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Some Basic Rules for Office Pranks
Wednesday, June 06, 2007
Bored at work? Thinking of adding your personal touch to the
"atmosphere"? Forbes discusses the delicate issue of office
pranks. Following are few rules of thumb:
- You should be able to unwind a good prank in 15 minutes, meaning
that there should be no "permanent" or "long-lasting" consequences
to your prank.
- Avoid sexual pranks.
- Everybody should have a good laugh at the end of the day. If
someone is hurt, it's not worth it.
A last word of advice: take your office culture into consideration
and use your common sense.
A Field Guide to Office Pranks, Forbes
10 Suggestions for Your Last Day at
Work
Tuesday, July 11, 2006
BBC News has issued 10 "light-hearted" suggestions on what you can
do on your last day at work...
Among them: give a verbal headbutt "Zidane-style" or take some
letters off the computer keyboard (as it seems that when President
Bush's staff took over the White House all the w's were missing...).
Day Off, a Boss's Perspective
Wednesday, May 24, 2006
So, you want the day off?
Let's take a look at what you are asking for.
There are 365
days per year available for work.
There are 52
weeks a year in which you already get
2
days off per week, leaving
261
days available for work. Since you spend
16 hours
each day away from work, you have used up
170 days,
leaving 91
days available. You spend
30
minutes a day on a coffee break. That accounts for
23 days each year, leaving only
68
days
available. With one hour for lunch period each day you use up
another 46
days, leaving only
22
days available to work. You normally spend
2
days a
year for sick leave. This leaves you only
20 days
available for work. We are off for
5 holidays per
year, so your available working time is down to
15
days. We generously give you
2 weeks off for
vacation per year. This only leaves
1 day available
for work.
And I'll be darned if you're going to take that day off!!
Taken literally from the Recruiters
Network. Somehow, the numbers don't really add up, but I'm too
lazy to do the count...
Pranks Gone 2 Far
Friday,
March 31, 2006
Well, in keeping with the April Fool's theme, here are some examples
of pranks turned bad...
- The son of the boss came out one morning and said that his mom
handed the business over to him. By noon, two employees had
resigned. Let's just hope they were not two "good employees".
- The boss told his employees that they had won the lottery as a
syndicate. An employee booked an expensive vacation for herself and
her boyfriend...
- An employee put glue on the rim of the office toilet and the
boss sat on it. Why did it have to be the boss???
- An employee brought a hamster to the office to see if co-workers
would be scared. Instead, the hamster pooed everywhere.
This last one won the prize:
- An employee switched the name of a co-worker's girlfriend and
"other friend" on his cell phone. That co-worker addressed his
girlfriend as if she was his mistress (like "you got the wrong
name", etc.)...
When April Fools Goes Bad, Sun Online
April Fool's Day 2006
Thursday, March 30, 2006
According to a survey by CareerBuilder.com, 33 percent of workers
have played a practical joke on another co-worker and 17 percent
intend to do so this year.
Here are the top 10 pranks according to the survey:
- Change a co-worker's caller ID.
- Place objects belonging to co-workers in vending machines.
- Place a goldfish in an IV bag in a medical clinic.
- Pretending to be a co-worker and send an "I Love You" e-mail to
the whole office.
- Wall-paper a co-worker's whole cubicle with pictures.
- Hide inside the refrigerator and scare anybody opening it.
- Copy one's behind and put the stack of paper back in the paper
bin.
- Turn the clock one hour back.
- Pretend office is closed when boss is out.
- Place fake rubber chocolate in the break room.
Well, isn't that imaginative?
CareerBuilder.com Releases Top Ten Picks for April Fool's Day Pranks at
the Office, Based on It's Annual Survey, PR Newswire
Practical Joke by a 15-Year Old Boy
Tuesday, March 14, 2006
A Google fan tried to play a joke on his friends by submitting a
fake press release claiming that he was Google's youngest
employee at 15 years old.
"(I-Newswire) - 15 year old student, Tom Vendetta has been hired
by search engine giant Google Inc. The student will receive a
lowered salary, which will be placed into a bank account for
future education, said Google CEO Larry Page. When asked what
role Vendetta will play at the Tech Giant's offices, Page said
he wouldnt have a role at the Main Offices. Instead he would
work from his home in the New Jersey suburbs. Vendetta will be
incharge of working with recent security flaw's in Google's beta
e-mail service, "Gmail". Google said they first found out about
him when they discovered the student's blog, at
http://tomvendetta.be. The
media giant said they looked forward to working with Vendetta's
expertise in JavaScript and AJAX."
After issuing the press release, the boy found out that his joke
had become an international tech story. Google was even
displaying a reference to his press release in its Google News
section.
"(Stepforth.com) The prank has made Vandetta temporarily famous.
His Gmail account received almost 400 emails in the first few
hours. Vandetta has since had to open new Gmail and MySpace
accounts. His parents are changing their phone number and he is
working to re-establish a workable online identity. On the
brighter side, he has received a few emails from Google
employees assuring him he has not dashed his dreams of one day
working for Google, as he thought he might have."
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