Charlie said:
A few years back, the company gave out alarm clocks (cheap ones, of
course) to all the employees for some reason or the other. One
enterprising employee 'borrowed' a few of them, and, after setting to
different times, hid them around the bosses office. I cabinents, taped
under tables, above the ceiling tiles, in the ventilation duct...
Was entertaining as he tore his office apart looking for all of them!
Charlie
Back in the early '80s I worked for a large CATV systems operator. I
took care of the head end and repaired all their electronics while
trying to stay ahead of destructive customers and subcontractors who
constantly dropped equipment. The regular feild staff kept bragging
that they were going to pull an outragous stunt on the boss when he got
back from vaction, but as usual their plan was quite lame. I told them
they couldn't even plan a real stunt, let alone pull one off. They told
me I couldn't come up with anything better so i smiled and told them to
go to the lubmer yard to pick up two sheets of drywall and a 10 foot
piiece of baseboard that matched the existing baseboard, a gallon of
readymix drywall compound and paint to match the walls so they could
cover both doors to his office. Then we would get everyone to pretend
they had no idea who he was when he got back. You should have seen the
looks on their faces! ;-)
My next suggestion was to move all his office furniture and new color
TV into our warehose and bring a bunch of the empty and nearly empty
wood spools to replace the furniture, and put a decripet old 12 inch B&W
TV in his office. It turned out that they were all talk and no action.
;-)
I was a Broadcast engineer in the early '70s at a military TV station
in Alaska. The on air "Talent" had to wear their dress uniforms for the
newscasts, but they would sit behind the news desk in their boxers
because of the heat from the lights. When I had to run an "Actuality"
(A report recorded off the AFRN network and used with 35 mm slides) they
would jump up and shadow box or goof around. Quite often they were late
getting back in their seats so it looked like I couldn't switch cameras
on cue. After a week of their crap I rewired the studio monitors so
they didn't follow the on air signal. That night I got half way through
their first long "Actuality" and switched the video and audio monitors
to the preview circuits. They froze and looked at the dead speakers
first, and then at themselves on a coule video monitors that showed them
on air and out of uniform. They freaked out and ran behind the news desk
as I switched the monitors back to the on air signal. As soon as the
news was over they were in the control room screaming at me and calling
the station amanger about what they thought I had done to them. He had
no idea what they were talking about and assured them that he had
watched the entire newscast, and no, they were not seen in their boxers.
I was grinning when they turned back to me and told them that they had
recieved their one and only warning to stay seated during the newscast.
I wonder why people always told me that I wasn't very "GI"?
BTW, they reminded me of Les Nesman of WKRP, and Ted Baxter on the
Mary Tyler Moore shows.
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Link to my "Computers for disabled Veterans" project website deleted
after threats were telephoned to my church.
Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida
