My wife used to work for the Hong Kong Council of Academic Accreditation which is the organization that accredits university programs and overseas degrees. They also accredit things like beauty and barber colleges.
At the end of one these accreditation exercises, they’d have a buffet/cocktail party and I’d often (Until I pulled this stunt) get to go as the tag-a-long spouse.
For the party for beauty colleges, I made sure my head was shaved and the Van Dyke beard trimmed. Wore an actual suit and a shirt with French cuffs. Before I left work, however; I used some card stock I had for book repair in my library to make about 20 fake business cards using a color laser printer. The cards said: “Code Red Salon Saving Hong Kong’s Hair from High Fashion since 1987” There was a police light logo I swiped from Drudge report and resized. I also included a made-up telephone number and address. When the other attendees asked who I was I gave them the card and explained, “When a woman goes to your salon on Friday and her family and friends laugh at the strange unflattering cut she received from a high dollar salon she comes to me on Monday to salvage her dignity.” The look on their faces was priceless. My wife almost killed me when she found out what I was doing
That’s awesome.
I once pulled a similar corporate stunt.
A co-worker took a certification class and came back just beaming about all he’d learned and talked incessantly about it for days. We needed to shut him up.
We had several people involved. The graphic designer made a letterhead for the certifying company. I wrote a letter from the President informing my colleague that they discovered he had cheated on the exam and were rescinding his certification. We actually mailed the letter so it had a cancelled stamp. The HR Director (who was in on it) hand delivered the letter. My co-worker read it and started yelling and stomping around the office.
Of course, we had a video camera recording the entire thing.
Two weeks later, at our national business meeting we showed the video to 150 colleagues.
Memorably great.
Being the only guy that might own cufflinks...
Missing some?
“police found the alleged burglar with nine silver and gold cufflinks on him”
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