Workplace "pranks"

[Boris Sprinkler]

heh, we filled a colleagues car up with polystyrene packing as

a he had a boy racer type hairdressers car with gofaster knobend stripes.
b he had left the sunroof open.

 

[DotCommunist]

My brother once shat in a colleauges bag.


we all agreed that that was going too far

 

[youbeauty]

A friend of mine works on building sites. He was going on holiday snowboarding and getting a flight straight after work so brought his holiday stuff, including his snowboard/bindings into work with him. He thought it was a bit odd that loads of people from the site gathered round to see him off on his holiday but left anyway. As he was about to go down to the tube station, one of his mates from the site ran up to him and told him to look in his snowboard bag. They'd taken his board out and replaced it with a plank with two wellies nailed to it.

 

[Meltingpot]

I used to work on a helpdesk and once we got the manager to respond to a call for Python problems. The contact was a Mr C Lion and we gave him the London Zoo number. It worked better than we ever could have hoped. "Hello there it's xxxxx from xxxx, I hear you've got some Python problems. Can I speak to a C Lion.

Lame, but worked oh so well

Yeah, my dad said that went on at his office too. Gentle fun which doesn't hurt anyone though I imagine the zoo gets a lot of those types of calls

 

[Boycey]

wedged a scaff bar between the outward opening toilet door and the opposite wall while the mechanic was taking a notoriously long and stinking dump (seriously, i know it's not meant to smell nice but this was fucking pungent and he could have done it in his house 3 doors up). then sent jets of flame from a can of gt85 round the sides and bottom of the door.

 

[Badgers]

Not much anymore.

When working in online sales I sat next to a charming (term used loosely) colleague who had few redeeming features but an ego the size of the planet. Got a friend phone up claiming to be a huge customer and ready to buy from him, then lead him on a but before he could take any details the caller claimed to have to take an urgent call and hung up. Then called back the next day asking about other expensive services and saying how much he needed them before finding another excuse.

Kept this going for some time and I listened my colleague lording it round the office claiming to be about to close the 'big deal' and how we were all losers compared to him. Gradually I let other colleagues in on the gag who then preceeded to take 'messages' when he was on lunch or on the phone advising that this 'buyer' called to request contracts and would call later in the day.

Eventually after a few weeks of this my friend called in saying that sadly he had decided against the purchase but now had set up a timeshare company and would my colleague be interested in purchasing a timeshare. Then he kept calling the office and my colleague for a while offering this timeshare and saying what a fool he was for passing up this opportunity. Eventually my colleague starting losing patience with the timeshare sales pitch so my friend asked if he fancied a beer after work

Childish and stupid in every respect, I feel bad to this day

 

[selamlar]

Sprayfoam in the boots just before someone puts them on is always a good one.
Superglue coffee mug to table and fill with hot coffee.
Spraytak on inside of helmet.
Eyes drawn on safety glasses.
And so on. What fun we have!

 

[Boris Sprinkler]

sticking the handset of a colleagues phone to the base unit. Call colleague. Laugh as they brain themselves.

 

[Augie March]

Sorry for throwing it in your face.

Sorry it missed.

Oh, wait. No I'm not.

 

[dervish]

Working in a technical centre gives some fun opportunities.

Wireless usb keyboard attached to colleagues pc, let him log on and wait for typing, start adding random characters, then words, finally full messages from the ether. They normally catch on by then!

If someone is stupid enough to leave their pc unlocked, take a screenshot of the desktop, hide the taskbar and all icons, set screenshot as the desktop background. Wait for the swearing and rebooting as none of the icons work!

Change certain shortcuts to do other things, like Internet Explorer to bring up messages, (or if you are particularly evil shutdown -f)

Or, one of the best, when your victim has locked their computer press Alt and Shift, it will then change the keyboard layout, watch them have fun trying to log in!

 

[Boycey]

just spotted:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_midlands/black_country/7704603.stm