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» The most childish thing you've done as an adult
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.
(Wed 23rd Sep 2009, 12:14, More)
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.
(Wed 23rd Sep 2009, 12:14, More)
» IT Support
An ex-colleague of mine
was once severly reprimanded for taking liberties on a service report.
We'd had this particular PC in 4 or 5 times for the same fault, a fault we were completely unable to reproduce. In the end we just wiped it, fresh install, away it goes - and it came back, same alleged fault.
Back it went with the service report freshly written out - "Fault lies between chair and keyboard". They didn't take kindly to that.
(Sun 27th Sep 2009, 10:33, More)
An ex-colleague of mine
was once severly reprimanded for taking liberties on a service report.
We'd had this particular PC in 4 or 5 times for the same fault, a fault we were completely unable to reproduce. In the end we just wiped it, fresh install, away it goes - and it came back, same alleged fault.
Back it went with the service report freshly written out - "Fault lies between chair and keyboard". They didn't take kindly to that.
(Sun 27th Sep 2009, 10:33, More)