Office Pranks?

[kermitology]

Anyone have suggestions for office pranks?

I just messed with one of my co-workers by putting a small piece of tape over his ethernet cable. When he went to get the IT guy I took it off..

I need to get some more ideas though

[Phanuthier]

Here's one for you Dan ... (can't remember where I heard it)

Follow these steps:
1. Create a folder (name doesn't matter)
2. Take a screenshot
3. dump all the icons into that folder
4. use the screenshot as a desktop background

[Coach]

1. Cut a hole in a box...

[tvp2003]

http://forum.calgarypuck.com/showthr...=office+pranks

Did the screenshot one (worked great!), the goldfish one would be pretty funny (but a lot of work), and the frozen shrimp one sounds especially nasty.

[Phanuthier]

Originally Posted by tvp2003

http://forum.calgarypuck.com/showthr...=office+pranks

Did the screenshot one (worked great!), the goldfish one would be pretty funny (but a lot of work), and the frozen shrimp one sounds especially nasty.

Ah thats where I saw it, figured it was either CP or from a friend.

[photon]

Use skype to call the whole office and conference them all together.

Then do it again 5 minutes later with all their cell phones.

[Flaming Choy]

Originally Posted by Phanuthier

Here's one for you Dan ... (can't remember where I heard it)

Follow these steps:
1. Create a folder (name doesn't matter)
2. Take a screenshot
3. dump all the icons into that folder
4. use the screenshot as a desktop background

You also want to unlocked the startbar, resize it so it doesn't show up, then lock it again. This way it looks like the startbar is there (from the screenshot) but isn't.

[kermitology]

Originally Posted by Flaming Choy

You also want to unlocked the startbar, resize it so it doesn't show up, then lock it again. This way it looks like the startbar is there (from the screenshot) but isn't.

Replace the background image with a BSOD, and do the rest..

[Ice]

My IT guy showed me the screenshot one. He has me just right click, hide icons, then unlock the taskbar and drop it out of sight. At any rate, I'm pretty sure its going to be hilarious. My target is the HR lady, she'll never figure it out. I can't wait. I just have to find the time to get in her office when she's not there. (my boss gave me a key just so I could mess with her)

[Wookie]

Tell the coworker the company stock has tanked and there is a good chance they'll be laid off.... Then walk away chuckling!

oh wait....

[dionfan]

You could always do the old "Flip the Monitor Display" prank.

http://www.ehow.com/how_2169927_flip...r-display.html

[PIMking]

Haha I use to put tape on the phone jack that plugs into the phones base. We always had black phones so I would put shoe polish on the phone then call my car dealership and ask for that salesperson and it was great.

The best thing was if I got a sales call from an asian or mexican that couldnt speak good english I would transfer to another salesman that was a classic.

The new guys would come into the dealership thinking they are all big boys and would end up getting chapped. What is Chapped you ask? well one salesman distracts the new guy and another will take scissors and cut a small hole on one of his pockets. then later in the day ( most of the time right before close) you would just grab ahold of the small hole and tear his slacks into cowboy chaps. lol

[Resolute 14]

Computer pranks are easiest when you are in IT.

I know an Oilers fan at work, so I set their wallpaper to a Flames logo. Since we lock down the wallpapers (for some reason), they couldn't change it back.

shutdown \\computername /y /t:999 is a fun command in command prompt - shuts down a remote PC after 999 seconds.

[surferguy]

http://gadizmo.com/the-best-office-p...r-10-bucks.php

BEST PRANKER EVAR!!!!!!!!!!

[JerzeeGirl]

Originally Posted by dionfan

You could always do the old "Flip the Monitor Display" prank.

http://www.ehow.com/how_2169927_flip...r-display.html

Seriously one of the best pranks - simply cuz not many people (even in IT) know how to fix it without using a mouse and clicking....and reading upside down or sideways isn't always easy. LOL We did this at work and just waited for the freak out to follow, very enjoyable minute of sabotage.

[Resolute 14]

That one is also fun if you do the screenshot prank with it. We've taken a screenshot of the desktop, dumped the shortcuts into a folder, flipped the image in paint, made it the wallpaper, then flipped the display. The end result is a screen that looks normal, but the mouse operates the wrong ways.

[Rathji]

My screen wont flip =(

Sad day.

[Ice]

Originally Posted by surferguy

http://gadizmo.com/the-best-office-p...r-10-bucks.php

BEST PRANKER EVAR!!!!!!!!!!

We did this one at my work. It was the funniest day. The head of the finance dept. was sure there was some sort of cricket or something in her office. Whenever she left, my boss moved it to a different location (since she thought it was a cricket or other small creature) to make it seem like it was moving around. We finally had to come clean when we found out she made an appointment for an exterminator to come the next day AND start removing drywall to find whatever it was. Hahahaha!

Now, almost every new employee has it happen to them. Our device has two sounds, one is a chirp and one is more of a buzzing noise. Both sounds drive people equally nuts.

[burn_this_city]

I just stick small black post-its to the bottom of mice.

[old-fart]

I like the office one.... keep putting quarters in the phone handset, one at a time over a long period of time..... then take them all out.