Office Wind ups....

CyclingBantam

Short story, I have a colleague that is really due a good wind up at work. I have thought about putting his car up for sale or his number in the newspaper adds next to a ridiculously good offer.

Has anyone any other suggestions or seen been involved in anything else particually good?

Ben

Heckler1974

His work number in a gentlemen's toilet next to 'If you want a good time call me'

Crapaud

Yonks ago we sent an apprentice to various places to get some mentrual fluid (a type of cleaning solution, we told him).

Big Betty, in the office, slapped him around the head and kicked him out.

The girls in Henry Healys just laughed and told him to F-off.

RS McColl denied all knowledge of it.

Eventually we sent him to a burger van down at the Daily Record building. With a flash of insight, they tore off the lable from a 5 litre bottle of tomato ketchup and sold him that.

He came back all chuffed with himself.

Chrissz

Flowers and notes from "a secret admirer" - you can keep that one going for ages

skyd0g

An easy and not too drastic one, is to change his mouse settings from right-hand to left hand while he's away from his desk.
Start > Settings > Control Panel > Mouse > Buttons :change to left-hand operation. Apply.

Quickly done (and easily corrected), often leaves the user scratching their head as to what has happened to their mouse (scroll left & the cursor moves right).

Heckler1974

Or, hit print screen when the desktop is displayed on his PC, go into paint and hit paste, this is a copy of his desktop with all the icons etc. Set this picture as his desktop then move all the real icons into a folder.

Hours of fun as he clicks on the non-existent icons/folders then rings IT.

Gazzaputt

Worse one I know of is from quite a few years back. Worked with an irish fella who slated the UK all the time and used to big up the IRA. Really wasn't a nice bloke.

Anyway one day came in fuming as the anti terrorist police turned up and turned his house upside down. Been told it was an IRA safe house. Even taken floor boards up.

I never found out who it was who bubbled but it was funny.

CyclingBantam

Following the advert for a bar job on the leeds and Manchester gumtree's he has had to odd calls in the last hour. It is working out quite well....

shouldbeinbed

a couple of pints of water into his office chair (assumptions galore I know) not so that it's saturated and drips out but enough that he gets a squelchy damp experience when he sits down.

Radioactiveman

Get a large marigold glove (the thciker the better) fill it with talcum powder and tape it around his cars exhaust pipe.

Shortly after starting the car and pulling out it will swell adn explode with a large bang and a massive cloud of white. He will think his engine has blown up

neilmacd

I've got a colleague who is so far up his own @rse it's unbelievable.
He harped on for ages about getting some very specific highlighters which had to go on special order from our stationary suppliers. Anyways about 3 months later after much yapping from this bawheid said highlighters eventually arrived - while he was on holiday.

Cut a long story short we "hijacked" them and set up an yahoo e-mail account from which we sent him ransom demands - cakes etc. One of the guys even took said pens round Glasgow city centre and took photos of them which we e-mailed to him.
Eventually after about 2 weeks of sporadic wind ups the rattle got flung out the pram by said bawheid and I've never seen anyone throw a wobbler in an office like it. - absolutely shaking and all sorts of expletives flying at those of us who'd been winding him.

Carlsberg don't do office wind ups but if they did this eejit's reaction would be in there

rake

this could get you a broken nose in other types of working environment. :shock:

Chrissz

rake wrote:

this could get you a broken nose in other types of working environment. :shock:

Which, I think, is exactly the point! In a non-office environment a punch on the nose may well sort the guy out, in this situation it's not appropriate (can't get away with it) so thing have to be a little more subtle

rick_chasey

Is this not all work place bullying?

I'd have any employee sacked if I saw them on internet forums asking for office wind-ups.

How old are you, 14?

Radioactiveman

Rick Chasey wrote:

Is this not all work place bullying?

I'd have any employee sacked if I saw them on internet forums asking for office wind-ups.

How old are you, 14?

Wish I worked with you :twisted:

rick_chasey

Radioactiveman wrote:

Rick Chasey wrote:

Is this not all work place bullying?

I'd have any employee sacked if I saw them on internet forums asking for office wind-ups.

How old are you, 14?

Wish I worked with you :twisted:

Wouldn't be for very long. :roll:

Chrissz

Way to p1ss in the porridge Rick

rick_chasey

Chrissz wrote:

Way to p1ss in the porridge Rick

Just don't do it.

Hiding people's sh!t is what p!ssy rubbish little bullies do at school.

It's pathetic.

Radioactiveman

Bet conkers is banned at your place too

Sorry couldn't help it

I think the point Rick is making that jokes can go too far and people might not get the joke, and feel victimised in which case I agree having seen jokes go too far. However a bit of friendly fun is good for moral.

redvee

So tempted with the glove and talcum powder as one of the blokes I work with drove his new car in today.

rick_chasey

Radioactiveman wrote:

Bet conkers is banned at your place too

Sorry couldn't help it

I think the point Rick is making that jokes can go too far and people might not get the joke, and feel victimised in which case I agree having seen jokes go too far. However a bit of friendly fun is good for moral.

Yeah I think the guy who was shaking with rage in Neilmacd's story found his moral really boosted.

ademort

BenBlyth wrote:

Short story, I have a colleague that is really due a good wind up at work. I have thought about putting his car up for sale or his number in the newspaper adds next to a ridiculously good offer.

Has anyone any other suggestions or seen been involved in anything else particually good?

Ben

We did the same thing when i was at college about 25 years ago. The principal was a right tw@t and we advertised his car for sale. He was livid and i am sure that if had found out who it was we would have been in serious trouble. Whatever you decide hope it works out
Ademort

CyclingBantam

Dear me Rick. Talk about an over reaction. :P

I am comfortable enough that a 'wind up' to a mate at work isn't going to leave him feeling victimised and bullied. I'm sure I will be on the recieving end in the near future.

I'm not 14, I'm 27. What should I be doing at that age acording to your chart? I guess I have 2 or 3 years before I have kids. My next promotion should be due in 6 months so better get working for that at my age...

rick_chasey

BenBlyth wrote:

Dear me Rick. Talk about an over reaction. :P

I am comfortable enough that a 'wind up' to a mate at work isn't going to leave him feeling victimised and bullied. I'm sure I will be on the recieving end in the near future.

I'm not 14, I'm 27. What should I be doing at that age acording to your chart? I guess I have 2 or 3 years before I have kids. My next promotion should be due in 6 months so better get working for that at my age...

I don't think it's an over-reaction. It's a description of the situation. It's bullying in the workplace.

From the direct.gov advice on the matter.

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Employment/ ... G_10026670

You are probably being bullied if, for example, you are:
- humiliated in front of colleagues

As far as I can see, an office wind up is exactly that. Plenty of the examples here are that.

If you want to talk about age and bullying, why not try chapter 2 of this:

http://www.workplacebullying.co.uk/aethesis.html

There you can probably see that bullying is something you should grow out of.

Jez mon

So long as it's friendly banter then it should be fine. Of course it's childish, but if no ones hurt it can keep morale up. Just remember that different people react to things in different ways and don't do anything that you wouldn't take as a joke.

Chrissz

LOL, Rick, you are starting to sound like a sanctimonious miserable git :!:

I guess that in your workplace everyone has to be extremely careful about what they say/do in case you fire them for bullying. Are teasing comments and other types of banter banned too? I could (possibly) understand it if you worked in a funeral directors/undertakers - do you :?:

Most of the rest of us are actually based on planet earth and understand that banter, teasing and hurtful comments are part and parcel of the workplace and of life in general.

mingmong

Back to the thread: A 'slither' of sellotape over the mouth piece holes on his desk phone may bring a giggle......

CAN YOU HEAR ME.. HELLO..

rf6

We once shrink wrapped a lads car for his birthday. He did laugh about it, albeit the next day!

As for changing the mouse settings, I can see that coming into use very very soon

Squillinossett

Rick Chasey wrote:

BenBlyth wrote:

Dear me Rick. Talk about an over reaction. :P

I am comfortable enough that a 'wind up' to a mate at work isn't going to leave him feeling victimised and bullied. I'm sure I will be on the recieving end in the near future.

I'm not 14, I'm 27. What should I be doing at that age acording to your chart? I guess I have 2 or 3 years before I have kids. My next promotion should be due in 6 months so better get working for that at my age...

I don't think it's an over-reaction. It's a description of the situation. It's bullying in the workplace.

From the direct.gov advice on the matter.

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Employment/ ... G_10026670

You are probably being bullied if, for example, you are:
- humiliated in front of colleagues

As far as I can see, an office wind up is exactly that. Plenty of the examples here are that.

If you want to talk about age and bullying, why not try chapter 2 of this:

http://www.workplacebullying.co.uk/aethesis.html

There you can probably see that bullying is something you should grow out of.

Rick does have a point guys, there is a difference between "Banter" and "Bullying"

I agree the one that left the guy shaking is going too far, but I work in a professional environment and we all do childish things like this.... Even Senior managers play their own little tricks and jokes and they are 40/50s, high earners and very intelligent.

I think it all comes down to knowing who you can do this too without upsetting them, as I dont think anyone should ever feel like they are victimized at work.

We have a good laugh doing it, and I have been on both ends more times than I care to count, we all have! :evil:

markyboy2005

MingMong wrote:

Back to the thread: A 'slither' of sellotape over the mouth piece holes on his desk phone may bring a giggle......

CAN YOU HEAR ME.. HELLO..

Or sticking the handset to the phone with bluetack......call him and hey presto, the whole phone goes up and chaos....

On the note of Bullying vs Banter, I would say that if its two way and its friendly and everyone gets a laugh out of it, then its Banter.

If its one person being picked on to the point of snapping and you don't expect to get it back....its verging on the bullying side.

I don't think the right action is to ban all pranks, but rather (if you are a manager) take a pragmatic approach and understand when its building relationships or destrying them....and set an example.

MattC59

Rick Chasey wrote:

BenBlyth wrote:

Dear me Rick. Talk about an over reaction. :P

I am comfortable enough that a 'wind up' to a mate at work isn't going to leave him feeling victimised and bullied. I'm sure I will be on the recieving end in the near future.

I'm not 14, I'm 27. What should I be doing at that age acording to your chart? I guess I have 2 or 3 years before I have kids. My next promotion should be due in 6 months so better get working for that at my age...

I don't think it's an over-reaction. It's a description of the situation. It's bullying in the workplace.

From the direct.gov advice on the matter.

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Employment/ ... G_10026670

You are probably being bullied if, for example, you are:
- humiliated in front of colleagues

As far as I can see, an office wind up is exactly that. Plenty of the examples here are that.

If you want to talk about age and bullying, why not try chapter 2 of this:

http://www.workplacebullying.co.uk/aethesis.html

There you can probably see that bullying is something you should grow out of.

Blimey, looks like someone's got sand in his vajayjay !!