Has anyone pulled a prank on someone at work?

[simplydamon]

If so, what was it?

[kd5145]

Yea, for some reason my mind doesn't work that way. Wish sometimes it would because everyone in the office has a great sense of humor. Maybe I can pick up some pointers from the rest of you all. :)

[George]

the funny prank is changing the keys on their keyboards around. just a few letters...hehe.

[simplydamon]

hkjhkjhkajhkjhkjgbn,sdn;

Looks like you got my keyboard (just kidding).

[lifesab-andthenyoudie]

Not on me, usually, but I worked with a bunch of guys who I think never got beyond elementary school in some ways. It was a constant source of humor. Once, they left a hard boiled egg in the back of another guy's drawer where he wouldn't find it for months. Another time, we came into work to find one guy's office blocked off with police tape, a chalk outline on the floor and a lot of realistic looking blood around. There was a note about the "dead" guy being from a competitive company and another note about how our coworker needed a lawyer and some bail money. It was pretty realistic looking and had several of us going for a few moments.

There are lots more, but the other funny thing I can think of is the time one guy somehow got ahold of our car keys and moved everyone's car around in the parking garage.

[George]

Dont know if I will be laughing or freaking out if this happen to me. THink I would be calling the police and everything. Lucky for me I always keep my keys in my pocket.

There are lots more, but the other funny thing I can think of is the time one guy somehow got ahold of our car keys and moved everyone's car around in the parking garage.

[kd5145]

I love the one about moving people's cars around. I don't know what would be worse, thinking you have lost your mind or thinking your car was stolen. :)

[Parklane64]

I was in a gas station and noticed that someone had left a locking gas cap on top of the pump that was the correct type for a co-workers brand new pickup.

My only regret is not having video of the look on his face when he tried to re-fuel. :D

[kd5145]

That is a good one. I wish i could think of things like that. :)

[simplydamon]

The only one I remember involved another manager in the office.

1. I started talking to her one day about work and her family.
2. I began to remove items from her desk.
3. I would then excuse myself and return to my desk with her items.
4. I would then return, continue the conversation, and continue to remove items from her desk.
5. This went on for nearly an hour. She didn't realize that I was removing things from her desk, including pictures of her family.
6. I then asked her to show me pictures of her family.
7. She couldn't locate them. It was then that I invited her to my desk to take a look at pictures of my family.
8. You couldn't imagine the look on her face when she realized that most of her desk was at my desk :D

[George]

LOL this is funny. :D Can't imagine me not knowing that someone is removing stuff from my table while I am there especially family pictures.

The only one I remember involved another manager in the office.

1. I started talking to her one day about work and her family.
2. I began to remove items from her desk.
3. I would then excuse myself and return to my desk with her items.
4. I would then return, continue the conversation, and continue to remove items from her desk.
5. This went on for nearly an hour. She didn't realize that I was removing things from her desk, including pictures of her family.
6. I then asked her to show me pictures of her family.
7. She couldn't locate them. It was then that I invited her to my desk to take a look at pictures of my family.
8. You couldn't imagine the look on her face when she realized that most of her desk was at my desk :D

[simplydamon]

I couldn't believe I was able to do it! She definitely wasn't paying attention to what was going on.

[GetFiredUp]

Ok, maybe I did a prank or two;

- Someone went on vacation, removed all things from their desk (just put it in their drawers) and left a note that said "See Me" on it
- One of my favorites; On a windows computer, open word or notepad, make sure it isnt full screen, just a window, hit print screen, then open paint, select edit -> paste (You should have a picture of the desktop) save the file, then choose "Set as wallpaper" They will spend forever trying to get "word" to close.

[George]

Think I am gonna have to try the wallpaper prank

[kd5145]

LOL. Me to. The clearing off the desk one is rotten, but good.

[simplydamon]

Great pranks! The "See Me" note kills me...

[brewer]

once i turned one of our coworkers desk around, and turned around everything on his desk so he didn;t realize it at first, it was great when he went to look through his drawers.

the aforementioned hat (different thread, see a little military humor)

ummm tons of them, btu can;t remembe many right now for some reaosn

[varknight]

I have done the wall paper one only mine was with the blue screen of death (thats what i call it ) at first glance you think your computer is fried

[acekevin]

When I was in training for my current job, we had to lock our computers before going to breaks. A few people would forget, and once the trainer did the "wallpaper trick." People were also required to bring a snack for everyone the next day after they were caught, so once the trainer created Word documents on their pc that said "BRING DONUTS AND COOKIES."

[simplydamon]

"When I was in training for my current job, we had to lock our computers before going to breaks."

This was also a requirement at my last job. If people didn't lock their computers before going on break, it wasn't uncommon for someone (usually IT folks) to go to the computer and type an embarassing message to the rest of the organization (we knew that these emails weren't "real").

My favorite: Someone found a product manager that left his computer unlocked. The email they sent out stated something along the lines that they were nominating themself for "Sexiest Product Manager".

[Wysiwyg101]

I don't know if someone has mentioned this one. When someone would leave their desk with their computer unlocked we would open up Microsoft Word/Tools/Auto Correct and type in various word replacements. For instance, everytime they typed shot it would auto correct with sh*t instead.

One can all kinds of fun doin that to someone. Especially since Microsoft Outlook uses Word as it's default editor so the auto correct function works on emails as a well.


Wys

P.S.
You can also use this as a serious time saving device for yourself.

How many times do you have to type out a specific address and/or phone number?
Put add1 and have it replaced with the street address and add2 as the city,state and zip code. Ph1 and Ph2 for phone and fax. Email1 and so on for email addresses. Your initials can be replaced with your name. Just helpful tips.

[hyena8]

Ah. If we only had computers that weren't built while Bill Gates was still in the womb. :mad:

[john4pod]

I have good one.
A little details before i start.
I work in a wharehouse and manufacturing plant that are connected by a little walkway on the first floor, the walkway was also aloped on both sides. The roof always leaked over the walkway and it would flood when it rained.
The story
So this new guy comes to work and the boss decides to get him to fix the roof. The guy spends all day up there working really hard to fix the roof. Late that day he comes down and says hes finished so the boss say, "lets test the job you did take this 5 gallon bucket fill it with water go up to the second floor window and dump it on the roof you repaired. So the guy goes and fills the bucket up and goes up to dump it on the roof. Then the boss quickly grabs the hose and fills the walkway with water like pretty deep too. The guy comes down to see if he did a good job andwas shocked the look on his face was priceless, and he was like how did all this water get here i only dumped 5 gallons and was running through excuses. I dont know how the boss kept a straight face.

[George]

hahaha...this is funny. I'm surprise he didn't know he was tricked.

[buffygirl]

Not me, but for an April Fools Day joke someone once took a screenshot of my desktop with all the icons and stuff, and made the screenshot my computer's wallpaper....and then removed all my real icons. So when I went to open certain files/folders, they wouldn't open. It looked so real!

[john4pod]

the boss finally did tell him/ i think the guy figured something was up

[brianm]

I don't know if someone has mentioned this one. When someone would leave their desk with their computer unlocked we would open up Microsoft Word/Tools/Auto Correct and type in various word replacements. For instance, everytime they typed shot it would auto correct with sh*t instead.

One can all kinds of fun doin that to someone. Especially since Microsoft Outlook uses Word as it's default editor so the auto correct function works on emails as a well.


Wys

P.S.
You can also use this as a serious time saving device for yourself.

How many times do you have to type out a specific address and/or phone number?
Put add1 and have it replaced with the street address and add2 as the city,state and zip code. Ph1 and Ph2 for phone and fax. Email1 and so on for email addresses. Your initials can be replaced with your name. Just helpful tips.


lol...that i just great...i have definately got to try this one. :D

[cigargirl]

The new warehouse manager where I used to work immediately alienated the entire IT staff by demanding a "NEW" computer w/sound card (nobody had sound cards but the IT staff in the server room), and a long list of other demands. When I informed him that he wasn't getting what he wanted, he proceeded to make complaints to the plant manager to no avail (plant managers computer was 3 years old.:D)

After 2 days of constant complaints he called demanding his inter-office email be set up immediately. So we did.. When we typed in his job title (Warehouse manager) we replaced the "a" with "ho". :D Luckily the president of the company had a sense of humor. As everyone he emailed in 5 states we had locations saw his job title!

[Rumrunner]

A little scotch tape on the phone switchhook makes a pretty good prank, you do it while they are away from their desk and as soon as they get back, you call them. They pick up the phone to answer and of course with the switchhook down it just keeps on ringing...

Also, a piece of foam rubber cut into a circle and iced and decorated like a birthday cake is pretty funny too. Just leave it up by the coffee machine with a very dull knife and watch as people try to cut off a piece...

Being a computer programmer, I have also written a few prank programs that would randomly display bogus error messages. I did one that gave a very realistic looking 'Windows Alert!' window with the following message: Windows has not had an error in the past 30 minutes. No further information is available, but we are all just really proud of ourselves right now!'

I also like the 'Stack Overflow, internal stack fall down and go boom' message, that one is pretty funny... Or 'User error, replace user and press any key to continue'.

[cigargirl]

We just installed brand new HDTV's with Parental Controls at work... The first chance I get, I'm going to do is "Block" the golf channel! :) We have 1 employee that turns the golf channel on first thing in the morning & watches it all day. Then about 4pm the regular customers that golf start rolling in and the topic of disccusion is usually... GOLF! I don't play golf, I've nothing against golf, but I can't listen to it 4 - 5 days a week all day long.

[Simpson5215]

We did these pranks to managers who took vacations during blackout periods.

Enclosed cubical with 4 walls so that there is no entrance.

Tape poppers to bottum of desk and attach the pull string to chair. (Talk about scaring someone).

made their area look like a receptionist.

Went to ugly.com and got a really ugly picture and added their name with a caption of employee of the month.

Put vaseline on earpiece of phone.

Catch someone away from their desk without locking the computer and send out emails detailing a fault about them to people in the address book. (Teaches them to lock computer and gives you a good laugh.)

[George]

We just installed brand new HDTV's with Parental Controls at work... The first chance I get, I'm going to do is "Block" the golf channel! :) We have 1 employee that turns the golf channel on first thing in the morning & watches it all day. Then about 4pm the regular customers that golf start rolling in and the topic of disccusion is usually... GOLF! I don't play golf, I've nothing against golf, but I can't listen to it 4 - 5 days a week all day long.

Only if it was CNBC.

[dolfan4eva13]

We just installed brand new HDTV's with Parental Controls at work... The first chance I get, I'm going to do is "Block" the golf channel! :) We have 1 employee that turns the golf channel on first thing in the morning & watches it all day. Then about 4pm the regular customers that golf start rolling in and the topic of disccusion is usually... GOLF! I don't play golf, I've nothing against golf, but I can't listen to it 4 - 5 days a week all day long.

Call me crazy, but if I got to watch the golf channel at work I would consider that a perk :)