Office Pranks - Created by ~LaUr3n~ on Apr 14, 2010: EdenFantasys Forum

Airen Wolf

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Originally posted by ~LaUr3n~

When I was a probation officer, we played pranks on each other all the time. I would make signs and put them on the officers doors with funny nicknames that their clients would not be able to ignore. We used to throw things over the cubicles or play ... more

When I worked at a veterinarian's office they had a prank they did with all new techs. They would lay a horse down and tell the tech to sit on the horse's neck and NOT allow it to get up. Now a horse is stronger than a human and sitting on it's neck won't hurt it but it won't stop it from getting up either. It was safe since the vet would have the horse hobbled and such but it's embarassing for the tech. It was my turn...I am 5 foot even and this was a big enough horse they were sure I wouldn't get hurt. I shocked them all by wrestling that horse to the ground three times...
There is a pic in the office of me sitting on the horses neck with a most determined look on my face!

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06/18/2010

VieuxCarre

One of my bosses had me call a competitor to find out where a class was being held and such for an MCAT prep. It was all fine and dandy with the false name and information and we all got a good laugh out of it.

I got an email the other day saying I owe them money under my fake name. The prank's on me

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06/18/2010

Annemarie

I remember going into work one day (at a bread-and-butter electronics store) and finding the break room, perhaps a 20x30 room, *filled* with foam peanuts. That was pretty awesome.

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06/18/2010

Gary

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Originally posted by VieuxCarre

One of my bosses had me call a competitor to find out where a class was being held and such for an MCAT prep. It was all fine and dandy with the false name and information and we all got a good laugh out of it.

I got an email the other day ... more

Oh no!

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06/18/2010

El-Jaro

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Originally posted by Annemarie

I remember going into work one day (at a bread-and-butter electronics store) and finding the break room, perhaps a 20x30 room, *filled* with foam peanuts. That was pretty awesome.

what's a "bread and butter" electronic store?

I've never heard of that.

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06/18/2010

VieuxCarre

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Originally posted by Gary

Oh no!

I emailed my boss and told her. She laughed nervously when she called me. I don't think our competitors are kidding. Thank God I gave them a fake name.

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06/18/2010

Kim!

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Originally posted by Kyra Saunders

I work in a very large software company and pranks are constant. The generally accepted rules are that you cannot destroy anything you don't personally own and you can't make it impossible for another person to do their job (annoying, ... more

I work in a very large software company and pranks are constant. The generally accepted rules are that you cannot destroy anything you don't personally own and you can't make it impossible for another person to do their job (annoying, inconvenient and uncomfortable is okay, though). And nothing abusive or mean.

My favorites have been:

One time my husband and myself were in the office on a weekend and we went around the lab we both worked in and took out all the rubber balls from roller mice and put tape over the optical mice sensors. We hid the balls in the microwave in the kitchen. Took a while for people to discover why they didn't work.

One group had a habit of checking the computers to make sure the employees had locked them. If you didn't, they'd send an email from your account saying "I'm too dumb to lock my computer. Fire me.". This email went to the entire group.

One guy went on his honeymoon and kept sending taunting emails and photos of his island fun. Just before he came back a bunch of people got together and put a big tarp down in his office, covered it with play sand and put a kiddie pool in there with water and some tiki glasses. Then one guy came in really early and brought in a goat (yes a LIVE goat) he locked in the office just until the victim came in and found it.

When I worked in a group that had cubicles, we once used cardboard to wall off the cube, wrapped everything in the cube individually in plastic wrap and filled the cube to the top with popped popcorn.

In the same group, we "borrowed" a wall section for the cubes and completely walled off one guy's cube so the only way in was to hop over the top.

One fellow got all the contents of his office he needed to work (desk section, computer, monitor, keyboard, phone, etc) moved into the handicapped stall in the men's room. We even strung cables so he had connectivity in there.

One time we ran industrial velcro all the way around the door frame and the door of one guy's office. This is the really sticky stuff that's hard to get off. Gave it a day to cure (he was out) and then it took about 4 of us to get the door shut. He couldn't get it open so finally climbed in over the top of the wall, through the drop ceiling. We did help him open it - eventually.

One of the people in my current group had a sign show up on his door "Honk if you love architects". About a month later, someone had found a bright pink bicycle horn for a girl's bicycle and bolted it to his door handle. We hear people honking it about every day.

There are more - 15 years of more, trust me! LOL less

We are constantly putting tiny pieces of paper in the optical mice/tape over them and taking the balls out of the ball mice at work, so happy to see we aren't the only children! If someone gets up it isn't uncommon for them to return to find their drink missing, their mouse messed with, their insanely customizable ergonomic chair messed completely changed, and caps lock on.

Also if someone doesn't lock their computer when they get up we always flip the screen and then lock it (CTRL + ALT + arrow key).

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06/18/2010

~LaUr3n~

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Originally posted by Gary

I worked as cook when I was in high school and we would do nothing but mess with each other while working. My one friend would always throw ice cubes in the fryer when you were near it (which would cause hot grease to shoot out and burn you). My ... more

HAHA that's great! The mental image is awesome!

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06/19/2010

~LaUr3n~

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Originally posted by Airen Wolf

When I worked at a veterinarian's office they had a prank they did with all new techs. They would lay a horse down and tell the tech to sit on the horse's neck and NOT allow it to get up. Now a horse is stronger than a human and sitting on ... more

Now there's a picture! Link it!

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06/19/2010

Chilipepper

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Originally posted by Gary

I worked as cook when I was in high school and we would do nothing but mess with each other while working. My one friend would always throw ice cubes in the fryer when you were near it (which would cause hot grease to shoot out and burn you). My ... more

Oh, yeah, I remember the cooks doing the cheese thing to each other on the line. Our boss had the work shirts sent out to the cleaners, so nobody ever complained.

That reminds me of another prank we did at the diner - we had laundry 'baskets' to throw our end-of-shift shirts and bar towels in, and they were always placed under the clothes pegs where we hung our jackets (this was Montana, so there was always something hanging on the pegs). At least every day somebody's jacket or shirt 'accidently' ended up at the bottom of the laundry baskets, and was disgusting with greasy food, wet towels, and sweaty work shirts being on top of them.

One of our lady prep-cooks would greet the new employees by snapping on a latex glove and say 'Now bend over, honey, this won't hurt a bit.' This same prep-cook would throw the stems of onions and tomatoes at the dishwashers on the other side of the back kitchen area.

The waitresses would let the crud build up on the conveyor toaster (toast would lie on a conveyor belt chain and be pulled into the toaster to toast, then drop down a chute to a pan to pick up and butter; the chain would get bits of toast stuck in it) and make the dishwashers put out the resulting fire when a piece got caught. One customer remarked 'It's not the Coffee Cup Cafe without the smell of burning toast!' At least none of the customers heard us yell 'FIRE IN THE HOLE!' about every twenty minutes in the mornings.

Anybody who left their cell phones alone always came back to find them in odd places - on top of a stack of dishes, inside an empty milk-shake cup, under the boxes of sterile gloves, in the walk-in cooler.

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06/19/2010

Airen Wolf

(EF Review Program Mentor)

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Originally posted by ~LaUr3n~

Now there's a picture! Link it!

I'm visiting Arch in Canada until Aug but if I remember I'll get a copy of the pic when I get home.

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06/21/2010

usmcwife99

Part of my job is to test firearm acceseries. While we packed magizines for a day an a half an the next day we went to the range to test a new product we were considering selling in the store. So all 4 of us were just so happy we had the loading of the mags done. Every now and then you feel like going for a target(it gets old after the first five thousand rounds of the day)

Every now an then we shoot for the target itself. We were just screwing around with hime saying that he should try to hit the one target. Me and my two co workers decided to play a joke on the one guy(who happened to of just left special forces and knew how to hit targets with ease). While we went through and took one live bullet out of each and replaced it with a blank round of the magizines we handed him. Me and my coworkers looking with our scopes like no man you missed that target by a long shot. Not even on there. He didnt believe us, so were like ok lets go walk out there and see. We get there and hes counting the hits.....he didnt know that some of the rounds were blank. We decided to tell him there were some blanks because fifteen minutes later he was so mad at himself for missing the targets an how could he do that etc.

that was what we did two weeks ago were always playing some sort of joke on eachother wether just something simple or deciding to lower someone chair and watch them sit down and sort of be like thats lower then i thought.

I couldnt begin to tell you some of the many pranks we played on eachtoher when I was in the Marine Corps and we were bored out in the desert for days on end at times lol.....better board then busy though

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06/25/2010

Victoria

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Originally posted by Gary

I worked as cook when I was in high school and we would do nothing but mess with each other while working. My one friend would always throw ice cubes in the fryer when you were near it (which would cause hot grease to shoot out and burn you). My ... more

Ewlink... that sounds so disgusting. You must have had some VERY tolerant coworkers.

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06/25/2010

Gary

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Originally posted by Victoria

Ewlink... that sounds so disgusting. You must have had some VERY tolerant coworkers.

I wonder what that link was for?

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06/25/2010