favorite office pranks

[ukgrad]

Since my favorite show is the office... I wondered what everyone's favorite office prank that they have pulled...

Mine is taking out the a,e,i,o,u keys of someone's keyboard....although I do want to freeze people's things in Jello or put someone's belongings in a vending machine like Jim does to Dwight on the Office....

[Dwight Schrute]

Not funny, at all:X.


ukgrad wrote: Since my favorite show is the office... I wondered what everyone's favorite office prank that they have pulled...

Mine is taking out the a,e,i,o,u keys of someone's keyboard....although I do want to freeze people's things in Jello or put someone's belongings in a vending machine like Jim does to Dwight on the Office....

[surveyor]

I've had great fun with the following:

Turn down / up the volume on someone's desk phone

Disconnect the handset cord from the base, but tape the exposed end of the cord beneath the base.

Put hand lotion on the underside of the handset.

Turn the speaker volume up to max on unsuspecting dupe's pc while their away from their desk.

This one was fun, as we used to do lots of work with the Louisville Zoo:

Call the front desk at your office on an outside line. Leave a message for your boss / supervisor from Mr. Jim Pantzee. Don't say who you're with. Just leave any one of the phone numbers of the local zoo. I happened to choose member relations.

[KY Blue in Carolina]

When I catch someone warming up their car in winter..... I'll reach in and turn off the heat turn on the cold vent to make sure it's frigid in there.

In the summer, I'll turn their A/C off and the heat on....

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[surveyor]

KY Blue in Carolina wrote: When I catch someone warming up their car in winter..... I'll reach in and turn off the heat turn on the cold vent to make sure it's frigid in there.

In the summer, I'll turn their A/C off and the heat on....

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[ukgrad]

I like the Jim Panzee one... that's pretty funny...

surveyor wrote:
I've had great fun with the following:

Turn down / up the volume on someone's desk phone

Disconnect the handset cord from the base, but tape the exposed end of the cord beneath the base.

Put hand lotion on the underside of the handset.

Turn the speaker volume up to max on unsuspecting dupe's pc while their away from their desk.

This one was fun, as we used to do lots of work with the Louisville Zoo:

Call the front desk at your office on an outside line. Leave a message for your boss / supervisor from Mr. Jim Pantzee. Don't say who you're with. Just leave any one of the phone numbers of the local zoo. I happened to choose member relations.

[ukgrad]

Sure it is... hey Dwight, does it smell like updog in here?



Dwight Schrute wrote:
Not funny, at all:X.


ukgrad wrote: Since my favorite show is the office... I wondered what everyone's favorite office prank that they have pulled...

Mine is taking out the a,e,i,o,u keys of someone's keyboard....although I do want to freeze people's things in Jello or put someone's belongings in a vending machine like Jim does to Dwight on the Office....

[trublu]

One time a lady that worked with me found my lottery ticket on my desk and copied down the numbers. She came in later and told me that she had gotten the numbers from the radio. She read the numbers and they all matched mine until she got to the last number, and she started laughing. I was freaking while she was calling off the numbers. Then, I was ready to ring her neck. I told her that I would get her back when she least expected it.:ggrin:

[PhatNastyCat]

I took a few large cups of water and slowly poured them on the top cushion of a chair until is soaked in. The office smartazz that sat on the next morning it was like he sat down ona sponge.

-PNC

[ukgrad]

I remember spreading a rumour amongst my office when LeBron James was a senior in high school... I announced in a bulk e-mail to all the UL fans that he had verbally committed to UL... it wasn't so much a standard office prank, but hiliarious nonetheless... you should've seen the reactions... I swear a couple of guys started to book flights for the final four that following year... one guy skipped his lunch to find it on the Internet and couldn't... they were so p'd when i told them i was joking...

[Dwight Schrute]

I don't have time for jokes like that, being assistant regional manager and all.

ukgrad wrote: Sure it is... hey Dwight, does it smell like updog in here?



Dwight Schrute wrote:
Not funny, at all:X.


ukgrad wrote: Since my favorite show is the office... I wondered what everyone's favorite office prank that they have pulled...

Mine is taking out the a,e,i,o,u keys of someone's keyboard....although I do want to freeze people's things in Jello or put someone's belongings in a vending machine like Jim does to Dwight on the Office....

[Littlemeyer]

(to the)

[Dwight Schrute]

Please show some respect to your superiors.

Btw, Mitch Hedberg = the man.

Littlemeyer wrote: (to the)

[Sir Richard F. Burton]

I worked in a grocery store for a while and the folks who'd been there a while made a discovery if you put the product Accent (MSG plus seasoning I think) in a soda when you take a big swig the drink foams in your mouth and it tastes terrible. Hard to describe the taste.

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[Dwight Schrute]

Today, I made the mistake of not locking my computer when I went to lunch. When I came back, I noticed that my background had been changed to the Brokeback Mountain movie poster. Some guy who had walked into our office happened to see it. I couldn't help but bust out laughing.

That was in retaliation for what I did to him. I accessed his computer via remote desktop and reset his home page to a gay porn site.

Maturity runs rampant in our office.

[ukgrad]

That's awesome... good speech tonight by the way ...Â* #1 in the region has to be awesome!Dwight Schrute wrote: Today, I made the mistake of not locking my computer when I went to lunch.Â* When I came back, I noticed that my background had been changed to the Brokeback Mountain movie poster.Â* Some guy who had walked into our office happened to see it.Â* I couldn't help but bust out laughing.Â*



That was in retaliation for what I did to him.Â* I accessed his computer via remote desktop and reset his home page to a gay porn site.Â*



Maturity runs rampant in our office.

[Dwight Schrute]

Thanks. My hands are hurting from pounding on the podium, but it feels great.

ukgrad wrote: That's awesome... good speech tonight by the way ... #1 in the region has to be awesome!Dwight Schrute wrote: Today, I made the mistake of not locking my computer when I went to lunch. When I came back, I noticed that my background had been changed to the Brokeback Mountain movie poster. Some guy who had walked into our office happened to see it. I couldn't help but bust out laughing.



That was in retaliation for what I did to him. I accessed his computer via remote desktop and reset his home page to a gay porn site.



Maturity runs rampant in our office.

[ukfubar]

Take an old Dot Matrix printer and you can create a shipping label for a magazine. Attach that label to a magazine and it appears it was mailed to someone in your office/dorm. I did this in our dorm to a kid, left it in the common area on our floor. Everybody believed that he completed a survey in cosmo...

[Littlemeyer]

ukgrad wrote: That's awesome... good speech tonight by the way ... #1 in the region has to be awesome!.



It's pretty much the highest honor a northeast-Pennsylvania mid-size paper company regional salesperson can attain.

Great episode! :ggrin: "HEISMAN!"

[oruacat2]

It's a bit tougher now that we have these wireless and optical mouses, but a great way to aggravate someone at work is to secretly remove the little ball from their computer mouse.

Someone did that to me once and it took me forever to figure out what was wrong. I darn near put my fist through that monitor that day.

KD

[Littlemeyer]

oruacat2 wrote: It's a bit tougher now that we have these wireless and optical mouses, but a great way to aggravate someone at work is to secretly remove the little ball from their computer mouse.

Someone did that to me once and it took me forever to figure out what was wrong. I darn near put my fist through that monitor that day.

KD

The wireless and optical mouse technologyis a bit slow in making it into the construction aggregate industry. I may have to try that one today! Thanks for the tip...

[NotFrank]

One of my favorites:

If you work in office with cubicles, go to your local packaging store and buy about ten bags of packaging peanuts. Tape the cube closed with clear packaging tape and fill the cube with the peanuts. This works great on vacationing coworkers.

[SWFLACAT]

oruacat2 wrote: It's a bit tougher now that we have these wireless and optical mouses, but a great way to aggravate someone at work is to secretly remove the little ball from their computer mouse.

Someone did that to me once and it took me forever to figure out what was wrong. I darn near put my fist through that monitor that day.

KD


Kenny, you can still tape a small piece of paper over the optical "light" portion of the optical mouse. Make the piece of paper RED andjust the right size and the fun could last for several minutes!!



Mine: I set a co-workers Outlook to notify of a new email receivedwith a sound (wav file). I promptly went to FART.COM anddownloaded a juicy poot ".wav" file, cranked up the speakers and sent a timely email.

Ilaughed until I cried, farted and drizzled!:blush:

[MudCat]

surveyor wrote: This one was fun, as we used to do lots of work with the Louisville Zoo:

Call the front desk at your office on an outside line. Leave a message for your boss / supervisor from Mr. Jim Pantzee. Don't say who you're with. Just leave any one of the phone numbers of the local zoo. I happened to choose member relations.


Have used that one at the office in Cincinnati. We had a real jerk of a sales guy who was always "on appointments" but never managed to sell anything. (In almost a year.)

Anyway, the Cincinnati Zoo has a "large cat ambassador" program (found that one by accident) and we left several messages for him from a "Mr. Lyon". He probably left 20 messages until someone called him back and tore him a new one for "pranking them".

We also got a number to a urologist, and left a message to the sales guy from "Dr. Richard Cudder."

Have also done the taping down of the phone thing.

Alas, now I work from a home office or travel (so I'm a "guest") at a client site, so my pranking skills are a little dull.

(This isn't a work prank, but when I'm at the grocery and someone is rude, I have been known to, ahem, "help" them with their shopping.....although I haven't done that for a while.)

[baldcat]

Child's play.

Catch your favorite suckup's car in the parking lot on a sultry August day with the windows rolled up.

Then place an open can of tuna underneath his seat. A raw chicken leg will work in a pinch.

If the door is locked, squeeze some crazy glue into the lock.

[zonetoncatfan]

Not neccessarily an office prank but one I would love to have the guts to use on an ex-co-worker...use Round-Up weed and grass killer to write letters in someone's yard...what you choose to spell is left to the imagination.

Same co-worker as above was having an affair. Her 'client' called and was put into her voicemail...or so he thought. The receptionist mistakenly pressed the wrong code and sent it to the company-wide mailbox. What a scream we all had when we found out he wanted to 'do some lunch' and then 'do each other'!!! :)

Also take one of the wheels off their desk chair, or watch them use the keypad on their car door and later, sneak in and turn on the wipers, radio on full blast, etc.

[oruacat2]

Careful...there's a difference between pranks and outright vandalism.

Someone removes keys from my keyboard or the mouseball, and I laugh.

Someone messes with my car, they get an arse-beatin'.

KD

[BigBlue75]

This is a simple one that works well on a boring day and almost nobody catches it, especially if you wait until late in the afternoon about an hour and a half before quiting time. (It's also harmless so no can report you..)

Call up someone in the office next to you or down the hall and ask them what their extension is. I can just about guarantee it will work 9 out of every ten times you try it.

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(Oh, it's never happened to me, but in the event someone did get really upset and try to report it to the boss, all you have to do is look stunned and say "I was just making sure the speed dial number was right", or "I was just updating my office phone list." Either one of those will work, especially if you have an office with high turnover.)

[UKSam]

I have done two (that I can tell you about)

I was setting in on a class that on of my deputies was teaching. He was using my laptop to run his power point program. From my location he could not see that I had my wireless keyboard.I kept advancing his slides or moving it back. I then put up a black screen and started writing "I'm a dork.......etc. etc."

The second prank was we had a guy attempting to print out an arrest report he just finished. The printer for the machine he was on was next to my office and he had to walk down the hall to get to it. Before he got there I kept removing it and replacing it with a paper that I typed that said " User (Badge Number) not known" It took about 5 mins before he caught on.

One of my favorite pranks was years ago and not work related was when my neighbor bought a new Ford Truck. Gas was much cheaper then so every night I would sneek over and add a few gallons of gas. He was surprised when his new truck got 36mpg. He then went to Ford and complained when it was getting 10mpg a couple of weeks later when I started draining my gas back.

[UK78ALUM]

I don't know if this is as much a prank as it is payback. Over 20 years ago now, my secretary was having her hand lotion stolen. If she forgot to put it in her desk at night, it was usuallygone. And it was nothing fancy, just plain ol' white lotion. She happened to mention itto me one morning when she found it gone again, and I solved the problem immediately. At lunch, I bought her two bottles - one to replace the last theft, and I took the other home. There I emptied the bottle, and refilled it with the white (linseed oil based) paint I use to paint my farm fences. Then I took that bottle back to her as well, and she made just the tiniest of marks on it so that she could tell the difference. Of course, she started leaving the "bait" out every few evenings, and within a couple of weeks it was gone. Funny - nothing morewas ever said about it, and she never had anything else turn up missing.

As far as a pure prank, I was the victim. I received a hardcopy HR announcement informing me that IBM was going to implement "MEVSO". Married Employees Vacation Sharing Option. It had all the rightHR buzzwords and looked legit as hell. And what it said was that, in an effort to help families spend more time together, where spouses were both IBM employees, one could take up to 5 days of the other's vacation - without having to get approval of the spouse. Anything above that of course required both spouse and "management approval". Yada, yada, yada.

Now the reason this gag had me in the boat - hook line and sinker- is that my wife has 5 years less at IBM than I do. So back then, I always had one more week of vacation than she did. She didn't catch up with me until she had 20 years and I had 25 and thereforewe both got 5 weeks vacation.

After that, it is a moot point, but at the time it was huge. So I go storming into my manager's office demanding help and threatening to go to HR, and he of course has no idea what the hell I'm talking about because he was not in on the joke. However, when all my team members starting arriving at his door and laughing hysterically, we both caught on ratherquickly. :lol:

Dave

[ukfubar]

Not really the office, but in the B and E building at UK i take the keyboard from one computer and wrap it around to the computer beside it and vice versa. It would be amusing when they walked up and could not use the computer or if someone sat down beside them and started typing on the computer and it affected there screen.

[MudCat]

I thought of one of the funnier things I've seen someone else do:

WhenI was in New Orleans, I had a utility client that had an early retirement program in the works.

My main client contact was just rarin' for this program, as he and his wife were planning on moving out to Colorado and building a house. It was all he talked to his boss (our sponsor) about.

So, my contact takes his two-week vacation to Colorado, and another coworker sends a forged e-mail saying that the program was being initiated, but that you had to respond in writing and perform an "interview" in order to get the plan, knowing my client wouldn't check his e-mail while on vacation. If you didn't respond, you couldn't participate in the program. Ever. (He still had something like, 6 years left.)

When he got back, he was reading his e-mail from the two weeks, and all of a sudden tears right out of his cubicle with the printed out forged e-mail.

He had an absolute fit for about a half an hour, until they finally let him in on the joke.

It was mean, but pretty funny.

Someone also mentioned setting an e-mail alert that put a sound out there whena new message comes in. We did that to one of our bosses once. He hated the movie "Office Space", so whenever he gota new e-mail, it would play Bill Lumberg's "Mmmmmmmmmm, yeeeeeeeahhhhhh." He wouldn't acknowledge it, but eventually WE turned it off, 'cause it was driving us nuts.

I know a BUNCH that could get you beaten up (bad) or incarcerated (worse), but I don't want anyone getting any ideas....maybe I'll start a "revenge for hire" business.......;)

[UKSam]

Some of the pranks played on college:

Place clear plastic over the toilet.

Place the small Ketchup packets (like you get at McDonalds) underneath the toilet seat (they explode when you set down)

If your kitchen sink has a sprayer, tape it in the on position. When someone turns on the water they get soaked. (I set this up for my college room mate, forgot and got myself.)

[VirginiaBlue]

A building I worked in once had one of the tall balance-bar weighing scales in the stairwell. Every penny you placed on the back side of the left end of the bar would increase your weight by a pound. Guys in the building were going out running every day at lunch, come back in and get on the scales - and found that they were gaining a pound a day! Next day they would run farther... LOL

[Radiated]

When I use to work at the grocery store, one of the guys took limburger(sp?) cheese, opened it and put it in the vents of another ugys car on a hot hot summer day.

The smell was awful, would not come out and the guy had to sell the car.