Office Pranks

boofredlay

20+ cups on desk
Fill about 20 or more paper cups up with water, place them next to each other on your victim’s desk. Then staple them all together, stand back and watch as he/she arrives at work and is clueless about how to go about removing the cups off the desk.

The Zoo called
Call someone at the office while they are away and leave a message saying Mr. Lyon (or Mr. Behr) called and would appreciate a call back. Then leave the phone number for the local zoo on the answering machine for this person to call.

Mouse Trap
If you know someone that uses an optical mouse, place a small post it note over the eye of the mouse. When your victim tries to use their mouse it won't work. When they decide to look underneath it, they will see a small posted that reads, "April Fools"

Stale Donuts
About a week before the prank, buy a box of donuts. Keep them in the refrigerator with the top open so they can dry out. On the day of the prank, place the box of donuts near the office coffee pot so anyone with a morning sweet tooth can indulge.

Pick Up The Entire Phone
Wrap a very small piece of wire around the phone cord so both ends are tied together. When the phone rings and your victim goes to pick up the receiver, he will up with the entire phone base with it.

Pen Swap
Take all of your co-workers pens and replace them with your pens that your glued caps on to the night before. He will not be able to take the caps off to use the pens.

Stand Up
Remove all the chairs from the meeting room and tell everyone you are trying something new and will be conducting the meeting with everyone standing. Then try your best to drag the meeting on and on for as long as possible.

Staplers
Tell everyone about your fear of staplers. Then, start acting weird whenever one is present.

Company Xmas Party
Volunteer yourself to organize the company xmas party. Then choose to have the party at McDonald's Playland. Feel free to charge everyone $15.

If anyone needs me...
Send everyone at the office an email to let them know what you are doing. For example: "If anyone needs me, I will be in the copy room".

Waiting For My Document
Put a chair so it faces the printer then sit there all day long and tell people you are waiting for your document.

Waiver
Whenever someone in the office asks you to do something, ask them to sign a waiver first.

Paper Clip Daisy Chain
Take out all of your co-worker's paper clips and link them together, then put them back in the box.

Wooden Leg Memo
Send a memo to a new employee explaining that another employee has a wooden leg (which he doesn't, of course) but explain that he does and not to ever bring it up because it may cause turmoil in the office.

IT Prank
Send out a memo to everyone explaining that all computers have been infected with the new 'Letter G Virus' and that everything is ok, but for the rest of today nobody can type the letter 'G' or else it will cause even more havoc on the company computer systems.

Copier Paper Fun
Type in giant bold letter "Copier Needs Service Soon" and make a few copies of the page. Then place the papers back inside the copier paper tray.

Full Blast!
Turn your victim's speaker volume up full blast. He won't know until the next time his computer makes a sound, it will surprise him to death! Haha

Hostage Situation In The Office
Take something that your co-worker needs. Such as his mouse and leave a ransom note in its place. Don't tell him who you are. Just tell him where to leave the money for it.

Self Recognition Prank
Without disguising your voice, compliment yourself over the office intercom. Compliment yourself on a just completed task or give yourself the rest of the day off.

Myra Mains
This is a great prank for a secretary to play on the office jokester. Maybe the secretary needs to get even. Well try this. When your victim is out to lunch, leave him a message that someone named Myra Mains called and needs a call back ASAP. Leave the number to the local coroner's office with the note. Myra Mains, sounds like My Remains.

Eating Out Of The Trash Can
Put some of your chips in a clean bag on top of the trash can. Then when you and your fellow co-workers are walking past it, grab a hand full and eat them in front of them.

Something is wrong with the copier!
Leave a copier to print 99 copies at 33% resolution on 8x14 paper.

rhankc

this is dumb now, but my fav was to give the intern the spec book from their first big project and tell him "now you have to proof-read your specs". Really good if it was a multi-volume doc.

boofredlay

Another fun one is to go to someone's computer while they are away, minimize their open programs and do a screen capture of their desktop.
Open paint and save the screenshot as an image.
Change their taskbar to autohide (if it is not already).
Hide their desktop icons.
Set the new screenshot image to their background and wait for the cussing

Daniel

Here are two that were a hit in my office:

"touch-up" a co-worker's photo (add some lurid make-up, say) and then put it on everyone's computer desktop.

Set teh autocorrect in their Microsoft WORD to change certain phrases, names, etc. to street slang.

robmoors

The autocorrect is indeed very annoying

Also a good one if you have those fabric dark desk chairs fill one up with water and wait till your victim sits down.

Personal favorite of mine: add a scheduled task to be executed daily of a loud scream. And set it to execute every day at the same time . Youll have to hide the mp3 first though, stick it in his windows folder or so.

Krisidious

one my favs, is nailing down another guys toolbag to the wood deck when they sit down for lunch.

lewiswadsworth

@unknownuser said:

Another fun one is to go to someone's computer while they are away, minimize their open programs and do a screen capture of their desktop.
Open paint and save the screenshot as an image.
Change their taskbar to autohide (if it is not already).
Hide their desktop icons.
Set the new screenshot image to their background and wait for the cussing

You can improve on this one by using Photoshop to rotate the screenshot image 180 degrees before making it their background. No one trusts me around their computers now.

DzineTech

Ours used to involve sending out office juniors to buy one of the following:

  A long stand

  A left-handed screwdriver

  A tin of tartan paint

Daniel

You can rotate everythng on their desktops - icons, toolbar, wallpaper - by holding down Ctrl+Alt and then the numbers 0 1 2 (or 0 1 4, 0 1 6) on the right hand side of the keyboard.

the numbers 0 1 8 will put everything back correctly.

This freaks people out - very few will figure out how to correct it.

robmoors

Tried that nothing happened?

Daniel

Hmmmmmmmm.....seems to work on some computers, some not. All our computers are identical, but only works on some - fortunately, it worked on the one I played the prank on

Will03

When I worked in a shop (fixing trucks etc) we had a regular broom that we had drilled a hole in the end of, and glued a 1.5' end of an extension cord into. we gave the broom to the new kids, and told them it was a new electric broom, that had to be plugged in to work. it was hilarious to watch them drag a huge extension cord around to plug in the 'electric broom'

(this really only worked on their first day, when they were too nervous to notice how dumb they were lol!)

boofredlay

That's just cruel. I hope you took pictures

boofredlay

cheffey

Probably shouldn't tell this. We have a prankster that loves to pull jokes on people. He recently had a birthday and we found out from his wife... he had a vasectomy recently as well. Don't ask the conversation.. i wasn't a part of that i just used it as fuel.

So, we photoshopped him up pretty bad.
I took a picture of Bob Barker and had him saying to "Have your office prankster spayed or neutered."
I put his face on Pamela Anderson's body looking down at himself saying "You know this procedure hasn't changed me at all".
I put his face on Wonder woman, the village people, even had the local radio/tv guy reporting that "a local man had lost his game"...
We printed these out on the color plotter at like 36"x48" and put them up everywhere.

I thought, ok that's definitely going to cross the line and make him mad as hell and he'll stop some of his pranking.
Well, he thought it was the most hilarious thing even brought the print outs home to show his wife...