Engineer was so sick of office pranks, he 'wiped' his antagonist's disk
19-10-2026 07:30 via theregister.com

Engineer was so sick of office pranks, he 'wiped' his antagonist's disk

Monday mornings are no joke, so The Register always tries to lighten them up with a new installment of "Who, Me?" – our reader-contributed column that shares your stories of workplace japes, mistakes, and escapes. This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Joe" who told us that while studying for an electrical engineering degree in the late 1990s, he scored a gig in the messaging lab at an Australian mobile carrier. "The office there was full of practical jokers," he wrote. "Boxes of conf
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