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re: Office pranks, what are the best you ever created?
Posted on 8/1/24 at 7:43 am to Purplehaze
Posted on 8/1/24 at 7:43 am to Purplehaze
Was one of the perks in being a sys admin early in my career... The "frozen desktop" trick was always a fun one, as well as flipping the desktop view. When I was leaving my first gig to move on to another company, I took an old photo of Arnie in his Mr. Olympia days and shopped my head on his body, then set that as the default background image for the rest of the IT group via Group Policy.
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Posted on 8/1/24 at 8:15 am to ATL_Tigerfan
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Way back when the mouse had a roller ball
I worked nights in E.R. in the 90's and we had this fat-arse obnoxious lady Dr that thought she was smarter than all the other dr"s, and thought everyone liked her, but no one did.
We wouldn't take the ball, we just put a piece of clear tape over the ball on her mouse. She would bang the mouse on the desk, and call IT down to ER to fix her computer. IT guy would walk in, pick up mouse, remove the tape, cut his eyes at her, then just walk out without saying a word. She would also always come to work with two of the route 44 lime-ades from sonic (fat bitch). When she left her desk to go see a patient, we would pull her straw up and cut it off about 3 inches long, or just cut a split in it a few inches down. She would get so pissed and yell at everyone that we we SO CHILDISH. She eventually started walking in with two route 44 drinks and a fistful of straws.
Posted on 8/1/24 at 8:21 am to Purplehaze
Production Manager was a huge Ohio State fan. When they lost to Florida, me and another coworker printed out a ream of Chris Leak holding the crystal football and covered his entire office. He saw nothing but Leak when he walked in.
Posted on 8/1/24 at 8:27 am to Purplehaze
When I was a tall building lawyer, a member of the firm thought it would be hilarious to color copy of $2.0m settlement check and leave it on the bathroom sink in one of the office restrooms. He figured some firm lawyer would find it and hilarity would follow.
Instead, a client found and was not amused. The client wondered what kind of law firm would leave multi-million dollar checks in the can.
Instead, a client found and was not amused. The client wondered what kind of law firm would leave multi-million dollar checks in the can.
Posted on 8/1/24 at 8:32 am to RaginCajunz
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In the height of Craigslist, I would leave choice items listed with coworkers’ phone numbers and nicknames to ask for. One guy was on vacation for a week and returned to 100+ voicemails for a $600 van,
We did this once in my early 20's. Sales job, we were drinking beer at lunch half the week, it was a fun environment (made no money though).
We put "Free Vespa" and "Free Popcorn Maker Cart" ads on Craigslist with pictures we found online from real listings. People FREAK OUT for free shite. His cell phone was listed on one of the items and office phone the other. I've never seen anything like it. Both his phones rang legitimately without stopping for about 2 hours until he turned off his cell and took desk phone off the hook.
When he realized we did it, he set both phones to forward calls to other people in the office and that promptly got us to take down the ads
Pretty clever.
Posted on 8/1/24 at 8:42 am to CatfishJohn
I had a
I had a few go-to items. You could tailor the caller to the item. The voicemails were the greatest. I still have a several minute montage on my phone from 14 years ago of voicemails I recorded.
- Free partial rolls of automotive window tint
- $35 Punch amplifier
- Ferrari kit car body (with photo of it grown over in the woods) Free if you come dig it out of the woods.
- Discount van with a residential window unit installed in the back glass
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In the height of Craigslist, I would leave choice items listed with coworkers’ phone numbers and nicknames to ask for. One guy was on vacation for a week and returned to 100+ voicemails for a $600 van,
We put "Free Vespa" and "Free Popcorn Maker Cart" ads on Craigslist with pictures we found online from real listings.
I had a few go-to items. You could tailor the caller to the item. The voicemails were the greatest. I still have a several minute montage on my phone from 14 years ago of voicemails I recorded.
- Free partial rolls of automotive window tint
- $35 Punch amplifier
- Ferrari kit car body (with photo of it grown over in the woods) Free if you come dig it out of the woods.
- Discount van with a residential window unit installed in the back glass
Posted on 8/1/24 at 8:47 am to sonoma8
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Autocorrected a coworkers email to where every time he typed his name, it was replaced by Mr. fig. Good times
Did something similar to VP of sales.
Changed his name to "ME LOVE YOU LONG TIME"
He was trying to type up a letter and he thought he had a virus on his computer. We let the IT guy in on it.
IT guy was hounding this guy for hours about the websites he was visiting.
Posted on 8/1/24 at 8:58 am to Purplehaze
Stuck a white wig form on the top of a broom, attached a hospital gown on a coat hanger to the bottom of the head. It was in a dark janitor's closet.
I don't think that old man ever forgave me.
I don't think that old man ever forgave me.
Posted on 8/1/24 at 9:17 am to Purplehaze
The Annoyatron thread.
Posted on 8/1/24 at 9:39 am to Purplehaze
We once bought a cheap smoke detector and put a weak 9v battery in it and put it above the ceiling tiles in the boss man’s office. It was a 10 ft ceiling so we would have to have someone bring a ladder.
He never found out what it was. Every now and then we would go back and put in another weak 9v battery. The area above the tiles would echo it perfectly we found out.
They were still doing it when I left. He is either in an insane asylum or has long quit by now.
He never found out what it was. Every now and then we would go back and put in another weak 9v battery. The area above the tiles would echo it perfectly we found out.
They were still doing it when I left. He is either in an insane asylum or has long quit by now.
Posted on 8/1/24 at 9:57 am to Purplehaze
Hiding a banana in office plants or under a desk. After several days there would be little black fruit flies all over the place.
Putting a couple of baseballs (or big 1# steel ball bearings when I had them) in the bed of random trucks in the office parking lot. Every time they would drive forward or stop they would hear a loud "clunk".
Replaced the salt in the breakroom salt shakers with sugar, and replaced the sugar at the coffeepot with salt.
Intentionally made some absolutely vile tasting brownies for a (mandatory participation) office "pot-luck". Cut them bite sized so they'd get a full bite...
Printed various memes and pictures and randomly placed them in the blank paper trays of printers and copiers throughout the office.
Dumped hand-fulls of cross-cut shredded paper in the umbrellas by the main door.
Put "Out of Order" signs on the elevator doors a few times when I was first in the building.
I put zip-ties on the toilet paper rolls in the bathroom stalls.
Hide password protected USB drives with random pictures/memes/videos in various places.
There are so many more over the years...
Putting a couple of baseballs (or big 1# steel ball bearings when I had them) in the bed of random trucks in the office parking lot. Every time they would drive forward or stop they would hear a loud "clunk".
Replaced the salt in the breakroom salt shakers with sugar, and replaced the sugar at the coffeepot with salt.
Intentionally made some absolutely vile tasting brownies for a (mandatory participation) office "pot-luck". Cut them bite sized so they'd get a full bite...
Printed various memes and pictures and randomly placed them in the blank paper trays of printers and copiers throughout the office.
Dumped hand-fulls of cross-cut shredded paper in the umbrellas by the main door.
Put "Out of Order" signs on the elevator doors a few times when I was first in the building.
I put zip-ties on the toilet paper rolls in the bathroom stalls.
Hide password protected USB drives with random pictures/memes/videos in various places.
There are so many more over the years...
Posted on 8/1/24 at 10:05 am to Purplehaze
Not my creation, but one of my coworkers drilled a small hole in the side of an empty snuff can, put a Black Cat in it and threaded the fuse out the hole. He then filled the can with baby powder and put the lid back on. He went into the bathroom, lit it, then slid it into a stall where another officer was taking a shite.
Posted on 8/1/24 at 10:17 am to Purplehaze
I fricked my boss's wife in his office and took a picture of it and made it his screen saver. Y'all should have seen his face! Calssic.
Calssic.
Posted on 8/1/24 at 10:19 am to Purplehaze
I use to sneak into this guy’s office and pour the juice out of a can of sardines onto paper towels then put it into his trash can under normal looking paper. I’d do this on late Friday afternoon so it would permeate over the weekend. When that guy opened his office door on Monday you’d hear him cussing down the hall. As far as I know he never figured out why his office would smell rancid sometimes.
Posted on 8/1/24 at 10:27 am to Bert Macklin FBI
This one was not in an office, instead during my time in the Army. We had a new kid fresh from Knox. One day we were in the motor pool doing maintenance on our tanks. We gave him a hammer and piece of chalk and told him he had to check for “soft spots” in the tank’s armor. We said he had to go all over the tank tapping the hammer and anywhere that sounded “soft” he had use the chalk to put a circle on that spot. We put him on the CO’s tank and left him to his work. We came back about an hour later to find the CO’s tank with white polka dots all over it and him on his back under the tank tapping away at the bottom of the hull.
Posted on 8/1/24 at 10:33 am to Purplehaze
While these pranks weren't done in the office they were done to all of my coworkers and manager. We took a weekend trip out to a coworker's deer camp in hill country. So of course the typical snakes in the cooler and bed pranks were had. What they did not prepare for was the amount of fireworks I was carrying. Caught quite a few people with those. Fart spray in the deer stand was also a good one. But the best was the no-tear toilet paper. I took all the real toilet paper out and left only the no-tear toilet paper. When my boss went to take a shite he was in for quite the surprise!
Posted on 8/1/24 at 10:39 am to NewIberiaHaircut
I rearranged a co-workers desk every Sunday for 6 months.
I worked 4-10's sun - wed. This guy worked mon-fri. He was a supervisor of a diff department. IDK why I did it. I just did. He was very particular. Very OCD I wouldnt mess up his desk, but I would neatly move things around. Sometimes everything, sometimes just his phone, Or worksheets he had tacked up on the wall. He apparently thought it was a subordinate and went to HR about. I ended up getting caught in a sting operation by company security and a hidden camera of me walking into his office cube thing and looking around. I said I was looking to borrow a red pen or something.
They ended up writing me up for harrassment. Panzy asses.
I worked 4-10's sun - wed. This guy worked mon-fri. He was a supervisor of a diff department. IDK why I did it. I just did. He was very particular. Very OCD I wouldnt mess up his desk, but I would neatly move things around. Sometimes everything, sometimes just his phone, Or worksheets he had tacked up on the wall. He apparently thought it was a subordinate and went to HR about. I ended up getting caught in a sting operation by company security and a hidden camera of me walking into his office cube thing and looking around. I said I was looking to borrow a red pen or something.
They ended up writing me up for harrassment. Panzy asses.
This post was edited on 8/1/24 at 10:46 am
Posted on 8/1/24 at 10:57 am to Purplehaze
Working turnaround one time we had a safety man that was an absolute prick to everyone. He was a college guy who never worked a day in the field so he thought he was above anyone who was field level. Gave me a written reprimand over a hole in the leather on the steel toe of my boot. I explained we were working 7-12s and I had no time to buy boots. Well after that I found out what he drove and "accidentally overslept" so I would be late. I put never seize on the inside of every door handle, tailgate latch and the hood latch since the dip shite didn't lock his doors, The next day he was furious in the safety meeting. I never got caught but I hope he found that shite for as long as he owned that truck.
Worked at a shop one time that had an older guy as a runner/delivery driver type. Pretty good guy just kind of simple minded. He kept Germ-X hand sanitizer and used it constantly. One morning he set it down and I had bought a bottle of astro glide to swap it with as soon as the opportunity arose. He went to the bathroom for his morning deuce so I dumped his Germ-X and filled it with the astro glide. The look on his face when he went to rub it in was priceless.
Worked at a shop one time that had an older guy as a runner/delivery driver type. Pretty good guy just kind of simple minded. He kept Germ-X hand sanitizer and used it constantly. One morning he set it down and I had bought a bottle of astro glide to swap it with as soon as the opportunity arose. He went to the bathroom for his morning deuce so I dumped his Germ-X and filled it with the astro glide. The look on his face when he went to rub it in was priceless.
This post was edited on 8/1/24 at 12:43 pm
Posted on 8/1/24 at 11:52 am to Purplehaze
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1. Annoyatron, google it if you do not know what it is
You didn't create this. Search the OT if you don't know about that thread.
BTW, did we ever get any update on that one?
Posted on 8/1/24 at 11:57 am to Purplehaze
Not "office" but 500 crickets in my piping superintendent's truck............in July in South LA.
Baby powder in the A/C vents for another individual on a different occasion.
To this day, neither of them know it was me.
Baby powder in the A/C vents for another individual on a different occasion.
To this day, neither of them know it was me.
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