I work the IT department of a pretty good size company, and I work in the same area as our help desk guys... well we just hired on a new contractor, 6 months. His main job is supposed to be answering phone calls and passing them on to the 3 other guys that work the phones and physically go fix things.

I can't even begin to think of where to start and try to explain this kid to you. He is younger, and stupid. I don't know how he passed the interview questions, someone had to prep him or he was using google. (eg: I was out on the floor troubleshooting some devices and wanted to see if an IP was available for me to use, I call him up and ask him to ping this, now as i ask i do the steps in my head of what should be happening... start>run>cmd>enter>ping xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx.... a minute later i hear an umm uhh so I ask well? hold on.... mmmkay not sure why then he answers, 2 minutes to ping something)

Well this past week, his boss doesnt seem to care that this kid is an idiot, and he usually lets the phone ring 3 times before he answers it (the rest of us answer after or during the first ring) HIS SOUL JOB IS TO ANSWER THE PHONE.... well whatever, well the last 2 days he has been talking on the phone for like an hour at a time and searching for a new car.... well this infuriated me cause now im answering phone calls and crap..

Time for some fun....

I started my editing his hosts files so all the stupid websites hes spending time on either default to our blockpage or back to his computer... looking for more ideas here (we have websense so a lot of the fun sites are blocked anyway)

Then I decided this wasnt enough I fired up command prompt and typed the following

shutdown -s -m \\hispcname -t 01

I hear him try to read it and boom his computer shutsdown... I hear him in astonishment trying to figure out what happened.

For tomorrow I plan on disabling his port on the switch and making him tone it out to figure out why its not working then when he comes back (inevitably a few HOURS later) ill reactivate it walk over to his computer and act like hes retarded (ill do a ipconfig /release and renew)

Now i am looking for any more NONdestructive ideas for what I can do to discourage this kid from screwing around since they wont can him

ps: this is like a real life BOFH