I’m having issues with my prank plans. Messing with peoples’ minds is fun, but it’s not fun when it’s the people on my team and I interact with them all day and they’re grumpy because I’m making them spend time to walk to another copy machine. So I didn’t even put the sign up. All the potential grumpiness changed my mind. Time for Plan B.

Plan B:

Ok, there is no Plan B. Keep in mind I work in a conservative corporate environment and I like getting steady paychecks.

I realize that I’m just making excuses now.

Aha, I just got an idea. I happen to know the folks who run our Intranet site. I could have them throw together a fake mockup of the site on a test server, post a co-worker’s face on there with some stupid announcement (“Jimbo Whats-his-face named Brain-Cell Deficient Employee of the Month”), and pass it off as the real Intranet site. Since my company has some 24,000 employees worldwide, this would likely cause some minor yet irreparable trauma. Sweet.

post-work addundum: ugh, i'm lame. i tried to pull a prank with the intranet site i run and the supposed victim actually liked it. i told him it was intended as a prank and he told me i needed to work on my skills. dammit, i'm a hopelessly poor prankster.