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  • Clue Bats and other humorous work props (slightly NSFW)

    So I made a "prop" tonight at work for the Copy Center. Focker and i had taken down a damaged file cart display and he removed one of the legs from it, commenting on how much damage it might cause when used as a club.

    To that end, I applied a P-Touch label to it that read "Solution for Problem Customers" and left it up at the copy center, which has had quite a few SCs lately (though none that I've witnessed aside from Bipolar Lady).

    They thought it was hilarious.

    Which reminds me of a prop I made this past summer that I don't think I ever posted about.

    I'd been throwing yet another huge pile of cardboard that Captain Jellico had left me into the baler when I came across an enormous cardboard tube. It was not unlike a paper towel tube, only it was a good three feet long, 3 inches in diameter, and the cardboard was REALLY thick and strong.

    I was about to throw it out when an idea hit me. I grabbed a roll of white paper towels and attached two to the end of the the tube with rubber bands, then crumpled up several more and stuffed them down the other end of the tube. Then I used a black sharpie to write "FOCKER'S DOOB TOOB" on the side and stashed the thing behind the baler.

    You should have SEEN his face when I showed the thing to him. Oh man, it was PRICELESS. And the whole thing was made funnier by the fact that since I'd stored it with the paper towel end down, the towels had picked up some dust from the side of the baler, so blowing into the far end of the tube blew a cloud of dust int he air, mimicking what such a device *might* look like if it was used for real, not that I'd know anythign about that.

    Unfortunately, Focker decided to destroy it later that night by smashing it over the edge of the service desk counter, whereupon he found how many paper towels were inside.

    Focker: Holy SHIT there's a lot of paper towels in here!!!! Jeeze Dave, were you trying to make this thing FUNCTIONAL?!


    Anyone else have amusing props that have turned up at work?
    "We guard the souls in heaven; we don't horse-trade them!" Samandrial in Supernatural

    RIP Plaidman.

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    I've been known to make lots of little creatures out of leftover boxes.

    Fav prop we had was actually made by a guest. He'd taken one of our hangers and bent it into a hand flipping the bird. I'm not even sure how he was able to bend the hangers like that (they're pretty sturdy hangers), but we had that thing displayed proudly in the cart room for about three months before the GM finally found out and threw it away.
    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.

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    • #3
      We had something similar to a cluebat at the swamp once. It was a board swiped from a pallet and had the words "Das Boot" written on it.

      Why the guys chose to write "Das Boot" on it, I don't know.
      Knowledge is power. Power corrupts. Study hard. Be evil.

      "I never said I wasn't a horrible person."--Me, almost daily

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      • #4
        Back at <local county government IT internship> we had a hammer labeled "Computer Repair Kit", and occasionally some old hardware that wasn't fit for resale next to it for frustrations.

        I've since done similar at home when working on at home programming assignments at work, or personal programming assignments. Seemed a fitting fate to take a hammer to an old server of mine that gave me grief for years, between the exploding power supply, the random "DUHH...Where's my RAM, George?" and other things that made me want to toss the stupid thing out the window. :-P
        Coworker: Distro of choice?
        Me: Gentoo.
        Coworker: Ahh. A Masochist. I thought so.

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        • #5
          we had the "pip" or performance improvement plan" alternately known as the "customer service club"(the name of our group) it was a 2x4.....

          one of the managers would put a huge care bear(2 foot tall cheer bear) on your desk if you lost points on qc for "tone"-I gave people my plush braincell for the day at times for either being really smart or doing something really stupid......
          Last edited by BlaqueKatt; 02-23-2010, 01:15 AM.
          Honestly.... the image of that in my head made me go "AWESOME!"..... and then I remembered I am terribly strange.-Red dazes

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          • #6
            We had an air pistol in the computer store that we wrote 'remote reset switch' on it

            It was very nice for those machines that refused to work properly (we had an unused room that we put the machine into, and shot through the door, avoiding having anyone that may get hurt by shot or shrapnel)

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            • #7
              my coworkers and i used to take boxes and pieces of boxes and play "hockey" in the back room when i hawked cookies.

              i also used to take post-it notes and make entire zoos when i was testing printers. then they took away my post-it notes and i became very sad...
              If you want to be happy, be. ~Leo Tolstoy

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              • #8
                There was this one time where our store was giving out nerf guns as a promotion when someone had reserved a certain game. It turned out they sent a large quantity and it happened to be empty that day,resulting in epic nerf dart battles and a ten minute police drama between myself and a co-worker.
                *jedi hand wave* This game works...just not in your system.

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                • #9
                  My Dad used to have a stuffed lobster in his filing cabinets, which I always wondered about, so one day I asked him what it was all about. "The Hokey Pokey."
                  He told me his group of bankers once had a club called "The Observancy Club" for when someone noticed something that should've been extremely obvious, but no one else had noticed it. They would pass around this stuffed lobster to whoever was "President of the Observancy Club", and my Dad, in the middle of a meeting one fine day, blurts out, "Hey, we all have moustaches!" And so they did, and the next day, the lobster is resting atop his monitor, and he kept it.
                  "I call murder on that!"

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