The Youth Cartel

when your coworker goes on vacation…

January 16, 2007 · 19 comments

try one of these:

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this last one was done to a ys staffer (not this pic, but exactly like it) two weeks ago for her birthday. every pen and pencil, every thing on her desk, all wrapped in foil.

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(ht to steve case)

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Steven Burleson January 16, 2007 at 11:42 am

Awesome…Awesome to the Max

otherthoughts January 16, 2007 at 12:21 pm

hmmm, just thinking you’re brave to give this many ideas away when you’re out of the office for a week.

Chris January 16, 2007 at 2:36 pm

very awesome. it would be cool/ frustrating to come back to this. our pastor got mad last time we let someone in his office to “decorate” it.

Len January 16, 2007 at 5:23 pm

One time I did a friends office with string going back and forth around his office. And if it’s small and some friends help, it’s not that hard to get about 4-5 feet of baloons in a room.

Paul January 16, 2007 at 5:29 pm

My students did the ‘wrap up the office in newspaper’ one to me. They did an awesome job, and neatly wrapped absolutley everything!! They also completely wrapped my car in plastic wrap! Very funny stuff, every now again these pranksters strike… of course the fun is getting revenge.

Lindsay Walker January 16, 2007 at 8:33 pm

We did the same thing to a director at Mount Hermon, a camp near Santa Cruz, CA. Every book, every pen… it took about 4 hours and 3 Costco sized rolls of tin foil, but very cool!

http://new.photos.yahoo.com/lindsayrwalker/album/576460762325504004/photo/294928803323524699/31

Brian Buchanan January 16, 2007 at 9:44 pm

haha wow if someone ever did that to me i might be charged with murder

Claire Hailwood January 17, 2007 at 4:50 am

How do you get the cress out of a keyboard? Knew someone who sowed cress over someone’s carpet while they were on honeymoon …

Mark January 17, 2007 at 12:57 pm

To get cress out of a keyboard you do what you do to clean any keyboard. Put it in the dish washer.

Claire January 17, 2007 at 1:09 pm

Of course. How foolish of me not to realise! I can only imagine my husband’s reaction if he saw me putting a keyboard into the dishwasher … it’s at moments like these that I need an emoticon that does a little shudder ;)

Mark January 17, 2007 at 4:54 pm

I’m serious! With a non-fancy keyboard they’re just big switchs and some basic circuitry, if you dry them out thoroughly (I mean, very thoroughly) then they’ll be fine. Probably.

chuckk gerwig January 18, 2007 at 12:12 am

RACHEL TANNER AND THUD GUDNASON i know you read this blog don’t get any ideas while IM away in Florida for Brian’s wedding. I will fire Tim as a ritual sacrafice if you mess with my office.

Love,
Chuckk

nicole ross January 18, 2007 at 3:24 am

Ah, you forgot about T.P.ing a desk! We strung two rolls of toilet paper on a coworkers cublicle. We even hung it from the ceiling to make a little “curtain.” It was way fun….and that’s what happens when you call in sick!

dewde January 18, 2007 at 1:58 pm

Funny!

We just pulled a similar prank. Here is the video I made of it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qLAFni841Q

ken January 18, 2007 at 4:00 pm

A coworker of mine said that one time he and some others took fishing line, tied it to all of the items on a coworker’s desk, ran the lines to the wire hole down and back out to the chair. When he pulled his chair out, everything did this implosion towards the back of the desk.

Katie January 19, 2007 at 11:48 pm

A friend of mine did the packing peanuts thing. It was an office conspiracy against someone who went on vacation for 2 weeks. Good stuff.

Jann January 20, 2007 at 12:11 pm

Great stuff. This should go into a Ideas book. This should should also be talked about when interviewing for a YM job. Then you’ll know how uptight the Senior pastor might be.

Jim January 20, 2007 at 10:25 pm

Thanks Marko. This gives me PLENTY of ideas of what to do while Alan Mercer is on sabbatical!

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