very important question

[knittinggoddess.livejournal.com]

if your somewhat uptight boss who nonetheless has a sense of humor is going away for two weeks, what would you do to his office while he was gone? We have access to his office. Last year they built a tower out of styrafoam computer packaging in the middle of his office and he was so touched that he kept it up for several days.

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[viper0775.livejournal.com]

At the trade school I attended in Florida we disassembled and rebuilt a VW Convertible in the middle of the administrator's office when he was out on a cruise for two weeks.. No engine, but everything else was functional...

he kept it.. had us turn the passenger seat and build a desk surface to replace the back seat...

[captpackrat.livejournal.com]

Fill the office with styrofoam peanuts.

Or ping-pong balls.

Or leave the office completely untouched but hide one of these: http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/79be/

[viper0775.livejournal.com]

or two =)

[kepplah.livejournal.com]

25 dollars!! Twenty-five dollars! I'd expect wifi connectivity to wirelessly change the timeout or trigger it remotely for that price.

[jecook]

That's pretty steep, but you are paying for the custom breadboard...

I could probably breadboard a larger version of that for about $5 at Radio Shack.

IIRC, there likely a company that makes a kit version of that as well. It's pretty easy to make if you have any talent with a soldering iron. (and if not, well, the kit can teach you...)

[greeklady.livejournal.com]

So my coworker did that and all shipments that came in his name (even though they were for us) was piled into his cubical to where he couldn't sit in it and it took over 45 min to remove all boxes.

[usekh.livejournal.com]

Get several rolls of aluminium foil and cover everything

Although that beeping thing is pure evil too :)

[jennlee2.livejournal.com]

Wrap everything in his office in tin foil.

http://www.serversunderthesun.com/tin/

[ihateemo.livejournal.com]

The greatest office prank of ALL TIME.

[tigersden.livejournal.com]

Laminate and cling-wrap everything. Turn everything upside down. If they have an optical mouse, put scotch-tape over the sensor. Fill the office with balloons. Fill the office with packing-peanuts. Rearrange all the letters on the keyboard. Find an old keyboard, put cotton-wool between the keys, add cress seeds, water, and watch it grow :) (don't plug it in, of course ;) ) . Disassemble their computer and tag every part like it's in a coroners office.

Errrrrr...

Change the keymap of their computer to something like French, so _most_ of the letters are in the right place.
Change the auto-correct in MS Office to replace common words with random, silly, or rude ones (depending on how well your boss will take it ;) ).
Arrange for a canister of helium to slowly release in their office when they get back and have a long conversation with them whilst your voices all raise in pitch, slowly ;)

My brain has drained for now. One or two ideas to keep you going ;)

Not that I'm evil or anything :P

[soberloki.livejournal.com]

You, sir, are now my hero.

[tigersden.livejournal.com]

:takes a bow: I am still in evilness training though ;)
Actually, my coworker recently came back from a 3-month sabattical, muwahahaha, so I kinda had a head-start on ideas for this :grins:

[soberloki.livejournal.com]

The helium idea actually cracked me up. *really, really wants to do this at work now*

My icon should explain why this would be so damned funny at my job.

[tigersden.livejournal.com]

Hehehe :) We have just gone through a rebrand, and there was a helium cylinder left in the reception area... we found it a new home :P

As for the icon :grins: I'll have to call up if you ever get round to doing it :grins: Would be _so_ funny :) Like listening to Munchkins :D

[soberloki.livejournal.com]

I'm now considering answering calls in the Munchkin-like comedy voice I've been doing since I was 8 years old... it's supposed to be really trippy. I need to do this and somehow record the calls, just 'cause I've never heard myself using the voice on tape.

[tigersden.livejournal.com]

Haha :D You'll have to make a phonepost on here of it, lol.

[azurelunatic]

Clear tape over the ends of phone and ethernet cables disconnects with the cables plugged in!

[knittinggoddess.livejournal.com]

BRILLIANT.

Oh MAN.

YES, we're totally doing this.

[azurelunatic]

My workplace had an outbreak of this around April Fool's time. I also got a server's wallpaper to look like a dialer crash, though I wasn't aware that the wallpaper change had *taken* ... people got reamed out over that one. People who had no connection to the *prank* were reamed out over that one.

[tigersden.livejournal.com]

Hehehe - now _that_ is evil ;)

[anamacha.livejournal.com]

INVISIBLE tape.

[jecook]

Better yet. If one has the tools and talent for making cable, make a bunch of loopback cables. It'd be hellishly expensive, but funny.

[viper0775.livejournal.com]

you've got plenty of time.. drywall over the door to his office! Depending ont he layout, move his name plate to a much smaller office very closeby .. or preferably a copy room..

I'm also a fan of the tinfoil.. depending on the layout again, fill cabinets or closets with packign peanuts.. (and I mean FILL) so when they are opened they pour out everyhwere.. This is most effective when nothing else is touched, you know he is going to be expecting something after last year...

[snoopyh42.livejournal.com]

Freeze a can of shaving cream. Saw off the end, and stick the resulting frozen cylinder in a drawer or filing cabinet.

[astevenson.livejournal.com]

You really can just punch a hole in it. forget the saw, an icepick will do!

[snoopyh42.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but it's better if there's no can left behind.

[astevenson.livejournal.com]

oh, that's splendidly evil.

cut the can in half, remove frozen cream, strategically place, and as it warms, it makes a BIG mess.

i love it.

[aylinn.livejournal.com]

now, now.

This is obviously a "ditch day" scenario.

"There is also the annual Ditch Day, when seniors ditch school, leaving behind elaborately designed tasks and traps at the doors of their rooms to prevent underclassmen from entering. This has evolved to the point where many seniors spend months designing mechanical, electrical, and software obstacles in order to confound the underclassmen. Each group of seniors designs a "stack" to be solved by a handful of underclassmen. The faculty has been drawn into the event as well, and cancel all classes on Ditch Day so that the underclassmen can participate in what has become a highlight of the year."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Institute_of_Technology

Therefore it requires a ditch day solution.

have some ideas:

http://admissions.caltech.edu/about/ditch-day
http://davemoore.org/photos/2002/0522a.html
http://davemoore.org/photos/2002/0522b_slides.html
http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=192314

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[loosechanj.livejournal.com]

I second this idea.

[knittinggoddess.livejournal.com]

AWESOME.

[jadeshadow.livejournal.com]

We filled out director's office with balloons. Took 40 of us several hours to blow them all up, but it took him most of a day to get them all, quietly, popped. *evil grin*

I work in a call centre so going in with a needle wasn't an option.

~ K.

[jadeshadow.livejournal.com]

Or you could do nothing at all and just make sure that everyone watches him and snickers and/or grins every time he walks by acting as obviously "innocent" as possible. Just let him wonder.

~ K.

[knittinggoddess.livejournal.com]

says my coworker: oh man. That one's good for everyday usage.

[azzy23.livejournal.com]

Fill his office with empty boxes. The hardest part is filling the door, but it's well worth the effort.

Or paper everything.

[jecook]

Hmmmmm.... Depending on the bosses, uh, personal grooming habits, one could "quarentine" the office, using clear plastic sheet and caution tape. A biohazard sign (or "official" notice) can easily be made and hung up.

At the ISP I used to work for, we had this huuuuuge stack of CDs (like the infamous AOhell CDs, only branded for the company that was bought out) left over, so we proceeded to paper the dialup manager's office with CDs and the booklets they came in. The result was pretty awesome (and somewhere I even have a picture of it...).

Creative use of drywall (if it'll work) can make the office disappear altogather, but that was already mentioned.

At the ISP, Boxes would not have worked for my boss, as he had half a warehouse of crates and assorted crapola in his office. We were worried more over the load limit on the floor more then the fire department nailing us for that... (We pulled the biohazard stunt on him. I think. We might have just used Caution tape instead, actually...)

[kepplah.livejournal.com]

Haha, where I've worked we had that problem too. Hundred year old buildings that have never had a structural renovation do not have floors strong enough to support even a couple racks of equipment. Luckily we got everything moved out before the floor collapsed, but not before a few machines have had their share of plaster dust sucked in.