Blatant Copyright Violation!

LOL! What about switching all the keys on the keyboard belonging to a person who doesn't know how to type and relies on looking at the keyboard and using their 2 index fingers . . . that was one of the funniest things I have ever seen . . . the frustration in typing out multiple sentences and they are completely wrong

Petra,
Remind me never to play a practical joke on you. I'm sure the payback would be brutal!

Nah, get a touch-typist and change the layout in software to Dvorak. Been there, done that.

Another hysterical one... Worked with a guy in IT who couldn't troubleshoot his way out of a paper bag. We worked in the same office, 4 of us in a big room. He walked away from his desk but didn't lock his screen. I went to his system and enabled Sharing on his floppy drive. When he got back I would occasionally access his floppy drive over the network. Since there was no disk the drive would seek for 10 seconds with teh light blinking. It was driving him crazy. He kept yelling at us to "LOOK! Look! It's doing it again!!" but we would just wait a second or two and then look up *just* as the drive turned off. We never saw a thing (wink wink) and didn't believe him.

After 3 hours of this he was about to re-install Windows on his PC, so we finally gave in and told him. He was quite angry, actually. The rest of us gave him grief for months, every time we heard a floppy drive or saw a floppy disk.

I met a guy once who had a macaw that had popped all the keys off his keyboard, chewed the stem off the underside of them, then put them back on the keyboard in the correct places. Anybody else have an animal play a practical joke on them?

When I first started working in IT, we had a few Digital VAX systems. One of the second shift operators and I kept playing practical jokes on each other, hacking into the other's login profile and changing things. One time I replaced his login script by writing this long, elaborate one that emulated the OS system prompt, replacing all the commands and displays with my own inventions, so the system kept coming back with smart-ass remarks and responses to everything he did. It took me the better part of a week to write that script. He told me it took him about half his shift to figure out how to get out of it (I had trapped all the system break commands too, so he couldn't CTRL-Y out of it).

ROFL! That's similar to another one I did. I made a copy of command.com (back in DOS 3.3 days) and hex-edited it, changing "DIR" to "DEL" and stuff. I then went over to a friend's house and copied it to one of his computers and rebooted. The next time he typed "DIR" the computer said "Are you sure?" just like as if he typed DEL. "We" spent 20 minutes debugging it, but "we" were basically "afraid" to run any commands since we kept getting dangerous error messages.

I was in hysterics. It was dangerous though.

This guy, since he ran a PC consulting business, had 2 phone lines, but they both ran to a single 2-line phone so he had to switch between the lines. At the time I ran a BBS so I also had two phone lines. While talking to him on the phone one day I picked up my second line and called his business line, holding one phone at each ear.

<ring>
"Hold on a sec, I have a business call coming in."
<Click to line 2>"Hello?"
"Still me Jim."
"That's weird. Wait a sec."
<click to line 1>"Hello?"
"Yeah, it's *still* me Jim"
"What the...?"
<click to line 2>"Hello?"
<me, in strange accent>"Yim? YIM! Everything boke-in. No work!! NOTTINK WORK!!"
"Yes, could you hold please?"
<click to line 1>"Scott, I gotta go. Some customer is p*ssed!"
<me again>"YIM, I zed nottink WORK! You come fix NOW!"
(gulp)<click to line 2>"Scott?"
<me in normal voice...>"Yeah Jim..."

Well, you get the idea. It went on for a while. I finally busted out laughing because I couldn't hold the accent.

OK, OK, small minds. It was quite amusing to me.

Scottes:

Wow, all these IT people floating around here.....can someone tell me how to fix the cupholder on my computer??? :P

L8r,

Tommy's earlier one reminded me of another I played on someone else. I saw one of the guys who works my shift in another room logging into TSO. So, I typed up the kill command to recycle that terminal, then right when he hit enter so did I, and it logged him off. In other words, he entered his login name and password, hit enter, and it came back with the login screen again. He looked at the screen for a second or two in confusion, then logged in again. I recycled the terminal again right when he hit enter. I think I did that at least four times before he looked up and saw me watching him, and caught on...

Aah, reminds me of my days running a BBS. Someone would log in, and start typing, and so would I. Backspaces, enters, random garbage. Eventually the caller would catch on, pause, and quick type "<expletive> YOU!"


This also reminds me of the time I edited the Novell network login script, on April 1st. But I messed up, and my boss logged in (3 rooms away) and immediately knew what was going on. So he killed me off the server. But I was logged into 3 servers, so I killed him off the other two, and logged back in on the first as he was fixing it. Then he killed my account on two servers just as I was logging him out of another. So I had to log into my backup admin accounts, and kill his accounts...

After 15 minutes battling across 7 Novell server in 3 countries I finally won. I had him locked out of all servers, all of his privileged accounts. He was no longer Supervisor, he was just an end user.

I started walking towards his room, gloating, prancing even. I heard furious typing as I got closer. Then a pause. More furious typing.

Then a single syllable: "AAAAAUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGH​HHHHH!!"

And I just laughed, standing in the doorway, gloating.

I thaught I was being cute when I did this to my friend before I left his house one night. He managed to break his PC trying to figuere out what was going on. The joke was on me when I had to reinstall the OS.

that's just this is just a reminder to never play any jokes on people who have more admin access than yourself.

I always threaten anyone playing jokes on me, I will just disable there account

I haven't done that yet

ROFLMAO!! Now THAT is hysterical!

Sorry, but that is pretty funny.

In 9th grade (1996, I think), a friend of mine and I decided to mess with our new "keyboarding" teacher, who had the job because he was the girls' basketball coach and had to have a job to be able to coach the team (in other words, not the world's most tech savvy person).

We usually stayed late for after-school stuff, so while he was busy coaching, we slipped into the classroom and disconnected all of the monitors, then connected them to the computer to their left. So Computer A's monitor was hooked into B's CPU, B's monitor to C's CPU, etc.

It took him most of the class period to figure out what was going on, and ultimately, they fixed the problem by moving the monitors instead of disconnecting them.

just go old school and line the earpiece of your co-worker's phone w/ pencil-shavings then go back to your desk and call him. You can then laugh with the rest of the office while he walks around with a black ear.:p