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@Frazz & Asimo:

His desktop wallpaper now cycles pretty pictures of My little pony and care bears. He can't figure out how to get it to stop. Also, he knows it's me, because I threw up a picture of me in a clown nose making a grimacing smile and holding my hands out like claws like I'm going to "get him".


Granted, I COULD have just said that, but then my post would have only been 2 lines long, and not seemed like the clever epic journey it was. Or something like that.

One of my coworkers *HAD* the bad habbit of leaving her keys on the outside of her door in the deadbolt of her office...

About an hour of being locked in her office taught her it was a bad idea...

not really a prank, and not really a co-worker, but:
i used to work in an IT department in the same place as my mum (a hospital btw, she got me the job, arent mums great? ), well my mum had a very bad habit of doing everyone elses work for them and hence staying late every day. It got me all riled up cos it wasnt her work to do but cos the people she works with are lazy, they bugger off and leave her to do it.
She wouldnt listen when i told her to just leave and make them do it, so the IT engineers helped me out. All the PCs have a name and are all on the network, and i was given the 'remote shutdown' program. I nabbed my mums PC name when i was in the ffice and every day at 5pm i turned her PC off...from upstairs
It worked a treat, you can even add a message and give them a countdown, some thing like: 'time to go home now mum' and 2mins for her to quickly save everything she needed. /she leaves on time whenever im working now, and gets the others to do their own bloody work!, WIN

Revenent Reiko wrote:not really a prank, and not really a co-worker, but:
i used to work in an IT department in the same place as my mum (a hospital btw, she got me the job, arent mums great? ), well my mum had a very bad habit of doing everyone elses work for them and hence staying late every day. It got me all riled up cos it wasnt her work to do but cos the people she works with are lazy, they bugger off and leave her to do it.
She wouldnt listen when i told her to just leave and make them do it, so the IT engineers helped me out. All the PCs have a name and are all on the network, and i was given the 'remote shutdown' program. I nabbed my mums PC name when i was in the ffice and every day at 5pm i turned her PC off...from upstairs
It worked a treat, you can even add a message and give them a countdown, some thing like: 'time to go home now mum' and 2mins for her to quickly save everything she needed. /she leaves on time whenever im working now, and gets the others to do their own bloody work!, WIN

Dude, that's hella sweet. I wish I could do something like that for my mom. The most I've helped her with work was finish off an alcatel roll that she halfway did... it was one of her first cuts as a communication technician... prior to that she was an assembler.

@daedalus: That was an awesome read. Wish I was comp savvy like that. The most I can do is build my own computer.

daedalus wrote:@Frazz & Asimo:

His desktop wallpaper now cycles pretty pictures of My little pony and care bears. He can't figure out how to get it to stop. Also, he knows it's me, because I threw up a picture of me in a clown nose making a grimacing smile and holding my hands out like claws like I'm going to "get him".


Granted, I COULD have just said that, but then my post would have only been 2 lines long, and not seemed like the clever epic journey it was. Or something like that.

That is pretty excellent. Thanks for the translation.

djphranq wrote:

Revenent Reiko wrote:not really a prank, and not really a co-worker, but:
i used to work in an IT department in the same place as my mum (a hospital btw, she got me the job, arent mums great? ), well my mum had a very bad habit of doing everyone elses work for them and hence staying late every day. It got me all riled up cos it wasnt her work to do but cos the people she works with are lazy, they bugger off and leave her to do it.
She wouldnt listen when i told her to just leave and make them do it, so the IT engineers helped me out. All the PCs have a name and are all on the network, and i was given the 'remote shutdown' program. I nabbed my mums PC name when i was in the ffice and every day at 5pm i turned her PC off...from upstairs
It worked a treat, you can even add a message and give them a countdown, some thing like: 'time to go home now mum' and 2mins for her to quickly save everything she needed. /she leaves on time whenever im working now, and gets the others to do their own bloody work!, WIN

Dude, that's hella sweet. I wish I could do something like that for my mom. The most I've helped her with work was finish off an alcatel roll that she halfway did... it was one of her first cuts as a communication technician... prior to that she was an assembler.

@daedalus: That was an awesome read. Wish I was comp savvy like that. The most I can do is build my own computer.

cheers dude, it does feel pretty good to be able to 'help' her like that, but at first she ing hated it
erm also, what is alcatel? lol

ShivanAngel wrote:

daedalus wrote:@Lord Scythican:

Those noise generators look pretty awesome. I'm going to have to pick myself up a couple of them.

Something else I always enjoyed was charging capacitors and leaving them for people to pick up.

Not cool, that gak hurts.

I and some mates did a similar thing at school (we were electronics nerds). Yr 7 (our first year of High school - it goes from 7-12, ages roughly 13-18).
We filled a jiffy box (plastic box with slots in it to fit kit pcbs ) that was filled with parallel connected capacitors. The ends were soldered to two copper strips on opposite long sides (outside). We charged it up with the Van der Graaf generator and left it on the bench with a note - "Vicious box. Do not touch. It bites."
It was a short, sharp zap, like you get from a charged up carpet. Nothing fatal or permanent. They did get a warning (two, actually. The charge tended to make the hairs on your hand stand up).

And we waited in the storeroom for the screams.

We got ALL of the science faculty with it. Our elect. shop teacher however, noticed the strips (easiest way to pick it up) and then picked it up by the narrow ends.

We didn't get detention or anything. He seemed satisfied that we at least learned something, and were capable of applying what we learned.