Pranks
pulled in the office....
These are pranks I have actually pulled
on coworkers. They are all great and very simple to pull off!
I'll list more when I think of them (or when you guys send
em in.) -ebaum
When two (ore more) people are working a desks that are put
next to each other, switch their telephone cords. With all those
cables lying around it will take some time before they find
that one out!
Put a peice of onion or a clove of garlic inside the mouthpiece
of a phone. Give it some time for it to fester and build up
a strong odor. Then call them.
It is allways a good habit to lock your computer before heading
off for coffee or a smoke. When someone forgets and leaves a
Word document or an email open, type a single word somewhere
in the text. “f*ck” or so will do nicely. They’ll
never notice and send it out.
Go into MS Word or similar program on co-worker's computer,
and add an entry to the AutoCorrect feature. This is a very
simple prank that will send the novice user into a frenzy. Configure
the AutoCorrect option to replace the word "the" with
the phrase "you suck!". They will usually panick and
start scanning for viruses.
Take clear tape and tape the underside
of the mouse. Make sure you take the sticky end of the tape
and apply it to the bottom of the mouse so it locks the ball
in place. The victim will most likely check the connections
in the back, reinstall drivers, reboot, etc., before they realize
what has happened.
Another gem is to do a "Print Screen" of the user's
desktop, and then paste the image from the clipboard to a photo
program, and save the image as a bitmap. Then, set the 'snapshot'
of their desktop as the actual desktop wallpaper. (You'll have
to hide the Windows status bar, and move all their desktop icons
into a folder, which you can hide conspicuously in the corner
or something.) The user will see their desktop as always, but
everything on it will appear to be frozen when they try to click
on it...sending them into a rebooting and virus scanning fit!
This will mostly only work with people
with very little PC knowledge. Stick in a floppy in there floppy
drive. They will be unable to boot up windows until the disk
is out. This is fun to watch.
Try to find a very obnoxious CD laying
around. Preferably a reggae or rap CD. Pop it in their CD ROM.
Put up the sound full blast by double clicking on the volume
control on the bottom right. On normal configurations the audio
CD will autoplay when windows first starts up. The person starting
up there PC in the morning will definitely be embarrassed.
This is for that special person you just
cant stand in the office, the one who talks on the phone all
day with their boyfriend/girlfriend and gets personal e-mail
all day. Go into their e-mail and change their defaults to autmatically
"blind carbon copy" their boss or supervisor. Heads
will roll!
Change the coffee in the office coffe
maker to decafe. Wait about three weeks(or untill you think
everybody has gotten over their caffine addiction)and switch
to expresso!
Try "password securing" someone's
screen saver. First I suggest changing the screen saver to "scrolling
marque" and inserting your own word or phrase, "Mr.
Jones (president or supervisor) eats SHlT" or something
to that effect.
My absolutely most favorite prank I have
saved for last. It is so simple to do and yields such nice results.
Simply pop out the 'm' and 'n' key on someone's keyboard and
reverse the two. Any flat tool will work. Just pry it with little
pressure and they will easily come right off. Then just sit
back and watch the confusion.
With someone who is on the phone a lot during work - This works
if you have phones that the handset comes apart. Take the handset
apart and put scotch tape over the mouthpeice inside. They can
still be heard, but they have to talk loud to be heard. The
next day take it off, and put it in the earpeice. Usually they
will be yelling to the other person on the line the next day,
and won't be able to hear them. When they complain about the
phone, and get a replacement, do it on the next phone. After
about a week you will notice the calls to be down considerably.
Depending where you are at you may have a cafeteria in you
place of work. Every week most of them put out a menu so you
know what they are serving. Usually it is done on Word or Excel,
and not extremely fancy. With a little work, matching fonts,
and images you can make your own menus, and post them by your
desk. We had one co-worker avoid the cafeteria for 2 weeks because
of the selection "fish head stew" etc... before he
caught on. Works great with picky eaters.
