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[Truant]

Where I work we have a callcenter where our clients can call for support on our various products. At slow days, we sometimes prank call those guys and pretend we are clients in need of help. Whenever I called, I always used the same persona, this christian guy who always explained his problems in some religious context.

After a while I started to take it further, and I sorta made it look like he started to work at my company. I registered a facebook profile under his name, with a picture of him, his family, his car, all sorts of detail, I made up his old company, everything. I then started to add the excecs and bosses at my work to his facebook profile. So far, so good.

Here's where it gets strange.

I wrote on his facebook that he and his wife are expecting a new baby next month, and suddenly people at work are planning to get him a gift. This is usually done secretly, so they can surprise who ever is getting celebrated with pictures, a cake, etc.

Now, I can roll with it and hope they'll just laugh it off when they find there are no records of him at all to have ever worked here, nor even exist. OR, I can come clean, which is probably the best idea. Now, I work at a pretty big company, and I'm even hearing people at lunch talking about this guy I invented, as I gave him some crazy made-up job title that got a few reactions from old timers here.

Maybe I should announce his suicide or something, like The Suzie episode from Seinfeld.

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[DarienA]

And the joke part is where?

 

[itxaka]

mmm

just I don't know what to say. That sounds like something a strange guy will do, go that far to create an imaginary persona just for a prank.

But sounds funny because it isn't me. I would wait for everything to develop and ever say a thing.

 

[shanshan310]

ha ha. well, if you tell them, then they will know it was you. Maybe don't do that, unlesss your sure they're gonna find out.

Why not pretend to be out of the know and buy him a present too?

 

[mcmonkeyplc]

You know, he could always just leave the company...

 

[Truant]

Or he could die. I just don't see why he would leave just like that. Especially after bringing a new child into this world.

 

[soultron]

I shat at the "getting him a gift" part.

Man, if you want to take the coward's way out, just have him quit the job. "God was a stay at home Dad, and I will be too! Thanks for the support, ____ Co. Inc.!"

 

[Desiato]

"I have to go now, my planet needs me."?

 

[Zenith]

Email Scott Adams of Dilbert. He includes stories like these in his books.

 

[cntr]

The obvious answer is to acquire a kid and a woman and disguise yourself and them (with their consent) as the guy's family.

 

[Truant]

His facebook has pictures of his family. I'd have to get those very people, whoever they are, to show up. Not going to happen.

 

[sefskillz]

Apparently, the pregnancy is going to be a tough one, the wife may not make it through. I say it's about time he started some interoffice online dating.

 

[Uncle]

Now, Andy did you hear about this one?

 

[GrotesqueBeauty]

I'm going to assume your life is a Twilight Zone episode, and in the end you will try to get the guilt off your chest only to find out the guy actually exists.

 

[Sword Familiar]

Pretend you know this guy, let your co-workers buy him a gift and tell them he's sick, but that you can give it to him the next time you see him. Keep the gift. Profit.

 

[Johann]

I'm going to assume your life is a Twilight Zone episode, and in the end you will try to get the guilt off your chest only to find out the guy actually exists.

No, no. That's more in 'Are you Afraid of the Dark?' territory.

 

[Truant]

No, that would be if he was trying to kill me or something.

 

[GMB]

I think I've seen this on tv in some sitcom or whatever...


Maybe they're the ones pranking you now?

But yeah, make him die, or leave the company. Just make sure to update us with info man. :lol

 

[Sword Familiar]

He does exist. In the minds of your co-workers.

 

[GrotesqueBeauty]

No, that would be if he was trying to kill me or something.

Or perhaps if it turned out you were the made up character all along.

 

[Gattsu25]

Buy him a gift and never tell a soul it was you

then continue to update his facebook profile and eventually begin to feel as if his life is better than your. Then, when you show up to work one day and find someone who claims to be your invented coworker you'll probably start investigating the impostor who will carefully stride the lines of giving away subtle hints that he is an impostor and pretending to be the real guy--even going so far as to confront you and later call the cops on you as you stalk him more and more intently.

Just make sure that, during a horrible thunderstorm at night, you confront him at his house where you are either able to determine that he is a serial killer who is targeting your family--or that you have gone crazy and imagined that you created this character.

Both options end with you killing this man and going to jail for it, however.

 

[Truant]

Or perhaps if it turned out you were the made up character all along.

Now that sounds like a Twilight Zone episode.

 

[Zeppu]

Suggest they get him a PSP. Then scratch it. Then we'll be in a prank territory we're familiar with.

 

[Salazar]

You could raffle off the opportunity to be him—for the span of the party and gift-giving—on GAF.

 

[Jamesearlcash]

So they are going to buy a gift for a guy that works in their place, but they've never actually seen him ? More fool them, if they are genuinely pulled in by this then you should be having alot more fun with this... think of the possibilities !

 

[Truant]

I'm 24. He's 48.

I don't look remotely close to him. I'd have to find the person who's photo I used.

 

[Truant]

So they are going to buy a gift for a guy that works in their place, but they've never actually seen him ? More fool them, if they are genuinely pulled in by this then you should be having alot more fun with this... think of the possibilities !

Yeah, it surprised me as well. Never met him, never seen him. He just suddenly started working here.

 

[Y2Kev]

Maybe I should announce his suicide or something, like The Suzie episode from Seinfeld.

Is there an issue in life that can't be resolved by a Seinfeld episode? :lol

 

[Dali]

Stay the course. Comedic gold awaits us at the end of this journey.

 

[Truant]

Ok, so you all agree that I should just ride it out and see what happens?

I could use someone to make his company website, though. Maybe some other time.

 

[medrew]

I think I've seen this on tv in some sitcom or whatever...


Maybe they're the ones pranking you now?

But yeah, make him die, or leave the company. Just make sure to update us with info man. :lol

There was an ep of something similar like this on the short-lived Dilbert show.

The engineers hear that there is an unused cube to be had. They discover its location and lay claim to it, before marketing can get a hold of it. To ensure that they don't lose this precious commodity, they quickly create an employee named Todd as a new employee and the cube's occupant. Word quickly spreads about this great new employee and soon Todd is made the engineering project head. So Dilbert and Alice find that they must do Todd's work in addition to their own and the Wally's When Catbert can't find any record of Todd, the engineers create an employee file for Todd. Catbert counteracts by instituting a rating system, which means that while Todd is the highest performer in the group, Wally is classified as "Retard", which gets him fired. The engineers decide they need to kill Todd. The Pointy-Haired boss overhears this and the engineering team is arrested and it's up to Dogbert and Wally to save the day.

 

[Woodsy]

At this point, you have to do nothing. Just fade into the shadows and let it play out.

 

[fistfulofmetal]

plant the seeds of an unstable relationship. fights, questioning the commitment and whether or not the baby is yours, etc. then when you disappear off of facebook it'll become the biggest mystery your company has ever seen.

 

[MC Safety]

I don't understand.

People at your company are planning to give gifts to someone they don't know and have never seen?

Do people do this in real life?

This seems a lot of work to prank very very stupid people.

 

[hiro4]

You should make a profile of the wife also.
Just build it up to a climax. keep track of every ones reactions etc also on the workfloor.

Then publish it as a book since you will need the money when they find out you made everything up and fire your ass.

 

[gofreak]

I can't buy that no one is wondering where he is or has gone looking for him to say hello or whatever.

 

[EVIL]

I will be watching this with great anticipation, expecting copious amounts of win!

Goodluck!

 

[Salazar]

I will be watching this with great anticipation, expecting copious amounts of win!

Goodluck!

Win for whom ?

 

[agrajag]

Maybe I should announce his suicide or something, like The Suzie episode from Seinfeld.

But then they'll want to come to the funeral :lol

 

[Escape Goat]

Win for whom ?

GAF

 

[Senor Silky]

Is his name Robert Paulson?

 

[Steppenwolf]

The people at your company are strange. If they want to give gifts to someone they don't know they are either pretty wierd or they try to brown nose this guy. I think in both cases they deserve to get pranked. I wouldn't say anything if i was you.

 

[kaizoku]

a prank which only you know about? how is that even funny?

how the hell do you go from client who rings up your call centre to complain during slow days to being an employee everyone knows about and has seen on facebook but has never met or worked with?

are you just making this up?

 

[orion434]

Or he could die. I just don't see why he would leave just like that. Especially after bringing a new child into this world.

Then you'll have those same people wanting to attend his funeral...

 

[EVIL]

You should make a profile of the wife also.
Just build it up to a climax. keep track of every ones reactions etc also on the workfloor.

Then publish it as a book since you will need the money when they find out you made everything up and fire your ass.

Genious!

GAF

Indeed!

a prank which only you know about? how is that even funny?

See quote above

 

[DoomGyver]

a prank which only you know about? how is that even funny?

how the hell do you go from client who rings up your call centre to complain during slow days to being an employee everyone knows about and has seen on facebook but has never met or worked with?

are you just making this up?

I was about to post this word for word. Tell your coworkers that it was you all along only if you want to embarrass yourself.

 

[Truant]

a prank which only you know about? how is that even funny?

how the hell do you go from client who rings up your call centre to complain during slow days to being an employee everyone knows about and has seen on facebook but has never met or worked with?

are you just making this up?

Like I said, we're a big company. The guys at the callcenter get hundreds of calls each day, they don't remember shit like this. Besides, the character had evolved enough that he would realistic enough by the time I faked him starting here they wouldn't have recognized him anyway.

 

[Irish]

Well, the only thing you can do is create a Facebook profile for yourself and then turn into this other guy. They never bring you presents, do they? Your life sucks, so you need to become this other person.

 

[rainking187]

Is there anyway you could be connected to this? Did you use your email to setup the Facebook or anything like that? If not you can't tell anyone about this. Everyone would feel stupid if they got tricked into buying gifts for a guy that doesn't exist. Then they'll be pissed. As long as they can't connect you to it, have fun.

 

[Truant]

Is there anyway you could be connected to this? Did you use your email to setup the Facebook or anything like that? If not you can't tell anyone about this. Everyone would feel stupid if they got tricked into buying gifts for a guy that doesn't exist. Then they'll be pissed. As long as they can't connect you to it, have fun.

No, he has his own e-mail address, so they don't have any hard proof.