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Can I get some ideas for my little office joke?

Mar 8, 2012 7:24 PM

Six weeks ago I turned in a time card written in crayon...
The next pay period I used roman numerals and wrote a name in Greek...
This week I used binary numbers for everything...

The administrative assistant started hanging them on a "dedicated wall" this afternoon. Seeing the laughter out of something so small..
...I think I'm going to keep this up as long as they don't know who is doing this - HA!

Any ideas?
Creative/Funny ways for a phony time card...

jordan711 jordan711

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If you have room, write it in old timey style.
"The 18th of March, in the 2012th year of our Lord at half past 1"

Or use the star dates from Star Trek

That's all I can think of.

captainsuperdawg captainsuperdawg
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professore professore
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like the star trek idea
have you considered using other languages? including "help! i'm stuck in a chinese timecard factory."

moosezilla moosezilla
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Morse code, or braille

lichme lichme
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@lichme: I was just looking up ways to do braille!

jordan711 jordan711
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magazine clippings, serial killer employee

clkite clkite
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Depending on how you fill out your time cards base 8, 12 and 16 could be fun.
Other options:
A standard letter/number subtitution cypher (A=1, B=2) so that your name would be in numbers and your time in letters.

Egyptian or Mayan hieroglyphics would work for the numbers. Not certain about your name.

Also, they are still paying you, right? Cause it's all great and fun to make people laugh, but once they stop paying you it becomes a lot less fun.

gt0163c gt0163c
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An artistic expression of how you view your name in watercolors?

joslynmsu joslynmsu
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how about you just act like a professional and turn in a time card written legibly so your hr/ap dept can process it in a timely fashion? the silliness will get old quick, and considering you're mucking around with a document linked to your wages you'll either end up coming across as someone who's trying to conceal unethical labor reporting or being shorted on a check because they can't decipher your "prank". likely both.

pinchecat pinchecat
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@pinchecat: I've turned in MY legible time card the last month and a half. I've been creating and turning in BLANK time cards. I probably should have explained it a bit more....my bad

jordan711 jordan711
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I think you should substract every bathroom break while doing the totals, identifying them as such, of course. (Though complete specificity could be objectionable.)

pamfenway pamfenway

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