Office Pranks - April Fools is coming (1 Viewer)

Rusty · Mar 18, 2005

Hey guys,

I've been trying to dream up ways of playing a few pranks on my non-IT colleagues on 1st April.

Does anyone know where I can get my hands on a bat file that will open/eject someone's CD-ROM drive? I was thinking of putting that in the start up and watching the mayhem ensue. It would drive one of my colleagues absolutley nuts.

Any other ideas (not previously raised on the April Fools Day 2004 thread) would also be appreciated.

Cheers,

Rusty

PS - Yes I am bored, but it is Friday after all!

NJudson · Mar 18, 2005

I like the program that makes the cursor jump around erracticly when you move the mouse.

msp · Mar 18, 2005

I like the program that means that everyones screen display suddenly turns upside down...

BarryMK · Mar 18, 2005

Is there a prog that when one of our managers tries to edit a report instead of an input screen because he's too stupid to read what's in front of him and then calls to complain - produces a fist from the screen and smacks him one?

Rusty · Mar 18, 2005

No Barry - but I'm working on it!

In the meantime perhaps a non-automated "manual slap" would be in order.

Pauldohert · Mar 18, 2005

If you get that done for Barry can you post here so I can use it also - will it work in a multi user database?

Sergeant · Mar 20, 2005

I think you can see the beauty of this one...

(Sorry if this has been done, I didn't read last years' pranks.)
Sneak this into one of your spreadsheets (set a reference to Word).
You could mask it with "push this button, it's really cool", and proceed to do something that will keep them occupied while the prank runs.
The autocorrect will stay with the Word app.

Dim wrdapp As Word.Application
Dim doc As Word.Document
Set wrdapp = New Word.Application

With wrdapp
Set doc = .Documents.Add
.AutoCorrect.Entries.Add Name:="I", Value:="I am such an idiot."
With doc
.SaveAs "c:\IamSuchAnIdiot.doc"
.Close
End With
.Quit
End With

Set doc = Nothing
Set wrdapp = Nothing

Ron_dK · Mar 21, 2005

Rusty said:
Does anyone know where I can get my hands on a bat file that will open/eject someone's CD-ROM drive?

Try this one Rusty. Not a bat file , but Access.

Rusty · Mar 21, 2005

Cheers for that Rak. That's bloody genius - I'm going to get the open/close routine to run on the Splash screen of one of our main databases.

Cheers,

Rusty

indesisiv · Mar 21, 2005

Reverse menus

Not sure if this one was in last years thread but it did the job at our place last year.

It is just an excel document that reverses the menus until it is run again.

Steve

indesisiv · Mar 21, 2005

also i came across this ...

It opens or closes the cd draws.

Usage
CDR open all

CDR close all

That can go in a batch file if you want it to.

Hope this helps you all.

Rusty · Mar 21, 2005

Hey Rak,

I've got the open/close cd code to run on the open event of the Splash Screen of the database. If it's April 1st and before 12pm it opens and closes the cd drawer twice and displays a message too.

However, most people here have got DVD drives too. Any ideas how to open and close these? The orginal module is posted below.

Cheers,

Rusty

Code:

Option Compare Database
Option Explicit

Private Declare Function mciSendString Lib "Winmm.dll" Alias "mciSendStringA" _
 (ByVal lpstrCommand As String, ByVal lpstrReturnString As String, _
 ByVal uReturnLength As Long, ByVal hwndCallback As Long) As Long

Public Sub SetCDState(pbState As Boolean)
If pbState Then
  Call mciSendString("Set CDAudio Door Open", 0&, 0&, 0&)
Else
  Call mciSendString("Set CDAudio Door Closed", 0&, 0&, 0&)
End If
End Sub

Ukraine82 · Mar 21, 2005

I put a bumper sticker on one of my friend car at our work that says "I Love Gay Porn"

Took him 2 days to later realize he had a bumper sticker on his car. From what I've been told is that someone at work told him about it.

We had some guy who made his boss ink burst from the pen got it all over his shirt and face. He was really piss off about it, but got a laugh later on.

Michael

stephen81 · Mar 21, 2005

Another good one I think was suggested last year, was taking a screen print of someones desktop, hiding all their desktop icons and setting the wallpaper to the screen print you've just taken.

Ron_dK · Mar 22, 2005

Rusty said:
However, most people here have got DVD drives too. Any ideas how to open and close these?

Hi Rusty, glad it worked.
I got this program from http://www.devx.com/vb2themax/Tip/18552
and slightly modified it.
Basically it will open any ( first) door in your PC. So, if the top one is a
CD....it will be opened, if the top one is a DVD Rom or whatever it will be opened.
I have not played around with this Vb thing that much.

You might google for : Function mciSendString and you'll find some other nice features, like playing midi files and stuff....

Cheers, Ron

Kraj · Mar 22, 2005

There's plenty of little things you can do to make people nuts too. Like messing with their keyboard mapping and mouse settings. How about setting some autocorrects in Word to change common words into something confusing? Creating a custom spellchecker dictionary for Word that has tons of things obviously spelled wrong. Change the monitor color settings to the lowest possible. Set the screen saver to trigger after 1 minute and password protect it. Mix and match people's network printer defaults. The list goes on and on...

cheuschober · Mar 22, 2005

Ken could appreciate this one. Back before I was a city-boy I was a midwestern southern-missouri boy.

One of the more entertaining pranks is to let two greased pigs loose into an area with a 2 painted on one of them and a 3 painted on the other. After much difficulty both pigs will be caught but they'll spend a day and a half looking for pig #1.

Note: Because of a higher level of cultural significance to the number 13, this doesn't work as well with numbers 1 and 3. 1 & 2 are right, out.

Have fun!

~Chad

kousotsu · Mar 24, 2005

i'm going to be pulling my standard IT gag: stay late working on DB maintenance and unplug everyone's machines while the cleaning people work. Then, the rest of the IT monkeys will place bets on how long it takes the Moo-sers to figure it out (another good betting category is always the # of request in the helpdesk queue).

moo-ser: "I can't get this to work!"
me: "Sounds like a Pebb-cack kind of problem to me."
moo-ser (panicked but trying to sound knowledgable): "It's really that bad?! I should probably call the manufacturer and get more RAM in my pea-crack, huh?"
me: "Hmm... *yeah*... that's great. You do that." <hangup>
colleague: "Pebb-cack?"
me: "P - E - B - K - A - C. Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair."

razorking · Mar 25, 2005

This is a nice one if you are a network administrator:
Go to someones computer and make their desktop folder shared. Then you can add and remove icons from their desktop at will.

Another area that I have always thought was ripe for this kind of thing is the Windows task scheduler. Most people never use it and are not even aware of its existence. You can cause all kinds of programs to start and run and then stop etcetera. You can even have it delete the task if it is not scheduled to run again.

Sergeant · Mar 25, 2005

You could do something that involves this link.
Perhaps throwing in a FollowHyperlink in your db or spreadsheet here or there.

Office Pranks - April Fools is coming (1 Viewer)

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