Practical jokes for work

[06blaksi]

Started a few of these on another thread but didn't want to threadjack :)

Feel free to add anymore you can think of





When two (ore more) people are working a desks that are put next to each other, switch their telephone cords. With all those cables lying around it will take some time before they find that one out!

Put a peice of onion or a clove of garlic inside the mouthpiece of a phone. Give it some time for it to fester and build up a strong odor. Then call them and keep them on the phone for as long as possible.

It is allways a good habit to lock your computer before heading off for coffee or a smoke. When someone forgets and leaves a Word document or an email open, type a single word somewhere in the text. “f*ck” or so will do nicely. They’ll never notice and send it out.

Get a hold of someone's cell phone and change the greeting banner to say "NO SERVICE". Many cell phones have greeting banners on them that you can personalize to say whatever you want them to and it stays on there when you're not using your phone. Also, when there is no service where you are, most cell phone companies have a banner that pops up on your screen saying "no service".

Take a can of non gel shaving cream, and put it in a freezer. When it is frozen remove the bottom of the can and put it in co worker's drawer. When it melts it expands and explodes all over everything.

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.

Take clear tape and tape the underside of the mouse. Make sure you take the sticky end of the tape and apply it to the bottom of the mouse so it locks the ball in place. The victim will most likely check the connections in the back, reinstall drivers, reboot, etc., before they realize what has happened.

Do a "Print Screen" of the user's desktop, and then paste the image from the clipboard to a photo program, and save the image as a bitmap. Then, set the 'snapshot' of their desktop as the actual desktop wallpaper. (You'll have to hide the Windows status bar, and move all their desktop icons into a folder, which you can hide conspicuously in the corner or something.) The user will see their desktop as always, but everything on it will appear to be frozen when they try to click on it...sending them into a rebooting and virus scanning fit!

This will mostly only work with people with very little PC knowledge. Stick in a floppy in there floppy drive. They will be unable to boot up windows until the disk is out. This is fun to watch.

Try to find a very obnoxious CD laying around. Preferably a reggae or rap CD. Pop it in their CD ROM. Put up the sound full blast by double clicking on the volume control on the bottom right. On normal configurations the audio CD will autoplay when windows first starts up. The person starting up there PC in the morning will definitely be embarrassed.

This is for that special person you just cant stand in the office, the one who talks on the phone all day with their boyfriend/girlfriend and gets personal e-mail all day. Go into their e-mail and change their defaults to autmatically "blind carbon copy" their boss or supervisor. Heads will roll!

Change the coffee in the office coffe maker to decafe. Wait about three weeks(or untill you think everybody has gotten over their caffine addiction)and switch to expresso!

Try "password securing" someone's screen saver. First I suggest changing the screen saver to "scrolling marque" and inserting your own word or phrase, "Mr. Jones (president or supervisor) eats SHlT" or something to that effect.

With someone who is on the phone a lot during work - This works if you have phones that the handset comes apart. Take the handset apart and put scotch tape over the mouthpeice inside. They can still be heard, but they have to talk loud to be heard. The next day take it off, and put it in the earpeice. Usually they will be yelling to the other person on the line the next day, and won't be able to hear them. When they complain about the phone, and get a replacement, do it on the next phone. After about a week you will notice the calls to be down considerably.

Depending where you are at you may have a cafeteria in you place of work. Every week most of them put out a menu so you know what they are serving. Usually it is done on Word or Excel, and not extremely fancy. With a little work, matching fonts, and images you can make your own menus, and post them by your desk. We had one co-worker avoid the cafeteria for 2 weeks because of the selection "fish head stew" etc... before he caught on. Works great with picky eaters.

My absolutely most favorite prank I have saved for last. It is so simple to do and yields such nice results. Simply pop out the 'm' and 'n' key on someone's keyboard and reverse the two. Any flat tool will work. Just pry it with little pressure and they will easily come right off. Then just sit back and watch the confusion.

[ethlar]

Back in HS I went into the the computer lab where the computers were on both sides of 2 long tables and swapped the mouse and keyboard with the computer on the other side of the table, it took people a little bit to figure that one out.

[dcfife]

Another thing you can do with clear tape and a telephone is tape down the switch in the phone cradle (wired phones only). People will instantly look to see if their phone is unplugged and start tracing wires from the back of the phone to the jack.

The last place I worked, if somebody left their computer unlocked and a prankster happened by, an e-mail would be sent from the unlocked account to somebody else in the department saying very risque things about what happened last night and how they can't wait to do it again. Considering this was a government contract, it was made more amusing by the fact that these e-mails would usually come from an Army officers account. They learned very quickly that you always lock your computer when you leave your desk.

[CHRIS]

BUMP

this is cool stuff

[dentrecords]

lol

fairly tame, but funny.

I put a co-worker's motorcycle helmet in the fridge. He said it smelled like bad ham for a week.

I put his shoes in the freezer. They were nice and cold (once he found them).

Then I turned everything in his office upside down (monitor, keyboard, computer, filing cabinet, etc).

Another guy got his entire office post it noted.


I also made a wall (out of paper taped together) and put it blocking his cubicle. I cut a small door out of it, and drew a flower box beside the door. Then variations on his name pasted everywhere around his cubicle. He was still finding them 6 months later.

[CHRIS]

Originally Posted by dentrecords

lol

fairly tame, but funny.

I put a co-worker's motorcycle helmet in the fridge. He said it smelled like bad ham for a week.

I put his shoes in the freezer. They were nice and cold (once he found them).

Then I turned everything in his office upside down (monitor, keyboard, computer, filing cabinet, etc).

Another guy got his entire office post it noted.


I also made a wall (out of paper taped together) and put it blocking his cubicle. I cut a small door out of it, and drew a flower box beside the door. Then variations on his name pasted everywhere around his cubicle. He was still finding them 6 months later.

ha thats crazy

i once fully filled a co-workers office with cardboard boxes.

she couldnt even get past the door! lol

[ethlar]

post it noting is always fun, i did it to a friends car once. I also did it to the inside of a car while it was driving and somehow the driver didnt notice

[06blaksi]

[WPG_CSX]

We've had a benign cubicle war here in my office.

It all started with the ol' tape over the mouse laser. The key is to find semi transparent tape. The laser will still be visible when he lifts the mouse but it will not move the mouse on the screen.

Packing peanuts scattered all over the cubicle.

On two separate occasions two different co-workers left for the day and did not lock their computers. We changed the sound scheme. we got a wav file of Nelson from the simpsons saying "Ha! Ha!".
So everytime they close, opened a window. received an email. Nelson would go "Ha! Ha!"

I came in to the office today to find my keyboard replaced with a small electric piano. My regular keyboard hidden.

fun times with pranks.

[Yodums]

If your company ever use Dell systems, press Crlt + Alt + Direction, where direction is the up, down, left and right arrow keys. It'll flip the screen and they'll probably have NO idea how to get it back.

[SiCali]

Originally Posted by Yodums

If your company ever use Dell systems, press Crlt + Alt + Direction, where direction is the up, down, left and right arrow keys. It'll flip the screen and they'll probably have NO idea how to get it back.

this is true with any intel graphics based computer (i.e. including hp, compaq, gateway, etc.).

[accorddude]

That picture with the post-its covering the car is awesome. Looks like a Jag, or possibly a Ford Taurus.

[Yodums]

Ah! I only used that functions with Dell. Chances are you can do that across the whole company then if it covers such a wide range of systems.

[Qshooter151]

Great thread Paul... This one was fun. Make some copies of paper clips then load the paper back into the copier. Run a test copy to be sure you loaded the paper so it ends up being face up after the copy is made. Then when your victim comes along to make some copies they'll have paper clips all over them. They'll have no idea where they came from! A woman at my job actually called Staples to complain about the paper!!!

[Chase]

The best prank I have seen so far...

You take small Dixie cups, fill them about half way with water. Start from the farthest corner of the wall you can and work your way out until the entire floor is covered with small shots of water! They will make a huge mess trying to fix this!

[LostSol_FoundCivic]

Once zip tied the bosses chair to the tile ceiling. That got a good reaction.

[SIcBoy]

put a tac on your cubies chair
just kiddin

but the foil and newspaper that covered the cubicle is funny as hell im going to try that

[twistedframe]

one of my old associates and i had a pretty good prank war going on for almost a year. It all started when he hid my favorite pen. So I super glued everything (keyboard, monitor,mouse notebook) to his desk. Then he was on the phone and leaning forwad one day so i zip tied his belt loops to his chair then punched him and ran. hilarity ensued as he got up to run and fell with the chair on top of him!

[Bootsie]

Good thread! I am glad that I do not work with you guys!!!

[06blaksi]

Originally Posted by twistedframe

Then he was on the phone and leaning forwad one day so i zip tied his belt loops to his chair then punched him and ran. hilarity ensued as he got up to run and fell with the chair on top of him!