Attack of the 50 Foot Blog

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… Continue reading Work Pranks – Call Forwarding

When I worked for a previous employer. I was going to be off work for about a week.  I wanted to check my email from home.  This was long before having email access on your phone or being able to remotely check email from another computer.  I saw that the email program that we used… Continue reading Work Pranks – Email Virus

Names have been altered in this story.​Years ago, I read an article in a business-related magazine that told how to use autocorrect to add your signature to Microsoft Office documents.  In addition of the autocorrect feature automatically correcting errors like changing “nad” to “and”, you can add words that aren’t already in their library. You… Continue reading Work Pranks – Autocorrect

At a previous employer, I worked with several other guys in a lab. Bob was one of our fellow employees that everyone disliked the most. He was lab worker who was most likely to disappear when things got busy.  He would go out on the plant floor to collect samples and be gone twice as… Continue reading Work Pranks – Lubriderm