I'm not 100% certain, but I believe I've just been the victim of an office prank. I work in a cubicle, and I get it early (7:30). The people who work near me come in much later, between 9 and 9:30, or even later than that, except for one guy, who sits behind me, who comes in at 7:15. For some reason, this guy doesn't like me. He's older, and he pretends he's deaf when I'm trying to talk to him, steps on my feet in the copy room "without noticing", passes me in narrow corridors without giving an inch, forcing me to press myself against the wall to avoid being knocked down, that sort of thing.
I can think of nothing I've done to piss this guy off (and my manager even said he's weird like that, he just chooses people to dislike, and then is systemically rude to them).
Anyway, I usually eat breakfast at around 9, and on Fridays, I get it from the cafeteria, cause they do eggs and bacon and all that jazz.
When I got back from the cafe with my breakfast in hand (I'd been gone all of 5 or 10 minutes) my chair was soaking wet. Nothing else was wet, really, apart from a few droplets on the floor, and my jacket, which is hung on the back of my chair, was bone dry. It really looks like somebody deliberately poured water on my chair.
It's not outside the realm of possibility that someone was at my cube, looking for something they needed and accidentally spilled their water, but it certainly doesn't look that way. I'm pretty paranoid right now.
You have to understand -- I work with a bunch of socially awkward editors. It's not in any way like a boys' club or a dorm or anything. The atmosphere that promotes friendly pranking is simply not here. If someone pranked, someone did so out of malice. And I have no enemies (except apparently that guy behind me).
I can think of nothing I've done to piss this guy off (and my manager even said he's weird like that, he just chooses people to dislike, and then is systemically rude to them).
Anyway, I usually eat breakfast at around 9, and on Fridays, I get it from the cafeteria, cause they do eggs and bacon and all that jazz.
When I got back from the cafe with my breakfast in hand (I'd been gone all of 5 or 10 minutes) my chair was soaking wet. Nothing else was wet, really, apart from a few droplets on the floor, and my jacket, which is hung on the back of my chair, was bone dry. It really looks like somebody deliberately poured water on my chair.
It's not outside the realm of possibility that someone was at my cube, looking for something they needed and accidentally spilled their water, but it certainly doesn't look that way. I'm pretty paranoid right now.
You have to understand -- I work with a bunch of socially awkward editors. It's not in any way like a boys' club or a dorm or anything. The atmosphere that promotes friendly pranking is simply not here. If someone pranked, someone did so out of malice. And I have no enemies (except apparently that guy behind me).
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