Hilarious office prank

[parkerbink]

C&P from another forum. Did not happen to me so I think it's funny.

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I've been stewing about this for about a week and just need to vent and see what the community thinks.

Right before the Christmas break, I started hearing a very brief high-pitched noise (think hearing test) somewhere in my cluster of cubicles in the office. It only happened once or twice.

After returning to work in January, I had forgotten about it and didn't hear it. Then, one day, I started hearing it again. Now I have a lot of equipment in, around, and near by cubicle: printers, fax machines, routers, PCs, laptops, UPSes, etc. etc. so I figured it was some piece of equipment. The sound was so short though (about 2 seconds) I couldn't turn my head around fast enough to figure out what direction it was coming from.

So I started timing it and figured out it was happening about every 10 minutes. The other folks sitting around me could hear it too (and of course once they heard it every 10 minutes, they couldn't un-hear it and were annoyed as well, but not as annoyed as me). It really started annoying me and I was having problems working on my code because it was distracting.

I started positioning myself in different areas around our cube cluster every 10 minutes to see if I could pinpoint the noise. I spent almost an entire Friday going around every 10 minutes trying to figure out where it was coming from: I was turning off equipment, trying to narrow down the source, I was sitting in people's cubicles, trying to narrow down the location. It was driving me nuts.

Over the weekend, some folks were in the office and reported on Monday that they hadn't heard it at all. Monday was silent too so I figured, great, maybe it was something in the building (ventilation, electric) that had been remedied.

Then Tuesday it started again! Arrrgh!

So after all of that, one of my colleagues decides to let me in on the joke. I was being driven mad by one of these:

ThinkGeek :: The ThinkGeek Annoy-a-tron

They had it attached (magnetically) to different places in my cube: under my chair, under the desk, etc. There were three of my colleagues involved, all of whom played it totally straight while I was slowly going insane. At one point during that Friday, colleague A suggested that colleague B was messing with me and I said, right in front of colleague B: "I'd think if it was him, he'd have let me off the hook by now." None of them took the hint and let it drag out for another day or so before breaking the news.

I know this was just an office prank, but I was mad at these guys! I've worked with them for years and then they watch me go crazy on a Friday, including lost productivity, as I tried to figure out the source of the noise. They thought it was a novel joke.

It's not uncomfortable around us ... I've pretty much let it go (in the office anyway) but it still bugs me that they would do this to me. I'm partially to blame, I guess: we joke about ThinkGeek's cubicle warfare toys all the time. Maybe I should have figured out that one of them actually bought something and was using it against me. On the other hand, that noise was really driving me bonkers and I don't think I was thinking straight.

So, did they go to far, or am I overreacting?

[george graves]

They are welcoming you to the club? They wouldn't mess with you if they thought you were'nt a cool guy that could take it and see the humor?

[Turf1600]

Just bought one.

[Massive Lee]

I got a great one for you.

15 years ago I worked as an advisor for a newspaper. They had installed all that new computer network, with internal emails and messages. Most employees knew what a computer was. Except one older guy, who happened to be a religious zealot. I mean, very religious.

So, it starts like that (employee at his desk).

Prompt on the PC screen: "Hello John. How do you feel today?"

Guy looks terrified at the screen.

Prompt: " John, what's up? Don't you recognized me?:

Employeelooks around. Types back: :What s this? Who are you?"

Prompts: "It's God here. Don't you recognize me?"

Guy looks even more terrified. Searches around him. Everyone knows the prank. Nobody looks back.

Employee replies. " Yes, it is me. John. How can you be in the machine today"

Prompt: "Don't worry. God is everywhere."

And so one, and so on. For about 30 minutes.

We got details about his past and present sins BTW... God knows everything.

After 30minutes of prank, we all started laughing as we couldn't keep quiet anymore. The guy understood it was a prank. He yelled at everyone. Cursed. Took a few shelves down and disapeared for the remain of the day.

"John, it's God talking to you..."

[Turf1600]

I got a great one for you.

15 years ago I worked as an advisor for a newspaper. They had installed all that new computer network, with internal emails and messages. Most employees knew what a computer was. Except one older guy, who happened to be a religious zealot. I mean, very religious.

So, it starts like that (employee at his desk).

Prompt on the PC screen: "Hello John. How do you feel today?"

Guy looks terrified at the screen.

Prompt: " John, what's up? Don't you recognized me?:

Employeelooks around. Types back: :What s this? Who are you?"

Prompts: "It's God here. Don't you recognize me?"

Guy looks even more terrified. Searches around him. Everyone knows the prank. Nobody looks back.

Employee replies. " Yes, it is me. John. How can you be in the machine today"

Prompt: "Don't worry. God is everywhere."

And so one, and so on. For about 30 minutes.

We got details about his past and present sins BTW... God knows everything.

After 30minutes of prank, we all started laughing as we couldn't keep quiet anymore. The guy understood it was a prank. He yelled at everyone. Cursed. Took a few shelves down and disapeared for the remain of the day.

"John, it's God talking to you..."

Now that's good stuff. He really thought it was god talking to him?

[Massive Lee]

Now that's good stuff. He really thought it was god talking to him?

The guy was into serious religious stuff and some kind of massonery order. He was an older non-techy guy, about 5 years from retiring. And it was the beginning of user-friendly computer networks. Actually we also stopped as it was starting to become very intimate.

But here's another one.
20 years ago, a month before touring the US in my 1974 2002, I talked to my girlfriend about Jackalops and explained how species must adapt. Then along the way, in truck stops, we saw truits with furs, and Jackalops with horns. I calmly explained her the benefit of evolution and the survival of species. The trip last another 2 weeks. Then one day in Arizona, we enter an Indian Jewellery store, where there's a stuffed Jackalope with the "optional" wings. Wow. Talk about evolution here. So, very interested, she looks at the stuffed animal. The clerk comes to here and says something like that:

Clerk - "You know, those are not for real"
GF - "Yest, I know, the wings are not for real, but Jackalopes are"

The clerk doesn't know how to behave. he wants to laugh, but it wouldn't be appropriate. I am at the other end of the store. On the ground. I laugh out so loud, so much, I cannot even breath. I am almost turning blue. My stomach and lungs hurt. Talk about a slow prank that took 3 weeks to build... 20 years after, when I mention that story, she gives me the LOOK... especially in front of our 14 year old son. It's now a sensitive subject. if I want to sleep in the living room, all I have to do is to mention that prank...

[StereoInstaller1]

Hey Stephen...are you still breathing?

It isn't all that serious then.

Dude, you know a prank is a sign of acceptance, right?

WTF, man...lighten up!

Luke

[Turf1600]

The guy was into serious religious stuff and some kind of massonery order. He was an older non-techy guy, about 5 years from retiring. And it was the beginning of user-friendly computer networks. Actually we also stopped as it was starting to become very intimate.

But here's another one.
20 years ago, a month before touring the US in my 1974 2002, I talked to my girlfriend about Jackalops and explained how species must adapt. Then along the way, in truck stops, we saw truits with furs, and Jackalops with horns. I calmly explained her the benefit of evolution and the survival of species. The trip last another 2 weeks. Then one day in Arizona, we enter an Indian Jewellery store, where there's a stuffed Jackalope with the "optional" wings. Wow. Talk about evolution here. So, very interested, she looks at the stuffed animal. The clerk comes to here and says something like that:

Clerk - "You know, those are not for real"
GF - "Yest, I know, the wings are not for real, but Jackalopes are"

The clerk doesn't know how to behave. he wants to laugh, but it wouldn't be appropriate. I am at the other end of the store. On the ground. I laugh out so loud, so much, I cannot even breath. I am almost turning blue. My stomach and lungs hurt. Talk about a slow prank that took 3 weeks to build... 20 years after, when I mention that story, she gives me the LOOK... especially in front of our 14 year old son. It's now a sensitive subject. if I want to sleep in the living room, all I have to do is to mention that prank...

I thought they were real when I was a kid. I saw one on the wall in a BBQ joint.

[Massive Lee]

Prank=Love

[blunttech]

im going to get 2 of those and fuck with my wifes office manager and secretary. they wont have a clue and i will be the first one they call to see what it is

[parkerbink]

C&P from another forum. Did not happen to me so I think it's funny.

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Didn't happen to me.

I think it is hilarious and if it had happened to me I'd have handled it very differently.

im going to get 2 of those and fuck with my wifes office manager and secretary. they wont have a clue and i will be the first one they call to see what it is

Classic!

[roundel]

the show The Office is full of stupid office pranks

in one episode one worker takes another's cell phone into a different room, lifts up a ceiling panel and throws it far enough to land above the first guys desk, he calls it all day and the dude cant figure out where his cell phone is he ends up putting his fist through a wall

[s0urce]

fucking sweet!

[blunttech]

i used to be a foreman for a trucking company and there was an elevated office where the night dispatcher would work on the phones. it was divided into 2 sections and the phones were 20 feet between each other, it was all glass so we could see him very easily. id use one of the dock phones a good distance away from him so he couldnt see me. id call that fucker on the opposite phone he was currently on and just let it ring and ring until he would finally put his call on hold and walk the 20 feet to the other phone. as soon as he got there id hang up. id wait till he went back to his original call and start all over again. i would push this beyond the limits of any human and keep it up for 1/2 hour at a time until he would literally snap and start throwing shit. god i would fucking sit and cry i was laughing so hard.