Call forwarding is a nice feature that I rarely use for the right purposes at work. It’s nice if you are relocating to someone else’s desk for an afternoon, especially if I’m expecting a lot of calls. But I never remember to turn it on when it would help. Of course, that doesn’t stop me from using it pull a prank every now and then. A few years ago, I decided that it would be fun to set call forwarding on some of the conference room phones to a target person at work. I would be in one of the conference rooms after a meeting, sitting next to a phone and I would engage the call forwarding to my favorite target before I left. I would do this at random times and in random conference rooms. I never heard any feedback about how this prank when. Except the last time I did it.
I had set call forwarding on the main conference room to send calls to my favorite target. A few days later I was standing at his desk when he received a call. He said it was from a large group of managers from the corporate office trying to call the management of our plant for a big conference call. He said this was the second time they had called him instead of the main conference room. He couldn’t understand why they kept calling him because they knew the extension of the conference room. I never told him why he kept getting the calls.