Work Pranks

ericgtr · 08-15-2003, 07:17 AM

Anyone else here a prankser at work? Some of my finer achievments are taping down the button where the phone hangs up, this can be pretty entertaing as they say "hello, hello!". Another is to remove the ball from someone's mouse and watch them call tech support [img]images/smilies/icon_thumb.gif[/img]

**CanyonCarver** · 08-15-2003, 07:51 AM

Or simply remove the cord to the handset. That works too.

FH · 08-15-2003, 09:37 AM

Or giving somebody a laxative-filled drink and locking the stall-doors from the inside....

ericgtr · 08-15-2003, 09:45 AM

Once I replaced my managers default "ding" wav with a fart.wav man he was pretty pissed about that.

**CanyonCarver** · 08-15-2003, 09:59 AM

Someonw did a similar thing with wav files, giving a colleague about a million different Homer Simpson “doh” sounds in a row whenever he was shutting down the computer.
That got old real quick.

08-15-2003, 10:58 AM

Here's two fun ones to pull at work!

1. In Microsoft Word go to the automatic spell checker and replace the word "the" with "shit" or whatever. So evertime they type "the" it automatically changes it to the word you chose!!! [img]images/smilies/icon_lol.gif[/img]

2. Get rid of all the shortcuts that you can on the victoms computer and then paste a porno webpage as the desktop background. Then watch them panic when they can't seem to close that page!!!! [img]images/smilies/icon_lol.gif[/img]

Wolfman · 08-15-2003, 08:16 PM

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Or simply remove the cord to the handset. That works too.

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Yeah, another good variation on this is to unscrew the mouthpiece and headset and switch the parts. [img]images/smilies/whistling2.gif[/img]

wip5150 · 08-19-2003, 01:21 PM

My personal favorite is when people at work used to carry message pagers. We had a central machine in the office where you could type a message and it would appear on the pager. Basically, a far less superior version of instant messaging, but I digress.

When people were in a meeting (preferably a circular table and sitting next to the boss) you would type in something like, "Put your hands on my legs you sexy piece of ass - Jeff". It was quite funny watching people try not to laugh.

ericgtr · 08-19-2003, 01:24 PM

One thing we used to do when I worked at a music store is call the manager from the office (to the front desk) and ask for sheet music for stuff like The Love Boat. Then we would go out and watch him searching through it all cussing [img]images/smilies/icon_thumb.gif[/img]

08-21-2003, 09:29 AM

At one time I was the king of office pranks. You'll like these:

Back in the DOS days, I found some Virus simulators on a BBS. One in particular would go into effect when you're working in WordPerfect 5.1 (at one time the defacto standard in Word Processing)...suddenly the letters in your document will start dropping off the page. A keystroke like CTRL-I would return everything to normal. Another one had would cause a bouncing ball to come onto the screen, no matter what you were in. I played this one on an older co-worker and the bouncing ball put him to sleep. ;-)

I had one for Windows that would cause all of the keys on the keyboard to be wrong. There's another recent one where the mouse pointer will be off by just a half inch or so.

I used to jam paper clips in the mouse, under the ball. Turn the sound all the way up on the PC... unplug everything...dump the staples out of the stapler..you name it.

-Jay

Chewi · 08-21-2003, 12:33 PM

This has to be one of the greatest topics of all time! Keep 'em coming!

**Mondy** · 08-22-2003, 05:54 AM

My mate was playing around with my Laptop. We had been watching Red Dwarf, and there was a backwards episode. They kept asking for pints of "Erskib". Anyway, we get the laptop out, open the Windows Recorder, record us saying "Erskib", play it backwards, and low and behold, it says "Bitter".

Anyway, we then said things properly, like Arse, Fart, Tits, etc. Then we'd play them backwards to see what they sounded like. Then we'd try to learn how to say them backwards, record them and then play our backwards recording backwards to see if we could get them to sound like they should do.

We were pretty bored.

Anyway, I got pretty bored of this, and left my mates recording themselves backwards.

So, Monday morning comes. I get into work and sit down in the middle of the hot desking area where I worked at the time. Basically, an area of about 40 people, who were all on Projects out of the office, so didn't need a permanent desk.

I plug my Laptop into the network, and power up. Windows comes up. Suddenly, my Laptop lets out the biggest belch you have ever heard. Of course, I'm sat in the middle of 40 people. Everyone's now looking at me. I go bright red, and just walk out of the office.

About half an hour later, I return to my Laptop. My house mate has recorded himself belching. Set it it to maximum volume. Set it as the Windows Start Up Sound, and then put my speakers on Maximum Volume. At the time, I was working for IBM, and we all had toip of the range Laptops, so the recording and playback quality and the speakers were top notch 3d surround sound.

Everyone thought it was me. They also changed my Start Up to a toilet flushing as well. After that, I changed my password.

Second Story

When I started at IBM, everything was MainFrame. So you had your dumb terminal, all connected to the MainFrame in the machine room. One of the applications on the Main Frame was a database of everyone's names that was company wide. There were a few fields that you could edit on this, such as you're preferred name, telephone number, location, etc.

If you wanted to update any of these fields, you'd go to the screen, press F8 or whatever to edit. Then you'd edit the fields, and then press F9 for example, to submit it to the Main Frame. These updates would be saved up and then all the updates that everyone had submitted for the day would be run as a batch job at midnight every night, then the changes would be available for everyone the following day.

This meant that should you make a mistake, it stayed like that for a whole day until the batch job ran the following night.

Anyway, I stupidly left my P.C. unloced one day. The next day, my friend sends me a message telling me to check my entry in the database. The previous day, he has edited it so that the information for "Known As" is "C***". As the batch job would not run until midnight tonight, I was known as that for a whole day.

Fortunately, no-one needed to pull my entry up for that day !

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08-22-2003, 11:59 AM

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Anyone else here a prankser at work? Some of my finer achievments are taping down the button where the phone hangs up, this can be pretty entertaing as they say "hello, hello!". Another is to remove the ball from someone's mouse and watch them call tech support [img]images/smilies/icon_thumb.gif[/img]

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[img]images/smilies/icon_rant.gif[/img] [img]images/smilies/icon_nono.gif[/img] Better not do that. :madfawk:

ericgtr · 08-22-2003, 12:03 PM

Dude, consider yourself lucky you work in another part of the country or you would be just as subject to this as the rest of the poor bastards around here that have fallen victim to it in my IT dept. [img]images/smilies/icon_wink.gif[/img]