I really gotta give this one to the guys I work with. They LIVE for playing practical jokes. The victim de jour is our office painfully stoopid chick. (The weed head who forgets to bathe) Anyhoo... someone bought a device called an "Annoy-a-tron"... a very small device that randomly emits a beep. The interval is anywhere between 30 seconds and 8 minutes per beep. They hid it in her cubicle 4 days ago... today she is full on MENTAL looking for the source of the beep.
Everyone around her denys hearing the beeps, but every now and again they give her a helpful suggestion as to why she might be hearing something like that. Just a bit ago one of the girls pulled her aside and told her that she has been told that sometimes your computer beeps when corporate security is monitoring your e-mail for inappropriate messages. She is freaking out. Earlier in the day, one of the guys suggested that it is guilt for not speaking to the plant on her desk. She was overheard begging it to stop. Yesterday they told her that her phone was probably tapped.
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Oh my god, random beeps drive me crazy, I would probably kill you for that.
But, it does remind me of a story, I've told it here before:
At my last job, the lady at the front desk told me that she thought something was beeping in the server room. I figured that meant one of the backup surge protectors was going bad, or something similar. I check all the surge protectors and can't find anything wrong, so I wait about 5 minutes for a beep and I don't hear anything. I told her I couldn't find the problem, and to tell me if it beeped again.
A few minutes later, she said it beeped again. A coworker suggested that I write down the time of this beep and then wait for the next one to get the interval. Genius! So, the beeps ended up being 5 minutes apart.
4 minutes later, the 3 of us are standing in the entrance area waiting for the beep. Sure enough, it beeps. A few beeps later, we finally figured out that it wasn't coming from the server room after all, that it was coming from the automatic air freshener on the wall. I get it down, and the refill light was blinking.
So I found the refills and put a new one in, using the front desk to set everything on. Everything looks properly installed, but it's still blinking and beeping. So I figure it just needs turned off and turned back on to reset it. I flip the switch off, wait a second, then turn it back on.
It starts blinking and beeping rapidly. I joke that it's going to explode, as I lean in to look at how it's installed again. Suddenly, it puffs out a dose of air freshener, right into my face!
After we all stopped laughing, I did find the reset button. But I smelled like vanilla for the rest of the day.
They have come up with some really funny stuff. One of the ladies who works for us is a graphic artist. The pictures they come up with are over the top! Nothing is sacred.
I wouldn't wish that on him! He is a friend of mine, just trying to be all extra friendly at the moment. This girl is just flat out dumb and gross.
GOOD ONE, Mz!
-- Edited by Mad Mema at 14:54, 2008-09-10
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I believe these things are available online for like $10. Rumor has it that there is also a USB port device that can be plugged into the back of a laptop docking station that will cause one's mouse to randomly move about the screen or cause the keyboard to generate random letters and numbers while one is typing. I'm not sure what that is called, but the guys are thinking about getting one.
I tell ya... it's dangerous having my crew sitting around with little to do. When we get bored, we will tend to find ways to entertain ourselves.... generally at someone else's expense.
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She was overheard begging it to stop. Yesterday they told her that her phone was probably tapped. 
