Office Pranks

[Mr_Odwin]

Broken off from the HWYD thread.
Some of us work in offices and the highlight of the day can be a little prank here and there, that may seem lame to outsiders.

What are your best?

The finest of my workplace:

1) Unplugging the chord of a phone, but leaving the chord as if it were still attached to the base unit. Wait for victim to come back to desk. Call them on the phone. They pick up the handset and start talking, but the chord just dangles and the phone keeps ringing.

2) Writing "DECLINED" with a red pen across holiday request forms.

3) (Needs a conspirator.) Write an email to your conspirator. At each email you or your conspirator additionally CC a new individual into the conversation, all the while talking about some mysterious piece of gossip that is out there.

Good times.

[Retro_Link]

Wait until someone goes out for a minute or so to get a drink or something.
Then ring their office phone or their mobile phone on their desk, answer in, and set it to speaker phone.
Then when they return, wait for a minute and let them get absorbed back into their work before yelling something down the phone and making them jump a mile!

[The fish]

1) Unplugging the chord of a phone, but leaving the chord as if it were still attached to the base unit. Wait for victim to come back to desk. Call them on the phone. They pick up the handset and start talking, but the chord just dangles and the phone keeps ringing.


Eh? How do you do that one? What stays unplugged/plugged?

[Ten10]

There are a few stupid ones which I haven't done since I've started working in an office but have done many times at uni.

First is the flipped display (doesn't work on all machines for some reason)
But basically you press Ctrl + Alt + any arrow key to flip the desktop in that particular direction, messes up a person big time.

Second is the invincible folder. Create a folder on the desktop, like my hardcore porn or something. Print the screen and drop it in paint. Then delete the folder you just created and in paint set the pasted screen as the desktop background, lots of fun.

[EEVILMURRAY]

Eh? How do you do that one? What stays unplugged/plugged?
The cord that connects the phone to the base unit, I'm not sure at which end Odwin prefers.

But wouldn't that break the phone? Or are the phones you prank easy to repair?

[Mundi]

Read this one a while ago.
You need to get someone away from their work phone.
Unscrew the part of the phone that you talk into and weight it down a bit but not too much or it will be too noticeable.

Then you play the waiting game, after a few weeks maybe a month remove the weight from the phone call him and watch him bash his face because of the weight change.

I dunno if it works, never seen it work but it is a funny thought.

[Mr_Odwin]

The cord that connects the phone to the base unit, I'm not sure at which end Odwin prefers.

But wouldn't that break the phone? Or are the phones you prank easy to repair?

With the phones at work the cord that connects the handset to the phone unit is detachable at both ends.

[EEVILMURRAY]

With the phones at work the cord that connects the handset to the phone unit is detachable at both ends.
And when detached it doesn't work? It's as if it was made for pranks like these!

[Dyson]

Not an office, but a good one I did one a workmate at Tesco was attach several security tags to her belongings, and one on the bottom of her top. Going to the toilet, leaving the store, going in to the staffroom...beepbeepbeepbeep!

I was rather happy with myself :D

[Jav_NE]

A mate of mine had some software on his phone that could control the mouse on a mac wirelessly. All he had to do was set it up when they went away from their desk, then sneakilly move said person's mouse using his phone pad without them seeing. So damn funny.

[Letty]

The best one I eve did was when I worked at the Peerieshop cafe :D


There's a huge cupboard in the kitchen area, where flour and cloths and things are stored, and a person could easily fit inside.
So I hid in the cupboard, and someone asked the new guy to fetch a cloth from there.

When he opened it I jamp out and shouted :D

[D_prOdigy]

Any fans of Barats and Bereta?

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[Retro_Link]

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[Roostophe]

^ Love that scene, I do. Props for posting it, Retro.

I also love the prank where Tim does a sponsored 'hide all of Gareth's stuff' for Comic Relief. :laughing:

[Raining_again]

My boss is a hoot.

Once he unhooked the cable from the phone so he was just holding the headset... Then he said to someone - "someone on the line for you" and handed them the headset. The worst thing was the poor person fell for it.

Changing the keyboard round to spell dirty words

Changing chairs around/adjusting heights of chairs.

And he has an induction joke for everyone (which he actually used on his superiors superior :O)

Boss: How long can you keep a chicken in a freezer?

New staff: <talks about freezer types and checking labels on chicken>

Boss: Well I left it in there overnight and it was dead by morning.

Office banter is the best thing ever. Constantly taking the piss out of each other ^__^;

[The fish]

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Classic! The only thing that comes close to surpassing that is the 'stapler in the jelly again" bit...

[ReZourceman]

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[Caris]

Hahahahahahahaha, i love The Office.

[Jimbob]

There are some good pranks in this thread, i've done the phone cord prank a few times, to numerous people at the same time through call transfers.

One of the pranks i did was transfer calls down the office making people run back and forth between desks. Worked for about 10 mins before i hung up.

[Raining_again]

Oh god, someone went on holiday, and brought back rock for everyone. So this girl was eating it, and my boss rang her extension. She was rage when she realised. :D

[EEVILMURRAY]

Oh god, someone went on holiday, and brought back rock for everyone. So this girl was eating it, and my boss rang her extension. She was rage when she realised. :D
I don't get it.

[Raining_again]

Have you ever tried to answer the phone whilst eating sticky rock?

Pft.

[Cube]

I don't get it.

I think it's something to do with it being difficult to talk while eating rock.

Edit: What she said.

[EEVILMURRAY]

Have you ever tried to answer the phone whilst eating sticky rock?

Pft.
It must be just me, I chomp on rock pr0 style. It does get stuck in my teeth but doesn't hamper my speech at all.

[Ashley]

I didn't work in an office but I did stuff at Game (sounds dodgy...).

One night I left the radio in the stockroom/office on really loudly so the next morning when the manager got there he wouldn't go upstairs first as he thought someone had broken in.

We also had a cardboard cutout of Rico Rodreguiz (from that game with the red cover...whatever it was called). He often got propped right outside the bathroom door while someone was there.

We (I saw we, someone else did while I cashed up) did this:

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[EEVILMURRAY]

How many reward points would I get for buying that?

[Kirkatronics]

So far at out work ewve had:
Salt instead of sugar.
Laxatives in someones Tea.
5 heaped spoons full of coffee.
The day before that we...
Theres probobly more but ive only been there a few months.

[Rummy]

It must be just me, I chomp on rock pr0 style. It does get stuck in my teeth but doesn't hamper my speech at all.

Cos you got pr0 man jaws, little lady jaws struggle like crocodiles, or something. I feel sadthings though, I do not/have not worked in an office sort of situation(though I spent time in the nursing office at work) and so I have no hilarious pranks(plus our phones are cordless). The disconnect thing Odwin posted is geniusly simple, I love it.
More an impromptu assualt than a prank, but one time we got a reel of sticky tape plus an individual as a 'taper', an unsuspecting victim in a wheelie chair, and an accomplice to act as spinner. I'm sure you see the potential hilarity for things.

[EEVILMURRAY]

The disconnect thing Odwin posted is geniusly simple, I love it.
I still don't get the mechanics of the phones he has. The cable can be disconnected but won't work when disconnected because the phone will still be ringing when picked up. Does the phone have a switch or something set to cord/less?

[MoogleViper]

I still don't get the mechanics of the phones he has. The cable can be disconnected but won't work when disconnected because the phone will still be ringing when picked up. Does the phone have a switch or something set to cord/less?

I don't get it either. Surely if the phone cable is disconnected then the phone won't ring? Unless it's the cable going from the handset to the bit with the buttons.

[EEVILMURRAY]

I don't get it either. Surely if the phone cable is disconnected then the phone won't ring? Unless it's the cable going from the handset to the bit with the buttons.
That's the cable he means. But as he says it can be detached at both ends, in effect making it a cordless phone. Which would respond if picked up and not keep ringing as the prank implies. Thus the switch question.

[MoogleViper]

That's the cable he means. But as he says it can be detached at both ends, in effect making it a cordless phone. Which would respond if picked up and not keep ringing as the prank implies. Thus the switch question.

Or is it just used to replace the handset? And not actually work as a cordless.

[Rummy]

EDIT: And you know what, I've just realised his prank actually worked the other way round to make it keep ringing. Which leaves me throroughly confused as to how it DOES work, too. I imagined it more to just be a hilarious way to mock your mates. I'm gonna try it with my own phone...right now!

[MoogleViper]

You guys never seen a corded phone? The cord goes into the handset one end, and the phoneset the other end. However, if I asked you how you answer/hang up a corded phone, I'm sure you'd all be able to answer, and I'm sure you've all before done the classic quick hangup. So basically, if you DID disconnect the cord, from either, or both, ends, it's completely got no effect on whether or not the phone base keeps ringing(which always does the ringing in corded phones, unless I'm very gravely mistaken).

There is a button on the phoneset that hangs up when pressed and answers when released. That doesn't explain why detaching the phone would prevent it from answering.

[Rummy]

Goddamn you Viper! I was hoping to hide my stupidity and ignorance from the world! But yes, on a corded phone with buttons on the actual phone and not the baseset, it'd work, cos it needs the signal of the button press to answer, which it won't get if it's disconnected?

[Molly]

Oh yeah, spenno182 changed my name on one of our work systems to ''Molly'', he also changed the language to Polish so I now can't change anything back. I did laugh, little scallywag.

[Mr_Odwin]

Maybe I wrote that prank down wrong. I'm not explaining though. You guys just have to be baffled forever.

Just wrote "penis fruit" with a ball point pen on someone's banana left on their desk. I'm too old for this. :(

[Maase]

Second is the invincible folder. Create a folder on the desktop, like my hardcore porn or something. Print the screen and drop it in paint. Then delete the folder you just created and in paint set the pasted screen as the desktop background, lots of fun.


My brother did this at Uni, making a folder saying "Child Porn".
Every friend got away from him until my brother admitted it was a joke.

[Dyson]

Bit over the top don't you think? Accusing someone of being a paedophile isn't something most people take lightly and could have serious effects on someone's reputation. Think that's taking it a bit too far myself.

[Kirkatronics]

Bit over the top don't you think? Accusing someone of being a paedophile isn't something most people take lightly and could have serious effects on someone's reputation. Think that's taking it a bit too far myself.
It depends who your with, you have to know the people your joking with.
Like my friends wouldnt take it seriously, but some people would get deeply offended.

[ReZourceman]

Word. I joke about paedophilia literally almost constantly.

[DomJcg]

"Why are those kids screaming/shouting? I'm not over there..."

[Dyson]

For sure. I do too, with my close friends. But if someone did that to me I'd still be pissed off. I joke about it with friends, but I'd never make it appear that one of my friends was a paedophile even if it was a practical joke, knowing how much it could seriously damage someone's reputation, true or false.

[RoadKill]

Word. I joke about paedophilia literally almost constantly.

How do you know your daughter is all grown up?

You can stop making aeroplane noises to get your dick in her mouth


... and so on ∞

[Kirkatronics]

For sure. I do too, with my close friends. But if someone did that to me I'd still be pissed off. I joke about it with friends, but I'd never make it appear that one of my friends was a paedophile even if it was a practical joke, knowing how much it could seriously damage someone's reputation, true or false.
It shouldt bother you in the slightst, and if those friends believed this then they wouldnt really know you enough to be cosidered a friend.

[Emasher]

For sure. I do too, with my close friends. But if someone did that to me I'd still be pissed off. I joke about it with friends, but I'd never make it appear that one of my friends was a paedophile even if it was a practical joke, knowing how much it could seriously damage someone's reputation, true or false.

I don't think anyone's stupid enough to think that someone would put a folder full of child porn called "child porn" on their desktop. Its the sort of thing everyone just assumes is a joke.

[spenno182]

Word. I joke about paedophilia literally almost constantly.

yes "joke"

[Maase]

Well, I think its kinda exaggerated too, but its just so damn funny :D
Besides, my brother told all of those who saw his deskpot that it was a joke, I can't see why it would take the reputation even after admitting.

[Shorty]

When he opened it I jamp out and shouted :DJamp? JAMP? As in past tense of jump? Madness!

[Supergrunch]

Jamp? JAMP? As in past tense of jump? Madness!
That's the best past tense form I've heard since "suck" for "seek." (yes, one of my friends did mistakenly say that :heh:)

[EEVILMURRAY]

That's the best past tense form I've heard since "suck" for "seek." (yes, one of my friends did mistakenly say that :heh:)
For some reason, if I was going to write that, I'd have said "sook" :s

[Shorty]

For some reason, if I was going to write that, I'd have said "sook" :s

Because logic in your brain tried to rationalise it a bit by merging it a bit with "sought", maybe?

Aaaanyway... back on topic.


(I have nothing relevant to contribute to this thread).

[EEVILMURRAY]

Because logic in your brain tried to rationalise it a bit by merging it a bit with "sought", maybe?

Aaaanyway... back on topic.
Most probably, also because suck refers to something else more prominant?

[MoogleViper]

On school computers rename all of their work as "porn" or some other word that is blocked. Then they can't access their work. And they have to go to the IT technicians asking them to rename their "porn" file.

[Jimbob]

I managed to pull off a great prank the other day. It involved turning this little piece under the handset which holds the phone if it is fixed to the wall. Worked wonders hearing people shouting abuse at the phone when it rang and they couldn't answer it due to said piece.