Workplace Pranks

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Originally Posted by Brendan 
 Apparently someone else had layered pieces of left over beef on another employees windshield in the summer time. That one was semi-dangerous because I guess it took awhile for the beef grease/gravy grease to works it way off the windshield.

 

Dude, I don't know how you do things in Canada, but that's more something you'd do to a dire enemy around here. And I'm not an especially violent man, but I'd beat the piss out of someone who pulled that shit on my car. Or something. Definitely not a "friendly prank."

That said, these are fucking great if you work in an office:

http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/ae83/?cpg=froogle

I worked at an office supply store as a teen and my manager was a raging alcoholic who always had the shakes. I hid inside the floor model of a 2 door cabinet and had a friend ask himer to open it up so a customer could see the inside. Then I jumped out and scared him to (near) death.

On another occassion I managed to get this same manager's voice mail pin. We would call and leave scandalous messages then call back and play them over the paging system. He then threw a very heavy tape dispenser at my head but missed.

A friend of mine works on a very highly rated cable TV show in the post production department. He and his supervisor like to play "scavenger hunt" with other team member's paychecks (well, one guy specifically). They typically do shit like recruit one of the stars of the show to hold come crucial piece of info and they have to awkwardly saunter down to the set during shooting and find a way to ask. And then (at least in the first and most memorable instance) after an absurdly day-long hunt for his fucking paycheck, it was attached under his chair the whole time.

When I was younger I worked for my Dad and Grandfather, both architects. My Grandfather was getting up in the years and was a diabetic. As such he'd frequently doze off in his office in the afternoon; leaned back with his arms folded behind his head. My Dad is a prankster and so one day during the summer (only noting that because it stays light out until like 7:30 p.m.) after we got back from lunch (around 1 p.m.) and Granddad was asleep, he turned out all the lights in the front area of the office and announced loudly "Goodnight, everybody!" At which point, of course, my Granddad promptly awoke, grabbed his things, got in his car and drove home. He didn't realize what happened until he got all the way there.

I suggest only doing this one to your close friends, or somebody who will only punch you in the arm as retaliation.

We caught our buddy asleep once at the booth desk.  I got a staple gun, stapled his tie to the desk and as he woke up from the sound our other friend pulled the rolly chair out from under him. 

He fell on his knees and once he realized what happened he yelled, "You fucking assholes!" and lunged for us, but his tie was stapled to the desk, so . . . 

It was the funniest damn thing we'd ever seen.  We all had a good laugh later on.

Here is one you can play at home mostly but if you have a break room with a sink and sprayer try it there as well:

Scotch tape the lever of the sprayer down and make sure it is turned toward the general vicinity where someone would stand while turning on the sink.  Years ago I did this to my mother and told her the sink wasn't working and could she come help me out.  Not sure how you would lure a coworker to it but if you work in a place where any general hilarity is useful then maybe it doesn't matter who gets sprayed.

In a previous office I worked in they did two genius pranks on the a  guy in revenge for years of him pranking them. The first was to create a PowerPoint presentation that was a copy of his desktop and have it refresh at the same speed as the airport radar he could see from his desk. He was convinced the radiation was interfering with his monitor (back in the days of CRT monitors).

The second and by far best one concerned his home. The guy hates Sky TV so we forged a series of fake letters from Sky confirming his new Sky Dish and package would be installed on a certain date (which was when he was on holiday). Of course he would phone Sky to be told he hadn't ordered anything and they had no record of him. The best bit came when he went on holiday and his colleagues Bolted a Sky Dish to a pole and stuck it in his garden. They knew what time his plane came in so they waited outside his house...

apparently he went ballistic until he was let in on the joke. 

Being in the military, there are a fair amount of hat-related pranks; one favorite was making a jello mold out of one person's hat. There were even little pieces of fruit around it in the jello. As for computer hijinks, we would take a screenshot of the person's PC with all of the applications open and make it their background while minimizing the apps. It always gets people for a few minutes. Sometimes, we'll just change their backgrounds to pictures of lesser-known presidents from the 19th-early 20th century, but that's just because we're weird.

upside down desk drawers is always fun.

Some expensive pranks done in my office:

Removing the door and sealing up a co-worker's office (drywall, paint, etc) completely while they were on vacation.

Turning another co-worker's office into:

• A pirate cave (with foam-rock walls, a view of the beach, and piratey props)
• A geriatric ward (with gurney, etc)
• A mini-golf course

Some less expensive (yet time-intensive) pranks:

Covering a co-worker's cube in multi-colored post-its.

Covering a co-worker's cube with blue tape. Everything. Stapler. Computer. Chair. Even the post-its.

Sealing a co-worker's cube off with saran wrap or tape and then filling with balloons, packing peanuts, etc.

Covering a co-worker's cube and items within in saran wrap.

Covering a co-worker's entire desk with empty stacked soda cans.

Covering a co-worker's cube with cut out faces of the Burger King (he had a phobia).

Not a work prank and not mine but just read this and had to share it.

It was in response to a post about this:

Someone please do this at work and report back.

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Originally Posted by DARKMITE8 

 

Sealing a co-worker's cube off with saran wrap or tape and then filling with balloons, packing peanuts, etc.

 

 

When I worked at a video store many moons ago, we had been packaging a bunch of new releases for rental, so that meant you took the new box, pulled out the tape, stuck it in a new generic case for rental, then stuck a styrofoam square in the now-empty box to maintain it's shape, then shrink-wrapped it.  We got really slow later than evening, so when my co-worker went to the bathroom, I grabbed her pack of cigarettes and shrink wrapped it shut.  She came back, saw this, and was all, "Ha ha, very funny," and went outside to smoke as she ripped the shrink wrap off.  That's when she discovered I had shrink wrapped each individual cigarette.  Multiple times.  She couldn't get any of the wrap off of any of the cigarettes without breaking the cigarette.  I paid for a new pack of cigarettes that night.  But it was worth it.

Not sure how many people are familiar with the "netsend" command and how it works, but essentially it allows you to put an official looking system message on somebody's screen as long as you have their specific PC address at the office.  It's uncommon enough that most people don't know it exists.

When I started this job I was in training for 6 weeks before they'd let us do any work.  The training was poorly put together as we were hired after an ugly corporate takeover and the training materials were lacking so we were all fried a month into this.  I sent a message to the guy in front of me through the command that stated "A discrepancy has been found in the resume information that you have provided to us.  Please gather all of your personal belongings and report to Human Resources immediately."  The joke didn't go on that long though because I couldn't keep a straight face when he freaked out.

Then a friend and I tried again later after we were doing the job.  We got the PC address of a cute girl from our training and sent her "You have been found in violation of company internet policy 31.2b ('naked man pictures').  This message has been submitted to your manager."  As soon as we sent the message we had a friend run down to the floor below us to play safety and make sure nothing bad happened.  Unfortunately in the time it took her to descend a flight of stairs the girl had run directly to her manager's office to try to explain.  Unbeknownst to us she had been on a friend's modelling web page earlier and apparently there had been an inappropriate picture and our message hit at just the wrong time.  She never got in trouble, but she also never spoke to us again.