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Pranks at work!

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SpectorBass308

Feb 1, 2007
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Pasadena, CA
#1
Write about any pranks that you have pulled at your work. have fun!

I work in a cubicle at Fidelity National Financial, a tax service, where i am also slacking and on TB right now :ninja: . this one time, a friend and I stole this girl's car keyes from her purse while she was on break and "relocated" her car in the parking lot. after work she thought that her car was stolen and almost called the police. we decided to tell her before she called the police, but not until she had allready called her mom! ahh good times.
 
#2
I worked a nurse practitioners' convention in Orlando in March. We had eight reps split into two shifts, AM and PM. One of our duties was to hand out various trinkets with our products' brand name on them.

My group worked the morning shift, which was extremely slow. So slow, three of us decided to unbox the mini double-bell alarm clocks, set their alarms to 3:30, and repackage them.

That afternoon, bells were going off all through the convention hall, with the PM shift scrambling to kill the cacophony of alarms in our booth.

Good times, indeed!
 
#3
Working in manufacturing for 25 years provide lots of laughs. I could go on forever. Probably the worst thing I was part of was attaching a big chain from a heavy collumn to the back of a forklift. Everyone in the building was watching as one of the maintenance guys took off with the forklift. Needless to say the entire building shook and the forklift snapped back about 10 feet like it was attached to a rubber band. Thank GOD no one was killed. :o The victim is still a good friend of mine and we laugh about that day often. :D
 
#5
My service manager at a dealership I worked at for a long time was
a creature of habit and totally predictable, so of course we played jokes on him all the time. My favorite was during summer on the hottest days he would leave his car running with the ac on next to his office so it would be nice and cold when he got in. He would then get real busy and the car would sit there for an hour or more running. I of course would readjust his climate control to full hot. 45 minutes later closed car +full on heater+windows rolled up sitting in the sun = a lot of laughing techs.
 
#6
Not that I pulled all of these but was involved in most in one form or another .

Big long zip ties on drive shafts.

Grease under door handles.

rocks in the hubcaps.

dead fish in the hubcaps.

Love letters from women that do or don't exist.

A fake pancake breakfast that people actually showed up for.

Fake lottery tickets that had one guy thinking all day he won $10,000.

Someone finding the inside of their truck all yellow because the fire extinguisher mysteriously emptied.

Note: no personal vehicles where harmed , only company vehicles.

I could go on for days
 
#7
At my last job someone caught a little garter snake. They put it inside one of the welders gloves and folded over so the snake couldn't get out. The guy HATED snakes. After lunch break the entire company was watching as he put his gloves on to go back to work :ninja: Seeing a grown man screaming like a little girl, jumping, running and throwing his gloves was priceless. :hyper:

After about a year, he stopped checking his gloves. They got him again, this time with about 100 crickets. Same results :D
 
#8
If they work on a PC, minimise all their windows, use Ctrl-PrnScrn to take a image of their desktop and set that picture as the background to their desktop. Then create a folder on the desktop and drag all their desktop icons into that folder and move it to the bottom corner of the screen (almost off the display). Shrink the task bar down to nothing and watch as hilarity ensues as the person tries to click on icons that dont work and a start bar that does nothing because its simply an image. Even a lot of the IT support people haven't cottoned on to this one and will spend endless hours being frustrated trying to work out why their computer has frozen but the mouse still works! :D
 
#9
we have a series of folders ordered as theyre alphabetically marked from A-Z around the office on shelves above our desks. Rearranging them to say specific things (usually four letters long) above specific people's desks is always good time waster and prompts nice facial expressions of sudden realisation.
 
#10
SpectorBass308 said:
Write about any pranks that you have pulled at your work. have fun!
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Old company. EDU and ADMIN networks. Setting a file, email and cron server up with mouse-disabling, "trap error" (CPU hang/lockup) screensavers then while out in the field realising in horror the Sys Admin we set up failed to try the keyboard and was bouncing the servers manually (switching them off at the button) since they do look locked up!!! :eek: :bawl:

The fact the drives lights were whirring away and no alerts had gone off also slipped his perception in his panic to get them "going again".
I think the last joke was on us with that one actually, but boy was it a hoot anyway :hyper:

Current company, our boss at the time had a PDA that goes "whiish" when he plugs it in, and "whoosh" when he unplugs it. Now, it plays "1-2-3-4. Hi-5! 1-2-3-4-Hi5. Hiiiiiiiiiiii-Five!". During a documentation project for that same boss, I was at my desk all day long and I set up a sound at startup that said loudly "Good morning! And welcome to another day chained to this machine". Drove him nuts!

I once shifted a users entire desktop icon set into a single folder, locked access to the folder to admin rights then named the folder something she would recognise who did it. She called me absolutely livid, I unlocked it there and then.

And not so much a prank, but once I was working in a tyre fitters shop, 3 of us young guns with nothing to do and the manager chatting when a hottie came in needing 2 front 13" tyres and quickly. Boss joked "you came to the right place then".

Cut a long story short as she decided on which tyres to buy, one of the guys went up the stock racks above the machines where we were poised to compete and show off! We did it in blistering pace and with one extra hand moving into position the tyres were replaced, balanced and bolted back on and me handing her the keys thanking her for her time in all of 4 minutes.

It took about the same time for her to believe it enough to actually walk out with us and look, she only thought we were just yanking her chain!!
 
#11
Mark Latimour said:
If they work on a PC, minimise all their windows, use Ctrl-PrnScrn to take a image of their desktop and set that picture as the background to their desktop. Then create a folder on the desktop and drag all their desktop icons into that folder and move it to the bottom corner of the screen (almost off the display). Shrink the task bar down to nothing and watch as hilarity ensues as the person tries to click on icons that dont work and a start bar that does nothing because its simply an image. Even a lot of the IT support people haven't cottoned on to this one and will spend endless hours being frustrated trying to work out why their computer has frozen but the mouse still works! :D
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A good desktop officer would just check the account profiles for the desktop file from a remote PC, and see the folder there. Once that happens, next time you have the same problem just remote in to check and open the background image instead. ;)

Took me 6 seconds to work this issue out. And 4 years laughing at other techs who couldn't :D :D
 
#12
An excellent one, from the old days, was comiling in an 8-bit compiler computer language, but using longer variables to make the code appear 16-bit :)

Variable_001, Variable_002, Variable_Emergency, Variable_twohundred, Variable_bassclef, Variable_admin would all compile as Variable!

Used to be a hoot watching techs wade through pages and pages of code trying to work it that out :)
 
#13
used to send new guys to the medical center for a yard of fallopian tubing...

or else send guys off to supplies to get a long wait...

have also boot blacked telephone earpieces and binocular eyepieces...

One prank was to redirect someone's phone to the speaking clock... so when you rang it you got the time instead of the person you were expecting...

Another classic was when we found the exchange could redirect your call so that when the recipient answered it he got the speaking clock... you rang the clock number, and input a code to redirect it to the target phone...

that all fell through when the higher ups discovered that the exchange could log exactly where a call really originated from...
 
#14
manicbassman said:
used to send new guys to the medical center for a yard of fallopian tubing...

or else send guys off to supplies to get a long wait...

have also boot blacked telephone earpieces and binocular eyepieces...

One prank was to redirect someone's phone to the speaking clock... so when you rang it you got the time instead of the person you were expecting...

Another classic was when we found the exchange could redirect your call so that when the recipient answered it he got the speaking clock... you rang the clock number, and input a code to redirect it to the target phone...

that all fell through when the higher ups discovered that the exchange could log exactly where a call really originated from...
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Haha. There's an ad running on the radio atm that's selling a car at a special apprentice rate, that goes:

"Ahhh, the boss sent me to get a new bubble for his spirit level"

"Is that the deluxe bubble, or the standard one"

"Aaaaah....I dunno".

Voiceover - An apprentice will believe anything, except the price of the new _________!

:)
 
#16
When I was teaching HS there was a fellow teacher who used to go on and on about how he as an 'expert' at detecting drug and all the drug use he did etc. etc.

I used to go to his room, and roll some 'joints' with pencil sharpener shavings and leave them in his deck drawer. This went on for months while he tried to find the student who was 'framing' him.
 
#17
Wasn't there a thread on this already... Oh well.

My buddy whose a doctor is a real technophobe and is always complaining about his cell phone. Hates the ringer couldn't change it etc. So when he was looking I recorded a loud extended fart. Then set it as his ring tone. He didn't know until he was with in an elevator at the hospital and someone called him. He said the whole elevator was laughing at him. He kept trying to explain "It's not me. It's not me." He said he had a minor meltdown. Ah good times.

I've got a ton of them from lifeguarding too. I'll let a few other emerge first.
 
#18
We used to transfer each other's calls to different bosses around the office, if you were quick enough you could hang up before it went through. But if it didn't you had to make up something to talk about with your boss. Always fun. I figured out I could just re-transfer while it was calling and it would call them back, so they would talk to the boss. Haven't done that in a while...

We've saran wrapped a few desks. Aluminum foiled a couple more, down to the pens, pieces of paper, cups with water still in them, paperclips, etc...

Someone cooked seafood in the microwave once and they got a trail of paper fish leading from their desk to the microwave when they got in the next day, along with a fish mobile over their desk, and a large sign that said "xx days since the last fish violation".
 
#20
On halloween I dressed up like one of my coworkers.
He's a Cypriot who is bald, with a goatee and like many men of Mediterranean descent, very hairy.

I came into work with a bald head, and glued a goatee onto my face, and stuck fake hair all over my arms and had it coming out of my chest. I wore a white T-shirt to make sure people could see the hair through it.

I came into work early and sat at his desk. With my back turned toward the door, people would come in looking for him. I'd turn around and when they saw me, they'd break out laughing. Then when the guy himself came in and saw me at his desk, he just did one of these :rollno:. I was also trying to find his parent's address, so I could go their house and trick or treat there. But, he wouldn't cooperate and I couldn't dig up enough intelligence.

Now where's that picture?
 

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