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That's fine if you're doing it to yourself. If management were to try to impose this, I would look for a job that has more regard for the dignity of employees.


I think if I were an employer, I would be looking for an employee with more of a sense of humor!

Seriously though, I really think the atmosphere in a work place is really important. I can't imagine working with people who wouldn't consider this a neat hack and overall quite funny.


I believe PaperCut Software have a system that fires foam rockets at any developers who fail unit tests[1]

[1] https://github.com/codedance/Retaliation


Don't worry, no humans were harmed in the making of this hack.


My coworkers and I have nerf-like turrets that we control wirelessly from our computers (and constantly relocate to various hidden locales). No one is safe -- least of all management.




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