I'm pretty ashamed of this now that I've gotten older.......the reality is that passive-aggressive behavior isn't going to fix a problem. Having said that - I did find this experience incredibly cathartic.

One of my first employers was a serious nag. I did tech support and she was a problem user. Nothing was ever good enough - all of her mistakes were somehow my fault and she would not listen when I tried to explain thing to her and fought me every step of the way. I didn't have any other employment options and I felt trapped in a job I hated.

One night after a bit of under-age drinking, I decided to encourage her deep seeded belief that computers were out to get her. I set up a script to hit her machine over the network from another computer. It would quickly remap her keyboard for about 2 seconds and swap a single letter with another letter. I set it to run at random intervals and promptly forgot about it. A few weeks later I was moved to another area. Almost a year later I found out that she had replaced her keyboard three times and her workstation twice.

As a side note - I am convinced the guy after me found the script and said nothing about it because he felt the same way.

Like I said earlier - I'm pretty ashamed of this now and it breaches my professional ethics but man it felt good when I found out what happened.

Check out the site in the sources for a running list of interesting experiences people have had in the service industry. It can be pretty funny and is a great time waster.
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http://notalwaysright.com

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