(Vanity) Funny Business: Readers Share Office Pranks (DON'T MISS!)

Minneapolis Star Tribune ^ | March 2, 2005 | Delma J. Francis

[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.

[HamiltonJay]

Shaving Creame and or Whipped Creame on the ear piece of a phone reciever.. (not a lot) a little dab'll do ya.

Then call over one of your coworkers and tell em they have a phone call.

Works every time.

[Born Conservative]

Eating small amounts of gentian violet won't hurt; they used to use it in babies mouths to get rid of thrush.

[Bon mots]

You could always try the "Shock Stapler"

[RayBob]

That's great. Did something like that a couple times:

Case 1: Filled associate attorney's office, floor to ceiling, wall to wall, with balloons (accomplished by a large group of folks...

Case 2: Co-worker pissed us off... supervisor and I packed up every last thing in his cube, files, papers, even his phone...and left it all on a vacant floor of our building.

Case 3: Same co-worker... he went to the local strip club and had a picture taken with a topless stripper. Made two mistakes... first was that he showed it to us. the second was going to lunch and leaving the picture on his desk. This was summer and business was very slow. So we (supervisor and I) took the picture (a Polaroid) and enlarged it to 8x10 on the copier using the "photo" setting. Made a few hundred copies and wallpapered his cube. We covered every surface with the pictures (inside only). Walls, cabinets, drawers (inside and out), the floor, even his chairs. For good measure, we mailed a copy to his girlfriend and to his mother. We were still pissed off from before...

[tacticalogic]

I looked up what tht stuff is meant for. You're one mean dude. I like your style.

I'm usually a nice guy. I just make sure people know when the hit the limit. I don't like being mean, and that helps make sure I don't have to do it very often.

[cubreporter]

:)

[mel]

That is funny, will remember it for this April Fool's

[Fierce Allegiance]

It is a very common prank to put black schmootz on the eyepiece of the binoculars for newbie watchstanders on Navy, Coast Guard boats,etc.

[Dick Vomer]

I used the ear currette (long metal stick with loop on end)to remove wax from ears in the ER.... I sat in the ER and put a raisin on the end of it to look like a glob of wax. Then when the new doc would come on, I'd show him what I got out of a kid's ear and eat the raisin.... that looks just like ear wax.... total gross out, absolutely hilarious.

[TX Bluebonnet]

Here's a minor one off the cuff:

My cousin rubber-banded the sink hose handle so it would be on when the water was turned on, then pointed it front and center. When my Aunt came in and turned on the water, she literally got hosed. Lucky for him, she was a good sport.

[the_devils_advocate_666]

In college I lived in a house with 3 three friends. One of them had found somewhere a box of hardcore porn mags. He, and I think he had help, cut out a whole bunch of pictures and snuck them in all sorts of places in my room. It included coat pockets, shirt pockets, in shoes, hidden everywhere for me to find. I don't know how long it was that I kept finding these, but luckily never at a too embarassing moment.

[Fierce Allegiance]

I'm usually a nice guy.

Usually - lol!

[Born Conservative]

Shaving Creame and or Whipped Creame on the ear piece of a phone reciever..

KY Jelly on the earpiece is even better. And, you can tape down the "thingy" that pops up when you left the receiver. That way, when they answer the phone, it keeps ringing. The KY jelly just adds insult to injury.

[JoeSixPack1]

Sketched a dead rat on a piece of cardboard. Carefully cut it out and placed it in the recessed light fixture of the personnel managers office. 3 times!! :-)

While working in an aircraft repair facility, A&P mechanics worship their tools and tool chest. One particularly unfriendly and very possesive mechanic was on his 2 week vacation when we strung up his tool chest and hoisted it 110 feet above the hanger into the rafters. Upon his return, and 3 hours into his search for his now "stolen" tool box, we all point "UP". :-)

12, 16 inch plastic wire ties (the kind the cops use for cheap handcuffs) wraped around a supervisors driveshaft of his 4x4 pickup makes for the NOISIEST drive home you ever heard!!! :-)

We lifted the supervisors kissass assistant's Toyota Rav4 up with a forklift and placed a cutout watermellon half under each tire and lowered it back down. He couldn't move until his tires finally wore through an inch and a hallf of watermellon rhine. he just sat there in 4wd for a half hour not moving but tires spinning!! :-)

There's more!!! :-)

[IamConservative]

"total gross out, absolutely hilarious."

For some sick reason, I find getting someone to barf funny. As the kids say today: "Owned!"

Sounds like you are onto a possibility here. :)

[TX Bluebonnet]

My uncle got tired of my cousin's lunch being stolen everyday at school. Finally, he laced her sandwich with Epicac.

Problem solved.

[highnoon]

Guy that we all hated in college left for spring break. We broke into his dorm room, opened all his drawers and threw all his clothes on the floor. We then put a live chicken and a TON of feed in the room for a week. Not a square inch of the floor, desk, bed, etc. was clean when he got back.

At work: Remote control fart machine

[Bon mots]

Speaking of finding porn magazines, how about we start a campaign of sending ALL old porn magazines anyone finds anywhere to the Clinton library... all at once. Let's call it "Monica Day".

[GreenEggsNHam]

While in college, my sorority sisters and I would "raid" a fraternity when that fraternity was having an exchange with a sorority from a neighboring college. We would turn all their showers on hot and dump macaroni noodles on the floor, saran-wrap the toilets, and vaseline the door knobs. We would also fill old 33 1/3 album covers with baby powder, slide the opening of the album cover under the door, and then jump on it... result: baby poweder all over the room. Much, much fun!

[t_skoz]

"Speaking of finding porn magazines, how about we start a campaign of sending ALL old porn magazines anyone finds anywhere to the Clinton library... all at once. Let's call it "Monica Day".

BTTT!!!!