@--Tito--: I would love to know how it is done to route them all. Feel free to PM or leave me your email. I'm all ears. I'll even tape the insanity here when done.

ThatsMrOffDutyNinja

@gadgetfanatic: Yes the world is still recovering from that.

Well you still are, anyway.

strider_mt2k

@ThatsMrOffDutyNinja: What if you could re route those 6 #'s to all the numbers like TVGenius said.

--Tito--

@TVGenius: When I was in middle school, they used a system similar to that. It was used in a rather interesting way. Every time the school had a tornado drill, the alarm signal came from the phone system. The signal was a constant ring. Someone actually mistook it for an actual phone call once but then another person told her it was a tornado drill.

gadgetfanatic

This sounds like a lot of fun. LOL. I can do so much damage @ my job w/ this. :-)

striggity

@JamesR2: GC only supports up to 6 numbers. If i have over 300 phone plus another 200 cell phones. make it kind of hard. I want maximum Lawlz!

ThatsMrOffDutyNinja

Reminds me of the time I was in our IT dept. right after we switched to Cisco IP phones. The IT director made some comment about how he could dial a certain code and 'page' all the phones at once. For some reason, in the process he actually dialed it and hit Dial. When he realized what he had done, he fired off a S-bomb and hit End Call, but unfortunately what he said had already gone out and been broadcast over every phone on the system.

TVGenius

Everybody's a Crank Yanker at heart.

infmom

This coming from the people who went to CES with the TV-B-Gone.

gadgetfanatic

I would SOOOOOO do this but all the calls go through the receptionist. No direct #'s ;(

I wonder if I can find a new job before April 1st so I can do this???

BrokenFERN

You can already do this with Grandcentral. You just add all the phone numbers to your main number. Then when somebody calls your grandcentral number, all the phones ring.

JamesR2

@Synthaxx: Such an appropriate reference!

@myneid: So make your own phone ring and just listen ;)

Polybius

my guess on who is the prankster would probably be the guy who's phone is not ringing.

myneid

The best part about doing this would be doing it from my PSP.

Mr.SithNinja

"My birth cry will be the sound of every phone on this planet ringing in unison."*

Yeah, that'd freak people out ;)

(* Lawnmowerman)

Synthaxx

@strider_mt2k: or the one with two phone-sex operators. My favorite part about that one is the Australian accents.

CubFan81

skype doesn't know how to autodial extensions does it?

Paradise

Haha, I would sooo do this. Where's my skype account?!

SomeoneUKno

psh, 10 bucks isn't worth it.

lafond66

Just get a recording of what happens PLEASE.

Those pranks where they connect two take-out places are the best!

strider_mt2k

man, now I need to set up a Skype account.

rndmideas

@nutbastard: I was thinking the same thing....and still confused... eh *shrug*

shenanigans61

Hmm... I wonder if I could hit the cell phones with this one too. Excellent.

ViperBorg

"That means you can quietly take pride in the fact that you are that asshole"

and this is different from every other day of my existence... how?

nutbastard

or if you have a skype unlimited canada and us plan, you can do it for free, as long as your office has an american or canadian number

kush

PLA Radio just did a show about this kind of thing. They call it "mass calling."

[www.phonelosers.org]

rbcp

Reminds me of years ago at a company where I worked. We discovered we could forward the phones in a ring, so several of us in software development forwarded ours to each other. Anybody calling any of the numbers just got a busy signal. It cut down on the number of support calls a great deal. Nowdays the phone system is too smart and detects the infinite loop.

CSX321

Anyone know of a way you can do this using a free service? (GrandCentral isn't allowing anymore registrations)

jason724

@jdhuck: Elle Oh Elle

Rhodizzle

I have beenn doing thid for a while. It used to be funny when I connected the President and the maintenance guy. The prez would yell, "Why in the hell did you call me?".

I got found out. Not fun.

jdhuck

the PLA mass calls are hilarious. then again, PLA radio is generally hilarious.

frontrowgirl

Very happy I already have unlimited Skype minutes. I will be doing this for sure at a few places, some good ideas.

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