Fesshole 🧻In three different companies, I had to submit reports to the board on a monthly basis. I started putting in a line that said "if you read this, call me and I'll give you £XX". I started at £10, and went up by £10 per month. Nobody ever called, nobody ever mentioned it.
GJ Groothedde 🇪🇺@fesshole Did you maybe neglect to include your phone number? Because I read your latest report and the 290 quid is more than welcome.
Michael WestergaardA friend did something similar, except it was a bottle of whisky mentioned in the middle of his master's thesis. Just before starting his defense, he put a bottle of whisky on the table and nobody claimed it.
Sin VegaThat's a fair point. Though many Danish master's student/supervisor relationships are closer to friendships. I would definitely have claimed and then refused the bottle.
Token Sane Person@fesshole I tried that once, though not board papers. I did indeed have to buy some cookies.
Warner Crocker@fesshole I did a similar thing, offering to buy a drink after the meeting to anyone who read the reports.
jack@fesshole I got £5 off my maths lecturer who'd put something like this in the course notes. it had been languishing on the back of his office door for years
Future SprogI had a similar interaction but from the other side: a tool I wrote was used by thousands of students and it had one of those “agree to terms and conditions” boxes that every student had ticked.
They hadn’t read the terms and conditions because they were only three paragraphs long and the second paragraph offered a free bakery item of your choice if you contacted me. It included my office details and phone number.
One student ever contacted me. One!!!
Kevin Karhan 
@futuresprog @jackeric @fesshole the best prank I knew was a comprehension test cloaked as math exam.
The instructions read: "Please read the text fully and follow the instructions at the bottom of the last page page." followed by a dozen pages of complicated math and at the end it said: "once completed reading, please wait 15 minutes, add your name to the provided envelope and submit all the pages and your notes by placing your envelope at the desk and raise an arm, a proctor will collect said envelope ajd instruct you further."
- So panic ensured when the first people handed in their exams after 30 minutes, when the exam was scheduled to take up to 3 hours.
JWcph, Radicalized By Decency@futuresprog @jackeric @fesshole I also had a kind-of opposite experience to this - I once worked as a marketing manager for a retailer with a fairly specific audience & one of my jobs was our newsletter. We didn't have many subscribers & were unsure if they even read the emails, so for one Xmas I put something like "if you read this far, reply back to be in our Xmas lottery for [reasonably valuable item]" as the last line.
We got several hundred responses 😁
IanMoore3000@fesshole there was a report posted on a local authority website in my country that memorably had "does anyone ever read this shite?" buried within it.
Dave Fischer@fesshole I added some complete gibberish acronym column headers to some internal daily reports when I was at AT&T in the 80s, and no one ever asked for an explanation.
Rob Vincent 🎙️@davefischer @fesshole Speaking as an old phone phreak, thank you for your service. 🫡
Edmund
Solarbird 
@fesshole I knew a guy in school who put ", and I bet you're not even reading these," as a clause in the middle of some sentence in some paper in history class, and when handing them back out the prof threw it at him _real hard_ - like, whipped it out, wicked fast, he must've tacked the pages together or something - shouting "I DO SO READ THESE. EVERY GODDAMN WORD." :D
( most of us knew about it and so it was _hilarious_ )
@fesshole do you at least get paid for that shite?
Psider