Office Pranks - What have you done to colleagues?

[Dauphin]

Anyone willing to reveal?

I'll start. Pretty tame but it really upset the guy. All the guys went out for lunch and I stayed to man the office one day. While they were out, I found a life-size portait photo of Hugh Grant and printed it out. I stuck it in one of the guy's glare filter in front of his computer monitor and went back to my work.

When they all came back, he was shocked to find it. He didn't want to touch it, he was really offended and hurt for some reason. Everyone was laughing at it, and I didn't dare own up because he went and complained to the higher up manager about it right away. The manager came and looked at it and took it out. I felt so bad.

I even heard some girl come and look at it and she said, "Whoever did this must be really sick."

For weeks I was paranoid that the printer log would reveal who it was but nothing ever came of it.

[Mack 6]

[Bax]

You work with a bunch of pansys.. Seek Shelter.

I haven't been part of too many pranks lately- just trashing other peoples desks, unplugging their keyboards usually works, screenshots of the desktop with all buttons, then hiding the icons and start menu is a classic. I love mocking the computer illiterate.

[XR6Gal]

One of the ladies I work with went on holidays & we wrapped everything up on her desk in newspaper, it took ages! I've got pics but it'll have to wait till tomorrow when I'm back at work

[flappist]

In 1992, I went for a weekend trip to Hong Kong and aquired a copy of Windows 3.11 Chinese version. The next weekend I replaced everyones Win3.11 with the Chinese version as sat back as all hell broke loose.

This is before the internet and multi language software so it freaked a few out......

[TheSneakiness]

Ummm... lemme think.

Two times I can think of, both to the same guy.

First time the two girls here stuck crutchless panties in his car door and he drove off, not knowing they were there and he wondered why he was getting all these weird looks.

The next time was one of the above mentioned girls wrote up a huge TAXI sign on some paper and stuck it to his car, but it was foiled when one of our stupid builders came in and asked why he had a Taxi sign on his car.

Needless to say, this guy is oblivious to the obvious.

One I did was to unplug the phone of the secretary and she turned to me and asked why she couldn't make a phone call...

[Mack 6]

Seriously, the best one was after a guy blamed us when he couldn't find his pen. He found it, but for the next 6 weeks, every opportunity we got we took his pen.

When he finally blew up and got upset, he stormed out of the office. When he returned there were 20-30 pens there on his desk.

Similar one in the Army. My SGT is fanatical about all trucks having brooms to clean them, so me and a mate bought about 15 $2 brooms from a dodgy 2 dollar shop. Every week or so, there was another broom sitting on his desk. There is now a big pile out the back of our Cage.

[EBII Fairmont]

I work in a supermarket on the weekeneds. Anyway one day, one of the dairy guys decided he would throw ice at all of us grocery boys. So we went to the ice machine and filled a bin with ice, and threw it all over the dude like they do in the movies :evil_laug.

When the store manager so the servailence camera, we coped it :.

[TheSneakiness]

Actually, thought of more I've done, to our secretary...

Dead huntsman on the floor
Mould in the GM's coffee mug, she just about chucked
The repeated times I've made her s**t herself

[Dauphin]

I used to go to the fax machine and dial people's desk phones and then come back and try to keep a straight face as people get frustrated with the constant screeching fax calls.

[big_waity]

I work in an office with my parents. Means I get to have a blast doin crap to my mum. I will try and think of some I have done. The one that works best is calmly walking up and saying "boo". She literally wets herself.

One I did a while back was put a piece of paper across the Laser on her optical mouse. When she moved the mouse around it did nothing, but she could still click. I have also swapped her cordless mouse and Keyboard on several occasions.

One that took a fair bit of effort that almost went unnoticed was; I took a screendump of her desktop, made that the desktop and hid all of her icons and her taskbar. She noticed straight away that something was up and spent about 30 minutes trying to figure out what was going on. She didn't laugh at that one for some reason.

I'll let you know more if I think of them.

[big_waity]

Actually,Dauphin, that reminds me of another I do regularly. I ring the office from my phone on speaker. It takes mum forever to work out why she can her herself echoing yet there is noone talking at the other end.

[MoreHPformyXR6]

I turned of the lights in the gents when some1 was in the crapper & as i was leaving all i heard word "or s h i t"
There is about 250 people in our office so no1 had any idea.

[TheSneakiness]

Thought of more...

There was one time I received in an e-mail a picture of a mother holding up her baby with no pants on and someone had photoshopped a huge monster ИИИИИ onto him.

The guy who I previously mentioned was away one day, so I thought I'd make that picture his desktop. He wasn't impressed, but didn't say anything either...

Oh, one more I thought of. He also has his chair adjusted so it's like you're ready to be rogered silly by some prison inmate. You adjust it ever so slightly and he gets angry and says something then.

[MoreHPformyXR6]

I dont know if u guys can rember that email in 2000 entitled Sydney Olympics 2000 & it came with an attachment? One of the guys near me opened it & the soundcard went of in the PC it was making this loud constant beep the screen started flashing this person has been accessing porn "it kept alterting to the fact that the person had accessed porn" & then we had all sorts of problems shutting his PC down.

[Dauphin]

The guy I did the Hugh Grant prank to usually received most of my pranks. Some of us got into the habit of saving the empty milk bottles from the kitchen and after hours when most people went home this guy would go in to the loo and take a dump.

We'd quickly get the milk bottle, fill it with water and then go into the loo. I'd go into the cubicle next to him and very slowly drip the water out and perform convincing subtle moans of relief. My "wee" would end up being severall minutes long and the guy never mentioned this monthly orruance to anyone.

[ronwest]

in the early 70's a few of us picked up a workmates mini and rested it on four upside down garbage bins.

[SB076]

Simple stuff is often the best
1) Sticking taping the receiver button on the phone down, so that when the phone rings and someone picks up it still rings
2) Reversing the mouse buttons, they call you over becasue they think something is wrong you discretely use the reversed mouse buttons and ask what is wrong with them.
3) Loading all types of sounds everytime an application starts or the left hand mouse button is clicked, some stupid sound comes out
4) Use tape to tape the chair lever up, so when someone sits on it, it goes straight down.

Just dumb stuff, thats good for a laugh

[big_waity]

Just rememberd another. This is one a mate did to me. IT is a small executable file. You can rename it whatever you want so it is relelvant. When you run it, the the speaker blares loudly and the screen flashes pink then black, with the word "I AM LOOKING AT GAY PORN!".

Fantastic!

[falcon91]

When I was in the RAAF, my favourite past time was moving the window washers on the 4WD outwards (Curbside) and when passing unsuspecting pedestrians I'd hit the washers. WELL seeing as how this vehicle was used by me most of the time, the guys re-routed the washer hose under the dash to the bottom of the steering column. Picked up some guys and they egged me on to splach an 'Innocent' passerby with the obvious results. Wet crotch all day! Bastards! :

[3Toed]

Ah, my favourite topic!

I work in the IT Dept with 4 other guys. Various pranks include:

• Put scotch tape over the red 'eye' of a mouse. Makes the pointer erratic.
• If they don't lock their workstation when they go out then we use the display driver to flip their screen or move icons around.
• Take a screen shot of their desktop and then move all the icons off the edge.
• I once flipped a guys desktop and then turned his monitor upside down, so his desktop was actually the right way up.
• Change their MSN name to something interesting. Our boss didn't notice his MSN name change for a few days.
• Use the task scheduler remotely to schedule the Benny Hill theme song at random intervals. Always good for a laugh.
• Install prank apps that move the Start button when you go to click on it, or make the mouse pointer drunk, or make the computer burp.
• Non-IT - A chick on another floor hates spiders and one day we had a huge huntsman on our ceiling so I took a macro photo of it, added a thought bubble with the text, "I'm coming to get you...", printed it, laminated it, and sent to her in the internal mail.
• I left the "Your daughter kick my dog..." sound file on another dudes voicemail.

Who says IT is boring? :P

[SB076]

Originally Posted by big_waity

Just rememberd another. This is one a mate did to me. IT is a small executable file. You can rename it whatever you want so it is relelvant. When you run it, the the speaker blares loudly and the screen flashes pink then black, with the word "I AM LOOKING AT GAY PORN!".

Fantastic!

Yes mate got done by that, very funny. Not an office prank but had a mate text me with a message saying he was in trouble needed help urgently and his phone battery was dying, asked to call him at Daves house or something and listed a number that when you phoned you just hear this "hi you have phoned Manline" Hung that up real quick and phoned him back in fit of laughter - yeah yuo got me, still haven't got him back for that

[Dauphin]

So many things done with a computer, lots of memories coming back.

This is real dumb but I used to take a grab of HTML from news.com.au and edit it to make shock headlines, such as "Prime Minster John Howard dead in car crash", then go on my lunch break with that page left displayed on my web browser. Used to waste a lot of peoples' time when they would walk past, see it and stop to read the fake article and then tell others.

Most people lock their PCs when they go to lunch and I used to go to one guy's PC and enter text into the password login and press enter, so he would think someone's tried to get into his PC whenever he goes away from it.

[Dauphin]

The everlasting fun of pranking people's phone is good. If you're really good, you can pick up the phone using your little finger in the corner of your eye without turning away from your monitor, dial it, and keep the handset sitting just above the switch, then knock the table with your leg to hang it up when they answer it. They can't tell it's you.

[RAREV8]

The old "clingfilm over the toilet bowl" still works a treat- I am not too savvy with computers so most of my japes are more traditional. I am still trying to work out how to do an exploding turd in a drawer or locker...any constructive feedback would be gratefully received!

[pauljh74]

I've copped the "call so and so from here at 1234 5678". I was on holidays, when I came back there was a message to call Victoria. Now I never heard of this person from the company mentioned, and I rarely get phonecalls from customers as customer contact is limited in my job. The supervisor wouldn't tell me what it was about, and I thought something was dodgy, but at the same time I couldn't ignore it. Turned out it was a phone sex line from the phone book. Her name was "Vivacious Vicky".

Got my supervisor back - he had just started using a PC and wasn't savvy with computers. Me and a co-worker turned the brightness way down on the monitor. Initially we hung around the office to witness the effect of the prank, but moved away to do some more work elsewhere as we finished the area near the office.
We sort of forgot about it and eventually went back to the office to find my supervisor a little stressed. He came back to his office with a manager to show him something on the PC, but couldn't get the display up. They'd actually lodged a call with tech support which was cancelled after we revealed what we did.

Another one we did was to this guy who was always a smartarse. 2 people held him down while another used packing tape to tape his hands and legs together. We got most of the way before the supervisor came along and we let him go. Another classic is locking people in the freight cells for a while.

[EFDream]

Ever tried a prawn inside a computer case??? Works well....trust me! About day 2 it's great!

[Scott]

I had a guy at work with Narcolepsy (A disorder characterized by sudden and uncontrollable, though often brief, attacks of deep sleep, sometimes accompanied by paralysis and hallucinations.). He used to drop off about 50 - 100 times a day. He didn't seem to think it was too bad, thought he knew what was happening. His company car got taken off him as it was too dangerous but his answer was to buy a $300 Saab (which he fell asleep at the wheel of - no major damage luckily!). I thought it would be great to video him falling asleep at his desk and then email it to everyone at the office. Laughed my a$$ off as did all others! He didn't see the funny side. This guy was in sales and more than once, whilst visiting clients together, he would fall asleep during meetings with clients!

[MITCHAY]

Every week my mate and I do something to another guy at works payslip. It gives him the mega s**ts. We've stapled the crap outta it a few times, stuck it to the roof (the guy is pretty short), played noughts and crosses on it, write stuff on it, and this week we wrapped tape around it and then stapled it, then taped a broken stapler to it, then put it in the freezer. I know very lame, but he gets cut everytime.

[Woz]

Anyone ever occassionally have a few people at your work decide that they want pizza for lunch and send someone down to pick up a few orders?

If there's anyone you really want to have a bit of fun with (choose wisely, however), unwrap a bandaid, roll it over onto itself so it looks like it's been on a finger, then slide it under a slice of the pizza.

I had it done to me last week and once I worked out that it was a prank, it was pretty funny. However, having just spotted it I spent about a minute and a half without moving, a mouthful of pizza that I refused to chew, looking at the three perfectly straight faces of the boys that went down to pickup lunch thinking "60% of me says it was one of them, 40% of me says 'sweet damn'."