Office Pranks!!

[Serenity]

I read of a few, try these if you want.

if you can take apart a phone of a co-worker take the hand set and in the mouth piece just behind the slots in front of the microphone put a piece of lunch meat. in a week or so there will be a horrendous smell whenever they talk on their phone.

you can do the same thing with their chair. if you can slip a slice of bologna below the top layer of their chair.

A kind of interesting story related to this, my father used to work at a dodge dealership here in Hawaii. He told me of a time he sold a car to a woman, and she fell in love with it. Well, a few days later, she brought it in complaining of a rattling noise anytime she made any turns. Well, the mechanics went over every inch of the car, found nothing amiss, and sent her on her way. Well, she would be back in the next week. This went on for several weeks, this clanking noise wouldn't go away. She didn't want to part with the car either for some strange reason, so eventually, she learned to live with it. But, because of her frequent visits, she and my father became good friends. Well, about five years later he got a call from her. She said something along the lines of "You'll never guess what happened! I finally discovered what that noise in my car was!". I don't know why this happened, but somehow the driver's side seat was completely gutted. And in the cavity around the frame they found a small wrench tied to the frame, so it could swing back and forth, (hitting the frame and making the noise) with a note tied to it, which said "I bet it took you forever to find this!". True story!

[Hornet33]

I got my old Warrant Officer one time pretty good. He had just gotten a new optical mouse for his computer that had the memory stick port on it and a few other fancy little gizmos. He was real excited about it since he's one of those tech geeks that always has to have to most up to date electronics.

So a couple of days after he got it, I went over to his desk after he had left for the day and took a small piece of paper and taped it over the optical pick up on the bottom of the mouse.

Next morning he comes in and his mouse isn't working, so I'm watching him from across the office, crawling under the desk checking cables, using the keyboard commands to go into the hardware setup to check drivers, back under the desk to plug in the old mouse, confusion now because the old mouse works just fine, back under the desk to plug in the new one, now he pissed because it still doesn't work. Then I see him pick up the phone and call the IT hotline. He's on the phone with them for 10 minutes and he's getting ready to try and reload the drivers, when I FINALLY see him pick the thing up and turn it over. As soon as he does he looks right over at me with a look that could that could kill because he knew I did it. I had wrote a little note on the paper, "Hahaha Gotcha!!!"

Seemed like a good time to grab a cup of coffee and go out for a smoke. The IT guys thought it was great.

[Saxman]

as head of IT another great one for the PC illiterate is to take a screen shot of their desktop, move all items into another folder on the C drive then make the screen shot their desktop background. they will spend 20 minutes double clicking on fake icons.

I can one-up you on this one:

1. Take a screen shot of their desktop
2. Open said screen shot in a graphics editor (Paint will do)
3. Flip the image vertically
4. Set the altered image as their desktop background
5. Hide all icons
6. Move the Task Bar to the opposite side of the screen (IE top if it's on the bottom, etc)
7. Hide the Task Bar
8. Invert their screen image (depending on the system it's usually something like Ctrl-Alt-Up Arrow)
9. Sit back and try not to laugh as they frantically try to make their computer work

[derelict]

Did one like this to an LT.  Back in the old CTOS days, when the USCG was using Unisys conmputers, this guy was forever leaving himself logged in all day.  We had six computers for 30 people, and he would ensure he always had one since he was "important".  So I took a screen shot of the login screen and changed his log in routine so that it immediately brought up this screen shot instead of the WP program it should have gone to.  As soon as he would hit enter the subroutine would take him from the screen shot and log him out! 

He spent almost 30 minutes cussing up a storm chasing his tail....type in user name and password, hit enter, see login screen (fake), type in user name and password, hit enter, see login screen (real), lather,rinse,repeat      When he finally decided to call the IT folks we "fixed it" for him.  Told him it must have been caused by being logged in to much.....solved that problem