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Title: last day of work
Post by: missioncontrol on September 23, 2005, 03:10:16 pm
o.k. so if you've kept up with my interview thread you know I will be leaving my current place of employment  ;D........

what are some things you might consider doing on your last day or well maybe last week even......

Title: Re: last day of work
Post by: Stingray on September 23, 2005, 03:40:23 pm
There's this switch in the main office here. Nobody knows what it does, yet no one is supposed to touch it. On my last day I'm flippin' that suckah. ;D

-S
Title: Re: last day of work
Post by: Thenasty on September 23, 2005, 03:44:30 pm
There's this switch in the main office here. Nobody knows what it does, yet no one is supposed to touch it. On my last day I'm flippin' that suckah. ;D

-S

is that the Panic Nuke Button ?  :o
Title: Re: last day of work
Post by: ChadTower on September 23, 2005, 03:46:24 pm

On my last day of work I'm probably going to escort a pair of security guards to the front door.
Title: Re: last day of work
Post by: sirwoogie on September 23, 2005, 03:47:01 pm
Is it big and Red and say "Only use in case of emergency" ??? If it's an IT shop, then it may be main power cutoff ;)
Title: Re: last day of work
Post by: billf on September 23, 2005, 03:48:21 pm
Walk around with a _hit eatin' grin on my face!
Title: Re: last day of work
Post by: Stingray on September 23, 2005, 03:50:30 pm
Is it big and Red and say "Only use in case of emergency" ??? If it's an IT shop, then it may be main power cutoff ;)

It's a high school. The switch in question looks like an antique, and probably was part of the building's original fire alarm system, but a new electronic fire alarm control was installed in another part of the building years ago. Everyone is still scared of the mystery switch though.

-S
Title: Re: last day of work
Post by: ChadTower on September 23, 2005, 03:51:45 pm

It's the atomic bunker lockdown switch.  Flip it and 20 foot steel walls come down around the building.
Title: Re: last day of work
Post by: Stingray on September 23, 2005, 03:57:23 pm
Just the possibility that what you say might be true makes me want to run out there and throw that switch!

-S
Title: Re: last day of work
Post by: billf on September 23, 2005, 03:59:11 pm
Do it! Do it! Do it!
Title: Re: last day of work
Post by: Sephroth57 on September 23, 2005, 04:13:26 pm
press the button!
Title: Re: last day of work
Post by: Stingray on September 23, 2005, 04:14:45 pm
Do it! Do it! Do it!  (on your way out for the weekend  ;))

Living up to my slacker image, I'm almost always the first one out the door on any given day. The main office is usually pretty crowded at that time, besides, if Chad's right, I'll be locked in for the weekend.

-S
Title: Re: last day of work
Post by: billf on September 23, 2005, 04:19:11 pm
Then you better run fast after you pull it.  ;D
Title: Re: last day of work
Post by: Stingray on September 23, 2005, 04:20:45 pm
Curiosity is a terrible thing. I went out there and flipped the switch. Nothing.

-S
Title: Re: last day of work
Post by: Sephroth57 on September 23, 2005, 04:20:57 pm
dude you can make it, itll be like indiana jones
Title: Re: last day of work
Post by: missioncontrol on September 24, 2005, 09:20:16 am
sure Indiana Jones you know, but you don't know Mad Max???

another vote saying flip it.......

Title: Re: last day of work
Post by: ChadTower on September 24, 2005, 11:41:00 am

I've never seen Mad Max.
Title: Re: last day of work
Post by: Harry Potter on September 24, 2005, 01:18:40 pm
Curiosity is a terrible thing. I went out there and flipped the switch. Nothing.

-S
And you probably activated the Nuclear Defence System in Russia. Nice move.  >:(
Title: Re: last day of work
Post by: missioncontrol on September 24, 2005, 05:45:35 pm

I've never seen Mad Max.

well that explains it all  ;)
Title: Re: last day of work
Post by: MaximRecoil on September 24, 2005, 06:39:46 pm
When I worked at the PCB factory, one of my co-worker's was on his last night there before relocating to Maryland for a Forest Ranger position of some sort. There was a woman that worked there that got on most everyone's nerves, but especially his. She was "snooty" as my mother would say. Now this guy was always a riot; a natural comedian; but that particular night would have to be the most entertaining night I have ever had at any job, ever.

His plan was to superglue her locker shut. This would have been funny I guess, but not nearly as funny as the antics that unfolded for the entire shift while he tried to accomplish his goal. It was definitely a "you had to be there" type event but it involved a large group effort across the different departments in the factory; suggesting and providing different types of glues and cements from their departments; with even some of the supervisors trying to come up with suggestions. Nothing worked to the point that it wouldn't open with a hard pull and he finally gave up at the end of the night.
Title: Re: last day of work
Post by: DrewKaree on September 24, 2005, 11:18:01 pm
Curiosity is a terrible thing. I went out there and flipped the switch. Nothing.

-S

Stop it.  I need that light on, and it's too far to travel to keep flipping it back on.

Just STOP it. >:(
Title: Re: last day of work
Post by: Stingray on September 26, 2005, 09:22:22 am
Sorry Drew. **turns lights back on**

-S
Title: Re: last day of work
Post by: ChadTower on September 26, 2005, 09:52:59 am

Maybe that is the "our country runs efficently" switch.  Flip it again, see if we pull out of Iraq.
Title: Re: last day of work
Post by: Stingray on September 26, 2005, 10:10:37 am
Hey now that you mention it, Rita was headed right for Houston before I flipped it.

-S
Title: Re: last day of work
Post by: billf on September 26, 2005, 10:14:47 am
Wow, the power to change mother nature.
Title: Re: last day of work
Post by: MajorHavoc on September 26, 2005, 12:38:26 pm
Hide an onion or potato in an inconspicuous location.  Preferably near  or in the office of an adversary or pita supervisor.  Time and decomposition do the rest.  If you have never  been downwind of a rotting potato or onion you can't appreciate the  power  of one of these little gems.  Alternatively, an unopened can of tuna with a few nail holes punched in the lid is also an awesome parting gift.  Duct tape it to the underside of a desk top or stick it above a drop ceiling tile.  Just don't get caught.             
Title: Re: last day of work
Post by: ChadTower on September 26, 2005, 12:42:39 pm

Oh man yeah... when I was little, my mother and I went to NS to stay for a while.  We had an apartment in Mass at the time.  There was a bag of potatoes in the apartment.  When no one saw us for a month, and the bag of potatoes rotted, it smelled so bad that people called the cops thinking we were in there dead.
Title: Re: last day of work
Post by: billf on September 26, 2005, 12:45:45 pm
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Hide an onion or potato in an inconspicuous location.  Preferably near  or in the office of an adversary or pita supervisor.  Time and decomposition do the rest.  If you have never  been downwind of a rotting potato or onion you can't appreciate the  power  of one of these little gems.  Alternatively, an unopened can of tuna with a few nail holes punched in the lid is also an awesome parting gift.  Duct tape it to the underside of a desk top or stick it above a drop ceiling tile.  Just don't get caught.

Now we know the where your username came from.  :D
Title: Re: last day of work
Post by: ChadTower on September 26, 2005, 12:46:50 pm

I usually just let the dead bodies from my last day rampage send my parting message.
Title: Re: last day of work
Post by: missioncontrol on September 26, 2005, 02:24:40 pm
It's kind of hard to make something out smell the smell at the plant. so that's out
Title: Re: last day of work
Post by: ChadTower on September 26, 2005, 02:29:24 pm

Take a little electronic device that squeals and tape it behind a locker or something.  Give everyone a headache.
Title: Re: last day of work
Post by: missioncontrol on September 28, 2005, 04:21:07 pm
ah ha I think I've got an idea one of the superviseor's names is Linda....

I need to find a wav file from the movie The Wedding Singer of that kid when he says "Hey Linda, your a ---smurfette---" and install that as every sound of her office computer.......

off to google I go...
Title: Re: last day of work
Post by: Stingray on September 28, 2005, 04:27:24 pm
Vice-Assistant Undersecretary of Malicious Thoughts. :)

-S
Title: Re: last day of work
Post by: missioncontrol on September 28, 2005, 04:33:50 pm
;D


One question what's a good software to edit a wav file???

I found it but it also includes Adam Sander's next line and I need to cut that out....


incidentally I also found a wave file from the same movie to go onto my other supervisors PC It's when Adam Sandler yells "I am an ---uvula---"
Title: Re: last day of work
Post by: shmokes on September 28, 2005, 04:37:28 pm
Here are a couple of suggestions.  Get a regular can of cheap shaving cream....like the Colgate stuff, for example.  Put it in your freezer and the contents will expand and bust out of it's can.  Peel off the metal and you will have a solid cylinder of shaving cream.  Now, at quitting time, go hide it in one of the drawers in Linda's desk or filing cabinet.  As it thaws it will begin expanding, and you would not believe how much this stuff expands.  It will fill every drawer in the cabinet and spill out of every seam.  Use a few if you really want an enormous pile of shaving cream everywhere.

Another thing you could do, depending on what type of desk she has is go in and take the drawers completely out of the desk.  Now roll the desk completely upside down and put the drawers back in her desk.  With the drawer's in the desk roll it back right side up, being careful not to let any of the drawers slide open at all in the process.  When Linda pulls one of her drawers upen the entire contents will crash to the floor.  Not only will it surprise the hell out of her -- she'll probably scream -- she simply will not even understand how what just happened could possibly have happened.  She'll think, "How did someone turn my drawer upside down without everything falling out?  How did they get it back in the desk?"  And since it won't occur to her to have someone tip the desk upside down, she will proceed to just bite the bullet and pull out ever drawer and watch its contents spill all over her office floor.
Title: Re: last day of work
Post by: Stingray on September 28, 2005, 04:40:49 pm
I wish I disliked someone enough to try the shaving cream thing, that one is truely genius. :)

-S
Title: Re: last day of work
Post by: whammoed on September 28, 2005, 04:41:37 pm
;D


One question what's a good software to edit a wav file???

I found it but it also includes Adam Sander's next line and I need to cut that out....


incidentally I also found a wave file from the same movie to go onto my other supervisors PC It's when Adam Sandler yells "I am an ---auto-censored---"
sndrec32.exe
should already be on your windows machine, you can delete from a point onward or before in the wav
Title: Re: last day of work
Post by: missioncontrol on September 28, 2005, 04:43:14 pm
What are you trying to do take away the tile Stingray gave me???
Title: Re: last day of work
Post by: Stingray on September 28, 2005, 04:44:46 pm
Imagine if you got stuck in traffic as your car fills with shaving cream. Now that would be some good comedy. :)

-S
Title: Re: last day of work
Post by: missioncontrol on September 28, 2005, 04:45:34 pm
sndrec32.exe
should already be on your windows machine, you can delete from a point onward or before in the wav

Thanks,

I'll have look for it tomarrow.....

it's past my bedtime now..........
Title: Re: last day of work
Post by: ChadTower on September 29, 2005, 09:01:33 am
Here are a couple of suggestions.
Title: Re: last day of work
Post by: missioncontrol on September 29, 2005, 10:43:56 am
don't forget to add in this:


Imagine if you got stuck in traffic as your car fills with shaving cream. Now that would be some good comedy. :)

-S

oh and get it on tape for us to view.........
Title: Re: last day of work
Post by: Stingray on September 29, 2005, 11:31:51 am
I have to admit that I gave my shaving cream a good long look this morning before I decided to put it back where it belongs and not in the freezer. :)

-S
Title: Re: last day of work
Post by: billf on September 29, 2005, 11:36:18 am
I mentioned this little prank to my wife and her response was:

"Make a note to yourself: Do not to pi-- off these guys!"
Title: Re: last day of work
Post by: ChadTower on September 29, 2005, 12:55:11 pm

I like longer term, less obvious means.

I tend to do things like loosen the video cable on the back of the TV.
Title: Re: last day of work
Post by: Ed_McCarron on September 29, 2005, 01:43:56 pm
I may try this just to see it happen.  Brilliant.

http://www.cockeyed.com/pranks/frozen/frozen.html

One of my favorite daily websites.
Title: Re: last day of work
Post by: Stingray on September 29, 2005, 01:46:14 pm
I may try this just to see it happen.  Brilliant.

http://www.cockeyed.com/pranks/frozen/frozen.html

One of my favorite daily websites.

Thanks. That should give me reading material for the rest of the day. :)

-S
Title: Re: last day of work
Post by: ChadTower on September 29, 2005, 01:50:10 pm

Reading it now.
Title: Re: last day of work
Post by: Stingray on September 29, 2005, 01:51:07 pm
Dissapointing. Glad I didn't freeze my shaving cream this morning.

-S
Title: Re: last day of work
Post by: ChadTower on September 29, 2005, 01:54:32 pm

Maybe if you froze 15 cans.

Whipped cream?
Title: Re: last day of work
Post by: ChadTower on September 29, 2005, 01:57:15 pm
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wanted to replace one of the meal photos with one of my own creation, the Bacon Churner which is simply two sticks of butter with bacon. I flexed my food-photography skills and prepared this low-carb masterpiece for the camera.

Raw bacon wrapped the butter really well, but the raw bacon didn't have the color I was looking for.

It's like this guy is one of us.
Title: Re: last day of work
Post by: missioncontrol on September 29, 2005, 01:59:41 pm
I wanted it to be true  :'(
Title: Re: last day of work
Post by: Stingray on September 29, 2005, 02:12:38 pm
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wanted to replace one of the meal photos with one of my own creation, the Bacon Churner which is simply two sticks of butter with bacon. I flexed my food-photography skills and prepared this low-carb masterpiece for the camera.

Raw bacon wrapped the butter really well, but the raw bacon didn't have the color I was looking for.

It's like this guy is one of us.

I was just about to point that one out. This guy is a true master. :)

-S
Title: Re: last day of work
Post by: ChadTower on September 29, 2005, 02:36:49 pm

Hey, one of those TGIF is not far from here.
Title: Re: last day of work
Post by: shmokes on September 29, 2005, 03:48:31 pm
How sad.  I read that in a magazine once.  A Stuff or Maxim or one of those.  I guess those ---daisies--- didn't do their homework. 

As far as it thawing before you get to work.....don't y'all have a breakroom?  Freeze it at work.  Though, of course, it appears that you might have to freeze quite a few, unfortunately.
Title: Re: last day of work
Post by: missioncontrol on September 30, 2005, 08:36:23 am
our breakroom isn't equipped with a freezer. just an industrial refrigerator.