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Office Pranks...anybody got any? (1 Viewer)

matttyl said:
Don't know if already posted, but had this happen totally by accident.  Me and a coworker in the next office apparently both had our Logitech mice on the same "channel", so when I moved my mouse it not only moved the pointer on my screen, but also on hers.  Since our offices have a brink/stone wall between them, it didn't happen all the time or very well.  She thought her mouse was possessed for weeks before we finally found out what it was.
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Oh the memories of my best prank ever and the inspiration for this whole thread...I miss that mouse prank so much.  I wish I still sat next to that guy as he was the best mark ever.

 
El Floppo said:
how ya been, FN? was worried the Rook got you.
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Doing OK.  Life is just getting a little overwhelming lately.  Unfortunately, my FBG screen time has suffered.  Work is crazy, family life is crazy (not crazy as in bad, but just really busy), and spring is always busy for me with house work, etc.

The Rook didn't get me...or rather, the Rook didn't come looking for me in my attic. 

 
Fat Nick said:
Been too long.  As I noted earlier, I've been buried at work since I took a new role in December...This week has been pretty crazy, and I needed a stress relief.  I'm still reeling from my wife scheduling me for a dentist appointment on April 1, so I had to work from home and couldn't mess with people. 

I sent an e-mail to a colleague today, and got an Out-of-office message, which was basically a trigger to go mess with his desk.  He's got a big bag of Pretzel Chips in his desk drawer.  They're the kind in those resealable foil bags, so there's no clear part on the bag.  He ALWAYS has them.  Our Investor Relations guy comes over and snacks on them pretty regularly too.  It's like communal chips for that group.  Anyway, I went over and dumped the Pretzel Chips into a FedEx bag, and replaced them with paperclips.  Let's see what happens when he gets back later in the day...
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So he finally noticed, and promptly accused one of our coworkers.  Coworker denied it, but he said he KNEW it was him.  So...I'm just sitting back and watching this one unfold.  I don't sit over there anymore, so I'm getting updates from my old co-worker (the one who we pranked with the cow Photoshop). 

I've already asked them to let me know when our mark (who's name is ironically Mark) has a long meeting.  He leaves his keys on his desk, and parks his car in the executive garage downstairs (despite being a junior-level guy), so I'm going to go down and move his car for him at some point without him knowing.

 
Fat Nick said:
Doing OK.  Life is just getting a little overwhelming lately.  Unfortunately, my FBG screen time has suffered.  Work is crazy, family life is crazy (not crazy as in bad, but just really busy), and spring is always busy for me with house work, etc.

The Rook didn't get me...or rather, the Rook didn't come looking for me in my attic. 
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yeah. that's "unfortunate".

btw... nassau county just got a rook. :boner:

 
El Floppo said:
it was on the evening news. nassau obviously pretty excited about it- big press conference.
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So awesome..  I'd consider joining the police force just so I could drive it. 

This is so off topic, but it's my thread, so who cares.  Maybe if I could borrow Nassau's Rook, I'd pull an office prank with it.  You know, park it on top of someone's car and laugh.  Something like that.

 
Yesterday a co-worker loosened(they still look plugged in but they're just loose enough to not create a connection) the monitor cables on another co-workers dual screen setup.  Co-worker has laptop with a docking station so this morning he spent 2 hours trying to get his screens working and then gave up and started working using his laptop screen.  It was fantastic.

 
We just moved to a new office last week.  As part of the move, my boss and I sent my old boss a "surprise" packing crate with the following contents:

  • a Hello Kitty backpack
  • a small pink dog carrier and leash
  • 30+ pair of novelty sunglasses
  • a toddler-sized lawn chair
  • a Warren Sapp toy missing his left leg
  • a copy of a Dairy Cow industry magazine
  • 1 full West-Point Cadet uniform
As hoped, it was delivered to his new office and was the 1st box he opened.  I wasn't there for the reaction, but I heard it was pretty good!  Still trying to think of some new pranks here.  Some of the TV's have chromecast or DLNA streaming and are showing up on my phone as places I can "send" video to...need to think of how to use that.

 
Fat Nick said:
We just moved to a new office last week.  As part of the move, my boss and I sent my old boss a "surprise" packing crate with the following contents:

  • a Hello Kitty backpack
  • a small pink dog carrier and leash
  • 30+ pair of novelty sunglasses
  • a toddler-sized lawn chair
  • a Warren Sapp toy missing his left leg
  • a copy of a Dairy Cow industry magazine
  • 1 full West-Point Cadet uniform
As hoped, it was delivered to his new office and was the 1st box he opened.  I wasn't there for the reaction, but I heard it was pretty good!  Still trying to think of some new pranks here.  Some of the TV's have chromecast or DLNA streaming and are showing up on my phone as places I can "send" video to...need to think of how to use that.
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which issue of Dairy Cow?

 
I anonymously just sent a buddy of mine THIS BOOK....a used version.  Best $5 I ever spent.  I just have to decide if I fess up to it or just let it be and enjoy his confusion wondering who sent it....

 
Fat Nick said:
I anonymously just sent a buddy of mine THIS BOOK....a used version.  Best $5 I ever spent.  I just have to decide if I fess up to it or just let it be and enjoy his confusion wondering who sent it....
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Plus imagine what kind of advertising will now pop up for all of us who clicked that.  Nicely done.

 
Fat Nick said:
I anonymously just sent a buddy of mine THIS BOOK....a used version.  Best $5 I ever spent.  I just have to decide if I fess up to it or just let it be and enjoy his confusion wondering who sent it....
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I brought this as a white elephant gift one year  :thumbup:

Used version is a nice touch  :lmao:

 
WhatDoIKnow said:
Most of us in the office travel and use laptops.  I just realized the girl that sits a couple seats away has a desktop.  I have a mouse on the way.  :thumbup:   The bolded is the key, but I do some of the IT stuff around the office.

We had a couple of new copier/printers setup a few weeks ago.  I did get a few people with a "voice commands" sign.  I think I messed up by not giving it an Alexa-like wake command.  "Kyocera.  Copy 2. Start."  The funniest part was the boss going on a rant about everything needing to be voice-activated now.  "Everything is listening!"
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I forgot about this one.  There's a new communal printer literally right behind my cube.  I'm going to have to try that...of course the printer is largely for our group president...on second thought, maybe not a great idea.  

I'm getting through my really busy time at work, which is usually when I get the itch to start pranking again more heavily.  Will need to think of more ideas.

 
WhatDoIKnow said:
I ordered the 3-pack of the new Annoy-a-trons.  Not the best reviews, but it sounds like they may have fixed some of the issues.  
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Let me know how they work - my biggest complaint was that the old ones weren't quite loud enough, and the battery life sucked.  I just realized I think the last one I set was in the wire chase under a guy's desk before we moved buildings.  The movers probably thought the guy's cube was bugged or something.

 
We did the "wireless mouse" trick to a guy in our office, except we did it with a wireless keyboard.  Plugged the USB receiver into the back of his docking station and periodically hit random keys while he was typing.  Frustrated the crap out of him.  Best was when we'd hit Windows-L or Ctl+Alt+Del.  Good times :D  He still has no clue we did it.  We pull the keyboard out every couple of weeks when we're bored. 

 
Keerock said:
We did the "wireless mouse" trick to a guy in our office, except we did it with a wireless keyboard.  Plugged the USB receiver into the back of his docking station and periodically hit random keys while he was typing.  Frustrated the crap out of him.  Best was when we'd hit Windows-L or Ctl+Alt+Del.  Good times :D  He still has no clue we did it.  We pull the keyboard out every couple of weeks when we're bored. 
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Anybody else learn what Windows-L does from this post?

 
About 20 years ago I worked for a gas company in Houston.  Our "segment" was required to move to a different building, so we all needed to box up our stuff on a Friday and it would be delivered to our new office building / office by Monday morning.  About 10 of us decided that if we had ANYTHING that we didn't want, we'd put it in a box and label it (printed labels with office numbers that we duplicated) for one of our co-workers office.  So you had 10 of us that probably had 5/6 real office boxes to be delivered, we each packed about 10, so when "Bryan" got to work on Monday his office was FULL of boxes.  He had blown up balloons, shredded documents, empty trash cans, stuff from the break room that he had to go through, because they were all labeled the same.  Needless to say, it was funny to everyone else on the hall.

 
russinfortworth said:
About 20 years ago I worked for a gas company in Houston.  Our "segment" was required to move to a different building, so we all needed to box up our stuff on a Friday and it would be delivered to our new office building / office by Monday morning.  About 10 of us decided that if we had ANYTHING that we didn't want, we'd put it in a box and label it (printed labels with office numbers that we duplicated) for one of our co-workers office.  So you had 10 of us that probably had 5/6 real office boxes to be delivered, we each packed about 10, so when "Bryan" got to work on Monday his office was FULL of boxes.  He had blown up balloons, shredded documents, empty trash cans, stuff from the break room that he had to go through, because they were all labeled the same.  Needless to say, it was funny to everyone else on the hall.
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We had a similar thing - the new office we moved to had new chairs.  They were pretty nice and we go to demo them prior to the move.  We were told "only put a moving tag on your chair if you want to keep your old chair."  So of course once one guy was done packing, we stuck one of his tags, which he foolishly left on his desk, on his old crappy chair.  The words that came out of his mouth when we got to the new office and instead of the nice ergo chair, he had his crappy 1990's fabric chair from the old office.  :lmao: :lmao:

...That guy is an SVP now.  If he ever found out, I'd probably get my ### handed to me.  

 
russinfortworth said:
About 20 years ago I worked for a gas company in Houston.  Our "segment" was required to move to a different building, so we all needed to box up our stuff on a Friday and it would be delivered to our new office building / office by Monday morning.  About 10 of us decided that if we had ANYTHING that we didn't want, we'd put it in a box and label it (printed labels with office numbers that we duplicated) for one of our co-workers office.  So you had 10 of us that probably had 5/6 real office boxes to be delivered, we each packed about 10, so when "Bryan" got to work on Monday his office was FULL of boxes.  He had blown up balloons, shredded documents, empty trash cans, stuff from the break room that he had to go through, because they were all labeled the same.  Needless to say, it was funny to everyone else on the hall.
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This is so awesome.   :thumbup:

 
Years ago we "re"routed the bathroom vent fan duct into the bosses office vent. He would come out of his office all of the time complaining.  We would be in there meeting and the smell would get bad and those of us that knew what the deal was would ask him if he had issues (gas).  

We never told him before he transferred but the next guy heard through the grapevince and corrected it.

It was humorous while it lasted....

 
Can anyone confirm that Ctrl + Alt + Arrow keys DOES NOT change the screen orientation in Windows 10?  We upgraded our office's OS, and this simple quick prank no longer seems to work.

 
My IT guy said we were having problems with the sound system and played “call me maybe” like fifteen times in a row in my office. 

 
El Floppo said:
:oldunsure:

is this a prank on us now?
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That's genius. 

I, sir, am no genius.  Genuinely asking because I tried to invert my new cube neighbor's screen and can't.  (starting small with this newbie)

 
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