• JohnF (unregistered)

    Hi -

    This one goes back a while. I was responsible for the PCs at the small company I worked for, but just in our division. One of our big clients used OS/2 (this does go back a while...) and of course we had a PC set up with OS/2 for support and testing purposes. Me, I loved the object-oriented Workplace Shell, and found that a couple of the jokers at IBM had written a port for Windows 3.x, which I promptly used on my windows machine instead of the usual desktop.

    April 1 was a Monday that year. I stayed until everyone left (that should have given them the warning they needed...) and edited their Win.ini so that it would load the OS/2 shell instead of their normal desktop.

    Now, due to events completely out of my control, I didn't go to work on Monday. Nor was I available in any way, shape or form. When I came in on Tuesday, I was completely distracted by the events of Monday. I had totally forgotten that I had set the whole office up for an April Fool's joke, and didn't understand that there was a problem at all. Which, of course, made the "huh?" effect even better.

    Tuesday was not a lot of fun, but oddly enough there were no real consequences: of the 12 people involved, 9 kept on using the shell after they had to deal with the one day of Everything Being Different. They thought it was a great deal nicer than Windows.

    The other three, ah, that's another story.

  • (cs) in reply to ynohoo
    ynohoo:
    The only reason your company has a "lock your computer" policy is because you are a bunch of assholes.

    Really? I thought it was because I work with a large amount of sensitive financial and personal information in a very public environment.

    But I see now that I should just trust the general public with student information and other such data. They won't mind when I tell them it's to promote a trusting environment, right?

    Tell me, have you ever gotten upset when large corporations loose people's information to hackers because they ignored little security holes? All those credit card leaks and that sort of thing? Do you see where these concepts might be, ya know, related?

  • Myk (unregistered) in reply to jay

    I once worked computer support where the guys who worked with a hunt and peck typist physically removed and re-arranged his keyboard keys. Low tech shenanigans.

  • KM (unregistered)

    One of my co-workers forgot to lock his workstation one time when our boss came around. Our boss promptly sent an e-mail to himself from my co-worker stating that since the rest of our group was doing such a great job, he was going to take a pay cut and doll out the extra money to the rest of our group.

    When he got back, he was confused as to why he was getting replies from all of us thanking him for his self sacrifice and our impending pay raise.

  • JMM (unregistered)

    My sister's coworkers pulled one of the best ones... when the new guy walked away and left his computer unlocked, they got onto it and used it to write up his resignation letter and email it to his boss.

    Then he comes back to his boss asking why he's resigning.... fortunately(?) for him, they had clued the boss in to the 'joke', but I doubt he let it happen again.

    CAPTCHA: genitus ...no further comment needed

  • eric bloedow (unregistered)

    reminds me of a story in one of Scott Adam's books: when someone left his laptop lying around unlocked, someone...you know how Windows lets you set up sound effects for commands? well, this guy took a sound effect from a movie...specifically, the "fake orgasm" sound from "when harry met sally", and set it up for EVERY Windows command! had the whole department ROTFLing...

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