If ANYONE can solve this problem, it's Brian Eno!

There is absolutely no way anybody came into this thread without either reading or at least THINKING "Give Vanilla Advice Before She Comes"

You sly dog you.

I once used the spanish thing. We had a colleague who was leaving 'office notes' everywhere, stuff about not overfeeding the office fish, etc. Nothing big but kind of annoying.

I changed all the notes to spanish in google translate and replaced them. Then I logged into his PC and photoshopped his desktop background so that all the text was also in spanish, and changed the system language :P

We have an office forum too, so at a later date I changed his avatar on that to the spanish flag and translated his signature :P


Of course, this was all in good fun, not to annoy them particularly, but it was fun :P

there is a woman in my firm who thinks she runs the firm

i just calmly ignore her or answer with non-sequiturs

eventually, she'll step on someone else's tail and i go downstairs, buy popcorn and a can of coke, sit back and revel in the ensuing battle

In that case, just pretend she doesn't exist. Not only does this make your life seem less stressful but it also will probably drive her insane.

I'm curious to know how he reacted to that!

Lol...did you get beat up a lot in school GB?

I'd say when she starts her shit, just laugh at her. When she sees how ridiculous you find her, there's a good chance her ego will be bruised and she'll revert to just silently seething and hating you - which is something easily ignored in the workplace.

Nope. Did you have parents or were you raised by wolves?