Office Pranks - What have you done to colleagues?

[Electric]

Silastic'ed his coffee mug to the desk, and reprogramed all the speed dials on his phone to the gay and lesbian hotline...

[DENKO]

the best prank we done was to my boss at work, me and a couple of others decide raid him while he was in the toilet taking a bog! we done it expertly as well, he wwas in there and i opened the door and turn off the light straight away, then me and couple of the workers chuked toilet paper in his cubical! best laugh ever! till today he still wonders who it was!

[Doogstar]

Remember the Workcover ad where they pour thinners under the door of the toilet cubicle and set it alight while the victim was on loo?

That ad is based on what my brother-in-law and his workmates did many years ago. They did it heaps of times to different people with no harm done. Until one day when they poured the thinners and the guys overalls soaked up some of the thinners. When they lit it, his overalls caught on fire and the guy got some serious burns to his lower body.

Charges were laid by the cops, (the victim didn't want to press charges) and my brother-in-law ended up on a good behaviour bond and a conviction against his name.

Just a few words of advise,
1. If you have to play pranks be VERY sure not no-one could possibly get hurt.
2. Pranking the same person all the time is harrassment.
3. Locking up or restraining someone with tape etc. against their will, could be called assault.

[pauljh74]

Originally Posted by Doogstar

Locking up or restraining someone with tape etc. against their will, could be called assault.

Fair enough - we didn't manage to finish the taping and let him go. The target in question used to grab people's balls as he walked past. So he had it coming for sure. As for locking people in in freight cells, we'd let em out after 5 mins or less. Usually it was this big Fijian guy (I'm not small and he dwarfs me at 135kg) who would get them in the cage.

[Barry_v]

pfft, office pranks? what about workshop pranks!

-deep heat on the toilet seat
-waiting till person is on the loo then use the fire hose into the cubical.
-filling boots with water then freezing them
-filling toolbox with space invader

[rodderz]

When I was still commercial landscaping with my boss I was usuallly the bobcat driver. As other tradies on here would know, you have to be pretty sneaky when you choose to use a site dunny, as you will cop it from outside.

Usually you'de just get pelted with rocks, bricks or other hard objects (which would quite literally scare the shyte outta you with tin walls), other times you'de get a phone call while your busy with a number 2, but one time at a retirement village I pushed a bloke around with the bobcat bucket while he was on the throne....could've died from laughter that day....lol

[BlueRaven]

There is some crazy suggestions on here..

I only know the lame IT things....

Something thats always been shortlived fun is, when computers are close together, swap the chords to mice/keyboards/monitors with another computer, so that everything looks the same - but they notice that the mouse or keyboard are not moving when they are supposed too. Really works for that "OMG, I'm being hacked!!" approach.

For people that aren't that familiar with computers too well, pull off and swap random keys on the keyboard. This works well for anyone that can't touch type (the give away is if you can spell something out...like gotcha or something) :P

[Ultimate]

Ok a good one is if you have a smoke bin you fill spray propane in it from the oxy. The propane is heavy and will stay down the bottom. When someone chucks there smoke in it, it will make one hell of a bang. No harm to anyone except they might ИИИИ them selves

[OXR60W]

Ive witnessed a few beauties over the years but never played a part ( because i wouldn't want it done to me ).

- we use to have various industrial perfumes, we would get the new guys to smell and guess what fragrance it was ( rose, lemon etc ). Then along came ammonia, it was funny but back then the danger wasn't thought about.

- my ex foreman filled overalls with paper, put boots on it and layed it under a forklift. The manager had to go to hospital due to heart.

- we had huge stacks of cardboard boxes on pallets. One morning the foreman picked the stacks up with the f/lift and reversed back into the stack where they were kept then told the manager that the f/lifts had been stolen.

- The foreman was a thinker. we had those rolls of brown paper. He used to mould the paper into "turd " shape, and i'm talking about large lifelike things. He would then put it in the toilet and get the new guy to un-block the toilet. It was a cracker. To my knowledge there was only ever one mix-up where actual corn and carrot floaties appeared.

[quest]

From the shop we can see the cashier through a window so every now & them we'll phone in and just start breathing heavy
It's a blast watching & listning to her yelling at the receiver

[Dauphin]

Not exactly an office prank, but I used to work an early shift with someone and one day we got bored. Across the street there was a florist with a huge telephone number printed on their window. Every morning he would spend about 15 minutes setting up his flower arrangements out the front of his shop on stands. We started phoning his number and watching him run in, then when he got the phone we'd hang up and wait a while and then do it again. We had to stop when the boss came in.

[SB076]

Just thought of a beauty, was at a pub with a few mates and having a few beers when he slipped something into my beer that made it solidify, I took a mouthfull too quick and had the beer actually solidify in my mouth (almost made me sick) another mate took his time and was already drunk and couldnt work out why he could not drink any of his 1/2 full beer - the look on his face was priceless. I think he was putting gelatine in or something, happened a couple of years ago.

[BJ]

Originally Posted by Doogstar

Remember the Workcover ad where they pour thinners under the door of the toilet cubicle and set it alight while the victim was on loo?

That ad is based on what my brother-in-law and his workmates did many years ago. They did it heaps of times to different people with no harm done. Until one day when they poured the thinners and the guys overalls soaked up some of the thinners. When they lit it, his overalls caught on fire and the guy got some serious burns to his lower body.

Charges were laid by the cops, (the victim didn't want to press charges) and my brother-in-law ended up on a good behaviour bond and a conviction against his name.

Just a few words of advise,
1. If you have to play pranks be VERY sure not no-one could possibly get hurt.
2. Pranking the same person all the time is harassment.
3. Locking up or restraining someone with tape etc. against their will, could be called assault.

I agree with what you are saying. I owned my own workshop for some time and have never condoned this kind of behavior. I thing it is pointless and can some times get people hurt. Most of it can be harmless but it always is until some one gets hurt. What made me mad was one of my young apprentices got badly hurt one day buy one of theses so called prank's he was pulled up buy an over head engine crane okay funny enough but it broke his pelvis in two places and now cant walk properly or now this is the sad part can't have kids, and spent 6 months in hospital, So next time you tape some one up or do something else think if you would like it done to you first. I am all for a bit of fun but not at some one else's expense.

[4.9 EF Futura]

Originally Posted by SB076

Just thought of a beauty, was at a pub with a few mates and having a few beers when he slipped something into my beer that made it solidify, I took a mouthfull too quick and had the beer actually solidify in my mouth (almost made me sick) another mate took his time and was already drunk and couldnt work out why he could not drink any of his 1/2 full beer - the look on his face was priceless. I think he was putting gelatine in or something, happened a couple of years ago.

Box of gelative into the toilet bowl overnight. Makes for a pretty bad morning for someone

[jcxr]

Used to drink with a guy who was a rep for a dental supply co. His party trick was to smear numbing liquid around the rim of someones beer glass and wait till it "kicked in", the poor person couldnt talk due numb lips and spoke like they had been on the pi55 for a week.

[Pinkbits]

Back when I was a Station Officer with the railways, I was at Ferntree Gully station one morning selling tickets during the morning peak. My station assistant who was about 10 or so years older than me offered to make me a cuppa, which I accepted, unknown to me at the time the swine slipped a couple of "lasix" tablets in, after about 1/2 an hour the ***** locked the door to the ticket office, I thought nothing of it at the time, until I started to get the urge to pee. The b@stard would'nt let me out and there was no other exit from the office, by this time I've got those pains you get when you just have to go. I looked around the office for something that I could use, all that there was were the Senior Stationmaster's plants in hanging baskets. I quickly shut the ticket window and you can guess the rest!!

[xalent]

If you work at a company where you all have work email accounts, simply suscribe as many account names to dodgy "recieve porn in your email" sites. Works beautifully, espec with gay porn. People in my company have had to change account names

[BA Bakes]

One to new guys at work was copin a mouthful from one of the guys, so the new grabs his tool box and drop a huge crap in it. Strange that noone else has hang crap on him since.

[Mack 6]

More of a phone prank than an office prank,but funn nonetheless.
Years ago did a fundraising thing where I stayed on top of a pole (with like a cubby on top) for 24 hours for charity. I had a few friends up there with me, as well as my newly purchased mobile phone.
We overlooked a beachside cafe restaurant and they had their number advertised on the balcony. We watched the dinner rush, then at the most inappropriate of times would ring them, and just as they were about to answer, we hung up. Did this all night, and even after they closed, we called a few more times.
They finally clicked that it may be someone who was on top of the poles (there were about 20) and decided to go home. It was the hardest thing not to ИИИИ myself laughing as they walked out looking at us in the dark.

[Dauphin]

When I was a kid in primary school we used to dig deep holes in the sandpit, fill it up with water and then cover it with some newspaper weighed down by heavier sand around the edges. We'd spread a thin layer of sand on top, so it looks like nothing's been disturbed. We'd get people to chase us, run towards the sandpit and we'd jump over the hole but the chaser would fall into the hole and we'd laugh at them.

[jcxr]

One of the chicks in accounts was not happy about someone pinching from her private stash of choccies , so she replaced them with laxatives. Never lost a choccie after that.

[XR6Gal]

I just thought of another.

One of the ladies here at work gets wine delivered here every few months & she leaves them here for ages before taking them home, so one of the guys here bought in some pavers from his place, took out the wine bottles out of the box & hid the bottles of wine & put the pavers into the box. It weighed it down enough for her to think that it was the wine. When she got it home, finally, she opened it to find the pavers & rang us up in tears of laughter! hahahahah

[MYVYSS]

havent done it for a while but we used to tape several pieces of paper into a circle on the fax machine, with someones name and the message "I quit" then send from one fax machine to another...... makes it interesting as it becomes a never ending fax....

[ssb2005]

plastic spider on the end of a fishing rod is handy

[nobbystang]

There used to be an add in Victoria about apprentices getting badly injured in pranks, one was to throw turps under the toilet door and light it to give the guy a scare and the cubicle catches on fire. Well my lil ИИИ used to have this courier come in every day, and like clock work, can i use the toilet. The answer was always yes cause he's boss was a soft touch. My lil ИИИ is a very cheeky red head so he grabs the young fella and they go in with a glass of water and as he's chucking it under the door yells out just like on the add "this will only singe a few leg hairs". apparently the courier couldn't get out of the cubicle quick enough and never again used the toilet.

[OZFORDAU]

Originally Posted by REDXR8BLOKE

Back when I was a Station Officer with the railways, I was at Ferntree Gully station one morning selling tickets during the morning peak. My station assistant who was about 10 or so years older than me offered to make me a cuppa, which I accepted, unknown to me at the time the swine slipped a couple of "lasix" tablets in, after about 1/2 an hour the ***** locked the door to the ticket office, I thought nothing of it at the time, until I started to get the urge to pee. The b@stard would'nt let me out and there was no other exit from the office, by this time I've got those pains you get when you just have to go. I looked around the office for something that I could use, all that there was were the Senior Stationmaster's plants in hanging baskets. I quickly shut the ticket window and you can guess the rest!!

I've always wonderd why it's stunk around this station lol....

[ON_DUBS]

friend went for a crap.

i tipped a bucket of water over the cubicle door.

[kempster1]

Here is a few
-move the keyboard buttons around
- Collect all the paper circles from all the office hole punches and then put them into peoples desk draws.
-Get under the desk an put in a screw into the back of the draw through a part of the desk using a cordless drill, take them ages to work out why to draw will not open.
-Remove the ball from computer mouse.
-Bearing blue or grease around the earpiece on the telephone.
-Leave messages on people desk saying they must call this number, and leave a number for a gay help line.

[chief]

While doing the boat building, we have plenty of air lines with lubricant oil in the lines. One day the lines were blocked so the boss shot a signal flair down the lines and it all caught fire.

An old fella Lloyd, one of the guys whose been doing this for 50 years and no one is better than him. He would go up to new guys and say I am the boss do not move. He would draw a circle around them on the ground and they would stay there all day.

Needless to say these guys would sit up against the bunker with fuel, thinners, acetone, metho ect in and have a smoke.

[TURBO_GHIA]

not an office prank but having a few beers at a mates place get ИИИИing everyone off and playing pranks on everyone so when you was in his $5000 massage lazyboy we gladwraped him to it and set it on the hardest setting for an hr

say guy was hitting everyone in the nuts when we were at the pub one night so one of our mates goes up behind him grabs his balls and picks him on and flips him over in the middle of the pub he collapsed on the floor and didnt move for a good 30 mins ,surprise surprise he's never hit anyone in the balls before