Friday, July 25, 2008

Office Pranks

For those of us bleeding to oil the infernal capitalist machine: funny stuff that's actually been instigated by people who sit disturbingly close to me.

-Spray non-drying aerosol adhesive all over someone's desk.
-Sending a company wide e-mail asking everyone to leave something inside someone's cube while they are on vacation.
-Fill someone's drawers and cabinets with peanuts, unsalted.
-Get into the company newsletter and announce that someone's been promoted to "Junior Senior Vice President."
-Moving all of the senior VP in charge of the department's stuff from his corner office to a cube in the basement.
-Send an e-mail to someone stating that they have "failed to sign the Clean Cube initiative," prompting them to drive to the office in the snow on Sunday to make the deadline.
-Write "basuras" on a box with someone's stuff in it, so the cleaning staff ends up chucking it at the end of the day.

What's scary is that the "someone" in all of these instances is the other Yale guy who I'm effectively replacing.

3 comments:

Jay Buchanan said...

Wow, this guy has some serious interpersonal issues. As a youth he must have been pranked constantly by his parents and other authority figures, so this is the only way he can express affection or dominance. (He might try eating a banana in front of other people to establish dominance—that worked for Donkey Kong.)

Epi said...

oh, no this guy was the victim. the instigators were a cabal of ex-wall street sales guys

Jay Buchanan said...

Oh so it wasn't one guy? That's sort of a relief, I guess.