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I use to pull a lot of little pranks, but I think one of my best was when I was working at GEICO in the motorcycle insurance sales department. If we had to put someone on hold, we had to time it. We couldn't let the call go for more than 1 or 2 minute without breaking the hold. To assure that we held hold times to a minimum we were issued digital timers and that we could set the alarm on for whatever time frame we needed. Well, I was able to procure a 2nd timer one afternoon. The young lady that worked at the desk next to mine was off work so I crawled under her desk then taped the extra timer to the back of a drawer and set the time for 22 hours or something like that. Now this is a pretty big room. Probably about 60 or more people in there working on the phones. And one of the things that drove people crazy was a timer that went off for more than a few seconds. I should add that the desks were metal and very good conductors of sound. When the timer went off the next day no one knew where it was. My friend Knew it was loudest around her desk, but couldn't find it anywhere. It probably went off for 5 or more minutes before my buddy who worked there told her where it was. The whole room as in a tizzy wanting to know where that timer was. Of course they thought my buddy did it because he knew where the time was placed. Part of the beauty was that I was off work and no one suspected that I was the culprit. My buddy finally ratted me out to his girlfriend who worked in the same room. Everybody except the target of the prank loved it. The victim didn't speak to me for a week once she learned it was me. My poor buddy was on a call when the timer went off and got to laughing so hard at the frenzied search for the timer that he had to disconnect the call he was on. I hate that I actually didn't get to see the results of it, but not being there made it work better.