Securing your Office Space - Defensive Hardware

[Corlissimo]

A few of my friends have complained that they are behind the curve when it comes to proper defensive measures in their corporate work areas.

I have recommended this hardware upgrade (http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/8a0f/) for their cubicles.
What have you used to beef up your defensive capabilities in the work place?

[ToddG]

http://9x19mm.com/photoalbum/albums/userpics/freyja1.jpg

[ford.304]

I was very disappointed in those little missile batteries. The USB controlled servo aiming was awesome, but the thrust and accuracy of the missiles was insufficient for more than the shortest range use.

Our current office is so under-populated it looks like a shoot house level. I've been considering starting a nerf war, but I know one of my coworkers is the sort who replaces their nerf springs with AR-15 mainsprings. Not sure I want to see where that would end.

[Sheep Have Wool]

One way to guarantee that you'll need some sort of office defensive tool is to purchase one of these (http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/c427/). Set to random, then hide in someone's office. Complete chaos.

[LHS]

A grateful coworker gave me one of the belt-fed Nerf GPMGs, and for a time I kept it in my cube. Of course, temptation got the better of me, and after jack-booting my director's office door in, I mag-dumped (belt dumped?) all 25 rounds into him, with my manager behind me laughing the whole time. After that, I was told that Nerf weaponry was not 'workplace appropriate' and had to take it home :(

Now I just have Angry Ranger, in full battle rattle, standing sentry in my cube.

[CCT125US]

one of my coworkers is the sort who replaces their nerf springs with AR-15 mainsprings.

What nerf gun might someone do this to?

[Corlissimo]

One way to guarantee that you'll need some sort of office defensive tool is to purchase one of these (http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/c427/). Set to random, then hide in someone's office. Complete chaos.

Ooohh.... I like that! I'm ordering a few of those I think. :^}>

[orionz06]

I just use a mirror.

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a183/orionz06/10AFB19B-BAE1-4D6D-973F-8FF575F37D10-6329-000008DB69C43491.jpg


Thinkgeek sells one too but this was cheap and obtainable on day 1. I am jumpy as hell sometimes and seeing people is a nice thing.

[Byron]

One way to guarantee that you'll need some sort of office defensive tool is to purchase one of these (http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/c427/). Set to random, then hide in someone's office. Complete chaos.
A few years back I used their original "Annoy-a-tron (http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/8c52/)" on someone in my office.

So long as you do your part to hide it, it will drive the target nuts. It got to the point where my victim was piling up all of his electronics and having people take them out of the room. He even started to think it was something in his briefcase because he swore he was hearing it at home (it was most certainly in his office, not in anything he carried).

[orionz06]

A few years back I used their original "Annoy-a-tron (http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/8c52/)" on someone in my office.

So long as you do your part to hide it, it will drive the target nuts. It got to the point where my victim was piling up all of his electronics and having people take them out of the room. He even started to think it was something in his briefcase because he swore he was hearing it at home (it was most certainly in his office, not in anything he carried).

Pro tip: Do not hide one on the cross bars for a drop ceiling just because there is a ladder present, you may return to find the only ladder needed to remove it has gone missing.

[ford.304]

What nerf gun might someone do this to?

You can up the power on pretty much any of them, but I've been told that an AR spring is a near perfect fit for the sniper rifle. The possibilities are a little crazy:

http://nerfguns.net/mods/

[Sheep Have Wool]

The most successful Eviltron placement I had was using the magnetic back to put it behind a desk drawer. About four or so hours in, the victim had removed all the electronics (phone, cell phone, headset, and eventually his computer, monitor, speakers, and desk lamps) into the hall outside his office.

When he would hear the noise coming from what seemed to be the far side of his desk, he would jump out of his chair to look over the top of the desk to see where it was coming from. He also brought a dozen or so people into his office to see if they heard anything. Because of the delay and the random noise setting, almost none of them did, and if a person did hear something, it was just a fairly innocuous scratching noise or creaking. A receptionist who heard the "Hey, can you hear me?" comment immediately declared his office haunted and wouldn't go back in.

Sadly, one of the people in on the prank finally gave it up after a day or so when they found him crouching on the ground peering into an A/C intake and yelling "YES I CAN HEAR YOU."

[rudy99]

A few years back I used their original "Annoy-a-tron (http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/8c52/)" on someone in my office.

So long as you do your part to hide it, it will drive the target nuts. It got to the point where my victim was piling up all of his electronics and having people take them out of the room. He even started to think it was something in his briefcase because he swore he was hearing it at home (it was most certainly in his office, not in anything he carried).

We used the annoy-a-tron in my bosses office several years ago. I guess the sounds it was making were outside of what he could hear, as he never seemed to notice. In a sense it backfired, as we'd have to sit it his office for an hour long call and listed to that thing go off several times and I can verify that it was annoying. It was actually just attached to the bottom of his desk with a magnet. We needed up moving to another building a few weeks later and forgot to bring it with us. I wonder if someone eventually found it and what they thought it was.