Practical jokes on fellow IT colleagues
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Have you ever played practical computer jokes on your fellow IT colleagues?
A favourite of mine was to screenshot the background and set this as the background picture and then remove all icons on desktop, watching them getting frustrated with their constant double clicking of icons was quite amusing.
Another one was putting the shutdown command on their browser icon....
Of course these jokes were only for fellow IT colleagues and not users obviously.....
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I have two great stories....
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I once worked at a place where @andyw created a tiny hidden "virus" application that would, from time to time, on an unpredictable basis, make a turkey sound from the PC speaker. Took months for people to figure out what was going on. It was so fast, they just thought that there was something living in the office.
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@scottalanmiller my last company we had a custom ticket app that a coworker modifed to make cricket sounds for everything. Was driving everyone nuts thinking there was a cricket in their cube
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@scottalanmiller haha I like that one
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The quick and easy one is to put a cut sticky note on the bottom of their mouse.
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@kyle said in Practical jokes on fellow IT colleagues:
The quick and easy one is to put a cut sticky note on the bottom of their mouse.
clear tape is the next level. mouse is erratic and hard to see what the problem is.
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This is not IT to IT, but someone once put a hard boiled egg in my office. Hidden, where I couldn't find it.
After weeks and weeks of me complaining about a foul smell, they finally let me in on the "joke".
That was one disgusting moldy egg. Yuck.
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I bought annoyatron from thinkgeek and put it in a ceiling vent the day i left on a vacation.
Someone called me on my vacation to ask about the noise. -
@momurda said in Practical jokes on fellow IT colleagues:
I bought annoyatron from thinkgeek and put it in a ceiling vent the day i left on a vacation.
Someone called me on my vacation to ask about the noise.That was a bit self-defeating
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I may or may not have done stuff like unplugging the ethernet cable halfway. Putting vaseline on their headset. I also may or may not have spent 2 hours coding my own version of match.com (back when that was a thing) and then updated DNS for the entire office for an elaborate prank.
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So one time at "the bank" someone put an entry in the /etc/hosts table that was something like this...
192.168.1.5 192.168.1.9And you can imagine the problems that ensued as people could not ever ping the right box.
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@scottalanmiller said in Practical jokes on fellow IT colleagues:
So one time at "the bank" someone put an entry in the /etc/hosts table that was something like this...
192.168.1.5 192.168.1.9And you can imagine the problems that ensued as people could not ever ping the right box.
Had something that wasn't intentional happen when a printer company changed a printer, and put the IP address of the gateway as the new IP of the printer, didn't notice straight away why the internet access was a bit flaky...that was a funny one..
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@scottalanmiller said in Practical jokes on fellow IT colleagues:
I once worked at a place where @andyw created a tiny hidden "virus" application that would, from time to time, on an unpredictable basis, make a turkey sound from the PC speaker. Took months for people to figure out what was going on. It was so fast, they just thought that there was something living in the office.
There was a popular one a long time ago that would burp. The only way to turn it off was to put your mouse in the top left corner of the screen.
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@jaredbusch said in Practical jokes on fellow IT colleagues:
@momurda said in Practical jokes on fellow IT colleagues:
I bought annoyatron from thinkgeek and put it in a ceiling vent the day i left on a vacation.
Someone called me on my vacation to ask about the noise.That was a bit self-defeating
Someone did the same thing at the last place I worked. Being a DoD contractor they went overboard and "thought they were being bugged". Needless to say that wasn't a fun environment to work in.
