Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Steve Kratz
[10-11-04 17:05]: At a place where I used to work, we used to "test" the first-level phone techs (who would do the basics of making sure the customer had the keyboard plugged in, power on, toner in the printer, etc) but switching off their power strips on the way out the door at night. It was a good laugh in the morning when they couldn't get their PCs booted :) Evil, evil people!!!
Yes, several years ago when I was in tech school, we would wire short the heater pins in tube sockets. Evil was *fun*.
In one place where I worked, we'd take a single strand of wire from AC power cable and wrap it around the pins on someone's power plug, and wait for him to plug it in. In high school electronics shop, we'd charge a capacitor to a about 200V and toss it to someone. And many years ago, I was taking a course on the Datapoint 2200, which used cassettes for data storage. I'd wait until someone was almost finished typing in his program code, and then "accidentally" trip over the power cord, before he had a chance to save his code. ;-)