funny surprise in my cube

I have been very stressed at work lately and this morning I went to work and saw a good friend of mine/co worker called "Ruth". After venting a bit to her about how I had to work during my thanksgiving vacation, I walked into my cube to do some work. After a while, I noticed that there were some papers on the desk behind my laptop which was odd since those papers were supposed to be on my cube wall held by clips. I looked up and about DIED from shock!

There were 2 pictures (folded out pictures from a magazine) on my cubicle of 2 hotties!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! They are from a tv show that I had gotten Ruth addicted to and now we watch it together every week. It's called "The Vampire Dairies" and the 2 main male characters are sooooo hot!

These pictures were the LAST things I ever expected to see on my cube wall so I just lost it and laughed until I cried. I guess I really needed it. Went over to Ruth and told her thanks for giving me eye candy to look at and she laughed. She said it was about time I noticed the additions. She had to hurry and post them while I was making copies then waited and waited for me to notice. LOL. My boss heard me laughing and came over to see what was going on. Told him to look and see if he could figure it out himself. He grinned and said, "Your men huh?"

This is not the first time I have found "gifts" in my cube.

For some reason, it seems that some people like to leave surprises or additions to my cube. A while ago, I noticed that someone had put up a poster from an event that I had gone to. I KNOW it wasn't me!! A couple months ago, I noticed some kind of toy perched on top of my clock. I've found a plastic cat toy on my desk. I've asked around to see who were doing these but with no luck. Many times, I have found chocolate candy on my desk (I am well known for my addiction to chocolate and often tell people that if they want to bribe me, that chocolate is the way to go). I know I am the only one this happens to since I've asked some other co workers if they have had gifts or surprises left and they all said nope. One got a bit miffed that she didn't get any gifts or surprises so I stopped asking and just enjoyed the surprises.

Does something (pranks, gifts, etc) like this happen to you at work? If so, I'd love to hear your stories.

I love the Vampire Diaries! I started watching about mid-way through the first season and now I watch it all the time. And, I gave my co-worker the first season DVDs to watch and he's likes it, too. (I definitely agree about the eye candy, BTW.)

Anyway, several months ago, when I was having the knee operation, I came into work and found a VooDoo doll on my cube door. Black pins in the doll meant bad luck and white pins meant good luck. Right smack dab in the middle of the knee of the doll was a big white pin. My co-worker has a bit of a weird sense of humor. But it was hilarious. And I still have the doll on my desk.

Another co-worker (I'm the only female planner; my co-planners are all guys) put a monkey on my desk. Squeeze the monkey and he whistles. For weeks we threw the monkey over our cube walls to each other, until our boss made us stop....all you could hear was the whistle throughout the building. They've also given me magnets of kitty butts. One butt looks just like Mollipop, which may or may not be good thing.

I'm really lucky because I get along so well with my co-workers; they're really sweethearts. They like to give me a rough time, but I know how to give it back. When one of the guys' wife had their first baby, I went into his cube and decked it out in crepe paper and paper babies. He loved it. I had crepe paper wrapped around his computer and speakers, his lights, even his pens and pencils.

Your co-workers are a scream! People don't do stuff like that where I work, though my boss is fond of hanging up pictures from ICanHazCheeseburger all over the place, I guess because so many of us are cat lovers.

Ok, I told my co-workers about this post. They reminded me to mention about all the times I break into all kinds of songs. Then the songs go through them and they can't get them out of their minds. I was actually do-do-dooing to the theme song from the Munsters this morning. I've been known to start singing, "Bring out the Hellmann's and bring out the best!" at odd times, too. I don't know why; it just happens.

Or about all the times that I start singing Deck the Halls, even during the summer months. BTW, I'm no longer allowed to sing Christmas carols until after Thanksgiving; if I do, I get Snickers bars thrown at me over my cube walls. "Deck the halls with boughs of holly!!" (Did I mention that I love Snickers bars?) One day, I ended up with 7 fun-size Snickers bars! I can't help it; I just start singing.

One of my co-workers is a Star Wars fan. He has two SW greeting cards that play music. When I hear one of the cards in the late afternoon, that's my cue to go back to the kitchen with him so that we can wash our coffee mugs. He has a neat Darth Vader sticker on the top of our Keurig, too.

He's the same guy who, when I'm trying to lose weight, will keep my bag of peanut M & Ms for me and will give me 5 of them a day. No more, no less. Or, if he decides to go to Wendy's for chili, will bring me back a bowl. He gives me DVDs to watch at night while I'm exercising. In return, when I bake cookies or other sweets, I'll give him a private stash, separate from the box I bring into work for the rest of the guys. Or, if I make some soup or a casserole for dinner, I'll bring in some for him for his lunch.

Those guys will water my plants when I'm not here on a Friday. If I call in sick, they'll call me, just to make sure I'm not dead or dying. They know they can say, "Gee, I could eat some chocolate chip cookies!" and know that the next day, they'll be eating chocolate chip cookies.

I'm really lucky. And they made me say that!

Your coworkers sound great

At my last job, I came in a few times to find a small stuffed cat on top of my computer, a fake plant, and a camo messenger bag. It was all from the same girl, I think she used to put stuff she didn't want on different people's desks, whoever she thought would like it the most

Thanks for sharing these cool stories! Glad to hear that I'm not the only one with co workers who likes to leave "surprises" in cubes, etc!

For my birthday last year, they filled my cube with over 350 balloons and I had to pop all of them before I could get my present. Some people in other depts weren't happy cuz they had to listen to me popping balloons for quite a while!

They also love to play big pranks on me for April 1st. My first April here, they wrapped everything in FOIL in my cube. My cube became famous all over USA. I met some people who works in other offices in other states and when I introduced myself, they always say- "OH you're the one with the foil cube!" LOL.

It sure makes life interesting huh?

What fun co-workers! I once found an empty diet Sundrop can on my desk, proof at last that someone had been using my computer at night...but I don't think that counts. (I rarely drink Sundrop and I never drink diet.) Where I used to work, I was often the person behind the cubicle surprises. Once I cut out a picture of Denzel Washington and taped it to the computer of someone that was crazy over him. She couldn't figure out where it came from, but she was happy with it.

Hehe... that's funny!

I used to leave little drawings or notes on my co-worker's keyboards. Especially if they had been gone on vacation or sick or something. That was at the job I got laid off from in 2007. I had a good team there. When it was one of our birthday's we'd decorate each other's offices (or my desk; since I was in a 'classroom' there. We had a guy working there who was born on his older sister's birthday. Before he came to work with us (he was around 50 at the time) he had never had anyone do anything to celebrate his birthday!! Seriously! He was the youngest in a large family and from the sounds of it; an unhappy one where his mother favored the girls. He was one of the nicest people you will ever meet. Celebrating his birthday was just too much fun. I even booby-trapped his office with crepe-paper and used balloons and clothing from our clothes closet to make a man to look like him....sitting in his chair. Our clients thought it was a riot.

Here's a picture I took from my pager of what my cube wall looks with the surprise additions of photos.

Enjoy the eye candy!! I will..

Nice! I'm a Damon-girl!