Your best office pranks

[Rage187]

I've done some good ones but my best was when I took the memory card out of my cube mates digital picture frame and added a bunch of Aber Crombie male models to the mix.

Picture:

1. Wife and baby
2. baby playing with toys
3. Some dude with his shirt off bent over a chair
4. Another baby picture
5. 10 dudes on the beach in their speedos
6. His mom and dad at his wedding
7. More dudes with shirts off


The best part was that we would laugh and tear up and he would look at his picture frame to see what I was laughing at and it just happened to be showing a baby picture. He would turn his back again and more dudes would be frolicking on the beach. He eventually caught it and laughed but man I was in tears the whole time.


Feel free to share your own.

 

[highland145]

Good one.

Pranking myself isn't any fun.:\

 

[dfuze]

I've done a couple, taking a screenshot of the desktop and moving all the icons off the screen and watch them click mercilessly at the "icons".

I've also replaced a coworker's pic of his wife's head w/ Richard Simmons.

 

[Kev]

Our stairwell doors required a code to get in at my last job. A fairly new guy had gone with me several times through the stairwell, yet still couldn't remember the simple code, so I decided to punish him. He was fairly out of shape, so as soon as we got in the stairwell I flew up the steps, opened the door with the code, and locked him in the stairwell for about 20 minutes till someone found him.

 

[Evadman]

Firebird + forklift + pallet rack =

 

[SandEagle]

Scotchtape down the phone click-thing. they thought phone was dead when they tried to make calls. hahahA suckas

 

[DrPizza]

I wrote a pretty harmless macro "virus" for wordperfect. I planted the virus on one of the supervisor's machines. It simulated the network crashing, plus a little bit more. Once he started working on a document, it simply sat there in the background, counting keystrokes, and making sure it was running no matter which document he switched to. About 9am, the network actually did crash (wonderful coincidence.) And, being a procrastinator, he had some important documents to finish before a meeting later that day. A short while later & the network was back up. He continued on. The count continued (actually, it might have even restarted.) Once he hit the magical number, it looked on his screen exactly like the network had crashed again - all the messages, way the computer behaved to additional keystrokes, were identical. Much loud cursing was heard coming from his office (all the other supervisors knew what I had done.) The program paused for about 10 seconds, allowing him time to realize "the network had crashed" and to react exactly as he did. Then part two kicked in. I knew which directories on the network were his. The rest of the program simply produced some text on his screen, along with that familiar ctrl-g beep.
directory: /john/client1 deleting. . . . . . . . (the dots came up one by one)
purging: /john/client1 . . . . <beep>
directory: /john/client2 deleting. . . . . . . .
purging: /john/client2 . . . . <beep>

He ran out of his office, face white as a ghost, screaming "BETH! BETH!" - the secretary whose routine job it was was to reboot everything on the network to try to restore it. "Gone! It's gone! Deleting! Purging! It's erasing all my work!"
calmly, "John, look at your screen."
"It's all gone! What am I going to do?"
"John, look at your screen..."


HAPPY APRIL FOOL'S DAY
press any key to continue

Upon another keystroke, the "virus" reopened any documents that it had been attached to & erased all signs of itself from the network, and his screen was back to exactly where he left off.

Every time I see one of his coworkers from back then - 20-some years ago - that story is one of the favorites that gets brought back up. Over the years, a few people have even come up to me and said "I heard about that joke you played on John when you worked at.. "

 

[NoCreativity]

Tape over the mouse sensor using a sharpie to black in the tape.

Removed wheels from coworkers chair to have him almost fall on his ass when he tried to roll forward.

Best one though was pranking the pranker. Coworker liked to hide my glasses around the office. One time I pretended I couldn't find them (after I had put them in my pocket) and she was in a frenzied panic when she couldn't find them either. I came in the next day (Friday) with my old glasses on, wore them the entire day and complained how I needed to get a new pair over the weekend and how expensive it would be. I finally came in on Monday wearing my "lost" glasses. She was pretty relieved, but a bit angry that I let her go all weekend thinking she owed me a few hundred bucks for new glasses.

 

[nublikescake]

Tape over the mouse sensor using a sharpie to black in the tape.

Removed wheels from coworkers chair to have him almost fall on his ass when he tried to roll forward.

Best one though was pranking the pranker. Coworker liked to hide my glasses around the office. One time I pretended I couldn't find them (after I had put them in my pocket) and she was in a frenzied panic when she couldn't find them either. I came in the next day (Friday) with my old glasses on, wore them the entire day and complained how I needed to get a new pair over the weekend and how expensive it would be. I finally came in on Monday wearing my "lost" glasses. She was pretty relieved, but a bit angry that I let her go all weekend thinking she owed me a few hundred bucks for new glasses.

She deserved it. :awe:

 

[QueBert]

Co Work had been downloading songs off Napster, this is back when it was still an illegal P2P site. So I sent him a spoofed email saying I was a dude from the RIAA and legal actions were in the process of being brought against him. He wasn't very smart on computers and panicked. He asked the dude sitting across from him who was another PC n00b what he should do. They ended up putting their minds together and figured it was time to format. The 2nd n00b formatted too because he had Napster on his PC. He hadn't even downloaded any music, but was paranoid they'd come and bust him simply for having the program on his computer. The head IT guy was real pissed because he had to spend half a day getting both guys computers back up.

 

[Drako]

Boss was on vacation for a week. On the weekend before he was to come back, a group of us went into the office and took half of the bosses cubicle away, turning it into a 6 foot square cubicle. Needless to say, he was pissed, but everyone else enjoyed it .

 

[her209]

Co Work had been downloading songs off Napster, this is back when it was still an illegal P2P site. So I sent him a spoofed email saying I was a dude from the RIAA and legal actions were in the process of being brought against him. He wasn't very smart on computers and panicked. He asked the dude sitting across from him who was another PC n00b what he should do. They ended up putting their minds together and figured it was time to format. The 2nd n00b formatted too because he had Napster on his PC. He hadn't even downloaded any music, but was paranoid they'd come and bust him simply for having the program on his computer. The head IT guy was real pissed because he had to spend half a day getting both guys computers back up.

So you admit to committing wire fraud?

 

[vi edit]

Operation Dixie Cup:

2000 dixie cups filled 1/4 way with water.
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http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/viedit/cup2.jpg
http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/viedit/cup3.jpg
http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/viedit/cup4.jpg

 

[QueBert]

So you admit to committing wire fraud?

yep

 

[Drako]

Operation Dixie Cup:

2000 dixie cups filled 1/4 way with water.

Those aren't Dixie Cups

 

[Spydermag68]

I have a co-worker that does not have the best of luck on vacations. She went to Hawaii and the airline that took her there closed down the day before she was going to fly home.

Last time she went to Costa Rica for a week of different activities. The first full day she was there the group she was with went for a bike ride. Yep, she crashed and broke her jaw.

When she got back to work she found everything in her cube fully bubble wrapped and caution tape. Not really nice when your jaw is still wired shut.

 

[vi edit]

Those aren't Dixie Cups

Part of it was a double entendre. One of the orchestrators of the event was an Alabama native.

 

[Craig234]

There was a gift exchange, each day for a week, with secret givers.

The first day was a gift in several paper/cardboard packages that took quite a while to get through to the gift inside.

The second day was inside boards nailed together.

The third day was a square foot cube block of concrete with the gift inside.

The receiver by this point was outside for an hour slamming the concrete in the ground, cursing and yelling - turned out he was not handling the frustration great.

The fourth day was a foot cube of welded steel - he had to take it to a gas station with a welding shop to get it open.

The fifth day was a pretty box, gift wrapped. Opening it was a nice note saying sorry for all the hassle and he'd been a good sport, so here was a nice present to open.

So he reached in and took out the present... with its metal ribbons as wrapping... and received a massive electrical shock in front of a room of dozens of people.

 

[AFurryReptile]

Stapler in the Jell-o

 

[DisgruntledVirus]

Here are some of mine:

Cut a white square out of paper, and using clear scotch tape covered the sensor. She spent about 30 minutes trying to figure out what was going on. After 30 minutes or so she called tech support, and started talking to them. They asked her normal questions like if it's plugged in, then I hear her say "Yeah the red light is on." I just /facepalmed and busted up laughing at this point. After she hung up with them (it ended up getting escallated and she would get a call back later), I told her about the tape. She wasn't too thrilled, but the coworkers around me and I found it funny (she did the next day).

Somebody on here used to have a great rickrolling site at pacific.edu or something like that. I would regularly rickroll my boss, or at least attempt to. So, after I found that link I created a thought out email telling her about this awesome study about work/life balance. At the end of the email I tell her to make sure the sound is up, because it's kind of a quiet video. A few hours later she comes over to my desk and tells me how it wasn't funny while she was laughing. She apparently turned up her sound and put on her headphones when she clicked on it. When you tried to exit the site it would error out with a few words of the song, and when you click "okay" it would move to the next few words. She was stuck there for 5 minutes trying to exit before finally ctrl+alt+del and closing IE.

One of the better ones was to the same girl as in the taped mouse one (she was a regular victim of my pranks). She had an alarm clock type mini-boom box on her desk she would listen to the radio with during the day on her headphones. I was leaving an hour before everybody else, and right before leaving I unplugged the headphones just 1/2 way so they appeared still plugged in but not actually connected to the contact points. Then I jack up the volume all the way up, and I left. I got a text about 30 minutes later saying "OMG OMG OMG I'M SO EMBARRASSED" to which I played dumb with and simply asked what happened. She tells me she turned on her radio and it started blasting some country song during the chorus where they are singing about country music. I just played along with the texts all night. A few days later I told her I did it. She vowed to get me back for it, but never did.

 

[Patranus]

There was a gift exchange, each day for a week, with secret givers.

The first day was a gift in several paper/cardboard packages that took quite a while to get through to the gift inside.

The second day was inside boards nailed together.

The third day was a square foot cube block of concrete with the gift inside.

The receiver by this point was outside for an hour slamming the concrete in the ground, cursing and yelling - turned out he was not handling the frustration great.

The fourth day was a foot cube of welded steel - he had to take it to a gas station with a welding shop to get it open.

The fifth day was a pretty box, gift wrapped. Opening it was a nice note saying sorry for all the hassle and he'd been a good sport, so here was a nice present to open.

So he reached in and took out the present... with its metal ribbons as wrapping... and received a massive electrical shock in front of a room of dozens of people.

Mac: But our shenanigans are cheeky and fun!
Thorny: (referring to Craig234) Yeah, and his shenanigans are cruel and tragic.
Foster: (after a pause) Which... makes them not really shenanigans at all.
Mac: (in a silly voice) Evil shenanigans!

 

[wheresmybacon]

I was an Exchange admin @ Microsoft in the development of Exchange 2000, and someone on my team took a screenshot of the entirety of the desktop of one of our main monitoring machines on basically the worst day in the history of internal messaging history. We had queues that were like half a day long on basically all of the most important servers.

Whenever we had a new person monitoring queues, when they went to the can or got soda or something we'd change the main monitoring machine desktop wallpaper to that screenshot. More than once we had people totally shitting their pants; they'd get on the phone to India or Japan or wherever to try to get a local contact...LOL Then we'd watch them watch the queues and wonder why they weren't moving.

 

[Riverhound777]

My coworker works at the front desk of our office (Small room leading to rest of office). I enclosed her desk in black plastic from floor to ceiling, covered all the lights, doors, light switches, etc so it was dark. Then covered her desk and chair area in spider webbing and fake spiders. For Halloween of course, and she hates spiders. Was fun hearing her yelling and screaming when she came in.

 

[JD50]

I've done a couple, taking a screenshot of the desktop and moving all the icons off the screen and watch them click mercilessly at the "icons".

I've also replaced a coworker's pic of his wife's head w/ Richard Simmons.

That's a classic, I've done that countless times, it never gets old.

 

[vi edit]

That's a classic, I've done that countless times, it never gets old.

We'd do that but take it up a notch. We'd screenshot and then flip it upside down. Then use the video driver software to do a screen invert. So the mouse would go opposite of what you wanted. So not only did the icons not work, but the mouse went the opposite direction of what you intended.