A good one for the auto-correct jape that's been mentioned is to set "the" to auto-correct to "the sodding" (or "the f***ing" if you're feeling punchy).
A dead cert to be used plenty of times, and grammatically correct to boot!
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Any good office practical jokes?
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this thread is like a window into a parallel universe
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Ooh, it's my birthday next month, I'm going to try theotherjonv's jolly jape
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take a screenshot on a colleagues computer of their normal desktop background full of icons, task bar etc etc. set it as the background then hide the task bar, icons etc and sit back as they try clicking on a jpeg to get things to open.
We did that one many moons ago but named all the folders things like 'Pron' and 'More pron' etc.Posted 5 months ago # -
A few I've seen:
* Change one of the options for the coffee machine to 'Soylent Green'. Someone inevitably calls the supplier because the machine's run out of it.
* Take the wheels off a colleague's office chair and put it up on bricks
* Epoxy a phone's handset to the cradle
* We have an office fruit basket delivered twice a week. Get one (or more, if you have time) of the bananas and pop a pin into it. Waggle it around to cut the flesh of the banana, then place back in the basket.
* Fill desk drawers with packing peanuts
* Epoxy a pound coin to the floor
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If anyone as any old crt monitors with the UV/Anti glare filters attached. Nice piece of black card behind the screen works a treat.
Unscrew phone handset and either tape over the mouth or ear piece. Then reassemble the phone. Hilarious :O)
Fresh sheet of A4 paper. Write "ugly bloke" on one side and lay it writing down in the middle of the corridor.
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These are awesome.
Just tried one that isn't on here which included waiting for a colleague to use the crapper then run in and I throw a mug of water over the door...... he wasn't impressed.Posted 5 months ago # -
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He did not notice for ages. And then one day, IT were re-installing his computer. He said he'd got fed up with the "double icons", dragging an icon to bin and an icon was left behind that he could not delete.
How was he able to drag the if it was a screenshot then?
The screen shot background was under his normal icons, which hadn't been moved. So they could be clicked, dragged deleted, but the image of the icon remained......hence 'double icons'
I guess?
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A couple of times I have played a prank on some practical jokers (the sort who dish out jokes, but hate to receive them).
I printed large 'adverts' across several A4 pages and then sellotaped them to their car bumper (front or back depended on how it was parked so they wouldn't see it).
They read something along the lines of"Beefy Scottish Sailor Offers Fun Times - call 07XXX........."
The first bloke I did this to drove all the way from Cambridge to Stevenage. Went home, got changed, went out to his local takeaway and it was only then noticed as the guy in the takeaway asked him why he had a big sign on his car.
Problem with doing this is if they know who's done it, you have to then check your front & rear bumpers for the rest of eternity....
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Saw this on The Chive yesterday...
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Changing email signatures is always a winner, especially when someone is about to send out a load of emails.
Our favourite was to change "Permanent Way Engineer" to "Permanently GAY Engineer" and see how long it took for the poor chap to notice, sometimes it was days
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Try putting a condom on someones car exhaust. Make sure it's on tightly & stuff the end inside so they can't see it when they get in & when they start the engine, it'll inflate to about 4 feet long before exploding! Looks great & there's usually not much left when they get out to find out what the hell just happened
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To get a colleague back after he had pranked me, I decided to fill his umbrella up with the contents of a hole punch every day for weeks, I then left the job, but a couple of months later he got in touch to say that the Commander of the Malaysian Navy (was working at Yarrow Ship Builders) had borrowed the umbrella, and had been snowed on in front of other high ranking Naval officers, he apparently saw the funny side though.
While working at YSL, it was common for colleagues to bring in cakes and donuts, but I also used to have a bottle of Daves Insanity sauce, which was used to lace the confectionery.Posted 5 months ago # -
One I forgot: someone who will remain nameless on the newsdesk of a magazine I worked on years ago put an ad in Exchange and Mart offering a huge number of grot mags and videos free of charge to anyone who could collect. The number given was that of the editor. Cue three weeks' worth of calls from grubby gentlemen asking about 'literature' and 'videos' in invisible inverted commas.
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Create some entries in the hosts file on PC so when they attempt to go to google, facebook, company website or whatever they get redirected to porn sites.
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Create some entries in the hosts file on PC so when they attempt to go to google, facebook, company website or whatever they get redirected to porn sites.
We're talking light hearted japes, not getting people sacked.
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another favourite is to swap a few keys on folk's keyboards
also do any spare keyboards just in case they notice and just change the keyboardPosted 5 months ago #
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