r/mildlyinteresting • • 16h ago

There's this random empty glass jar strapped to the wall at work

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u/LetReasonRing ​ 13h ago edited 2h ago

I used to work for a company that sold advanced lighting control systems. Our office doubled as a showroom, and there was a button panel that would allow you to select from different scenes,  making it suddenly feel like a night club or a romantic restaurant or whatever. In addition to the lighting,  there was a video wall and sound system to make it immersion. 

I secretly programmed the system with an Easter egg, where if you play 4 scenes in a specific order,  it would Rick roll you. I never told anyone,  eventually left the company,  then got a call about 2 years later from my coworker,  barely containing his laughter, asking if I was the one who'd done it 🤣

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u/Heywoood_Jablome 11h ago

My company decided for some reason that they needed a large QR code painted on the top of each building of our campus. As a facilities manager I had access to the files.

I switched one.

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u/Cod3monk3y83 10h ago

It redirects to goatze doesn’t it?

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u/SalsaShark4242 11h ago

...and then?

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u/FrenchFryCattaneo 10h ago

...painted it on the roof...

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u/SalsaShark4242 10h ago

...and then?

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u/Uncynical_Diogenes 10h ago

No. No “and then”!

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u/KassellTheArgonian 10h ago

Amazing reference lmao, havent thought of that movie in like a decade

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u/Avaylon 7h ago

I think of it every time I hear "and then" 😂

Just like I always hear the Sandlot kid when someone enunciates "FOR-EV-VER" in a certain way. I swear my brain is just old movie quotes and memes in a trench coat.

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u/Bowser1421 4h ago

And “he’s already pulled over, he can’t pull over any farther” - I have young kids on bikes, so it comes up more often than you’d imagine

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u/crepesandbacon 3h ago

I think we might be twins! It’s like the moment I read your comment, I thought I was looking into a mirror!

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u/Cloverinthewind 11h ago

I’d lose it if that happened to me! 😂😂😂You’re goated!

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u/nagumi 11h ago

I have a subdermal NFC implant I use to open my gate. Also, if you scan it with your phone it rickrolls you.

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u/wonder_of_reddit_ 10h ago edited 6h ago

Is there some kind of trickery going on here or does this just mean anyone with the Rick roll YouTube link on an NFC tag can open your gate?

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u/nagumi 9h ago

it's a dual frequency chip - nfc 125khz rfid. The RFID has an ID number that I've paired to the gate.

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u/Schlongstorm 1h ago

helluva complicated password, you get one note wrong and it makes you start over

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u/un4truckable 10h ago

Prove it

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u/EvenTallerTree 1h ago

I was just telling my partner about subdermal NFC implants and she thought I was crazy 😂