A Conversation for Games You Can Play in the Office

Fun with PC's...

Post 1

Thorsman

Not exactly a game, but fun none the less.

Wait until your cow-orker has left their desk. Close all the windows and hit the "PrtSc" (Print Screen) button. This takes a snapshot of their desktop. Open "Paint", hit Ctrl-V or "Paste" from menu and save the resulting piccie as a bitmap (*.bmp). Close paint and set your newly created picture as the desktop wallpaper. Finally, hide all the icons under the taskbar. Sit back and watch the fun as they franticly click on the now non-functioning icons.

Last time I did this, it took the sys-admin 3 hours to twig what was wrong. And I learnt a whole bundle of new words, too. smiley - cool


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Post 2

Blue-Eyed BiPedal BookWorm from Betelgeuse (aka B4[insertpunhere])


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Oh...My...GOD!!! That is just what this electronically driven society needs to remember to make light of this fast-paced work-a-day world we're all caught up in.

smiley - laughsmiley - laughsmiley - laughB4iwetmybreetchessmiley - laughsmiley - laughsmiley - laugh


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Post 3

GreyDesk

* takes notes * smiley - bigeyes


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Post 4

Otto Fisch ("Stop analysing Strava.... and cut your hedge")


I nominate cow-orker as the funniest typo of today....

Otto


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Post 5

Bogie

Or how about (and this works really well in call-centers) finding two computers back to back, and swappiong their keyboard and mice cables over, so that computer 1's keyboard inputs text on computer 2 and vice versa.

B.


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Post 6

Bogie

Otto, I prefer my "swappiong " typo. smiley - winkeye

B.


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Post 7

Batty_ACE

This one only works if your office has a certain type of computer. Long ago when I was a travel agent we used computers that really only did reservations and such. Since I was the office sysadmin I had the nasty habit of changing people background and foreground colors so they matched (both black or something) or would alter their color scheme to something truly ugly.


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Post 8

NYDivaDoll

I think this may become a bit of a hobby for me.


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Post 9

dasilva

And I thought this thread was going to be about playing "Carmageddon" over the network at lunchtimes smiley - biggrin

I'm impressed!


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Post 10

Batty_ACE

I posted in another thread that net sends can be a whole lot of fun too... especially if the person doesn't know anything about computers. Do a net send with something along the lines of 'you have requested an illegal action. the police have been contacted.'


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Post 11

dasilva

With the state of health of half the people at my place (me included) that wouldn't be a good idea smiley - biggrin


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Post 12

Wampus

If the thread originator is a fan of Dilbert, the "cow-orker" is not a typo. Neither is "Induhvidual," although that term hasn't been used in this thread yet.


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Post 13

Thorsman

Bingo. Give that DNRC member a smiley - ale.


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Post 14

dasilva

*hands over smiley - ale*


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Post 15

Wampus

smiley - cheers


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Post 16

dasilva

Anytime smiley - biggrin


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Post 17

Nitecruzr

A variant on this trick is to replace the normal wallpaper with a BlueScreenOfDeath image (most WinDoze users know BSOD well).

One of my coworkers actually used the BSOD wallpaper routinely on his workstation. NOBODY would borrow his workstation cause they'd always think it was down.


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Post 18

Batty_ACE

That's probably more secure than password protecting... smiley - winkeye


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Post 19

dasilva

Kind of like those fake plastic blobs of ice-cream with spoons in they sell for seat guards smiley - biggrin


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Post 20

Marjin, After a long time of procrastination back lurking

One of my collegues once changed his C-drive to read-only and switched off the pc. Of course it would not start again, and he called the helpdesk.
In the end they gave him a new pc as they could not find the problemsmiley - biggrin


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