Best office prank you've ever pulled?

[Blue-Jay]

The "stinky chair":

On a lot of office chairs, if you stand on the base, and pull up, the chair separates into two pieces. If you look, you'll see there's a small hollow space in the base. Toss in a few frozen shrimps. Put the chair back together, and wait a few days. One of my former coworkers tore her entire office apart looking for the fishy smell. The smell usually goes away after a week or so.

[XemaSab]

1. works with goat cheese too

n/t

[Hugin]

3. !

Evil!

Evil!

[Hugin]

2. UNIX used to have a program called 'melt'...

It's a screen saver which causes the display to 'melt' off to the bottom of the screen.
(It may still be there. :shrug: )

Anyway, I added a delayed command to 'the new guy's' log-in script to invoke 'melt' and
lock the screen.

Then I waited... and waited... and waited...

About two weeks later he came meekly into my cubicle and said quiety... I think I broke my
computer.

LOL!

[tk2kewl]

17. I worked in an IT dept where we had "liaisons" within other departments

that were supposed to handle minor issues within there department to take up the slack. Well one of these so-called liaisons didn't do jack and was dumb as stump, but she was her boss' pet. She spent most of her time surfing the web.

This was a local government job and at some point we did a promo for the summer jobs program that included a modification of the town seal (pictured below). The pilgrim was redrawn leaning out of the seal and pointing like Uncle Sam, and it said "We want you for summer jobs!" or something along those lines.

So when we all got fed up with this "liaison", I opened up an administrative share to her computer, looked at her favorites and entered a host file entry for each one that pointed to a page that I designed. It had a big picture of the pointing pilgrim and said "GET BACK TO WORK!"

:evilgrin:

[BOSSHOG]

4. Back in my juvenile days along, long time ago

I was in the Navy (A long time ago) working in a small building with a small bunch of Sailors; one of whom always was playing little jokes and dicking with people. He was just aggravating enough to be, well, aggravating. What to do we pondered. We checked the duty roster and found out when he had duty. One thing the duty guy has to do is be the first to work to check message traffic and other minutae. So we "borrowed" a lifesize recruiting standup from the recruiters office and propped it up just inside the door. Six foot tall, dress blues, looked very, very real. So our prankster, wiping the sleep out of his eyes opened the door early in the morning and came face to face with "someone" already in the building. Bout shit his pants (I heard.) Boy was he pissed, however the nonsense halted for a long while after that.

[Rosie1223]

5. A lady in my office is always bringing in homemade goodies

One day she brought in a lemon sheet cake, iced, and precut into square pieces.

One of our truck drivers grabbed a piece and took a big bite and WTF!!!

She had iced a large yellow sponge and cut it into cake size squares. We all fell off out of our chairs laughing. She caught several people that day because the truck driver told others to be sure to get a piece of the cake.

[momophile]

6. I opened my boss's conference entry

and filled in for him the spot he forgot to fill out - "Name for nametag."

Of course, he did get even. He presented a poster-size picture to me at a company party - a picture of myself that I hated where I was making a really bad face.

[kay1864]

8. What name did you use?

[Strawman]

7. that's better than mine

cramming someone's office full of rolling chairs so they couldn't walk into it.

[Road Scholar]

9. My secretary put a ciggarette load in my cigarette. It went off on

the way home. A small "poof". I called in sick the next morning, said I had to go to the doctor, that something exploded in my face and I was nearly blinded. I came in to work late morning with a patch over one eye and I rubbed soap into the other eye so it would appear to be bloodshot.It was pretty quiet when I walked in. I apologized for walking funny, but that I had lost depth perception with the patch. I explained that I didn't know what happened, but something blew upMy secretary was waiting on me hand and foot. I had to go home so I could have my laugh. She apologized and promised she would never do that again.I let her suffer for a few days, but I didn't have the heart to go on with it, so I told her that she had been double reverse high scaffolded. She was mad as hell for a day or so then she pouted for a day or so. That was years ago, and we still laugh about it. But she always managed to tell every one, don't ever, ever, ever fuck with the me. I am chuckling while I write this. ROFLMAO:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[KitchenWitch]

10. My best prank was during the time I was being treated for cancer

I was losing my hair in clumps at the time. One day my boss came into my cubicle and at the end of the conversation he asked me how I was doing. I grabbed a chunk of my hair, pulled it out, and said, "THIS JOB IS DRIVING ME CRAZY!!!"

My boss turned about 4 shades whiter than normal and said to me, "Please tell me that was already going to come out of your head."

[BOSSHOG]

12. Lovely My Dear

My stepmom had cancer and lost her hair to treatment. My wife went shopping with her for a wig and they both got one. They had a great time doing each other's hair. My stepmom really enjoyed the camaraderie. She left us along time ago but my wife still has fond memories of that time.

Best wishes to you.

[KitchenWitch]

13. Thanks!

I was treated (with no recurrences) back in 1987. Technically I am considered "cured" but still have to get rechecked ever 3000 miles!

:hi:

[Blue-Jay]

22. OK, that's just evil!

Hilarious, but still evil. :D

[KitchenWitch]

30. ...

Did I ever say I was NOT evil?

:evilgrin:

My boss and I had a really good laugh after that.

[seemunkee]

11. Shop pranks

Carved a large wood phallus, unscrewed the hinges off of one guys tool cabinet and mounted it inside to spring out when the door opened. Also wallpapered the inside with ads from escort services.

Same shop different guy. He left for the day and I glued down every item left on his bench. Tools, ashtray, plans, sawdust, etc. That was in retaliation for having my toolbox filled with sawdust.

[TommyO]

14. The aluminum foil cubicle that greeted our manager

when he got back from disability. He kept as much of it as possible to show off our work. We even wrapped Gumby!

[SeattleGirl]

15. Decorating my boss's office in a Christmas theme -- in June.

I was working at a department store, so we had all these Christmas decorations in storage. Me, the personnel manager, and the controller decided to do this the night before the boss came back from a businss trip.

It was complete with a manequin dressed in a santa suit, sitting in his office chair. His reaction, when he opened the door, was priceless! :rofl:

[tk2kewl]

16. Best one I have ever heard of...

My cousin worked with a guy who bought a brand new Honda Civic and bragged about how great the car was. He would calculate his gas mileage every day and and announce it to everyone in the office.

A couple of other guys decided to start messing with this guy, so the brought a 5 gallon gas can to work and ADDED gas to his tank each morning for week. Every day the guy would come in with better and better mileage reports. "I am getting 50 mpg! I'm getting 60 mpg! You wont believe it... I'm getting 80 mpg!".

Then the fun began. The following week they began siphoning gas out of the guy's tank. His mileage was going down, down, down, and he was getting dejected. I think they finally broke it to him when he was down to 10 mpg. :evilgrin:

[youthere]

18. Mine are all pretty tame...

and pretty amateurish, like removing the roller ball from someone's mouse, or changing the windows desktop colorscheme to white on white and deleting all the others.

[MorningGlow]

19. Not me, but...

My brother once participated in a full-office effort to turn every piece of furniture in a guy's office upside down. I respect that.

And when DH and I worked at the same place (me as an editor, him as a programmer and all-around computer guy), he skunked one of my coworkers in the design department by having a window pop up on her computer: "This computer will self destruct in two minutes" or something similar. She completely freaked out!

[TommyO]

20. That happened to me as well

I came back from vacation and found everything that could be turned upside-down in just that state!

[MorningGlow]

25. Hee

You in law? Maybe it was you?!

[TommyO]

29. No, I was doing remote PC support at the time

It was my favorite job, but I had to get out of it (outsourcing was inevitable, and it happened about two years ago).

[kwassa]

21. Retaliation for stolen lunches

My co-worker was tired of having his frozen dinner-type entries stolen out of the collective freezer, so he brought in an entree with a cheeze topping, to which he added carefully shaved soap flakes.

It was stolen. Whoever ate it never admitted it. The thieving stopped, though.

[RushIsRot]

23. I worked in a brokerage firm during the Ford Administration.

On April 1, I faked up a message on the computer that looked like it came in from the NY office. It was a news flash from Reuters stating that the Supreme Court had reversed Ford's pardon of Nixon and Federal Marshals were, at that very moment, headed to San Clemente to Arrest Nixon.

I printed up several copies and distributed them around the office. Oddly, nobody thought it was as amusing as I did... :evilgrin:

[Xithras]

24. An annoying co worker went on a diet.

He got all holier than thou on us because he was losing weight, working out at the gym, and improving his physique. Normally I applaud that sort of thing, but this guy was the type that REALLY had to run your face in it. "I lost 2 more pounds this week Mike, how many have YOU lost? Oh sorry, I forgot that you LIKE being a fatass!" As I said, an annoying bastard.

So we did what any enterprising co-workers would do. We went into his office one day and filled everything with candy. M&M's in the drawers, a whole cake in his file cabinet (only $2 from the day old bakery), chocolate kisses, you name it. We made sure that he couldn't pick up or open a thing in his office without running into temptation. We even tossed some chocolate into his air vent so his office would SMELL like a candy factory.

But what REALLY made it a great prank was the unexpected part of it. We did this on a Thursday, and when he came in Friday morning he only found about 75% of the candy. When he came in again the following Monday he found something else...ants crawling over every single surface in his office. He HATED ants and absolutely flipped out...running from his office shrieking at the top of his lungs like a schoolgirl. From a guy who never missed an opportunity to show us how "manly" he was :rofl:

[Zavulon]

26. This one annoying asshole bought himself a sports car and

couldn't stop talking about it. This was back in the 80's, and one day - completely fed up with this dickhead - I put every junkyard in the area on notice that if they get a totalled black IROC-Z I was interested in buying it. Two weeks or so later I get a call, so a lot of us pitched in and we bought the scrap. When the asshole was busy for a couple hours and not close enough to the window to fawn over his car, we towed out his car and replaced it with a totalled twin of it, replacing the license plates, putting his cassettes and (brace yourself for this) Class of 1981 tassel on his rearview mirror, etc.

After our shift ended, we all went out to watch him react. Worth every cent and second we invested. The next morning, after he had been let off the hook, he found a note on his desk that let him know that if he didn't shut the fuck up about his car, the next time the damage would be real. He finally stuffed a sock in it.

Again, worth every cent and second we invested.

[Mad_Dem_X]

27. You win!

That's the best one I've ever heard!

[texas1928]

28. One of my coworkers who tin-foiled my office got his come uppance.(sp?)

I built a 6'9" dummy, and put it in work boots, blue overalls, and a great mask. He comes in at 7 AM and our office is really dark. The light switch is further in on the wall and you have to come in the room a ways to turn on the lights. I stood it in the corner right by the light switch. With his hands kind of raised like it was reaching for him. The two other people that are in the building at that time of the morning said that all they heard was a scream, the door being slammed back HARD, and him saying Shit over and over again.