Office pranksters

[Giaka]

A person in our dept has been out on vacation for the last week and a half. She comes back on Monday and we just finished up her welcome back gift.  

[Sport-Touring]

[1KPerDay]

Nicely done. I hope they're full of books.

[ManWorkingHere]

I know the reply is worthless with pix, but,...

when I went on my first honeymoon xx years ago, my cubicle mates rotated everything on my desk upside down.  I got back and my phone, CRT (before PCs), keyboard, and every wall picture were upside down.

[mxvet57]

Your way to nice to her. Now Styrofoam peanuts or shredded paper, now that's a welcome worthy of a good prank.

[Flyer]

The guys at work filled a co-worker's car with styrofoam peanuts.
It got ugly...

This is still my favourite.

[Scratch33]

I once super glued everything a coworker had on her desk TO her desk.   Neat freaks bring out the worst in me.

[FirstVtwin]

The guys at work filled a co-worker's car with styrofoam peanuts.
It got ugly...

This is still my favourite.

We did this to a co-worker here.  I have to say that darn thing GLOWED!  You could see it from clear across the office...it was pretty neat!

[Cheddarhead]

The guys at work filled a co-worker's car with styrofoam peanuts.
It got ugly...

Years ago, our controller went on a weeks' vacation.  We built a false wall  (2 ft deep or so...) on the inside of his office door, then stuffed it full of the styrene peanuts...filling the cavity from above through the suspended ceiling.  He was unable to open the door because of the peanuts pressing against the door...so he had to fish them out from underneath using  wire coat hanger until he got enough "slack" to force the door open and rake them out by hand...only to find the "wall" blocking his way when he got the frst several cubic yards worth out.  Took him "days" to get back into his office...

[stevent]

We had a guy that bought a brand new Buick Regal, he absolutely loved the car to the point of keeping it spotless, wearing driving shoes, gloves and white coveralls, the whole bit. One day we were changing oil in a piece of machinery so we poured about half a gallon of dirty oil on the ground under his engine. When he went out for his usual car wipedown he saw it and went totally berserk, came storming in the office and called the dealership screaming and cursing at them, pounding on the desk, throwing shit around etc. He was usually the most calm and mild mannered guy you could meet so we all just stood there in shock! they sent a mechanic and a flatbed out for him and picked the car up and took it to the dealership where of course they found nothing...

He passed away a couple of years ago and never did find out who pranked him, I'm glad too because he was ready to kill someone at the time...

[et]

I once had a boss who was a gold digger and could be a bitch most of the time. And she kept large York Peppermint Pattie dispenser on her desk.
Every time I would have a few York Peppermint Patties; I would carefully re-wrap the empty wrappers and place them back into the dispenser.
It frustrated the hell out of her. Because 50% of the time when she would go to grab a pattie it would be empty.
It was fun to watch her stomp her feet, throw a little fit., and mutter "Who the hell keeps doing this ?!"

[Johnny Monsoon]

I left to get some Christmas shopping done last year, and left my door open (the only office door at the end of a cube farm).  I didn't wind up making it back to work that afternoon, but surprised them by coming in the next day.  

They flipped all the stuff on my walls over, they re-arranged everything, they  taped everything on my desk down, and string-tied my chair to rafters in the ceiling about 4' off the ground.  

I was impressed.

My aircraft manager has a cube directly in front of my office.  He's a die-hard Harley guy, and we rib at each other all the time.  He's out riding back to TX from the east coast right now, which means he's stupidly left all his Harley paraphernalia exposed (and there's mountains of it in his cubicle).

I'm thinking colored cellophane...

The prior aircraft manager in that cube wound up moving to another bay.  This POS couldn't get out of there fast enough for my liking.  He was 400lb and addicted to m&m's.  We wrapped everything in the cube in bright yellow wrapping paper and posted a likeness of him as the yellow m&m character.  He came back, threw another childish tantrum (which made it all the funnier) and then blissfully moved along.

I do have pics of my office and the m&m cube... I'll have to dig them up.

[CLAY]

This:
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/b278/
It makes cricket noise at random intervals.  I'd move it around every couple days.  Drove another teacher nuts.  

[SuperHans]

We had a guy that bought a brand new Buick Regal, he absolutely loved the car to the point of keeping it spotless, wearing driving shoes, gloves and white coveralls, the whole bit. One day we were changing oil in a piece of machinery so we poured about half a gallon of dirty oil on the ground under his engine. When he went out for his usual car wipedown he saw it and went totally berserk, came storming in the office and called the dealership screaming and cursing at them, pounding on the desk, throwing shit around etc. He was usually the most calm and mild mannered guy you could meet so we all just stood there in shock! they sent a mechanic and a flatbed out for him and picked the car up and took it to the dealership where of course they found nothing...

He passed away a couple of years ago and never did find out who pranked him, I'm glad too because he was ready to kill someone at the time...

He was this passionate about a Buick Regal?

[KenH]

I used to have a case of inflatable toy snakes. From time to time select students and I would stuff one in a drawer or cabinet in such a manner that it would "jump" out. Great fun.

The harley guy deserves pink cellophane.

[Hardware]

Amateurs!

I staged my own suicide once.  It was pretty elaborate: we had a backstory worked up (spouse leaving); gruesome crime scene (blood spatter & weapon on the floor); and some other little details.

The mark was never the same after...

[MrsCablebandit]

The federal law enforcement agency I used to work for was CHOCK FULL of practical jokesters.  More than one person, myself included, had hole-punch circles put in their car air vents and the A/C set to HIGH so that when you started your car at the end of the day, POOF!  You're covered in hole punches!  

We shrink-wrapped an entire undercover car once.  That was awesome.  

We had a "happiness is being gay" license plate frame that got circulated among folks' cars one summer.  It went onto one guy's personal Jeep, which he proceeded to drive to the beach with three other guys one weekend.  Cars full of girls kept driving by them giggling.  He noticed it at the gas station two days into the weekend.  We had a local police officer with whom we worked very closely.  The license plate frame went on his car once.  He got REALLY pissed and actually dusted it for fingerprints trying to figure out who did it to him.  

We used to take ketchup packets, prick them with a pin a few times, and then secure them under car door handles.  Grab and lift the door handle and SQUIRT...a handful of ketchup.  

The pranksters at my current job thought it would be hilarious to gift wrap everything in my office a few years ago when I was out for a week for deer season.  Came back to an entire office of "Christmas presents."  I wound up leaving my degrees and pictures wrapped for the holidays as decorations!

[birdrunner]

It's the little things that make work fun.

My co-worker was notorious for needing a smoke first thing in the morning, and also often left his smokes at work, being cheap he wouldn't buy another pack,  so the fun was glueing  his pack shut, and watching him lose it when he got to work.  Replacing his name plate on the office with "Shithead"  naturally using tamper proof screws.  Putting pink refills in all his pens.  

you know,  the little things.

[Flyer]

Putting pink refills in all his pens.

You are a true deviant!



A co-worker was sent on course for two weeks in the winter.
Without so much as a how-d-ya-do, he takes one of the prime spots in the parking lot to leave his car in, and left no keys to move it.  
All four shifts took turns shovelling snow on his car, and hosing it down for a week of nearly constant snow squalls...
Mount Dickson was thusly created:

[Hardware]

The federal law enforcement agency I used to work for was CHOCK FULL of practical jokesters.  More than one person, myself included, had hole-punch circles put in their car air vents and the A/C set to HIGH so that when you started your car at the end of the day, POOF!  You're covered in hole punches!...

We had a crew fill a guys personal car with feathers.  Took him months to get them all out...

...We had a "happiness is being gay" license plate frame that got circulated among folks' cars one summer...

Guys at work made up a fake personalized plate that read, "ASSMAN".

They also made a bumper sticker that read, "Honk if you're gay and love Jesus!"

[andreychuk]

here's a few

-add a grease nipple to a co-workers tool box, and fill said tool box with an air powered grease gun.a macho dickhead co-workers

-use a hose clamp to strap a nut to a drive shaft on co-workers vehicle

-go to a library, pick up ALL the subscription notices you can, fill them out with the victims name.

an extension on this, - subscribe victim to a gay men's magazine, it actually affected a friends credit rating because he refused to pay them for the subscription.

-subscribe a macho dickhead co-worker to a gay men's travel site, if you're lucky, he will respond from his work email how disgusting their lifestyle is.

-place a goldfish in the watercooler

Good Luck