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One of my news Techs brought his G-Friend's stereo into the shop.  Was more interested in working on it than what he was assigned to do.  When he went over to another Tech's bench I lit a balled-up Kleenex, let it burn for a few, put it in a coffee mug and set the mug behind the stereo. I went up to the Tech and said 'hey man, is that your stereo there?' He looks over and see's a cloud of smoke hovering over it. He was so freaked out I actually had to show him the smoldering Kleenex to convince him the amp hadn't caught fire.  He quit.  Oh well, he was a lazy POS anyway.

Awesome mshuman! Great way to get rid of the dead weight!

"Back in the day," my buddy and I used to do all kinds of dirty/stupid stuff to other people.  We worked at a company that used the old Microsoft Mail program, and we were able to type up documents that looked identical to emails that users received.  We would type up "emails" from HR directors at other companies thanking one of our coworkers for applying for a job at that company, or thanking that coworker for placing his order for the sex toys or blow up doll, things like that, and then print them to the boss's printer.

Also, because we worked in a "cubical farm," where each group had it's own shared printer and fax machine.  I would go to the fax machine, dial the exension of a coworker (this was before caller ID) and when he would answer I would hit the "start" button on the fax and the "Whheee" sound would sound in his ear.  I worked with a guy from India and my buddy and I used to do this to him all the time because he would get PIS*ED, which made it even funnier.  The one day, we did this, and after hitting the start button, he FLIPPED.  He slammed down his phone, used his forearm to swipe the stuff off his desk, and he just starts SCREAMING, "Some sun of beach keeps sending me fax!"  I thought I was going to pee in my pants, I was laughing so hard.

I also kept three sheets of 8.5 by 11 inch black construction paper that I would tape together long-ways (so I had one long sheet 25.5 inches long by 11 wide).  I would manually feed the first sheet through the fax machine, then tape the two ends together to form a loop.  I would call someone else's fax machine and hit the start button letting it run for a few minutes until either their paper or roll of "toner" would run out.

After spending all day being abused by customers, internal AND external, sometimes a little fun at someone else's expense is exactly what the doctor ordered...

Here's one that won't work on all PCs.  Where I used to work, they replaced our PCs with Dell dumb terminals.  If someone left their desk without locking down their terminal, I would go to their keyboard and hit the Control Alt and either the left, right or down arrow.  Picture this in your head.  Cont+ Alt + Left arrow = shifts the entire screen to the left.  (The top of the screen would be on the left side of the screen along with the entire contents of the page.)  Right would shift it to the right and Down would flip the page upside down.  To fix the issue, Cont, Alt and the Up arrow would return the screen to nomal.  After altering their screen, I would lock the terminal down.

I wish I could describe the look on their faces when they unlocked their terminal only to see the screen shifted.