[srm913]

My best prank was in high school. I caught a couple of dorks TP-ing my house, so in the middle of the night I went to the grocery store and bought a can of Bacon & Cheddar Easy Cheese. I then drove to their house (they were brother and sister) and squirted the Easy Cheese underneath the door handles of their car. That was the last time I was ever TP-ed.

[Doogle]

I worked for a rather large communications company who I will not mention but their logo starts with a "V" and it has a RED CHECK over the name of the company...well anyway,
we had a supervisor who had a nasty habit of following people around. It was more than a decision on his part, it was personal. Yes there are directives and policies, but like I said, it became personal.
He had this routine of parking a block away and watching and timing repair calls, but no contact with customers afterwards to check whether or not service was complete or courteous...just following his repair people.
One day he followed a fellow worker who had noticed his
"tail" and the worker decided to show his displeasure with the "spy" buy giving him the opportunity to explain his antics to someone with authority. He simply called police and said he noticed a vehicle had been parked in the same spot for over 20 minutes with a male driver just sitting there looking around the neighborhood. It didn't help our
undercover agent that he was parked a half block away from a school and it was letting out.



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[jamz]

I love doing practical jokes.

I had a co-worker from Boston (I'm from North Carolina) and he was just real short and abrupt and came across as a prick in the office. We all had cubicles...small business setup...phone operator did mail sorting etc. I took one of those PC Magazines and put this guy's name on the mailing list for as many porn DVD/CD ads as I could find in the back of that magazine and put the company address as his address.

Couple of weeks later, they started coming in. Advertisements and provocative stuff that the front office HAD to sort to his name. They'd come back to deliver with an odd look...he in his cubicle...I'd hear "why the h**l am I getting this stuff". One day I was at the office..forgotten all about it...had a "WTH" episode with him and I lost it. Confessed.

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Another time a salesman and I moved my boss' desk in front of his main door as the salesman had a key to the other access door. Murphy's law...he has a meeting 8am next morning...can't get in door...he didn't have his other key set. Had to get someone to climb over the drop ceiling to get to the desk to pull it away enough to get in to move it. It weighed probably 300+ lbs.

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If you start doing college pranks...we'll be here all night. Koolaid in frat pool systems. Solenoids charging insulated bathroom door handles while roommate has just exited shower...water balloon launcher (had two roommates go to jail over that one)...crapping in opposing apartment pumpkins at Halloween...setting up water boobytraps on people's doors at apartment complexes. Oh man...those were the days.

Nowadays...I barely get to do the rubber band on the hand squirter thingy on the sink without wife ready to kill me.

[Calvin Locke]

I worked at a startup in the 1980s, before PCs became ubiquitous.

One guy aliased the "changed directory" command in a collegue's account so that it would make a random
decision to do something to the terminal attributes, and then another random decision as to exactly what
attribute (blinking, bold, half intensity, underline, etc.) to modify.

I just happened to be in his shared office when he started cursing at the terminal...and I went to our manager
and said "Bill, remember that thing Bob did to Tom a year and half ago..."

He took pity on Tom and went to inform him of the prank. The manager didn't mind such pranks.

The real kicker was that since the prank was initiated, we changed buildings, the IT guys changed his
terminal, changed the port, he changed projects to another minicomputer,...

[GretchenM]

I worked in an office with a bunch of very stressed out budget people. Apparently to relieve the tension, one fine day several of them took everything out of the cubicle of one of their co-workers (a nice chap who never hurt anybody). They removed his computer and phone and locked them in the computer server room, along with everything else on his desk, even stashing his chair out of sight. Then they took yellow tape that looked like police crime scene tape and circled his cube with it.

Imagine the horror when the poor guy came into work the next day. No one would tell him anything. I think they all gave him really sympathetic looks, as in, Sorry you got the axe, bud.

When someone finally 'fessed up, it came close to blood on the floor.

[mlmr]

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[JoeGar]

When I was in Vietnam, someone in Saigon issued a new "authentication codeword" to US forces every day. If we suspected someone we talked to on the radio was the enemy, we would say "authenticate please", and that person would have to use the day's authentication codeword in a sentence. For example, if the word of the day was "class", the person might respond with "history was my favorite class." I began to pay attention to the day-by-day passwords one day when "Poppins" was the word of the day. I remembered the previous day's word was "Mary". The word for the next day was "has". And the following day it was "ghonorreah".

[GodBlessRonaldReagan]

I was working at a small AM oldies station in the mid '80's in a very conservative area. It was so small, the morning drive jock, the Rock 'N' Roll Renegade (!), got his slot because he also worked in printing and could get us all our forms for free. We had a sales manager who was a strutting little monkey, a wannabe C&W singer who dressed the part. The morning jock printed up a bumper sticker with a piece of '50's clip art of a dad with his hand on his son's shoulder, along with the legend "I Support Gay Rights". He slapped it on the sales manager's rear bumper. For three days, the manager couldn't figure out why he was getting honked at and shot the bird wherever he went!

This same guy printed up "Honk if you've laid the 'Gade" bumper stickers and put them up everywhere. He even plastered the front door of our main competition. I saw them around town for years afterwards.

[mowowie]

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[Big Giant Head]

We pick on the new guy at work. We waited until he got a Pepsi , opened it and had one sip. We then sent him outside to count a few supplies. Superglued his soda to the counter where he left it.

Once, we parked so close to his car that he couldn't get in, or so we thought. He got in, moved the vehicles around (small town, we leave our keys in the car) and put my car sideways between his and the bosses car.

Someone put our older guy's pickup on blocks, but it wasn't anyone that works there, and none of the customers will fess up. He thinks we did it and we're all waiting for retaliation. I did superglue his magic marker to his table, so I guess I'm due.

[DM1]

I took all the belongings of one of my employee's, put them in a box, labeled it "Security Pick-Up", and left it on his chair. Very amusing reaction :)

[D Edmund Joaquin]

I had a girl friend in college who had read something about poltergeists, so one day, I took a spool of white thread and ran it along the ceiling and down into the kitchen area and attached it to stuff like a spoon, the salt, etc. When she came by that evening, I was sitting on the sofa, reading nonchalantly. When she went towards the kitchen (we had a small apartment)I moved the items with the help of the thread , even dangling the spoon in the air. She stood there dumbfounded, saying something like OMG, did you see that?

[Non-Sequitur]

For pure nastiness you still can't beat going to the fax machine and dialing the phone number of someone you don't like.

[Guvmint_Cheese]

I'm not much of a prankster, but one day when the boss was out, a few of us got into his computer, fired up Microsoft Word, and screwed around with his AutoCorrect feature. Any time he'd type common words like "and" "when" or "the," we had it change the word to something like "panties" "tampons" or "boogers."

A few hours after he got back, we heard him flipping out in his office thinking his computer was possessed. Thankfully, he was a good sport about it.

[JewishRighter]

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[21stCenturion]

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