This is close to what has been mentioned, but I think a bit better.
Put a tiny piece of clear tape over the microphone part of their phone. When they call someone the other person will be saying "Hello? Hello?" because they won't be able to hear a word your coworker is saying. Hopefully they start yelling really loud and try calling a few times.
Once, many years ago, when a co-worker was on holidays we taped some newspaper loosely to the inside of the office facing window (picture the office door, then a thin maybe 6" across floor to ceiling window, then solid wall), then filled the space between the window and the newspaper with the styrofoam popcorn type balls up to about 6 and a half feet. We also jammed his door shut, and rigged it so when he tried to shove it open, a few more popcorn balls would fall out.
The net effect was that it appeared the entire office had been filled to the 6 and a half feet level with styrofoam balls.
He came back from holidays, walked up to his office, shook his head, turned around and left muttering "call me when my office is cleaned up".
Everyone was laughing so hard we couldn't get to him before he drove away, and we had to call him at home later and tell him to come back in...
Another one was related to golf balls. Even more years ago, I acquired a few golf balls from a driving range one late night. I never got rid of them, and they seemed to follow me around for years. Anyway, we would setup a binder on its side (which makes a great ramp) in some unsuspecting soul's overhead bin, use a clipboard (or one part of a binder, or a file folder, etc) to block the golf balls, close the lid, pull out the block and wait....... days later you'd hear the crash, followed by the swearing.
Important safety step though - make sure the balls aren't going to fall directly on breakable things, or computers... loud scary noises are funny, broken family heirlooms - not so much.
This one requires slightly more effort but I have always loved filling a small office with small plastic cups filled with water. Just work your way backwards while covering every square inch with cups about half full.
It requires the person being pranked to remove the cups one by one and dump them into a jug. It requires a lot of time to set up but I find it is worth it.
Location: In a land without pants, or war, or want. But mostly we care about the pants.
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I like the one where you connect a 2nd mouse to the back of the victim's computer by threading the cable between cubicles (but out of sight, obviously). The trick is not to fling the cursor around, just make slight but noticeable movements when he/she is working with his/her own mouse.. Usually you'll get "wth is up with this stupid mouse?" for a bit, which escalates to "#$@^& piece of @#$^&!!!!" and then the poor victim coming over to me to ask if I can look at their mouse.
Then, of course, I pretend to fix it... for a while.
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Unplug the monitor from the back. He/she might think the computer is off so he/she pushes the start button. What's so funny if this person did not save his work.
I have changed some keys on peoples keyboards. This causes them to get locked out of their computers when they try to log in. It also gives the IT guys a chuckle when they look at the keyboard and instead of QWERTY it says GOTCHANERD.
I have changed some keys on peoples keyboards. This causes them to get locked out of their computers when they try to log in. It also gives the IT guys a chuckle when they look at the keyboard and instead of QWERTY it says GOTCHANERD.
I like the swapping of the M and N keys personally. Hard to notice by just looking at the keyboard but it REALLY messes with 'hunt and peck' typers.
1. If they still have a mouse with a ball you can take it out.
2. Change the Windows startup sound to something annoying and crank the volume. (I downloaded the A-Team intro for one guy)
3. Pull the wheels off the bottom of the chair
I have changed some keys on peoples keyboards. This causes them to get locked out of their computers when they try to log in. It also gives the IT guys a chuckle when they look at the keyboard and instead of QWERTY it says GOTCHANERD.
We have enough spare keyboards laying around, I think I'm going to try and change every key on a co-worker's keyboard to the same letter...
I like going into the control panel and changing the mouse orientation so up is down... left is right. Simple to pull off and hard for the person to fix (if they know how).
Another fun one is making an icon that they use quite often, link to something completely different. Like a shortcut to a raunchy web-page instead of their AutoCAD program or timesheet spreadsheet. Bonus points if you do it to the powerpoint icon on the desktop of the board room computer.
Many eons ago in Edmonton I had a co-worker that was a huge Kiss fan and had those ridiculously large Dolls of the 4 original guys. I think they stood a foot to two feet tall, huge for a small cubicle desk.
So one night myself a couple of others from the shop "kidnap" his dolls. Through out the week we would send him pictures of the Kiss guys at various locations at work. Boss' office, pants down on the photocopier lunch room, etc. Even had the lads lined up at the bar sitting drinking a beer at Mo's.
We finally sent a note asking for 20 cases of beer to be paid or Gene would have an accident. We mailed him the axe bass guitar with a little doll habd glued to it. Tried to do the tongue but we were unsuccesful. This went on for a few weeks. He wasn't very pleased with our sense of humor. We never did get our beer but as far as I know he never found out who took his Kiss dolls. We returned them silently one night completely unharmed.
Another good one we did had to do with the computer flooring. Our whole office had a two foot high computer floor. Our master control room is just a big large room with a multitude of monitors for somebody to stare at all by themselves. We rigged up a tile to a mnemonic jack/pump with a switch in the racks. Every now and than we would set it off and freak out the operator. Usually tried to do it just as they were about to hit a button or switch. It would only shoot the tile 6 to 8 inches off the floor but it made a terrible racket.
Many eons ago in Edmonton I had a co-worker that was a huge Kiss fan and had those ridiculously large Dolls of the 4 original guys. I think they stood a foot to two feet tall, huge for a small cubicle desk.
So one night myself a couple of others from the shop "kidnap" his dolls. Through out the week we would send him pictures of the Kiss guys at various locations at work. Boss' office, pants down on the photocopier lunch room, etc. Even had the lads lined up at the bar sitting drinking a beer at Mo's.
We finally sent a note asking for 20 cases of beer to be paid or Gene would have an accident. We mailed him the axe bass guitar with a little doll habd glued to it. Tried to do the tongue but we were unsuccesful. This went on for a few weeks. He wasn't very pleased with our sense of humor. We never did get our beer but as far as I know he never found out who took his Kiss dolls. We returned them silently one night completely unharmed.
Another good one we did had to do with the computer flooring. Our whole office had a two foot high computer floor. Our master control room is just a big large room with a multitude of monitors for somebody to stare at all by themselves. We rigged up a tile to a mnemonic jack/pump with a switch in the racks. Every now and than we would set it off and freak out the operator. Usually tried to do it just as they were about to hit a button or switch. It would only shoot the tile 6 to 8 inches off the floor but it made a terrible racket.
I miss office pranks!
LOL!
We did something similar once. We stole a plush whale doll a friend of ours on help desk had, then sent a hand-cut ransom note (each letter individually cut out of a magazine) via interoffice mail telling her to send a plate of chocolate chip cookies or the whale would get it.
On the afternoon mail run, she sent us a printout of a picture of a plate of chocolate chip cookies in interoffice mail.
If you work for a trucking company you could rig up someone's horn, I used to do this where I worked a few years ago. Get inside the truck, tie one end of a string to the horn cable (in semi's there's that cable that hangs, that's what they pull to honk their horn), then tie the other end to the driver side door, make sure there isn't much slack in the string. After it's tied, let yourself out the passenger side door and walk away.
When the driver pulls open his door in the morning, that loud horn will go off, and it won't stop until he closes his door.
I tried to find a video of this but couldn't, although I did manage to find one where guys just drive around scaring people with a truck horn.
