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Pranks at work!

#21
When working a lifeguard tower on our beach every morning, after you've opened the tower, one of the first things you do is set up your cones. The cones create an area around the tower that provides access for our vehicles to the tower and the water. So a fun rookie prank that we do is once the guard has open his tower and hand tossed his orange cones into the sand we wait until he's at the cone that is farthest away from his tower then we call him up on the phone. The dude has to hussle through soft sand climb in his tower and answer his phone. Then we just go 10-22 (disregard). Then he resumes putting his cones out and we do it again. Hilarious. Because you're watching this guy from either his flanking tower or from our zero tower on the pier and he doesn't know who it is. I think the most I've gotten a guy was about 4 times. It's been a long standing tradition of rookie initiation. LOL.
 
#22
I used to work for an airline. We used to have this antiquated email system at work. All of our email addresses were the first three letters of our last name follow by 800. If there was another person with the same first three letters, their address would be followed with 801 and so on. When you sent an email, the cursor would end up next to a command that read "File Into", suggesting a file to place the email after it's been sent.

One day I was at the airport about to jump on a flight and I thought I drop in on our airport director's office to say hello. He was out for coffee and left his email open. I figured, "you idiot...what an opportunity". So I sat down at his desk and sent an email to myself. It read as follows:

Dear Mr. Jenkins (the company president)

After 25 years, it is with great difficulty that I write you today to advise you that I have decided to leave the company and pursue another opportunity with COMPANY X (our biggest competitor).

I went on on about what a great job the president was doing and wished him every success.

I then sent it to myself. The cursor ended up in the correct File Into slot. I then changed the address of the addressee to that of the president, and returned the cursor to the File Into slot.

I left it on his screen and jumped on a flight out of town.

The following day, I learned that this guy almost had a friggin heart attack. He immediately called the president's office and asked his secretary if the president received any emails from him. When she confirmed he hadn't, she suggested he check his "sent" file, where my address clearly appeared.
 
#23
And others, although original

My boss had a business card holder on his desk. I replaced all of his cards with mine. One day he handed out a card to a client. 30 seconds later, I was being showered with my business card.

Password protect a screen saver on someone's PC.

Send out emails from someone elses PC to a wide distribution, either telling people that you're gay (remember it's sent from someone elses address) or that you now sell for Amway and are looking for clients. You then delete the sent email.

That airline I worked for was so bad for practical jokes, our password protected screen savers would activate immediately. More than once, when seated on the throne, would some joker come into the washroom, recognize me through the cracks in the door and leave, shutting off the lights. It always generated an interesting response from the next person walking in to find someone sitting in a stall in the dark.
 
#26
Easy ones using packaging tape. Roll it up backwards, and stick their mouse to their desk. Also, tucked behind door handles, under the pneumatic lever of a person's seat, coffee mugs... or empty plastic pop bottles to the side of a monitor, all over.


Also, if someone uses a tape measure, take it and write with a sharpie marker on the tape's surface. Write anything vulgar. It's always funny.
 
#27
Oh, this one's nasty... this only works if your bathroom has more than just one enclosed crapper stall.


When you see someone enter a stall, leave. Get a cup of water. Go back in, making "about to throw up" sound effects, stumble into the stall next to them, make your best puking sound, and dump the cup of water on the floor by their feet. They won't care that it's only water, they won't be able to tell that it's only water! Their feet will instantly pull up out of view, cuz they have no idea what just sprayed them. Run out before they pinch it off in time to see you.
 
#28
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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haha, i have done this. it worked so good that i felt bad for her and almost let her in on the secret! :D
 
#32
While I was on my honeymoon my co-workers talked our secretary into getting a copy of my desk key because they had some "business critical" need for something that was locked in there. They emptied my desk and filled all three drawers with the "punches" from a hole puncher.

When I came back, I unlocked my desk and pulled the top drawer open to drop my keys in there. When I did that the suction from opening it sucked up a big pile of them and thousands of little paper circles fluttered to the floor all around me. The guy I shared a cube with almost wet his pants laughing. I opened the others drawers and saw all my stuff was gone and that they were filled also. No one would ever tell me how many people were in on it or how long they spent punching holes, but as p1ss3d off as I was I still had to appreciate the amount of effort they put into it.

Of course, my boss came in to see me while I was cleaning up the floor and *I* got a hard time about it. Like *I* had anything to do with it. :hmm:
 
#33
A couple of guys in the worship band, as well as the new assistant music minister, are in the process of playing a huge prank on our music minister. They bought somewhere in the neighborhood of 3,000 bouncy balls and are leaving them in conspicuous places around his home and work and in ever-increasing numbers. They started with 4 on his music stand in the sanctuary before practice started. Then 8 the next week. Then 16...
 
#34
Somebody at work had a cute little candy jar that their girlfriend gave them. When he was gone, one of us opened up the jar, farted in it, and then sealed it back up.

We saw the candy jar empty, and the trash can filled with the candy the next day.
 
#35
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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We used to do that, except we'd take the screenshot with their browser open to something mildly naughty (Victoria's Secret). Then watch and laugh as they desperately try to click on something, anything, to hide the screen. The funniest part is when they reboot and it's still there! :eek:

:D
 
#36
While one of the other carpenters was "dropping the kids off at the pool," I nailed the outhouse door closed. He escaped after a few good kicks.

A few days later, he left the now damaged door open, to prevent a repeat. I grabbed a handfull of green crabapples, and a tennis racket, and sent the apples ricocheting about the inside of the outhouse.


Another carpenter, was in the habbit of stealing, and chewing on my Ticonderogas. (The US made ones, not the crap, foreign made ones) I rolled all my pencils around in a sweaty, erm "personal area," and informed my co-worker of what I had done. I had hoped that he would stop stealing my pencils; he didn't, but it was funny.
 
#39
Another lifeguarding story. We patrol the beach at night and you always come across people humping underneath blankets. Well our beach closes at 10PM. So we routinely have to kick people off the beach after this time. Especially right around 1-2am when people start drifting from the bars on Main st. So when we see a blanked moving mysteriously we approach from the water side, because the sound of the surf masks the engine noise and then we creep up on them...

BLAMO!!!!!!

Spotlights are on and we give a quick squelch from our siren... People can't see crap and they're half naked and running around like chickens with their heads cut off. Bumping into each other. Tripping over the blanket with their pants around their ankles. Hilarious. :D

This did backfire once when we came across a couple of gay guys. :eek: :help:
 

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