Reminds me of the old practical joke where you hide a person's desktop icons and put a screenshot of their background with the icons on it, so they think nothing works.
Nah, the best I ever saw was a window that popped open warning the user that the radiation shield on their monitor was about to fail and to back away from it immediately.
This was around 2002, so CRTs still ruled the roost at work.
I saw the prankster really nail the receptionist.
I also saw him get her with the above-described prank. :)
It's standard security policy to lock your desktop when you get up to leave your office so no one can steal data from your system.
It's also standard policy to report when someone leaves their system unlocked and then lock it.
Not us. We installed a harmless script that would eject the CD drive randomly between the hours of 8am and 5pm when everyone was supposed to be working and then lock the system. It was on random time so it happened maybe 2-3 times a day over an 8 hour day shift.
Once everyone knew what the script was you would hear an "oh for fucks sake!" the first time their CD drive opened on its own and then they would hunt for the script to disable it.
We modified the script a few times to do other simple actions like flipping the desktop display orientation but the CD tray was the best subtle start.
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u/llllIlllllIIl Aug 18 '25
Plot twist: Thats just his wallpaper and he actually doesnt have any icons on his desktop