Firday Humor - Office Style

[DHorton]

To set the stage, you have to picture the commercial for AOL or Dell. You know the scene. Rats all trapped in their grey maze of cubes. It is dull to say the least and the one bright spot we have is the practical joker that loves to find people that don't lock their PCs when stepped away. The following email was sent out from a lucky co-workers email to the whole group, including the VP:



Just lookin at my belly button again, boy that things gettin big.

I guess if I kept my finger out of it that'd help.

Anyways, I was just sittin here makin that popin sound i do with it,

you know, like some do with their mouth only I do it with my button.

I'm beginning to understand why musicians are so happy, I've just got

through playing Motzarts last symphony and I'm pretty proud of myself.

Ahh the joy of belly button music !



:-laf These get sent all the time and if the recipeint is a repeat, then the story just continues and gets better. NO one is safe. IT likes him, cause it helps with network security. Very few people leave their PCs unlocked.

 

[DHorton]

The one that was sent a couple days prior to this one:



"I was sitting around here in my cube looking at my bellybutton. Man these are amazing things. I love my little hole of love..... You know what I have an idea, let's all gather at lunchtime and admire our little love holes... . I know it will be fun and that you already enjoy yours, now it is time to share. "



:-laf If you knew the guy whose PC this was sent from I guess it would be funnier. The guy is about 270lbs, 5'10' and very conservative. He is red as a beet everytime he comes back to his desk to find everyone staring at him making a little comments as he passes.

 

[red-rider]

In our business we'd get fired if we did something like that, funny though, I can imagine that happening in my building, we have 500 employees at this campus.

 

[mgonske]

In my office, they go to a smaller group--usually no more than a half dozen--and announce the time and place the 'sender' is buying beer. The most frequent joker was our Senior Manager, who was recently promoted to Director. The tradition is that the 'sender' follows through with 'his' promise.

 

[AggieJustin]

This is a good prank... just make sure you know who's machine it is. We had a guy in our office that would do this one. One day he walks by a friend's cube and sees a machine sitting there unlocked. So he sits down and send off a quick e-mail to a group of people (including the guy that sits in that cube). Turns out, the guy that normally sits there was out of town that week and the cube was being occupied by one of our managers from Denver. We all got a good laugh out of that one, and luckily for the sender, so did the manager.

 

[DHorton]

Well the original prankster got a little payback yesterday. Quite funny. Just wish the guy that got him was a little more imaginative. Oh well, funny nonetheless. As long as it is clean and in good sport, let the jokes continue. Heck, everyone needs a laugh from time to time.



Aggie, I would have loved to see the prankster's face when he figured out who's pc he had actually sent it from. Got to love a prank gone awry.

 

[AggieJustin]

That cube was the site of a number of pranks gone awry.



My other favorite...



While the usual occupant of that cube was on another out of town trip, a new employee from another office was sitting in that cube. Our finance dept guy that handles our expense reimbursement has a bit of an attitude till you get to know him. And he and the the guy out of town were pretty good buddies and gave each other their share of grief. So the new guy has an expense problem and calls finance. The finance guy sees on his caller ID where the call is coming from, so he picks up the phone and says "Leave me alone, I'm not paying your *censored* expenses", then hangs up. The new guy is a confused, so he calls back. The second call... "I told you, you're not getting a *censored* dime" and hangs up. At this point, the new guy comes over to our admin and asks her if he's dialing the right number, because the guy he's calling keeps cussing at him. She calls the finance guy and asks him if he cussed at someone and he denies it saying that no one called him. Five minutes later he comes sneaking over after realizing what he did.



Moral of the story... never trust caller ID.