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April Fools in the Office
Nyteshade \| 10:47 AM on 04.01.2009	11 comments

So I decided that this year I would pull a April Fool's Day prank on my boss. Pranks in my workplace need to be a bit subdued, because I work in the Information Systems department at a hospital. My co-worker and I went though countless pranks we could pull using our control over the hospital network, from faking a ConFlicker outbreak, to BSODing the entire hospital and letting our boss freak out.

Of course, bringing down the entire hospital to prank our boss seemed like a bit much, so I looked for other options. Thankfully, my boss decided that he would leave work early, which was a rarity. This granted me ample access to his office to pull a prank.

My boss' office... What to do?

I wandered our office looking around for something to use in a prank, and that was when I noticed our stacks of monitor boxes we had never opened.

Lots of unopened monitors...

Our hospital has over 800 PCs in use, and we are constantly rotating old machines for new ones we order. Since even the old PCs have LCD monitors, we usually end up with a little surplus.

Even more unopened monitor boxes...

It was then I had a brilliant idea, I grabbed one of our carts that we move computers on and began to ferry the monitors into my boss' office. Thirty minutes later and I had moved every box into his office. I pulled his chair out from behind his desk and started to stack. Twenty-five computer monitor boxes later and you have this...

It's almost like a throne... but sit on it and crush a couple grand worth of monitors...

Had to add insult to injury...

I waited for him in the morning so I could get a surprise picture. Where I stacked the boxes, he couldn't see them until he actually entered his office. When he came in he immediately left to go to a morning meeting, without even turning his office lights on. By the time he got back from the meeting he was in the full swing of the day... until he went to answer a call in his office.

He said "Your fired!!!" but it was a joke.... I hope...

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11 comments | showing # 1 to 11

MrSadistic

I am pretty sure selling your body to make some scratch to buy some Fruit Roll-ups to support your family because you got fired is no joke.

blehman

hahaha nice

Char Aznable

Smear feces on every surface in his office. That should get him LOLing.

Who the hell needs two monitors and a laptop all side-by-side? Porn addicts, that's who.

Corak

Good stuff, but I'm curious why when you order computers do you always get a monitor too? I know you can get a PC from Dell without the monitor.

Holyetheline

hahaha. Good joke!

Nyteshade

@Char Aznable - Everyone in our IT office runs dual-monitor setups, and until you use it in a work environment, you have no idea how helpful it is. The techs have laptops as well for mobile use, and we keep them on our public internet to bypass Barracuda proxy.

@Corak - It's cheaper to order the full setup with monitor rather than order the monitors later, so we usually order both. It never hurts to have extra equipment around, even more so in a 24 hour environment like a hospital.

embef

Your boss rules!

Char Aznable

See? There ya go, ruining my half-hearted joke with logic and a rational argument. Thanks a LOT.

That is a pretty sweet setup, though. I've always been kinda fascinated by the multi-screen thing, because it reminds of an evil cartoon villain, like Dr. Claw from Inspector Gadget or something.

Nyteshade

@Char - Sorry... I'm sure running two porn movies full screen at the same time would be interesting.

Two monitors is amazing when your using Dameware Remote Control or something like it. Being able to remotely control 4+ PC's on one desktop is very helpful when your users are constantly finding a way past your policies to kill their PCs.

At home, not so much. Ran dual monitors at home for awhile and found it rare that I would use the second monitor. Sometimes I'd play AVI's on one and a game on the other, but that taxes the crap out of your GPUs.

Hamza CTZ Aziz

So, um, you want to accidentally send me an extra monitor?

Nyteshade

Hamza - LOL, I wish I could take a couple home as well. We even have a few 24"ers still laying around that were for some special install and never got used.

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