I'm Being a Dickhead...But it's Funny

[Latekin]

Found a new way of messing with my boss...

You all know how to rename an item on a computer desktop right? Right, good.
On our sign in computer, just on a whim, I changed the name for our sign in program icon to something dumb, like "Minion Tracker."

Weeeell, turns out my boss does NOT know how to rename icons.

The next day I came in, there was a duplicate icon.
Which I promptly renamed again to something equally stupid.

The next shift, there's another new icon.
Changed it again.

So far it's been a month and we have six new sign in icons, all because my boss doesn't know how to rename them and is too scared to delete the shortcut in case she breaks something.

It's really, really silly, but it gives me a laugh. Next month, I'm going to change the names all back to the original, and watch her mind completely fracture at the sight of her 10000 little sign in icons.

Now, other people are starting to do it too. Came in yesterday to a new one called "Plebian Manager."

I think I might have started something.

[AccountingDrone]

I always used to change the icons too - for the longest time my computer had 'My Sharona' with this turned into an icon:
instead of 'My Computer'

[Jay 2K Winger]

"Minion Tracker."

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No lie, if we were still using our old family desktop at home, I'd be sorely tempted to do this to all of the program icons that Mom used. Just to break her brain.

[cindybubbles]

Unfortunately, my last two jobs were in IT, so I had bosses who knew a lot about computers; this means that if I pulled that trick on them, they'd be breathing down my neck if they found out it was me after running various anti-virus programs to no avail.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

I would so love to do this but it would be a blatant information security violation.

Too bad I have several ideas already:

Innernet
EMAIL!!!!!111!!!!ELEVEN!
The thing that does that one thing
No, the other thing
I TOLD YOU NOT TO SCREW WITH THIS

[Chromatix]

"It is now safe to start using your computer."

Yes, once upon a time, I replaced Windows 95/98 halt screens with that - before the days of auto-power-down.

[Trixie]

Back on the first computer we had it was in the dining room. For the screensaver it was just one with a message going across the screen. I set it up to say "Stay tuned for an important message." My father saw it and pointed it out to me like well, it was an important message.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Back on the first computer we had it was in the dining room. For the screensaver it was just one with a message going across the screen. I set it up to say "Stay tuned for an important message." My father saw it and pointed it out to me like well, it was an important message.

"How do you keep a dumbass busy? See next message."

Not that I would ever do this or anything. Or have.

[MoonCat]

I would so love to do this but it would be a blatant information security violation.

Too bad I have several ideas already:

Innernet
EMAIL!!!!!111!!!!ELEVEN!
The thing that does that one thing
No, the other thing
I TOLD YOU NOT TO SCREW WITH THIS

Oh my god I SO want to use these for somebody at work!! Except she'd come to me to ask what the hell was wrong with her computer and I'd laugh, I wouldn't be able to help it. And she can never find anything on her desktop anyway, even 5 seconds after naming it and saving it.

[DGoddessChardonnay]

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No lie, if we were still using our old family desktop at home, I'd be sorely tempted to do this to all of the program icons that Mom used. Just to break her brain.

Reminds me of back when I worked at WD (2nd store) . . . one of my coworkers showed me how to change the colors on the fonts.

It was nothing for Mohair (our sweet yet somewhat nuerotic store manager) would come into the back DSD area and see hot pink and purple font on the screen.

Now if I could figure out how to do that on my current workstation . . . . might make some coworkers think twice before using it to log into work and not change it back to the DSD login screen. . . .

[Seanette]

In one call center job I had, our trainer would do things like switch someone's computer to horrific color combination, turn the display upside down, and such as reminders that we needed to lock workstations when away from them.

[Kanalah]

I once set the school's computer screen savers to say "Living it up at the Hotel California".

The teachers had to ask me to change it because they didn't know how to.

So I changed it to "My IQ test came back negative"

[CoffeeMonkey]

1) Close all the windows.
2) Create New folder. Name it something atrocious.
3) Screenshot.
4) Set screenshot as desktop picture.
5) Delete folder.
6) Profit.

[mathnerd]

I would so love to do this but it would be a blatant information security violation.

Too bad I have several ideas already:

Innernet
EMAIL!!!!!111!!!!ELEVEN!
The thing that does that one thing
No, the other thing
I TOLD YOU NOT TO SCREW WITH THIS

I so want to do this to the icons on one of my boys' phones just to fuck with him. (the only one who could take the joke without flipping his shit, which is why I said just the one, and not all three.)

[dalesys]

A friend once set her screensaver message to:
"If you want me, have me paged."
In a nice big bold font...
Unfortunately, it was so big the last word was truncated.