Office Pranks

jonKranked · Mar 21, 2007

I work for the company that makes Nerf products. I don't think I need to say anything else.

mdc · Mar 21, 2007

A thumb tack on the chair is always a nice office prank...

mantispf2000 · Mar 21, 2007

As some of you know, I work at a casino located by South Lake Tahoe as a pit boss. 2 of my favorite pranks are to either dump out a full shoe of cards when a dealer isn't paying attention to his/her game when it's dead, or knocking over the chips on the craps or roulette games while they're busy. I've yet to be told to stop, though now that I've recently moved to another casino in the area, they are very strict on floor folks not touching any money/chips at all. I'm now going through withdrawals......................

jimmydean · Mar 21, 2007

I have never done office pranks. But I did work for a company that had a dedicated Counter Strike server, so I got to take out my aggression on Sales guys just about every day at lunch and 4:00.

rapp · Mar 21, 2007

It's all about dismantling furniture to the point that it can only support it's own weight. You can guess where it goes from there.

DHS · Mar 21, 2007

jimmydean said:
I have never done office pranks. But I did work for a company that had a dedicated Counter Strike server, so I got to take out my aggression on Sales guys just about every day at lunch and 4:00.

i've seen that a lot lately. did some work upgrading some systems at a couple local doctor offices or just big office buildings. and they all had Unreal or Quake servers.

the best one i saw, was the offices of Netzero, everyone would play friday at 4pm. the whole building would turn their lights off and some would make the cubicles have all 4 walls. got pretty insane. but fun to walk the hallways hearing people yell at eachother

VT Mtbkr · Mar 21, 2007

Find the most computer illiterate person and switch their mouse button functions.

Zark · Mar 21, 2007

Control + print screen
open up MS paint
Control +V
Save
Set as desktop background

robdamanii · Mar 21, 2007

After hours, switch their number pad around so it reads like a telephone. It'll drive them nuts, and it looks just like it should.

MTB_Rob_NC · Mar 21, 2007

Messing with office furniture is always fun. Here is one that I did to an audit staff that was auditing my office.

OK, the key ingredients is someone else that uses a 3 hole puncher. When said person is away, adjust middle hole just a tad. Hope they punch a bunch of hole and watch as they now struggle getting it in a three ring binder.

Another... ever notice how lots of people grab the underside of their desk to pull themselves into the desk. Vaseline/other weird substance on the underside of the desk.

Red Rabbit · Mar 21, 2007

Pop out the keys N & M, then reverse them. It will give someone a najor nimdfu*k

jimmydean · Mar 21, 2007

DHS said:
i've seen that a lot lately. did some work upgrading some systems at a couple local doctor offices or just big office buildings. and they all had Unreal or Quake servers.

the best one i saw, was the offices of Netzero, everyone would play friday at 4pm. the whole building would turn their lights off and some would make the cubicles have all 4 walls. got pretty insane. but fun to walk the hallways hearing people yell at eachother

That's awesome. Our Sales/Marketing staff was on the 3rd floor and Engineering was on the 2nd. We had many beers and hours on CS. It was a solid "team building" model.

At the end of our 1 year in business, we spent the day at a paintball camp in the woods. It was funny yo see the top CS players lose their ass in the "Real World"

N8 v2.0 · Mar 21, 2007

http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/8c52/

Red Rabbit · Mar 21, 2007

That is so much awesome in one little device.

gonefirefightin · Mar 21, 2007

while on a fire in montana one year a buddy pissed in the washer fluid resivoir of my work truck and we were on a nasty dusty road. you can guess the outcome of that one, so the next day I took a dump in his lunch box. he stopped playing pranks on me after that.

cannondalejunky · Mar 21, 2007

Zark said:
Control + print screen
open up MS paint
Control +V
Save
Set as desktop background

you forgot the part where you delete the icons after you copy the background

Zark · Mar 21, 2007

cannondalejunky said:
you forgot the part where you delete the icons after you copy the background

I knew I was forgetting something :twitch:

PatBranch · Mar 21, 2007

Hide the icons, so they go by the tray.

I need to do this to my friend that sucks at computers.

sunny · Mar 21, 2007

Um... there was this:
http://www.ridemonkey.com/forums/showthread.php?t=165256

And then once I made a post under a co-worker's login, because he kept leaving himself logged in on a public terminal to the shop. I thought it was pretty hilarious at the time, but... yeah. I'm still in trouble for that one (DHS, I promise I won't do it again).

Jay Gatz · Mar 21, 2007

Zark said:
Control + print screen
open up MS paint
Control +V
Save
Set as desktop background

you forgot to mention the screen capture has to be of the desktop and then to turn off desktop icons

edit: beat to the punch

Smelly · Mar 21, 2007

gonefirefightin said:
while on a fire in montana one year a buddy pissed in the washer fluid resivoir of my work truck and we were on a nasty dusty road. you can guess the outcome of that one, so the next day I took a dump in his lunch box. he stopped playing pranks on me after that.

Post of the week right there.

brungeman · Mar 21, 2007

VT Mtbkr said:
Find the most computer illiterate person and switch their mouse button functions.

If I find out which little MUTHERFVCKER IS DOING THAT IN MY CLASSROOM I WILL...

:ears perk up:

did you hear that?

Is that big brother monitoring RM?

OH, well... lets just say I will give him a detention...

loco-gringo · Mar 21, 2007

I'm willing to bet that there are people that think Konabumm IS their office prank. :think:

Our mechanic is constantly tearing sh*t up, so you don't really have to do anything to play pranks on him. He does frequently end up with stickers having homoerotic sayings on them though.

Squeaver · Mar 22, 2007

cannondalejunky said:
you forgot the part where you delete the icons after you copy the background

Beat me to it. We like to do all sorts of stuff to keep the monotony to a minimum in the shop. Being in the military and all, we aren't supposed to leave our computers logged in for security reasons. Well, when someone does, we like to remind them by sending homo-erotic emails to someone of higher rank, and/or change their background to a picture of david hasslehoff hugging puppies. And that is just computer stuff. There are tons of other shennanigans that we get into all the time.

druber · Mar 22, 2007

I used to be an engineer at AMD. We had just finished taping out a chip and our manager was out on tour (he is also in a rather popular band).

While he was gone, we converted his nice 12'x12' office with great view to a 3'x4' janitor's closet.

We built walls, including floating and taping the drywall, painting, put vinyl tiles on the floor, hung a light, and populated with typical janitorial stuff.

This is what he saw when he opened up his door the first day back:

buildyourown · Mar 22, 2007

Zark said:
Control + print screen
open up MS paint
Control +V
Save
Set as desktop background

That's a great one. Especially if you photoshop in a instant messanger window.

Of course anything that involves superglue is awesome.

InsideMan · Mar 22, 2007

take some of his office supplies and cook them in jello.

unplug his mouse from the back of the computer so that is doesnt work but is barely pluged in so that nothing looks wrong.

Put a piece of tape under his mouse if its an optical.

when he walks away from his computer (if he leaves it unlocked) send i love you emails to the boss.

Go to lunch at a different time than him and prank call his office phone being a complete a$$ hole jerk and that should piss him off for a while.

hooples3 · Mar 22, 2007

the pranks at the office go on and on... the latest was me taking a heated up paper clip and secretly putting a pinhole in a dunkin donut cup filled with coffee. i took several minutes before the nimrod figured out his pants were all wet ...

Big_Papa1080 · Mar 22, 2007

Squeaver said:
Beat me to it. We like to do all sorts of stuff to keep the monotony to a minimum in the shop. Being in the military and all, we aren't supposed to leave our computers logged in for security reasons. Well, when someone does, we like to remind them by sending homo-erotic emails to someone of higher rank, and/or change their background to a picture of david hasslehoff hugging puppies. And that is just computer stuff. There are tons of other shennanigans that we get into all the time.

anything like this? yes hes hanging upside down from the top of the tent. you cant fall asleep anywhere when we're in the field, cuz ur gonna get tied to something. i did put vegatable oil in the hallway one time, that was pretty funny watching people bust their asses running down the hall:

MudGrrl · Mar 22, 2007

Fax to their phone number.

Make sure you hit the "redial" button on the fax.

This works especially well on Fridays, so the fax will leave a bajillion messages on their voice mail over the weekend.

loco-gringo · Mar 22, 2007

MudGrrl said:
Fax to their phone number.

Make sure you hit the "redial" button on the fax.

This works especially well on Fridays, so the fax will leave a bajillion messages on their voice mail over the weekend.

Now that I think of it, Jim sending Dwight faxes from Future Dwight is one of the funniest things I have ever seen.

jonnynails · Mar 22, 2007

The all time best that I have seen is what my buddy used to do. This could be done anywhere, but he is crazy and would do it at work, and we are talking about a corporate job. Upper management used to piss him off so he did all kinds of stuff, but this was his all time classic.

He would wait until the bathroom was full or nearly full with one stall unoccupied (there were 6 stalls and 6 urinals). Worked best when nobody was at the urinals so they didn't see him bring in his fruit. Some of the people in their were corporate EVP's and high ups in the company. He would sit down and start moaning slightly, then start stomping his feet, hitting the side of the stalls, and growning louder and louder. Then he would throw a frickin canalope in the bowl and water would splash everywhere. He would keep repeating with oranges, etc.... Worst part for him is that he had to wait for everyone to leave (which didn't take long once that first canalope hit the water) and then he had to fish that fruit out to throw away because it wouldn't flush.

He got me to go in one of the stalls before he came in for a couple of his performances, and oh my god, it was one of the funniest things i have ever heard. People would be in there reading the newspaper and he would start up and you have never seen people finish up and scurry like that.

Big_Papa1080 · Mar 22, 2007

wow, that i think takes the cake for best bathroom prank ever, damn thats good. i like the ol' plasitc wrap over the gas station toilets too, always gets someone to freak out

robdamanii · Mar 22, 2007

A couple pieces of black construction paper, taped into a loop in the fax machine....will destroy a toner cartridge in short order.

TN · Mar 22, 2007

Just shoot up the place.

Big_Papa1080 · Mar 22, 2007

TN said:
Just shoot up the place.

cue fight club

"And this button-down, Oxford-cloth psycho might just snap, and then stalk from office to office with an Armalite AR-10 carbine gas-powered semi-automatic weapon, pumping round after round into colleagues and co-workers. This might be someone you've known for years. Someone very, very close to you."

jonnynails · Mar 22, 2007

Big_Papa1080 said:
cue fight club

"And this button-down, Oxford-cloth psycho might just snap, and then stalk from office to office with an Armalite AR-10 carbine gas-powered semi-automatic weapon, pumping round after round into colleagues and co-workers. This might be someone you've known for years. Someone very, very close to you."

What a great movie. When that movie came out I really wanted to pull that on my boss, but I guess I didn't have the sack to throw myself thru his glass table and start beating the crap out of myself :twitch:

Big_Papa1080 · Mar 22, 2007

haha i wanna do that sometimes around this place, man that would totally rule, but yeah all the glass in the face and arms looks like it would hurt like hell picking that crap out.

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