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Senior Editor

Here’s what can happen at Rackspace when it’s your birthday

Opinion
Aug 21, 20131 min

Is that my desk hanging from the catwalk?!

 Imagine coming into work and seeing a nice happy birthday sign dedicated to you near the parking garage of your building. “That’s nice,” you may say.

Then as you get closer, you see items hanging from a catwalk. A chair; a computer monitor; a desk and a trash can. You may think, “Hmm, that’s odd.”

Then you walk into your office. And it’s empty. And you realize the chair, computer monitor, desk and trash can hanging from the catwalk was from your office.

Welcome to what can happen when you work at Rackspace.

[MORE PRANKS: 6 Outrageous Office Pranks]

Bob Black, a Rackspace employee, tweeted the photo this morning. A coworker likes to celebrate his birthday and usually does a prank around his desk. “Has happened every year 4 past 5 yrs, outdoes himself each year,” Black said. In previous years his desk has been hung from inside a building, while another year he found his office in a tent. 

What are the best office pranks you’ve seen? 

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Senior Editor Brandon Butler covers the cloud computing industry for Network World by focusing on the advancements of major players in the industry, tracking end user deployments and keeping tabs on the hottest new startups. He contributes to NetworkWorld.com and is the author of the Cloud Chronicles blog. Before starting at Network World in January 2012, he worked for a daily newspaper in Massachusetts and the Worcester Business Journal, where he was a senior reporter and editor of MetroWest 495 Biz. Email him at bbutler@nww.com and follow him on Twitter @BButlerNWW.

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