Simple Email Prank - Do it

[Titan]

My buddies put an alarm clock in the case of a non-tech savvy co-worker and set the alarm for the middle of the afternoon. He would call IT and then it would stop and he would think it was fixed, until the next day.

[Bobblehead]

Originally Posted by Burninator

Or make a folder with a really embarrassing name. Take a screen shot. Make that picture the background, then delete the embarrassing folder. They will try and click on it to delete it but they won't be able to. Hilarity ensues.

Or you could post the picture to a message board

[ken0042]

Another one with a mouse or keyboard. With USB you can have more than one plugged in and they all work. So plug a second mouse into the back of his computer (assuming you are in cubicles) and then throughout the day move the other mouse around.

Or if you are really bored take his regular keyboard and swap the N and the M keys.

[BlackEleven]

Where I used to work pcAnywhere was installed on all the machines so the HelpDesk could log into your machine if you had a problem.

So we launched it on this one guys machine and hid in the next office. Everytime he would go to click on something we would move the mouse just a bit. And when he was typing we would hit a random letter on the keyboard in the middle of his sentence.

He discovered us after we starting laughing so hard at all the "what the hell??" and other such expressions coming from his office.

[Bobblehead]

Originally Posted by BlackEleven

Where I used to work pcAnywhere was installed on all the machines so the HelpDesk could log into your machine if you had a problem.

So we launched it on this one guys machine and hid in the next office. Everytime he would go to click on something we would move the mouse just a bit. And when he was typing we would hit a random letter on the keyboard in the middle of his sentence.

He discovered us after we starting laughing so hard at all the "what the hell??" and other such expressions coming from his office.

We have VNC on all our machines. It is interesting to see what people are up to.

[Burninator]

Originally Posted by Bobblehead

Or you could post the picture to a message board

Classic. Did he ever offer up an explanation on that?

[Teh_Bandwagoner]

Yah I've done the screenshot for a desktop thing. It's pretty hilarious. Lots of mad clicking.

Another simple one is to tape down the button on a phone receiver with a piece of scotch tape. Works really well on admin staff 'cause whenever their phone rings and they pick up the phone, it just keeps ringing. Watch the panic ensue.

[Shazam]

Or remap the keyboard. And then also pull out the keys in the keyboard and rearrange them. Now that's evil.

[FlamesKickAss]

i dont work in an office but we have a prank that gets done all the time. Sneak up behind a guy's forklift (carefully so you dont get runover) and turn off the propane , first reaction is to go get a new tank. I had it happen to me my 2nd day at this job.

[Resolute 14]

Some of the random things we have done to coworkers computers:

- Put a .wav file of the hippopotamous song into someone's startup folder
- changed someone's background to a backstreet boy in a bubble bath.
- pointed someone's desktop shortcuts to all the wrong programs. Email would open up internet, internet would open NetOp, NetOp would open email, etc.
- The two mouse trick was done, but caused trouble as our security guy got involved thinking it was a virus. (?!?)
- map into a persons computer and edit their hosts file to point calgarypuck to oilfans.
- change the wallpaper to an image of a BOSD message. This is especially funny if you leave their shortcuts alone, and they still dont catch on.

I also keep a small lenth of cable with a token ring connection around with the sign "Free Internet Connection." Most people just shake their heads.

[Bertuzzied]

Originally Posted by FlamesKickAss

i dont work in an office but we have a prank that gets done all the time. Sneak up behind a guy's forklift (carefully so you dont get runover) and turn off the propane , first reaction is to go get a new tank. I had it happen to me my 2nd day at this job.

Umm how is that funny? hehe

[Shazam]

Tell them to get the metric hammer.

[Nabber]

Funny thread, I’d like to try the screenshot one cause I know I’d be mad clicking and trying what ever it takes to open those icons. I have a good prank story from back in my days at Sait. You could say there was a battle of pranks going on and there were two in particular who were out to get everyone. Well these two (males) sat together in all classes and seemed to spend a lot of time together. It was first semester so you kind of link up with someone. So I came up with a prank that had actually partly been used on me, a friend of mine hacked into my hotmail account using my secret question, I’m sure you could guess half of your friend’s questions.

Long story short during an Accounting lecture I hacked into one of the twos hotmail account as we all had laptops in class, his secret question was “favorite sport?” the guy was a huge hockey fan, and emailed the other thanking him for being such a great friend with school and maybe we could go out for dinner something along those lines hinting at a romantic gesture, knowing full well both were straight. I sat directly behind the said two and let my neighbors in on the prank so we sat there as the one reading the email had this hilarious puzzled look on his face, pauses for 30 seconds, shakes his head then says fairly loud during the lecture “Chad what the hell is this?” Well Chad reads the email that came directly from his email account obviously surprised and says “Dude I didn’t write that....I promise....I have no idea how that got to you” his face redder than ever which caused a couple of us in the back row to burst out laughing which gave up the prank.

[GreenTeaFrapp]

Originally Posted by Shazam

Take a screenshot of their desktop. Make it their wallpaper. Move all their desktop icons to a folder somewhere. Move the taskbar somewhere else and then hide it. Watch the hilarity!

Another one is make the screenshot the password protected screensaver. Then move the Windows Security window for unlocking the computer to a far edge of the screen so that it's barely visible. After that adjust the monitor settings so that it is completely hidden.

[GreatWhiteEbola]

My favorite thing do prank the newbies into locking their computers is; when they are not at their computer, access the display settings and rotate the screen 180 degrees. I eventually have to come and fix it, as most folks have no idea how to fix it, at that time I remind them that there is sensetive material on their computer and they should lock their computer when they are not at their workstation. Funny and educational.

A tip on making it easier to fix if this happens to you... turn the mouse so that the buttons are in your palm.

[Resolute 14]

Originally Posted by Shazam

Tell them to get the metric hammer.

A former coworker of mine once convinced the purchaser at the shop they worked at previously to file a PO for "spots for the spot welder". Apparently they spent some time looking for a place that sold them before catching on.

[GreatWhiteEbola]

Originally Posted by Shazam

Tell them to get the metric hammer.

My favorite was the sky hook or the long wait... I worked as a boiler maker/ welder, I think that sort of thing is a initiation for most apprenticeship type of careers.

[Shazam]

Here's another prank: Post a thread in a forum with a leading title and have a picture of the guy from Dateline NBC that catches the child predators. Ha ha!

(Okay, it didn't work here )

[ken0042]

Originally Posted by GreatWhiteEbola

My favorite thing do prank the newbies into locking their computers is; when they are not at their computer, access the display settings and rotate the screen 180 degrees.

Naw, when a newbie forgets to lock his computer there's only one of two things that are going to happen:

(a) He's offering to buy lunch.
(b) He's coming out of the closet.

Make sure you put a read receipt on the email. If there's time go into his sent items, edit the sent email to include somebody he wouldn't want on there. (A higher tech twist on Fotze's original post.)

[Jayems]

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