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re: What is the best office prank you either did or saw?
Posted on 12/2/25 at 3:17 pm to stout
Posted on 12/2/25 at 3:17 pm to stout
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Were you the guy from here who put an annoyatron in his coworker's office?
Does anyone have that thread. I think it was a cricket noise and the coworker lost his mind. I have that thread firmly implanted in my memory
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Posted on 12/2/25 at 3:19 pm to Purplehaze
We work at my office and I remain professional with my coworkers. Then I go home.
Posted on 12/2/25 at 3:21 pm to Mingo Was His NameO
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We work at my office and I remain professional with my coworkers. Then I go home.
You sound like a lot of fun at work.
Posted on 12/2/25 at 3:29 pm to Purplehaze
I fashioned a fake turd out of four jumbo tootsie rolls and left it on the toilet seat at work. Everyone was in on it except the cleaning lady. The screams were music to my ears. 
Posted on 12/2/25 at 3:34 pm to Purplehaze
Someone put a bunch of posters at major intersections saying “FREE BLACK LAB PUPPIES” and a coworker’s cell number.
His phone was blowing up for a full week until he finally found the posters and tore them down.
His phone was blowing up for a full week until he finally found the posters and tore them down.
Posted on 12/2/25 at 3:35 pm to Purplehaze
I worked with a guy that used to attach all the paper clips together- I always thought this was child like
Posted on 12/2/25 at 3:37 pm to SouthEndzoneTiger
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You sound like a lot of fun at work.
I’m not “fun” nor am I unpleasant. It’s work and I work with a bunch of fricking nerds.
Nor do I think hiding a beeper is high grade humor
Posted on 12/2/25 at 3:39 pm to Purplehaze
I retired from the Fire Department, and we pranked guys all the time.
While the captain was sleeping, we took his shirt and switched it out with one that was a size smaller and replaced his name tag. He put it on the next morning and was worried, he thought he was swelling up. We asked him if he felt ok because he looked swollen and didn't look right. We convinced him something was wrong, we put him in the back of the ambulance, started an IV and drove out of the station before we told him. He was mad but then after a few hours he laughed, it was a good prank.
We also set up an IV with tubing on one of the guys bed, when he fell asleep, we slowly opened the tubing and water dripped out, made him think he peed the bed
The best one is one of the guys wife came to the station to visit, before she left she had to use the bathroom. This was an older station and only had 1 bathroom, no women's bathroom. When she left, he walked her out to the car. One of the guys took a baby ruth candy bar, smeared a little on the seat and put it in the commode, when he came back in the guy who came up with the prank went to the bathroom, came out and said, come look what your wife did, she left a turd in the commode. He was so embarrassed, he flushed it and cleaned the toilet seat. This is before cell phones, so he waited about 30 minutes and called his wife and was going to chew her out, but we stopped him and told him what happened. He was pissed for a while at us about that one but it was funny.
While the captain was sleeping, we took his shirt and switched it out with one that was a size smaller and replaced his name tag. He put it on the next morning and was worried, he thought he was swelling up. We asked him if he felt ok because he looked swollen and didn't look right. We convinced him something was wrong, we put him in the back of the ambulance, started an IV and drove out of the station before we told him. He was mad but then after a few hours he laughed, it was a good prank.
We also set up an IV with tubing on one of the guys bed, when he fell asleep, we slowly opened the tubing and water dripped out, made him think he peed the bed
The best one is one of the guys wife came to the station to visit, before she left she had to use the bathroom. This was an older station and only had 1 bathroom, no women's bathroom. When she left, he walked her out to the car. One of the guys took a baby ruth candy bar, smeared a little on the seat and put it in the commode, when he came back in the guy who came up with the prank went to the bathroom, came out and said, come look what your wife did, she left a turd in the commode. He was so embarrassed, he flushed it and cleaned the toilet seat. This is before cell phones, so he waited about 30 minutes and called his wife and was going to chew her out, but we stopped him and told him what happened. He was pissed for a while at us about that one but it was funny.
Posted on 12/2/25 at 3:39 pm to SouthEndzoneTiger
I used to work with ex-Navy Chief electricians.
They would "rim" my coffee cup and steal shite from office and post pictures of it on the other side of the world.
Best prank was when their supervisor was complaining about some "critter" was eating her vegetable garden. She installed a camera in her backyard.
Her first photo was a man with tree branches duct taped to his head mooning her. She took it well. She was herding cats and knew it.
They would "rim" my coffee cup and steal shite from office and post pictures of it on the other side of the world.
Best prank was when their supervisor was complaining about some "critter" was eating her vegetable garden. She installed a camera in her backyard.
Her first photo was a man with tree branches duct taped to his head mooning her. She took it well. She was herding cats and knew it.
Posted on 12/2/25 at 3:40 pm to Purplehaze
Installed a security camera in the boss's office pointed directly at him and his desk, it wasn't online but was powered up to appear online. He owned that one great, acted like he never noticed it.
Gluing the Cisco phone handset to the phone, so when the lead electrical engineer picked up a call the whole thing comes off the desk. He had to take every call on speaker until he could get Telco to replace it.
Removed a wheel from the office chair of another facilities guy. He went to sit down and had a scare. He knew it was me, and I wasn't there to witness it, so he got the first aid kit and bandages himself all up and walked into the area I was working by the security desk and he starts hooting and hollering about needing an ambulance and he was all hurt, getting other people to play along, to make me feel bad about it, of course I didn't fall for it, nor admit I was the culprit.
ETA- also this same guy, on his birthday every year, the lead electrician would have everyone gather around his desk and the electrician would do his best Marilyn Monroe impression singing "Happy Birthday Mr. President" in front of the whole office. I consider it a prank because even though it was the electrician making a fool of himself, the fool was making his boss (the victim) cringe in front of the whole office.
Changing people's computer wallpaper/screensavers was cool for a while before corporate locked down everyone's computers and you only get corporate wallpaper and screensavers.
Rearranging two or three keys on someone's keyboard, back when they were easy to pop off and snap back on.
Gluing the Cisco phone handset to the phone, so when the lead electrical engineer picked up a call the whole thing comes off the desk. He had to take every call on speaker until he could get Telco to replace it.
Removed a wheel from the office chair of another facilities guy. He went to sit down and had a scare. He knew it was me, and I wasn't there to witness it, so he got the first aid kit and bandages himself all up and walked into the area I was working by the security desk and he starts hooting and hollering about needing an ambulance and he was all hurt, getting other people to play along, to make me feel bad about it, of course I didn't fall for it, nor admit I was the culprit.
ETA- also this same guy, on his birthday every year, the lead electrician would have everyone gather around his desk and the electrician would do his best Marilyn Monroe impression singing "Happy Birthday Mr. President" in front of the whole office. I consider it a prank because even though it was the electrician making a fool of himself, the fool was making his boss (the victim) cringe in front of the whole office.
Changing people's computer wallpaper/screensavers was cool for a while before corporate locked down everyone's computers and you only get corporate wallpaper and screensavers.
Rearranging two or three keys on someone's keyboard, back when they were easy to pop off and snap back on.
This post was edited on 12/2/25 at 3:46 pm
Posted on 12/2/25 at 3:44 pm to Purplehaze
When I was a co-op I shared an office with a draftsman and a junior engineer. Had an empty rubbing alcohol bottle. Filled it with water and I put it between myself and the draftsman. Engineer comes in and I as the draftsman to pass me the alcohol. I took bit hit off the bottle and passed it to the draftsman. He takes a big hit off of it. We had planned on turning around and offering it to the engineer where we would reveal our prank. He just shook his head as the draftsman was taking a shot and said "You guys are fricking idiots" and walked out of the room before we could say thing.
The draftsman has this wall plaque in the office with a little clear box on it filled with dirt from turner stadium in Atlanta when they tore it down. Draftsman was showing it to us one day popped the little container of dirt off to show it to us. Another co-op noticed it looked like the filling from a reeces peanut butter cup. So other co-op took the dirt out of the container stashed it someplace safe and filled it with crumbled reeces peanut butter cup filling. Sat like this for a couple of weeks until one day draftsman and co-op were arguing about something so co-op pull the container of "dirt" off the plaque and proceeded to eat it in front of the draftsman. I thought the draftsman was going to kill the co-op
The draftsman has this wall plaque in the office with a little clear box on it filled with dirt from turner stadium in Atlanta when they tore it down. Draftsman was showing it to us one day popped the little container of dirt off to show it to us. Another co-op noticed it looked like the filling from a reeces peanut butter cup. So other co-op took the dirt out of the container stashed it someplace safe and filled it with crumbled reeces peanut butter cup filling. Sat like this for a couple of weeks until one day draftsman and co-op were arguing about something so co-op pull the container of "dirt" off the plaque and proceeded to eat it in front of the draftsman. I thought the draftsman was going to kill the co-op
Posted on 12/2/25 at 3:47 pm to Purplehaze
a buddy and i worked for a computer retailer in houston decades ago who had 7 or 8 offices around the city.
sometimes we'd work at those other 'satellite' offices and my friend got the biggest kick out of putting his trash from lunch (bread crusts, banana peels, wrappers,e tc.) into an interoffice envelope and addressing it to me.
it would generally take 2-3 days for that to reach the store i was at.
the other thing he did was after he got fired, he opened his macbook up and created a 1,000 page black word processing document then faxed it to the company and burned up the fax machine :rotlfmao:
we used an annoyatron to great effect with a coworker at a differnent job years later; she ABSOLUTELY deserved it and it lasted for weeks. i think we taped/glued it to the underside of one of her desk drawers so even taking the entire office apart no one ever found it until we removed later.
sometimes we'd work at those other 'satellite' offices and my friend got the biggest kick out of putting his trash from lunch (bread crusts, banana peels, wrappers,e tc.) into an interoffice envelope and addressing it to me.
it would generally take 2-3 days for that to reach the store i was at.
the other thing he did was after he got fired, he opened his macbook up and created a 1,000 page black word processing document then faxed it to the company and burned up the fax machine :rotlfmao:
we used an annoyatron to great effect with a coworker at a differnent job years later; she ABSOLUTELY deserved it and it lasted for weeks. i think we taped/glued it to the underside of one of her desk drawers so even taking the entire office apart no one ever found it until we removed later.
Posted on 12/2/25 at 3:55 pm to Purplehaze
Many, Many, Moons ago (close to 20 years), we had a co-worker who had an amazing green thumb. His cube was a jungle. He was also well know to be a unabashed consumer of the devils lettuce.
Well he left on vacation for a week and a 2nd coworker and I went to the local home improvement store and bought a bunch of cheap PVC pipe and some visqueen sheeting. We then built a "greenhouse" over the guys cube. It was up for a whole week.
We thought it pretty harmless but he was pissed when he got back.
Co-worker 1 is retired and is suffering from dementia. He'll still randomly call our office asking for folks that are no longer here. Co-worker 2 passed aways 3-4 years ago.
Well he left on vacation for a week and a 2nd coworker and I went to the local home improvement store and bought a bunch of cheap PVC pipe and some visqueen sheeting. We then built a "greenhouse" over the guys cube. It was up for a whole week.
We thought it pretty harmless but he was pissed when he got back.
Co-worker 1 is retired and is suffering from dementia. He'll still randomly call our office asking for folks that are no longer here. Co-worker 2 passed aways 3-4 years ago.
Posted on 12/2/25 at 3:57 pm to Purplehaze
Put a big zip tie around a buddy's driveshaft. Dude was so pissed he was about to cry because he thought the transmission was going out.
Put a flashbang & smoke cannister on a delayed timer in the back of my college roommate's truck that went off as he turned on to Lee Dr in rush hour traffic. He had about 2 months worth of Canes and McDonalds trash in the back of the truck which caught on fire. That may have been one of the funniest things I've ever seen.
Put a flashbang & smoke cannister on a delayed timer in the back of my college roommate's truck that went off as he turned on to Lee Dr in rush hour traffic. He had about 2 months worth of Canes and McDonalds trash in the back of the truck which caught on fire. That may have been one of the funniest things I've ever seen.
Posted on 12/2/25 at 3:57 pm to Purplehaze
When I worked at UNO athletic dept, we found out one of my coworker's car keys, also worked on one of the baseball coaches comp cars.
Usually the baseball coaches would park their cars by the baseball stadium but would drive over to Lakefront arena when they had to go to the athletic dept.
Every time he would drive to the athletic dept, we would move his car over by one spot or two. Since enough of us were in on the joke sometimes we would be switching parking spots with one of our cars. We eventually had to stop when his wife who worked with the tennis team asked us to tell him because he actually told her it thought he needed help.
Usually the baseball coaches would park their cars by the baseball stadium but would drive over to Lakefront arena when they had to go to the athletic dept.
Every time he would drive to the athletic dept, we would move his car over by one spot or two. Since enough of us were in on the joke sometimes we would be switching parking spots with one of our cars. We eventually had to stop when his wife who worked with the tennis team asked us to tell him because he actually told her it thought he needed help.
Posted on 12/2/25 at 4:01 pm to Purplehaze
Years ago when laptops and PCs all had disk drives you could enter a dos command that would automatically eject the disc tray out every 1 minute.
There was this one OCD prick in my office that left his screen unlocked at lunch. That was a fun week watching him lose his shite.
There was this one OCD prick in my office that left his screen unlocked at lunch. That was a fun week watching him lose his shite.
Posted on 12/2/25 at 4:06 pm to Mingo Was His NameO
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We work at my office and I remain professional with my coworkers. Then I go home.
Translation: just as no one here likes you nor wants you around, the same is true of those who know you in real life.
Mingo at work…
Posted on 12/2/25 at 4:07 pm to Purplehaze
Pregnant waitress dumped a bunch of cherry pie filling on the floor and pretended to be in labor for the manager to find.
Posted on 12/2/25 at 4:09 pm to Darth_Vader
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Translation: just as no one here likes you nor wants you around, the same is true of those who know you in real life.
The office “comedian” is a fricking loser and dork 99% of the time. Considering you play with toys and think a beeper is high comedy, you meet the criteria
Posted on 12/2/25 at 4:11 pm to SouthEndzoneTiger
I used to work at a huge plant that had a couple thousand workers. My office was with a bunch of other engineers, and we were housed in a building about a half mile walk from the plant entrance. It was a typical cube farm, and you could use the star button to answer someone else's phone if they were not at their desk. This was often the case since we tried to maximize our tasks in the plant because we had to walk so far, no matter the weather.
One guy's name was.. let's say George, who was a traveling contractor who lived a few hours away from our plant. George had left for the plant one day after lunch and he told us he'd be gone the rest of the day working on a specific project. Some lady had called in looking for George and our office cut-up answered for his desk. All we heard was "George? I don't think he made it into the office today. In fact, we haven't seen him all week." The cut-up answered in a similar manner a couple of additional times when she called in.
George went home for the weekend and came back Monday morning with a black eye. He said "I'm only going to say this one time - I had better not catch the guy who has been answering my phone. Now my wife thinks I have been having an affair up here. And she is a big girl and former TV women's wrestler. THANKS A LOT for the black eye."
One guy's name was.. let's say George, who was a traveling contractor who lived a few hours away from our plant. George had left for the plant one day after lunch and he told us he'd be gone the rest of the day working on a specific project. Some lady had called in looking for George and our office cut-up answered for his desk. All we heard was "George? I don't think he made it into the office today. In fact, we haven't seen him all week." The cut-up answered in a similar manner a couple of additional times when she called in.
George went home for the weekend and came back Monday morning with a black eye. He said "I'm only going to say this one time - I had better not catch the guy who has been answering my phone. Now my wife thinks I have been having an affair up here. And she is a big girl and former TV women's wrestler. THANKS A LOT for the black eye."
This post was edited on 12/2/25 at 4:13 pm
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