The casual office employee stalks his coworker with the intensity of a lion hunting a wildebeest on the African savanna. Never rushed, always contemplated, the average office prank is executed with all the razor precision found in a well-pressed shirt.
In part one of our examination of the office prank, we study the first of many techniques office workers use to triumph over co-adversaries. To those with soft stomachs, the gruesome techniques used to humiliate one’s peers with cardboard might be better left unseen.
Tomorrow will mark an important day in the history of office jobs. With the help of our readers, we’ve assembled an elite guidebook to illustrate the dangerous world of the corporate cubicle world—to warn you of the troubles that lie ahead and teach you, should the situation be the most dire, how to fight back. Until then, we wanted to show you what could happen should you drop your guard for even a moment. Our reader explains, “We were having our office refurbed and this part was empty whilst all the big bosses worked around the other side of the building.” Always be ready, friends. Always. [Thanks Ben!]
Technology was meant to empower us—to clothe us, feed us and enable us to be more than chimps slinging poo from the trees. But it’s been misused. Offices are filled to the brim with technology where it plays a role of oppressor. Fluorescent lights, computer monitors, fax machines, copiers, mobile phones—these things are all great tech, but they can create world that’s nearly intolerable to most people who work there. Yet a majority of our readers manage to sit in these places all day, every day, with no end in sight. These readers are heroes.
