Posted on 01/27/2013 9:19:58 PM PST by MtnClimber
I once took a coworkers phone apart and swapped the wires for column 1 and 2. He could still dial 9 for an outside line, but all calls with most numbers went to wrong numbers. Also super glued a full cup of coffee on his desk.
One that did not work on me....I left my office and my office mate thought I went to the bathroom and thought I was in a stall. He soaked a hand full of paper towels and threw them over the door and splat onto "my" head. He was laughing when he ran into the office, but not so much when he saw I was there.
One done to me when I lived in Florida, we were leaving a remote work area when the car in front of me stopped for a snake in the dirt road. I got out and saw it was a garter snake and caught it and threw it off the road. I explained that except for coral snakes in FL, all poisonous snakes were pit vipers with slit pupils. A few days later my coworkers opened the door to my office and were snickering and saying "slit pupils are not poisonous" and threw a large zip-loc baggie on my desk containing a live eastern diamond back rattlesnake they had caught that was sluggish due to cold weather. I took it far away and let it go. They got me. I was surprised!
I work in electronics.
Years ago I worked at a place where we had a limited lunch hour so we would send one person out to get food and we would do duty rotating that task.
It was my turn to get chinese.
I had saved a fortune cookie from a previous week, opened the cellophane pack, removed the fortune with forceps.
Replaced it with a new professional looking fortune and resealed the cellophane.
My Co worker almost fell off his chair when he read the fortune.
“No touch you ****!! Fix Radio!!”
And you think this childish behavior is funny?
If I had been your manager, I would have written you up, then the next time fired you.
Used to work for a grain company. Was not unusual to come in on Monday morning and find every drawer in my desk filled with grain of some kind. Musty, off grade soybeans were the worst to clean out, particularly when they had been there over a long weekend in an office with no air conditioning during a humid time of the year in southern Louisiana.
We also had a trader who smoked very smelly cigars. Would often find the stub of one floating in my coffee cup right when I took a mouthful. Soon learned to check the contents of my cup before drinking.
Also had a pneumatic tube that was used to send the grade of the next truck load of grain from the truck probe to the dump for binning. A quick flip of the wrist and out popped the paper - and also unfortunately often a dead mouse or small snake. Learned to look before opening and also to stifle my screams. Guys never seemed to be on the receiving end of the animals though, just the gals.
“I had been your manager, I would have written you up, then the next time fired you.”
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Now thats what I call full dedication and commitment to the cause there...lol
I worked with an old mechanic years ago that delighted in greasing the door handles on my car.
On day I brazed a Stainless steel coaches whistle into a pipe, bunged that up his exhaust, wired a smoke bomb to his starter coil, filled his hubcaps with gravel AND greased his door handles.
Much hilarity ensued.
A guy at work got a big promotion so the next day a bunch of his friends put his office inside the freight elevator.
One of my oldest memories, I kid you not, was getting thrown out of a kindergarten for what you could call a “workplace prank”. It’s been downhill since then.
I despise pranks. I do not understand how doing them is at all funny. I know most folks will think I have no sense of humor. I see it as attempts to humiliate people in order to entertain yourself and others. Not explaining well, I guess. I do not even play on April 1st. People who know me, know I do not appreciate pranks. I consider most of them cruel and unfunny. I will confess there have been one or two that I think are humorous, but not as a rule.
It’s a guys’ thing, mom!
lol....Then you would get the “special” treatment.
Sometimes it just breaks the monotony.
“And you think this childish behavior is funny?
If I had been your manager, I would have written you up, then the next time fired you.”
And maybe I would have been the unfortunate Manager of you and fired your stiff, stiff arse. Wipe that frown off your face comrade!
What about whoopee cushions? Those are harmless enough, and are always good for a laugh. :-)
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