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Re: Tell us your naughty stories

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Post by waterhouse » Sat, Oct 23, 2010, 8:56 AM UTC

At several summer camps, we wore lanyards that carried our dining hall cards. Occasionally, I forgot mine. But I gained admittance to the dining hall anyway...

The structure of the dining hall was this: There were several tables outside the building, and more tables directly inside, and then there was the entrance to the kitchen/buffet area with the food. On the right side of the entrance, there was a cashier who swiped people's cards as they came in. People would go in, get a tray of food, and come out to eat; later, they might bring their tray back in for more food. Those who went back in just passed by the cashier to the left; you didn't have to pay twice to get seconds.

So, here's what I did: Send in a friend, who picks up two trays at once (still stacked; it looks almost the same as a single tray) with an extra plate (again, stacked under another) and comes out. Out at the table, I take his extra tray, put an extra plate on it, maybe scrub a bit of food on it, put on his lanyard, and carry the tray "back" in to get "seconds". No one ever questioned me.

Re: Tell us your naughty stories

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Post by jdavid » Sat, Oct 23, 2010, 8:58 AM UTC

anyone else figure out that cable channels were blocked with bandpass filters when they were a kid? #freeHBO

Re: Tell us your naughty stories

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Post by wyclif » Sat, Oct 23, 2010, 9:00 AM UTC

bugsy wrote: post #5

I started work at a place where I didn't have an office but worked on a folding table with a broken chair in a small storage room. After the first month of this it became intolerable. I noticed though that there was a very large office formerly used as a hardware testing lab that was no longer occupied. I came in one weekend with some friends when no one was there and moved most everything out of that room up two sto…

Speaking of conferences, I have never asked for permission to go to them. I just do, and then submit expenses.

In certain cases it's far easier to apologise later than ask for permission first.

Re: Tell us your naughty stories

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Post by xentronium » Sat, Oct 23, 2010, 9:10 AM UTC

davidst wrote: post #18

I rode a motorcycle across Russia and several of the former Soviet republics eight years ago. You can't help but learn many useful hacks along the way. Here's one: How to deal with the police. Their work is boring and it's not unusual for them to go long stretches of time without being paid. They see you coming up the road-- They're curious and you look interesting. They motion for you to pull over and unless you've…

Awesome. I wonder if this works for foreigners only.

Re: Tell us your naughty stories

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Post by bvi » Sat, Oct 23, 2010, 9:10 AM UTC

maxklein wrote: post #4

On my recent trip to Africa, I avoided giving bribes at 3 different spots in the airport by doing the following: When they asked me for "something to have lunch with", I'd lower my voice and say "it's not possible now" then quickly glance at the person behind me. Neither I nor them had to pay anything.

Ok, I don't get it.

Re: Tell us your naughty stories

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Post by garrettgillas » Sat, Oct 23, 2010, 9:11 AM UTC

When I was in 6th grade ('94) I scanned articles from our encyclopedias onto our 386 and then used OCR software to make it usable as a class research paper. You can imagine what happened the following year when I got dial up.

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I also had a computer hardware class in high school that the teacher would often leave for extended periods of time. The other students and I get enough systems running and scrounged a router so that we could play multiplayer Warcraft II during class (which was an old game even back then). We pulled this off for about a month before we got caught. It turned out the teacher really didn't care anyway.

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When I lived in rural Mexico, I used to tape pictures of Jesus to the outside of my packages that I sent home so that the shady people in the mail system wouldn't mess with them.

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My old boss used to add useless revisions every time that I sent him an email saying that part of a project was finished such as "Change the font up to 12px on that navigation please. What? It's already at 12? Can you make it 12 and a half? No, 13px is way too big but I want it bigger than 12 so just fix it OK?"...yeah, that guy. Anyway, I found that if I sent him emails at the end of the day, he would not read them until the following morning when he had the most emails to respond to. Therefore, sending him finished tasks at the end of the day meant fewer useless revisions. I found that outlook has a "delay delivery" setting so as I finished tasks through the day, I would que them to send at about 7:30 at night, when I could be sure that he wasn't working. Lo and behold, the endless revisions went down by about 90% and I got a lot more stuff done.

Re: Tell us your naughty stories

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Post by tomedme » Sat, Oct 23, 2010, 9:13 AM UTC

wyclif wrote: post #23

bugsy wrote: post #5

I started work at a place where I didn't have an office but worked on a folding table with a broken chair in a small storage room. After the first month of this it became intolerable. I noticed though that there was a very large office formerly used as a hardware testing lab that was no longer occupied. I came in one weekend with some friends when no one was there and moved most everything out of that room up two sto…

Speaking of conferences, I have never asked for permission to go to them. I just do, and then submit expenses. In certain cases it's far easier to apologise later than ask for permission first.

Straight out of the 4HWW book, but something I now do a lot more - and so far so good!

Re: Tell us your naughty stories

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Post by RiderOfGiraffes » Sat, Oct 23, 2010, 9:16 AM UTC

ilovevalley wrote: post #14

when I was 13, I tied up this girl that was 12 with a jumprope, then beat the fuck out of her. By the time I was done, her lip was split, her wrists were bleeding from the rope cuttin into them, one of her eyes was swollen shut, she was missing two teeth, her small tits will entirely black and blue, her pussy was bleeding, and I’m fairly sure that several bones in her feet were broken. When I let her down, she crumpl…

Don't just downvote this sort of material - flag it. If anything deserves flagging for inappropriateness, it's this.

Click on the link and flag it: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1822990

Re: Tell us your naughty stories

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Post by twidlit » Sat, Oct 23, 2010, 9:17 AM UTC

jonhendry wrote: post #2

Pretty minor, but while working on FedFunds/Eurodollar trading software at a big bank, I came in on the weekend and reconfigured my cubicle walls so that the entrance was in the same aisle as my coworkers, rather than being on the opposite side and having to walk all the way around to talk to them. Normally I believe that sort of thing involved the maintenance staff, etc, at who-knows-what expense.

That's very hacky of you.

Re: Tell us your naughty stories

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Oct 23, 2010, 9:17 AM UTC

bvi wrote: post #25

maxklein wrote: post #4

On my recent trip to Africa, I avoided giving bribes at 3 different spots in the airport by doing the following: When they asked me for "something to have lunch with", I'd lower my voice and say "it's not possible now" then quickly glance at the person behind me. Neither I nor them had to pay anything.

Ok, I don't get it.

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