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35 Pranks That You Can Play on Your Officemates
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Sitting in a small box from ‘eight to five’ can be pretty boring. You have to contend with the buildup of stress and fatigue as you draw closer to the latter part of the week. Work should clearly be mixed with a few stress-relieving activities. Of course, no other activity can relieve stress better than playing pranks on your officemates.
Here are 35 nasty pranks that you can pull on your officemates.
1. Tell a funky urban legend about caffeine causing bowel movements. When your officemate is not looking, sprinkle laxative on his coffee.
2. Install an annoying ringtone on your mobile phone, then set the ringing volume of your phone to maximum.
3. Switch the cables of your officemates’ computers. Watch them scratch their heads as they try to figure out what is happening on their monitors.
4. Make a love letter that is allegedly written by your dorkiest officemate. Leave it on the table of your hippest co-worker.
5. Switch your officemates’ birthdays on the bulletin board.
6. Get a 1×1 photo of your co-worker and make 50 photocopies of it. Mix the photocopied paper with the unused ones. You’ll know that the prank worked when people start looking for a 1×1 photograph that is stuck inside the photocopier.
7. Go to a popular social networking website and grab the goofiest pictures of your co-workers. Print the pictures and post them on the bulletin board.
8. Switch the controls of the left and right mouse buttons. Now, set the scrolling speed of the mouse to the slowest.
9. Buy a bag of small candies and a straw from the pantry. When you get stressed, put a candy in your mouth then shoot it at an officemate using the straw.
10. Twist together two staple wires to form a tiny spike. Slip the spike in a shoe or on the handrest of your frequently teased co-worker. You will know that the prank worked when you hear a funny yelp from a nearby workstation.
11. Borrow the mobile phone of your officemate then switch its language to Arabic or Chinese.
12. Place shaving cream on the handset of your officemate’s phone. He will have two white blotches on his face after answering a phone call.
13. During lunch break, go to the computer of your co-worker and take a screenshot of his desktop. Set the screenshot as wallpaper then hide all the icons and the taskbar. The fun begins when your co-worker returns to his workstation.
14. Place a whoopee cushion on your co-worker’s chair.
15. For computer chairs, remove the casters on the seats of your officemates, then replace them with chicken eggs.
16. Take a can of peanuts on your co-worker’s workstation and switch it with a Snake Nut Can. He will probably jump along with the snake-like projectile that comes out of the wacky can.
17. Buy a lifelike plastic cockroach from a toy store. Use a marker to darken its wings and other coloring materials to make the toy look like the real thing. Place the toy cockroach on the workstation of your office crush. When she notices it, you’ll get a free yet panicky hug.
18. Go to the workstation of a random co-worker then scream “Happy Birthday!” In a short while, the entire staff will be rushing over to your officemate’s station for an instant birthday celebration.
19. For your officemates who love to work overtime, make a bunch of scary stories that supposedly happens in the office after 5PM. Tell them that some former employees had near-death experiences due to the “killer ghosts” that haunt the office floor.
20. Get a large canister of Danish cookies and cover it with icing. Place the canister inside the fridge. Chances are, some dimwit will try to take a slice out of your cake-like canister.
21. Write the message “Follow Me” on a post-it, then stick it at the back of an unsuspecting co-worker.
22. Call a pizza parlor and have a pizza delivered to the office. Address the order to a random officemate.
23. Tape the mouse of your officemate’s computer to the table.
24. Go to a faraway workstation and call the office phones of your female colleagues. Talk in a sexy Latino accent and flirt with them. Never reveal Mystery Latino Guy’s true identity to set the women on a wild goose chase.
25. During lunchtime, stuff the office toilet with random stuff such as crumpled paper, gelatin, and plastic, until it gets jammed. Your officemates will watch in horror as their bodily wastes rise from the toilet bowl and chase them out of the cubicle.
26. Tie the shoelaces of your absent-minded co-worker to a small office supply like a stapler, staple remover or a puncher.
27. Write the message “Just” on one post-it, then write “Married” on another. Stick the post-its at the backs of your co-workers who are often seen together.
28. Wear a Joy Buzzer, then high five everyone when you get to the office. Just avoid your boss while the gadget is still worn. A buzz might lose you a few hundred dollars on your next check.
29. Purchase several blank DVDs. Go to your computer and store exotically explicit stuff on the discs. Place labels on the DVDs to make them look like the CDs found on your co-worker’s workstation. Now, switch the CDs on your co-worker’s workstation with your DVDs.
30. Call the office secretary and ask her to hold the line for a moment. Cue all of your office buddies to call her at the same time. Half of your buddies will look for random staff members, while the remaining half will ask her to hold the line. Surely, this prank will fluster even the most experienced secretaries.
31. Interchange some of the pages of your boss’ newspaper with yesterday’s issue.
32. Get the mobile phone of your shortest officemate. Set its ringing volume to maximum then set it atop the doorway or on a tall air-conditioning unit. Watch her jump up and down like a little kid. To make her panic even further, call her mobile phone. The loud ringing will make the entire office her audience.
33. Padlock the office fire extinguisher to the beltline of an unsuspecting officemate.
34. Cover the opening of the mouse ball with tape. For infrared mice, tape a sheer piece of cardboard over the red light’s exit point. Watch how some of your co-workers foolishly try to make the mouse move by banging it on the table.
35. Wrap all the items on your officemate’s workstation with aluminum foil, including the table.
Pranks bring color to any dull work day. Imagine the expressions on your officemates’ faces, if you set each of them up for a practical joke. They will probably look silly, as you laugh your way into having a good week at work. Too self-serving? Let’s face it, we all live in a dog eat dog world.
* Stink bombs could also be used as an alternative practical joke that you can play with your office mates, then learn how to make stink bombs.
When my, unfortunately, immature co-workers tried a variant of #34 on me, I explained to them that the first thing someone does with an infrared mouse is turn it over when it doesn\’t work. To their credit, they did the same to another co-worker and they finally had to give in when he was calling tech support to figure out what the problem was.
I also advised them that pranking a co-worker that gets in hours before you in the morning is a really bad idea because payback is a… you know.
best one:
During lunch break, go to the computer of your co-worker and take a screenshot of his desktop. Set the screenshot as wallpaper then hide all the icons and the taskbar. The fun begins when your co-worker returns to his workstation.
hahaha really funny stuff. i don\’t know if i\’ll try one, but it was fun to read.
Wow, some of these are plainly evil! But it makes for an entertaining read, no doubt.
I have to admit…I have tried many of those pranks back in high school and college…But I don\’t think I\’ll risk my occupation just for a few laughs…Though, number 13 seems interesting…
I’ve seen number 18 done a few times - pretty funny!
I have tried number 7 several times and it has never failed to induce laughs. I wish this list has a poll. haha
I love #13.. #8 is funny too.. i also tried switching the keys of my office mate’s keyboard one boring afternoon..
It\’s called the Chaff-Bomb and here\’s how you do it:
Items to gather at home before the prank:
1. An empty cassette case (might be hard to find these days)
2. Fishing Line (20 pound test, clear)
Instructions:
1. Tape a paperclip to the outside - non-hinged side of the cassette case.
2. Insert paperclip into drop ceiling directly above your target\’s desk. (Do this as a test run with the cassette case empty first).
3. Tie a paperclip to the fishing line and hook the clip inside the cassette case.
4. Hook the other end of the fishing line to your target\’s chair. (run the line behind a cubicle or something to hide it).
5. Test the mechanism by pulling on the chair. The cassette case should open up.
6. NOW, the fun part. Reset the mechanism, but this time fill the cassette case with paper-hole punches. Fill it full!
7. When your target arrives in the morning, watch with delight as the chaff bomb hits it\’s target and makes a huge paper-hole punch MESS all over the desk and floor!
This entry is a riot and I\’m actually laughing in front of my computer like a silly goose.
I usually blackmail friends and officemates with number 7. hehe
hehehe I like number 13, Number 17 with the plastic cockroach would really be fun. My friends and I usually has plans for our plastic cockroaches for girls during trips
Hey Joey…I think it\’s high time we bought a few plastic cockroaches again…I lost mine after using it in a prank…ahehehehe….
hmmm…. no wonder our economy is in the tank. People need to F$%& around on their own time and do some god damned work for a change.
I am soo going to try them out
i was at work and i was reading these i couldnt stop cracking up it was so funny they couldnt stop laughing at me but just they wait i have a bigger come back!! haha
If you’ve got really jumpy co-workers, a few of those gray furry cat-toy mice from the pet store can provide WEEKS of entertainment…one of my colleagues won eternal points from all of us when she slipped a “mouse” into the microwave with our most mouse-o-phobic co-worker’s soup…the scream (followed by “Someone is about to DIE!”) was audible on an entirely different floor of the building.
All I can say is I hope you all get what you deserve loosing your jobs over this! This is pure evil! A prank for a day is okay but to continue to do it is pure evil! Hopefully someone will do something back to you all like maybe going into your bank account and just move your money or something that could ruin your credit and maybe you might just laugh at that! Well I am sure you will TOTALLY FREAK out on it! I only hope something will come back to you all if you continue to harm innocent co-workers who are there to their job! Sounds like to me if a co-worker is doing their job you are totally pissed off because they are doing the right thing and you are doing evil! You need to loose your job and pension and whatever else and then that to me would be a Wonderful Hilarious Laugh! Think about the prank and hurting others because believe me it will come back to haunt you! You may not think that but it will!! TRUST me!