Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Got A New Prank Running

Just a quick post to mention my latest multi-pranking activities. The safety board and annoy-a-trons are all regular occurances, but I found another digital watch with an annoying alarm. Our scanners all sit in two tiers of cradles for charging/downloading, right beside the poor supervisor's computer. This new watch has an alarm very similar to the beeping sounds our scanners will make when information was not entered into the device properly. Behind the rack of scanner cradles is a placard with instructions on how to handle the scanners. It is merely one of those clear plastic binder protective sheaths with the printed instructions slid into it. To make this work for me, I slid another printed page into the sheath facing the other direction so it is now readable from either side. Between the two sheets, I placed the watch with the alarm set to go off at 6am every morning. I taped the sheath up on the back side of the shelves behind the scanners. I used packing tape. When the alarm goes off at 6, the supervisor immediately thinks one of the scanners is having a problem and proceeds to reset each and every one of them (approximately 45 of them) by taking it from its cradle and replacing it. The alarm rings for 60 seconds with the beeping speed increasing every ten seconds. As the boss frantically tries to shut the beeping off, the 60 seconds are up and an illusion of success fills his heart. He goes back to his work on the computer. After several days of this, he begins to think a specific scanner is malfunctioning so he tries to pay closer attention to which one actually stops the beeping. Unfortunately, every day it is a different one since his speed of resetting the scanners varies. He is at a point now where he wants to call a technician to figure out which scanner is malfunctioning. This is all taking place ten feet from my work area so I am watching the whole show. I have a few other guys watching too because quite frankly, fucking with a boss isn't nearly as much fun without others sharing in the hilarity. When a techie arrives, the boss will not be able to reccreate the situation, unless it is 6am sharp! The watch is virtually invisible. Nobody that even knew I had placed it somewhere could find it. One of my most confounding pranks yet I think. What I am thinking of doing is changing the alarm time so the afternoon people can be equally annoyed and frustrated, but then, I wouldn't get to see the fallout. I'll snap a pic next week of where the watch is in relation to the scanners and the bosses desk. I'm such an asshole. I only see dead batteries as an end for this endeavor!

3 comments:

Hammer said...

My son has a watch like that with dual alarms I think we got it at target for 11 bucks.

This sounds like one of your best pranks to date. I can see these people having to go to a psychiatrist before too long.

Jen said...

Yes on the pics!
This will be even more hilarious when the techie comes in. Awesome idea.

Jeannie said...

You are truly heinous. I'm shocked more people aren't on to you yet. I'm laughing as long as I'm on the right side of you.