Practical jokes in the workplace...

DS1119

So last week a guy at work put hand soap in the ear piece of my phone and proceeded to call me from his cell while standing in front of my desk. Hand soap in your ear when you don't expect it is an interesting feeling. It was funny though. Anyone else got any?

ogey38

The IT guy (Tim) that I work with locked my keyboard, so every time I logged in I have to type "Tim is God". Bastard.

Carey

As a nurse, it can be fun to fill a *brand new* urinal with apple juice and put it in the breakroom fridge, then go in and take a giant chug out of it while the nursing students or new grads are in there

jimed14

While working for my last company, we had season tickets to the San Francisco Giants games. Whenever the tickets went unused for sales purposes, we'd give them to employees.

One night two of our younger female employees took the tickets and off they went. The next morning, one came into my office to shoot the shit, I asked how the game was and she mentioned that the other one got pretty drunk, rowdy, and was yelling some shit at some other girl in the crowd for apparently no other reason than she was drunk.

Somehow, a fight broke out between some other girls that were near the seats. Police came down to break it up. Neither of the girls that worked with me were kicked out, but, the drunk one certainly stirred the pot.

Sooooo ...

I fashioned an e-mail that looked pretty official, complete with Giants logos, and sent it to myself. I edited the "From" line to make it look like it came form the sales department at the Giants offices. It stated there were several witnesses claiming that the fight that broke out was caused by "two young females" using our season tickets, an investigation was under way by both the Giants and the San Francisco police and loss of individual games or possibly our ticket license in whole was under consideration.

I then forwarded it to the 2 girls (one who was in on the joke) and asked them "What happened? Is this true? We might lose our tickets ... be in my office in 15 minutes!"

The girl who the joke was being played on freaked out, nervously talking to the other one and calling her boyfriend asking what he'd think if she got fired. The two of them came into my office to talk about it. I'm usually joking around but when they came to me, I very sternly said "Close the door please."

The sober girl and I could only hold the joke for about a minute, because the one who got drunk started visibly shaking ... needless to say, after we told her it was a joke she was initially pissed, but got a good chuckle out of it when the adrenaline dissipated.

eeriepadave

DS1119

I put a classified ad in the singles and dating section of our local paper for a guy I work with and listed his job as a "massage specialist" who prefers male clients. Put his cell number in and everything...his phone blew up for two weeks over this!!

DS1119

jimed14 wrote:

While working for my last company, we had season tickets to the San Francisco Giants games. Whenever the tickets went unused for sales purposes, we'd give them to employees.

One night two of our younger female employees took the tickets and off they went. The next morning, one came into my office to shoot the shit, I asked how the game was and she mentioned that the other one got pretty drunk, rowdy, and was yelling some shit at some other girl in the crowd for apparently no other reason than she was drunk.

Somehow, a fight broke out between some other girls that were near the seats. Police came down to break it up. Neither of the girls that worked with me were kicked out, but, the drunk one certainly stirred the pot.

Sooooo ...

I fashioned an e-mail that looked pretty official, complete with Giants logos, and sent it to myself. I edited the "From" line to make it look like it came form the sales department at the Giants offices. It stated there were several witnesses claiming that the fight that broke out was caused by "two young females" using our season tickets, an investigation was under way by both the Giants and the San Francisco police and loss of individual games or possibly our ticket license in whole was under consideration.

I then forwarded it to the 2 girls (one who was in on the joke) and asked them "What happened? Is this true? We might lose our tickets ... be in my office in 15 minutes!"

The girl who the joke was being played on freaked out, nervously talking to the other one and calling her boyfriend asking what he'd think if she got fired. The two of them came into my office to talk about it. I'm usually joking around but when they came to me, I very sternly said "Close the door please."

The sober girl and I could only hold the joke for about a minute, because the one who got drunk started visibly shaking ... needless to say, after we told her it was a joke she was initially pissed, but got a good chuckle out of it when the adrenaline dissipated.

jimed14

When my best friend took a new job, and the job was with a company that just moved into a new office ... I'd have one of my co-workers call his brand new work number and start trying to place orders for pizzas.

He'd pick up the phone, "ABC company, this is John Smith."

... and my co-workers would immediately break into, "yeah, I'd like to place an order for delivery ... I'd like a large pepperoni with extra cheese ..."

He'd then try and tell them this was a new phone line for a new office, and that it wasn't a pizza place. I'd have the person hang up and immediately try again and again, 2 -3 times, they'd get belligerent with him. My coworkers would call with crazy accents and pretend not to believe him, and say it was unethical to refuse service to foreigners. They'd leave messages for pizza orders on his work phone over the weekend at all hours

I'd have a different person in my office call every week to ten days, enough to be annoying, but not enough to make it seem suspicious or have him take any action ... this went on for a few months.

He and I would hang out and he'd tell me about how annoying it was, how all his coworkers were laughing at him when they'd hear him try and explain how his work line wasn't a pizza place.

Finally, when he told me he was going to have his IT department switch his phone number, I then called and tried to place an order ... letting him in on the joke.

conman

this thread is gold!

DS1119

jimed14 wrote:

When my best friend took a new job, and the job was with a company that just moved into a new office ... I'd have one of my co-workers call his brand new work number and start trying to place orders for pizzas.

He'd pick up the phone, "ABC company, this is John Smith."

... and my co-workers would immediately break into, "yeah, I'd like to place an order for delivery ... I'd like a large pepperoni with extra cheese ..."

He'd then try and tell them this was a new phone line for a new office, and that it wasn't a pizza place. I'd have the person hang up and immediately try again and again, 2 -3 times, they'd get belligerent with him. My coworkers would call with crazy accents and pretend not to believe him, and say it was unethical to refuse service to foreigners. They'd leave messages for pizza orders on his work phone over the weekend at all hours

I'd have a different person in my office call every week to ten days, enough to be annoying, but not enough to make it seem suspicious or have him take any action ... this went on for a few months.

He and I would hang out and he'd tell me about how annoying it was, how all his coworkers were laughing at him when they'd hear him try and explain how his work line wasn't a pizza place.

Finally, when he told me he was going to have his IT department switch his phone number, I then called and tried to place an order ... letting him in on the joke.

DS1119

Man...so many running through my head. I had a guy from our place leave and move to Florida. I proceeded to call four or so pizza joints near his work and order about a hundred dollars worth of food from each place and had it delivered in thirty minute increments. Funny part though is when the delivery guy showed up at his office I had them ask for a girl he had a crush on back at our workplace. When I told him I did this...he was not happy.

foodboy

when i used to work in a brokerage office we told one of the brokers that a woman who would be a wealthy potential new client was coming in to see him in a couple of days. we kept reminding him and getting him all hyped up. so finally the day comes and this hot woman comes into the office for this meeting. she sits down ,starts to listen to his pitch, then takes out a small boom box and starts taking off her clothes. we hired a strip a gram . he was very freaked out ,not because the girl was taking her clothes off to her bra and panties (it was an office)but that he lost out on a potential huge client. it was quite brilliant. and funny. just the look on his face was priceless.

morello

At my old workplace a couple of my colleagues moved another guy's desk to a totally different part of the office. They moved everything & set it up as damn well exactly like it was as they could & they told everyone to act totally normal when he came in which people did.

Then another time one of the guys did the old 'reply all' trick.... colleague A had lost her work phone & had been e-mailing colleague B about it, then when A was away from her desk B sent an e-mail 'reply all' saying 'oh I hated that phone so I dropped it off the boat on the weekend'. Next thing the boss calls A into her room.... B got in a bit of trouble about that one.

I'm not so good at telling stories & they were a while ago so memory is a bit foggy but they were funny at the time.

Thoughts_Arrive

Noone in my office has ever heard of Rick Rolling.
That is until I came along, now it is rampant.

Thoughts_Arrive

Some pranks I've played...

Ctrl + Alt + one of the arrows to rotate the screen

Sticky tape on the end of the phone line that goes into the handset then calling that person and they can't hear a thing

Found a really old blackberry in a drawer, put it on the desk of the guy next to me and put a note ''take this phone, management''

Sticky tape over the sensor of the mouse

Took the clock off the wall and hit it on a persons desk so they could hear tick tocking and not figure out why

DS1119

I love the mouse and phone ones. I've done tht so many times.

I'm from Utica, NY and there is a zoo there. I leave messages on any new employees desks to call Mr. Lyon, Mr. Behr, Mr. Byrd, etc, and I give them the number to the Utica Zoo (the number is (315) 738-0472). It's almost like a right of passage. Give the zoo a call and see how they react...it's actually quite comical. :thumbup:

Monster Rain

I once covered a co-worker's locker dial with clear gel deodorant. I also did the same thing to my friends' doorknobs in college. I even did it to my own doorknob so my roommate would be the victim so nobody would suspect it was me. I tried to act innocent but it was hard to keep a straight face when he told me about it.

Cliffy6745

A guy I used to work with had stilts on his desk and stood all day working due to a back problem or something. He left the company and left the stilts so when a female co-worker who was at most 5 feet tall wenton vacation, she returned to her desk being on stilts.

Wobbie

and we wonder why the economy is in the shitter. they don't do this in Japan

jimed14

DS1119 wrote:

I love the mouse and phone ones. I've done tht so many times.

I'm from Utica, NY and there is a zoo there. I leave messages on any new employees desks to call Mr. Lyon, Mr. Behr, Mr. Byrd, etc, and I give them the number to the Utica Zoo (the number is (315) 738-0472). It's almost like a right of passage. Give the zoo a call and see how they react...it's actually quite comical. :thumbup:

Ha ha ... love this.

Oh, and my parents are from the Rome / Utica area of NY.

DS1119

jimed14 wrote:

DS1119 wrote:

I love the mouse and phone ones. I've done tht so many times.

I'm from Utica, NY and there is a zoo there. I leave messages on any new employees desks to call Mr. Lyon, Mr. Behr, Mr. Byrd, etc, and I give them the number to the Utica Zoo (the number is (315) 738-0472). It's almost like a right of passage. Give the zoo a call and see how they react...it's actually quite comical. :thumbup:

Ha ha ... love this.

Oh, and my parents are from the Rome / Utica area of NY.

:thumbup:

ilockyer

I work in a complaints department... on a couple of occasions I have created complaints in such spidery writing they wouldn't get scanned onto the computer system to be worked, these then get handed to a colleague to work. The most recent was someone who got stressed out really easily having to call Dom on a telephone number to discuss his illegible complaint... the number given was for Domino's Pizza... they got really flustered, apparently the guy repeated that it was Domino's Pizza before the penny dropped.

Another good one was getting an exceptionally gullible colleague to go to the other office to see a manager, who was in on it, they sent them back saying they didn't need to see them, upon their return we let them in on it!

The mouse one and CTRL-ALT-Arrow ones have been done several times. Haven't yet come across anyone dopey enough to go for a long wait in the meeting room though.

Travelar

I like to take a screenshot of peoples desktop, set it as the wallpaper, and move all of the icons to an undisclosed location. People get crazy when they start trying to click on something and it doesn't respond.

ilockyer

Travelar wrote:

I like to take a screenshot of peoples desktop, set it as the wallpaper, and move all of the icons to an undisclosed location. People get crazy when they start trying to click on something and it doesn't respond.

I'm stealing this one!

Cliffy6745

When I worked for the Sixers, my first office was in the Spectrum. When people were on sales calls, we would flick and throw things at people from time to time. This developed into lighting small pieces of paper on fire and dropping it on a persons desk while they were on a call. Forunately, we didn't burn the building down before Pearl Jam got to close it out.

Not really a practical joke but when people were on calls, we would give them a piece of paper with some random obscure word on it that they would have to work into the call somehow. This was turned into a gambling exercise. Good times.

And you wonder why the Sixers play in a half full arena.

81

ilockyer wrote:

Another good one was getting an exceptionally gullible colleague to go to the other office to see a manager, who was in on it, they sent them back saying they didn't need to see them, upon their return we let them in on it!

we used to do that shit all the time at my last company...except the guy we were sending people to see wasn't in on it.

that departments admin assistant knew about it and would laugh everytime somebody showed up.

also, anytime somebody bought a new car, i would ask them what happened to it...it's got a big scratch down the side...and they would always go out to check on it....including the people that knew i was doing this to every body.


now we just hid this one guys blackhawks dice...ok, they really aren't hidden...they are hanging on a cube outside of his boss's office. they have been there now for 3 weeks and he still hasn't foudn them.

Lizard

I wish i worked at a fun place.

KingJeremyTheWicked82

I don't think I would get away with practical jokes in my current job, the woman I work with doesn't seem to be that sort of person!

However in my last place of work, someone had switched some of my keyboard keys around, taped a dead moth to the inner ear-piece of my phone, put everything I had on my desk into my bag, the stuff out of my paper punch all over my desk and taped a picture of a Page 3 lass to the back of my car....aaaah good times!!

DS1119

I used to torment this guy I worked with. I would find the most random pictures off of the net, print them, and replace the photos he had on his desk with them. Only thing was the pictures faced his customers not him. It was hillarious to hear a customer ask him "so why do you have a picture of.....on your desk"?

Some of my faves are below.

ilockyer

DS1119 wrote:

I used to torment this guy I worked with. I would find the most random pictures off of the net, print them, and replace the photos he had on his desk with them. Only thing was the pictures faced his customers not him. It was hillarious to hear a customer ask him "so why do you have a picture of.....on your desk"?

Some of my faves are below.

Quality! Just reminded me of another one we've done. A few weeks ago, bored, we found some photos taken of some of the newer guys on a night out. A head shot of one of my colleagues was duly printed out and his face added to a few promotional things in place of the original persons. A couple of weeks ago someone from middle management (about 4 levels up from us scum) was showing his superiors round. This guy has no sense of humour. They were stopped talking by this doctored poster, the people being shown round clocked my colleague and started laughing, said manager didn't see what we'd done and wondered what they were laughing at... it was all we could do to keep straight faces! A prank that also gets us a laugh at management is even better!

Mamasan23

DS1119 wrote:

I used to torment this guy I worked with. I would find the most random pictures off of the net, print them, and replace the photos he had on his desk with them. Only thing was the pictures faced his customers not him. It was hillarious to hear a customer ask him "so why do you have a picture of.....on your desk"?

Some of my faves are below.

I love your sense of humor!