Help me get my boss back!

[margaretc.livejournal.com]

I walked in this morning and sent my boss an IM about a db problem I'd mangled yesterday, and he replied asking if that's why the deans' email was down. I said 'What? It's working for me!' knowing that he doesn't use our departmental email but instead uses the larger university's system. He said he'd been getting upset calls from their office, and that maybe I should go over there (it's a long walk, I just came from there, and it's raining). I said I didn't have a laptop, and there wasn't much I could do without it. He said he had one for me, and to come down to his office and talk about it. I sent myself a test message, checked the monitors, and looked at the running processes, all of which looked fine. My office mate also checked, and it looked fine to him too.
So I walked in to his office and he said 'Thank you for playing!' There had been no phone calls, no nothing.
Aargh!

So I was explaining to my coworker (who is from mainland China, but had at least heard of April Fools) that he had got me, and our associate dean, who is across the hall, stuck his head in and said 'Is $Boss playing April Fool tricks?' I explained the trick, and he said 'Hmm. Let me think, I have an idea.' So $Dean might get $Boss back for me.

But I'll happily store ideas for next year :)

Watch the tech get progressively less co-operative

[harry-whodunnit.livejournal.com]

Me: "Hi! I'm here to install your new printer."
User: "Yay! Hey, while you're here, can you set up another user to print to it?"
Me: "Of course!"
( - Five minutes later - )