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Office prank

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I love how most suggestions are for messing with his PC when teh OP stated no one has access to his account.
 
rivan said:
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/b278/

Edit, also fun, assuming it wouldn't get you fired:

http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/ae83/
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Awesome!

I was going to suggest the first one, but I never seen the 2nd one. That is genius! I want one for work now.😀

A prank that I always thought would be funny to do in an office, but maybe over the top, is to turn the office into a bathroom. Get a towel dispenser and toilet temporary setup, and change the sign to show it's a bathroom. You'd have to have a maintenance crew that is all for making jokes like that, to help out though. I'm sure any office must have spare towel dispensers or toilets lying around.

Another option is to just change the sign on the door and close it, if the office has a door. Could also have fun with this, and change it to "mechanical room" or something, and have a sound file in a loop so you can hear noise through the door. These wont really work if it's a cubicle though.

Something simple, but maybe too boring, put a huge pile of paper on his desk, like fake reports, or something that relates to work, with an email saying it has to be done ASAP. If the boss is joining on on this, it also opens up other options, like maybe an email sent to all the department stating about some big corporate change, or something.
 
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I love how most suggestions are for messing with his PC when teh OP stated no one has access to his account.
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Thats when you h4x0rs, I have a CD that you boot to and it will recover any Windows password in a matter of 10 minutes or less. And if the PC's unable to boot from the optical drive and the BIOS has a password. Pop it open, remove the CMOS battery and BOOM you're in business. Taking a picture of the desktop and setting it as the wallpaper with no task bar showing is good. setting the default shell to a viewer which defaults to the pic is even better because even if he reboots it's still jacked. But that's boring as it's been done to death.

I like to do things that spook people out, write some scripts and run them as scheduled tasks, if you get the right freeware apps you can make his CD drive open and close randomly. Have it play weird sound clips, if he has a printer in his cubical make it print "I'm watching you [insert name]" I'd personally set up a task that will send text messages to his cell from an email he doesn't know. Have it send a bunch over the course of a day. There isn't a computer I couldn't get access too if I really wanted to. Now some companies might not take too kindly to hacking, especially if you gotta crack open the box to reset the BIOS. But if you have a cool manager who's okay with it the skies the limit.
 
I wonder if you could put something thin under the legs of his desk to insulate it from the floor, then put a piezo-electroceramic device in his drawer (charcoal grill push button ignitor) so that every time he opens the drawer, he gets shocked? I haven't thought it through that much, depends on whether it's a metal drawer or not, etc.
 
You have time, this is what you do.

Step 1. Get 2 or 3 cubic yards of packing peanuts
Step 2. Put the peanuts in a cone shaped holder over one ceiling tile in his office.
Step 3. Attach a rope to that ceiling tile so when the rope is pulled, the ceiling tile moves.
Step 4. Attach the rope from the ceiling tile, though some pulleys to the back of a drawer.
Step 5. Wait for mate to come back and open the drawer.
 
For an office mate that broke her jaw bicycling down a volcano on the second day of vacation. We bubble wrapped her cube, including her chair, monitor, keyboard, mouse, pencils and pens, put up caution tape outside and down the hallway from the entrance. Good thing hew mouth was wired shut. She had to leave twice, to quit laughing, before she made it all the way to her cube.
 
Place hundreds of paper cups half full of water on every flat surface in the office. Staple them all together so they're extremely difficult to remove. For added lulz pee in every 10th cup.
 
Just be sure that whatever you do, it's epic enough to justify getting fired.

Horseplay and pranks have no place in the workplace.


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figure out how to raise one end of the desk & do so slowly over a period of days.

Conventional 4 leggers can be raised with pennies under 2 legs ... just enough so that pencils roll off. Pennies under the back legs will eventually keep drawers from closing.
 
Trade cubes with him.... put all his stuff exactly in the right place, but in the wrong cube....


Years ago somebody did this to the boss in one of my previous departments .... I was working on a different team at the time, but in the same building/room... The guy got back from his vacation, and walked into his cube ... got confused, because it was no longer his cube, then, went into the cube that had all his stuff .... then thought about it for a while, until he was certain that they switched his cube, then he had a hissy fit.
 
In my old job for one of the employees, we swapped out his chair for a broken one. The adjustable height on that chair was broken such that when you sit on it, it sinks all the way down and when you get off it bounces back up. People usually just drop their ass onto the seat and when you don't expect it, you think you're falling.
 
Somewhere there is a video tape with the making of office prank I did. We were students left in charge of the IT office one Friday (both staffers were out on training). It was an ultra slow day so we:

1) Swapped Desk drawers and cabinets
2) set up a barricade to each office desk with 10 or so desktops each
3) made a pyramid out of 100 reams of paper, filling the top with packing peanuts
4) placed packing peanuts inside the key locker
5) had one magic ceiling tile holding a reserve of peanuts that dropped when a person tripped a wire.

Midway through the construction the CEO of the campus came in wanting ink. She did not acknowledge the prank and just warned us that we continue to work while doing this. Monday morning there was some sort of angry professor needing something so the first IT guy on the job rushed into the office, saw the mess, ran to his desk, tripped the wire, vaulted the barricade, and searched his desk drawers for some connector the professor needed. Then he had to revault his barricade, vault his office mates barricade, search his drawer and get the connector. He was not too happy... until he saw the making of tape. Then he was guffawing as we did *bad* impersonations of both of them on the tape and he saw the lengths we went to.

That was the *second* prank we did to them. The first was 4 hours with a label maker. We labeled everything in the office.
 
BoomerD said:
Just be sure that whatever you do, it's epic enough to justify getting fired.

Horseplay and pranks have no place in the workplace.


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When you're operators of heavy equipment, I can see that.

When you're a keyboard jockey, not so much. Have to do shit from time to time to break the monotony.
 
rivan said:
When you're operators of heavy equipment, I can see that.

When you're a keyboard jockey, not so much. Have to do shit from time to time to break the monotony.
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Yeah, and stay sane. Especially where I work, it's such an uptight environment. The minute the IT manager walks in or we see that he wants to walk in, our blood pressure goes way up. Actually, it just clicked in. I knew he reminded me of someone, but I could never put my finger on it. Remember the movie Matilda, and that crazy principal? They had to hide all the colorful stuff really fast as soon as she was about to come in? Well imagine that person, as a boss. He's not really our boss, but sorta is, in his own little world.

Yeah, so when he's gone, we tend to let loose a bit to try and stay sane.
 
go to Taco Bell, get 1 plain softshell taco, tape it to the underside of his desk.

By monday morning the smell will be exquisite
 
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