Yeah, I don't see the point of a practical joke if its purpose is to cause anxiety, panic, etc. in another person. I'd go so far as to say that's morally wrong.

"joke" firings,

Good lord, that's one of the worst things I've ever heard of.

Yeah, I don't see the point of a practical joke if its purpose is to cause anxiety, panic, etc. in another person. I'd go so far as to say that's morally wrong.

Totally.

When my department used to prank each other, we'd do things like replace someone's paper clips with tic-tacs. Or putting a plush Fimble in the sales director's office chair while he was on vacation. Nothing mean.

Someone I used to work with always had the same CD playing (on speakers). Not only the same CD, but it seemed that every time I went into his office, the same section was playing.

One day when he was out at lunch I replaced his Vivaldi Four Seasons with a bagpipe and drum CD. He laughed, I gave him his CD back, and life went on (with the same damn music playing).

I worked with a guy who kept leaving his laptop on his desk when he left for the day, even though that was against company policy and in a building that had had a series of thefts of things like purses women left in their offices. Finally, a co-worker cured him of that by changing the alert sounds to the Meg Ryan orgasm-faking.

see, that's the kind of stuff that I don't mind as "jokes."

I hate most practical jokes though or at least ones that aren't immediately revealed. Don't let someone get fake arrested and 10 hours later reveal it was a joke.

not fucking funny.

Yeah, that isn't funny. Just cruel and mean.

Not a joke: this is so totally going to be me - still paying off my student loans as a senior citizen.

I called the vet about the tick-ified cat. She (probably not an actual vet, but a tech) told me that their office uses Advantage not Frontline because cats typically don't have problems with ticks, because they groom themselves so much. Well, maybe I have a cat with less than excellent hygiene, but he still doesn't deserve a big tick on his butt. I asked if the application of Frontline would kill it and make it fall off. She said it would kill it... but didn't know if it would fall off. I said, ew, I don't want him to have a DEAD tick attached to him either! She seemed not to have considered that. She said I could bring him in and they'd remove it. Hopefully it will drop off after all, hopefully sometime today, and I won't have to wrestle the cat into the box again.

I am once again dissatisfied with my vet.

In this case, being ticked off would be a good thing.

Well, now I can never say that phrase again without thinking about the big tick on the cat's butt!