Myself and a colleague
are involving ourselves in projects way above our normal level of duties. For me, because I'm bored with work; for him it's because he's desperate to make a name for himself and get noticed by higher management.

We knocked out a little proposal for some changes to be made - it was quite professional looking actually. But through all the revisions and the collaboration we'd littered it with jokes, mainly 'your mum' jokes. Example: "This revised process is likely to be much more accessible to less experienced members of staff. Your mum is accessible". Simple, yet funny and it kept morale high at 3am when the wine had run out.

He was the guy we'd decided was going to do all the final checks, strip the jokes out and all the notes to ourselves and then email it off to head honcho, the man that matters. I knew full well this would be done at 9am.

At 9.30am, I logged into my gmail account, and set it up to post mail from my hotmail account. I then made the following simple change: "Display name" became [email protected]. Finally, I sent perhaps the shortest email I have ever sented, to my very-chuffed-at-handing-it-in colleague:

"Ross - Why on earth did you insult my family? I think we need to have a chat"

Looking over his shoulder, there was an unexpected bonus - it had picked the company name up (even though the email address was mine!) and thrust it straight into his Work Email folder, where it was bound to be hurriedly opened.

I have never seen the colour drain from someone's face so quickly. I laughed so hard a little bit of wee escaped.
(pillockmcfly only signed up to do one QOTW, and then forgot., Wed 23 Sep 2009, 12:14, Reply)