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My boss got me this morning. He used the Windows Messaging system to send me warnings from "IT" regarding my internet usage that had be sweating bullets for a minute.

I am going to get him back, and some...

What I'm thinking, I am going to take a screenshot of his desktop, preferably with a window or two open... Save the image, set it as his background image, minimize all windows and hide the taskbar. Bam, insta non-responsive PC.

This of course, is still in the planning stage. Has anyone else been the victim, or victimized someone in an inter-office prank that went exceptionally well? Nothing someone can get fired over, but something that we can get a good laugh about afterwards.

Someone in an office here filled their office mates cube full of balloons. Pretty much taped off the entire cube and filled it. It was awesome, but took two people a couple hours to blow up all the balloons.

tape underneath the mouse. just enough to cover up the ball so it doesn't work.

it's harmless and might make for a good laugh.

We switched around the "m" and "n" keys on one or programmer's keyboards once. He didn't figure out what was going on for a few hours. .

Done the screenshot thing before. Works wonderfully.

My favorite is putting tape over the speaker connector so the PC doesn't make any sounds, but looks like it's connected. My buddy spent 2 days troubleshooting this, and only discovered the tape as he was about crack the case. Tape also works on Cat 5 cables, phone lines, ect., which we also did to the same guy.

As revenge, he filled my overhead book shelves with foam peanuts. It was like a fucking waterfall when I opened it up.

If you've ever heard Crank yankers or something, they got some retard that just screams random shit. Make your boss' email say the "You've got mail! You've got mail! You've got mail! Yeah!" every time he gets an email. Then lock out his options to change it back, although that might not even be necessary if he's not too computer literate.

Sirensa wrote:Someone in an office here filled their office mates cube full of balloons. Pretty much taped off the entire cube and filled it. It was awesome, but took two people a couple hours to blow up all the balloons.

Have seen this done with styrofoam packing peanuts also.

I am looking at my neighbor's cube that I just put 900 feet of saran wrap in. Wrapped all the books. staplers, etc and Made it look like Shelob had her way in there.

back in Tennessee our IT department would pull pranks on the managers all the time by removing the case to their workstations and putting in either a walkie talkie or one of the motion sensor doorbell ringers.
If they used the walkie talkie they would constantly press the button and the workstation would hiss static and drive the user nuts, or they would have the motion sensor door chime at foot level so if they moved it would go off constantly. Was most amusing.

Sweet ideas. My boss doesn't have a cubicle, so I can't do any of those things to him, however the walkie talkie and tape ideas are golden.

I wasn't here when this happend but one guy got a new truck a few years ago and his boss (who happend to be his brother-in-law) and another guy filled the entire cab with styrofoam peanuts as he had left his window cracked... that was pretty funny but...

To get them back he went and took a shit on their desks and hung a sign on their office doors saying "Do not clean" so next morning when the admin. go there... WHEW!

Personally I think that's taking things a little too far, while it wasn't immediate the guy who did was eventually deselected from the Company

Marb

Marb.

I'm just looking to mess with him, not get fired!

Well....at work here, I have made a few "tweaks" to the registry of co-workers that have gotten me a few laughs. Basically, I added keys that made it impossible for them to add or remove a printer, removed icons from their workspace and would not allow new ones to be created, hid all the drives, removed the taskbar, and hid the internet explorer icon.

We have also used progman to change some of our dimmer witted folks' machines back to a Win 3.11 interface.


The best...and one that almost got me fired from a place was a long time back. I was working as a manager at one of the big home improvement places. One of the guys that worked in the hardware department was a real grating pain in the ass. He bitched non-stop about this key machine that was automated and would always conveniently ignore it when anyone wanted a key made.

I found one day that he stayed logged in to one of our terminals and walked off.....at which point I made a little e-mail to him (and if he had noticed...it was FROM himself). It was a very official sounding letter that said we were switching machines back to our old one and to securely package the machine onto a skid and strap it down....get an inventory of all the key blanks and all that crap so the drivers could pick it up on Monday morning....that the old machines would be in and to be ready to install it.

So I come back in to work on Wednesday after having a few days off.....to find that this guy had done it...and the machines had been down for 3 days and calls were being made all over to find out why they had failed to pick up the machine. Good times

A buddy of mine who had an "aisle cube" took a screenshot of the network map that had all our long haul fiber on it, with everything showing red. It was taken during a maintenance window for databases, freaked a number of people out.

The NOC guys asked him to take it down after a quite a few frantic phone calls

prank him to death with a tire iron.

Don't yank a prankster.


God I love that skit. Christopher Walken can do no wrong.

If you have admin rights, or are able to add yourself to the local admin group on his machine, you can can map his admin shares (c$, d$, etc) remotely. Since a users desktop is just objects stored locally in the Documents and Settings\<userid>\Desktop folder (slightly different under XP I believe), you can randomly rename, move, delete things from his desktop whenever you want, including things on the startbar.

You can also use that to put various different items in his startup folder.

Having access to someones desktop opens up all sorts of opportunities for shenanigans.

The most fun I ever had with someone who has an office instead of a cubicle...well...the ole' pencil trick!

Buy (read: steal from supply closet) about 50 to 100 pencils. Get them all nice and sharp, go into victim's office, start pelting them up into the ceiling.

It makes a very nice item for them to try and explain to anyone who sees it...very fun to do to!

Aslanna wrote: Having access to someones desktop opens up all sorts of opportunities for shenanigans.

Eeeeeeeeeevil shenanigans!

kyoukan wrote:prank him to death with a tire iron.

haha that was an awesome skit

Sylvus wrote:Don't yank a prankster.


God I love that skit. Christopher Walken can do no wrong.

Larry: You're being a Stiffly Stifferson, Zach.

Zach: No... no no no I'm not.

Larry: Good, because I hate Stiffly Stiffersons. I like to prank them for hours in my basement.

When I used to work in a Grocery Store, we told a new hire that he had some special jobs.

His first job was to go to the Salad Dressing aisle, and shake every single bottle of salad dressing to "keep it fresh".

After 4 hours of watching him shake bottles of dressing....we told him his next job was to go scrub the lobsters in the lobster tank. We gave him a scrub brush and a bucket of water. He did that for about 2 hours when the store manager asked "Where's the new guy" I replied...Scrubbing Lobsters. He said "DOING WHAT?!?"

Aah. Good Times.

During my GM days, I sat next to the Luclin server GM who is Canadian. His GM name was Altazar. I'd log onto his server ninja-style and change his last name to "Runs Like A Girl" or "Has A Strange Rash" etc. He'd remark "wow, the players are laughing at me for some reason..." Hmm.. you dont say. Once it took him 4 hours for someone to tell him what we'd done. We also used to log in and shapechange his GM avatar to a Female Bearded Dwarf. (He was a human male paladin)

Blame Canada!

-V

Once I had the coworker from hell. Insufferable bastard that made everyone's life miserable.

One evening I lifted the seat off the pedestal on his office chair and dumped a pound of raw shrimp in the pedestal, then put the seat back on.

You can imagine the results. The stench was unbearable.

This was followed up a month or so later by stuffing opened tins of tuna under the desk in an unreachable crevice.

Needless to say the consensus opinion was that the guy had a profound hygiene problem and became the outcast of the department.

Vannoth wrote: During my GM days, I sat next to the Luclin server GM who is Canadian. His GM name was Altazar. I'd log onto his server ninja-style and change his last name to "Runs Like A Girl" or "Has A Strange Rash" etc. He'd remark "wow, the players are laughing at me for some reason..." Hmm.. you dont say. Once it took him 4 hours for someone to tell him what we'd done. We also used to log in and shapechange his GM avatar to a Female Bearded Dwarf. (He was a human male paladin)

And, in return, people used to steal your pants!

Reminds me, there was an anorexic<sp> girl at a place I worked a while back. One of the guys I worked with used to go raise her chair every morning. She didn't weigh enough to get it back down.

Spankes wrote:

Vannoth wrote: During my GM days, I sat next to the Luclin server GM who is Canadian. His GM name was Altazar. I'd log onto his server ninja-style and change his last name to "Runs Like A Girl" or "Has A Strange Rash" etc. He'd remark "wow, the players are laughing at me for some reason..." Hmm.. you dont say. Once it took him 4 hours for someone to tell him what we'd done. We also used to log in and shapechange his GM avatar to a Female Bearded Dwarf. (He was a human male paladin)

And, in return, people used to steal your pants!

No that happened once because of Alan Crosby/Brenlo. They set me up. Sent me away from my desk and he hopped on and deleted my pants and broadcast it.

Altazar NEVER got me. Ever. I'll never lose to a dirty Canadian.

Desk-Toy Kidnapping Prank

I went around taking 1 desk toy off of several Co-Workers desks. You know, the stuffed animals, beanie babies, Firiona Vie miniature, or whatever that people put on their desks. I got a lot of napkins, and made blindfolds for all of the toys, then I got a digital camera and took a picture of the kidnapped toys with a beanie pig in a ski mask holding a plastic knife to their throats. Next, I made a Hotmail account "Ransom@hotmail.com" or something and sent a ransom note.

Of course asking for money would be lame as hell, but you could tell the victim to leave your favorite flavor of Starbucks in a location, or have them write a 5000 word reason why they think they deserve their desk toy back...whatever you think is appropriate.

Edit: I should add that one of the desk toys pictured in the ransom note was mine, to remove me as a suspect.

Never worked in an office but...

When I worked at Blockbuster we used to get people a lot! We had 3 areas for registers, the main one was center so wed either go the the outside two (which made it better) or the office and call the store on one of the other lines and ask for really lame maoives, porn, or get hostile was great, just a few feet away and they just didnt get it would even look the stuff up. Oh I miss that job was the best people i EVER!! worked with. Also good being the boss

Shashonna wrote:Never worked in an office but...

When I worked at Blockbuster we used to get people a lot! We had 3 areas for registers, the main one was center so wed either go the the outside two (which made it better) or the office and call the store on one of the other lines and ask for really lame maoives, porn, or get hostile was great, just a few feet away and they just didnt get it would even look the stuff up. Oh I miss that job was the best people i EVER!! worked with. Also good being the boss

When I worked in a video store (worked 4-12am/12am-8am) usually, we used to prank the phone booth across the street all the time late at night. It was funny watching some guy freak out when it would ring while they were walking past, and then they'd answer. Sure made for some interesting calls! Damn the phone companies for blocking incoming calls on those phones!

For some reason I used to leave my keys on my desk. Well one day my boss decided to take each key off the ring (while I wasn't there of course), but layed them all down on top of the keyring so that it looked normal.

I had an unusual amount of people at my cube by the end of the day, and when I picked up my keys to leave...well, the crowd wasn't disappointed

If you have the permissions, set a screen saver with a password, go into the windows startup files, and change explore.exe to screensaver.scr

So they come back to lame joke of a passworded screen, and reboot, just to come back to a passworded screen.

If you have install rights on the person's PC, remote access packages like PCAnywhere, ReachOut or VNC can lead to hours of fun.

A co-worker who managed a department once changed the signature at the end of a work-term student's emails from something like:

Firstname Lastname
Company
Workterm Student
(555) 555-5555

to:

Firstname Lastname
Company
Worthless Student
(555) 555-5555

Poor fellow was weeks before he figured that out.

Another time, a person in the company I was emailing regarding some work issue left his computer without locking it (bad idea). Another co-worker sent an email from the poor fellow's machine/account to me about a diarreah problem he was apparently having and vivid details on just how bad it was. The guy didn't know until I wrote him back saying "oh.. you should really see a doctor about that..."

I like the ransom desk toys idea! We did something similar to a friend that I worked with who was all excited about his new fancy pen.

We took the pen, photographed it, then made a note out of newsclipping letters and put it on his desk. Good fun. I do like the blindfolds and knife to the throat idea much better though!

Does anyone have a link to the Pranksters SNL skit? I can't find it anywhere.

Tenuvil wrote:Once I had the coworker from hell. Insufferable bastard that made everyone's life miserable.

One evening I lifted the seat off the pedestal on his office chair and dumped a pound of raw shrimp in the pedestal, then put the seat back on.

You can imagine the results. The stench was unbearable.

This was followed up a month or so later by stuffing opened tins of tuna under the desk in an unreachable crevice.

Needless to say the consensus opinion was that the guy had a profound hygiene problem and became the outcast of the department.

When I was in the Air Force we used to pull similar pranks on the other squadrons maint. trucks. My favorite was putting a potato in a jar filled with water and letting it sit for several months. When you finally open the jar it stinks like rotten death farts. We put the potato in their heater vent and poured the water all over the floor. It was January... in South Dakota. They had to use their spare truck for 2 weeks. Good fun!

Something we always liked doing was when people would go out of town for a few days was wire peoples brake lights to the horn or blinkers so the horn would blow every time they hit the brakes or turned on the blinkers.

at college my freshman year we found easter grass on sale at goodwill for 4 cents a bag and spent almost 40 bucks on easter grass to fill a sweetmates room 7 feet high

so, your freshman year were you sweet on your suite-mates or suite on your sweet-mates?

kyoukan wrote:prank him to death with a tire iron.

Does ANYONE have a link to that skit. I havent been able to find it anywhere.

Did you even bother to check the SNL site? I know everyone has a hard on for youtube and other places, but it took me a whole 5 seconds to find it there.

http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/videos/

Click on Celebrities and there's a nice picture of Walken in his yellow Pranksters T-Shirt. It's a couple rows down as of today, dunno where when you look.


OR

Go to http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/ and just type "Pranksters" into the Search bar!

A prank story that gets retold a few times a year when we get new people goes something like this: (note, I wasn't around, I was told this when I started with the company almost 6 years ago)

Prankster changes the audio played when someone logs in, gets new e-mail, etc. to a new sound file of someone yelling "Hey! Look guys! I'm looking at porn!" and turns the speakers up really loud.

There was reasons we called our little locked room an "HR-free zone".

I too worked in a grocery store when I was younger...the store manager was the biggest prankster of all. He used to send noobies all over town to buy a shelf stretcher. Of course all the local hardware stores were in on the joke so they automatically told the victim that they were out of shelf stretchers, and to try another hardware store across town, who would then send him/her to a local plumbing supply company, then to another grocery store, etc. Sometimes they were gone for 2-3 hours, bouncing around all over town.
Also the restrooms in this store were tiny. Much smaller than the average cubicle...just a toilet and sink...funny thing about these tiny restrooms though. There was just enough gap between the door and the floor for a bottle rocket. Much fun was had by all...unless you were the poor sap in this 4x3 room when the live bottle rocket came screaming under the door unexpectedly =/

Good times...

Greatest initiation rite for any of the new guys that would come and work my bay.

Get the final coupling ring off, pick up the warhead and take it to the work stand.
(Setup, have the old handy brown paper bag or ziplock bag blown up to full with air).

Soon as they put the grounding strap on /slap and POW!.....some peed a little, some ran so hard they neglected to realize there was a door/wall in their paths....jesus that was funny to watch.

We have countless ones.
Another good one is when wearing your gas mask hours on end...its very draining and people usually wind up falling asleep after an hour or so. Soon as you see them knod off good slap a piece of pre-cut duct tape onto the end of the filter.

Instantly you get a good 10 seconds of the headless chicken dance. Pure panic is fun until its your turn and you nod off. It helped though on those times when you werent supposed to be sleeping when you start dozing off and you realize the duct tape that was on the desk an hour ago is missing...you dont want to be the first man to fade off.

Making new young guys argue with the hospital come annual physical time trying to get their "Paps" done...there are just so many.