messing around w/ work & riddles

[xt1me]

In work I'm part of the 'global' service support and next to us are the 'diamond' service support. Diamond customers pay extra to have additional things like personalized email templates & auto bonded ticketing systems. But for the most part the diamond guys do the exact same as us but since they have a lot less customer they have more free time. There's also the fact that as the European part of a predominately American customer base, fewer customer are even awake, let alone needing support.
All this means that sometime they do things like toss stress ball around the office.

Last Thursday 2 of those balls landed on my desk so I told they I was going to hide them.
So after they left I did, and left them a riddle on our personal slack channel.

This was it:

Hidden in the shadows of home is your treasure,

One with the mightiest and one with a lesser.

Though you look all day, it is not I you see,

This sinister clue is the only one for thee.

I'm not great with rhymes.
It didn't take them too long to find them Friday morning.

In the diamond area of the office they have a large screen with info on high priority tickets. I hid one of the balls behind it.
To the left of the screen I hid the other one behind one of the guys computer monitors.

That day after they left I hid not only the 2 balls again but also one of their toy cows.
(I wasn't worried about them finding them over the weekend because I know the guy working that weekend was working from home.)
This was the riddle I gave them:

Two orbs parted & hidden from thee,

The furthest away they could possibly be.

First in a place of both boredom or mirth,

Disembodied voices haunt this earth.

Second from afar you talk to me,

Immaterial to solid with the touch of a Key.

Lastly the cow, a precarious planner,

In the middle of all, overside the banner.

There is a boardroom on one end of our office. We use it for anything from team meeting to small birthday or going away parties.
There's a phone line in there so we can international team meetings.
(theirs also a picture in memory of some guy we don't know & that's why one of the guys thought of it first.)

On the other end of the room is the printer. We each have a pin number we have to enter before it will actually print anything.

There are also a number of vertical banners with the company logo around the office. They can be moved to be used for booths & things but they're usually kept in the office. One of them is in the center of the room near a wall. That's where I hid the cow.

Again they didn't take all they long to find every thing.

This evening I hid the balls again.
I think this is the last time I'll do it. It's hard to come up with good riddles.

Not a bride, though I have rings,

Not a dog, though I bark,

In the day I give life,

But I give poison in the dark.

One hidden in me and one in my faux,

To find these ornaments you don't have far to go.

There's a kind of palm tree plant in the office. It's a real plant, not a fake one.
But it's not very leafy sop I doubt the ball will be hard to find.

There is also a small paper tree ornament left over from Christmas hanging around one of the empty desks where I hid the other one.
I guess I'll see how long they take tomorrow.

EDIT: I came in Tues morning to see the balls on my desk
I think it's safe to say they found them pretty fast.