Messing with your co-workers for fun.

[OtterbatHellcat]

Just in fun.....what have you done to mess with your buddies at work?


One thing we do....is wait for the Boss to be talking to someone with his back turned to us, but your buddy can see you. We start dancing around all weird or do some "sexual charades".....and try to make your friend lose it laughing while the Boss is talking to him.

Funnier than hell.

[BPTactical]

Swap keys around on their keyboard.

[KevDen2005]

Move their car or crank their radio on a metal station and turn their car off....

[driver]

We had a bathroom at the back of the warehouse that was just a toilet in a small closet. It was next to the utility sink. So this guy was in there taking a dump and I splashed a couple of cups of isopropyl alcohol under the door and lit it on fire. He was known to spray 35% hydrogen peroxide on door handles and tools. You'd be working and suddenly your hands start burning like hell.

We would also sometimes light a cigarette and poke the fuse from a pack of firecrackers in it. Bonus points someone was working in close proximity when they actually went off.

[mattiooo]

Back at an old job, when someone new went on their first vacation, we turned everything in their cubicle upside down. Their computer equipment, phone, cups, staplers, pictures they hung. Literally everything.

[mattiooo]

Move their car or crank their radio on a metal station and turn their car off....

In high school we had one teacher who drove a really small car. One day, a bunch of us went out and lifted his car from the parking spot onto the lawn.

[KevDen2005]

When I was in the army there seemed to be a lot of pranks with some type of CS gas or pepper spray....or shaving cream. Open a guy's barrack's door, puncture a couple cans of shaving cream fast with a gerber, toss the cans in and hold the door closed.

[Mazin]

Shrink wrap everything individually that's on his desk or in his office (including the door or cubical) . We did that to the site manager when he was away at our annual Disaster Recovery drill, we had 2 weeks and 3 shifts participating [Coffee] he thought it was funny for the first week of unwrapping but not so much time week 3 rolled around. [ROFL1]

[Mazin]

When I was in the army there seemed to be a lot of pranks with some type of CS gas or pepper spray....or shaving cream. Open a guy's barrack's door, puncture a couple cans of shaving cream fast with a gerber, toss the cans in and hold the door closed.

Hmm Knife meets Shaving cream can inside close quarters, that would be a fun prank for the wife [Coffee]

[roberth]

When I ran mainframe computers I would set rules that would kick a person off the system immediately after they logged in.

[OtterbatHellcat]

lmao at the stuff I'm reading so far.

I used to have a habit of leaving my tools out on the bench in my bay.......went on vaca for a few days, and when I got back I found several of my tools tack welded to the damn bench. No harm to the tools, but it was pretty damn funny when I tried to pick them up to use them.

[OtterbatHellcat]

We put a guys car up on blocks of 2x4 just high enough........that was priceless.

Same guy got his windshield squirters wired to his turn signal once too, the stories about that date night were also priceless.

[CS1983]

When I was in the army there seemed to be a lot of pranks with some type of CS gas or pepper spray....or shaving cream. Open a guy's barrack's door, puncture a couple cans of shaving cream fast with a gerber, toss the cans in and hold the door closed.

First tour, we made MRE "CS" bombs (like an MRE bomb, but punctured to let out the gas; fill with the Tabasco sauce from MREs -- makes a CS-like gas). We then chucked a few into our PL's CHU and held the door shut while he screamed bloody murder at us between coughing fits.

[wctriumph]

I walk up to the tech's and see how the job is coming along and then walk away after leaving a SBD. I think its funny.

[Doc45]

Gift wrapped a boss's desk and everything on top of it at Christmas one year (he laughed). When typewriters were still in use I'd cut the explosive part of cap off a roll and use white out to hold it on key that wasn't used very much (z or ! for example). It always went "bang" and usually would put a burn mark on the report.

[spqrzilla]

I am self-employed.

[SAnd]

Annoy-a-tron. It randomly beeps. Someone stashed one in the control room. It would beep at irregular intervals for while then quit for a few hours or days.

https://www.thegreenhead.com/2008/12/annoy-a-tron-2.php

[00tec]

Annoy-a-tron. It randomly beeps. Someone stashed one in the control room. It would beep at irregular intervals for while then quit for a few hours or days.

https://www.thegreenhead.com/2008/12/annoy-a-tron-2.php

Those things are epic. Have used several.

Watched maintenance completely clear out a rather large storage closet looking for the damn cricket in the HR office

[tmjohnson]

We had a kid that always showed up late. He would saddle up real fast, so I tied about 15 feet of twine to his saddle and then to the saddle rack. He grabbed his saddle and went to throw it on his horse and you know what happened when the twine come tight. Kid stopped showing up late after we tied his saddle in the rafters.
That was the good ole days!

[Duman]

Not everyone has the same sense of humor. I've seen people nearly get into a fight over a prank.

That being said, back in the dorms if someone left a window fan running we'd sprinkle talcum powder into the fan, coating the room in fine dust.

[.455_Hunter]

Part of my AD time was spent as the maintenance officer/xo in a heavy engineer unit with dozers, scrapers, graders, dump trucks, etc. One prank was once the victim entered a porta-potty, his friends would rachet strap the door closed, drive up a vibratory roller (think Austin Powers), tie the porta-potty to the roller and turn on the vibration. All of the lovely fluid from the tank would creep out of the lid and "flow" up the walls to the ceiling and drip back down on the victim...

[OtterbatHellcat]

Annoyatron.....I got our parts guy with one of those....LOL. Drove him crazy.

I still have one NIB somewhere.

[Fentonite]

Annoyatron.....I got our parts guy with one of those....LOL. Drove him crazy.

I still have one NIB somewhere.

I have one in reserve as well. Those things are hysterically evil.

[OtterbatHellcat]

I walk up to the tech's and see how the job is coming along and then walk away after leaving a SBD. I think its funny.

Yeah, .....or get a nice cloud on ya....and call someone over. "hey, I need your help for a second"....lol.

[To Bear Arms]

I used to work in a cabinet shop. We had this one guy that we worked with was not very mechanically inclined, one day at lunch we removed his driveshaft from his car and watched him try to drive away. He just kept revving the motor trying to get it to move and he could not figure out what was wrong.

We also would take the coiled air hoses and fill them with water right before break time. So when you would go to blow the sawdust off your clothes for break it was like a fire hose!

We would also take little glue balls from our edgebander and put them in the air hoses. They were just the right size to get lodged in the rubber tips for just long enough that you would just press down on the lever all the way then they would let go and shoot out like a B.B.! Hurt like hell if it hit your bare skin.

Our door sanders also would take this medical tape stuff and tape there finger tips so when you are sanding doors by hand all day you could protect your finger tips. So when they would go to lunch they would pop them off and set them down on the table, we would then grab the "tips" and fill them with wood putty, so when they came back and put them back on they would get a finger tip of wet wood putty.

[Gman]

In high school we had one teacher who drove a really small car. One day, a bunch of us went out and lifted his car from the parking spot onto the lawn.
In high school, we had a teacher that drove an old Honda CVCC (aka "really small car"). We regularly lifted it and moved it up into the flower bed, like he was drunk when he parked it and pulled too far forward. One time, we carried it into the football stadium and carefully set it on its roof at the 50 yard line.

In case you don't remember what one looked like;
https://www.netcarshow.com/Honda-Civic_CVCC-1975-1600-02.jpg

[GilpinGuy]

Annoy-a-tron. It randomly beeps. Someone stashed one in the control room. It would beep at irregular intervals for while then quit for a few hours or days.

https://www.thegreenhead.com/2008/12/annoy-a-tron-2.php

I'm gonna set off a dozen of these the day I leave my current job.


.....back in the dorms if someone left a window fan running we'd sprinkle talcum powder into the fan, coating the room in fine dust.
We'd get a fan or hair dryer and blow powder under the door when someone was passed out. When they woke up....[Dunno]

[CS1983]

http://i.imgur.com/MLTyLul.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/pg0rhxC.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/yHHPe1n.jpg

[hollohas]

Call them a liberal or a hippie.

[BlasterBob]

In the Army, "short sheet" someone. Had a neighbor who worked in heavy equipment and he'd take a RR torpedo and wire it to the inside of the track on a bulldozer. LOUD!

[OneGuy67]

Move their car or crank their radio on a metal station and turn their car off....

Put baby powder in the vents and turn the a/c or heater on high with the car off...they turn the car on and poof!

[MrAK]

One of my coworkers is always stealing and eating my strawberries at work. I kindly put a plate of strawberries out with some shaving cream which was made to look like whipped cream. Needless to say she isn't as bold as she used to be.

[ChunkyMonkey]

We tazed each other all day long, we took apart whomever's gun(s) left in the bathroom and laser engraved penises all over the small parts, we stuck naked chicks' pictures on couple guys' bumpers (Not a good idea, someone almost ran into one of them) and many more stupid craps we do everyday.

[ChunkyMonkey]

Put baby powder in the vents and turn the a/c or heater on high with the car off...they turn the car on and poof!

hahaha, we had $100k in fake bills, sealed in Evident Bag and tossed it in certain GVPD's patrol car.

[Eric P]

Not to co-workers, but the passing druggie to the pot shops. I have left ziplocked bags of quick lime on the rim of our dumpster. Watch them take the bag and try a little. Funny shit watching them get it out of their nose.

[OtterbatHellcat]

What seems forever ago....the boss had a '79 bronco that he blew the engine up in...the way he drives nobody was surprised.

One of the guys got a new engine in it, got everything right, and boss was gonna drive it home that night. At the end of the day, I hid out behind a car next to his, with two big wrenches in my hands...and waited. As soon as he got in the bronco, I got behind the right front wheel, and started banging the radius rod with the wrenches. Was kind of a bitch cause he was changing the throttle, but I sped up and slowed down when he did. He shut it off...getting out with a Huge WTF is going on with this new engine?

Everyone was watching, thankfully he ended up laughing about it all.......it was pretty funny, AND I still had a job when it was over....lol.

[gnihcraes]

annoy a trons are great - if you're not receiving 100's a calls a day on the helpdesk about a BEEPING computer or clicking sounds.

Got a few of those trons sitting on my desk as evidence. I find them, they are mine for having to deal with the annoying calls.


Lots of misc. office type pranks, mostly pretty boring. We get written up and sent home for things like that where I'm at.

[OtterbatHellcat]

Dang it....that's The Man ruining your American freedom for practical jokieness.

[Wulf202]

I've had a guy quit after I sent him to the basement to get me something and then I went to lunch.

All of our buildings are slab foundation

[Grant H.]

Wired the brake pedal to the horn.
Wired a flasher can to the distributor coil and put two leads in the drivers seat a$$ area. Kinda felt bad for that one, it left burn marks on his a$$.
Annoy-atron. The beeps don't bother me, but they drove my co-workers bonkers.
Take a screen shot of their desktop, make it the background, turn icons off and hide the start bar. Watch them click on the icons, that are just part of the picture, and get annoyed.
Super glue their mouse to the mouse pad (cheap mice at work).
Rigged the bathroom stall door with electrical contacts that fired a solenoid and pierced a can of air freshener. More than a few times, guys came out of the bathroom and stunk of air freshener for the rest of the day.

[skoodge]

Put tape on the mic of their desk phone so it sounds like they're talking from down the hallway, and/or yelling into the phone.

[BPTactical]

My old boss at CDOT, former CSP Trooper and a great guy. We messed with him constantly and he was always a great sport.
Found a bowling ball and put it in the bed of his truck. Scared the shit out of him when he hit the brakes.
He was on vacation and I was filling in for him.
His first day back and he wants me to go get breakfast with him and give him the haps for the week.
I had taken the main hose for the windshield washer and re routed it through the firewall and under the steering column.
Crotch level.
Throw mud on windshield the day before.
We jump in his truck and he asks, "What the hell did you do, run the Baja 500?l I give him a bs story about an irrigation line breaking and his truck getting douched with mucky water.
He hits the washer and the full stream hits him in the crotch.
He looks down, looks at me and busts up laughing and tells me " Oh damn, that's good"(all the time still holding the washer on)
We go on to breakfast, he walks into the restaurant soaked crotch and all.

Like I said, he was a great guy.

Duct taped a heavy washer to a jerks driveshaft once- he complained about his jeep vibrating on the highway.....

[StagLefty]

^ That is so you [ROFL2][ROFL3]

[Buff]

Bull snake in lunch box is a classic.

[CS1983]

A few weeks ago we found a track ball mouse... you all remember those, right? Where errant dust makes your mouse unusable? It looked modern enough that we plugged it into our team lead's machine. Took him a minute to figure out why his mouse was performing like crap.

[SideShow Bob]

Bull snake in lunch box is a classic.

Never f**k with someone's lunch box, that is a sure way to get your teeth knocked out.
There are certain things that are sacred on the job site, and someone's food & water are one of them.

[Buff]

Never f**k with someone's lunch box, that is a sure way to get your teeth knocked out.
There are certain things that are sacred on the job site, and someone's food & water are one of them.
In a machine shop tools and tool boxes are sacred....and food/drink in lunch box is removed and put in fridge.

[thvigil11]

Long zip ties on the drive shaft are one of my specialties. Gotta make sure you leave nice long tails. Done it to several folks, a few figured it out themselves after a day or so. A few others were very pissed after taking their vehicles into a shop. 2 guys even had mechanics charge them. Didn't feel bad though, those 2 were assholes.