The 20 Most Hilarious, Well-Executed Office Pranks

[MNeagle]

In the 9-5 grind, we typically try get a lot of work done. However, when it comes to office pranks, we spend a lot more time and effort executing the perfect setup for your newly pranked co-worker.

Why do we spend so much more time on pranks than actual work?

Well, obviously it’s a lot of fun, and it’s a break from real work.

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[madfranks]

Another good one is to take a screenshot of your co-workers desktop, then save that image as the background and move all the icons to a different folder. They'll click on the background wondering why their folders/files won't open!

[SLV^GLD]

Place a folder on the desktop named "You Cannot Delete Me" but use a command prompt to make the directory and use the alt code 1060 for the spaces. It is impossible to delete using the GUI. Removal is reverse of creation.

Change the mouse controls to be all wonky then delete the mouse control panel applet. Have a main.cpl registry fix on a usb key so you don't get shot.

[Road Runner]

Thanks MN, something on the lighter side and a laugh is good!! My best friend and I were known for pranks in our younger years and we filled a guys pickup truck with balloons so when he came out from the bar and opened the door they would all fly out! Boss must have a good sense of humor!!

[gunDriller]

once i had a co-worker put a sheep eye ball in my briefcase.

[DMac]

Another good one is to take a screenshot of your co-workers desktop, then save that image as the background and move all the icons to a different folder. They'll click on the background wondering why their folders/files won't open!


I've done this to those that pissed off the IT staff early in my career. Hilarity ensued.

[VX1]

We used to have a lot of fun at our company 8 - 12 years ago (and were productive). These days, not so much. If fact, the gender ambiguous HR rep from D.C. (Pat, seriously) came in town today to give us our mandatory corporate sexual harassment/hostile work environment training. Much like the outside world, nothing is legal anymore. Throwing a paperball in fun is workplace violence. Any way used to describe someone, besides their proper name, is a derogatory slur. Telling someone to “get to work” is hostile. You had better not joke or look at someone wrong. Knowing the real corruption and trouble the world is in, it was the hardest thing to sit there and pretend to take this corporate politically correct bullshit serious with the rest of the sheep.

[7th trump]

My all time best was wiring up the brake light to the horn of a very good pranking coworker car with a time delay relay set for about 3 minutes to get the car out on the road.
Coming to the red light was funny to watch as everyone around the car was wondering if my coworker was honking at them.
And theres nothing you can do until you release the brakes or come to a complete stop.
Needless to say he never pranked me again.

[skid]

I once found a garder snake while outside and put it in a coworker's sandwich bag. Scared the hell out of him when he opened it up to take a bite :o

[Twisted Titan]

Dude I was cracking up when I saw the keyboard encased in Jello

The fake mice had me howling

[JDRock]

Place a folder on the desktop named "You Cannot Delete Me" but use a command prompt to make the directory and use the alt code 1060 for the spaces. It is impossible to delete using the GUI. Removal is reverse of creation.

Change the mouse controls to be all wonky then delete the mouse control panel applet. Have a main.cpl registry fix on a usb key so you don't get shot.

remind me not to piss you off!

[horseshoe3]

One of my co-workers had lasik surgery. On his first day back at work, we had set up his monitor to be out of focus. Scared him so bad he was about to cry. He suspected it was a prank, but there was enough doubt to terrify him.

[mamboni]

In college, one member of my fraternity was a stuffy snobby Felix Unger type, living in a pig stye of a frat house no less. I loved to break his balls. Some of my pranks included:

1. hiding Lindberger cheese in his bedroom.
2. Demonstrating the amazing leverage achievable with a length of rope and a six-pack of beer tied between a post and his bedroom door so it could not be opened more than a few inchs.
3. Stuffed potatoes in his father's old Cadillac dual exhaust - made the car stall repeatedly -very funny.

There were other pranls that I cannot recall - the guy was a nervous wreck!

When I was doing a post doc research project, one of the other post docs scared the hell out of me - really shook me up. We were radiolabeling oncogene-derived proteins with I-131. We had to use very high levels in the tens of millicuries of I-131 and work behind lucite (i.e. you can't use lead shielding because of brehmstrahlung). Anyway, as we are pipetting and handling highly radioactive tubes with heavy gowns, gloves and protective googles in a secure room, it was routine to scan yourself with a geiger counter periodically to check for self-contamination. One day, as I passed a Geiger in front of myself from feet to torso to neck, as soon as it got to my neck the meter went off the scale and ticking feriously - indicating massive radioactive contamination. I froze and turned white and had a "wholly shit" moment. Then my partner, softly giggling, showed me the tube of I-131 isotope that he held briefly behind my neck to set off the Geiger. Bastard! I would have decked him if he wasn't holding that I-131!

[madfranks]

We were radiolabeling oncogene-derived proteins with I-131. We had to use very high levels in the tens of millicuries of I-131 and work behind lucite (i.e. you can't use lead shielding because of brehmstrahlung).

I know, man, don't you hate it when people try to use the lead shielding when dealing with I-131? You'd think they never heard of Brehmstrahlung! Drives me crazy! ;D

[mamboni]

We were radiolabeling oncogene-derived proteins with I-131. We had to use very high levels in the tens of millicuries of I-131 and work behind lucite (i.e. you can't use lead shielding because of brehmstrahlung).

I know, man, don't you hate it when people try to use the lead shielding when dealing with I-131? You'd think they never heard of Brehmstrahlung! Drives me crazy! ;D


Sure, everyone knows about Brehmstrahlung. It's like everyone knows David Hasselhoff is popular in Germany.

:ROFL: :ROFL: :ROFL: :ROFL:

[Road Runner]

I once found a garder snake while outside and put it in a coworker's sandwich bag. Scared the hell out of him when he opened it up to take a bite :o


This made me remember when I was 8yrs. old and my brother who was 15yrs. tied a live snake around my neck. I ran off screaming my head off and crying. I threw it on the ground and stomped on it cause I was so mad and then I ran in, got a butcher knife and chopped on it, and to top it off while I was yet crying, I got on my bike and drove over it several times. All the while my brother lay on the lawn laughing his _ _ _ off. I have been so scared of snakes all my life since that whenever my family still like to scare me, it takes my breath away.

Oh gosh that made me think of when one of my sons built me a new out house. We had a snake that looked so real, but was rubber so we used fishing line and tied onto it and put it in the top of the outhouse and ran the line out back. At a branding one year, the kids took turns waiting until someone went into the outhouse and they would pull the line and the snake would fall down in front of them. 3 people that same day came running out with pants down yelling.