CoolRich59
Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
I have to admit being a bit of a prankster when I was young(er) and at my first megacorp job. I worked with another fellow who was also a prankster; and the two of us working together was like mixing gasoline and fire. 
I like to think that our pranks were funny and not malicious, but will let you all decide for yourselves.
Our manager used to call his wife and talk to her on speakerphone a lot, he even had IT program a speed dial button on his phone with his wife's number (he was technology deficient). We reprogrammed his speed dial button to one of those phone sex numbers. He must have called the number a dozen times (on speakerphone!
) before finally getting IT to come and reprogram his phone.
Another time we reprogrammed the department's fax machine to forward incoming faxes to his phone number. So, for about a week, several times a day his phone would ring and he'd get that screeching tone when he answered.
We pulled other stunts, but one almost got us both fired. Our megacorp was late to implement voice mail because the CEO hated it and thought a caller should always get a live person. He finally succumbed and voice mail was implemented.
Incredibly, they implemented voice mail but not passwords -- so all you had to do was dial anyone's number, let it go to voice mail, hit the prompt, and you could access their messages and all user controls. One day my mischievous colleague changed my outgoing message from the standard "Hi, this is Rich, I can't take your call right now ..." to something very rude. After playing it for a couple of people and getting some laughs, he deleted it -- except it didn't get deleted.
Sure enough, a client calls me, gets the new message, is outraged, and complains. The next thing I know, I get called to HR and told I'm being terminated. Luckily, our VP gets involved, demands to hear the outgoing message, and points out to the HR flack that it's not my voice on the outgoing message.
So, I'm in the clear. But HR wants to know whose voice it is so they can fire him. I play dumb and claim not to recognize the voice. Then they play the message for all the managers in my department. Luckily for my colleague, even though several of the managers recognize his voice, they play dumb as well. HR is sure we're lying but there's nothing they can do.
As you can imagine, password protection was added to the voice mail system shortly thereafter.
I like to think that our pranks were funny and not malicious, but will let you all decide for yourselves.
Our manager used to call his wife and talk to her on speakerphone a lot, he even had IT program a speed dial button on his phone with his wife's number (he was technology deficient). We reprogrammed his speed dial button to one of those phone sex numbers. He must have called the number a dozen times (on speakerphone!
) before finally getting IT to come and reprogram his phone. Another time we reprogrammed the department's fax machine to forward incoming faxes to his phone number. So, for about a week, several times a day his phone would ring and he'd get that screeching tone when he answered.
We pulled other stunts, but one almost got us both fired. Our megacorp was late to implement voice mail because the CEO hated it and thought a caller should always get a live person. He finally succumbed and voice mail was implemented.
Incredibly, they implemented voice mail but not passwords -- so all you had to do was dial anyone's number, let it go to voice mail, hit the prompt, and you could access their messages and all user controls. One day my mischievous colleague changed my outgoing message from the standard "Hi, this is Rich, I can't take your call right now ..." to something very rude. After playing it for a couple of people and getting some laughs, he deleted it -- except it didn't get deleted.
Sure enough, a client calls me, gets the new message, is outraged, and complains. The next thing I know, I get called to HR and told I'm being terminated. Luckily, our VP gets involved, demands to hear the outgoing message, and points out to the HR flack that it's not my voice on the outgoing message.
So, I'm in the clear. But HR wants to know whose voice it is so they can fire him. I play dumb and claim not to recognize the voice. Then they play the message for all the managers in my department. Luckily for my colleague, even though several of the managers recognize his voice, they play dumb as well. HR is sure we're lying but there's nothing they can do.
As you can imagine, password protection was added to the voice mail system shortly thereafter.
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