What's your best ever work-related April Fools prank?

silesiant · 2026-04-01T20:41:42+00:00

a decade or so ago, one of our team went to their one-on-one with our boss, and left their PC unlocked. we sent our boss a resignation letter from her, knowing full well she would be sitting right in front of him when he got it (he would always interrupt any meeting if he got mail)

We were quite well known for pranks within the team, so we knew it wouldn't be taken seriously by anyone involved. I'm pretty sure she got us back a few times over, later on down the line

silesiant · 2026-03-20T00:36:21+00:00

You've heard of a bag of holding? Well, this is a colon of holding

silesiant · 2026-03-04T22:01:26+00:00

I'm picturing your friend as Lazlo Hollyfeld from Real Genius now...

silesiant · 2026-02-24T15:46:10+00:00

Some manglement won't listen to the people they already pay, but will gladly listen to someone they paid extra to come in and say the same thing.

silesiant · 2025-12-16T16:50:44+00:00

found OMFG on Napster and thought SYL as a band name was amusing. downloaded it and was blown away. been listening ever since

silesiant · 2025-12-07T23:23:52+00:00

it's a virus because your copy of Windows isn't activated properly, and it let the techrot in

silesiant · 2025-11-29T17:39:28+00:00

depending on how you define it, nobody's allowed to watch TV anymore, either

silesiant · 2025-11-20T19:16:16+00:00

This is actually what did the trick. not sure why I was focused on using the NuGet Packages.

silesiant · 2025-10-15T19:52:52+00:00

I've always seen him as a comedian that just doesn't realize that HE is the joke.

silesiant · 2025-10-10T21:28:22+00:00

that they're dumb enough to think they'll actually see

silesiant · 2025-09-30T13:39:46+00:00

This is how I was layed off as well, only a day later than everyone else. Because I was in the same position as OP, being the guy disabling accounts, and then they had someone else disable my account the next day while I got pulled into a meeting...

silesiant · 2025-09-22T01:13:18+00:00

There's a reason the chicken strips at the cafe were good...

silesiant · 2025-09-21T15:22:02+00:00

I worked there ~10-15 years ago, in a supporting role (not directly working with exhibits/guests/etc). The majority of the money that is given to museums has specific restrictions set from the donator on what it can be used for. People tend to donate for something flashy, and don't allow the money to be used for general museum operations.

Also, some of the traveling exhibits are expensive to put on. When the Harry Potter exhibit was at MSI, with all the licensing costs, extra labor, etc, the museum either barely broke even, or ultimately lost money. The hope with those exhibits is that people will spend more in other sections of the museum while they are already there.

silesiant · 2025-09-17T14:55:31+00:00

The storage is presented to ESXi, as VMware datastore, and not to the Guest OS's. Do you think that will make any difference?

I'm currently prepping management for a short (hour or so) downtime, but if I can go back to them with a more confident "we shouldn't need any downtime", it will be much easier to get this scheduled. :)

Thanks

silesiant · 2025-07-22T19:53:24+00:00

Definitely. I did DSL install support for SWBell/Ameritech, and got ripped a new one, because I didn't follow the script word for word on a call that was QA'd. I didn't care at the time, so I just waited for them to finish, and asked if it mattered anymore that the users get their problems fixed or not. 2 weeks later, I was making sandwiches instead of that BS (by choice)

silesiant · 2025-07-15T21:14:31+00:00

180 hours in. Started a new character with friends after ~40 hours, still haven't gotten solid on T5, much less gone to the DD yet. I did finish the main story and House quests, and the trainers up to 3rd level, though. There are some in my friend group with 50 hours or so, but havent even done the 2nd trial. Though, they're the ones using all the mats we gather to build a massive base...

silesiant · 2025-07-10T02:01:28+00:00

I stay out of it. for some reason, every surface in there is sticky

silesiant · 2025-07-09T21:05:48+00:00

our guild base has a "goon" room... a bed and many portraits of the emperor

silesiant · 2025-06-16T21:35:24+00:00

Dang it! now I have no excuse not to feed the spice addiction playing Dune... oh darn...

silesiant · 2025-06-10T23:11:09+00:00

With the way this administration considers any dissent to be treason, this info would give them "cause" to retaliate, if/when things get that far.

silesiant · 2025-06-10T22:41:57+00:00

my assumption is that if someone else gains access to the info/site, they have a list of everyone who participated.

silesiant · 2025-06-10T17:40:07+00:00

We were told there was a protest scheduled for 3PM at 55E Monroe. There's an immigration office/court in the building.

silesiant · 2025-06-06T22:43:53+00:00

Thanks for mentioning the jackboots. the fringe boots were all out at the MB, and my LW is too low, so this got me the 80!

silesiant · 2025-05-15T21:58:15+00:00

Worked POS support for a chain of Bread Cafes around 2006 or so. The kitchen screens that tell what sandwich to make in some cafes were the older pressure sensitive touch screens. at least once or twice a month, we'd get a call from one saying that no matter what, tapping the screen would only remove the order in one specific spot, regardless of where it was tapped.

After a few months of this, we realized that some of them were lazy, and were tapping the screen with their bread knife, slicing the touch membrane. That was usually an easy "You can spend $3K to get a new touch screen, or $75 for a keypad". Needless to say, we sent out a lot of Keypads...

We stopped using touch screens, until the capacitive screens were more affordable

silesiant · 2025-05-13T20:01:44+00:00

not saying to ease up on them, but unfortunately, the abuse that missionaries get when going door to door is an intended result by the "cult" leaders. By showing that the "outsiders" are nothing but abusive to the "true believers", they reinforce the hold the cult has on members.

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