maybe we should stop being so mean?*some language*

[Slytovhand]

Awww... guys......

AK.. I'm with you (presuming, of course, that the girl saw the amusing side to what you were setting CW1 up with, and wasn't being 'mean' or 'nasty' or 'offensive' to him).

To me, the prerequisites for living life are to be able to laugh and smile - both with others, and at yourself sometimes. If CW1 is just being the butt of a joke that everyone got (including himself), then I'd say it's all good.

Of course - if she's taking it as a form of sexual harrassment - that's another story.

Silliness is always fun STupidity isn't..

Have I made myself clear here...??? :P


Slyt

(oh - on another note, as others have said, doing that may have opened a door for him.....)

[Seshat]

and he freaks out so easy that we really can't help but play pranks on him.

CW2:wow, I feel kinda bad, was that fucked up?
me:yea, but so funny that it cancels out the fucked up

You folks are no fun!

Those are the exact types of words bullies use to justify their bullying behaviour.

I'm not saying you're bullies - I honestly don't know the situation well enough to make any decision about that. I'm just saying that if you find yourself saying those words, you need to really, really think about what you're doing.

If you know that the target of your prank enjoys it, and especially if the target enjoys pulling the same sort of prank back - then it's funny.
(Example: M*A*S*H, with Hawkeye and either Trapper John or BJ, pulling pranks on each other.)

If you're not sure, or if you know the target doesn't like it - it's bullying.
(Examples:
Hawkeye and Trapper John pulling pranks on Frank Burns.
Endless teen movies, but see The Breakfast Club for the effects this sort of pressure has on people. All of the characters feel it, not just the obvious pair of the Brain and the Basket Case.)

At least they got the kid to go talk to the girl, kind of.

CW1 went up to the cashier and said "they said you wanted to talk to me?" and she laughed at him

Will he initiate a conversation with her again?

to be fair we are all high school age

This is a perfect chance to learn some empathy, then.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

And these pranks are accomplishing what? Sounds to me like you're just stirring up trouble for the hell of it, and in my experience people who do that get dealt with, quietly and brutally.

Whether it be getting in serious trouble or fired because the target went to management and had secretly been documenting everything, or they just get their ass kicked.

Pranks are fine and good if you know the person well enough, know their sense of humor and know they'll appreciate it in the end. It sounds you did this just to be mean and make the target feel bad.

so one of my co workers(we'll call him CW1) has a crush on a cashier, and he freaks out so easy that we really can't help but play pranks on him.

Yeah, this pretty much gives your attitude away. You're doing it just so you can watch him get wound up and laugh at him.

[AKWalMartCartGuy]

I really don't have any tolerance for rumors and juicy gossip in the workplace, as I think we're too old for that.

However, I will admit that my coworkers and I do dish the dirt and rant and rave on break and at the bar and when we go out to breakfast. We do make fun of people, but we don't do it at work and we never taunt or tease anybody. We keep it to ourselves.

it's not a rumor, he has told us "dude, i kinda like *cashier*

on to today

CW1 comes over a few minutes early, and with him listening:

me:my parents better be on time to pick me up today(and EDB was full of shit again today, so I had reason to be a lil temperamental)
CW2:you don't have the car?
me:naw they took it

CW2 and I continue working, until time for me to leave and CW1 to clock on, and I walk to the door, stand there for a minute, then

me:fuck this shit, I'm not waiting anymore*start walking to my car*
CW1:you don't have a choice, your parents aren't here
CW2:dude, what the fuck are you doing
CW1:he's gonna walk home
CW3:*wanted to see the show, so starts following us and talking about how they're going to get the carts from the back of the parking lot*
CW2:no he's not, he lives like 20 miles out
CW3:where do you live
me:*town about 15 miles away*
CW1:*starting to get confused*
me:*walk up to my car, stick my hand under the dashboard and hit the remote starter so it looks like I hotwired it, then drive away*

I have tickets to a sporting event tonight, so i'm going to leave early and go see what happened after that, as CW1 was just standing there confused when i couldn't see him anymore


this is all just friendly pranks though, we are all friends. he won't involve management, but I really hope he does something to get us back or I'll feel a little bad

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Now the above was a pretty good prank.

[Pezzle]

All I have to say is that it's this type of high school behavior that has actually made me quit a few jobs. I just couldn't take being around 16 year olds who think I'm interested in hear who X employee is screwing in Y hallway at Z school I never attended.

[AKWalMartCartGuy]

ok i got the story tonight

he started freaking out a little, then said "wait, that was the car he left in last time", so the told him it wasn't and he believed them, then he really started freaking out, so they told him what we were doing, then a few minutes later they told him they had been lying, I really stole the car, and he actually believed them....again


he knows me well enough that he should know I would never steal a car, and he has seen me in it a couple times, this is the most gullible person I've ever met. except he always thinks he's going to get fired over petty shit, like one time he flipped over a pallet behind the store and then thought he was going to get fired and he won't believe us when we say he's fine

[the_std]

The car prank - pretty damn funny, cause you weren't really involving him to the same extent as the first prank.

However, I really, really hated the people who preyed on my fourteen-year old naivety in high school by telling me, when they found out I had a crush on So-and-So, that So-and-So wanted to talk to me, and then laughed when I stood around waiting for a half-hour. But, that's high school, right? Made me learn about, y'know, being an adult 'n shit.

But that was on school time. When teachers are being paid to look after us, and we're kind of at our own mercy. Not when we were being paid by a trusting corporate office to, I dunno, do the jobs we were assigned to do. I'm not saying that fraternizing at work is bad, but... I dunno. What you did in the OP really just pushed my buttons. I won't lie, if I were your manager and I had witnessed it, there would be lots of words about "learning to take responsibility for yourself" and such things.

I guess that's part of growing up too. Learning what's acceptable where and when. If your friends don't seem to mind, and CW1 isn't being hurt by this, then... Whatever, but if your bosses find out and aren't terribly happy, don't be too surprised.

[AKWalMartCartGuy]

in the OP we were already basically done with the work(just had to keep up) and we were both there til another 3 hours, with another guy staying another 3 after we left, so the 2 minutes it took wasn't really a big deal

and i didn't really do much on that one, I just kept my mouth shut