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Wernich ️

a guy i worked with brought in a musical card that played "she's got the look", which it started playing at the "nananana na" bit. because we were in the time&attendance industry, we had tons of equipment that as used for testing. we took the card apart and hooked it onto the siren output on one of test units. i set up teamviewer on the machine that ran the controlling software for the hardware and we ran a long cable to one of the other guys' desk and hid this little speaker inside an enormous test rig behind him.

every now and then, we would log into the pc and play "she's got the look" for only about 3 or 4 seconds. we'd play it once a day and sometimes not play it for days or even over a month. eventually everyone in the company knew about it, even our technical director, but nobody spoke about it, even after hearing it being played.

to make it worse, because we had teamviewer, we could play this from anywhere, so it couldn't have been me or the other guy in my office, because we had already left for the day, or gone for coffee. after about a year and a bit we moved to new offices, so the setup was moved to the ceiling of the new place, right above where this guy sat. i eventually got a new job and left, but the people that were still there kept up with it. in total this went on for almost two years before he found the speaker.

man, it was fun watching him go through his drawers, look under his desk, inside his pc, etc trying to find where the music was coming from. i think he hates that song now. :D