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April Fools
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Oh…. So Spooky really are doing Dune then ?
Funnily enough, we discussing the lack of April Fools this morning and how it's vanishing year by year.
Working from home now it doesn't seem to have the same punch as it used to with a shop/office/warehouse full of pranksters.
As for online . . . many are petrified of getting it wrong and upsetting someone so probably best not to.
I guess I could have said "walkies" to the dog then told him it was April fools but doubt it would have gone down too well.
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I have noticed in my working environment that people are less resilient to being tricked or fooled in anyway, even if it is them misunderstanding something, if they feel it led to anyone thinking less of them, they react.
Look at most news outlets, it is a strong reaction to someone else. Trump shows how you can play this at the highest office in the world, is he really upset or just using the reaction to get what he wants.
The internet empowers everyone to be outraged at something and share it.
Glad I don't run a web forum in this day and age.
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I used to work for a freight company when I was at college back in the mid 90’s.
On one of the lads birthdays, we shrink wrapped him and put him on the back of a lorry destined for Slough. Freezing cold. Pitch black. Cages of freight all around him. 3 hour plus drive.
The supervisor was in on it and everything.
Madness. But at the time, we just thought it was hilarious.
On one of the lads birthdays, we shrink wrapped him and put him on the back of a lorry destined for Slough. Freezing cold. Pitch black. Cages of freight all around him. 3 hour plus drive.
The supervisor was in on it and everything.
Madness. But at the time, we just thought it was hilarious.
It used to be raucous on an old building site we used to work on in London.
we did April Fools of course but we used to have a lot of jokes, bets and dares. Our old plasterer Jamie had to do a forfeit once and the punishment was spending the whole next day plastering in fancy dress . . . He turned up as Princess Leia but had his costumes mixed up. Ha was plastering the ceiling with the spiral hairstyle, wellington boots and the jabba bikini.
Funny as hell and he took it in good spirits, I'll never forget him having a rant just as the architects turned up "I've only gone a got f*@%ing Multi-Finish on me bra".
Would never happen now which is a massive shame because he had lovely legs.
I think this must have been a 90's thing as a mate of mine worked at a cabinet makers same sort of timeframe and on one of the lads birthdays they stripped him naked and shrink wrapped him to lamp post out the front of the factory and just left him for a couple of hours
Plenty of people walked past and nothing was done to help him and he kind of just accepted it.....that would make the news these days!
I worked at Asda same sort of time on the freezers and the main game was to wait for someone to go into the big freezer in the back, fill a bucket of water then sling it on the floor so it instantly turned to ice and then slam the door shut so it killed the lights (we'd removed the emergency light bulb a long time before). You had to navigate in the dark back to the door to let yourself out over an icy floor
I got caught once when I'd climbed up onto the cages at the back of the freezer which made it extra tricky!
Hahaha yeah, thats madness now.I think this must have been a 90's thing as a mate of mine worked at a cabinet makers same sort of timeframe and on one of the lads birthdays they stripped him naked and shrink wrapped him to lamp post out the front of the factory and just left him for a couple of hours
Plenty of people walked past and nothing was done to help him and he kind of just accepted it.....that would make the news these days!
I worked at Asda same sort of time on the freezers and the main game was to wait for someone to go into the big freezer in the back, fill a bucket of water then sling it on the floor so it instantly turned to ice and then slam the door shut so it killed the lights (we'd removed the emergency light bulb a long time before). You had to navigate in the dark back to the door to let yourself out over an icy floor
The kid who we sent to slough came in the next day like “Ahhh yer bastards!! Yer got me there good and proper haha”
In an office environment, the pranks were less physical and more psychological.
My favourite was, is you left your computer unlocked, I would screen shot your deskop and then set it as your back drop, then hide the task bar and all but one icon. The one working icon was correctly placed over the picture. We all then sit and watch the person clciking on icons that don't work and be utterly confused.
Or swap wired mice out for a radio mice but leave the wired on on the desk, when they move it right, go left etc.
The truth was, it always escalated and someone would go too far. My team had skills with computers that easily crossed lines of legality.
My favourite was, is you left your computer unlocked, I would screen shot your deskop and then set it as your back drop, then hide the task bar and all but one icon. The one working icon was correctly placed over the picture. We all then sit and watch the person clciking on icons that don't work and be utterly confused.
Or swap wired mice out for a radio mice but leave the wired on on the desk, when they move it right, go left etc.
The truth was, it always escalated and someone would go too far. My team had skills with computers that easily crossed lines of legality.
Doggard
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A friend of mine, his first day as a chippy on a building site. They tied a bag around his head, layed him on the floor. Then they pulled the work van up beside him, took out the spare wheel, and ran it over his head, while someone else was revving the van. It definitely was a different time in the late 80s
I posted my usual NERG cologne image on the social feeds.
I had assumed this was genuine. Now I am quite sad.
To be fair, a few team mates were water boarded. But we did have the office first aider present.
Safety first!
We used to set an inappropriate new mail alert sound and whack the speakers right up, was a good way of teaching people to always lock the PC.
Kaijuball
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I had to go into the office, at a place where I worked. Someone had done as you did, but the alert was appropriate, for the person.
They liked aircraft spotting, and had a full afterburner sound, for the alarm. Sounded like you were near the runway, with a fighter taking off, at full volume.
Most of the room jumped, including me, when it went off.