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!
The first time I rode a submarine I was heckled mercilessly as the greenhorn, by a group of 14 other experienced riders.
There was a radioman on board that had a panty collection.
Yeah, a panty collection.
Well on the final day of the mission 14 pairs of panties made their way into 14 married jerks seabags LOL
I have no idea what the results where.
I guess that is not so much a prank as it is revenge.
There is one in every office. LOL
Practical jokers are, without exception, a**holes and usually morons. I’ve fired two people for it and would happily do so again.
Pop the 1,2,3 and 7,8,9 keys from the computer keyboard and adding machine, and replace in reverse order.
So, instead of...
789
456
123
you have
123
456
789
I had one co-worker go through about 7 feet of tape trying to figure out why none of her calculations would balance.
Same co-worker months later - over the course of the day - every time she got up and left her workstation - we would turn down the brightness on her monitor a few clicks. By the end of the day she was inches away squinting to make out what was on the screen.
She’s a good sport. But if she ever comes to work in a black trench-coat, I’m bailing out a window - and we work on the 4th floor! :)
I’ll bet you are a riot at the company white elephant Christmas party.
Pranks have zero place in the work place.
Most pranks are not funny except to the person pulling them.
Really?
Taking time from work to pull pranks, is not what you are hired for.
Play pranks off the clock.
Is ribbing OK?
Regular jokes?
Compliments?
Direct Talk?
You know? I had a guy squeal on me because for my own amusement I Filled in a document that was for my own use and not a deliverable as being prepared by B. O’bama.
This was done on the day that Barry was in Ireland bragging about his long lost Irish relatives.
This person saw it and ran to the boss.
Would it have been offensive if it said Milhouse Nixon?
As I said this was not a deliverable and was my own notes for my own use.
I got called into the office for it.
Barry can joke about it but I can’t??!!
Ya gonna bust me for doodles?
WTF?!!
After working for a number years at a finance company in a large city, I got a job as a loans officer with a bank, with a branch in a small city of 45,000. As an officer of the branch, I was to have the combination to the vault. The manager advised me that corporate policy was that the combination was changed with each change in personnel. We would need the ‘combination puller’ to accomplish this, but this important piece of equipment was at another branch in a small town approximately 25 miles away.
He sent me to that branch in another town to pick up the ‘combination puller’ and bring it back with me. I had a pleasant drive in the country to the other branch. I went in and introduced myself, asking for the Manager. I asked him if I could bring back the ‘combination puller’ back to my branch. He then asked me when I had started with the bank.
The good thing is that I got lunch paid for and saw some very pretty countryside. Every time there was a new hire, they were asked to travel and retrieve the ‘combination puller’.
Bah humbug smith. Bah humbug to you. Come fire me :)
I bet you time people in the bathroom too.
Why aren’t you working, that’s what you get paid for?
Like sending the new guy on the boat to get some “Relative Bearings”
In my several decades of employment, the concept of workplace pranks has never entered into my experience in any way. The idea is completely alien to me, which suits me fine.
Oh gosh, wait! Honestly, I had forgotten. Some guys played a UNIX prank on me years ago, but I forget what it was exactly. Some kind of login thing which involved “social engineering” I regret to say. Well, it didn’t amount to much.
What a weird oh.
We are talking about taking time from your job to pull a prank, not having friendly conversations.
But we have it down, you apparently feel goofing around is more important than doing the job you where hired to do.
“Radar Paint” worked as well
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