Pranks on IT Dept

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MightyDiomed

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Hey guys,

So, what are some funny/mean pranks that you have played on your IT dept, or have had happen to you?

My worst experience to date was was someone putting clear scotch tape over every Ethernet cable coming from 1 of my hubs. Needless to say, after replacing the hub 3 times I went to the stations to make sure something wasn't loose, and there was tape on the end of the Ethernet cable!!!
 
I'm no IT person here, but I do like the idea of the scotch tape and ether net...one of my favorite things to do is put a pice of tape or sticky note over the optic on a mouse. I have had people sit and try and figure out what is wrong, looking to make sure the mouse is connected, but never thinking to look to see if the optic eye is clear. Had one person so frustrated in a class he went and just switched mice with another computer.
 
One of my coworkers rotated one of my screens 90 degrees through the ATI control panel, changed my homepage to meet spin, then turned the batteries in my mouse and keyboard backwards. The kid nearly lost his life that day. I never left my computer unlocked and unattended again.
 
I could be in the minority here, but I think the IT dept. are the last folks you'd want to piss off. ;)
 
Screw IT! They still haven't updated my Java run time environment, so I keep getting random errors on lines of code!
 
LittleMe said:
Place 2 of these in the server room. Days and days of hilarity will follow.
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Damn, that would drive me up the wall. Last year I turned my basement upside down to find the little bastard cricket that chirps non stop. After days of unsuccessful attempts, I decided that it would be wise to let the cats downstairs... never had a problem after that :p
 
That Linux Guy said:
That's fucked up. I'd be pissed!
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Dorm room pranks were great. :D

A better one...get one of the hallway garbage cans....fill it with as much water as you can yet you can still carry it down the hall with a couple of guys. Lean it up against the door of someone who is sleeping in late. Doors in our dorms opened inwards. The person you you did this to....they pull their room door open...it gets pushed quickly inwards by the weight of the water filled garbage can and soaks their room.
 
YeOldeStonecat said:
Dorm room pranks were great. :D

A better one...get one of the hallway garbage cans....fill it with as much water as you can yet you can still carry it down the hall with a couple of guys. Lean it up against the door of someone who is sleeping in late. Doors in our dorms opened inwards. The person you you did this to....they pull their room door open...it gets pushed quickly inwards by the weight of the water filled garbage can and soaks their room.
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Someone did this on my floor my first year in residence. Ended up in the hospital after he got the shit kicked out of him for frying the guys PC, TV, and consoles by soaking the power bar they were plugged into.
 
LOL....guess if he didn't think about who he was doing it too. Luckily I was a towering maniac back then. The couple of frat boys on our floor were our subjects of frequent torture. One had to go to the infirmery after I threw an M80 at him...a real M80 (not those wimpy m60 things) . He was playing soccer hall one evening...morning actually, something like 1 in the morning, one of the nights I needed to get sleep for some reason. Ball kept hidding the radiator and making a loud banging sound (my room was end of the hall). I got up, lit the M80...stuck myself out my door..held it til fuse burned down a bit..and threw it at him.

I heard from others his ear was bleeding quite a bit.

Then I forgot about the fire alarms. Heehee. Evacutation.
 
It was time to throw out the old binders (containing manuals) to make room for the new ones. This year the binder colors didn't change. I took the old ones, threw them in water and froze them into blocks of ice. The next day I put out the frozen manuals instead of the new ones.

It was great asking folks to go look crap up and seeing their reactions of confusion (ice? wtf?), anger (damnit! I can't get my info!), and fear (omg?! the manuals are frozen and the precious pages cannot be opened!).
 
I've been known to put scotch tape over the gold chip on a Common Access Card / Smart Card so a user can't log in to their computer :)
 
Take a screenshot of the desktop, cut off the taskbar (and sidebar if using Vista). Go back to desktop, right click -> View, uncheck Show Desktop Icons. Set the wallpaper to the screenshot you took above. Sit back and watch.
 
I was putting the new database server into the rack. The thing weighed a ton and cost like 20K. I set it down on a table and dropped one of those metal wastebaskets. I've never seen anyone run as fast as the head IT guy that day.
 
amp88 said:
Take a screenshot of the desktop, cut off the taskbar (and sidebar if using Vista). Go back to desktop, right click -> View, uncheck Show Desktop Icons. Set the wallpaper to the screenshot you took above. Sit back and watch.
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classic
 
Protoform-X said:
One of my coworkers rotated one of my screens 90 degrees through the ATI control panel, changed my homepage to meet spin, then turned the batteries in my mouse and keyboard backwards. The kid nearly lost his life that day. I never left my computer unlocked and unattended again.
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Um what state are you in....
 
I did not do this to an IT guy, but needed to teach someone in our office that when you leave you need to log off your system (security).

I took a screen shot of his desktop, made that his background, removed the startbar (used objectdock), and disabled the windows button on the keyboard. Basically he could not do anything and had no clue what to do. He still leaves his computer unlocked (it worked for about a week) and now I am researching a few other options.
 
hey i like a good joke just as much as most people, but don't take it too far. One guy thought it would be funny remap my keyboard on sunday night. came in monday with tones of work to do....... first thing I did once i fixed my keyboard, cut off all access to outside the company. for about 2 weeks no internet for him, no IM, no streaming music. he wasn't happy.
 
Whenever guys around here leave their PCs unlocked we just set their desktops to compromising photos of Fabio.
 
Our IT guy is offsite. One time I was telling him I was going to close port 80 incoming (he uses log me in).

He goes "then I can't get in!" I said "I know, I have root:)"
 
We had a thing at one of my jobs, whenever someone left their computer unlocked, we sent a global email from their pc that said "I like baggy pants"

The upper level guys didn't like it to much, lol
 
remotely shutting down workstations, removing audio jumpers (or cutting them and placing them back), down their network drop in the switch config, remotely stop random services, etc.
 
disconnecting snobby peoples network connections in the switch room is pretty fun.... and push they're repair ticket to the back of the list =X

Shows them who is really in control muhahaha
 
We set a coworkers port speed to 10 megs half-duplex. He tried to image his new computer and it took him over an hour to pull down a 2 gig image. It was a lot more funny than it sounds.:p
 
I've written two scripts to play pranks on my coworkers. One of them sets the volume to max and plays a random fart. Did this to someone while we all had a meeting in her office. Nearly busted a gut from the hilarity that ensued. The other script I wrote moves a mouse cursor a few pixels at random. The person I played the prank on thought his mouse was possessed and called IT support to witness it.
 
Putting a restart/shutdown script in the startup folder is a nice one.

Changing the keyboard language to/from US to UK never gets tired

editing the hosts file to direct innocent domains to porn sites

Using up all the free space on the servers so nobody could log in or save their work (that was fun back in college).

Which reminds me, all classmate rewired a mouse (it was his own mouse) during electronics class, then switched the mouse on a tutors machine.

5 is enough for now...
 
amp88 said:
Take a screenshot of the desktop, cut off the taskbar (and sidebar if using Vista). Go back to desktop, right click -> View, unchecked Show Desktop Icons. Set the wallpaper to the screenshot you took above. Sit back and watch.
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Dis something similar, only put all the icons into a folder labeled "porn" and told the guy it was from malware. He ended up reformatting the computer.

Another I like to do is pulling out the power cord on the monitor just enough so that it doesn't get power, but looks like its plugged in. Just about all people I have done this on never think to try and make sure the cord is all the way in. It also works on video cables, and I did it once to the computer itself and the person couldn't figure out why it wouldn't turn on.

A last one that I have done is unplugged the switch to a set of computers. I'm not IT, but they almost called them because no one could figure out why there was no network/internet connection. As they were talking to IT about the issue I plugged the switch back in and "amazingly" the problem was solved.
 
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