Redditor/u/Carbonbasedmayhem:

“I work in electronics, but most of my coworkers are Luddites. I’m technically in purchasing and sales, but I’m the de facto IT guy as well, since I know how to read manuals. Tormenting them on a continuing basis makes my day better…

“My boss (the owner of our company) likes to hang out at home and watch us over the camera system. Our system also alerts me whenever someone logs on remotely, but he thinks he’s being secret squirrel. I connected a DVD player to one of the inputs (the one that normally looks over my shoulder all day) and played various loops on repeat of other security footage through it that I found online. This went on for months of him thinking it was a glitch that allowed him a glimpse into other peoples’ systems. He even saw the DVD player and asked about it being in the equipment rack once, but didn’t think twice when I told him it was from home and I was testing it.

“One day he finally mentioned that he witnessed a robbery, and was “pretty sure” it was a liquor store up the street (it wasn’t). I knew what he saw, and what it was, but my coworkers gathered around to hear the telling. It wasn’t until I asked him what he meant by “pretty sure” if he’d been there to watch it happen in the first place. Well first he kind of waffled about it, and then came clean that one of our DVRs was glitched and he’d been spying into the lives of other peoples’ front porches, loading docks, stores, and weather towers. Fast forward a couple months, and now half the office logs in randomly throughout the day/night. I make a new disc every couple weeks, and reuse quite a bit of footage where nothing of note is actually happening. I’ve been toying with the idea of upping the stakes with a few select clips from elsewhere (pornhub), but I kind of want to see how long I can keep up the game.”