[Closed] Practical jokes in the office

Screen shot desktop, copy all icons into a new folder then set the screenshot as the background

Sellotape over the mouse laser

Post item for sale on a classifieds site. Great item at ridiculous price. Put his office number in advert

Thanks guys ... ploting already!! 🙂

Bum their dog, classic!

Hold on, what are we trying to achieve again?

find an unlocked PC, send loving IMs to colleagues.

Swap their keyboard letters around. Step 1 is just swap N and M keys around. Later on, just make rude words

Take a screen capture of his desktop, delete all icons, set windows toolbar to autohide and to the top of the screen and then set the screen capture as his desktop background.

Poison their pot plant?

cable tie their feet, legs, hands and arms to their office chair so they cannot move. Then stick them in a lift and send to a random floor

Plug a second mouse into their PC for someone else to control.

Flip the screen?

Hold the Alt key (usually positioned to the right or the left of the space bar) and then the Ctrl key (found below the shift keys) and press the right arrow key. This will flip your display to the right (90 degrees). Hold the Alt key, Ctrl key, and press the down arrow key to turn the display upside down (180 degrees).

My first ever job i failed to get the required alevels to maintain the training plan. So i got another job and worked my notice. We were all mates, i shared a flat with one of them, so i got quite a hard time before i left

1) Got to work and all my underwear was strung across my desk
2) All my equipment was glued to the ceiling
3) My suit jacket ended up flying from the flagpole outside
4) My car had ****1 number plates on it which i didnt notice for a week
5) They got me absolutely slaughtered on my last lunch break and bought me half a pint of southern comfort which i refused to drink. Back in the office i was bragging i could have drank it if i wanted to and mate pulls out same glass with cling film over the top. I downed it in one. Next minute i get a call from the head man (It was an insurance co and it was like the old days of head man in big office upstairs)to come and see him. Mate walks me up the stairs opens the door and pushes me in hardly able to stand up.

I was 17 so an easy target

Do nothing, nothing at all, just look at him and ask how he is feeling every so often, get everyone to do it. The suspense will kill him

Replace Windows system sounds with your own - James Youngman got a clip from "YMCA"

Have him abducted by heavily armed men wearing balaclavas, thrown in the boot of a car, driven out to an empty warehouse, in a desolate deserted wasteland, then held against his will for 48 hours while being regularly waterboarded. Maintain throughout that he's about to be executed.

Or is it just me who thinks that would be a suitable, and entirely justifiable, course of action for the 'office joker'?

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Cling film their car.

Assuming they have a fabric type office chair, pour water on the seat.

picolax in his morning coffee??

You have already put his stapler in a jelly, yes?

Super glue them to their chair then set them on fire.

Turd in the desk drawer.

cable tie around his phone handset cord so it makes a loop. When he answers the phone, he will have to put his face right on the phone to be able to speak. Especially cruel if a customer calls in before they notice.

Subtle ones are the best, e.g. blu-tac in the castors of his chair so it won't move, turn his drawers round if they are on wheels and hide the key.

cress-bomb their keyboard. remove the keys place tissue paper in the relief and moisten, spread cress seed evenly and replace the keys, keep moist for a few days and hey-presto cressboard!
I did have a few pics from when we did it but cannot find them at the mo.
it's even funnier if you refuse to provide them with an alternative keyboard so they're forced to type over the cress.

alternatively, if their email account is shortly to be closed why not use their email address and send it to various dodgy websites so when they log-in on their last day they're bombarded with turtle-pron and Viagra offers or set them up on a dating site.

Divert the fax machine to their phone.

Make them coffee and put chilli sauce around the rim of the cup.

Lots of fun things can be done with outlook, meddling with address lists, rules to forward on emails. Quite dangerous though.

Lvl 2 screen flip is to turn off the keyboard shortcuts for flipping the screen.
Lvl 3 is to do a reghack to completly disable reflipping or reflip at random intervals after going back to vertical.

Buy a domain name that looks similar to the companies. Send an email from the head of HR saying that as they have been informed that they have behaved inappropiately pranking colleagues that they are unable to provide them with a positive reference.

[quote=Murray ]Replace Windows system sounds with your own - James Youngman got a clip from "YMCA" www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS9OO0S5w2k

Ha, good work.

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Pinch his car keys. Then empty all the hole punchers into an envelope. Head to his car and turn ignition on. Then direct all the fans to the face turn on to full power then turn ignition off. Once you have done this poor all of the hole punch pieces down the main vent. Make sure everyone heads out to wave him goodbye. Oh and laugh at the absolute explosion as he turns the ignition on

[quote=russyh ]Pinch his car keys. Then empty all the hole punchers into an envelope. Head to his car and turn ignition on. Then direct all the fans to the face turn on to full power then turn ignition off. Once you have done this poor all of the hole punch pieces down the main vent. Make sure everyone heads out to wave him goodbye. Oh and laugh at the absolute explosion as he turns the ignition on

Or put all of them above the sun visor.

I got a girl in work with a similar one except I put them inside her umbrella. She didn't open it for ages until one day when she was leaving her flat in a hurry. She opened it in her communal stairwell before stepping outside and dumped a ton of paper everywhere

Hole punches in the umbrella was a fave where I worked, not a euphemism, sadly

An increasing number of layers inside his phone earpiece and mouthpiece. Works well if you all speak softer and softer over the week.

Edit the autocorrect settings in whichever desktop applications you/they use so that normal, everyday, innocuous words suddenly become very naughty ones.

I did that when I worked at the Home Office in retaliation for the old keyboard letter-switcharoo. Poor bastard got a written warning for signing off all his correspondence "Yours in disgust".

I like really petty ones. The wee circles of paper from a hole punch are very versatile. I got a letter from Saudi Arabia, opened it up, boom, paper everywhere- that one'd taken some planning. Person in question left the organisation and when we sent out her P60, she ended up with paper snow in her breakfast.

Googly eyes have unlimited uses. Another colleague has had everything she owns googlied yet still didn't notice, til going through US customs, that this included her passport. Apparently that gets treated pretty much the same as declaring yourself to be a terrorist.

I can read and use a mouse upside down for some reason so when I get my screen flipped I just carry on, that annoys the flipper more than it could have ever annoyed me.

Loving the fax machine idea.

I tend to favour getting someone's hat/gloves/jacket soaking wet and putting it in the freezer.

Sent a weblink to colleague which directed him to a site which flashed on and off with bright pink screen with words "I AM WATCHING GAY PORN". It also disabled the mouse and keyboard so after almost minute of panic including trying to cover his hands over the screen (the boss could see his screen from his desk) he remembered to turn the screen off. He still reminds me about it and it was over 10 years ago.

Sent a weblink to colleague which directed him to a site which flashed on and off with bright pink screen with words "I AM WATCHING GAY PORN".

I did this to someone approx 18 years ago

I didn't realise there was also a loud siren accompanying it as I had the audio switched off on my PC; he was on ours bosses laptop with volume on quite loud 😆

Send him a spreadsheet with a macro which fires upon opening that is set to email everyone in the office directory with a awkward message. End the macro with a pop up message telling him to check his sent items.

Ooo... Or better still, get it to also email HR at his new place telling them to stuff the job and also a particularly rude one to his current boss so there is no chance of him keeping the existing job. Complete it with an email to his wife confessing his affair. With any luck his life will be ruined! Oh, such fun!

Edit: and also the cress keyboard and stapler in jelly. Awesome.

setup a scheduled task to repeatedly kill explorer & invert mouse motion with sakasamouse.

keep it simple. second mouse plugged in and give it a jiggle every now and then

Once left a note on my bosses desk with a note to call C Lyons and the number for Bristol Zoo.

In the days of desk phones, we shortened a chaps phone cord and called him, the phone smashed him in the face

😀

Pigs head in his locker. Ten years ago you could buy one from a butcher for about £3. Put a Marlboro light in its mouth for added nonchalance. If he ever put a mackerel in your locker the day after you went on leave, then he won't do it again.

Some of you are not funny and some ofyou are obviously bastards! 😀

Lift receiver, locate button that tells phone it's off hook. Sellotape over said button. Ring phone 🙂

Key swapping on keyboard is a good one, once had to explain to a lass on the phone to the IT dept what we had done, she was going crackers "yes I am sure it's the right password!".

air horn under office chair

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Swap something that he uses for something else that looks like it but that someone else uses. Then they'll both be baffled. Two pranks of for the price of one.

Change mouse to left handed

ctrl>ALT>Down arrow no worky for me.

Fax machines and hole punches??? Give us a go in your time machine mister 😛

Remote log in/conference when they leave their desk. Hide the tab saying "you are in a conference call".

When they come back, edit all their emails as they are typing.

We had one guy flip out and stand up screaming that some tucker was going to get a smack if they didn't stop.

Then IT changed some settings, you get an unhideable banner across the top of your screen these days. Bastards.

Looking at someone and smiling then going back to what you were doing works well if you can get half a dozen or so doing it. Unless it's someone likely to flip. 😳

Some clown caught a seagull and put it in a workmates clothes locker, it was quite a mess.

Subtle one that works if they've said something piss takey in an email.

Edit the address in the stuff that shows previous emails on the bottom of your email so it looks like you've sent it to the boss too, then simply forward to the person you're winding up with a comment saying

"Thanks, I've passed that on to Mike/whoever for his thoughts"

Watch them panic.

Or, like I did, email Mike explaining myself only to be called and asked "what are you on about?"

ctrl>ALT>Down arrow no worky for me.

It's a feature of Intel chipset graphics; it won't work if you've got something else.

I changed a workmate's Windows logoff sound to the Dogtanian and the Three Muskahounds theme tune once. I thought it would just play a bit of the song until the computer shut down but I didn't realise it actually made it play the whole song before shutting down; he couldn't do anything to stop it playing so got funny looks for 2 minutes instead 😀

Prising the n and m keys out on a keyboard and swapping them around is a good one if the person looks at the keyboard to type.

Did this one ages ago to a flatmate, edited the shortcut to his favourite game to a command prompt to shutdown the pc. He thought he had some sort of bug or glitch on the game 🙂

Grab them in the toilet and squirt jif lemon juice down his japs eye !

Do some work?

Someone in our office was away for a couple of weeks on honeymoon. While he was gone we steadily, a little bit each day, covered everything on his desk in tin foil. To the level that we dismantled his fan, wrapped the blades, reassembled and then wrapped the whole. Similarly, someone working late found a box of raisins in his desk, wrapped them all individually, then the box. Same with the half full glass of water. My contribution was to carefully wrap all the keys on the keyboard so you could still read the letters- he kept using that for quite a while

Shit on their desk

Didn't see this one done myself but liked the sound of it.
New toaster in the office.
Turn it round so the buttons face the wall and can't be seen.
Post-it note on the visible side without buttons "New Toaster. Voice-activated."
Sit back and listen.

Ok as this is still going I have another. A colleague was having a bruising time on one project with a project manager who was a complete BAs£ard. I left a post it on his desk saying the 'tony' had called and seemed pretty upset about something could he call him back. You could see the stress on his face as he dialled. It was one of those mr angry lines where the replies are perfectly timed. Anyway he went through the whole call spluttering as 'Tony' raged on the other end. Eventually 'Tony' hangs up. My colleague ashern faced said 'I think I had better ring him back it's pretty serious'. So he rang back and went through the same intro until it dawned on him it was the same. At which point he shouted quite a few rude words at us as we were wetting ourselves laughing.

In the regional paper today there was a piece about some bloke who put Viagra in his boss's drink as a prank; the court took a very dim view of it!

I hope they're not too hard on him. LOOOOOLOLOL.

...put Viagra in his boss's drink as a prank...

Did he get a stiff neck?

A colleague once bought some remote control power socket things in Lidls. We plugged this blokes computer monitor in to one, sat across the office and every time he moved the mouse, click... monitor goes off. Eventually he's crawling about under the desk to see which cable is faulty.. finds the remote socket. How we laughed.