Michael said:
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! ;-)
thats fantastic. sissy's
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 like that, too
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.
LOL
One friday night after drinkies (a common occurrence in the antipodes,
quite often someone would buy a keg and we'd all roll home at 3am) we
were talking crap in R&D, and somebody commented how small this guys
cubicle was (we'd undergone inflationary expansion, and doubled the
number of warm bodies). It occurred to me he had more space than he
needed, so we shifted one wall in about 3'. The next day, he had to turn
sideways to get between the filing cabinet and the partition, and ended
up sitting underneath the bookshelf hanging on that partition. Someone
commented on the difficulty of access, his reply was it keeps out
unwanted visitors. We had a stream of people turn up in R&D that day,
just to look. At 5pm someone spilled the beans - he hadnt noticed, all day.
A few weeks later we built a new room for the sw people, and he
dismantled his desk whilst underneath it. I pointed out it would fall on
his head, he just laughed. about 30 seconds later it fell on his head.
He won the idiot of the year award for that at the Christmas do, a nice
bottle of bubbles and 200 people laughing. He now works as a lab
assistant at a small uni.....
Cheers
Terry
