Fun At Whose Expense?
I’m doing some work for my big client, and it requires in part that I log on as each user at each respective workstation.
One of the secretaries upstairs is on vacation, due back Monday. She asked for this by recently forwarding around one of those humor e-mails with pictures of cubicle prankes, like the one where everything is wrappen aluminum foil, and the one where the cube is filled with packing peanuts.
At first I was a little amused when I saw strands of taped together peanuts framing her monitor and draped on her chair and desk. I could still see the monitor, and I don’t need to sit.
Then I noticed the keyboard!
It is “gift wrapped” in newspaper, such that I can’t use it without disrupting the prank. Or, come to think of it, temporarily plugging in a different keyboard. Hmmmm… Anyway, it’s terribly funny, but not exactly convenient for the other person who needs the computer. It probably never even registered to the perpetrator that my e-mail about what I planned to do this weekend implied use of that computer.
I’m disappointed I won’t be able to finish this completely, but after noticing the prank, I remembered there is also one locked office for which I don’t have a key.
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