Lame Revenge !

[Drago]

New bobbies get to visit the mortuary to have a look around. Hiding in the drawer with a sheet over me, and when the door was opened so they could see a dead body I'd slowly sit upright while making zombie groaning noises. That used to give them the heebie jeebies.

 

[glasgowcyclist]

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That's awful, using an object pronoun where a subject pronoun should be.

 

[classic33]

Required to "lock the screen" if anyone unknown to you came round, or if you were nipping to the printer(five foot away!). Finding an open screen resulted in an e-mail being sent from the offending user to the rest of the team inviting them out for a drink after work, with them paying.

Seemed to speed the newer team members up, as regards getting the messsge across. Last one sent, was from a person not there when sent. Set to send later that week, after payday.

 

[goo_mason]

A long time ago when I had just started work,(mid 70's) one of the Telex Ops emptied the chad bin (think hole punch circles, but much smaller) into the furled black umbrella of a senior partner.

He must have carried it back and forth for a week or more before it rained.
One evening on his way home he opened the umbrella outside the office to be covered head to foot in a blizzard of chads
Oh how we laughed!

He got a taxi to Moorfields eye hospital to have one removed from his eye
A new Telex Op had to be employed .......

We did that at work once too - emptied the contents of a well-used hole-punch into a team member's brolly and rolled it back up. He knew nothing about in until a month later, when he left his flat one morning and it started raining on his way to the bus stop.

We also once blu-tacked his desk phone's handset to the body of the phone when he left his desk to chat with a pal, then rang his phone. He sprinted back, grabbed the handset to answer in a hurry and promptly smacked himself on the side of the head with the whole phone....
...

 

[Beebo]

We had a nerdy guy in The Office who was into the TA.

We put his stapler in a jelly.

 

[Chris S]

We all seem to have them at the moment - something in the water I think. Now back on topic - funny revenge stories.....

Selotape on the bottom of a PC mouse (ball type). Taking the bottom off the hole punch carefully...

or clingfilm stretched over a toilet bowl

 

[Nibor]

Plugging an extra wireless mouse and keyboard into a colleagues pc and randomly adding characters while they were typing.

 

[classic33]

Plugging an extra wireless mouse and keyboard into a colleagues pc and randomly adding characters while they were typing.

Variation on this.
Swapping keyboard and mouse of nearby computers. Best done where the users are seperated by that small screen/desk edging.

 

[Wobblers]

We had a nerdy guy in The Office who was into the TA.

We put his stapler in a jelly.

But it was only a trifling matter....

 

[glasgowcyclist]

For unattended and unlocked computers we would take a screenshot of the desktop and set it as the lock screen, then lock it. It was fun watching them click on programs to try to launch them. Once they’d logged a call for support we’d turn up and 'fix' it. They could laugh and see the funny side or explain it to IT Security.

 

[Beebo]

For unattended and unlocked computers we would take a screenshot of the desktop and set it as the lock screen, then lock it. It was fun watching them click on programs to try to launch them. Once they’d logged a call for support we’d turn up and 'fix' it. They could laugh and see the funny side or explain it to IT Security.

I’ve been party to some awful IT pranks which would get you sacked instantly nowadays. 15 years ago things were different and to be honest it’s probably for the best.

 

[further]

This forum now seems to be populated by some very unpleasant people.

 

[Drago]

A bobby was sacked for sending an email from a compute that hadn't been locked properly. Nothing nasty, just a cheeky email to the chief.

They then charged him with offences under the computer misuse act 1990, and he got fined in court. Don't even think about it. They seem like jolly japes but can have serious consequences.

 

[Smokin Joe]

This forum now seems to be populated by some very unpleasant people.

Normal workplace behaviour in my experience. In my first job a favourite was to wait for someone to go for a dump and lob a plastic cup of water over the cubicle door. The electricians had wired a 12 volt transformer to the metal handrail on the stairs from their shop and when the elderly works manager was on his way up or down they'd flick a switch on and off a few times. In another place you wouldn't dare take something off a high shelf without first inspecting it to make sure a cup of water hadn't been tied to it.

 

[Drago]

One good thing about the army. If someone pulled a prank that was OTT you could get away with giving them a kicking, within limits. I saw one lad get an almighty hiding for doing no more than deliberately standing on someone else's toe and damaging the bulled finish on his boot.