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Post by lisabelle on Jan 19, 2011 13:07:11 GMT -5
So, this week, I come into the office to find life size pictures of me posted over several walls. And, every picture of me shows a beer in one hand and a smoke in the other. Of course I spent my morning ripping them down as people from throughout the company come to check out the new so called art work. The next day I find a life size picture of a puking mona lisa. Some people have way too much time on their hands. Anyone else have fun with office pranks?
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Post by verrip1 on Jan 19, 2011 13:27:04 GMT -5
Find the most paranoid, Type A personality in the office. Superglue their phone receiver to the phone.
I did it once. The guy exploded. Called security and made them come look at it. They refused to look for fingerprints, and that made him even more ballistic. He fantasized that it was his subordinate who did the dirty deed, and asked me to keep an eye out on him. I'd report that the guy was whispering on the phone to various people, and that he was taking a lot of documents to the paper shredder. Oh, life in the cubes was so much fun!
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Post by busymom on Jan 19, 2011 13:31:31 GMT -5
Office pranks are the best. Maybe you need a couple ideas once you figure out who the guilty party is. My favorite, which happened where my husband works, is they somehow rigged up the bosses desk with a wire, so when he opened his desk drawer a car horn went off. Should've had a camera set up--he really jumped! (Luckily, he also has a great sense of humor.) I also heard of someone coming back from vacation, & their entire cubicle, desk, even every pen was wrapped in shrink wrap. Took a long time for them to get to work, but was a good (and clean) prank. Any other good ones, you guys? Let's hear them!
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Post by lisabelle on Jan 19, 2011 13:38:40 GMT -5
When I turned 30, I was in a cubicle at that time and they papered off the doorway and filled to the brim was shredded paper, punchholes, balloons etc. It took me over 1/2 day to clean up.
Other people have gotten wise and rigged cameras and alarms at their desks/offices.
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Post by ՏՇԾԵԵʅՏɧ_LԹՏՏʅҼ on Jan 19, 2011 13:40:19 GMT -5
When I worked for an accounting firm several years ago, we once were in the office after hours during tax season preparing returns for clients and the cleaning staff was doing their thing. We convinced them to leave one of the Partners' office door unlocked when they were finished cleaning. We took all his furniture (desk, credenza, chair, pictures, etc.) and then re-arranged everything upside down and locked the door when we were done. The look on his face in the morning was priceless, but he had a great sense of humor and bought us all lunch for all our 'hard work' duing overtime.
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Post by efco on Jan 19, 2011 13:40:27 GMT -5
Anyone ever put your stapler in a jello mold?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 19, 2011 13:41:48 GMT -5
I don't like the people I work with well enough to prank them.
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Post by lisabelle on Jan 19, 2011 13:44:04 GMT -5
I have a buddy that took post it's to completely cover a coworkers car.
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Post by ՏՇԾԵԵʅՏɧ_LԹՏՏʅҼ on Jan 19, 2011 13:45:42 GMT -5
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Post by ՏՇԾԵԵʅՏɧ_LԹՏՏʅҼ on Jan 19, 2011 13:46:26 GMT -5
---they probably did that to protect you from harming yourself. [pats efco on the head]
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Post by efco on Jan 19, 2011 13:50:20 GMT -5
Yes, SL...I still heart you. Now karma me, woman!!!!!!!
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Post by MB-NY on Jan 19, 2011 14:00:17 GMT -5
I've worked at different truck dealerships, and this was one of my favorites. Back in the late '80s, we were cleaning out some very old file cabinets. We came across some sales records from the early 1950's, and in there we found an incomplete sales form. The final step would have been for the then business manager to review it and then sign it, but maybe the deal was canceled. Anyway, we took that old form, attached a note "signed" by the current branch manager that said "please handle", and sent it inter-office to the current business manager. We were very talented; I could duplicate almost any signature in the building. We later learned he spent the better part of two days trying to find this truck in inventory, and then who was involved in the deal.
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Post by Jake 48 on Jan 19, 2011 14:17:55 GMT -5
I work with a guy who has a small family vegetable farm as a second job. Of course the jokes about farmers and sex with sheep run rampart and totally piss him off. One night while he was on shift an inflatable party sheep ended up in the drivers seat of his pickup. At shift change he goes out to his truck, sees the sheep and flips out, pulling it out of the truck and stabbing/ slashing it repeatedly with a knife for our amusement
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Post by Opti on Jan 19, 2011 15:09:52 GMT -5
I think I've been on this board too long today. I was scrolling past the threads and saw this thread as "Office Pants" and thought of Angel.
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Post by lisabelle on Jan 19, 2011 15:21:40 GMT -5
I'm hoping for a little more humor here. Some of our other threads are soooo depressing.
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Post by CarolinaKat on Jan 19, 2011 15:28:19 GMT -5
One of our Documentation people went on vacation for about 2 weeks. When she got back, the people in her group had covered her office with black construction paper and labeled it "the black hole: documents go in and they never come out." Someone also made a little flying saucer out of tinfoil and hung it from her ceiling.
There is also a story about a pink alligator.... I didn't see it though
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Jan 19, 2011 15:38:03 GMT -5
A rite of passage for waitress back when I used to work in a pizza resturant was the cooks would take an empty pizza box, put it in the window, ding the bell. .. and then push it out the window.
The idea is the waitress freaks, dives for it and it lands on the floor. I caught the box as it came out the window and ruined their prank.
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Post by Peace Of Mind on Jan 19, 2011 15:56:30 GMT -5
Lisa, LMAO!! Did you get a good laugh about it? I no longer work but I've been pranked here. I don't mind fun pranks, but gross ones - not so much. Don't put gross stuff in my food or on me thank you very much.
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Post by Peace Of Mind on Jan 19, 2011 15:57:04 GMT -5
I'm hoping for a little more humor here. Some of our other threads are soooo depressing. Yeah, don't drink the water today. Just sayin'.
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Post by Apple on Jan 19, 2011 17:44:09 GMT -5
We all have lockers but most of them don't have locks (You want to steal my nasty work rain gear or extra hardhat, have at it...) One time I bolted a guys shut (put a bolt where the padlock would go)--I tightened it up real tight so he'd have to go get his tools to undo it. Zipties work well for this too I had another coworker who used to pull pranks and contantly "razz" people but he'd never really done it with me--since I'm so innocent 0:) For a few weeks I'd grab tools from his toolbag and tape them closed (pliers, cutters, etc) with electrical tape. A few days into it he almost caught me--I had one of his tools and tape in my hand but I was able to sneak it behind my back and out of sight before he caught it. It was a year before he found out who had done it.
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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on Jan 19, 2011 18:25:36 GMT -5
About 15 years ago, we were at a research meeting and we noticed that one of our students (Karl) had hooked up with a faculty member (Jayne) in another department. It was kinda funny that every place we went, we saw the couple together.
So one day over lunch, the group of us formed the "Interdepartmental Liasion Committee", or more commonly known as the IDLC. The IDLC wrote a memo to Karl, telling him that the IDLC had noted that he had been seen regularly at the research meeting with a member of another department. In order to have a relationship with her, it had to be sanctioned by the IDLC and to be sanctioned, he had to apply and be approved . To apply, he needed to fill out this questionnaire and wait until the IDLC meets again. At that time, both he and Jayne would be interviewed and it would then be determined as to whether or not the relationship could be sanctioned. In the meantime, the couple would not be allowed to communicate - nor be seen in public together.
The memo went into the departmental mailbox and we all waited around the lab for the student to pick up his mail and come into the lab to work. By 6:30, we finally decided that we needed to go so left our post-doc in the lab (since he was the only one who had something to do that late) to be our spy. So Karl comes in with his mail, opens the envelope that the memo was in, then immediately went to the men's room with the memo. Post-doc followed him to the men's room to spy on him. The post-doc could hear paper rustling like he was pulling the memo from the envelope, rereading things in private. Nothing was ever said.....
So about 5 years later, I was having lunch with another post-doc right before she left town to work in her first position. She was telling me about this joke that had been played on Jayne and that Karl and Jayne had blamed it on her. She was clueless as to where the memo came from and couldn't imagine who would come up with that. At that point, I told her who the members of the IDLC were (me, the post-doc and another lab person) and that we had written the memo to bust on them.
Apparently, the memo looked real enough to them that they had actually researched the IDLC to try to find out who the members were......
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Post by ummboutthat on Jan 19, 2011 21:26:44 GMT -5
when your co-worker is away from their desk quickly go to their computer (in case they have a screen lock) minimize all the programs until you get the the main screen with all the icons right mouse click highlight "rotation" and click turn their screen 180 and click this will turn their screen upside down and the mouse to move opposite. up will be down and right will be left...
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Post by Deleted on Jan 19, 2011 21:34:54 GMT -5
Geez. I must not have any imagination. The worst I ever did was to urethane the tires of the tech's company truck to the shop floor. He's wasn't real bright so it took him a while to figure out that there was a reason his stupid truck wasn't moving. Then a while longer to figure out what to do about it.
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Post by speechchick71 on Jan 19, 2011 21:40:31 GMT -5
I worked with a very serious counterpart. We worked in a really slow hospital and had few patients to see. He would get in an hour before me and see everyone on our list leaving me nothing to do (sounds nice but it made for a boring day). On April Fools Day, I had the office manager create a fake patient list with the names and diagnosis: Coholic, Al (liver failure), Huggenkiss, Amanda (pneumonia), Rotch, Mike (stroke), and Jass, Hugh (deconditioning) He started walking up to the floors but the office manager caught him so that he wouldn't be asking the docs and nurses for the crazy names.
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Post by verrip1 on Jan 19, 2011 21:52:21 GMT -5
Go into the company restroom when no one's around. Put a big glob of Vaseline on the inside doorlock of each stall. Then put another big glob of Vaseline on the lever of each towel dispenser. On your way out, put another big glob of Vaseline on the inside door knob/lever of the restroom.
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Post by Sharon on Jan 19, 2011 21:53:55 GMT -5
One time we doctored up some statements so that instead of our 1-800 number we put in our bosses home phone number. Then we got one of the secretaries to take them in asking why the phone number had changed. I guess he turned multiple shades of white before going beet red and making a bee line to the programmer who usually worked on statements. This programmer was not in on the joke. That was a good two for 1 joke. We did go in and confess before the boss got mad at the other programmer. The boss thought that we had sent out 80,000 statements with his home phone number on them.
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Post by ummboutthat on Jan 19, 2011 21:56:00 GMT -5
be the absolute LAST person to leave the office or the absolute FIRST person into the office. Take down quite a few name plates (including your) and put them up at other peoples desk. then sit back and see if people will notice their name is not at their desk. Our Managers collect the name plated of the people that "left the company" and sometimes the name plates will appear at an empty desk. then dumb ass people was ask OH I see so and so is coming back to work.
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Post by verrip1 on Jan 19, 2011 22:01:42 GMT -5
be the absolute LAST person to leave the office or the absolute FIRST person into the office. Take down quite a few name plates (including your) and put them up at other peoples desk. then sit back and see if people will notice their name is not at their desk. Our Managers collect the name plated of the people that "left the company" and sometimes the name plates will appear at an empty desk. then dumb ass people was ask OH I see so and so is coming back to work. Better yet, get the guy in Plant Services to let you use the name plate lettering machine and make up nameplates with Mike Rotch, Randy John Thomas, Ima Pigg etc. and place them randomly.
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Post by rick on Jan 19, 2011 22:04:06 GMT -5
When I worked at the dealership I wired a guys horn up to his brake lights. He had a manual transmission so I knew for the most part he would have to hit his brakes until he can to the stop light a mile or so down the road. Sure enough he get all the way to the light and has to stop behind a car and his horn starts blairing. The person in the car infront wasnt to happy
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Post by Sharon on Jan 19, 2011 22:04:51 GMT -5
We had a name plate made up for Phil DeCube and put it on an empty cube. Then we added a monitor and keyboard, some books, sunglasses and other random stuff.
Several people asked about the new hire and when was the memo going to go out introducing them.
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