Pranks to pull at work (ones that won't get you into too much trouble)

[Cataholic]

Caseys mom has led me to create another lovely thread. I was thinking of pulling a prank on my friend (though that status might change) upon her return from maternity leave. I might get a remote control whoopie cushion.....really, I don't know if I will, as that is pretty outrageous, even for me.

So, let's talk about pranks you have pulled on your co-workers. Nothing discriminatory, please. I mean good old fashioned funny.....

This was one of my funniest (and one that did NOT get me in hot water- I swear, the law needs to lighten up a little).

When one of the new attorneys started working here, my friend was his secretary. I knew she would be nervous about things for awhile. So, with his knowledge, I had him call her on our inner office phone thing (you don't dial out, you just pick up and push a button...you know). I asked him to pretend to have a sensitive issue to talk to her about. The only 'problem' was, I taped her phone receiver jack thing down. So, she could only hear him over the speaker...because when she picked up the head set, which would normally switch off the speaker, the little button thing stayed taped down. So, anyhow, he is talking to her about work performance issues, phony, and said, "Tina, would you please take me off speaker?" acting all annoyed with her...and she was so flustered, and it wouldn't go off speaker, and I was standing right next to her desk acting like, "lord, I can't believe he is getting mad at you already". Of course, I started crying funny tears, he started roaring over the speaker, and she tried to HIT ME! Lord. It makes me laugh all over again. Needless to say, I have taped her phone down, and everyone elses, many times over.

Why don't they learn!!!

So, besides work and earn your keep, what have YOU done?

[caseysmom]

I have dont the phone taping down one lots of times too.

Once I taped a big phony spider under a coworkers desk, it was years ago when I worked in a help desk so we could all see each other. She scooted in under the desk and felt something, the spider "jumped out on her" She stood up screaming her head off and started crying.

[Cataholic]

CM- OMG! That is hilarious! There was one girl here I could have done that to. Sadly, she left. She still insists that on her first day here I taped a thumbtack to her chair. I so did NOT do that....

We did trick her into believing we stored files in our utility closet, she went partially in and we tried to close the door on her. LOL. If you can't laugh at work, stay home.

[caseysmom]

This is right up my alley I have another one.

We had a new person on the job and it was thursday, she was very sweet and very nervous. I said " have you run the critical thursday programs?" she said no I haven't, my boss was in on it. I said we need to go talk to the boss about this, this should have been run hours ago. The boss sets her down at the desk and tells her the program to go into, she says now go onto line 70 and key in " this is a joke we are messing with you", it still took her a few minutes! I am so mean but it was so funny. We were friends before all this otherwise I would have never done that....we remained friends thank goodness.

[Cataholic]

That would be a good one.

I have a couple of friends that call up and ask for me, and tell the receptionist that they are Judge so and so's bailiff, and why wasn't I present in the courtroom for some argument. Gets my heart racing every time.

[ramanth]

I haven't done anything here other than bring Litterbox cake in and I think that's prank enough.

However, a few friends of mine have worked for Microsoft and some of the pranks they have pulled are hilarious.

Once while one guy was on vacation, they totally repainted his office and decorated it to look like the football team he hated the most. The rivals to his favorite team.

Another time and a different person, they filled his office full of packing peanuts all the way to the ceiling!

[caseysmom]

I thought of another one:

I use to work on swing shift, there were 3 shifts and there always had to be coverage. The whole crew decided on april 1 to meet in a far away break room and we would all call in sick. The boss was a nervous nellie...he went out and yelled at dayshift that nobody was leaving because all of swingshift was sick, he finally found us and by then he was redfaced and worked up quite a bit.

We tried that one a few years later but by then we had voicemail, before each of our voices saying we were sick was the name of the persons office we were calling from, that boss came knocking on that door we were all busted...we forgot voicemail preceded your message with the person's name you are calling from.

[poofy]

Oh my those are so funny, wish there was some one here to pull a prank on..the only one I did,
I called a brother that had ignored me for years..
I said "Is this Mr Roy Boyd"
He said "Yes it is"
I said "Do you have a sister..Patsy Wilson."
He said "Yes I do"
I said.."Im sorry to inform you she died this morning"
well theslience on the other end was like death..I finally cracked up laughing,,and he said ..Pat that was not funny..and has been upset with me evey since..ummm, he didnt even recoginse my voice..lol..not a good joke I guess..lol..

[Kfamr]

One of our on-going tricks, working at a chicken place, is hiding a rubber chicken on eachother. There's days where I find it in the soup pot (with no soup of course), in boxes of stuff that I need in the morning, etc..

My boss had my dad bring it home once and hid it in the shower for my mom in the morning. In return, my mom has his wife pack it in his suitecase when they went on vacation.

That chicken has traveled all around the country, every place in our store, and back!

I'm thinking of buying this for my boss for our Christmas party... our chicken needs a girlfriend!

[ramanth]

Okay, not work related, but cracks me up everytime. My mom once threw an (unplugged) hairdryer in the shower when my dad was in it. Mom said he nearly tore down the shower curtain trying to get out.

[caseysmom]

I have asked my kids to hit the switch on the garbage disposer for me then I scream my head off like my hand was in there

[Prairie Purrs]

My sister has pulled some classics over the years. When she was in high school she super-glued the school librarian's telephone and receiver together. It was one of those big, old-fashioned phones. Phone rang, and the poor librarian nearly knocked herself out.

Once sis somehow rigged a co-worker's computer so that when the co-worker tried to sign onto the Internet, her phone rang instead. The co-worker kept answering the phone, finding no one there, and couldn't figure out why she couldn't get online.

[neko1]

OMG this thread is so funny!!! Keep em' coming

I needed the laughs today

[Cookiebaker]

One of my co-workers took a kid's watch (on the hour it would play a little tune, and say it is now four o'clock, five o'clock etc) and hid it in one of the partitions. The watch was about 5 hours off, and REALLY annoying. At 2:20 it would say "the time is now 6:00".

The problem was, you could only hear the watch for about 10 seconds and then it was in oblivion. It took us about 3 weeks to find that stupid thing, and it was a good laugh afterwards.

GRRRRrrrr!

[Barbara]

I got one of these funny mails you forward and it was about "The diary of an IT responsible" and had lots of fun stuff what that IT guy did to make life difficult for his co-workers. I forwarded it to our own IT guy- saying like "What I always wanted to know about your job...." and he forwarded it to his boss saying: We've got a problem here, Barbara got access to my confident diaries. I want to talk to you about what we can do against it." Well his boss didn't read the entire mail but he really called immediately, wanted to talk to the IT guy and was ready to make a big big fuzz