Your best workplace pranks!

[Superman]

We all go to work to work hard and give value for money, at least in theory. I work hard and go the extra mile for my colleagues and customers.

But, I hope you'll agree, that work is also a place to have fun. There's nothing better than a prank or practical joke to break the monotony of the working day. As long as the prank doesn't hurt someone or cause major disruption to yours or others work, I think they're entirely acceptable.

What are your best pranks? Come on, share them.

About three years ago, I was looking for an old file at work in our very small storeroom. I came across a pair of old shoes which the owner had obviously long forgotten about.

When my colleague was at lunch, I tied the shoelaces on both shoes to his phone. You should have seen the look on his face when he came back, he didn't know what to say. This set off a chain of events, everyone in the office started using the shoes for pranks. At one point, the shoes ended up hanging from a noticeboard in the corridor. Finally, they ended up in the toilet. One of my colleagues put them in a cubicle in the men's toilets, placing them to make it look like someone was using the toilet. He locked the cubicle door, climbed over the door and left them there. For days, people complained that there was someone constantly using the toilet. It took about three days before people realized no-one was in the toilet, just a pair of old shoes.

Tell me about your pranks.

[Jeremy]

I'm not old enough to work yet, so have a slight problem in that respect unless you count the time I april fooled my paper shop into thinking I had made about 20 mistakes on my paper round. I was listening to the radio a few days ago though, and it's not so much pranks as bad things on first days. One person had a road rage incident with someone and when they got to work discovered it was their new boss. Another crashed their new boss' car when parking it,

[Superman]

Oh, Jeremy, that is so cruel to do that. Giving your poor paper shop owner all that worry for nothing.

I won't tell anyone about the time I was at a party and I put an onion in someone's beer.

[Theresa]

I poured cleaning solution in an old supervisor's coffee once. Done totally maliciously, too.
When I worked at Wal*Mart, and it was really busy, I'd page myself to lay-a-way, stuff like that. And they would actually send me to lay-a-way,

[IntrepidIsMe]

Page yourself, Silly.

My father puts pictures of himself up on other people's monitors, and the hole punch circle things in their coat pockets from the tri-puncher thingy. He also has them get coffee for him, and when they aren't looking gives them a "Domestic Goddess" award and a prize (a pad, ) That goes for men, too.

I don't work, so I don't have any,

[Starbuck]

I do some small jobs for my aunt, and its usually when Sara is sick, I play receptionist. Its the receptionists job to get lunch, and since I can't drive, I orderd a pizza. With pineapple, mango, red bell pepper, green bell peper, sardines, anchovies, canadian bacon, green olives, kalmata olives, saussage, mushrooms, pepperoni, and a lot of other grose things. The pizza cost $53.99, and the entire place reaked for the whole week.

[ILoveHarry]

One of my favorites happened a couple years ago while I was still an intern at my current theatre. I worked in the shop with, "the guys," (Travis and Josh), a lot. At this time, I was still kind of quiet at work, always sweet and friendly... Well, Josh and I came up with a plan one night while we were out drinking. The plan still sounded good the next day so we went forward with it. This particular day, I was not working with them much... but wanderd into the scene shop, stormed up to Josh and tried to slap him hard accross the face. He ducked out of it, grabbed my hand and we started arguing... Basiclly, we were implying that, "something" had happened between us and he was now being an ass to me... Then I turned on Travis and said, "And Josh told me what YOU said about me!" Something to that effect... Then I stormed out of the room. IT freaked Travis out to see sweet little me trying to fight manly Josh.... anyway, it was very funny. It dosn't sound as good as it was written out... oh well. Trust me, it was good. We still laugh over it.

[gilbert3729]

I work at a blockbuster video store and they just startred their new program to make work fun. I dont really understand it but this is what it is:

Apparently there is a book about fish which makes workplaces more fun and blockbuster is integrating the book in its every detail.

The book suggests that fish markets, with people throw fish at each other, is just the epitomy of fun.

Now there are stuffed animals, fish, everywhere and we just throw them at each other (employees). I dont really understand how this makes us more productive but it has made me more aware of whats going on around me.

[Defiant]

We have a monitor, and the monitor has the orders on it. When we finish an order, we are supposed to clear the order. I didnt clear the orders for awhile, so there were tons on there. I came running into the managers office, and asked for help all frantic. He ran in and was all shocked and started to work on it, being all panicky. Then I told him oh wait, I forgot to clear a few, and cleared them all, LOL!

[harrykims#1fan]

We dont really play pranks at work because we're always busy but my dads a bus driver and on april fools day he told all the OAP's that they couldnt sit down because they had only payed half fare and they fell for it

[Jeremy]

[Sam Kenobi]

Alright, I just thought of one of my favorite ones...

My friend Blake and I were in our school's production of "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers." He was Gideon and I was the assistant director. Anyhow, one day one of the freshman girls came up to us (we were juniors) and asked us if we were brothers. So we just looked at eachother and knew we were thinking the exact same thing. We said yes, we were brothers... but actually only half brothers, we had the same mom (that accounted for different last names).

Well, over the next month or so we convinced everyone in the cast that we could... that is, people who didn't already know us, that we were half brothers. We had a whole story about how we were half brothers and how our other siblings were related... and it became this very complex web that we knew very well and told anyone we could about. I'd pretend to get phone calls and do things like "Blake, it's mom, she wants to know if you finished your homework before you came to practice today" blah blah blah... things that... I guess.. real half brothers do... or something.

One day, Blake got one of these "phone calls" from "Mom" that was very devistating. Blake being the brilliant actor started crying during it and very publicly came over to me and told me that he just got a call from "Mom" that she had just gotten back from the hospital where she had been diagnosed with cancer.

So, needless to say, we were both very devistated that "Mom" was dieing. And everybody who thought we were half brothers felt so awful for us, we had a few girls come tell us that they were praying for us and for our mom. Ok... that part made us feel a litle bit guilty.. but only a little.

We kept the charade up when we got back from summer vacation, telling all the people who cared that our mom had died over the summer and that we were still really sad, but were doing ok and thought that we would get through it.

Anyway... that was our fun fun prank. How exciting.

[nadia]

/\ thats funny!

[Quinny]

well i dont work, but i would LOVE to do this to someone

[madlilnerd]

We do mean ones at school.

Vaseline or hair gel on door handles when we know there's a teacher we don't like inside the classroom.

Following teachers around playing the harmonica. They get paranoid and wonder where the eerie music is comig from.

Randomly taping flowers to doors with a note saying "To my beloved hunny bunny" and watching to see who takes them home with them.

Picking up people's tennis and cricket balls and drawing a smiley face on them before throwing it back.

Talking about new worms and viruses that "we've developed" while standing next to the IT teacher.

Writing "I know where you live" in the dirt on teacher's cars

Putting roadkill in people's bags.

[lionhead]

Reading then ame of the opic reminde me of an Security camera video fo an office building i saw. I think the file is called "Nothing to do on work" or someting, its hilarious. especially when you don't know whats going too happen

anybody knows it?:


**SPOILER**

what you actually see is a normal office building with 2 qeubicels(sp?) and people working, then all of the sudden a row of suits on office chairs comes rolling by backwards and moving their arms like they are rowing (very synchronized too i might add), with a man on a bicycle and megaphone follwing them. Its soooooooo funny!

[luit14]

Last year someone brought in a universal remote to school. And they were turning the TV's on. Then the teacher would turn it off and they would turn it back on again. Then the teacher unplugged it and someone snuck up and plugged it back in and they turned it back on again. It was pretty funny to watch.

[madlilnerd]

Lazer pens are the best. The teacher is standing at the front trying to teach, completely unaware of the red dot on their cheek. Then they get angry and keep shouting "What's so funny?!" which, of course, makes it even funnier.

[zero]

When I worked at a drug store I would microwave ketchup packets at night.. and the boss in the morning would warm up his coffee and he would freak out with the ketchup splattered everywhere.

Also, lol, this is good!

We changed the sugar cup with salt.. and the morning people would put salt in thier coffee, and salt in thier iced tea!! it was sooooooooo funny to hear them complain and whine all day.

One time, working at the drug store... Savon in the back room we would have umm like, shelves that were really high up, and they used a fork lift type of thing to put boxes and excess items up there... Well, I climbed up there (I wasn't working there anymore) and put some holloween fake blood all over my face and neck and just left my arm hanging off the side with the fake blood... and I heard Betty screaming, and then Steve our manager came and climbed up and (he is a big christian) he saw me there all bloody and dead, he was liek OH JESUS... OH JESUS... !!!! and I couldn't hold my giggles in... and we was like ANNETTE!! WHAT IN THE HELL IS YOUR PROBLEM? you almost gave me a stroke!!!! Anyway... it got them good!

[Sam Kenobi]

My other best ones were in my junior year in marching band. At this time, we were in a large Pit vs. Drumline war. It all started when they stole our mascot Pit Smurf, who had been a valued member of pit for 3 years at the time. Once we got him back, we took one drumstick from each pair and hid them, then stole their harnesses too. They finally found those and got them back, so they stole our other mascot, one of those ChikFilet cows. Luckily we had an insider in drumline who gave us a treasure map to find it.

After that, the AngelsTM (me, Opie, Nola, and Ryan) got fed up with it, so we stayed up one night until four in the morning shredding paper. We ended up with 6 garbage bags full of shredded paper. The next day, when the drumline was out practicing, we filled each empty drumcase with shredded paper so that they wouldn't be able to put drums in. They were quite pissed after coming in from a hot day.

Keep in mind, we OKed all of our pranks with the band director, the Drumline didn't.

We got wind that their next prank would be to steal our Marimba keys and hide them. I walked into the band room right as they were hiding them, so I saw, but pretended I didn't notice. Once they had gone out, we went up andgot the keys from where they had hidden them and hid them somewhere else. Then we went outside under the pretense of getting ready to play. We took off our Marimba cover and *gasp!* the keys weren't there.

So we pretended to freak out that they were gone and started accusing the drumline of taking them. Finally, our director got really angry with the drumline and made the captain go get our keys back. But when he went up to find them, they weren't there. He started freaking out that he couldn't find them, the director got even angrier that the drum captain had stolen our keys and lost them and wasn't out with the band.

Finally the drum captian said something like "Guys, I can't find them.. I put them right here but I don't understand." And Opie said "That's because we win" and got our keys from where we had hidden them and went outside.

And that was the end of the Pit and Drumline war. With the Pit winning of course. Our director was so pissed at the drumline after that, especially since he never heard that we had foiled their last plan and made them really late. Anyway.... that was exciting too.

[Toad]

I don't work at an office, but I think this would be cool...

If where you work has a break room with a sink, then tie a rubberband around the sprayer and set it back in the hole. Then when someone turns it on, they get drenched. I did this to my mom once, and it was very funny. Oh well, it may not be the best practical joke, but it's the only one I could think of off the top of my head.

[luit14]

^lol, I saw that on America's funniest home videos once and the people went crazy when they got wet.

[Superman]

I can't believe that a topic I posted last August is receiving replies today.

But, very interesting, folks. Keep it up!

[Starbuck]

I was working at this boutique my aunts friend owns and I took out my lighter and melted the sprinkler heads so they all went off.