What are really good pranks to play at work?

Question

I need a really good prank to play at my soon to be former workplace, something that will be pretty outrageous - but cannot be tracked to me definitely.

Answer 1

Photocopy an entire dictionary and fax it to the CFO.

Call phone-sex numbers and transfer the calls at random.

"Accidentally" send a personal e-mail to the entire company voicing your disapproval of your boss's constant reference to the CEO as an "ugly, stupid, lazy, spineless *****".

Write a coworker's initials in White-Out on the photocopier.

Schedule a series of important departmental meetings and forget to show up to them.

Send blank sheets of paper via interoffice mail. (Marked "urgent" and "confidential", of course.) Remember to send a few to the mailroom; they'll especially get a kick out of it.

Replace a commonly-accessed file on the computer network with a scanned image of your ***. (An updated version of an old classic.)

Anonymously post quotes from Adolph Hitler on a company bulletin board. (Quotes about "team spirit" can be particularly inspiring.)

Adulterate other people's lunches: take bites out of sandwiches, sprinkle bacon bits in vegetarians' salads (also works well with Orthodox Jews), and spike the thermos of iced tea with grain alcohol.

See how long you can hide a paper bag full of tuna fish in the back of the refrigerator before someone notices it. (Writing someone else's name on the bag goes without saying.)

Put a paper bag full of your own feces in the microwave and leave it cooking on high.

Page someone over the company intercom with the message "Your sex-therapist is on the line and wants to reschedule the appointment."

Set a mouse free in the office each day. When the problem becomes an epidemic, send snakes after them.

Draw a flip-cartoon of a man running on the bottom of every notepad in the office supply closet.

Hide in the supply closet and scare people when they open the door.

Put a fake rubber hand in your sleeve, and when a secretary walks by, stick the hand in a paper shredder and scream.

When someone is at lunch, use their computer to e-mail a 200 megabyte database file to everyone in the company. The e-mail's subject, of course, should contain at least one vulgarity.

Misfile.

Hire a temp to do your job for you.

Submit letters of resignation for other employees.

Conduct all correspondence with your friend in the next office via Federal Express early-morning next-day delivery.

Submit a written complaint to the human resources department that, in your opinion, your boss spends a little too much time looking at pornography.

Tape a sign to a female employee's back that says "I've been sexually harassed."

Tape a sign to a female employee's back that says "Will **** for promotions."

Dial the phone number of the guy in the next cubicle whenever he walks away from his desk. Hang up before he can run back to answer it. Repeat often.

Hire a stripper for the office Christmas party.

Send counterfeit memos from the company president, politely letting employees know that they've been fired and must clear out their offices and leave the building immediately.

Covertly replace people's PowerPoint presentations with "director's cut" versions, containing a nice dose of nudity and misleading bar graphs.

Report rumors daily via the bathroom wall.

Pull a fire alarm while someone is in the bathroom.

Make sure your expense report contains at least one reference to the "client meeting" at the "gentleman's club".

Whenever a coworker makes a mistake, offer them the opportunity to "help you out" in exchange for you not reporting the mistake to their boss.

Sneak into the conference room before the next major meeting and place nametags in front of each of the seats. Assign black people to one side of the table and white people to the other.

Sew a tag containing a coworker's name into a jockstrap or bra, and leave it on the center of a conference table before a meeting. (Small sizes of these garments improve performance of the prank.)

Post a list of the communists in your company on a conspicuous bulletin board. If you're not sure who the communists are, take your best guess.

Take a stack of resumes from the recruitment department and schedule some interviews for fictional, but high-paying, positions.

Post your boss's telephone number to the alt.sex.prostitution discussion group.

Shoot a cap gun, bang some pots and pans, scream into a megaphone, or do whatever else it takes to have an enjoyable surprise birthday party for the senile old bastard that no one has the guts to fire.

Suggest to the human resources manager that the company picnic be replaced by a "fun day giving back to society", volunteering at a recycling center, soup kitchen, or drug rehab center. Increase your chances of success by making the suggestion in a crowded elevator.

Hand an envelope to the new guy and ask him to deliver the "cancellation of pension" memo to the sixty-four year old mailroom clerk.

See how many funerals in a row you can get away with leaving work early for.

Wallpaper your office with pictures of Christ.
And finally:


Respond to every request by your boss with the phrase "I would prefer not to."

Answer 2

I used to enjoy phoning new secretaries and asking to speak to one of the Hunt Brothers, either Isaac or Mike depending on my mood or ask to speak to Mr Drew Peedick. I would usually arrange with a colleague before hand so that they could ask for repetition preferably loudly. This rarely failed to cause a laugh.

Another trick i pulled at a Garage where i was employed as a supervisor some years ago was to;
Put up a memo on company headed notepaper photocopied (with the original text blanked out except the signature at the bottom) stating that as from 0000hrs on March 31st staff would not be permitted to use the toilets on site but would have to walk 200 yards to the nearest Public conveniences to perform their ablutions. The garage incidentally was single manned most of the time and staff were required to make up for shortfalls caused by people driving off without paying for petrol unless they could provide registration numbers and or descriptions of the offenders. I also emailed similar to other garages in the group. Lots of staff contacted head office quoting human rights etc and when i owned up i got off with a light warning because the bosses found it quite amusing too.

Answer 3

Soon to be former? Maybe you've already played one prank too many. Too much play and too little productivity makes for a short-lived company that is for sure.

Though I know what you mean. Of the three jobs I've had over the past 30+ years, every one was lost to a downsizing.

Answer 4

when locking up at work one nite i put some little furry pom pom balls in the floor safe so the woman who went into the safe the next morning put her hand in the safe and could feel loads of little furry things i nearly gave her a heart attack! we where Friends though and it was just a joke! i also cling filmed the main door to the shop so as she went to walk in she just bounced off the cling film.

Answer 5

i'll tell you what i did one time. i put one of those fake jelly bean jars in the break room. you know the ones that if you open them these springs pop out and scare the crap out of you. i got a couple of screams that day. it was fun.

Answer 6

Tell us where you work and what you do so that we may make more informed suggestions.

Answer 7

Put cling film over the toilet bowl.

Answer 8

Go to the web site, I'm so bored.com

Answer 9

DON'T bother as it will come back to haunt you soon or later.

Answer 10

Just leave..I would fire you right now if I was your employer.