Office Pranks

[Kaon]

Here's a couple of things I've either done to others, or had done to me over the years.

1) Contact someone who has pictures of them as children. Place a caption on it, photocopy a ton of copies and show up a little early for work. Tape them in all elevators, in the kitchen, on doors, on the roof above their desk etc. It works better as a birthday thing, but it's still funny especially if you get a good picture.

2) Place a piece of scotch tape on the phone receiver, it makes it almost impossible for people to hear them when they make phone calls. We had one guy go as far to contact IS to have his phone replaced.

3) Empty out the bag from the shredder and fill up all their drawers and cupboards.

4) Sign them up for free crap all over the internet and use their work e-mail and wait for the spam to arrive. **Note: Don't do this unless you really hate the person or can remove them from the lists later on. If the person is computer illiterate the IS/IT guy will assume it's because they're browsing the internet. (typically)

5) Depending on what programs you use at work you can mess with the default key maps for some good results. We used an accounting program a few years ago and I mapped the 'enter' key to close the program every time it was entered. You couldn't navigate the program without using enter.

If I come up with more I'll post them.

[Buff]

Using scotch tape, tape the hole in the creamer bottle at work. Watch as somebody shakes... shakes some more... vigourously shakes the creamer bottle, trying to get some cream out of it.

[STeeLy]

Originally Posted by notoepik

Another fun thing to do is take a picture of the desktop on his puter. upload that and then use it as his background. Move the real icons all into one folder and hide it off in a corner. Then that leaves the picture of the icons there. He turns on the puter and clicks till his finger breaks but nothing will open. IT is not fond of this prank, but everyone else thinks it is hilarious.

I've done this to my friend's laptop at school... I put all his icons in a folder and put his folder into C drive... hid the Task bar... lol... he couldnt' figure out what was wrong with his icons... hehe... It is hilarious... luckily... his friend brought it back to the normal thing for him.. .hahaa..

[ericschand]

Do you use laptops or desktops w/ speakers as office computers?
Turn the volume as loud as it will go (without distortion).

Find numerous .wav files of some farts...the juicier the better.

Change minimize/restore window sounds in Windows to play
these .wav files.

Make sure some bigwig is coming by for a meeting. (ok, this
was a coincidence, as was the required use of the computer)

Very funny, very funny looks on the bigwig, boss' reaction was
priceless (from the looks to the apologies)

ers

[JBR]

This one always works!!!


http://http://www.cbsnews.com/storie...n1259522.shtml

[fredr123]

One day I covered a coworker's black stapler with ink from a black stamp pad. He went about happily stapling crap like normal. It wasn't until he went to shake a client's hand that he realized it was covered in ink. He quickly pulled his hand back and stuck it in his pocket. Throughout the conversation with the client you could see his gears turning trying to figure out how much ink he got all over his face. Priceless.

Also, I put packing tape on the underside of another coworker's desk that all but sealed his drawers shut. Because the tape was on the underside, it didn't look like there should be anything preventing the drawer from opening. He pulled so hard on the drawer the handle almost came off.

[Tiger]

since everyone is hiring right now. use there name and apply online for wendy's, Mcd's, burgerking, etc.

Or if they have a nice car put it up for sale.

or if the real estate market is so hot, put an ad in the paper to sell there house

[SeeGeeWhy]

I like popping out a few keys of the keyboard and switching them around if they are a hunt-and-peck sort of typist.

It messes with them for DAYS!

[bluejays]

Put baby oil or vaseline on somebody's windshield. Can't get that stuff out without coke or some carbonated drink. Great prank to sit back and watch from afar.

[Reaper]

My favourite office prank usually ends up being a finisher when people use it.

Get to work about 2 hours early one day. Find the target's chair and remove the seat from the base. Fill the center post of the chair with frozen raw shrimp (make sure they are frozen when you put them in). Reattach the chair seat to the base and wait for the hilarity to ensue. In a few days there will be a smell in their cubicle that they cannot locate. In a week there will be a smell that makes people turn their nose something fierce. In two weeks there will be a smell in their cubicle that powerfully envokes the human gag reflex when detected. The person will try anything to get the smell out of their cubicle including a variety of air fresheners. Eventually the smell will be obviously coming from their chair as the decomposition of the shrimp will make the smell so concentrated that it will basically leave a stink trail whenever the chair moves.

Two things about this prank: either know your victim well enough that you know they won't have a nervous breakdown or snap and kill you if they find out you are the culprit OR pull this prank the day before you give your two week notice on someone you hate.

[the_only_turek_fan]

Originally Posted by evman150

I'd recommend learning the english language before pulling a prank like that.

Just a thought.

I'd recommend that you think of something intelligent to say before posting. Give yourself a pat on the back, you found a grammar mistake in my post. There is no need to be an ******* about it. But knowing you, it is expected.

Oh, and by the way "English" should be capitalized.

[mykalberta]

Go into MS Word or similar program on co-worker's computer, and add an entry to the AutoCorrect feature. This is a very simple prank that will send the novice user into a frenzy. Configure the AutoCorrect option to replace the word "the" with the phrase "you suck!". They will usually panick and start scanning for viruses.

That one is pure gold especially from an IT perspective.

MYK

[Agamemnon]

I did the Do Not Discard sheet... its been sitting at the printer (accessed by about 15-20 people) for 2 hours now...

[Buff]

Originally Posted by fredr123

One day I covered a coworker's black stapler with ink from a black stamp pad. He went about happily stapling crap like normal. It wasn't until he went to shake a client's hand that he realized it was covered in ink. He quickly pulled his hand back and stuck it in his pocket. Throughout the conversation with the client you could see his gears turning trying to figure out how much ink he got all over his face. Priceless.

I dumped a cup of water on the chair of a co-worker. The chair was black fabric with foam stuffing. You couldn't tell that it was wet by looking at it. He sat down to an unpleasant surprise. He automatically blamed me because I'm a prankster, but I have an ability to hold a straight face and he believed me when I denied it. It started a prank war between him and another worker... the other worker just thought he was getting pranked, he didn't realize that it was retaliation and from something he didn't do.

[Bring_Back_Shantz]

Simple but funny.

Get a small box and cut the bottom off. Wrap the reamaining sides nicely and fill it with marbles. Place it on a co-worker's desk so it looks like somone left them a nice gift, and wait to hear the fulfilling sound of marbles spilling all over someone's office. Make sure the box is small enought that the person's first reaction will be to pick it up.

[JBR]

Originally Posted by Agamemnon

I did the Do Not Discard sheet... its been sitting at the printer (accessed by about 15-20 people) for 2 hours now...

Mine is still there. Not quite 1.5 hours. Keep me updated. I have the feeling that somebody in the office will send a staff e-mail asking about it.

I love the auto correct one. The HR director just left for lunch. I think I will autocorrect my bosses' name with "dumba$$"... He He He

[KevanGuy]

I did this once to my secretary.

I came in early one day for whatever reason. Then I came up with my little plan. When it was about 5 minutes to 8 I locked the front door and turned all the lights off. I hid under her desk and pulled the chair in. She came in, hung up her coat, made some coffee. When she finally came over to her desk she pulled out her chair and I grabbed her legs and screamed.

I wish I could have seen her face. Judging from her scream of terror and the shaking of her legs....I'd say she was pretty scared.

[calf]

Originally Posted by Bring_Back_Shantz

Simple but funny.

Get a small box and cut the bottom off. Wrap the reamaining sides nicely and fill it with marbles. Place it on a co-worker's desk so it looks like somone left them a nice gift, and wait to hear the fulfilling sound of marbles spilling all over someone's office. Make sure the box is small enought that the person's first reaction will be to pick it up.

I think that's the winner - great idea!! I'd love to do the AutoCorrect one, but everyone got into the habit of locking their computer really quickly in my office. The fish one Reaper said doesn't work since I'm right beside the guys that did it...can't subject myself to that.

[Bobblehead]

Funniest prank I heard lately. A woman got chinese characters for a tattoo. A co-worker got the menu from a take-out chinese place they order from for lunch, and doctored it so her tattoo characters looked like they were for chow mein.
When she came in the next day, he laughed at her and asked why she got a tattoo that says chow mein. She didn't believe him and said that it meant serenity. So he pulled out the (doctored) menu and showed her. She broke down in tears.

It took him 1/2 an hour to calm her down and convince her it was a joke.

[Resolute 14]

Originally Posted by Kaon

5) Depending on what programs you use at work you can mess with the default key maps for some good results. We used an accounting program a few years ago and I mapped the 'enter' key to close the program every time it was entered. You couldn't navigate the program without using enter.

I once remapped all of one of my coworkers desktop shortcuts to the wrong program. He'd click on the office icon and get Lotus Notes. Click on Notes and get Heat, click on Heat and get IE.

Back at Christmas, I converted the Hippopotamous song to a .wav and set it as a coworker's startup sound.

Set 50 or 60 instances of IE in someone's startup menu.

One of my coworkers once went into my \winnt\system32\drivers\etc folder and edited my hosts file to point Calgarypuck to edmontonoilers.com. She was most disapointed when she found out that my bookmark was to the forums, and I never would have noticed the redirect.