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re: Best practical joke you've pulled at work

Posted on 2/26/21 at 12:03 pm to
Posted by TimeOutdoors
AK
Member since Sep 2014
12128 posts
Posted on 2/26/21 at 12:03 pm to
Friend of mine was complaining about everyone getting new laptops except for her at the office. I had a Dell Laptop box sent to her with an Etch a Sketch in it.

Well...she got me back. I had recently taken my Professional Engineering exam. She photoshopped a letter from the State Board of Professional Engineering that basically said, because of the number of people that passed the exam the results were audited and had to be scored on a curve. As a result my passing grade was now a fail and I would have until Friday 4pm to appeal. She had my boss in on this and a friend of hers from FedEx. So in our weekly staff meeting about 2pm on a friday I get this FedEx package with Urgent stamped on it. I read the letter mentioned above... during the meeting, my boss keeps asking if everything is ok.. I am like yeah, I am fine. The entire time I am trying to figure out if this is real or not. She did change the phone number for the State Board of Professional Engineers at least. Finally at the end of the meeting she walks in.
Posted by Tbonepatron
Member since Aug 2013
8447 posts
Posted on 2/26/21 at 12:05 pm to
An operator friend of mine played a really great long game one. He started complaining that his hip started to hurt and was half-limping around for weeks. Eventually he said that he had seen a doctor and was going to take a set off to have minor hip surgery but the recovery would be quick. Well a week or so later he comes back on shift and starts asking everyone if they want to see his x-rays to see the pins they put in. Of course everyone was like, sure let’s see em.

So he pulls out a picture of an x-ray and this guy has a couple pins in the hip. He also has a cock that hangs down damn near his knees. Everyone notices at the same time and the control room explodes in laughter. Obviously he was faking the whole time and had just been on vacation.
Posted by Steadyhands
Slightly above I-10
Member since May 2016
6838 posts
Posted on 2/26/21 at 12:10 pm to
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Making a boomer's screen on their monitor upside down was always fun.


Similar to that. The snipping tool makes a great prank. Dude had two monitors so it worked even better. I took a snip of one of the entire screens and then made the snip match that same screen. Was funny watching him get flustered trying to figure out why one of his screens was frozen yet everything worked fine on the other.

Another good one that I seen does was putting a wireless mouse usb chip into one of the old guys laptop when he was not around. He ended up calling IT... I believe they had him do some basic crap like unplug his wired mouse and plug it back in, reset the computer, etc. They left it alone so he told the IT guy everything was fixed. Then started messing with him again.
This post was edited on 2/26/21 at 12:37 pm
Posted by IMATIGERFAN
San Antonio, TX
Member since Apr 2007
1313 posts
Posted on 2/26/21 at 12:13 pm to
Back when I was in the Air Force, I worked in a messaging center, we had to make tons of copies of the messages and put them in bins for pickup. I was bored during a mid shift and i printed off 10 copies of the word TEST in bold across the pages. I then slipped them randomly into the supply tray or the copier.
Next day I go into work and the day shift had called the copier repair guy, insisting the copier was printing off TEST every now and then. Of course he couldn’t find anything wrong with the copier. One of the greatest pranks I’ve ever done. Never told anyone.
Posted by Packer
IE, California
Member since May 2017
7848 posts
Posted on 2/26/21 at 12:13 pm to
In the military, your ID has a chip that allows you to log into computers and other things. I put a piece of clear tape over the chip after one of my subordinates left it in his computer. Was pretty funny watching him keep inserting his card into the computer to get it working.

One of the funniest I saw was a coworker superglued another coworkers Styrofoam cup to the table. When he picked it up, the bottom stayed glued to the table, but the rest of the cup came up and spilled coffee everywhere.
Posted by OnCampusTiger
Baton Rouge
Member since Aug 2007
689 posts
Posted on 2/26/21 at 12:14 pm to
Coworker would prank me often, so I hid an eviltron in his office for 2 weeks. A child's giggle would go off every 5 minutes. He couldn't find it and kept asking if I heard anything. He thought it was either his computer or that he was going crazy. He tore his office apart looking for it, but I hid it pretty good on roof within a desk filing cabinet. When I finally revealed it, he was pretty butthurt. Definitely worth the $10.

LINK

This post was edited on 2/26/21 at 12:17 pm
Posted by Yewkindewit
Near Birmingham, Alabama
Member since Apr 2012
20118 posts
Posted on 2/26/21 at 12:15 pm to
Staged a big blue rubber dildo, with balls, on the back hatch on a female friend’s SUV. She was going grocery shopping at a Publix. The bag boys pushes the full carts out to the vehicles for the ladies. As she opened the hatch and raised it up, it tumbled onto the concrete in front of the the bag boy. My wife LOLed at this for years. We waited 5 years to tell her after she told the big blue story dozens of times thru the years.
Posted by ELLSSUU
Member since Jan 2005
7329 posts
Posted on 2/26/21 at 12:15 pm to
Bring back “The Annoyetron” thread.

Who was the poster that put one in a coworkers office and kept moving it several years ago?
Posted by Animal
Member since Dec 2017
4224 posts
Posted on 2/26/21 at 12:16 pm to
Stuck a live 2' alligator caught from my pond in my boss' desk drawer. The mouth was taped closed so it wasn't dangerous...just scared the shite out him. Good thing we are also friends.
Posted by texn
Pronouns: Y'All/Y'All's
Member since Nov 2019
3520 posts
Posted on 2/26/21 at 12:21 pm to
quote:

Making a boomer's screen on their monitor upside down was always fun.


Screw you! You know how hard it is to whackoff to PornHub while standing on my head!
Posted by Jor Jor The Dinosaur
Chicago, IL
Member since Nov 2014
6623 posts
Posted on 2/26/21 at 12:28 pm to
I took a screenshot of a co-workers home screen, set it as their background, right clicked on the home screen and deselected "show desktop icons" under view, and hid the taskbar.

They couldn't figure out why nothing would open.

ETA: great minds, dbeck
This post was edited on 2/26/21 at 12:30 pm
Posted by texn
Pronouns: Y'All/Y'All's
Member since Nov 2019
3520 posts
Posted on 2/26/21 at 12:29 pm to
I once put prank bullet hole magnets on a co-workers tailgate before work one day.



When he got off work, he didn't notice the bullet holes when he got into his truck and drove to his favor watering hole.

After 4 hours of drinking, he stumbles out of the bar and wanders around in the parking lot for nearing an hour looking for his truck. He thought his truck had been stolen as he couldn't find it in the parking lot, but there was a truck that looked like his but he knew it wasn't his because the tailgate was riddled with bullet holes.

Posted by VolsOut4Harambe
Atlanta, GA
Member since Sep 2017
12856 posts
Posted on 2/26/21 at 12:36 pm to
quote:

Messing with people's computers left unlocked while they were away was always fun.


This. I'd reverse the key logic for Excel such that up was down, right was left, etc. Changing people's backgrounds was always funny.
Posted by TimeOutdoors
AK
Member since Sep 2014
12128 posts
Posted on 2/26/21 at 12:39 pm to
I had a co-worker that always kept a pile of magnetic bumper stickers he would put on cars. Things like, Honk if you love Trans... Paycuts for Cops, Female looking for old fat guys, etc. HR had to have a talk with him.
Posted by tigahfromtheham
On your left
Member since Jun 2005
5801 posts
Posted on 2/26/21 at 12:42 pm to
Had a coworker that if you put anything on his desk he would immediately move it. Another coworker brought a big arse plastic jar of cheese balls. I bought it from him, flipped it upside down and cut the bottom out. Then I set it on his desk. He came back from lunch and immediately picked the jar up and sent cheese balls everywhere. He had a cloth chair and never could get all the cheese dust out of it. Have a fantastic video of it.
This post was edited on 2/26/21 at 12:43 pm
Posted by caro81
Member since Jul 2017
5013 posts
Posted on 2/26/21 at 12:43 pm to
had a coworker who was deathly afraid of birds. she left on vacation so over the week i decorated her desk with stuffed birds, bird pictures, you name it. I found a toy bird that i taped to the inside of her overheard compartment so when she would open it it would come flying out.

She got back to work and said haha thats funny. 2 hours later she found cabinet bird. loudest ive heard someone scream in long time.

second best was when i tape my bosses office wall to wall with sandra bullock pictures cuz he hated her. was fun, he definitely wasnt happy.
This post was edited on 2/26/21 at 12:46 pm
Posted by Mud_Till_May
Member since Aug 2014
9685 posts
Posted on 2/26/21 at 12:55 pm to
I wrote a parking ticket to one of my employees for $100 on a scrap piece of yellow paper I had in the truck. I said payable to mud at flooring inc.

Posted by Duckhammer_77
TD Platinum member
Member since Nov 2016
2703 posts
Posted on 2/26/21 at 1:02 pm to
annoy-a-tron above the ceiling grid in a lil bitch coworker's office
Posted by DByrd2
Fredericksburg, VA
Member since Jun 2008
8964 posts
Posted on 2/26/21 at 1:28 pm to
Glitter bombs. Lots of them. In one desk of one coworker. Set off two of the seven or eight by opening doors on top, got tired of it and threw all his drawers open and it looked like a stripper slaughter house behind his desk.

Had to pay to get the carpet cleaned.
Posted by ChenierauTigre
Dreamland
Member since Dec 2007
34544 posts
Posted on 2/26/21 at 1:30 pm to
We used to have a guy in accounting that was always joking around. So one day at lunch I put some sandburs in his chair which blended in perfectly with the fabric. We had some heavies in from the corporate office in New York that week.

Little did I know that the accounting guy was out for the rest of the afternoon, and one of the corporate guys was using his office. New York people have no sense of humor.
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