May 13 2006
Office Prank
A couple guys at the office and I took advantage of our project manager’s absense this week. Dan was in a training class for three days. When he returned, his cubicle and all of its contents was wrapped in 800 square feet of celophane and topped off with some shredded office paper.
We wrapped, quite literally, everything on his desk — pen, files, phone, mouse, monitor, everything. And most everything was individually wrapped for inconvenience.
When Dan returned from the training class, he was quite surprised to find his work area in disarray.
But in the end, everything was okay and there were was joy and laughter.
A sidenote… Dan lost three days of real work by being in training. He lost another half day cleaning up his cublicle. Then the entire company had a mandatory half day of training on Friday (another half day lost for Dan). Finally, Friday afternoon we had a massive water gun fight in the office. Dan opted out of the spontaneous activity, but wasn’t able to get any work done and left. I think he finally got frustrated with us on Friday afternoon. Bummer.