Personalization.

On days like today when I don’t feel like doing any work, I hang around my co-workers’ desks until they leave to go to a meeting or get coffee. Then I quickly sit down behind their computer, call up Outlook, and send an email from that person’s account to that person’s account, with the subject line “Note to Self: I am an idiot.”

Eventually they come back and check their email, but I’m already back at my desk playing Tetris, so my alibi is unassailable. 

equally enjoyable (and harder to trace) is opening up their Word account and playing with the AutoCorrect function and replacing ‘I’ with ‘IDIOT.’

you might also replace some random and seldom used word, like, oh, i don’t know, ‘bush’ with ‘SATAN REQUESTS THE PLEASURE OF YOUR COMPANY.’

hilarity ensues! (KEY WORD: SUE)

Posted by brandon  on  09/06  at  11:08 AM

People at your work don’t lock their workstations?  If someone at my work walked away from their desk without locking, an e-mail to the group would be sent claiming that the person was in love with the boss.

It cut down the security issues.

Posted by Jon  on  09/06  at  06:05 PM

So.
That was you.

Posted by  on  09/06  at  08:34 PM

Sooo..you’re THAT guy in the office!!

Posted by teahouseblossom  on  09/07  at  04:00 AM

i hate to admit it but the first time i got spam from my own yahoo acount, my head almost exploded with confusion.

Posted by DirtyDanSin  on  09/07  at  12:11 PM

Along those same lines, my supervisor used to surf through a list of bondage sites on anyone’s computer who didn’t lock their workstation upon going to lunch.

That way, at review time, when they checked your cache you’d have http://www.tiemeupandillcallyoudaddy.com on your report.

It was a pretty liberal company so, apparently, this kind of leadership was sanctioned by the higher ups.

Posted by Thomas  on  09/07  at  04:33 PM

Unfortunately where I work, using someone else’s computer is grounds for termination. :(

Posted by Jack  on  09/08  at  10:48 AM

“ . . . using someone else’s computer is grounds for termination.” True where I worked also, but, in addition, by company mandate all computers log off after 120 seconds without use.  Greg would need to be ready to pounce with that short a delay. It’s bad enough that a short phone call means needing to re-enter username and password, but a series of sneezes can do the same.

Posted by  on  09/08  at  01:04 PM

We are much nicer at my office. Anyone leaving their email account open when leaving the desk ends up somehow inviting the entire staff to their house for after work drinks.

Posted by bohémienne  on  09/08  at  05:46 PM

My husband left his email open once and wondered why he was got a call from the company shrink a few days later asking if everything was going well and how he was feeling.  Turns out a coworker had written a letter (purportedly from my husband) to his entire address book explaining how sad my husband was and how everyone at his office hated him and he was so depressed.  A concerned aquaintance then forwarded the letter to the company shrink.

During the confusing phone call with the psychiatrist, realization suddenly dawned on my husband and he said, “I think I left my email open.”

Hilarity ensued, and lesson learned!

Posted by  on  09/12  at  11:05 AM

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