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Actually, if you gave us a couple examples of his more infamous pranks, we could maybe find improvements on those to use back on him?
 
replace all his office furnature with a king size bed, get his wife and 3 other male coworkers to sleep in the bed with her when he comes into work.
 
Ok, the one with the federal agents is good, although its a little too complicated and will require too much spending of money. 😀 I like it though, I'll have to keep it in mind for the future.

The interim will require too much acting from the staff and I just don't think they have it in em. Plus, its an office of only like 25 people, so I can't find an interim unless I again hire an actor, use a friend, and I don't think it'll work out that well.

Loosening the bolts sounds kinda funny, but might damage the equipment/laptop (that we'd then have to pay for).

I'm not sure about any of his big pranks, as I've only been here a month. Mainly, they're all friends and I see that a lot of times they'll just do little things like come by, open the hole puncher and scatter it across the desk, place little traps that involve paper holes, staples, and treating the girls like personal secretaries. I haven't heard much about anything big he's done.

He'll call them up and tell them to get him a cup of coffee or something, and they'll wait till he goes to lunch and put like 50 cups of coffee/water in his cubicle and duct tape his laptop shut, run duct tape across his keyboard so its all sticky, stuff like that.
 
Originally posted by: HN
take a screenshot of his desktop, hide all his icons, and replace his wallpaper with screenshot you took.
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that one is always funny. if his mouse is optical you can also tape a piece of paper over the sensor.
 
Originally posted by: ucdbiendog
Originally posted by: HN
take a screenshot of his desktop, hide all his icons, and replace his wallpaper with screenshot you took.
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that one is always funny. if his mouse is optical you can also tape a piece of paper over the sensor.
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Invisible scotch tape is better, or clear nail polish. It's intermittent, and invisible.
 
Originally posted by: dquan97
send a spoofed email from his future employer saying that his job offer has been rescinded 😀
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That was is a little too expected this late in his career here. That shoulda happened maybe a week or two ago.

Ok people, a bump, cuzz i gotta tell HR what i'm gonna do before I go home today.
 
Ok people, its crunch time. So far, it looks like we're going for aluminum foil everything, and remote controlled vibrator in the cushions.
 
Originally posted by: HotChic
Take a ton of little paper cups, staple them together, set them all over his cube, and fill them with water.
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Ok, we might just take that a little further and fill up the entire cube with stacked paper cups. Combined with the aluminum foil and vibrator.
 
A lab I used to work in was known for practical jokes. You *HAD* to be on your toes at all times, otherwise you were a victim.

It may be hard for you to construct, but a water-catapult, finely tuned hidden under the desk can result in a very wet crotch area. Just takes a few pieces of wood, some giant rubber bands, and a cup of some sort nailed to the catapult. Practice with varying amounts of water; eventually you'll find the right volume to fill the cup with and right distance from the chair to result in an embarrassing wet spot.

Match tips from wooden matches... get a bunch of them into a pile and carefully put them under a table or chair leg. It's like a miniature pipe bomb if done correctly; about as loud as a fire cracker.

Firecrackers in the drawers. Opening the drawer causes one to be lit. (wooden matches, tape, firecracker, and sandpaper needed here)

What kind of phone? There are all sorts of jokes that can be done with phone cords. Simplest ones include using fishline to connect beginning of cord to the end of cord... answering phone results in ripping the phone cord out. Also, fishline from receiver to some out of view object can result in amusement for others.

If his chair is on rollers, remove one of the rollers. The wobblyness of the chair will annoy him all day.

Make a mousetrap trebuchet (catapult) which is triggered when his drawer opens. Very inexpensive to do, but takes a LOT of engineering to perfect it. (but, the best practical jokes take planning) Just find something appropriate to fling at him.

Too late to observe him, but since the mousetraps come in 3 packs...
Someplace, he's bound to open something by grabbing underneath it. Or, engineer something for him to have to open the hard way... if he has a center drawer below the desktop, simply remove the handle. He'll be forced to reach underneath to grab it to open it. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out where to duct tape a few mousetraps. 🙂

*for what it's worth, I just thought of the last 3. If you should attempt any of them, please let me know how they worked 🙂
 
Originally posted by: DrPizza
A lab I used to work in was known for practical jokes. You *HAD* to be on your toes at all times, otherwise you were a victim.

It may be hard for you to construct, but a water-catapult, finely tuned hidden under the desk can result in a very wet crotch area. Just takes a few pieces of wood, some giant rubber bands, and a cup of some sort nailed to the catapult. Practice with varying amounts of water; eventually you'll find the right volume to fill the cup with and right distance from the chair to result in an embarrassing wet spot.

Match tips from wooden matches... get a bunch of them into a pile and carefully put them under a table or chair leg. It's like a miniature pipe bomb if done correctly; about as loud as a fire cracker.

Firecrackers in the drawers. Opening the drawer causes one to be lit. (wooden matches, tape, firecracker, and sandpaper needed here)

What kind of phone? There are all sorts of jokes that can be done with phone cords. Simplest ones include using fishline to connect beginning of cord to the end of cord... answering phone results in ripping the phone cord out. Also, fishline from receiver to some out of view object can result in amusement for others.

If his chair is on rollers, remove one of the rollers. The wobblyness of the chair will annoy him all day.

Make a mousetrap trebuchet (catapult) which is triggered when his drawer opens. Very inexpensive to do, but takes a LOT of engineering to perfect it. (but, the best practical jokes take planning) Just find something appropriate to fling at him.

Too late to observe him, but since the mousetraps come in 3 packs...
Someplace, he's bound to open something by grabbing underneath it. Or, engineer something for him to have to open the hard way... if he has a center drawer below the desktop, simply remove the handle. He'll be forced to reach underneath to grab it to open it. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out where to duct tape a few mousetraps. 🙂

*for what it's worth, I just thought of the last 3. If you should attempt any of them, please let me know how they worked 🙂
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Hmm... Those sound very interesting. I might have to use a couple of them. I especially like the phone cord ones.
 
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