So... I'm on a cruise in Mexico when these "co-workers" e-mail me these two pictures
Along with a video of everybody taking turns pummeling it with a hammer... Even the little pregnant girl got a few whacks in...
When I came into the office yesterday, sure enough... The car I had displayed on my desk was just as you see it. I honestly didn't know who to go after first. Of course they also shrink wrapped everything on my desk and pinned about 50 pictures of me all over the place with a caption saying that I was the "Fiero-man", but all that was irrelevant. They destroyed my car!!!
As it turns out, somebody had actually found an identical replacement prior to the thrashing, and gave it to me early in the day... They say it was 'cause they felt bad for me, but I believe they just didn't want to see me go postal...
MAN THEY BROKE YOUR MODEL ! your right if they didn't get a new one i would have freaked out on them BIG TIME ! I DON'T PLAY THAT SH!T !!! FORSURE peaple have too much time on there hands plain and simple !!!
if they bought one to break in the first place that fine . i would just asked for the pieces and then peaple would REALLY LOOK AT YOU WIERD . IF THEY WERE SMART THEY WOULD HAVE SET IT ON FIRE ! then they could say see don't those thing start on fire
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slickrick2000 Member
Posts: 1369 From: Temecula, California Registered: Oct 2004
Man I would give em the psycho platoon dude treatment. Walk in the office for a couple days with your head low, eyes looking forward, and a big scary scowl on yoru face. Then have some custom VB script that the IT guy can help you load remotely on their computers that will pop up as soon as they log on that accuses them of some wrong doing and states that the hard drive will be wiped in 15 seconds. Have a nice big counter on there screen counting down and when it gets to zero goes black for a couple seconds then pops up with the pic of that smashed fiero model. Under the pic it should say PAYBACKS A ***** .
But thats just me.
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fourfoot23 Member
Posts: 383 From: Orange County, CA Registered: Oct 2003
I don't get it. Don't any of these people have anything better to do? Are they that bored? Is their only pleasure in life trying to see if they can upset someone?
Maybe it's just me, but I think that kind of behavior is both infantile and stupid. I wouldn't want to work with such morons.
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fourfoot23 Member
Posts: 383 From: Orange County, CA Registered: Oct 2003
I don't get it. Don't any of these people have anything better to do? Are they that bored? Is their only pleasure in life trying to see if they can upset someone?
Maybe it's just me, but I think that kind of behavior is both infantile and stupid. I wouldn't want to work with such morons.
It's all in good fun...
Personally, I consider myself lucky to work with people who know how to laugh.
I'm still not gonna forget, but I'll wait till the opportunity presents itself.
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Posts: 39042 From: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Registered: Apr 99
If you want to get back at someone, paranoia is the key! I used to work on an assembly line and as a joke, I used to stick the discarded pieces of foam on peoples backs. They would walk around for hours not knowing Well it got to the point I just had to look at someone in a mischievious way and they would check all over themselves for anything stuck to them asking others what is stuck to them. LOL Many have tried to get me but none could succeed.
Just start off with a little joke, but keep doing it on a daily basis, eventually you'll just need at look or even a phrase to get them paraniod.
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sonic50 Member
Posts: 3873 From: All over the USA Registered: Aug 2004
A small pat of fine Limburger cheese spread on the block of your adversarys engine will leave a lingering memory in the passenger compartment for a very lo-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-ong time....
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Formula88 Member
Posts: 53788 From: Raleigh NC Registered: Jan 2001
I just don't see the humor in pranks like that. The shrink wrapping - that's funny, but making you think they trashed your property? Even if it is only a model....
This is the office environment where you want to piss in the coffee pot.
Go to the hobby store and get a bottle of superglue with the little plastic dispensing tube. Go out into the parking lot and superglue all their door and trunk locks. They can use the same hammer to get into their cars.
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cptsnoopy Member
Posts: 2587 From: phoenix, AZ, USA Registered: Jul 2003
A small pat of fine Limburger cheese spread on the block of your adversarys engine will leave a lingering memory in the passenger compartment for a very lo-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-ong time....
Two words:
Fox Urine.
I don't see why they would think it was funny what they did. I'd be kinda ticked off (what a waste of a Yat Ming) It WOULD have been funny if they just jacked the wheels... Oh well.
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malacite Member
Posts: 2213 From: Casselberry Fl 32707 Registered: Oct 2001
If you want to get back at someone, paranoia is the key!
That's what I've been doing... Whenever any of them walk off, I'll go sit at their desk. I don't do anything, just sit there, until they come back, then I scurry back to my desk. I love watching as they try to figure out what I did.
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I don't see why they would think it was funny what they did. I'd be kinda ticked off (what a waste of a Yat Ming)
The cool thing about this is that, on the one they destroyed, the grey paint was chipping off the front scoop area. So actually, I kinda made out... But I won't tell them that...
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i don't think they would have done it if they did not like you....
Yeah, that's what everybody keeps telling me. Soon, I'll be able to show THEM how much I like them too.
I was thinking about taping a dead fish underneath their cars, like maybe down wind of the radiator fan... Now that the sun is shining here in So. Cal (finally), it shouldn't be too long before they notice the odor... Hmmmm
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cooguyfish Member
Posts: 2658 From: Hamilton, OH, USA Registered: Mar 2002
If you really want to make out, sell that model on ebay, with a little scenary, as the "fiero that rolled over" model. Remember the guy that was selling the "junkyard specail," you could make a few bucks off this too.
I was thinking about taping a dead fish underneath their cars, like maybe down wind of the radiator fan... Now that the sun is shining here in So. Cal (finally), it shouldn't be too long before they notice the odor... Hmmmm
How about jam a couple dead, rotting fish In the radiator fan so when they driive home, by the time they get home, the overheated car would have cooked the rotten fish and they'll get a whiff of it. Or, pour cat or skunk musk into the vent air intake on their cars. Right at the base of the windshield.
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malacite Member
Posts: 2213 From: Casselberry Fl 32707 Registered: Oct 2001
get a black ziptie and stick it arounf their driveshaft/halfshaft. leave the tail hanging off so it will sit and tap as they drive. it'll drive them nuts until they pay a mechanic to find it and "fix" it
If you really want to make out, sell that model on ebay, with a little scenary, as the "fiero that rolled over" model. Remember the guy that was selling the "junkyard specail," you could make a few bucks off this too.
better than that - sell it as the beloved toy that was mangled by coworkers they get a chance to bid on a peice of your pain and suffering
**** like that gets people on good morning america for some odd reason.
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Posts: 2025 From: Great Mills, MD Registered: Mar 2004
get a black ziptie and stick it arounf their driveshaft/halfshaft. leave the tail hanging off so it will sit and tap as they drive. it'll drive them nuts until they pay a mechanic to find it and "fix" it
LOL that is a great idea. But what I have always found as a good payback is to glue there things to there desks, its a classic. Like there favorite coffee mug... Then buy them a replacement for it... what goes around comes around.
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Patrick Member
Posts: 39042 From: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Registered: Apr 99
Whenever any of them walk off, I'll go sit at their desk. I don't do anything, just sit there, until they come back, then I scurry back to my desk. I love watching as they try to figure out what I did.
Is this an office we're talking about here or an elementary school class?
If I was the office manager there, heads would be rolling.
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fourfoot23 Member
Posts: 383 From: Orange County, CA Registered: Oct 2003
Is this an office we're talking about here or an elementary school class?
If I was the office manager there, heads would be rolling.
Like I said earlier, I consider myself lucky to be working here.
I've worked in the uptight, shut up and do your work, office before. But in an office like that, you have high turn around, employees who will do only as much as they have to, people stabbing eachother in the back, no loyalty, no commitment... I suppose productivity is a constant, but I guarantee you, it will never be what it could be
This company is actually quite professional when it's necessary. We all know what to do when it's crunch time... The people here help eachother out, we actually perform above and beyond what is expected and, as a result, productivity is exemplary. In fact, just yesterday, we all just received bonuses because 2004 was more profitable than expected. Not bad for a tire manufacturer, where others are struggling.
Believe it or not, it was one of the managers who came up with this joke in the first place.
In fact, just yesterday, we all just received bonuses because 2004 was more profitable than expected.
Imagine what your company could've done if the office staff wasn't screwing around.
Call me old fashioned, but I’d like to think there’s a happy compromise between an “uptight, shut up and do your work, office” and one where “I don't do anything, just sit there, until they come back, then I scurry back to my desk.”
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fourfoot23 Member
Posts: 383 From: Orange County, CA Registered: Oct 2003
Imagine what your company could've done if the office staff wasn't screwing around.
Call me old fashioned, but I’d like to think there’s a happy compromise between an “uptight, shut up and do your work, office” and one where “I don't do anything, just sit there, until they come back, then I scurry back to my desk.”
Why so hard on him?
I have a reasonably casual (and sometimes prank & humor-filled) office. And when it's quiet and/or slow, there's nothing wrong with enjoying a little humor. Also, he never said he spent his entire day screwing around - that's one of those things you have to do when the opportunity arises. Light up a little on him
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RacinRob Member
Posts: 1288 From: Eau Claire, WI Registered: Mar 2001
Hey, it wasn't me who took a hammer to his personal property!
It's nothing personal. I've just never worked at a job where it appears that so much time and effort is spent planning "pranks". I've never had the time nor the inclination for such activities.
Dude you have to put it on Ebay now! lol. I mean the video just tops it off . Post a link to the video and show the pictures in the auction(MinnGreenGT your server or w/e thats hosted is going to overload lol). DO IT lol.
Why so hard on him? 
