[Agent Kang]

I'm sure that many of us with office jobs experienced boredom when the workload eases up (or become non-existent). Countless hours can be spent pushing the refresh button on Head-Fi, but every now and then pulling a harmless prank on your colleague can be just as entertaining.

So feel free to share some of your ideas so that others may have a reason to get excited for work tomorrow.

One of my favorite prank is to cover the laser of a mouse with a scotch tape. Most of the time the victim takes a valiant effort to control it with will power. They usually find the root of the problem simply by flipping it over; the unlucky ones are forced to call IT for a replacement.

 

[Homeless]

I worked in an office during university and one of my co-workers brought in a maxim that had some pranks in it. We decided to pull one of them on another co-worker.

Basically what we did was spin his chair around until the seat popped off...then we filled the hollow pole of the base with about 50 raw shrimp. After a day or two it stank so badly that we had to tell him what we had done because we couldn't take it either. It was funny watching him try and find the source of the smell thinking it was under his desk...

 

[rb67]

What I used to do to hall-mates not too keen on computers is do a print screen of their desktop. Then I'd set that as their desktop background and hide the icons in a folder dragged to the corner of the screen. Then unlock the taskbar, minimize it and watch their frustration as they try to click on something.

 

[RIDE]

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Originally Posted by rb67 /img/forum/go_quote.gif What I used to do to hall-mates not too keen on computers is do a print screen of their desktop. Then I'd set that as their desktop background and hide the icons in a folder dragged to the corner of the screen. Then unlock the taskbar, minimize it and watch their frustration as they try to click on something.

Now THAT is clever!

RIDE

 

[electrathecat]

Replace your co-worker's Bose headphones with two coconut halves. See if they notice a difference in sound quality.

 

[threEchelon]

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Originally Posted by rb67 /img/forum/go_quote.gif What I used to do to hall-mates not too keen on computers is do a print screen of their desktop. Then I'd set that as their desktop background and hide the icons in a folder dragged to the corner of the screen. Then unlock the taskbar, minimize it and watch their frustration as they try to click on something.

Better yet, do that and then go into task manager and end the explorer process.

 

[Agent Kang]

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Originally Posted by rb67 /img/forum/go_quote.gif What I used to do to hall-mates not too keen on computers is do a print screen of their desktop. Then I'd set that as their desktop background and hide the icons in a folder dragged to the corner of the screen. Then unlock the taskbar, minimize it and watch their frustration as they try to click on something.

brilliant. I must try this one.

 

[MrSlacker]

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Originally Posted by Agent Kang /img/forum/go_quote.gif brilliant. I must try this one.

Another great one is rearrange the number pad on the keyboard to look like the phone. This is an old prank, but I saw someone actually do it 2 years ago. It was in a bank so victim used his number pad a LOT... it was hilarious.

 

[skudmunky]

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Originally Posted by rb67 /img/forum/go_quote.gif What I used to do to hall-mates not too keen on computers is do a print screen of their desktop. Then I'd set that as their desktop background and hide the icons in a folder dragged to the corner of the screen. Then unlock the taskbar, minimize it and watch their frustration as they try to click on something.

I did that to my friend for April Fools one year. good stuff.♠

 

[shigzeo]

a simple and sometimes effective one though you are immediately the rat is whilst your mate is making a somewhat though not direly important telephone call, just flip up the depressor for her seat and watch her sink down in her chair. repeat if necessary.

if she ends up laughing or steaming too much to control and hangs up, you will not forget it. simple, physical fun!

 

[ken36]

Damn, I wish I wasn't retired. Gets my juices flowing again. Of course as career US Navy all of my pranks were classified.

 

[nickknutson]

I've tried putting someone's stuff in jello once, but it didn't look as pretty as Jim's from The Office...it just sat at the bottom of the mold like an anchor. Didn't look very funny.

 

[no1likesme]

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Originally Posted by nickknutson /img/forum/go_quote.gif I've tried putting someone's stuff in jello once, but it didn't look as pretty as Jim's from The Office...it just sat at the bottom of the mold like an anchor. Didn't look very funny.

You have to fill the mold half way with jello and let it set, and then add their stuff and more jello.

I purchased the annoy -a- tron from thinkgeek and hit it in under one of the florescent tubes in the IT office. It took more than 3 days for them to find it.


and about the whole tape on the mouse thing. If this happens to you and you call IT you will be mocked for at lest a half hour by the person who "fixes" it.

 

[beerguy0]

You can sometimes have fun with screensavers. I got a guy who hadn't password protected his screen saver. So one night, after he had left for the day, I changed his screen saver to "Marquee". In the text box, I typed "Want cookie!" I then set the password to "cookie". I missed the payoff, but one of my co-workers saw him literally pulling his hair out. She asked him what the problem was. He showed her the screen saver, and told her he had tried chocolate chip, oatmeal, macadamia nut, etc., and still couldn't get in. She typed "cookie", and got in. He was amazed that she got it right away.

He wasn't the sharpest knife in the drawer, but he did learn to set a password on his computer.

 

[GlendaleViper]

Four (Three?) words: Optical Mouse, Play-Doh.

[EDIT] Four more words: Read OP more thoroughly.

On the screensaver/desktop end, we used to be able to hit (if I remember correctly) ctrl+alt and one of the directional buttons to flip the orientation of the screen either sideways or upside down. Absolutely classic when used against the technologically inept.

Sadly, it was such a source of hilarity, the trick proliferated and IT locked us out of the functionality.