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Practical Jokes on Co-Workers?

Posted by Cliff on from the lighten-up-people dept.

leprasmurf asks: "Here I sit with Administrative rights to a public computer at work, and I'm trying to think of how I can have fun with my co-worker's profiles. I'm running low on ideas. I've done the 'copy 50 million folder shortcuts to their desktop' one and if he forgets to lock his terminal one of these times I'm going to do the print screen and hide all his icons one, but what else is there? Surely there are some harmless pranks an administrator can do without resorting to downloading programs for assistance. Any suggestions?"

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  1. Jokes on Coworkers by schnits0r · · Score: 1, Informative

    Imagine your a stupid computer user and it does crazy shit to you. It would scare you. You'd get stressed out and panic. That isn't good for office morale. What about when they find out it's you? What may be a joke to you might not be to another person. What if an error occurs and they feel it's your doing and so they don't report it. Do you want to keep your job? If so, leave the luddites alone and let them do their little monkey work. If not, see if oyu can get me a position, I'd love to have a job in computers. It beats being fucking unemployed.

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    1. Re:Jokes on Coworkers by PhaseBurn · · Score: 3, Informative

      We did this at Earthlink. I think the pics speak for themself :-)

      http://home.onemain.com/~edsoffice/

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  2. Re:Schedules by Associate · · Score: 3, Informative

    Damn, forgot a few.
    We once disabled a coworker's virtual memory. Later we swapped her mouse and keyboard plugs. Try also changing the monitor and display settings. If you get it right, they will have a headache. You could probably mess with the host file and redirect their browser to some nefarious page like windows update. :) Go into a word processor and add common word misspeelings to their dictonary. The possibilities are endless.
    Actually, the person we did this stuff to was one of those employees. We did it more for spite than to be fun.

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  3. add delay to people's .profile-files by hkon · · Score: 3, Informative

    As a prank to people to who don't care much about locking their terminals or keeping correct permissions on their files, you can add
    echo 'sleep 1' >> .profile
    to their .profile. That way, each login will take a second more. This requires a bit of patience, though, since most people won't realize that something's wrong for about a month. Personally, I like pranks like this, that penalize stupidity.

  4. Word to the wise by lewp · · Score: 2, Informative

    Be careful with net send. We used to fire those back and forth at an old job when they decided banning IM software was a good idea. Accidental domain-wide (meaning company-wide in our case) net sends are hilarious, until you send a particularly humiliating one yourself.

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