Well, it's not the most evil...
...but one of my more successful pranks.

So there I was, working as a Graphic Designer, in a fairly up-beat environment. One of the guys, for this QOTW I shall call him Mark, for that was indeed his name, I was working with was never regarded as ever being lucky (there are many a story, but those shall be left for another QOTW), and sometimes, perhaps just a little gullible. Anyway, he was away one day, so I decided to play a prank. A simple prank - nothing too offensive, something that would last ten minutes over the next day would do.

The plan was this, to remove all the program icons from the dock on his Mac, replace them with Aliases (shortcuts for the PC folk) that all went to different programs, e.g., his Photoshop icon now opened the dashboard, and so on and so forth. For the tech-aware, yes, it did leave little arrows on them, but Mark would never notice (he really didn't).

The following day he was back. For about 1 hour he kept to himself, clicking away, grumbling, and slowly getting more frustrated. My boss started to notice something was up, and asked him. He proceeded to explain how his Mac was broken and he couldn't get anything to work. Cue me frantically typing an email to the boss to explain what was actually going on. To my surprise, she mailed me back with "that is brilliant! Watch this". She then let the IT department in on the jape, and then promptly told Mark to get them to help. It was sometime after lunch, after IT had given him the complete run-around, that we all came clean.

All he did was shout "BASTARDS!" very loud.
( theoriginalsteve <this space intentionally left blank>, Thu 13 Dec 2007, 22:42, Reply)