TODAY IS THE birthday of Niccolo Machiavelli, the man who schooled generations in nefarious ways to get ahead.

He was thinking mainly about the machinations of the Italian court – which is essentially the sixteenth-century equivalent of your office.

In honour of Machiavelli, we salute these 11 people who are getting ahead by making their workmates’ lives a misery.

1. The person who filled all these cups with water

And stapled them together.

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2. The person who stuck this picture of Nicolas Cage in the photocopier

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3. All the people who came into their office at night and walled off the corridors

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4. The person who went Deep Autocorrect

Looking forward to doing business with you. Regards, Bumface.

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5. The person worried their boss wasn’t a team player

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6. The person who executed this incredibly successful double-bluff prank

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7. This person

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8. The person who came up with this brutal coffee scheme

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9. And the evil genius who decided to destroy their workmates’ days with this:

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Awful.

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