Geeky Practical Jokes

Using your position as an ICT Technician. What kind of geeky practical jokes have you played on people?

I'll start us off:

We had a new guy start in the IT Department. When he went out on his first job of the day we took a screen shot of his full desktop, Set it as his wallpaper and then edited his local GP to hide all desktop icons.

When he came back in he was trying to open IE but was complaining that the icon didn't work. I was on dinner at the time and when I came back he was halfway through a re-install

Dunno if this is classed as geeky but stuck a teachers car completely in post its.

Turned my old NM's number plates around once as well. He was pulling out the school drive when he got stopped by police. THat was funny.

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stuck a teachers car completely in post its.

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You must have a picture of that?

I found a blue screen of death screensaver that made out that the machine was on a boot loop, installed in on my managers machine and unplugged the keyboard and mouse. Came back into the office about an hour later and he was still trying to work out what was wrong, you would have thought being a Network manager he would have thought of these things

Turning the brightness/contrast controls all the way down on fellow techies monitors. :)

Wrote a VBScript app to remotely kill explorer using WMI on a continous loop.
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Marketing dude thought he could dictate to me the IT Manager & Lead Project Manager what he could do on his PC.


So I set it to 1) Autostart Internet to the old hampsterdance site, & 2) Set the volume up to the highest possible.


Now I not saying he was stupid - but he couldn't turn it down or change the defult site.

Hampsterdance was of course very annoying after only a couple of mins - 30 was beging to annoy the whole room. I of course had my own office.........

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Originally Posted by mrcrazy04

Wrote a VBScript app to remotely kill explorer using WMI on a continous loop.
:twisted:

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Vista has that built in now.

Blu-tac on optical mice

Pulling off all the keys on a keyboard and putting them back upside down

Growing cress in a keyboard while some ones on holiday

Fixing a gas lift chair handle so the seat goes down when sat on and back up when they get off

You've learnt a trick or too from the students there steve? ;)

Nice list steve, like them! :lol:

couple of months back i was in the IT office and in a box there was 450 red balloons which i blew up with the help of my friend and then closed the office door were Gatt's office is we filled 450 red balloons in his office then we stuck them on to the wall,celling.
then we left quickly and stood in the other room.then all of a sudden you could hear Gatt say"CALLUM" the whole library looked around at me!! :oops:
ill never forget that.

@callum: Like this? :D

http://img.search.com/thumb/5/51/Hom...nglingBart.jpg

yep :P

A few more i've thought of but not done ... yet

Remove all the insides from a PC and fill it with saw dust and a soft toy hamster .. or put in a hamster wheel and a note with "i've gone on holiday too" signed hamster p.s. back on xxth (day after techy is back)

Change contents of a pc to oldest stuff you have and just install win 3.1

Put a few of their favourite sites in the hosts file and redirect them to 127.0.0.1

Switch the mouse buttons round in control panel