ‘no fun in the workplace’..

Just saying if what TQ has been saying is true, it would be wise to think carefully about minimisig the risks involved in any action taken

He has posted an impressive list of fails and now that he has been employed for four weeks I don’t think he should be spending much energy on revenge pranks.

Four weeks? I don’t reckon you even have a handle on the culture and personalities at four weeks.

But that’s just me.

JTQ said:

wookiemeister said:

go hard in ninja mode

never leave any evidence of your involvement

if it goes pear shaped blame someone else

too right. I’m first in there tomorrow and will be using someone else’s sticky notes to cover another person’s entire workspace.

I’d be very careful until your probationary period is up.

JTQ said:

wookiemeister said:

go hard in ninja mode

never leave any evidence of your involvement

if it goes pear shaped blame someone else

too right. I’m first in there tomorrow and will be using someone else’s sticky notes to cover another person’s entire workspace.

don’t bother

if you need the work

No. Just no. Don’t do it, JTQ.

The woman should be taking the guy’s behaviour to management as he is harassing her…all very “friendly” etc, but it is still harassment.

Seriously. Don’t get involved.

JTQ said:

wookiemeister said:

JTQ said:

If there was risk involved in getting booted out, of course I wouldn’t even bother.

But knowing everyone there and what they’re like, and the sorts of things people like to do there, simply putting an air horn under someone’s chair really would fit right in.

how were you to know they had a heart condition

to be safe

always use electricity in your practical jokes

Well that would be a lot easier than trying to find an airhorn in a shop. Instead all I’d need is some wire.

or a paperclip touching the biscuit tin

send them a glitter bomb in the post

some one told me the ATO office he worked at was sent a floppy disk with explosive

two blokes who were throwing it at each other triggered it when it hit the wall

Old one, but true.

My sister had a teacher who smoked a pipe in class. She sat near the front and hated the smell.

So anyway, Dad had this mate at work who also smoked a pipe and Dad used to collect his empty tobacco tins because they were handy containers to store his nuts and bolts and assorted things in the shed.

Turns out these empty tins Dad was collecting was the same brand as the teacher smoked.

So Dad suggested, grab one on my empty tins, fill it full of lawn mowing clippings,.. and switch the tins if you get the chance.

Which she did at lunch time. After lunch the teacher nonchalantly filled and lit his pipe…

It was such an offence Mum & Dad were called into a meeting with the teacher and headmaster, where dad had to say it was his idea, and that it was not apropriate to smoke a pipe in class.

AwesomeO said:

stumpy_seahorse said:

party_pants said:

If it’s a harmless prank then it means acceptance into the team, being a team layer with a good sense of humour etc.

i’m still mates with this guy I mentioned before; 15 years later.

hey, I’m not saying ‘no fun in the workplace’..

Just saying if what TQ has been saying is true, it would be wise to think carefully about minimisig the risks involved in any action taken

He has posted an impressive list of fails and now that he has been employed for four weeks I don’t think he should be spending much energy on revenge pranks.

Four weeks? I don’t reckon you even have a handle on the culture and personalities at four weeks.

But that’s just me.

+1

don’t bother doing pranks at work – its not worth your job

leave it to the professionals

party_pants said:

Old one, but true.

My sister had a teacher who smoked a pipe in class. She sat near the front and hated the smell.

So anyway, Dad had this mate at work who also smoked a pipe and Dad used to collect his empty tobacco tins because they were handy containers to store his nuts and bolts and assorted things in the shed.

Turns out these empty tins Dad was collecting was the same brand as the teacher smoked.

So Dad suggested, grab one on my empty tins, fill it full of lawn mowing clippings,.. and switch the tins if you get the chance.

Which she did at lunch time. After lunch the teacher nonchalantly filled and lit his pipe…

It was such an offence Mum & Dad were called into a meeting with the teacher and headmaster, where dad had to say it was his idea, and that it was not apropriate to smoke a pipe in class.

LSD laced grass tobacco

jjjust moi said:

AwesomeO said:

stumpy_seahorse said:

hey, I’m not saying ‘no fun in the workplace’..

Just saying if what TQ has been saying is true, it would be wise to think carefully about minimisig the risks involved in any action taken

He has posted an impressive list of fails and now that he has been employed for four weeks I don’t think he should be spending much energy on revenge pranks.

Four weeks? I don’t reckon you even have a handle on the culture and personalities at four weeks.

But that’s just me.

+1

Same.

party_pants said:

Old one, but true.

My sister had a teacher who smoked a pipe in class. She sat near the front and hated the smell.

So anyway, Dad had this mate at work who also smoked a pipe and Dad used to collect his empty tobacco tins because they were handy containers to store his nuts and bolts and assorted things in the shed.

Turns out these empty tins Dad was collecting was the same brand as the teacher smoked.

So Dad suggested, grab one on my empty tins, fill it full of lawn mowing clippings,.. and switch the tins if you get the chance.

Which she did at lunch time. After lunch the teacher nonchalantly filled and lit his pipe…

It was such an offence Mum & Dad were called into a meeting with the teacher and headmaster, where dad had to say it was his idea, and that it was not apropriate to smoke a pipe in class.

i’ve seen finely chopped hairs added to rolly tobacco…

that crap reeks…

we had one teacher at TAFE who was a heavy smoker

someone licked his hand for a joke one day and was carted off to ambulance for nicotine poisoning

nahhhh

he borrowed my pen one day and the pen had a rubber collar to it i had bought to cushion my fingers

he handed it back and i could smell something bad, i tentatively smelt the pen and the rubber cushion had absorbed an entire dose and i recoiled as if i had taken a whiff of smelling salts

the pen made around the classroom as everyone was eager to find out if the pen really did stink after being handled for ten seconds

he’s probably dead by now

kii said:

No. Just no. Don’t do it, JTQ.

The woman should be taking the guy’s behaviour to management as he is harassing her…all very “friendly” etc, but it is still harassment.

Seriously. Don’t get involved.

lol…. this is one team leader to another. They /are/ management.

don’t bother

JTQ said:

kii said:

No. Just no. Don’t do it, JTQ.

The woman should be taking the guy’s behaviour to management as he is harassing her…all very “friendly” etc, but it is still harassment.

Seriously. Don’t get involved.

if this company is as big as you proclaim…

Team Leaders =/= management….
lol…. this is one team leader to another. They /are/ management.

as i also remember the stink was so bad it felt as if your nostrils were being burnt

stumpy_seahorse said:

if this company is as big as you proclaim…

Supplying almost every supermarket, milk bar/deli, corner store, petrol station, school, hospital and cafe in the country.

JTQ said:

kii said:

No. Just no. Don’t do it, JTQ.

The woman should be taking the guy’s behaviour to management as he is harassing her…all very “friendly” etc, but it is still harassment.

Seriously. Don’t get involved.

lol…. this is one team leader to another. They /are/ management.

Well, I would still avoid getting involved. I have a background in HR and years of workplace experience working with people who like to ‘muck around’. Do not get involved.

JTQ said:

stumpy_seahorse said:

if this company is as big as you proclaim…

Supplying almost every supermarket, milk bar/deli, corner store, petrol station, school, hospital and cafe in the country.

that’s a big call.
but as i said.. TL =/= management in large companies

stumpy_seahorse said:

that’s a big call.

If you say so.

This country’s biggest supplier of milk and flavoured milks, yoghurts, with more than $1.8bil in sales, Parmalat’s in 18 countries.

Night.

I agree with JTQ – you’re all a bunch of stick-in-the-mud conservative wankers.

You might as well be evangelical Christians.

An air horn coming through a phone line for a co-worker may cause ear damage to a client phoning into the business. A sensible manager would discipline both persons for engaging in such an activity in the workplace. The harassment and cause of the reaction motive should be addressed as well.

Yeah an air horn under the seat is both funny but also a bad idea in many ways in this ultra-PC world.

I’d be doing something like getting another $20 bluetooth mouse, plug the receiver into a USB port where they can’t see it and so when they use their computer you can wiggle your mouse around and it looks like there’s is doing weird things.
Another pretty harmless ones is to take a screenshot of the desktop and make that the desktop background photo. Move all the desktop icons off into a safe folder so there’s none on the screen and of course no matter what they do, they can’t click on anything.

Spiny Norman said:

Yeah an air horn under the seat is both funny but also a bad idea in many ways in this ultra-PC world.

I’d be doing something like getting another $20 bluetooth mouse, plug the receiver into a USB port where they can’t see it and so when they use their computer you can wiggle your mouse around and it looks like there’s is doing weird things.
Another pretty harmless ones is to take a screenshot of the desktop and make that the desktop background photo. Move all the desktop icons off into a safe folder so there’s none on the screen and of course no matter what they do, they can’t click on anything.

That is so very very very very very very mean bill!

monkey skipper said:

Spiny Norman said:

Yeah an air horn under the seat is both funny but also a bad idea in many ways in this ultra-PC world.

I’d be doing something like getting another $20 bluetooth mouse, plug the receiver into a USB port where they can’t see it and so when they use their computer you can wiggle your mouse around and it looks like there’s is doing weird things.
Another pretty harmless ones is to take a screenshot of the desktop and make that the desktop background photo. Move all the desktop icons off into a safe folder so there’s none on the screen and of course no matter what they do, they can’t click on anything.

That is so very very very very very very mean bill!

Fanks! :)

From my car forum -
“Another good one in my old job was to auto correct words on other peoples computers. You type “the” and get “teh”. “

The voice-activated printer files ->
HP – http://imgur.com/nm216 Kyocera – http://imgur.com/63yq8 Sharp – http://imgur.com/5dLS2 Toshiba – http://imgur.com/mrTzF Konica – http://imgur.com/Ev9WK Brother – http://imgur.com/EUzpc Xerox – http://imgur.com/wdbtl Ricoh – http://imgur.com/Wy9jV DELL – http://imgur.com/RoiHM SAVIN – http://imgur.com/wK2FY Epson – http://imgur.com/AOwU0 Lanier – http://imgur.com/Iab5Y

For goodness sake….grow up. You are an adult in a job you have only had a for a short time. Proving you really should be back in kindergarten may well put you on your first notice. And if you are still in your 3 month probationary period, depending on what you do and what reaction you get, you may be out.

A bag of prawn shells in their hubcap.

Spiny Norman said:

Yeah an air horn under the seat is both funny but also a bad idea in many ways in this ultra-PC world.

FFS! It’s dangerous and has nothing to do with “ultra-PC”.
Hearing damage is very real.

kii said:

Spiny Norman said:

Yeah an air horn under the seat is both funny but also a bad idea in many ways in this ultra-PC world.

FFS! It’s dangerous and has nothing to do with “ultra-PC”.
Hearing damage is very real.

So you wouldn’t be in favour of screwing someone’s entire office furniture to the ceiling. Desk, chair, filing cabinet, & phone.
We did it to a universally despised colleague. My how we laughed.

Swap the n and m keys around on their keyboard
Put sticky tap over the microphone on their phone, do its neatly and smooth out any wrinkles and they may not even realise for quite a while

I wouldn’t.

Rule 303 said:

I wouldn’t.

Probably not, it might be harmless (or not) but if they actually make an official complaint you could be in the shite

While on a probationary period I couldn’t think of anything better than wasting work time with a childish prank. I for one, would give you more time off and a permanent job…










In the Centrelink queue.

It’s all good fun until somebody loses an eye……a job…. means to pay back a debt….a stable place….

This one is harmless
Make up a little black box with a flashing red led on it and tell them its “The Internet” and they have to look after it.

If I were you JTQ, I’d err on the side of caution and forget the work pranks…

I can’t see any possible downside to not partaking in a prank, but I can see many potential problems arise if you did…

I guess she could just change the label on a couple of tins of Irish Stew for dog food labels, eat it right in front of him, and refuse to discuss or explain other than “I like it”.

Let his own imagination do his head in…

:-)

Zactly ds

IMO JTQ must be either pretty thick not to have worked this out for himself.

Either that he’s the cleverest troll I’ve ever seen.

Ian said:

Zactly ds

IMO JTQ must be either pretty thick not to have worked this out for himself.

Either that he’s the cleverest troll I’ve ever seen.

tbh, i’m guessing a reasonable amount of what he said is made up too stir up conversation.

If not, he’s screwed and needs more than advice…

personally i am sick of his shit.

Boris said:

personally i am sick of his shit.

No-one likes the dog food idea? Seriously?

I reckon that would totally do his head in.

;-)

Rule 303 said:

Boris said:

personally i am sick of his shit.

No-one likes the dog food idea? Seriously?

I reckon that would totally do his head in.

;-)

it’s just another rehash of the midwives prank of eating chocolate yogo off a huggies…

wookiemeister said:

practical jokes involve upping the ante

yep. and if she does something to him then he’ll come back and do something to her. Personally, I wouldn’t do anything that may cause physical reactions like heart failures or deafness or disturbance on a level that’s beyond the two involved…. but I’m cautious like that.
Having said that, I do’t have very much office experience… I have worked in an office just once and for about 12 months and I started at 5am and worked to 10am, so only really saw the regular day workers for a couple of hours (I did daily teacher placements in a HR company) what little I did see of the 9-5ers was a lot of time wasting. Come in, grab coffee, talk to people on the way back to desk, check personal emails, go on internet, read news.. etc.. I would leave before work got done… offices aren’t for me.. I like to get all my work out the way and then leave to have fun outside of the workplace. I don’t care for social interaction with people I don’t choose to be with. But still, err on the side of caution for the want of retaliation. People get fired for this stuff

stumpy_seahorse said:

it’s just another rehash of the midwives prank of eating chocolate yogo off a huggies…

It’s a good prank!

Rule 303 said:

Boris said:

personally i am sick of his shit.

No-one likes the dog food idea? Seriously?

I reckon that would totally do his head in.

;-)

Like the old Bazza Humphries creamed corn vomit eating… hmmm..

stumpy_seahorse said:

Rule 303 said:

Boris said:

personally i am sick of his shit.

No-one likes the dog food idea? Seriously?

I reckon that would totally do his head in.

;-)

it’s just another rehash of the midwives prank of eating chocolate yogo off a huggies…

Barry Humphries liked to heave into airplane sick-bags and then proceed to eat fruit salad out of them.

o course, in the American version of the TV show The Office, Jim was doing things like putting Dwights stapler in jelly.. my favourite one was when he would add a penny to his phone handle each day so D got used to the weight and then one day took them all out so D smacked himself in the head with the phone… but that was back in the day when they had those phones you could slam down when angry… are they still around?

I’m not big on the office prank, too many different personalities under the same roof. Results can vary greatly.

However, one that Happened some time again made me laugh. Someone decided to put a mouse trap on ever PC mouse they could find throughout the building. Points for determination alone. No one was hurt and it was a little quirky.

Cymek said:

Swap the n and m keys around on their keyboard
Put sticky tap over the microphone on their phone, do its neatly and smooth out any wrinkles and they may not even realise for quite a while

Some dimwit changed the keys around on one of the cash register computers a few years back. The store manager was pissed off about that. Another idiot joined all the paper clips together in one of the drawers…if they have that much time to waste then maybe they shouldn’t be working that day and need to be sent home early (unpaid time).

Change his screen saver. Plenty of substitute images if you google arseholes

Stop fugging ringing me from your call centre. And tell your mates too.

kii said:

Spiny Norman said:

Yeah an air horn under the seat is both funny but also a bad idea in many ways in this ultra-PC world.

FFS! It’s dangerous and has nothing to do with “ultra-PC”.
Hearing damage is very real.

I agree

strap 6 air horns to the chair instead

¿so did the teacher keep smoking pipe in class?

Arts said:

wookiemeister said:

practical jokes involve upping the ante

yep. and if she does something to him then he’ll come back and do something to her.

While I like the airhorn idea, since it involves being startled by noise, since that’s what he’d initially been up to,
but along the lines of “upping the ante”…unless part of your plan is to wrestle it back away from him, you’ve
put the weapon in his hand.. you can never rest easy for waiting for the moment he chooses to retaliate.

..just sayin’

the work pranks have to be evaluated

a non violent

non physical

gentle prank is best

talking to the photocopier is a gentle prank, it doesn’t involve noises

any kind of prank that could cause a violent reaction is going to cause injury

if you start working somewhere where more serious “pranks” are being carried out – leave that day – its not safe to work there

if you get injured you’ll have to fight tooth and nail to get compo and no one will even remember your name and if they do they will have a laugh about you

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyXRApqwJps

Teleost said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyXRApqwJps

very very good point
you don’t always know who you’re dealing with..
you may just get someone like my brother O-8=

Hadn’t seen him for a while, but went with he & his wife for a Sunday drive. :)
We’d gone shopping and grabbed a burger, and had a generally good time.
Suddenly he announced (with an air of some urgency) that he had to urinate.

Mary just groaned, “Oh No!”
Me: “???”

So he mashes down on the accellerator and takes off down the highway…
Me: “???”
I’m pointing out Full Service Petrol Stations but he says, “YOU DOAN UNDERSTAND!
I GOTTA GET HOME!” D-8
Me: “ WTF???”
Mary’s just rolled her eyes.

I doano how fast he was going, but I’m sure he broke a few Land-Speed Records,
finally roaring up the driveway of the common parking lot shared by his neighbours,
Turning his back towards me, I saw him flip open the petrol filler door of the car he’d
parked next to, and with a contented sigh unzips his pants.

Mary groaned
I said “HOLY SHYT!!!”

When he was done, he zipped up, and as we strolled up the drive toward the front door
he turned to me nonchalantly asking; “Do you know there’s a way of entirely caving]
in the side of someone’s car while doing absolutely no damage to your own?”

Me: =8-O “OMG! HOW?!?”
Him: “VER-ER_RY Slowly! (-:
Mary groaned.

When I got Mary alone I asked WTH was going on,
“The guy next door pizzed Jimi off a few months ago.”

“oh.”

So. Work prank went well.

Got the airhorn, muffled it by putting a cloth inside it (chux superwipe) and masking tape over the end of the horn. Taped it to his chair.

When he got there, I was at my morning desk, which is down the end of the room and around the corner (L-shaped room). All of a sudden there’s a sound like a ship’s fog horn.

Person sitting next to me (who requested the prank) turned to me and said “What’s that?” and I said “Ahh, Brett’s here.”

He thought it was hilarious, and came over to me and said “Game on.” He is a team leader of a different department.

Later on that day, my team leader showed up at work. I told her about it and showed her the photo of the can strapped to his chair. She laughed and high-fived me.

• That * is the sort of workplace I have, where people know it’s okay to have some fun. And yet you all seemed to think it was the end of the world.

JTQ said:

So. Work prank went well.

Got the airhorn, muffled it by putting a cloth inside it (chux superwipe) and masking tape over the end of the horn. Taped it to his chair.

When he got there, I was at my morning desk, which is down the end of the room and around the corner (L-shaped room). All of a sudden there’s a sound like a ship’s fog horn.

Person sitting next to me (who requested the prank) turned to me and said “What’s that?” and I said “Ahh, Brett’s here.”

He thought it was hilarious, and came over to me and said “Game on.” He is a team leader of a different department.

Later on that day, my team leader showed up at work. I told her about it and showed her the photo of the can strapped to his chair. She laughed and high-fived me.

• That * is the sort of workplace I have, where people know it’s okay to have some fun. And yet you all seemed to think it was the end of the world.
  

Some of us were concerned about the db level and hearing damage

its good you muffled it

CrazyNeutrino said:

Some of us were concerned about the db level and hearing damage

its good you muffled it

That’s a fair thing to be concerned about.

I work in a call centre, and never would have set it off at full volume, as it would have interrupted the work of everyone else there.

I’m not that extreme. That’s why I muffled it, as was always the intention.

JTQ said:

So. Work prank went well.

Awesome.

By “game on” I think it means expect something in return.

jjjust moi said:

JTQ said:

stumpy_seahorse said:

but seriously.. >HR Manager-workplace harassment…

really..? hmm

Someone advised you to keep your head down and arse up.

That is the best advice you will get this year.

try it in ken’s of kensington and see how you go

my days of workplace pranks are over, i’ve got a court order on me from a few years ago

party_pants said:

JTQ said:

So. Work prank went well.

Awesome.

By “game on” I think it means expect something in return.

Yes, true. He was off “sick” today and same tomorrow.

I did have a second airhorn can sitting on my desk when I left work yesterday, and when I got there today, it was gone. Turns out he took it and locked it in his drawer (as he told us on email).

Prior to finding out that he locked it in his drawer, I did look around the centre at everyone’s chairs to make sure someone else wouldn’t get a fright from him setting up a similar thing. But I don’t think he would do that. It’s been done.

So bring it on. Plenty more fun to be had.

wookiemeister said:

my days of workplace pranks are over, i’ve got a court order on me from a few years ago

Sounds like you went too far.

wookiemeister said:

my days of workplace pranks are over, i’ve got a court order on me from a few years ago

Yeah me too. And I had to promise to wear pants before the magistrate would let me go home.

wookiemeister said:

lol

thanks.. really needed that laugh

JTQ said:

wookiemeister said:

lol

thanks.. really needed that laugh

don’t we all?

wookiemeister said:

don’t we all?

Yeh .. I guess.

I just got off the phone after a 40min call to someone I used to be quite close to. I haven’t seen her for a little while, and she tells me she’s currently packing up her house, and at the end of the call – when we hang up – I’ll never be able to speak to or be in contact with her ever again.

She’s disconnecting her phone and closing her Facebook, and going overseas.

Just to add to the fun of everything else at the moment.

Anyways…. sleep time, early start. Night all

Oh gawd :(

Alligator hurled through drive-thru window in ‘stupid prank’

Posted about 4 hours ago

A fast food restaurant in Florida receives a visit from a more scaly customer than usual after a crocodile was hurled through the drive-thru window as part of a practical joke.

JTQ said:

party_pants said:

JTQ said:

So. Work prank went well.

Awesome.

By “game on” I think it means expect something in return.

Yes, true. He was off “sick” today and same tomorrow.

I did have a second airhorn can sitting on my desk when I left work yesterday, and when I got there today, it was gone. Turns out he took it and locked it in his drawer (as he told us on email).

Prior to finding out that he locked it in his drawer, I did look around the centre at everyone’s chairs to make sure someone else wouldn’t get a fright from him setting up a similar thing. But I don’t think he would do that. It’s been done.

So bring it on. Plenty more fun to be had.

Good lord.
You did say you really needed this job, didn’t you?

ruby, let’s just sit back and watch.

Like the rest of the office will be.

ruby said:

Good lord.
You did say you really needed this job, didn’t you?

Yep.

But I’m guessing you didn’t see the posts late last night that said about how everything went.