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Nothing & Everything => Open Discussion => Topic started by: Govtcheez on April 23, 2010, 08:04:17 AM
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I need some ideas for office pranks. I've been doing really minor stuff to a guy at work, but I think it's time to step it up a notch. Monday and Tuesday of this week, I took his chair after he was gone and relocated it somewhere else in the office. The next morning, my chair was missing. Last night, I took all the empty chairs that I could find (and we have lots, thanks to layoffs), and put them in his cube. When I got in this morning, he had done the same thing to me. We've officially declared an end to chair wars, but if there's one thing Glorious Leader Bush taught us, it's when you declare major hostilities over, the shit is just beginning. So, I turn to you, ES, for new ideas. I've thought about the standard aluminum foil wrapping and things like that, but I'd like some other ideas.
edit: and before Mike tries to reply, I don't want anything that would actually be mean or get me in trouble, so save your loltastic "take a dump on his keyboard" reply
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Idea #1: Close off his cube and fill it with balloons
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Idea #1: Close off his cube and fill it with balloons
we* did this† for a coworkers 50'th birthday last january. its very labor intensive. you'd be surprised how many ballons it takes to fill up a cubical.
*we I started to help but went home at my normal time while others kept working
†they never got more than a couple layers of balloons in before they got tired and went home.
what if you just shit on his keyboard?
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Yeah, I'm trying to convince myself that his cubicle is tiny and it'd be easy but I think I'll need help
Re: shit on a desk - thanks, I'll think about it
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I prefer subtle thing... unplugging monitors, removing important screws from desks/chairs/cubicle walls.
Oh! I got one! Take a shit on his keyboard!
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hide stuff of his or move it around.
or my favorite, take the mouse and hide it
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I prefer subtle thing... unplugging monitors, removing important screws from desks/chairs/cubicle walls.
someone once switched the "alt" and "control" keys on my keyboard.
also, this thing: http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/ae83/
and one of these: http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/b278/
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also, this thing: http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/ae83/
I love this. A lot.
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Some guys from another office covered a coworkers cubicle with post-it notes, although that seems like it would be even more labor intensive than balloons.
I'm always amused by the office supplies in jello thing when I see it on TV, but I'm not sure how many office supplies you've fuck up and have to replace.
Taking a shit on the keyboard is fine, but don't literally take a shit on the keyboard. It's better to do it elsewhere and then place it on the keyboard.
If you have access to his machine you could switch the actions of the left and right mouse buttons, although that could open a can of worms.
If he has a drawer he uses often you could fill it with something. Marbles, bouncy balls, confetti, etc.
By the way, is it just me, or is he just copying your pranks and doing them to you? Then you declare "chair wars" over. I'm guessing he isn't as into this as you.
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Your victim doesn't seem very original in his payback. I wouldn't advocate shitting on anything as that is just mean and not a prank/joke.
Simple ones:
Electrical tape over the IR sensor on the mouse.
Scotch (clear/magic/etc) tape over the end of the cat 5 cable. (Do this on both ends if you can get to them)
Super glue on the keys of the keyboard (need to have good timing for this so that it is still tacky when he gets to it). Won't glue his hands to the keyboard.
Petroleum Jelly on various surfaces he'd touch
Non-physical pranks (Ability to pull off depends on how much access you have and time you are willing to spend)
Changing password. Even better if the password recovery method returns the plain text password.
Forcing random log outs
Random internet blocks
Rick-rolling (or goatce.cx) via DNS
Oldie but a goodie: Adding a startup script that redefines the location of keys on the keyboard (i.e. the h key produces the character l) [Not haven't done this one since middle school so not sure how well it'd work on modern OSs]
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Turn his cube into a hamster cage. Put down a tarp (for cleanliness) and cover the floor in woodchips. Add a running wheel and a human sized water bottle upside down attached to the wall. etc...
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By the way, is it just me, or is he just copying your pranks and doing them to you? Then you declare "chair wars" over. I'm guessing he isn't as into this as you.
Yeah, he's just copying what I do to him (although he did leave a big roll of plotter paper on my desk this morning, so maybe I'm just not giving him credit). I'm sure he's not as into this as I am - he's just a friend at the office that I like to poke fun at. I will continue poking fun for my own amusement, as long as it's in good humor
>Non-physical pranks (Ability to pull off depends on how much access you have and time you are willing to spend)
Unfortunately I cannot do any of those
> Turn his cube into a hamster cage. Put down a tarp (for cleanliness) and cover the floor in woodchips. Add a running wheel and a human sized water bottle upside down attached to the wall. etc...
This is the kind of thing that only exists in movies
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saran (or pallet shrink) wrap everything in his cube. Keyboard, stapler, monitor, etc
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>This is the kind of thing that only exists in movies
Happened at Red Hat where I worked, but after I had already left. I can probably find some pics on facebook. We had also done the aluminium foil things.
You could also turn his cube into a ball pit playroom. The balls aren't too expensive, but the hamster cage would be cheaper.
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Well no wonder people don't pay for Linux
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i would ball pit my own cubicle, that would rule
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Add a macro to their computer that replaces his name with the word Douchbag everytime he types it.
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Simply soak his chair in water. When soaked there is no evidence it is wet until it is used.
Glitter. Pour it in his desk drawers. It is the gift that keeps on giving. He will find glitter particles forever. On his crap, stuck to his face, etc. Never really gets cleaned up.
Brute cologne. Just a little bit on his arm rest, chair, etc each day. It adds up very quickly.
Go to a blank spot on his desktop
Right click
go to "Properties"
click on "settings"
click on "Advanced"
go to "graphics driver"
click on "graphics properties"
click on "rotation"
go from there ...
Does he use an umbrella? Paper punch dots into an umbrella are great.
If he is a hunt and peck typist, reverse a couple of keys.
Icy Hot. Lip of the coffee mug. Little mean though. Done it. Works on TP also, but that is nearly impossible at work.
If he has a desk phone wire the cord short or glue the receiver down.
Reverse his desk and everything on it.
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glitter....umbrella....icy hot: fuuuckkkkedddd uppppp. Do that to an enemy lol
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:devil:
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glitter....umbrella....icy hot
Awesome.
Simple yet efficient.
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I don't have time to read the whole thread but here is a couple things that we did in our office:
1. bubble wrap entire cubicle. We collected bubble wrap for about 3 months to do this. we wrapped everything: phone, keyboard, chair, desk, walls, floor....everything.
2. print out a shit load of pictures of an ex employee no one liked and tape a whole cubicle with it - as thorough as above.
3. hotglue mouse to desk and handset to phone
4. hotglue office door
5. remove casters from office chair
6. switch left and right mouse buttons; lower sensitivity; lower double click speed
7. switch keys on keyboard
I have more if you want them.
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Add a macro to their computer that replaces his name with the word Douchbag everytime he types it.
this has been done at my office too. But not with a macro - office 2007 has an option like that. I think a "." (period) was replaced.
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Anything with glitter is officially too mean. That's just hateful.
Love the office replace and the mouse click switch...Also the office reversal...turn the whole thing backwards - desk opens to the wall etc...
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He's got dual monitors, which I switched Friday afternoon
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He's got dual monitors, which I switched Friday afternoon
Simple. Amusing. :thumbsup:
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I take it your coworker doesn't lock his computer down when he steps away?
If that is the case then: Changing of the desktop wallpaper, theme colors (red on pink is fun), mouse trails, etc
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He logs off at the end of the day, but doesn't lock it when he's gone. When I know he'll be gone for a couple minutes, his display is going to get rotated.
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That is why I have a screensaver password setup and I lock my screen when I leave my desk
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oooh, here are two more:
strip of tape under mouse on the LED or the laser...if roller ball, take it out.
here is a more involved one: screenshot of desktop. Clear the actual desktop and set the screenshot as wallpaper :)
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He logs off at the end of the day, but doesn't lock it when he's gone. When I know he'll be gone for a couple minutes, his display is going to get rotated.
Sweet!
Gluing a single caster in his chair solid is really crazy annoying.
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oooh, here are two more:
strip of tape under mouse on the LED or the laser...if roller ball, take it out.
here is a more involved one: screenshot of desktop. Clear the actual desktop and set the screenshot as wallpaper :)
Mike already mentioned the tape thing.
The screenshot thing is awesome.
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I've done the screenshot thing to other people and was planning on doing that eventually. Same deal with the tape over the mouse ball
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Ever consider taping the reset button down?
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I'm afraid if I did anything like that our IT guy would freak out or something
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frame him for murder
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He's black, I don't want him to actually get arrested :(
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Ever consider taping the reset button down?
A story a long those lines: My senior year I took a computer repair course. Well something happened and we basically spent our time stripping out old computers and putting new hardware in them. One day I put a jumper across the reset pins of another guy's computer. It fried the CPU. Of course this was back when the reset button actually reset the computer right then and there.
He's black
And the truth comes out. All these pranks are just your racist way of trying to put him in his place. You've been hanging out with RoD too much.
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He's black,
Go to work wearing a tablecloth with eyeholes cut out.
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He's black,
Go to work wearing a tablecloth with eyeholes cut out.
"I'm a ghost! Get it? I....uh...heard you were scared of ghosts?"
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If you can get his cellphone, toss it up above the ceiling tiles. Call it while he looks for it.
Was funny when Jim did it to Dwight on the Office.
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He put tape on my mouse this morning. I'm going to play it off like it was never there.
edit: Now he thinks someone else is in on it and helping me, heh
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Not doing anything is almost better than doing things. My pencils and highlighter were taped to my desk this morning and I got rid of the tape when I noticed it. He seriously thinks there's some sort of good samaritan that's fixing stuff on my desk before I notice it
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He's black,
Go to work wearing a tablecloth with eyeholes cut out.
"I'm a ghost! Get it? I....uh...heard you were scared of ghosts?"
lmao
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im a scary ghost! love southpark.
and be careful, if u ever upset him it's a hate crime
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> and be careful, if u ever upset him it's a hate crime
I upset him all the time and to the best of my knowledge I don't have an arrest record
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I'm actually making a serious point, i'm not even trying to be racist. Let's say he takes one of the jokes the wrong way (we all have to admit it happens, humor is a funny thing) and it becomes a real issue. He see's an opportunity, gets a lawyer, and it becomes a cluster fuck of a law suit.
Is it likely? No, but it CAN happen. It is generally the harmless actions and the people you NEVER expect that end up fucking you.
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If you guys want to have a "why isn't there a white entertainment television" thread do it somewhere else
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you're missing my point, and i wasnt trying to hijack
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If you guys want to have a "why isn't there a white entertainment television" thread do it somewhere else
There is, it is called porn
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you're missing my point, and i wasnt trying to hijack
Your point is that my friend is going to take something the wrong way and sue me and my company for a hate crime. It doesn't belong in this thread, and it is racist.
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If you guys want to have a "why isn't there a white entertainment television" thread do it somewhere else
Why the plural?
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Preemptive for anyone else that wants to indulge
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He's off today, so I walled off his cube with boxes.
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He's off today, so I walled off his cube with boxes.
Filled or empty?
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Filled of course!
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Good man.
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So there's this really lame "prank" that people do around here where they just call you for no reason and hang up when you answer. Totally lame and you can see who it is on the caller ID. Shouldn't even qualify as a prank.
So I wrote a quick script that uses Tropo to call the office through a backdoor line that doesn't show up on caller ID, it pauses for the IVR to pick up and dials the given user's extension.
When they answer, they hear this:
https://youtu.be/PWmfNeLs7fA?t=35s
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