Status: April Fool Pranks
CareerBuilder.com has issued a
press release listing what they have determined to be the top ten office pranks, based on a survey of 2500 office workers. Here they are:
1. Change the caller ID on a co-worker's phone to read Mr. Kitten every time he calls someone.
2. Place random objects from people's desks in the vending machine.
3. Place a live goldfish in an IV bag in a clinic.
4. Sneak onto someone else's computer and send out an "I love you" email to the entire office.
5. Wall-paper someone's entire cube with headshots of his co-workers.
6. Pull the shelves out of the break room refrigerator, hide inside and jump out at co-workers as they open the door.
7. Sit on the copier and place the copies back in the paper bin. Anytime co-workers make copies, they have the image of the prankster's backside in the background.
8. Turn all the clocks in the office one hour back to make the work day seem longer.
9. Lock all the doors, shut off the lights and put a "Closed" sign in the window when the boss went out for lunch.
10. Place fake rubber chocolates in the break room and watch as co- workers try to chew them.
Which reminds me of another office April Fools prank someone told me about. (They swore they participated in it.) On April 1st everyone in the office quit, filing into the HR person's office one after another. Almost caused the boss to have a heart attack. Of course, the danger with that prank is that you might not get rehired.
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was to take a screenshot of someones desktop
then set it was wallpaper on their machine
and then delete all their icons.
A few weeks of that should cut way down on the office prankster population.
Changing startup or shutdown sounds is another good one. If you've got some expertise, have a false error message pop up advertising a PEBKAC error...
1) If a tutor was ever late, I'd forward his phone to a random extension.
2) Phone system had a 'ring-back' feature where you could call another number and if you pressed #6 before it was answered whenever the other user stopped using their phone, yours would ring, then when you picked it up, so would theirs. I was working with two postgrads who shared an office. On every trip to their office I'd add a random ring-back to the phone. Time and again the phone would ring and ring until answered, at which point it'd dial some complete stranger. In the end they stopped answering it, just picked up the phone and slammed it down again... which of course didn't cancel the ring-back, hence it started again next time the other user put their phone down.
3) The simplest, but hardest to get away with, was to forward a phone extension to itself. When on the hook it'd ring, when picked up it gave the busy signal. Constantly. Someone else, not me, managed to set this up on the phone of a Prof who'd just gone for a three-week conference tour. The phone rang non-stop for several days!
I'm not sure what I'm going to do this April Fools day. Maybe I'll try the one where you take a screen shot of the desktop and delete the icons. I can just imagine my co-worker's screams of frustration when they click on an icon over and over and it does nothing. He has a rather bad reputation for losing it when it comes to dealing with computers. 😊
Another involves hooking up an extra wireless mouse to a co-worker's computer. Periodically, as they are working or mousing along, use the wireless mouse to make their cursor do all kinds of things.
One I haven't used in a while is to add "fun" things to the Word or WordPerfect "Auto-Correct" feature so that common words and phrases get changed to more colorful language. You'd be surprised how long someone will get frustrated by having "the" replaced by "duh" or "Sincerely" replaced by "Screw You!" everytime they type it.
There's also covering the nearest ceiling lights with cellophane for a weird color effect, and other decorating options.
Another one I've done is set out a bowl of the starch-derived biodegradeable packing peanuts and labeling it "low calorie snack food."
And then she saw my smiling face.
This was the same man who used to pull on my mom's bra strap. He did it one too many times & she reached around and whomped him with her stapler.
1-put a piece of tape over the sensor on the bottom of somebody's optical mouse.
2-another i've done is to tape down the hang up button on someone's phone so that when they pick up the receiver there's no dial tone.
Also, if they still use liquid paper, paint the threads then screw the cap back on. It pretty much glues it shut. Oh, and taping their staples really jams things up good, too.
http://www.monkeydoo.com/onlineflash_thering2.php
this one is so funny for sending it at night, plus you can send a call to their phone every night up to 7 days. haha its so good try it.
one of our coworkers types while looking at her keyboard - when she went on vacation, we popped the letters off of her home row and rearranged them to spell her name, and also reversed the numbers on the numberpad. She spend a good 15min trying unsuccessfully to log in when she came back, and couldn't understand why the wrong letters were being typed. She eventually called IT in, and was completely mortified when the tech pointed out that the home row sequence is asdfghj - not "lindsay".
Called a colleauge that tends to want to leave and go home early everyday from his boss' phone and leave a voice mail message saying (try to sound like him/her) that he'd be leaving the office for the day at lunch time. When the boss left the office for lunch wait until the colleauge is walking out the door to tell them the truth (or not, depends how much the colleauge annoys you) or just happen to spread the rumor that the boss is leaving at lunch via common communication.
Of course jell-o up the stapler and clock radio in a colleauge's office - need tips?, it's not that easy. email me. aluminum foil works too
move around people's mail into other people's boxes or rearrange someone's office furniture so they can't get behind their desk without clearing the stuff out of the way
Here's a devious one. Colleauge's son has a myspace page. Colleauge tells everything that his son does - even the bad stuff. Create a fake myspace account and contact his son occasionally mentioning the fact that "my friend" stole the number of my dad's credit card and purchased dave matthews tix, my friend's sister is a slut, etc. of course "my friend" would be my colleauge's son's actions
fill up a colleagues voice mail (when they are out to lunch or on vacation) with the annoying fax machine beeps and whistles by calling it from the office fax. Doing it 30 times is such a chore but well worth the effort. Redial helps.
grease up the entrance door handle with crisco or olive oil
connect a wireless number pad to a colleagues computer and keep hitting enter or 9 until he finds out
ton's more......
Guess that it wont work on my keyboard since all the alphabets are worn off. Now there's only empty buttons on my keyboard.
Alternatively, write a batch file called "help.bat" containing the following:
start /r help.bat
edit con
This will create a recursive loop opening millions of copies of the batch file at highest processing priority (that bit only works on NT based systems, so it can't be used on 9x/ME), each of which will immediatly freeze up when they try to open up the keyboard input in dos editor. Expect the system to crash very soon...
The traditional way of doing the above is with an infinite loop, however that can be stopped by killing the original copy. With recursion, they have to kill every single one whilst each one clones itself. This is not exactly possible.
I have a little addition to your humorous kit: http://www.oddmag.com/inspiration/office-pranks-mind-your-workplace/ Let's have a look))