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Re: Stupid office tricks

Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2011 10:40 am
by GaTechGal
Big Wallaby wrote:Sadly, your food woes sound just like what happens in a Disney break room. One morning, I finished working to find that someone had taken my lunch bag out of my backpack. They had also taken a *very* expensive, imported book on hypnosis.

Needless to say, I was pissed. For days, when I was on break I spent my time watching for my bag (which was unique). :mad:
Did you ever get it back?

Re: Stupid office tricks

Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2011 11:28 am
by Big Wallaby
Never. Had to go and rebuy the book. The worst part is, you know they took one look and tossed it. :mad:

Re: Stupid office tricks

Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2011 12:32 pm
by GRUMPY PIRATE
hobie16 wrote:How did you camouflage the beer tap?
Connected a hose wrapped in tempest woven flat straps! :D:

add a valve system from an old camelbak!

.....and run those programs!!

:cool:

Re: Stupid office tricks

Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2011 6:27 pm
by darph nader
hobie16 wrote:How did you camouflage the beer tap?
Please clue me in!! I don't want the wife to find out. :(

Re: Stupid office tricks

Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2011 8:31 pm
by Mayonnaise
I've been making Xtranormal Videos about the Stupid Office Tricks at my previous place of employment.

http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/8065075/

8^)

Re: Stupid office tricks

Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2011 9:49 pm
by delsdad
Mayonnaise wrote:I've been making Xtranormal Videos about the Stupid Office Tricks at my previous place of employment.

http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/8065075/

8^)
Love It !

Re: Stupid office tricks

Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2011 1:28 pm
by sean1966
When I worked full time I had a real problem with someone taking my chocolate bars. I always kept one or two in the fridge. I finally got upset and put in a chocolate laxative. When It disappeared I had great laugh. Never did find out who did it, but it did stop...

Re: Stupid office tricks

Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2011 4:38 pm
by Widget
I used to work with a person who had no issues with taking food. One day I brought in some BBQ potato chips. Since they were already a nice reddish color I decided to add a few ingredients. So I added some chili powder and ground habanero pepper to the bag. :twisted:
After shaking it to mix all the special ingredients I left it where the thief could find it. For some reason I never had a problem with missing food again. And since I really like spicy foods I thought the chips were great. :)

Re: Stupid office tricks

Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2011 6:14 pm
by Mayonnaise
The inspiration for Don (the boss) in the above videos took any food that wasn't labeled, even if he knew who's it was, which he did, because there were about 10 employees.

I caught him eating my desert one day, and he just grinned this smug grin and replied "I don't see your name on it..."

His "reasoning" was that he was merely providing the natural consequence for people forgetting to label their food... and he was the boss so I just had to learn to label everything super-prominently.

And that's not even getting into the time they took the break room fridge hostage due to a dispute regarding the coffee machine... or the time they tried to penalize me for bringing my own hot chocolate mix instead of buying it from their machine.

I gotta make more videos yet.

8^)

Re: Stupid office tricks

Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2011 1:17 am
by GRUMPY PIRATE
One year my wife got me a jelly bean dispenser for my desk at work.

and several bags of jelly bellys!

as you might imagine, they disappeared quickly when I filled it.(no big deal)

I went on a long trip for work and stayed near the DFW airport. during some down time, I found a store that sold super hot jelly beans (called Ass-kicking)

thinking that it would curb the jelly bean 'theif" I filled the jar. :twisted:

turns out they (co-workers) liked them better! :eek: