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Office Pranks: The Ultimate Guide to Pranking Your Coworkers (Without Getting Fired)

SnackNation

This one comes from SnackNation Member Success Manager Jessie Montz, the self-described “Queen of the Office Pranksters.”. The idea is to rig up a bottle of body spray underneath the victim’s office chair so that when he sits down, it triggers the bottle to spray. Office chair. Clothespin. Fake Birthday.

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I’m not allowed to buy my own office chair, did I accept an offer the company meant to withdraw, and more

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I’m not allowed to buy my own office chair. Having big issues with my back pain and several scary looking diagnoses, I asked our manager if I can buy an ergonomic chair with high adjustability and pay for it myself. It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. The answer was “no, I am not sure we are insured for this.”

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I keep breaking office chairs, manager asked if I have a problem working for a woman, and more

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I keep breaking my office chairs. A year or so ago, upper management bought new chairs for our entire office. She cares most about salary and the life I will be living. This is also my first real job in the legal field (I’ve been here two years) so his reference will be very valuable to me when I job search.

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recruiter contacted me at my work email address, interviewing for a job where I’d work at a small table in my boss’s office, and more

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The interviewer (VP and sister of the company owner) will be my boss, and the work space she has planned for her new hire is a computer set up at a small round table in the corner of her office. No desk, no shelf, no drawer, not even a proper office chair, at least as far as I could tell in my first interview. Is this legal?

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my employee is overly budget-conscious and freaks out when we spend money

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I’m willing to shut it down the next time he opens this discussion, since it’s been explained from every angle and isn’t making a difference, but I do need him to be capable of watching the company spend money on (for example) office supplies, IT infrastructure, furniture, advertising, etc.

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I was laid off and now my manager wants my help, I don’t want my company car, and more

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Even though I earn a really good salary, it irks me that I spend over $3,500 a year for a car I don’t want. Also, there must be legal issues regarding an employer forcing an employee to spend money on something they don’t want to have. I am about to return home for another round of in-person meetings with my boss.