One of my co-workers in my department is obsessed with getting away from work as soon as possible. He has a reputation for running over people between him and the back door. He tries to get to work as early as possible to get a parking place as close to the employee entrance as possible. …
Category Archives: Work Pranks
Work Pranks – Call Forwarding
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 …
Work Pranks – Email Virus
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 …
Work Pranks – Autocorrect
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 …
Work Pranks – Lubriderm
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 …