The office mice will play. For example, a few years ago, my husband’s boss got a special treat for his 40th birthday. My husband and a few friends:

• Turned his bookshelf backwards, after turning the books on the shelf so the bindings faced in, of course.
• Turned his desk around, but also switched everything on top of the desk so it looked normal until he sat down.
• Set the guy’s mouse to the left-handed setting, which reverses how the buttons work.
• Ran a utility to turn his Windows desktop upside down.
• Filled the overhead light with glitter so it would fall if he tried to clean it out.
• Closed and locked the door because he didn’t have a key.

The idea behind it was to make the office appear unchanged and to annoy this guy every time he tried to do an everyday task.

Now, that was good, but a friend of mine has taken the opposite approach to office decor. Her co-worker took a month’s leave of absence to visit his wife, who’s in the military stationed in Japan. He’s coming back to work today, and unlike my husband’s boss, this guy is definitely going to notice a change.

I’ve heard of tinfoil hats, but this is ridiculous.

The guilty parties.