Office life is turning my brain to mush. Some buddies and I made a wager on hiding a desk lamp. I hid it. They paid me a ridiculous sum of money. Three days later, somebody found it and moved it back. I had to return the ridiculous sum.
It’s times like these that really make it clear how much I work in Office Space. Can’t we come up with anything more original to do? No, stealing fractions of a penny on every transaction is not an option.
For those of you who have lived or live office life, please, speak up. I need something to do in between answering emails. Something that might make people look twice and say, “Uh, what the hell?” Something that will perplex. Dumbfound. Stupify. Discombobulate. We've hidden furniture. Rearranged file cabinets. Trashed cubes. Set computer wallpapers to static screenshots. Stolen mouse balls. We're IT geeks and we're running out of ideas.
So for the three or four of you that end up here, feel free to clue me in on some fun hooligan activities that make office life more tolerable. I will filter out the JEMs and CEMs.
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i'll try to install a spy-cam of some sort. that'll definitely get me into some clm-type situations.
Posted by p-man | February 10, 2007 8:15 PM
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umm. sorry about that empty post. anyway, I don't know where 'CEM' came from, I always thought it was CLM (career-limiting move). Not to be a jargon file pedant or anything. You should take pictures of people confused by the fax notice.
Posted by laziz | February 10, 2007 8:15 PM
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Posted by laziz | February 10, 2007 8:15 PM
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dude, i'm totally using that. except i'll do so with the copy machine. "sorry, the fax machine isn't working. The problem is under investigation. --Thanks, Xerox"
Posted by p-man | February 10, 2007 8:15 PM
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Simple things can cause quite a bit of uproar. At my first tech job, I placed a large sign on the ice machine that said, "The coffee machine is broken. We will fix it as soon as possible. Thanks- --Mgmt." It was fun to watch people stand there, look at a full pot of coffee, look at the ice machine, look at the coffee, cock their heads like the RCA dog at the ice machine, and finally give up and purchase a coke. The experiment ended in tragedy when the security guard, who was both OCD and delusional (and apparently off his meds), totally lost it and started screaming at the coffee pot. He had to take a week off. --laz
Posted by laziz | February 10, 2007 8:15 PM
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when i worked at a huge corporate insurance company, i came back from vacation to find that my space bar beeped every time i hit it. courtesy of my boss, who was possibly even more bored with her job than i was with mine. walking around the floor with a piece of paper to see how long it would be before someone caught on that i wasn't doing anything whiled away quite a few hours. at my current job, my office mate had a huge paper coffee cup collection, so we started building a castle of cups. it was going great until my boss was playing with a big rubber ball and knocked down the east wall...
Posted by Rebecca | February 10, 2007 8:15 PM
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yea - when i was in high school. just be sure you don't actually break the keys when popping them off... and remember where you put the ones not used.....
Posted by cherz | February 10, 2007 8:15 PM
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that keyboard one sounds pretty good. have you tried it before?
Posted by p-man | February 10, 2007 8:15 PM
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Pop off the keys of someone's keyboard and rearange them into sentences. ya have 26 letters and 10 numbers... have fun. :) Also - see how many people will eat the most disgusting candy - Circus Peanuts.. those orange "marshmellow" things.. some people are just desparate for sugar.
Posted by cherz | February 10, 2007 8:15 PM
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