Late Night Exploring
You think you've got the ultimate workplace dossing-around solutions? You don't know the half of it!

Working, as I do, for a large media company (name? come on, I'm not *that* stupid) gives opportunities the average office-monkey can only dream of. I'm in the prefect position of working shifts, which means I'm around in the middle of the night. The security are mostly arthritic and over 40, so we've pretty much got the run of the place.

You can sneak around the sets of a well-known soap opera, trying to slip small items into visible positions and then see them on TV (sadly, it's more difficult than you think... they take polaroids of everything to make sure!).

You can take some of your colleagues down to wardrobe and see what fits you (the time we found a sodding great box of school uniforms was great - who can beat an evening of St. Trinians style transvestism?)

Using sound studios for wind-up calls is good too. These range in subtlety from using the odd sound effect CD to make your housemate think the living room has been invaded by sheep, right through to using voice-changing gizmos to ring your mother and pretend to be a Dalek. (In case any anoraks are wondering, the secret is to use a ring modulator at 20hz, and then shout down it).

Then there's the brilliance that is the annual Christmas Tape. For those that don't know, these are a broadcasting tradition that go back years. They're the forerunner of programmes like "It'll be Alright on the Night" and "Auntie's Bloomers", a nice collection of the year's cock ups edited together with plenty of spoofs and thoroughly non-PC humour. If you want a good feel for how fantastic some of these can be (featuring stuff they'd never, in a million years, allow on air) do a You Tube search for "Good King Memorex" or "White Powder Christmas".

There's many more, some I *really* can't speak of (in order to protect the guilty) and some which I would type-up if I wasn't too tired at the moment (like the fun we used to have in the good old days of tin-pot local radio, and the magnificence that is "Car Park Challenge")

Click 'I Like This' if you think I should bother.

Edit - OK, OK... you win... new post on the way!
(mellotron never could get the hang of Thursdays, Fri 9 Jan 2009, 0:55, 8 replies)

Bother!

( willenium Fist bump for verification, Fri 9 Jan 2009, 1:04, closed)

Seconded

(Davethefan began lurking again on or around, Fri 9 Jan 2009, 5:32, closed)

Same

(fatbob pfffft…, Fri 9 Jan 2009, 8:06, closed)

Fourthed
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( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Fri 9 Jan 2009, 8:37, closed)

I still have in my a locker
A VHS copy of the infamous "VT Tea" Xmas tape in which Anna Ford says "Fuck". A lot.
( Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Fri 9 Jan 2009, 8:15, closed)

Ha!
I still have Anna Ford in my locker. She's just funkin' around there.
(powervator and NONE SHALL PASS, Fri 9 Jan 2009, 9:19, closed)

Click!
I want to work where you work! Well, I want to doss about where you doss about. Cheers.
( SpankyHanky, Fri 9 Jan 2009, 11:22, closed)

And
if any real anoraks are reading, there's also software that'll do it for you.

There's also a Dalek Builders Guild that has plans for the Ring modulator...
( uberdeity Wondered why Owen Lars knew of the term "hell" on, Fri 9 Jan 2009, 11:52, closed)