Hee! I'm using voice recognition software for my 'work at home', and I've had to train it not to keep putting Cheeky Monkey Lending for GE Money Lending.

Apparently much fun can be had by editing colleagues' Word AutoCorrect entries whilst they're not around. Change the company name to something offensive and so on.

jan, that's hilarious, actually! I have contracted at various GE subsidiaries, including GE Capital...

TheDonF: I'd suspect that's the case here; this PC is shared by myself and several interns. I did have a poke around in the AutoCorrect list after that little number, but it was the only one I found (so far).

They'd better not even think of embarking upon a practical joking campaign, tho; I was learning office pranks back when most of these hoodlums were still just a gleam in their parents' eyes. Old age and treachery...

Apparently much fun can be had by editing colleagues' Word AutoCorrect entries whilst they're not around. Change the company name to something offensive and so on.
Oh, now that I like. Beats the hell out of sending love e-mails to random people when colleagues walk away and forget to lock their PCs. Missing the same immediate effect, but has a much longer life.

Beats the hell out of sending love e-mails to random people when colleagues walk away and forget to lock their PCs.

Bah. If you really want to mess with someone, you take a screenshot of their desktop, make it their desktop image, then remove the icons.

lysdexic, that's an oldie but goodie.

update: putting (matte, "invisible") scotch tape over the optical port on an optical mouse works just as well as taping over (or removing) the mouse ball in the old-skool types.

har har har...

I love you people.

Bah. If you really want to mess with someone, you take a screenshot of their desktop, make it their desktop image, then remove the icons.
Locked-down machines makes this nigh-on impossible.

putting (matte, "invisible") scotch tape over the optical port on an optical mouse works just as well as taping over (or removing) the mouse ball in the old-skool types.
Hah - going to try that today (Friday here - people tend to be more relaxed about pranks then). Will report back with results. There happens to be a guy sitting next to me at the moment calling the techs from the IT Helpdesk a bunch of fuckwits because he can't get a printer set up without someone to hold his hand. He is the perfect candidate, I think.

dg: the tape trick works on telephones as well. Mic or ear speaker, your choice :]

these are amusing, zero damage ways to piss off an entire IT department, so employ them at your own risk.

anecdote, in which I once had much fun with the tape trick, some "restickable" post-it tape, and a flakey colleague:

*some shit goes down, flakey gets tagged for revenge, lfr does the deed*

*ring* [IT guy]: "Help desk, what seems to be the problem?"

[flakey]: "my mouse doesn't work"

*discussion and diagnostics ensue, to no avail*

[IT guy]: "I'll be up in a moment..."

*flakey wanders off whilst lfr absconds with the evidence*

[IT guy]: "err, this mouse appears to be working just fine for me..."

[flakey]: "butbutbut... it was broken just a minute ago!"

rinse, repeat.

OK, I've done the deed. Now to wait for him to come back to his desk...

*snigger*

He's not happy.

Damn, he found it.

*feels let down*

Awww, fuck, this reminded me of something. I forgot to spell-check my poster before I sent it off for printing and lamination at 2 a.m. Oops.