I had a co-worker who sat on the opposite side of the cube wall from me who liked whiney folk music. She'd play it from the PC speaker quiet enough I could barely hear it. As much as I don't like whiney folk music it was worse because I could only barely hear it. I offered her my headphones, I even offered her my speakers.
Finally the day before Christmas I stole the audio cable from the CDROM drive to the sound card. She didn't find out for 3 or 4 days. When she did she sent an email to the whole company "I know who you are and I will get you for messing with my computer!" She got an HR action. While she was in the meeting with HR (this is why you don't send threatening emails to the whole company) our boss came over and asked me not to do that again. A couple weeks later she was back at it so this time I cut all the paper out of the speaker. She in turn stole the power cables from everything in the cube of the guy to my left... She got "to pursue other opportunities" after that. -Curt ________________________________ From: Craig via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Sent: Wednesday, October 1, 2014 2:04 PM Subject: Re: [MBZ] Becker BE 1480 Cassette plays but the silence is deafening On Wed, 1 Oct 2014 06:45:11 -0400 Tim Crone via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Next time some guy with a gangsta radio drives by I will think how much > fun it would be to rebroadcast Brahms on his wavelength. I did something like that while working at Hewlett Packard in Colorado Springs. The folks on the production line, some distance away from my desk, would play the rock music on their radios rather loudly, so I got an RF signal generator and an audio signal generator. I made a dipole antenna about 5' long with a BNC connector and some wire and connected that to the output of the RF signal generator with some RG-58 BNC cables. I connected the output of the audio signal generator to the FM input of the RF signal generator and set it for 1 kHz. I then tuned the RF signal generator until I heard a raucous 1 kHz tone (I overmodulated the RF signal generator compared to the FM standard), at which point the radio was turned down. One time after having done that, I went to talk with the guy with the radio. I said, "I'd like to make a deal with you." The guy perked up. So I said gently, "Would you please turn your radio down?" The guy was very cooperative and did turn down the radio. One of his coworkers then said, "So what's the deal?" I said, "If you will keep the radio turned down, I won't jam it again." I had no more problems. Craig _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
