System admin pulled a prank on me today...

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Lifer
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Originally posted by: Eghck
Originally posted by: mchammer
Originally posted by: chuckywang
Start putting nickels in his phone. Put one nickel in there per day and once it is full, let him get used to the weight. Then, one day, take all the nickels out and watch him smack himself with the phone the next time he answer it.

lol

hahahahaha, will that really work?
Maybe not nickles, but it seems a sound idea.
 

jhayx7

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At my last job we would pull pranks all the time. Best one is where we took a roll of pallet wrap from the warehouse and wrapped a guys entire office. Take your time and do everything. Uncap pens, wrap every wire, paperclips, mouse balls (if any), everything in the drawer, phone, staples in the stapler, tape, etc...
 

Rumpltzer

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1. Have System Admin's parents murdered

2. Grind up System Admin's parents and cook them into your favorite chili recipe

3. Feed chili to System Admin

4. Reveal what you've done to System Admin

5. Invite Raiohead to show up and mock System Admin for being a totally not cool crybaby

6. Lick the tears of unfathomable sadness from System Admin's face while rejoicing in your vengence
 

Spineshank

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Originally posted by: jhayx7
At my last job we would pull pranks all the time. Best one is where we took a roll of pallet wrap from the warehouse and wrapped a guys entire office. Take your time and do everything. Uncap pens, wrap every wire, paperclips, mouse balls (if any), everything in the drawer, phone, staples in the stapler, tape, etc...



Hmmm and our one guy just left for 2 weeks vacation time and my buddy works in the warehouse here...
 

TeamZero

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Originally posted by: chuckywang
Start putting nickels in his phone. Put one nickel in there per day and once it is full, let him get used to the weight. Then, one day, take all the nickels out and watch him smack himself with the phone the next time he answer it.

lol!


What are the odds your SysAdmin browses ATOT? :laugh:
 

kevnich2

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I'd say nothing unless you work in IT with the sysadmin. Simply because sysadmins have a tremendous amount of power and no matter what you decide to do, they'll get you back 10x worse. Yes I'm also the sysadmin for my company.
 

iroast

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Originally posted by: Rumpltzer
1. Have System Admin's parents murdered

2. Grind up System Admin's parents and cook them into your favorite chili recipe

3. Feed chili to System Admin

4. Reveal what you've done to System Admin

5. Invite Raiohead to show up and mock System Admin for being a totally not cool crybaby

6. Lick the tears of unfathomable sadness from System Admin's face while rejoicing in your vengence

SP :D
 

altonb1

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If you have access to roaming profiles and or startup scripts, add a really annoying sound clip to the system and call it to run during login. (just placing it in the startup folder works, but login scripts FTW!) The chicken dance is one of those songs that once you get it in your head, it is stuck. Hokey Pokey also works well.
 

ultimatebob

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Originally posted by: TeamZero
Originally posted by: chuckywang
Start putting nickels in his phone. Put one nickel in there per day and once it is full, let him get used to the weight. Then, one day, take all the nickels out and watch him smack himself with the phone the next time he answer it.

lol!


What are the odds your SysAdmin browses ATOT? :laugh:

If he's the network SysAdmin, he doesn't have to.... He can just sniff your packets to see what kind of revenge you're planning :evil:
 

BAMAVOO

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Originally posted by: altonb1
If you have access to roaming profiles and or startup scripts, add a really annoying sound clip to the system and call it to run during login. (just placing it in the startup folder works, but login scripts FTW!) The chicken dance is one of those songs that once you get it in your head, it is stuck. Hokey Pokey also works well.

His machine is locked down.
 

kyzen

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Originally posted by: iroast
Originally posted by: Rumpltzer
1. Have System Admin's parents murdered

2. Grind up System Admin's parents and cook them into your favorite chili recipe

3. Feed chili to System Admin

4. Reveal what you've done to System Admin

5. Invite Raiohead to show up and mock System Admin for being a totally not cool crybaby

6. Lick the tears of unfathomable sadness from System Admin's face while rejoicing in your vengence

SP :D

Shakespeare, you uncultured swine. SP just ripped him off :p
 

five40

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If you can get into dos, net send like crazy. Put a couple million popups on your bosses desktop. "I RULE" would be a nice net send.
 

Pepsei

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Originally posted by: Atlantean
Originally posted by: Jassi
Prank wars at work sound like a bad idea unless your boss and SA have the stomach for them.

They have the stomach for them... it started off with the system admin getting mad at me for finding solitaire on the computers and then showing it to everyone, so she blocked it out... I found another way in, she blocked that and said I couldn't find another way... I found another way and she blocked it out... the latest way in took a bit to figure out (right click disabled, nothing in start menu other than files that are work related etc.etc.), I am not worried about doing something bad as long as it doesn't damage company property.


then just crack the local admin password, it's xp right? shouldn't be that hard.
 

Fullmetal Chocobo

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Originally posted by: iamaelephant
Originally posted by: neutralizer
Hold windows + E for a very long time.

Son of a..... I just tried this :|

LOL. Me too. Can't wait to do this to the wife's machine when I get home.

Originally posted by: chuckywang
Start putting nickels in his phone. Put one nickel in there per day and once it is full, let him get used to the weight. Then, one day, take all the nickels out and watch him smack himself with the phone the next time he answer it.

Oh, that's funny. So simple, yet devious.

Change the voltage select from 120 to 220v, and tell them the computer isn't working. It usually takes a long time to notice what it was. :D
 

DrPizza

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Originally posted by: fbrdphreak
Get on person's PC. Close all open Windows. Bring up some kind of error or confirmation box that requires you to click "OK." Hit PRINT SCREEN, paste in Paint, save as BMP. Set as background. Remove all icons on desktop. Screenshot will now look like background as well as error/confirmation box. Watch as they furiously try to click the OK button and/or icons :evil:

wow, I've done the background thing, several times. That's always hilarious. But, the error/confirmation box will make it sooooooooo much better!
 

AreaCode707

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Sep 21, 2001
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I sent an email from a coworker's computer to myself, when he walked to the printer. I then doctored the email with a message from announcing he was getting married to his girlfriend and made it look like it went out to the whole department. I responded back with a hearty "CONGRATS!"

He flipped out, checked his sent items (not very closely) and saw the email there, and started running around demanding, "who did this? Who did this?"
 

mchammer

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Originally posted by: Rumpltzer
1. Have System Admin's parents murdered

2. Grind up System Admin's parents and cook them into your favorite chili recipe

3. Feed chili to System Admin

4. Reveal what you've done to System Admin

5. Invite Raiohead to show up and mock System Admin for being a totally not cool crybaby

6. Lick the tears of unfathomable sadness from System Admin's face while rejoicing in your vengence

:Q;:confused:
 

VanTheMan

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Take the sysadmin out on a date, sleep with her, then never call her back and when she asks about it at work, pretend like you don't know what she's talking about. Or just put tape inside all the RJ45 ports in your office network.