Back in my college days, one of my friends was in Student Government, and he enjoyed pranking and scaring the living daylights of everyone, especially the ladies.
So I instructed the secretary to wait until he was in a meeting, go to his office computer (she had access), and select the setting "swap primary and secondary mouse buttons".
I checked in later, and she reported he had gone into his office, and after a moment shouted "What in the heck?" before storming out and heading for class. So I had her move to phase two: a block-script printed note that said "Check the settings, stupid."
He never found out who was behind it, and never dared prank anyone again.
One doozy I'm keeping in my hat until I need it is to rearrange the keys on a keyboard to say "GOTCHA" along the top, instead of "QWERTY".
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So I instructed the secretary to wait until he was in a meeting, go to his office computer (she had access), and select the setting "swap primary and secondary mouse buttons".
Back in the days of early optical mice, you could have a lot of fun simply by rotating the mousepad 90°. Had a fellow student contact the lab-administrator to ask that they replace the "faulty" mouse on his workstation.
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Back in my college days, one of my friends was in Student Government, and he enjoyed pranking and scaring the living daylights of everyone, especially the ladies.
So I instructed the secretary to wait until he was in a meeting, go to his office computer (she had access), and select the setting "swap primary and secondary mouse buttons".
I checked in later, and she reported he had gone into his office, and after a moment shouted "What in the heck?" before storming out and heading for class. So I had her move to phase two: a block-script printed note that said "Check the settings, stupid."
He never found out who was behind it, and never dared prank anyone again.
One doozy I'm keeping in my hat until I need it is to rearrange the keys on a keyboard to say "GOTCHA" along the top, instead of "QWERTY".
Back in the days of early optical mice, you could have a lot of fun simply by rotating the mousepad 90°. Had a fellow student contact the lab-administrator to ask that they replace the "faulty" mouse on his workstation.