Engineer was so sick of office pranks, he 'wiped' his antagonist's disk

Monday mornings are no joke, so The Register always tries to lighten them up with a new installment of "Who, Me?" – our reader-contributed column that shares your stories of workplace japes, mistakes, and escapes. This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Joe" who told us that while studying for an electrical engineering degree in the late 1990s, he scored a gig in the messaging lab at an Australian mobile carrier. "The office there was full of practical jokers," he wrote. "Boxes of confetti balanced on a door, a bag of prawn heads left under the carpet in one of the senior engineer's cars, hand cream on the phone earpieces... all the usual stuff." Joe told us that one colleague, whom he suggested we call "TF," took the pranks a little too far. "TF liked to sneak up behind me and ROAR in my ear to scare me in the hope I would jump," Joe wrote. …