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Pranksters among us
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Forty hours a week, week in and week out, is far too long to be serious nonstop. It’s difficult not to engage in a little good-spirited teasing or practical-joking when you spend all that time with the same people — some of whom seem to be natural “targets” and some of whom seem to be natural “perpetrators.” And it’s almost impossible if you are surrounded by intelligent people with great senses of humor — and perhaps a bit too much time on their hands every now and then.
Sometimes, creative and/or maniacal genius shines through in practical jokes played on co-workers. Niketa Patel, the moderator of BlogBreak and a colleague of mine, recently e-mailed me a PowerPoint presentation of some purported pranks played when the “victims” were on vacation or out of the office for an extended time. For example, one hapless worker returned to find every item on his or her desk — keyboard, monitor, stapler, the works! — individually wrapped in newspaper. Another witty prankster covered every surface of a work space with aluminum foil. Perhaps the best-known (and most-e-mailed) of these photos is the cubicle filled to the brim with foam packing peanuts. Even if, as cynics may claim, some or all of these are manipulated photos, some “virtual practical-joker” still came up with these beautifully warped ideas.
Admittedly, I am a born target. Co-workers have teased me at every job, and I’ve often been the recipient of some creative and interesting practical jokes. (Take vacation time with caution if you are the frequent “victim”!) One of my favorites occurred last year. I sit on an exercise ball instead of a chair at work, and I returned from vacation to find a few of my little stuffed animals lined up in front of my keyboard — all sitting on small “stress balls” and facing the screen. This little prank didn’t take long to execute or to disassemble (unlike if everything on my desk had been wrapped in tin foil!), but it was funny — and it let me know my boss was thinking of me while I was gone!
Some practical jokes take more planning and require more time and effort. One of my friends worked for an auto-insurance company. When a member of her office group was on vacation, she and a few co-conspirators meticulously moved everything from his desk to a vacant desk nearby. They made sure to arrange everything the same way so that the “new desk” would look exactly like his actual desk had looked when he left it.
What’s the best, most creative practical joke you ever played on a co-worker — or what’s the best one that ever was played on you? Has any workplace practical joke backfired on you or someone else? Does your work group have a sense of humor about these things? How do you know whether someone will be a good sport about a practical joke or whether it’s best to leave well enough alone?
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By Mom
June 20, 2007 12:29 PM | Link to this
My Air Force son just returned from a tour in the Persian Gulf. They amused themselves by sending newbies out for “the keys to the jet” or “one hundred yards of flight line.” They sent one new recruit out to have his boots inspected by a special machine typically used on jet engines, complete with the necessary paperwork. He returned from the obliging shop with red tags on his boots saying “DO NOT FLY.” The best one was when one of their office mates left his computer for too long: they took a screen shot of the desktop, locked or hid the icons and the toolbar, and substituted the screen shot as the desktop background!
By leigh
June 20, 2007 12:31 PM | Link to this
You sit on an exercise ball instead of a chair at work, and wonder why you might be a target.
By cemeeli
June 20, 2007 12:44 PM | Link to this
I have done many! this is funny b/c TODAY i am playing an office prank on my co-worker yesturday was her b-day and she has been looking for her mis-placed stapler since yesturday. I have written ‘save me’ on a post-it note and taped to the stapler and plan to either freeze it in a bowl of water and put it on her desk later today. Or hang it from the ceiling (we have high ceilings here at work). In the hope i’m sure she will see it, being that she has really been looking for it. Just look up…HAHAHA. Well all of this started when last-week she came to my desk and ‘walked away’ as she puts it with my favorite pen to write with. That’s what you get when you mess with the Prank Master. Actually this is a mild prank…just so i can keep my job. WAHAHAHAA…Oh- I also change her mouse settings yesturday to VERY SLOW and that agrivated her ultimately!!! She didnot figure that one out. I also taped her desks phone hook so that when she would answer it would continue to ring b/c the hook would still be down. after that was ‘fixed’ I would call her ext. and then once she answered i’d transfer her to conference call with some other coworkers ext. and she or other person would know how they got each other. I put scotch tape on the bottom of her mouse so that when she tried and move her mouse to anyplace on the monitor there was nothing showing/moving for her to click. It’s been fun ‘helping’ to celebrate her birthday. HAPPY 29th BIRTHDAY GINI!!!
By IT_Worker
June 20, 2007 1:22 PM | Link to this
We used to have a policy that whenever you left your desk, your PC had to have the screen locked. Our boss at the time who was a bit sadistic, decided to enforce this rule, he would select “PC Police”. We were to walk around and leave little notes when we found someone’s PC unattended and unlocked. Our friends were fairly safe, we’d leave a note lock their screen, and go on. Those outside our circle got a bit different treatment. We would send out several inflammatory emails under their name to either their personal address books or co-workers whom we knew also had problems with them. Our crown jewel, which ultimately led to the demise of the police force, was catching the big boss’ PC unlocked. All the butts of the malicious emails were sent fairly generic layoff notices effective the next day.
By Starwood
June 20, 2007 1:34 PM | Link to this
Cemelli, Your jobs are not funny, they are cruel and childish. Grow up!
By Noelle
June 20, 2007 1:36 PM | Link to this
I don’t see anything wrong with fairly innocuous things like the stuffed animals on stress balls. Light teasing is perfectly fine.
However, anything more serious (and especially “prank wars”) would be another story. It’s unprofessional to try to make your co-workers look ridiculous, even if you think they deserve it.
In any case, in or out of work, you should never, ever pull a practical joke on anyone unless you know in advance he or she will be OK with it. I despise practical jokes, and all my friends know it. I don’t try to stop jokes others pull (unless I know they’re likely to cause problems), but I stay out of it, and they know better than to try to pull anything on me.
By cemeeli
June 20, 2007 1:53 PM | Link to this
STARWOOD - Hello she is also my friend !!! This is not some random person. & BTW these are harmless acts…actually they did make her laugh. Her birthday had a little humor added to it now what…..so please STOP with the cruel childish remark!… You must be mad no one at your job has given the thought to you :-(.
By Charles
June 20, 2007 1:58 PM | Link to this
404-166-1998- Hello, this is Maybelline, the Southeast coordinator of the NAACP. We are the oldest civil rights organization in the country. Can I help you please?
Maybelline, why can’t they be true? Oh Maybelline, why can’t they be true? They’ve started back doing the things they used to do.
Charles, based on the incident which you described, it appears to be good-spirited teasing or just plain practical-joking. I think you are taking this too seriously. I’m sorry but we can’t lend our support to you at this point.
Oh Maybelline, why can’t they be true? Oh Maybelline, why can’t they be true? They’ve started back doing the things they used to do.
By Whatever
June 20, 2007 2:02 PM | Link to this
Most people spend more time at work than at home with their families. I’d have to look for a new job if I had to spend 40+ hours a week with a bunch of tight a**es. Grow a funny bone, buy a sense of humor, and stop taking your “I’m a suburbanite, make over $50,000 a year, and drive an SUV” loser self so seriously. Nobody’s saying in order to have fun you have to inflict bodily harm on someone. Get a grip. No wonder we have a nation full of playground wimps who don’t want to play dodgeball or tag. They’re too afraid of their shadows… probably because mommy and daddy are too.
Losers.
By Whatever
June 20, 2007 2:07 PM | Link to this
Charles - dude… you need to lower the dosage. What the $#@% was that about? Don’t post on a blog if only you get it, man.
By plbbbb
June 20, 2007 2:15 PM | Link to this
cemeeli that is some funny stuff, im about to go put some tape on everyone’s mouse. starwood im guessing you are one of the natural targets of such pranks. lighten up. i doubt anyone will need to be medicated from the trauma of finding scotch tape on thier mouse, chair tied to thier desk, or any other silly prank that helps bring a much needed laugh to fellow coworkers. and if you leave your computer unsecured in my office, the enitre unit will get a email invitation to your david hasslehoff fan club party this weekend. that’ll teach you to leave your computer unsecured.
By cc
June 20, 2007 2:15 PM | Link to this
my boss is a Die hard Philly Eagles fan that wears Green everyday to represent his team and a Dallas Cowboy Hater….so when it was time for Dallas to play PHILLY ——we took his office and decorated it in Dallas Cowboy paraphanelia -0-Dallas Cowboy Coffee mugs, Dallas cowboy jerseys draped on the back of his fancy chair, Dallas Cowboy blnket draped across his desk and a Dallas Cowboy tomahawk hanging in there also….we also took his sons school picture and xeroxed it and transformed it by dressing him in a Dallas cowboy outfit on the picture….He thought it was funny but crude and told us we better watch out this year…I told him watch his back because we have some more stuff in the making for him………He is fun to work with so it gave us all something to laugh and have fun about in the midst of our day………
By Charles
June 20, 2007 2:20 PM | Link to this
By Whatever
June 20, 2007 2:07 PM | Link to this
Charles - dude… you need to lower the dosage. What the $#@% was that about? Don’t post on a blog if only you get it, man.
Oh Maybelline, why can’t he be true? Oh Maybelline, why can’t she be true? They’ve started back doing the things they used to do.
By Charles
June 20, 2007 2:39 PM | Link to this
It’s obvious that (whatever) 2:07 is lacking in gray matter.
Oh Maybelline, he can’t be true? Oh Maybelline, she can’t true? He’s doing the only thing that he knows to do.
By justduckie
June 20, 2007 2:45 PM | Link to this
one of my most spectacular office pranks was after the first Harry Potter movie. We have a team snack area and I incorporated a box of Bernie Botts Every Flavor Beans into the big tub o’ Jelly Belly jelly beans. It was hilarious seeing the faces when someone got one - and some paranoid people fixated on specific colors and wouldn’t eat them (JB pear looks like BB grass, etc). The amazing part was no one suspected tampering! I’ve since seen this listed on various prank sites.
By J
June 20, 2007 2:54 PM | Link to this
Charles,
You are one odd person. What in the world was your post about? It doesn’t make any sense!!!
By Charles
June 20, 2007 3:11 PM | Link to this
J, a.k.a. whatever,
Forty hours a week, week in and week out, is far too long to be serious nonstop. It’s difficult not to engage in a little good-spirited teasing or practical-joking when you spend all that time with the same people — some of whom seem to be natural “targets” and some of whom seem to be natural “perpetrators.” And it’s almost impossible if you are surrounded by intelligent people with great senses of humor — and perhaps a bit too much time on their hands every now and then.
Sometimes, creative and/or maniacal genius shines through in practical jokes played on co-workers.
I just hope whatever, a.k.a., J is not an African American. We need more gray matter than that among us… You should call 1380 waok radio. You would be a good fit with that bunch of deceitful, deluded people.
By journeymanpete
June 20, 2007 3:12 PM | Link to this
A running prank at work involved placing a life-size copy of a mugshot of one of my co-workers in various locations around the office: a wall clock, a computer screen, on the bathroom mirror, in the microwave and any other creative spot. The best incarnation of this prank was when someone made four copies of the mugshot and taped them to his hubcaps. He didn't notice them until someone driving next to him laughed and pointed at the wheels when they were stopped at a light.By Smity2
June 20, 2007 3:28 PM | Link to this
Journeymanpete I LOVE IT!!!
My co-workers got me good one day. They took my Falcons vanity plate off the front of my vehicle, turned it around and wrote “Falcons Suck” with a huge black marker, and put it back on my car. I drove around for 2 days, with people flipping me off, and honking at me with dirty looks. This was way back when they were in the superbowl with Denver. A kid in my neighborhood spotted it, and asked me why I hated the Falcons? We still get a chuckle out of that one.
Oh, and there’s the styrofoam peanuts packed into one guys’ brand new truck cab, a desk drawer full of dirt, keys getting superglued onto metal posts…….silly stuff…but it’s a release from the seriousness of work.
By Becky
June 20, 2007 3:31 PM | Link to this
Some of my co workers taped a huge cardboard sign on the back of another co workers truck that said “Hank HIll Dildo Co.”
By J
June 20, 2007 3:33 PM | Link to this
Charles,
First off, I was agreeing w/ “whatever” that your post didn’t make any sense. I LOVE practical jokes … and where did your comment about 1380 radio come from? That came out far from left field. Once again, I state, you don’t make any sense!
By jr
June 20, 2007 3:37 PM | Link to this
My solution for work place pranks is to notify HR. That stops it every time.
By Jones
June 20, 2007 3:40 PM | Link to this
JR nobody picking on you? You have to go cry to HR? What a stick in the mud you must be. Poor baby, but every company has one child that runs and tattles……
By gotta have fun sometime
June 20, 2007 3:41 PM | Link to this
I love office jokes! Sometimes you’ve just gotta kick up your heels. One of our higher management people wore a Howard Stern wig to the formal Christmas dinner and another year he wore a string of blinking lights. I myself love that email list of jokes that occasionally goes around. I tried one suggestion once, I paged myself over the intercom. I would love to go out during lunchtime and stand by my car with a hair dryer pointed at other cars. One of our management likes to call in from home and talk in voices and ask for himself, stuff like that. We once hid his dictaphone in retaliation. Once I hung a poster from the movie “Kill Bill” (guess what my boss’s name was). Oh yes, and the year we decorated his office at Halloween with confetti and other crazy stuff. We really thought we crossed the line, but he seemed to take it ok. When I first started working here the secretary of one of the senior management had a poster of the boss taped onto her desk with his face in a bullseye, perfect for darts. That was a little much for me, but if they thought it was funny, who am I to comment.
By Larry
June 20, 2007 3:44 PM | Link to this
Becky,
That’s funny! I don’t care who you are!
By Charles
June 20, 2007 3:53 PM | Link to this
Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven.
I don’t rejoice but I am so glad that spirits like J, a.k.a. whatever, a.k.a. Jones are subject to me. It is because of the Holy Ghost. Just think what they can do to our young boys and girls. That kind of spirit can deprive them of their ability to reach the zenith of human potential, thought; by attempting dim the bright light which God has innately given many of them.
I am considered a God if you compare my writing to the blogs of the noted persons.
It’s too late, I have reached the zenith of human potential; praise God.
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By Whatever
June 20, 2007 4:17 PM | Link to this
Charles - I’m only going to say this one time.
Step…. away…. from… the… drugs.
You have too much time on your hands to think that your comments 1) have ANYTHING to do with office pranks (do you even HAVE a job??) and 2) you actually think I CARE that you concerned about my “gray matter”. You’re either 105 years old and just learned to use the computer or you’re a complete nut job.
Yeah, I’m black. I’m thrice degreed and I’m the kick a** prank QUEEN! Yeah - I’m a woman too. Get a grip AND a life.
Loser.
By ChrisD
June 20, 2007 4:24 PM | Link to this
See Starwood as a good example of the humorless people who ruin everyone else’s day!
By JE
June 20, 2007 4:25 PM | Link to this
I work with a guy that has to be one of the biggest redneck types you’ll ever meet. He’s actually a nice guy, he’s just set in his ways. His big truck has his favorite NASCAR drivers numbers on it, as well as his United States Marine Corp sticker. He backs his truck into the same parking place every day, so when he goes to his truck he doesn’t see the back of his truck. Another co-worker and myself put not one but two gay freedom flag stickers on his truck along with a Vote Democrat bumper sticker. This is guy is so right wing Republican. Let’s say he failed to grasp the humor of what we did. Fast forward two weeks and I start experiencing the foulest odor in my vehicle you can imagine. After three days of the smell from hell I start looking inside my vehicle from end to end and I found a huge dead rat under the seat tucked under the carpet that was stuck to one the sticky glue traps someone had used to catch him with. Two days later he walked by me at worked and tossed me one the tree shaped air freshners and said I probabky need that. Paybacks stink.
By J
June 20, 2007 4:28 PM | Link to this
Charles,
Please take your spiritual posts out of here. You are most certainly not God. You have REALLY gone from odd to weird, and have strayed WAY off the subject matter that this blog was about. WOW is all I have to say.
By cemeeli
June 20, 2007 4:28 PM | Link to this
Starwood needs a new gig! Bless ‘em….maybe he wants to be pranked!
By Whatever
June 20, 2007 4:29 PM | Link to this
JE - yours was good… but his vengence was even sweeter! I would’ve loved a Polaroid of your face when you saw your carpool partner under your seat!
Sweet.
By Charles
June 20, 2007 4:31 PM | Link to this
Americans, I say again. Read what they write and have written; and compare it with what I write and have written. The noted ones write in the vain of devils, deceivers, destroyers. I write with the direction of the Holy Ghost, giving life, sight, and direction.
The topic today is pranksters among us. I have not been misled.
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By J
June 20, 2007 4:38 PM | Link to this
Charles,
You have been misled. Please take your seat back on the crazy bus, as it is shipping out to the land down under. 1380 waok radio has been tuned for your listening pleasure, far away from the Holy Ghost. Zenith television has been tuned to MADTV for your watching pleasure.
Am i now speaking your language Charles? Good, go get a life!
By Whatever
June 20, 2007 4:38 PM | Link to this
Charles - if you post that crap again, I swear ‘fo Lawd I will hunt you down and smash your hard drive with a hammer and drop your monitor INTO THE CHATTAHOOCHEE! Now THERE’S a prank for you.
By Charles
June 20, 2007 4:40 PM | Link to this
Bringing you the Story behind the Story, the News behind the News. Hoping to convince you that reality is usually scoffed at and illusion is usually king, but in the battle for the survival of Western civilization it will be reality and not illusion or delusion that will determine what the future will bring.
www.radioliberty.com
By Elise
June 20, 2007 4:45 PM | Link to this
I love practical jokes! I don’t think anything is wrong with it as long as you just don’t take it too far and usually if you work with a great group of people it’s worth the planning. Most of our offices have doors instead of cubicles…so one day when my co-worker left for the day I opened her door and placed clear, plastic saran wrap from one side of the door to the other side so that when she came in the next day to open her door and walk in her office she walked smack into the plastic wrap. It was hilarious.
By Charles
June 20, 2007 4:47 PM | Link to this
www.deliberatedumbingdown.com.
By level
June 20, 2007 4:53 PM | Link to this
Whatever….that was funny* Bu don’t swear now…C~ is a bit on the loco side. Leave that thang alone.
By Opinionated One
June 20, 2007 4:57 PM | Link to this
I am not too hot, for practical jokes at work. I have seen too many of them with a mean streak in them, and once started, they get out of hand. I work with a guy who does all kinds of crazy crap, and it’s always, ” I was just joking “. Boy, you should see him suck up to the boss, no jokes there.
By Big Trouble
June 20, 2007 4:57 PM | Link to this
Easiest one. Find a person at the office who is a “hunt and peck” at the keyboard (doesn’t know QWERTY). Pop off the “m” and “n” keys and switch them.
Sit back and watch the frustration.
By RC
June 20, 2007 5:09 PM | Link to this
I used to work with someone who ate his really offensive lunches (onions, etc.) at his desk every day. One day, we bought some really stinky cheese at the deli in the lobby and put it inside the mouthpiece of his telephone. Every time he answered his phone, he would make a really horrible face and ask if someone had used his phone. We all played it cool and said that we hadn’t seen anyone. This lasted about an hour and we finally told him. This sounds really mean but he laughed and he quit putting onions on his sandwiches.
By Just Me
June 21, 2007 9:45 AM | Link to this
I really don’t care for practical jokes in the work place, I don’t play them on others and don’t want them played on me, since I am being paid to work and not play.
By BC
June 21, 2007 10:20 AM | Link to this
When you work around a natural perpetrator of pranks, it’s always good to get a bit of sweet revenge every now and then. After putting up with several different pranking attempts from this co-worker, we finally decided to look for ways to get back at him.
A particularly delicious weakness that we discovered was his penchant for toy models -specifically cars. He has a number of meticulously crafted paper models of his favorite cars sitting atop his computer monitor, which he obtained from a website that has PDF downloads that can be printed, cut out and then glued together. Needless to say, he spent a lot of time crafting these little things and is very proud of them.
When this co-worker was away on vacation, we printed out a copy of his most favorite paper model, quickly assembled it (not being nearly as careful with the details as he had been) then smashed it underfoot and placed in a [seemingly] haphazard way just at the foot of his chair, making it appear as if it had fallen from his monitor and got crushed by an oblivious passerby. The original version of the model was taken and hidden away somewhere.
When he returned from his vacation and found his precious paper car model (that he had spent so much time lovingly constructing) utterly destroyed, the forlorn look upon his face as he gingerly lifted it from the floor in disbelief was absolutely priceless!
By Greg
June 21, 2007 10:42 AM | Link to this
Pranks and pratical jokes are a staple of the workforce.I am the prankster, and I engage this with others that have the spirit, not the sticks in the mud. YES, I play them on bosses and coworkers alike. I too tape alot of things down, I like to swap the function of the mouse buttons, and turn the “click” speed to fast, I turn the speakers on the PC way up so login is awakening, and have been known to do other “next level” pranks. I came from a labor background, where it was common to screw their ladder to the floor, or ceiling in a frame only house, JB Weld their hammer to the metal loop on their tool belt, and ketchup their wiper blades and leave the control “on” for their next trip. Its all in fun, and at no financial expense, never hurting anyone. There have been days of stress that these things made the job worth completing after dealing with difficult people.You dont have to prank, but dont say its childish, We all have a childish side, yours may be what you view on TV, or collect. Sometimes a simple fun loving prank is just what you need to survive the outside world…1 minute of fun!
By InTownGal
June 21, 2007 10:54 AM | Link to this
I was in the middle of a prank war at work where I was a cocktail waitress, one night me and the rest of the girls collected every beer bottle sold that night (which amounted to about 4 large black garbage bags) and placed them into the bed of my opponents truck in the wee hours of the morning. The next day, I passed him on the road and he gave me “the finger” of coarse. He didn’t want to play anymore. Bummer.
By bon_gia
June 21, 2007 11:39 AM | Link to this
Being in IT you come up with creative ways to pull pranks. Once we changed all the icons. text and background to white. The whole screen was white and he had to figure out what was wrong and then fix it.
Another one we used to pull was to use PC Anywhere to connect to someones computer and have the log in screen up and running when he came to work. We would start typing when he did and see how long it took him to realize someone had taken over his computer.
Happy pranking - great topic today!!!
By eschloss
June 21, 2007 11:55 AM | Link to this
This is one of the funniest pranks ever, although I don’t know anyone who actually had the nerve to pull it off at work. It’s called “Fish Chair”. What you do is collect the shells from some boiled shrimp, unscrew the seat of a cubicle chair from the “pole” that it’s bolted to, and drop the shells down into the pole before screwing the seat back on. After a few days, your victim will be smelling his clothes, his underarms, every place possible to determine where the stink is coming from.
By Charles
June 21, 2007 11:56 AM | Link to this
404-166-1998- Hello, this is Maybelline, the Southeast coordinator of the NAACP. We are the oldest civil rights organization in the country. Can I help you please?
Maybelline, I called you yesterday with a complaint. Oh, Yes, I remember you Charles.
Maybelline, why can’t they be true? Oh Maybelline, why can’t they be true? They’ve started back doing the things they used to do.
Below is a list of the things they are doing now. I faxed a copy of my responses to the main office.
By Whatever
June 20, 2007 2:07 PM | Link to this
Charles - dude… you need to lower the dosage. What the $#@% was that about? Don’t post on a blog if only you get it, man.
By J
June 20, 2007 2:54 PM | Link to this
Charles,
You are one odd person. What in the world was your post about? It doesn’t make any sense!!!
By J
June 20, 2007 3:33 PM | Link to this
Charles,
First off, I was agreeing w/ “whatever” that your post didn’t make any sense. I LOVE practical jokes … and where did your comment about 1380 radio come from? That came out far from left field. Once again, I state, you don’t make any sense!
By Whatever
June 20, 2007 4:17 PM | Link to this
Charles - I’m only going to say this one time.
Step…. away…. from… the… drugs.
You have too much time on your hands to think that your comments 1) have ANYTHING to do with office pranks (do you even HAVE a job??) and 2) you actually think I CARE that you concerned about my “gray matter”. You’re either 105 years old and just learned to use the computer or you’re a complete nut job.
Yeah, I’m black. I’m thrice degreed and I’m the kick a** prank QUEEN! Yeah - I’m a woman too. Get a grip AND a life.
Loser.
By J
June 20, 2007 4:28 PM | Link to this
Charles,
Please take your spiritual posts out of here. You are most certainly not God. You have REALLY gone from odd to weird, and have strayed WAY off the subject matter that this blog was about. WOW is all I have to say.
By J
June 20, 2007 4:38 PM | Link to this
Charles,
You have been misled. Please take your seat back on the crazy bus, as it is shipping out to the land down under. 1380 waok radio has been tuned for your listening pleasure, far away from the Holy Ghost. Zenith television has been tuned to MADTV for your watching pleasure.
Am i now speaking your language Charles? Good, go get a life!
By Whatever
June 20, 2007 4:38 PM | Link to this
Charles - if you post that crap again, I swear ‘fo Lawd I will hunt you down and smash your hard drive with a hammer and drop your monitor INTO THE CHATTAHOOCHEE! Now THERE’S a prank for you.
By level
June 20, 2007 4:53 PM | Link to this
Whatever….that was funny* Bu don’t swear now…C~ is a bit on the loco side. Leave that thang alone.
Oh Maybelline, why can’t they be true? Oh Maybelline, why can’t they be true? They’ve started back doing the things they used to do.
My God Charles! We are going to organize a march against these misguided, deluded people. Here is a copy of the song we are going to sing:
We shall overcome, we shall overcome We shall overcome some day Oh, deep in my heart, I do believe We shall overcome some day
The Lord will see us through, the Lord will see us through The lord will see us through some day Oh, deep in my heart, I do believe The Lord will see us some day
We’re on to victory, we’re on to victory We’re on to victory some day Oh, deep in my heart, I do believe We’re on to victory some day
We’ll walk hand in hand, we’ll walk hand in hand We’ll walk hand in hand some day Oh, deep in my heart, I do believe We’ll walk hand in hand some day
We are not afraid, we are not afraid We are not afraid today Oh, deep in my heart, I do believe We are not afraid today
The truth shall make us free, the truth shall make us free The truth shall make us free some day Oh, deep in my heart, I do believe The truth shall make us free some day
We shall live in peace, we shall live in peace We shall live in peace some day Oh, deep in my heart, I do believe We shall live in peace some day
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By eschloss
June 21, 2007 12:04 PM | Link to this
Why is anyone paying attention to boring, deluded Charles? The much more important (and interesting) topic is work pranks.
By Penguinmom
June 21, 2007 12:14 PM | Link to this
My husband played a great practical joke on a co-worked who had been out of town for a week.
The co-worker had the first speed-dial button on his phone set dial his home number. Instead, my husband changed the speed dial to call the co-worker’s desk. So, the man picked up the phone, hit speed-dial to call home, then noticed that his second line was blinking from a call coming in. He hung up to try to answer the call but of course that made the call go away (because he was the call.)
He tried again, ‘Dial Home’, oops call coming in, Hang up, incoming call gone.
It took him several minutes to figure out what had happened.
Another time, we moved the wall of someone’s cubicle then wrapped the entire front of the cubicle in wrapping paper so she couldn’t tell where the entrance was. It was her 21st birthday. We also hung streamers from the ceiling and put Christmas icicles hanging off of them. And put a picture time line of her 21 years on the front of the cube. To the day she left the company (15 years later), people still would say to her ‘oh you’re the one who had her cubicle wrapped up’.
Finally, an old classic was to tape down the part of the phone that popped up when you lifted the receiver. You picked up the phone but it still kept ringing. Doesn’t work on all phones nowadays but a lot of fun at the time.
By Charles
June 21, 2007 12:22 PM | Link to this
Eschloss,
I don’t know why so many people are interested in me. I told them yesterday that the topic is pranksters among us.
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By Charles
June 21, 2007 12:46 PM | Link to this
It’s lunchtime everybody. I do feel special today. My employees are giving me a special treat for my birthday.
I’ll talk to everyone after lunch; God willing.
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By Jill
June 21, 2007 12:48 PM | Link to this
When my boss was a way on a trip to South Africa, some colleagues and I aluminum foiled everything in his office right down to pencils, zen garden, ant bait, artwork, every book in his bookcases, etc. It was great! He loved it and it broke our hearts to have to remove it all. It looks so plain & ordinary now. :-(
By Linda
June 21, 2007 1:12 PM | Link to this
I am obsessive about order and placement, but with good humour. Knowing this, while I was on vacation, my co-workers turned every chair in my office around in a different direction, relocated every item on my desk and computer credenza into my old office down the hall. It was hilarious, the expression on my face upon my return, while walking into the old office (now occupied by someone else), and everyone looking as if “what’s wrong? Yes, it was great fun, and it really caused me to laugh at myself.
By Brittany
June 21, 2007 1:35 PM | Link to this
I have a coworker who listens to country music all day. Her office is next to mine, but I can hear the music literally through the walls. One day we all decided that we’d had about enough, so we loaded my iPod with a lot of obnoxious tunes that we knew she wouldn’t like and hid the iPod in the file cabinet below her radio. We attached the iTrip FM transmitter and broadcasted our music over her country. It took her a while to figure out that the country music radio station had not changed formats.
By Tim
June 21, 2007 2:09 PM | Link to this
I work at a University in maintenence. I once hid a co-workers tool box…..and he reported it stolen to the campus police….I guess it backfired cause I got chewed out for wasting the officers time. Lesson learned.
By Charles
June 21, 2007 4:04 PM | Link to this
I’m back everybody. We had a great time at lunch. Everyone was so kind and generous. They made me feel as if I were in heaven on my birthday. I hope your lunch break was just as rewarding.
Let me check the blogs entries since I’ve been gone. Great! I love spirits like Jill, Linda, Brittany, and Tim. It appears that we chased the evil spirits away with the exception of Eschloss. Well, there is always one who will make a futile attempt to overcome the spirit.
I was thinking about chasing the evil spirits away on 1380 waok radio. The Holy Spirit reminded me, “that kind comes out only by fasting and prayer.”
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By boss hawg
June 21, 2007 4:37 PM | Link to this
i personally love going up to a coworker that has their back to me in thier cubes and slipping my foot up to their seat release for them to drop 6” in a half/second.
all of my coworkers now have mirrors hanging to see me…
By bb
June 22, 2007 9:21 AM | Link to this
I was a rookie EMT years ago, and for that rookie year, practical jokes are a tradition. Tying bootlaces together, filling boots with shaving cream or food, running an IV of D5W through the ceiling over my bunk and dripping the sticky stuff on me, “biscuiting” me in the shower (hiding the towel and throwing 5 lbs. of flour over the shower curtain) … sending me to the hospital’s central supply for “fallopian tubes”, putting vasoline under the door handles of my ambulance, well it goes on and on.
Office jokes have included the coke can switch …when the person has left his desk, replace his coke can with one filled with plain water. (or if you have the time, empty that one and refill). When he returns and takes a sip, he’ll spit it out thinking it is bad.
When someone is on vacation, photoshop a picture of them with a new body and make that their screensaver. Make sure the body has clothes.
Above all do not offend anyone who is sensitive. That is cruel.
By Laura
June 26, 2007 12:08 PM | Link to this
I was working at a yearbook plant when the plant supervisor went on vacation for two weeks. The day he was set to return, we put a now hiring plant supervisor and all departments sign out front, all parked our cars out back, turned off all the lights and machines, put fake cobwebs in his office, and all disappeared. He walked through the front office, his office and the whole plant until he found us in the press room. His secretary told him, “I warned you not to go on vacation.”