Quien diría que trabajar en una oficina  podría tener su lado divertido? ya sea por entretenimiento o venganza contra algún compañero o  jefe,  les presentamos varias ideas de como convertir su lugar de trabajo en el perfecto ambiente para pasar momentos de diversión haciendo sufrir al del cubiculo mas cercano… esperamos que les sirva de algo

mas fotos!

As I sit here at 6:30 in the morning listening to my boss in the office next door chomp on nacho cheese Doritos I  realize that I have failed the December blog challenge.  I tried, I really did.  I just couldn’t find time Friday through Monday to write anything.  Then again I couldn’t really find anything to write about on Thursday either, but I got a freebie with a sarcastic post.  Anyway, I guess I am going to try and get back on the wagon here.

By the way, I can hear her chomping on those damn chips and I have my door closed.  I can add that to my list of things that really irritate me.  But that is another post.  Maybe tomorrow!  For now I will try to take up some space here to talk about my little cheerleader in the picture on last Wednesdays post.

Bella is getting so big it is crazy.  I cant believe she is already about to be 8 months old!  She is saying momma and da-da and nana and she has been trying to say kitty too.  She is starting to try and pull herself up and walk lately!  It seems like just yesterday we were in colic hell, now she is just so dang cute and sweet that I don’t know if I can stand it.  I find myself thinking about little things she does while I am at work and it makes me smile and laugh out loud some times.  I am a very proud dad.  Maybe Daina, you will get to meet her soon.

Last night we finally received some stuff we had ordered from thinkgeek.com, which is one of my most favorite websites.  We ordered a few toys for Bella, but what I was really waiting on was a few toys of my own.  I ordered this cool little plasma ball

that I can plug into a USB port on my computer.  Like I said I am a huge fan of The Office on TV and I want a bunch of toys on my desk like Michaels Scott.  Of course, I would like to think I get a lot more accomplished at work than Michael Scott does, but writing this entry while sitting in my office says a lot.    Anyway, that wasn’t all I bought for the office.

I also bought this nifty little device called the Annoy-a-tron 2.0.  It is a simple little circuit board that plays annoying little beeps and chirps at different intervals.   It has a lithium C2450 battery and will last for a few weeks.  You simply turn it on and choose a sound and then stick it in some hidden spot in someone’s office and sit back and watch.  It has a magnet built in for convenience.   Continuing my role of class clown from high school, I also like to play pranks on people at work and at home.  So when I discovered this little gem I just had to have it!

Another guy I work with named Gary also likes to play pranks and it has become a little competition up here at work to see who has the next best prank.  So since I get to work at 6:00 am and he doesn’t stroll in until 8:00, I got the cleaning guy to unlock his door for me so I could plant my prank.  I set the annoy-a-tron to the cricket sound and turned the volume up.  I placed it on the back of the inside of the filing cabinet in his office.  It is behind the drawer so you cannot see it by opening the drawer.  He will be looking for a long long time.  Just like McDonald’s, I’m lovin’ it!

Tomorrow on the show:

Jim Gaffigan calls in to talk about his upcoming stand-up dates and we unveil the Top 10 contestants for Miss Double D-cember.

We’ll also take your calls on office pranks you did to your co-workers.

There are days when I cannot focus on my work. It is usually because I am bored, I don’t want to be at work or because I am spending too much time annoying my fellow co-workers. I didn’t start off as someone who took pleasure in driving other people in the office crazy, I just decided to do unto others as they have done to me.

I have mastered my skills, I guess you could say I am a Jedi in the art of annoyances. So I have decided to share my “Top ten ways to annoy the hell out of your co-workers.”

10. When no one is in the break room, place a bag of popcorn in the microwave and set the cook time for 10 minutes. Everyone loves the smell of burnt popcorn wafting through the office.

9. When the person sitting next to you goes on one of their many smoke breaks, get on their computer and visit porn sites. Something involving animals will usually get the attention of HR and the IT department.

8. Open up the refrigerator in the break room and help yourself to someone else’s lunch. I personally like to ask around in advance and see what everyone brought before I make my final selection.

7. Eat a bag of nacho cheese flavored Corn Nuts while sitting at your desk. Not only will your co-workers enjoy the insanely loud crunching, but the aroma of sweaty feet should get you a few comments too.

6. Slurp your morning cup of coffee, that disgusting sound should make everyone happy. If you are not into slurping, get a straw and blow bubbles into your cup. Should anyone ask what you are doing, tell them you are trying to make a latte’.

5. Turn the ringer volume on your desk phone up as far as it will go, then go to the bathroom and call yourself from your mobile phone. Trust me; this one will really get on your co-workers nerves!

4. About an hour before lunch, call Domino’s and order a couple of pizzas. Don’t forget to give the name and phone extension of your “favorite” co-worker. This scenario is really fun to watch, especially when “they” end up paying for the pizza.

3. While a co-worker is out of the office on break or at lunch, leave a post-it on their desk informing them to return a call to “Mr. Lyon” and be sure the call back number is to your local zoo.

2. My all-time personal favorite office annoyance is to clip your fingernails while sitting at your desk. If you are really bold, clip your toenails too, I am sure no one will mind!

1. And finally, if you really want to cause a buzz and get people talking during these tough economic times, just place a “For Sale” sign in front of your place of employment.

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PHONER…Fun…What office pranks have you pulled?

PHONER…Fun…What did you do to a friend while he was sleeping?

Nobody likes Monday.  Seriously… there isn’t one person out there who says Monday is their favorite day.  Anyone who is a fan of good movies knows that having a ‘case of the Mondays’ is an actual thing.  Personally, I feel like Mondays get a bad rap.  I mean, it’s not my favorite day, but it’s not that bad. Most people yell at me because I’ve never worked in an office.  My bad… however, I’ve come up with some ideas on how to make Mondays a much better day. 1)Bring in a turkey leg for lunch, they’re delicious.  2)Play an office prank. 3)Go to the water cooler and put vodka in it and see how awesome the office becomes. 4)Watch a Casual Mafia video at your desk. 5)Accidentally forget to wear pants and then get sent home for a ‘personal’ day. 6)Tell people aliens are coming to take us all, and then get sent home for a ‘personal’ day.  7)Tell people you had a 3-some with a couple of ‘dancers’ in Vegas and watch as people get horrified by your bluntly honest account of the insanity. 8)Bring in pictures of a fake puppy you didn’t buy.  9)Break up with your girlfriend and then call her back 3 hours later and say, you got punk’d. 10)Write a haiku about Mondays.

Have sex on Monday

Do it at home and not work

Is that a Cheeto?

Dwight Schrute - The Office Downer

How do HR folks feel about office pranksters?  Do you think it’s creating a “fun” environment and it boosts morale?   Or do you think it inhibits productivity?  Perhaps you believe it just confirms the prankster can’t be taken seriously in a professional environment.

Here’s my take on this:  most people like to have fun.  Pranks, if done in good taste, aren’t mean and have a carefully chosen good-natured target, are FUN.  That’s right, work can and should be fun.  Worried the employees are missing work time pulling their latest evil feat?  Puhleease.  Most of the pranks I’ve pulled have required that I come in earlier than everyone else to set it up.  That’s right, most of these pranks are on my time.  Alternatively, when they do take up corporate time, believe me, I don’t care that I’m staying an extra 30 min. to meet a deadline because I just spent the entire day either doing my evil laugh (mu-hahaha!) or my “I-think-I-just-burst-my-appendix” laugh.

The bottom line is that fun at work = higher morale = happier staff = people who love coming in to work = people who get the work done.

Definitely more fun than coming up with an Absenteeism/Tardiness policy or progressive discipline to deal with the rising numbers of folks who just don’t want to come into work:  “No more sick pay”

So Mr. Bossman comes in today and starts in on us, “has someone been adjusting the hydraulics on my chair?  Who’s been sitting in my chair?”  Well the answer to both of those questions was of course, “not me.  no one.”

And so Mr. IT Guy and I look at each other through the cubicles, you can see the light bulbs flashing above our heads; how could such a brilliant plan have eluded us?  This is sheer genius.  Mr. Bossman’s chair has all sorts of hydraulic levers and pulleys.  And each time he steps out in the warehouse or goes on a sales call… well, let’s just say this can end up being hours of fun and enjoyment for us at One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment.

So… now that he’s given us the idea, let’s just say, “it’s on!”  Yup the game is on and we’re going to start harrassing him and messing with his chair in umpteen bazillion ways.

Oh, this is going to be fun!

And so Mr. Bossman just created a new department at One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment- the Dept. of Practical Jokes and Pranks.  Stay tuned for our next meeting.  When we adjourn that we will plan our Sticky Note campaign since Mr. Bossman is so fond of sticky notes!

How would you like to show up to work and have everything wrapped in foil? It could happen…

Today I got a card in the mail at work. I never get mail at work now that I switched Netflix delivery back to my apartment, so it was sort of a surprise. My friend M1 walked all the way over from her side of the room (I work in a bullpen type area; none of my coworkers has their own office, or cubicle, so it’s one big sleepover every day except without much sleeping) to hand it to me. Inside it read:

Anna Banana,

I hope this letter finds you well. How is your family? Things are pretty good over on this side of the room. Lots of good stuff on Jezebel, etc. Nice weather today, too.

See you around the g-chat!

xoxoxo

M1

10.24.08

Dear Anna,

You were complaining about never getting any presents in the mail, so…YAY PRESENTS!

Anyway, you’ll probably get this while I’m still away. So you’ll have to let me know later how a.) happy, b.) weirded out, or c.) annoyed you were to receive this!

Lots of love,

M2

P.S. I’m not really sure where this card came from. It’s been sitting on my desk for the last month. I wonder if it’s one of those charity donation things for the artists who paint landscapes or still-lifes [lives?] with their feet.

This is the photograph on the front of the card. It’s called “Tulip Celebration.” I know this was a joke, but actually I love pink tulips, they’re my favorite flower, and lilacs too, and I only wish that they were more the focus of the photo instead of just the background, but oh well. It was a free card.

What cracks me up about this is that two of my coworkers, M1 and M2, took the time to write messages to me, put the card in the mail with a stamp on it, and then when it came in the mail M1 actually walked it over to me herself. What a convoluted plan! That’s love, folks. I am loved.

Apropos of nothing, I told M1 that I got a Facebook friend request from a guy ostensibly named David George today. We had no friends in common, and if I had decided to accept it I would’ve been his second friend entirely. His message read as follows:

Hi, nice pix, just wanted to say hi and maybe get to know you.

Now. I got this request on the Facebook profile linked in the About section of this blog, where I only have one picture, and it is not that nice, frankly, and also, I’m a writer, don’t say “pix” to me, it’s not even a word. Now that we’ve gotten that out of the way, how sketchy is this? Facebook is not MySpace–it is a legitimate social networking site, and I have no interest in using it as a free match.com, although I’m sure some people do. I was confused by this guy because his profile said he worked for the World Health Organization, which, what a random thing to be a lie, right? But otherwise the profile was mostly empty.

Anyway, M1 just came over to tell me that she also got a random Facebook friend request from someone with whom she had no friends in common, who only had eight friends entirely, and said something generic and dumb as well. Is this some kind of insidious viral marketing campaign I’m not aware of? Or are these people legitimately just trying to gain our confidence and then bilk us out of our nonexistent millions through some pyramid scheme? Questions to ponder, surely.

And in case you were wondering, yes I am posting about random things my coworkers send me via mail and Facebook mysteries because I haven’t yet found the strength to tackle MB revisions. Thanks for asking that awkward question. I’m getting to it.

September 17th 2008 – Supply Brothers’ ‘Office Talk’

1. The Mouse Trick

Utilize the USB port to attach a second mouse to a neighboring coworker’s computer. This works especially well if you are sitting across from him or her. Plug in, wiggle away, and watch them squirm. Added points if you have a wireless mouse.

2. Mouse Trick Number Two

The laser mouse may have ended the era of mouse-ball stealing, but it opened up another option. Stick a few layered pieces of transparent tape on the bottom side of your friend’s mouse to really mess with its functionability. Or, tape a small Post-It note that says “Why won’t my mouse work?” over the laser.

3. Ketchup with Your Phone?

Yes that’s right. This is a classic trick to play on your coworker. I have actually had it done to myself, and it was quite a laugh for the whole office. Next time you go to lunch take a few extra ketchup packets. Next wait till your coworker steps away from his or her desk. Quickly place ketchup all over the ear piece of the phone. Gather your surrounding coworkers and let only them in on the prank. When your coworker returns to his or her desk, give them a ring and laugh obnoxiously.

4. Busy Computer

This is anther classic mouse trick. Under the ‘mouse settings’ go to the ‘pointer tab’ and click on the hour glass. This will switch their pointer to a busy hour glass. Suddenly your coworker’s computer is always busy!

5. Wrap it Up

Wrap your entire coworker’s desk with aluminum foil. This includes their computer, pens, pencils, folders, etc. Don’t leave anything out. The more the funnier it will become.

6. Can You be Mine?

Sent a fake love note to a coworker from another coworker.

7. The Paper Clip

Make some copies of a paper clip. Then, put this same paper into the paper tray of your copying machine. People will go bananas trying to figure out why all their copies have a paperclip on it!

8. No Toilet Paper

Place a sign on the restroom door that reads, “The Company ran out of toilet tissue; please use your own resources.”

9. Congratulations on Your Baby

Get all the women in the office to individually speak with the President, confiding that you are pregnant. By noon, he will think that all of his female coworkers are pregnant and he will not be able to tell anyone because each asked for confidentiality.

10. Booo!

Halloween never gets old. So why not scare the living daylights out of your friend at work. All you need is an old mailing box that is big enough for you to fit in. Next, put the box in a strategic location for scaring your victim. Some keys spots are near the elevator, break room, or near his or her cubicle. Get in the box and wait for your victim to come strolling by. Jump out and scare your victim using whatever means necessary; screaming, yelling, arm movements, etc.

Disclaimer: Supply Brothers is not responsible for any of the consequences as a result of these acts. However, if you do, be sure to have fun and be safe.