Practical Jokes at work...

[CuzzinOlaf]

Alright so a bunch of us at work love to play practical jokes on each other. I am looking for some good yet funny pranks to pull in the office. I always get my one co-worker with lotion on his phone ear thing and mess with his computer settings, lower his chair and so on. Any other good but "work safe" ideas?

 

[TranceKrayz]

you can offer someone "Nair" instead of lotion. Sounds like you are all good sports so nobody should get too mad about loosing some arm hair!

 

[sharp4runr]

We have an office bottle water service. One practical joke, we piled all the water into the guys cube, bubble wrapped his chair, his phone, keyboard etc.

We bamboozled the guy above into thinking that our Boss was SOLEY responsible for the joke (We all helped). They guy then decorated our bosses car with streamers etc, wrote things on his windshield and windows took pictures and circulated it among the office.

One joke that was pulled on me around the holidays last year: They took a bunch of shipping boxes and built an Igloo around my cubicle and decorated it like the North Pole. They photoshopped my picture as the "Elf Of the Month". When I went into the Igloo, they had a Christmas Tree with fake presents and stapled to my walls where names of the good and bad people in the world.

There is a screen saver out there that makes your computer look like its having a BSOD (Blue Screen Of Death): http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/bluescreensaver.shtml

We downloaded that and loaded it on his workstation. We then set it for 1 minute and then unplugged his keyboard. The mouse doesn't remove the screensaver when its active so it looks like the mouse is still active, but the keyboard is ineffective. The screensaver just cycles like its constantly BSODing.

Well hope that gives you some ideas.

July
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[Cleric]

I remember during the Antrax scare, I distributed envelopes with white powder to peoples inboxes. Most of them failed to see the humor. Looking back now, I'm just glad no one actually called 911.

If you want to get someone with a fax machine, you could always send the neverending fax:
Start with three sheets of paper and whatever message you want to repeat.
Load the first page into the fax and send. As the page moves through, tape the first page to the third, creating a loop.
The success of this depends on what type of fax machines you have and how much paper he has.

If you want some fun ideas to make them really embarassed, check out the October 2002 issue of Maxim (the one with Elisha Cuthbert and Mila Kunis).

If you are good with computers (epecially photoshop) you can have a lot of fun.

 

[Tim-in-TX]

Let's see.....a few I have done are:

1. Tape the mouse-ball so that it will not roll (or just remove it all together). This usually leads to them rebooting a couple of times trying to get it to work again.

2. Tape the button(s) under the hand-piece of the phone down. Use clear tape so that it cannot be eaily seen. When they go to answer the phone, it will just ring and ring and ring! OR

3. Unplug the phone cord just enough that it looks plugged in but when they go to answer the phone, the cord will come flying out of the phone. This one, when used in conjunction with #2, usually works well.

4. Depending on the type of filing cabnets that are available, I have rigged the file drawers with large rubber bands so that when a person tries to open it, they only get it so far before it shoots out of thier hand and slams back shut.

5. For those who have cubicals with overhead storage, I once rigged a bag full of packing peanuts to turn up-side-down, when the door was opened, so that they poored all over the victims desk.

6. I work for a major business forms company so I have pretty much unlimited access to the little round pieces of paper that are left over after a form is punched. These can lead to endless possibilities of confettii carnage.

It's the simple, yet effective, ones that are the most satifying.

I hope these help a little.

 

[EdL04Sport]

We once called a pizza place about 10 times...each time asking the guy who answered - "Hi...did someone there page me?". By the 10th time...he was getting a bit ticked off. We then paged one of the guys here at work with the pizza place's number. Needless to say, our buddy didn't get a warm greeting when he called the number on his pager.