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(Vanity) Funny Business: Readers Share Office Pranks (DON'T MISS!)
Minneapolis Star Tribune ^ | March 2, 2005 | Delma J. Francis

Posted on 03/02/2005 11:21:15 AM PST by srm913

One of my co-workers is a saver. About 15 years ago, our insurance company used a new password each week to identify company representatives. About a year ago, my co-worker found a file with all the passwords. He showed it to all of us and we all agreed there was no reason to keep it, so he threw out the file.

We have a sales convention every year and a top management person would leave company-wide e-mails to update us on information for the convention. A couple of days after my co-worker threw out the file, I called a top manager who sends e-mails updating us on the annual sales convention and asked him to send a fake company-wide e-mail to my co-worker announcing that there would be a contest at the convention and the person who could recall the most company passwords from the old days would win.

My co-worker read the e-mail and came out of his office white as a sheet. We only let him suffer for a couple of hours before we told him the truth.

Ann Mikiska, Farmington

The president of the company where I used to work had a very efficient secretary. When she put a stack of letters on his desk to be signed he didn't read them, just signed each letter and sent them back to her. The office jokester slipped in a sheet with the president's resignation on it, and of course he signed it. The jokester had a good time with it and no harm came from it.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: greatpranks; prank; pranks; workplace
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To: cmsgop

Bleach in the water! What a moron.


201 posted on 03/02/2005 5:57:37 PM PST by cyborg (http://mentalmumblings.blogspot.com/)
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To: glock rocks
Speaking of pranks that wouldn't be considered funny these days...
We had a guy at work - stupid... yet thought he knew it all - the worst kind!

I found this set of shampoo and conditioner in the shape of hand grenades and stuck them in his carry on before a trip.

Oh, the good ole days.....

Sigh.


202 posted on 03/02/2005 5:58:02 PM PST by Dashing Dasher (Once you lose your fear, you become the people you once envied....)
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To: Dashing Dasher

Those are funny


203 posted on 03/02/2005 6:00:36 PM PST by cmsgop ( Well ya know, for me, the action is the juice. I'm In......)
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To: DugwayDuke

Interesting story. May I ask where your dad worked when this happened? Cuz my boyfriend told me the same story about a bunch of guys he worked with.


204 posted on 03/02/2005 6:12:35 PM PST by KimmyJaye (Susan Estrich: A face for radio and a voice for pantomime.)
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To: Dashing Dasher

"Especially fun for the married guys."

Some fellows in my guard unit used to put ladies underwear in their buddies dufflebag at the end of summer camp. They prefered very large sizes. One learned to always check one's duffle before taking it home.


"at the airport..."

Reminds me of another one my friend Frank pulled. Back in the 60s, Five Day Deodorant Pads were popular. Frank's roomate started using Franks and then puting the pads back in the little jar they came in. Frank bought an extra jar. Frank was taking a chemistry class. About five days later all the hair fell out of his room-mate's arm pits. It did cure his room-mates persperation problem though.

"Gay pride stickers".

A found a book one day entitled fifty ways to get even with your ex. One was to print up a bunch of flyers for some thing like the local chapter of the "Gay and Lesbian League of Communist Supporters" announcing this months meeting and include your ex's phone number. The book suggested puting these flyers under windshield wipers at your local mall and the local chapter of the VFW.


205 posted on 03/02/2005 6:15:28 PM PST by DugwayDuke
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To: Dashing Dasher

My Neighbor has a Fart Machine I swear she brings it wherever she goes, we all pretty tired of it though....


206 posted on 03/02/2005 6:16:30 PM PST by cmsgop ( Well ya know, for me, the action is the juice. I'm In......)
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To: KimmyJaye

Dad was an oilfield worker for Carter Oil later bought by Exxon. He worked near a very small town in southern Oklahoma names Wilson. Wilson's only claim to fame was that it was the birth place of Chuck Norris.


207 posted on 03/02/2005 6:17:50 PM PST by DugwayDuke
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To: DugwayDuke
As kids we would call Taxi's and 24hr Repairmen all the time, Those were good times for us and bewildering for the neighbors.....
208 posted on 03/02/2005 6:19:20 PM PST by cmsgop ( Well ya know, for me, the action is the juice. I'm In......)
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To: srm913

gotta read this later


209 posted on 03/02/2005 6:20:40 PM PST by petitfour
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To: Dr. Marten; investigateworld; b4its2late; shotokan; BenLurkin; Congressman Billybob

Check it out!
I'll never have enough time to use all of these...


210 posted on 03/02/2005 6:29:35 PM PST by srm913
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To: glock rocks

OH MY GOSH!!!!!!!


LOLOLOLOL


211 posted on 03/02/2005 6:30:06 PM PST by Brad’s Gramma (aitch tee tee pea colon 2 slashes dubya dubya dubya dot proud patriots dot org)
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To: gorush

You gotta come over here and read some of these - they make me think of you!


212 posted on 03/02/2005 6:31:52 PM PST by WIladyconservative (Be an active member of the pajamahadeen - set up a monthly donation to FR!!)
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To: DugwayDuke

Thanks for the info. When he calls tonight, I'll be sure and ask him. His job takes him all over. He did a lot of work for oil refineries way back when. Have to see if he ever traveled to OK.


213 posted on 03/02/2005 6:32:02 PM PST by KimmyJaye (Susan Estrich: A face for radio and a voice for pantomime.)
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To: deaconjim

ROTFLMAO

And his name forever after was "Slick"?


214 posted on 03/02/2005 6:36:05 PM PST by B4Ranch
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To: FreedomCalls

roflol

hahahahaha

that was really good!


215 posted on 03/02/2005 6:38:32 PM PST by petitfour
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To: DugwayDuke
I have a better one.

"Once upon a time" a big aerospace firm was going to show a DVD about a missile system to us around lunchtime. The projector and everything was set up for a few hundred people to watch. Lunchtime came and went. Those that talk contracts and the big engineers came back late. Then everybody got called back to watch a movie about a defense system. Lights out-movie on. A dirty movie started playing! It took a while to turn the lights on to turn off this projector. The original DVD was swapped and in the dirty movie box UNDERNEATH the projector stand.

I kept my mouth shut about this one. We got the contract:)

216 posted on 03/02/2005 7:01:15 PM PST by BobS
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To: WIladyconservative
A Foil(ed) Cube Movie 8mb

Patience....

217 posted on 03/02/2005 7:02:25 PM PST by RedWing9 (No tag here... Just want to stay vague...)
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To: Starter
Either as a joke, or a gesture of self-protection, my wife and daughter gave me a red Swingline stapler and a DVD of "Office Space" for Christmas. LOL.

Congressman Billybob

Latest column, "By Dawn's Early Light"

218 posted on 03/02/2005 7:03:37 PM PST by Congressman Billybob ("The truth is out there." Yep, it's on the Internet, but it takes digging, and common sense.)
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To: So Cal Rocket
That pic is amazing - it's exactly what I have planned; never saw evidence of anyone else doing it.

Cooooool.

219 posted on 03/02/2005 7:10:02 PM PST by Hank Rearden (Never allow anyone who could only get a government job attempt to tell you how to run your life.)
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To: srm913

Before I left the States I worked in an engineering department of a corporation as a software tech. I was the only SW guy in my cube, the other guys were systems engineers.

On April Fools day I sent an email to one of my unsuspecting cubemates with an attached .exe file. The text of the email instructed my cubemate to turn up the volume on his computer and listen for the 'soft noise' in the program.

Well, I was on my way back to my desk from the restroom when I heard "HEY EVERYBODY! I'M LOOKIN PORN OVER HERE!!" Everybody on our floor was standing up looking over the tops of their cubes laughing and of course my cubemate was sitting at his desk with his head burried in his arms.

He refused to open further emails from me that contained attachments of any kind.


220 posted on 03/02/2005 7:12:36 PM PST by Dr. Marten (gei wo ziyou, haishi gei wo si wan!)
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