So...I was stuck in line in the drugstore about a month ago, and in the bargain bin there was a big rubber snake for 75% off.

I put it in three of my coworker's offices with hillarious results (on a chair, in a pair of filp-flops under a desk, and in a drawer full of snacks.)  

I've now passed the snake on to a friend that works elsewhere, and she's having equally good or better results with it.

So...now I want ideas for additional merriment. What's the funniest office/work/dorm pranks you've seen?

In before HR meeting about hostile work places.

I have had fun with this

When there's a fire in NYC, companies from outside the area are relocated to the quarters of the companies fighting the fire, to maintain coverage in that area.

I worked with a guy who, every time we got relocated when he was working, would go through the other firehouse, wrapping all their toilets in Saran Wrap.

Yup, I used a similar one to great effect.  Eviltron.  

Another good one is the snake fangs in the envelope (spinning paperclip, rubber band).

The best one ever was described to me by an ER nurse.   A male nurse was a big ass to her and others.   She took numbing gel and put it on his drink straw.  

Half an hour later he was running around frantically and thought he was having a stroke.  "I can't feel my face!"  Drooling all over himself.   He was ready to check himself in.

One time a few of my co-workers (they were twins actually, Orangejello and Lemonjello) played a prank on another of our office mates (La-a with the dash spoken). They took three pigs and numbered them 1,2 and 4 and let them go in her office. LOL she spent hours looking for #3.

Two different ones to share.

First, we moved out of some shared office space into a larger place a couple miles away. Before we left, we planted an Annoyatron in the ceiling tiles of the old office. Since we still regularly saw these guys (lunches, just stopping by), it was funny to hear them start mentioning a weird noise that started happening since we'd moved out. Took them a couple weeks to put two and two together and find it. We all had a good laugh.

Second, we had a cubicle farm with two small offices for the C-level founders (brothers). Anytime people would go on vacation it was common to prank them, but the victim generally had to be able to return to work within 30 minutes and nothing destructive. So, we took detailed pictures of the two offices and painstakingly swapped everything putting it all in exactly the same place on the desks/cabinets/etc in the opposing office. Sounds dumb, but it was funny to see their confused faces when they walked in and thought they went to the wrong office. Since it required disassembling their desks to get them through the doorways, they ended up just leaving it that way for the rest of the time at that office.

Also, OP's avatar is appropriate.

We had a supervisor that most of us hated.  He was an arrogant and whiny bitch.  One night while we worked late to fix his screw-ups, we Super-glued his coffee cup to the center of his desk and filled it with coffee.  When he picked it up the next morning , the bottom stayed stuck to the desk and coffee went everywhere.  His screaming was hilarious!

One of the best ones we ever did......we found out that the desk phones had a feature where I could dial a code (#3550 or something) and it would give a ringtone. Then dial anyone's extension and it would auto pick up their speaker on their phone. Had tons if fun with this one!!! Would wait til one of the guys had a visitor in his cube, dial him like that and when his soeaker kicked on, fart in the phone and hang it up. Most guys kept speaker volume low so it sounded like they were the one who farted hahahaha

If someone had a fan in their cube / desk, we'd pop off the bottom of the hole puncher behind it - it's look like it snowed in the cube.

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The only prank I really did in an office type of environment was when I worked at my college.
When my friend would go on lunch, he'd leave his macbook at the desk (no one was going to steal it). And I would hack into it and change his passwords.

Who was the guy that farted into the air intake filter that was used for SCBA helmets?

 
I knew a guy who would screen capture the desktop, set it as the wallpaper, then hide the icons.

Eviltron and Annoyatron's are good fun.  



Best prank i've done was one night filling in at the airport.   We had a 9 line phone system, and I was reading around online and came across a free wake up call service.   After about half hour, all 9 lines were verified and set to ring at 8am.  Did the same with the payphone across the room.   Told a friend to be up there. Guess they were busier than i expected.  First line went, and they were puzzled.  2nd line went and they got mad.  Few more went and phones were slamming.  And they were REALLY unimpressed with the payphone, as they had to get up.   Coworker had to leave while he was laughing so they didnt' suspect him.



Never admitted it to this day.  

I purchased a suction cup rubber dick and would stick to some of the other guys locker doors. They would open their locker and this this would whip out at face level.


I could have gotten into some trouble with that one.....

When one of my business partners turned 40 we stayed late the night before and filled her office with tons of black balloons and a huge "40" birthday banner hanging over her desk. When she came in the next day and opened her office door they came spilling out. She spent the next like two hours popping balloons to get to her desk.

Totally worth it.

lol that one is a classic

I bought some clear Elmer's glue and put it in the hand sanitizer dispenser.  I had many a good laugh.

Yup.  We have the open style fluorescent light fixtures.  You cant tell where the noise is coming from if you put one in there.

 

I was a cancer nurse in a previous career... so it wasn't uncommon for patients to pass away on our unit.

The morgue had these carts for transporting bodies that had a cover/frame for the top so that when you were rolling it down the hall and had a sheet on it, it mostly looked like a regular stretcher.

I usually worked the night shift... and we had a flamboyant gay black unit secretary named Richard that worked the desk.

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So the empty morgue cart is up by the front desk while the body is being prepared... Richard had taken a break so I had an opportunity.. I climbed into the cart and put the cover on the cart and waited for him to return.

I don't know how I managed to not start laughing when he came back to his desk, but I held out for for about a minute... He's typing and entering stuff into the computer and I let out a groan.. move around and shake the morgue cart.. and then flop my hand out on his desk.

He jumps up and starts screaming like a little girl while running down the hall at 2am.

My damn face and sides hurt *so* damn much from laughing... and the rest of the crew that was on that night was in the same boat... except for poor Richard.

He was a good sport, though, as these types of shenanigans were not uncommon.

Simple and frustrating is the best.
Buy a bunch of those small (rinse your mouth out at the dentist) cups.  Start at person's desk, where they sit, and fill them with water and fill the floor up with them as you make your way out the door.  Don't leave a big enough spot for anyone to step in.  

ive done some good ones to a friend of mine. he cant type for shit so i re arranged a few keys on his keyboard. he kept typing the wrong password and it locked his computer. he had to call the help desk for a reset and was late for a meeting.

one morning i pushed his chair under his desk and screwed the arms of his chair to the bottom of his desk

Coworker had a project in Miami. Our Director of Services flew down to shmooze the customer. Coworker broke into his rental and put fish under the back seat, then made it a point to drive him around all week while his rental full of dead fish baked in the sun. Boss man raised hell with the rental company, he raged to all of us about it for a couple of months before finding out. He was not pleased.

A couple of months later the same tech went to AZ for a project with another tech whose cousin was AZ State Trooper. Services Director went there too (he bounced around keeping customers happy so travelled to a lot of our projects). They arranged to have State Trooper cousin pull them over and give our Director the full works with sobriety test, cuffing him, threatening full cavity search, etc. They cruised the highway waiting but cousin got a call so the stop never happened, but Director found out and lost his shit, tried to get the jokester tech fired.

Jokester came to work on Halloween in a trenchcoat. He was flashing all the girls. He had nothing under the trenchcoat but red elephant underwear that had a long trunk. As he flashed everybody he shouted, "I'm a Republican".

One of our sales guys showed up at another job site. It was a company that made styrofoam peanuts. Jokester asked them to fill his van with peanuts and "suggested" to sales guy he leave sunroof partially open to let out heat. That night he was able to open the sunroof a little more, enough to fill the car to the roof with peanuts. Next morning sales guy opens door, styrofoam peanuts go everywhere. Hotel security sees and orders him to clean it up. He didn't round them all up until after lunch.

The peanut prank had a happy ending. Sales guy's wife was battling cancer. When he got home he was cleaning out his car and vacuum blew a bunch of peanuts out the window. His wife saw and burst out laughing. Sales guy hadn't heard his wife laugh in months. He was grateful and happy to tell the story many times after that.

Jokester and another tech were getting fat. They made a bet - they both pledged to lose 40 pounds and whoever reached 180 first was winner. Loser had to wear pink tutu throughout annual fishing tournament. We told the other guy jokester would wear it anyway and we were right. He spent the weekend in the boat cat-calling and whistling and waving to other boats in his pretty pink tutu. Epic. He then put a team of about 30 employees together to run Tough Mudder every year, and every year they all run it in pink tutus.

tape around the sprayer handle at the break room sink

learned that here btw

winning

I have a coworker whose office phone was taken away from him because everytime he'd ask for someones number the response would be "9-1-1....."  He'd dial it and about 30 mins later security would show up at his desk with angry faces.

I did this to a Michigan fan co-worker a couple of years ago

Air horn duct taped under the desk with the actuator hooked to the middle drawer with string and rubber band. That thing was loud! He ran out of there screaming like a little girl.

S2 Changed/set screen password when someone didn't have a password set on his.  Office required password protection of screensavers in case you stepped out without logging off.

In the days before Windows a guy I knew set Computer  of the Division Support Cmd S2 to show a clip of a woman riding reverse cowgirl when the computer booted up.

In Germany CW4 purchased a explicit fat chick porn mag and slipped it into the Platoon leaders Gym bag on laundry day.  His wife found it while he was in the shower.
Then the LT put pages in the CW4s Desk and the CW4 put one in the LTs kevlar under the foam donut so it was found when a Polizei was visiting their office and asked to look at the kevlar helmet.  LT blamed CW4 and the CW4 said "right sir" with just the right hesitation and inflection to totally discredit the LT.

When at HHC 1ID one of the guys was thinking of sending a subscription to a gay porn mag to a guy that PCS'd.

Colorless odorless constipation treatment was gotten from the medics and put in a soldier's coffee when he hadn't gone #2  for the first three days in the desert.

Buddy mailed me a letter marked "Private and Personnel/Positive AIDS test results enclosed"

Ran a lead from the trailer hook up on a coworkers truck all the way up to the horn. Every time he pushed on the brakes,the horn would blow.

Simple pranks I don't mind. The elaborate ones that produce a chuckle then hours of work to remove (PostIts covering a car, wrapping a cubicle in foil) are just dumb.





Fake winning lottery tickets, etc are stupid and the lowest form of prank. Subtlety is the best.

A sign at the copy machine that says "Machine now operates via Voice Command. Speak Clearly. Say "Copy" for copy function, then state the number of copies to be made. Example: "COPY. 10"

It's hysterical.

A coworker of mine stapled a piece of salmon skin from some smoked salmon to the underside of a desk in the office of the guy who thought he was the office "ladies man".   Took him a week and a half to figure out where the stink came from, and even longer to get rid of the reputation of being the guy with really bad body odor.

Emptied two hole punches into a guy's umbrella.
When he gets outside the door, up goes the umbrella and it started snowing.
Once he realized what was happening, he got a great laugh out of it too.

I hooked up a 16" alarm 150 db siren in the overhead storage of an office cubicle. When he opened up the door it blasted right in his face, never saw a fat man jump that high!

My favorite is to walk into any venue where there are those bottles of hand sanitizer, and swap them for my own.

What I do is scout out the place beforehand, determine the size bottles they have, and then the next time I go in bring one of my own to trade them for.
I've done this at Wal-marts, where the cashiers or CSM's have sanitizer they're using, and airshows are a great target as well.

Buy the appropriate bottle of hand sanitizer, and also a bottle of Equate personal lubricant.  Dump out the sanitizer (or swap into an empty bottle so as not to waste it) and replace it with the lubricant.

The lube has the same appearance, same consistency, and people will put some on their hands and never notice a thing until they realize 5 minutes later they're still rubbing it in, and it's not going away.

The look on their face is priceless!  

urinal cake for a drafting pen holder
taking pencil dust and filling the older removable hand sets on the phones, in the ear side.
removing the balls from the mouse
switching the functions on the old two button mouse.
print screen desktop
plumbers putty under the keys to make sticking keyboard.

Wasn't a work prank, but in high school, I once avenged my honor against a very manipulative girl by faking my own suicide and giving her a nervous breakdown.

Smeared melted chocolate  over the toilet seat and put a baby ruth candy bar
in the bowl of the womens bathroom that only had one toilet.

Black tape over the laser/optic.

It gets the co-worker AND IT.

Back in the day we would cold call for sales.  My partner and I would compile a list of the biggest A holes.   Ones that would threaten to come down to our office and beat us to a pulp.   Anyhow that's about the time 3 way calling was invented.  

So we would dial ahole #1, quickly put him on hold while ringing, call ahole #2 and then join their calls.  While we were completely muted out the 2 assholes would
argue over who called whom and so on and so on.   It would brighten up a tedious sales call job ever so often on a Friday.

I remember the 90s too



 

1. Steal your coworker's smart phone, duct tape it to the underside of their chair.

Call them and watch them freak out as they try to find it on the floor.

2. Tape an air horn to adjustable seat, raise seat above coworkers usual height.

3. Do a screen capture of your coworker's desktop, set it as background, hide all their icons and taskbar.

4. Personal lubricant on telephone receiver.

5. Take one of those Halloween hands, pack it into a freezer bag with hamburger meat, wrap it in parchment paper and stuff it in back of break room freezer (this may have to be a long con).

I did something similar withy the smoke detectors when all their batteries died. I took one and left the bad battery in it then hid it above another smoke detector in the ceiling tiles.

Change auto-correct.

the word "Sincerely" becomes "Dreaming of you" or something like that.

I did this to my partner. She had NO clue what was going on.

HR put on an Easter egg hunt one year for hourly employees. I brought in my own eggs filled with fake cockroaches and hid them in an area mainly staffed by women.

Small piece of scotch tape over the mouthpiece holes in a desk phone.  Takes 2 seconds, people usually "call back because of a bad connection" 2-3 times before they figure it out.


Also if you switch someone's mouse speed to the lowest setting it actually takes awhile just to scroll it over to get to adjust the setting back.



Change someone's keyboard layout to Dvorak.  





My favorite from a tv show was a complaint by Dwight on the Office, where he just said "I hit myself with my phone".  When they asked Jim what he did he said he put another nickel inside the phone handle every day for awhile then one day he took them all out.

On a related note, I worked at a place that had a phone system (FreePBX) that had a webpage you could go to (Flash Operator Panel) to see when people were on the phone, etc.  You could conference any two phone together from the webpage, and they would just both start ringing. It was pretty amusing watching people argue about who called who.

At my old company if you left your computer unlocked a profanity laced email to IT security would be sent from your desktop about how you "didn't give a fuck" about security.  

They took away our internet access shortly after that started

AF basic, 1986...
Had a good friend in the Army, secondary duty was as a retention NCO. He had recruiter buddies in all the other services. I got recruiting stuff from everyone but the AF every damn day.

Same guy would also send me letters, from a variety of addresses.... Large, wooden letters wrapped up like they were care packages.


Good times.

That's one of my favorites. Last time I did that one I got IT involved and they played along and told the victim they had a new virus that could not be fixed. The oh shit look on her face was priceless.

Got access to a Browns fan's computer, changed his mouse pointer to a steelers helmet and every time he clicked his mouse his computer would blare "HERE WE GO STEELERS". It was a good day.