Office Pranks...

Zascar

Myself and the guy I sit beside are always joking around and playing tricks on eachother. Leave your desk without locking your computer, and you are bound to find somehting done, like your out of office turned to something rude of obnoxious, or maybe instant messages of to many work colleagues expressing various levels of love and desire. Neither of us ever leave our desks without locking our computers any more....

Generally when either of us go on holidays, something will happen while we are gone. I was away during the week and while I was gone, he had switched the letters "M" and "N" on my keyboard. I thought I had gone mad when typing a web address and could not get it to come out.

There are loads of others that we have done, but I'm running out of ideas. He's away for a few days now and I want do do something funny and creative - but nothing to malicious.

Any suggestions?

Sherifu

Stapler, glue. Desk, glue. Chair, glue. Anything with glue really.

ibh

Cover his entire work area with post-it notes??

Loomis

Not in work but we used to do that all the time in the labs in college. If anyone left their machine someone would run over and create a batch file on their machine. Set it to open brazilian shemales .com or the like and then call itself. So you'd come back to your machine to a nice surprise and turning the machine off with the power button as the only option.

sham08

I have a funny email as a powerpoint with all stuff to do to work colleagues when they are away from their desk. If you send me your email address I'll forward it on to you, maybe you'll get some ideas.

MarkR

Install clippy on their computer. Tell your boss you found him sniffing the seat of your chair. Make him believe his family his dead. Tell others that he is dead. The list goes on and on really.

Last one. Frozen shaving cream in a drawer. Maybe empty drawer first if you're feeling kind.

Keano

If a colleague leaves there computer unlocked take a screen print of their desktop - then set it as there wallapper and hide all the icons! They come back and click on an icon but nothing happens!

CJay

Keano A Legend wrote: »

If a colleague leaves there computer unlocked take a screen print of their desktop - then set it as there wallapper and hide all the icons! They come back and click on an icon but nothing happens!

Heh heh! Brilliant! This I will use

You could do up a fake news story and email it to everyone
www.wasarrested.com
Alot of people recognise it for the prank it is, but it's amazing the amount of people that panic....heh heh

Cuddlesworth

Rickrolling people by dropping the Video into the start up menu. Abusing my Net admin by turning off pc's randomly over the network. Removing Valuable Windows components as well.

sham08

Cuddlesworth wrote: »

Removing Valuable Windows components as well.

Thats a bit mean isn't it????

Doctor DooM

sham08 wrote: »

Thats a bit mean isn't it????

Naaah, sure DLL files are only a waste of space, might as well remove a few

kev_s88

heres a few pics of ones that have been done before

kittensoft1984

kev_s88 wrote: »

heres a few pics of ones that have been done before

ha ha ha ha i love it!!!!

CJay

oooh, here's a good one (supplied by my brother)
Put an image of a cracked screen as desktop background, then plug out the mouse and keyboard

Anyone ever tried cling film over the toilet bowl?

r3nu4l

Do this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pebTT8wzdgE

MistyCheese

This is probably too obvious but...

Set their computer to auto-correct common words like "the" or "and" into something similiar, so that it takes longer to twig. Maybe "eth" or "dna" so they'll just think they're typing wrong.

I played this one on my husband, it probably won't be of much use to you but I'll tell you anyway,

I flipped the picture that we were using as a screensaver horizontally so that what had been on the left ws now on the right and vice-versa. Then I moved all of the icons over to the other side.

Not much of a prank but he's not very computer-literate so I was asking him "What the hell is wrong with the computer!!". He didn't have a clue.

Feral Mutant

Read this on bash. If someone tries it, let me know if it works.
If they have a phone at their desk, open it up, put in something heavy then seal it back up. Give it a month to let them get used to the weight. Then take it out, wait for them to get a call and watch them hit themselves in the head with it.

Burning Eclipse

MistyCheese wrote: »

This is probably too obvious but...

Set their computer to auto-correct common words like "the" or "and" into something similiar, so that it takes longer to twig. Maybe "eth" or "dna" so they'll just think they're typing wrong.

I played this one on my husband, it probably won't be of much use to you but I'll tell you anyway,

I flipped the picture that we were using as a screensaver horizontally so that what had been on the left ws now on the right and vice-versa. Then I moved all of the icons over to the other side.

Not much of a prank but he's not very computer-literate so I was asking him "What the hell is wrong with the computer!!". He didn't have a clue.

I like, both are pretty clever and easy to do also:D

go further than Misty Cheese's suggestion.

Add into Auto Correct their name, and have it replaced with something like ShemanFetish CEO


How many letters and e-mails do you type your name on daily.....

Keano

Deleted User wrote: »

go further than Misty Cheese's suggestion.

Add into Auto Correct their name, and have it replaced with something like ShemanFetish CEO


How many letters and e-mails do you type your name on daily.....

Very mean.... I like it

board om

i used to like like removing the ball from peoples mouse but nowadays you dont get them with the ball anymore so that is fcuked.

in a call centre i was in a few years back when one of the customer care guys was away for a few days we diverted his work phone to his mobile. so he kept getting calls from customers complaining about their phone bills. he wasnt the slighest bit impressed.

CJay

Add an extra line onto an email sig...if they have one...

astrofool

Feral Mutant wrote: »

Read this on bash. If someone tries it, let me know if it works.
If they have a phone at their desk, open it up, put in something heavy then seal it back up. Give it a month to let them get used to the weight. Then take it out, wait for them to get a call and watch them hit themselves in the head with it.

Jim did this on Dwight in The Office.

It was nicely done because Dwight's complaint was "I hit myself in the face with the phone."

board om

actually you could be a complete cnut and email his letter of resignation to management while he is away. then go one step further and send out a company email saying that his leaving drinks will be the day he is coming back from holidays. then when he gets back everybody will asking him to go for drnks later and he will think it is becuase he is just back from holidays.

workaccount

board om wrote: »

i used to like like removing the ball from peoples mouse but nowadays you dont get them with the ball anymore so that is fcuked.

in a call centre i was in a few years back when one of the customer care guys was away for a few days we diverted his work phone to his mobile. so he kept getting calls from customers complaining about their phone bills. he wasnt the slighest bit impressed.

board om wrote: »

actually you could be a complete cnut and email his letter of resignation to management while he is away. then go one step further and send out a company email saying that his leaving drinks will be the day he is coming back from holidays. then when he gets back everybody will asking him to go for drnks later and he will think it is becuase he is just back from holidays.

Thank god I don't have to work with you. :rolleyes:

Is this thread not for office "pranks"? Not how to get back at someone you hate.

oriain

one of my favourites is when they leave their computer unlocked and you rotate the screen 180 degrees in the display options and then lock it.

it only works with people who are completely hopeless at computers though..

MOH

Tape down the ..um, bit ... on the phone under the handset, you when he answer's the phone it keeps ringing.

Dancor

If they have a black key board colour all the keys black, also glue lots of tum taks to there mouse.

Wazdakka

While hes away install a vnc client as a startup service on his PC. Ultra VNC is a pretty good one.

Then when he gets back you can mess with his computer without even having to leave your chair..

He looks down at some paperwork for two min, He looks up again... and BAM!
Screen full of gay bestiality.

Or you could just be tame about it and move the curser about.. Open / close random programs, Type him messages in word, whatever..

Insanesomeone

A really easy one is to take some one's stapler/favourite pen e.t.c basically just make sure it's something they'd miss, and something they only have on of. When they leave the office take it, and combine it with a block of jelly. Then get into the office early the next day (the jelly has set over night) and put the item back where it was.

Das Kitty

Used to work with a guy who was a bit of a dark horse.

He left the PC unlocked one day so we set up his email alert tone to be the theme from Black Beauty. He turned it off again. Next time he was out we plugged his speakers into my PC so I could see him working and the next email that came in I'd play the Black Beauty theme music. Took him 4 emails to figure it out. He didn't say a word just plugged the speakers back into his own PC while we were falling around laughing. Amazing the things you find funny when you work in IT!

Never got us back either. Well not yet!

Some fellas in my current job got the sack for sending a mail from someone else's account, they unfortunately sent it to a person with the same name as one of their friends who's quite high up in the US.

Sanjuro

I worked with a guy who was the most inventive and industrious prankster I've ever come across. And what made it all the funnier was, he only ever targeted one guy.

The earliest prank I remember was he got his hands on a substance used in old folks homes. When added to liquid, it turned the liquid thick and could be consumed that way. Kind of like gelatine, but more immediate. He added this to his target's tea when he left the room, freaking the guy out.

On another occassion, he got hold of the fairy used for the top of the Christmas tree. He glued a photo of the target to the fairy's head, went up to the upper floor and dangled the fairy out of the window, just outside the target's window. Took the guy almost the entire day to notice. That incident, we have on film.

When the target guy was leaving the company, he arrived in on his last morning to find every single piece of his equipment and belongings, including his desk, chair and filing cabinet, individually wrapped in christmas wrapping paper.

And my favorite of the pranks- the prankster used to arrive in every day before his target. The target guy would come in, pour himself a bowl of cereal and have his breakfast. One morning, the prankster went to a local pet shop and purchased a box of crickets, used to feed lizards. He got the unopened box of cereal and tipped the crickets into the box. He then resealed the box.
So the target guy comes in and notices the box seems to have been tampered with. Suspecting the other guy, he opens the box and directs the open end at the prankster. Nothing happens. He then takes a look into the box, only to have 20+ crickets burst forth into his face, sending him screaming around the office. It seems Loki, the god of mischief was smiling on the prankster guy that day.

Dreamer 7

I want to work in a fun place like these

Wazdakka

Das Kitty wrote: »

Never got us back either. Well not yet!

That you know of...
Its pretty hard to be sure when someone pees in your coffee

Sanjuro wrote: »

I worked with a guy who was the most inventive and industrious prankster I've ever come across. And what made it all the funnier was, he only ever targeted one guy.

Ummm Outright Bullying Tbh...

Sanjuro wrote: »

He then takes a look into the box, only to have 20+ crickets burst forth into his face, sending him screaming around the office.

That does sound damn funny tho..

From this thread.

Wazdakka

Myth wrote: »

From this thread.

Had that floating around my college back in the day for a while..
Absolutely Classic

workaccount

Das Kitty wrote: »

Used to work with a guy who was a bit of a dark horse.

He left the PC unlocked one day so we set up his email alert tone to be the theme from Black Beauty. He turned it off again. Next time he was out we plugged his speakers into my PC so I could see him working and the next email that came in I'd play the Black Beauty theme music. Took him 4 emails to figure it out. He didn't say a word just plugged the speakers back into his own PC while we were falling around laughing. Amazing the things you find funny when you work in IT!

Never got us back either. Well not yet!

Some fellas in my current job got the sack for sending a mail from someone else's account, they unfortunately sent it to a person with the same name as one of their friends who's quite high up in the US.

Sanjuro wrote: »

I worked with a guy who was the most inventive and industrious prankster I've ever come across. And what made it all the funnier was, he only ever targeted one guy.

The earliest prank I remember was he got his hands on a substance used in old folks homes. When added to liquid, it turned the liquid thick and could be consumed that way. Kind of like gelatine, but more immediate. He added this to his target's tea when he left the room, freaking the guy out.

On another occassion, he got hold of the fairy used for the top of the Christmas tree. He glued a photo of the target to the fairy's head, went up to the upper floor and dangled the fairy out of the window, just outside the target's window. Took the guy almost the entire day to notice. That incident, we have on film.

When the target guy was leaving the company, he arrived in on his last morning to find every single piece of his equipment and belongings, including his desk, chair and filing cabinet, individually wrapped in christmas wrapping paper.

And my favorite of the pranks- the prankster used to arrive in every day before his target. The target guy would come in, pour himself a bowl of cereal and have his breakfast. One morning, the prankster went to a local pet shop and purchased a box of crickets, used to feed lizards. He got the unopened box of cereal and tipped the crickets into the box. He then resealed the box.
So the target guy comes in and notices the box seems to have been tampered with. Suspecting the other guy, he opens the box and directs the open end at the prankster. Nothing happens. He then takes a look into the box, only to have 20+ crickets burst forth into his face, sending him screaming around the office. It seems Loki, the god of mischief was smiling on the prankster guy that day.

Talk about bullying. :rolleyes:

Glowing

I used to work in a sales/delivery office years ago. A couple of us found a broken shop maneqin in a skip across the road- we fixed him up with tape, dressed him in bin-liners and gave him a hat - he looked like the perfect dodgy character!

We were situated on the second floor of a building, and waited until the hot-headed delivery guy was at his desk by the window. We placed the dude at the back doors of the delivery van, peering into the contents. When we pointed this out to delievery-guy, he slammed down the phone, ran down the stairs faster than i've ever seen anyone do before, and shouted at our man - then started on him, true 'kung foo' style! It took one tap on his shoulder before his left leg fell off, and he keeled over onto the road.

I think it was the following day before we stopped laughing!

Sanjuro

Bollocks it was bullying. They were friends. It was never done in a nasty or malicious way.

7croghan

When someone goes off for a coffee adjust their seat so as when they come back and sit back , the back of the seat falls back - Watch the coffee go everywhere.

Das Kitty

Sanjuro wrote: »

Bollocks it was bullying. They were friends. It was never done in a nasty or malicious way.

He was also my boss. LOL.

Sound guy, but I never let him serve me food since!

genie_us

Glowing wrote: »

I used to work in a sales/delivery office years ago. A couple of us found a broken shop maneqin in a skip across the road- we fixed him up with tape, dressed him in bin-liners and gave him a hat - he looked like the perfect dodgy character!

We were situated on the second floor of a building, and waited until the hot-headed delivery guy was at his desk by the window. We placed the dude at the back doors of the delivery van, peering into the contents. When we pointed this out to delievery-guy, he slammed down the phone, ran down the stairs faster than i've ever seen anyone do before, and shouted at our man - then started on him, true 'kung foo' style! It took one tap on his shoulder before his left leg fell off, and he keeled over onto the road.

I think it was the following day before we stopped laughing!

ha ha that one made me laugh out loud

when he leaves his desk turn all his fonts to white and see how long it takes him to figure it out

RVD420

Here are a few pranks we used to pull in the office:

Hide the target's mouse and put a busted mouse (with wire removed) in it's place. When the target hits the roof, claim you were "upgrading" his mouse to a wireless one.

For this one, the target has to be sitting in front of you with a partition between ye. Get the target's keyboard on your desk, but leave it plugged into the pc. Place another keyboard on the targets desk, plugging it into nothing (leave keyboard port/connection in sight for maximum rage). The target returns and tries to unlock the pc. Let the games begin. Hit unlock but then go crazy on the keyboard. As the confused target's patience is running out, suggest a possible problem with the keyboard.... The target smells a rat when the unconnected keyboard wire is found. ..... :mad: .......:eek: Run!

Good times.

dazberry

One of the lads I work with applied for a temporary post to fill in for a girl going on maternity leave. The other lads considered this a PA job, so went off to Pennys and bought the guy a dress, thong..., lipstick, Woman's own etc. and made a "presentation" to congratulate the guy on getting the job. He was so mortified.

One of the rules is to lock your PC when you're away from your desk. If you happen to forget you may find your desktop wallpaper changed to a picture of the muppets. One guy is constantly getting caught out - so much so its actually not funny anymore when he whines about it.

Every year there's a staff conference which involves team building during the day and an almighty p1ss up in the evening. I don't know how all this came about - but two of the real messers decided to climb on a roof, one fell off and burst his appendix and spent 2 weeks in hospital.

D.

KatiexKOUTURE--

Empty out the drawers in his desk or whereever and fill them with with expanding foam

trellheim

get the icons on the screen to move ever so slightly.. you can do this as an admin and it freaks people out... ever so subtle.

homerjk

Depending on how IT savvy you are and your victim are you could do what we always do the newbies.

On their desktop we always change the destination program for their icons. Like we change the IE icon (has to be a shortcut, just remove the main one) to open up solitaire or whatever. Depending on how good they are this goes on for ages.

You'd be amazed at how many times a person will shut this down just to click on it again! Gets even funnier when they restart the machine a load of times to fix it!

Zascar

Hahahah cheers guys these are brillaint, unfortunately I don't have his password, and he never leaves his desk without locking his PC.

Does anyone know an easy and reliable way to fake an email? Send it so it looks like it was sent by him, and the reply address is his etc?

turtleshead

To use his email you can use a command line utility called blat, you can find it easy enough on any search engine. Install it by running the exe with the switch -install smtp server name, senders, address, port. you then can create a text file and call that from a batch job....

There are syntax details included in the download.

srdb20

A couple of things to try would be.

Rocky montage or something with equal cheesyness, set to play on start up.

Depending on which phone he has at his desk (if you can remove the back) place a mobile phone in it and ring it every so often, he will spend ages trying to figure out where its coming from.

Swapping the contents, flipping of drawers or pedestals etc

Glue all the lids of his pens!!!!

Small piece of paper over the optical mouse's light.

Tear up small bits of paper and leave them in his fan, next time he turns it on BOOM!!

board om

workaccount wrote: »

Thank god I don't have to work with you. :rolleyes:

Is this thread not for office "pranks"? Not how to get back at someone you hate.

that was nice in comparison to what some of the bastrads used to do in there. if you had an oceanfree.net email account you could change the name that the email is coming from. so you could have the email coming from bill.gates@microsoft.com if you wanted. so i used to have to deal with this team of girls that did out admin for us. and they were all 35+ and boot ugly. one of them was particularly manky looking and everytme i would be over talking to them about work they used to be smiling and giggling at me. i just thought they were a bit mad. it turns out one of the lads i worked with had been emailing this manky bird for months pretending to be me and and asking her out on dates and talking dirty to her. so she was obviously telling her mates and thats why they used to be giggleing at me, becuase they thought it was me sending the emails. and the worst thing was she was married. whats a bastrad. :mad:

but we used to have some fun sending someone an email and putting the return address as the main recption for th building. so you would email one of the lads saying that their car was being towed and you could make it look like it was being sent by the main reception. you would just see whoever you had sent the email to getting up and legging it out the door thinking their car was being towed away. classic.