View Full Version : Jolly Japes at work
timwilky
01-08-12, 01:42 PM
Inspired elsewhere what have you done to colleagues that afterwards made you think whoops, it might have been funny, Not.
Two to start from me.
1) My boss at the time Eric had an untidy desk, so enabled me to hide a detonator (mate worked at local quarry) under the brew mat on his desk. Coffee cup down, attached battery and brew everywhere.
2) Colleague Lisa was a well endowed lady and gave the impression of being up for a laugh. So I got her with the 10p wobble. For those that don't know. It starts
I have psychic powers
Oh
Yes, I can even make your boobs wobble simply by the power of my mind
Without touching them
Yes, I bet you 10p I can make your boobs wobble without touching.
OK
Position hands near without touching and start saying wobble, wobble
Followed by sod it it is worth 10p and go for a handful.
Afterwards it occurs to me the possibilities of her husband not liking the joke, allegations of sexual assault etc.
Jayneflakes
01-08-12, 02:40 PM
We played the peg game, the idea is that you each have a peg and have to clip it to your opponents. Bare in mind that we worked in a school at the time, a place to be serious and teach the young minds of tomorrow.
When it became apparent that one of our team was being repeatedly pegged by us, some of the kids joined in. Said team member ended up with a lot of pegs clipped to her lab coat and the boss having a word with us about possible bullying of a co-worker!
Doinitmyway
01-08-12, 03:01 PM
Rude not to isn't it
http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/4789/splodge.jpg
tactcom7
01-08-12, 03:10 PM
Not done by me personally but a new lad was tied to a chair and hoisted up with the overhead gantry crane....
Only to tip the chair over and knock himself out on the concrete floor.
granty92
01-08-12, 03:45 PM
laxitives in co workers drink, gave him the bad times in the evening apparently
maviczap
01-08-12, 03:47 PM
Sent a noob off to local builders merchant for some Tartan Paint & a Long Wait :king:
maviczap
01-08-12, 03:48 PM
laxitives in co workers drink, gave him the bad times in the evening apparently
WE know, that's what's inspired Tim's thread :rolleyes:
punyXpress
01-08-12, 03:52 PM
Looks like Tim's the cause of all the 'elf & Safety and PC that ruins today's workplace.
Me? Self inflicted!
Told a workmate he wouldn't dare staple my finger.
He did & it hurt like blue grit!
appollo1
01-08-12, 04:01 PM
done many many jolly japes
cellopate on the phone so when the person picks it up it continues ringing
sending new young folk to different departments to ask for long stands, long weights, left handed screwdrivers etc
in Germany one of the lads had put his car into a dealer for a service then went away with work for a few days. garage called me to say it was ready and the price was 150 deutsch marks (£50). i spoke to the translator and got her in on the joke. phoned the lad and said the garage had called but they couldn't speak english and my german wasn't very good. told him to call the translator as she had the details. she told him (on my request) that his car had major work done and was going to cost 1500 DM (about £500). On his return to our area in germany he went straight to the bank to get an instant loan and asked me to drop him off at the garage. as soon as he was out the car i drove off. An hour later he turned up in work laughing thankfully vowing revenge (which never happened)
femaleacid
01-08-12, 04:28 PM
Like I said in ny previous thread, I want to put a member of staff's (who I don't like so much) and put their desk equipment in jelly.
http://img.tapatalk.com/4e912550-5939-7701.jpg
Dicky Ticker
01-08-12, 04:56 PM
Rubbing hot chili pepper round the rim of a mug or cup.
Potato up the exhaust.
Jack their car up and put it on blocks so that the wheels are barely touching the ground.
Swop the saddle and handlebars round on their push bike
Jayneflakes
01-08-12, 05:59 PM
Years ago when I worked in an outdoor shop, the Assistant Manager could not work out what was wrong with his bike. Some one :D had turned his back wheel around. Sadly this does not work with modern bikes that have disk brakes.
He did get me back though, I had a peugeot Road bike and he Painted a phallus on every lion! I kept it like that for three years because it made me laugh so much. It was so detailed and intricate. ;-)
MisterTommyH
01-08-12, 06:05 PM
We once convinced someone from work that now they'd been there 2 years they had to apply for their 'draughtsmans license'.
Even got as far as them phoning up the council and being passed from department to department because no one knew who should be dealing with it.
yorkie_chris
01-08-12, 06:08 PM
Some f***er got me by warming the handle of my pot up with the gas torch "want a brew Chris?" SIZZLE... SMASH... B*STARD!
I got revenge by electrifying the bench. Managed perfect timing that both him and another joker leant on it (at about 5000V :)) at the same time :)
Moved someones car in between 2 skips with the fork truck so there was about 3" either end.
Best one was an R+D engineer at the mobility place I worked, he would p*ss about with everything in the workshop, so we set up a wheelchair with some dodgy firmware, needless to say he couldn't resist walking past it... cue him chasing a runaway wheelchair down the warehouse :smt082
Also drilled a hole in the bottom of someones coffee cup :)
barwel1992
01-08-12, 06:14 PM
ahaha
we managed to trick a lad into thinking he needed a passport to go to wales :D and he'd all ready told the race team that he could go, so ended up going and telling the team owner that he couldnt go because he didnt have a passport :D to say the least he wants pleased when he got back as the whole team was in stitches of laughter
metalangel
01-08-12, 06:45 PM
We have a replay screen which we use to watch train movements to try and work out if one train was delayed by another late one crossing its path. While you're away from the desk, it's hilarious* to change the date on the replay so stuff that's reported as late seems to have done fine on the replay because you don't realize you're watching yesterday's stuff (I've had colleagues do almost an entire shift watching the wrong day).
Go into Display Properties and re-arrange where the multi-monitor setup is in relationship to each other. So if you move off the left monitor you appear from the bottom of the second-from-right monitor, and then have to go right to get to the monitor to its left, etc.
Go into mouse settings and set the sensitivity either to the highest or the lowest, and reverse the buttons.
At school in electronics class, someone soldered my pencil case zipper shut. We also pulled all the keys off the keyboards and rearranged them slightly so it didn't look wrong.
*may not be hilarious to people outside the office
timwilky
01-08-12, 08:12 PM
Nasty stuff. Broom handle through arms of overall across back and through the other arm. tie wraps round each wrist, open double door cupboard, lift victim onto cupboard doors and crucify.
Welding up the drawers of someone brand new snap on is down right nasty. As is spreading victim over a marking table and pouring a bottle of marking blue over their groin.
I had one boss who wore desert wellies at work and left them overnight under his desk. So clued to the carpet.
Weld a disc square to a tea spoon and serve a brew with the spoon standing upright to the one person who drinks gnat pee
andrewsmith
01-08-12, 09:11 PM
I shouldn't have read this after a beer
Just remote logged in to a in use PC at the office and started doing odd things with the screen
Shawthing
01-08-12, 09:35 PM
We have a Bullying and Harassment policy instead.
Oh goody! :rolleyes:
BanannaMan
02-08-12, 04:43 AM
Perspective fom the other side. :smt074
You did such a good job while you were here, hate to see you leave like this.
I'll have someone go with you to clear out your desk/work area and show you to the door.
Your final compensation will be mailed to you. :p
I'm the boss and it's my duty to dismiss those who do most of the things mentioned in this thread to other employees.
Really people. Can't have such going on in a work place. :rolleyes:
Doesn't matter if the victim is OK with it, someone else might file a complaint.
Meaning I or the company could possibly be held financially and/or criminally liable for your actions if I knowingly let this kind of behavior continue.
It's not a lack of sense of humor.
It's just staying within the laws to protect the owner/company.
You may have been getting away with it for years,
everybody else might do it too,
but don't complain when your joke costs you a job.
Ta for now!
:smt077
LankyIanB
02-08-12, 08:04 AM
This was done to a colleague of mine a looong time ago when I worked for a major oil company....
After returning from lunch, said colleague would always go to the cupboard by his desk, take a can of deodorant, open his shirt slightly and give his armpits a freshen-up....
One day the can of deodorant was swopped for a can of shaving foam from the same brand.....:D
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The other slightly cruel one I did was we had a CRM system that had a "splash screen" that appeared for about 1/2 a second on start up. The splash screen worked in an odd way in that it would randomly select any file of a certain type in a specific directory - it only expected one file to be there, but if there were more it would randomly select one of them... so, you create 30 copies of the splash screen file all the same and another that has a "message" for the user. It worked brilliantly - you could convince users they were seeing things....
yorkie_chris
02-08-12, 08:04 AM
Our HR policy at the place was very simple.
No shenanigans unless you are ready to get the same back at you!
One of the wonders of a small company and a DILLIGAF attitude.
Now I'm a professional engineer dealing with big companies and the 'elf an safety, PC bullsh*t of the big places is horrific.
Many yeas ago there was this older, two faced admin type chap who caused lots of problems for us young engineers, as he worked in admin we felt an office based prank would be most fitting so we collected the waste from all the paper hole punchers in the office, filled the heater in his car pointed the vents at face level and left the blower on full, the result as he got in and turned the ignition was akin to a xmas snow globe and probably one of the funniest most side splitting things I have ever witnessed, still having a good old chuckle now a as I type this.
missyburd
02-08-12, 09:13 AM
Many yeas ago there was this older, two faced admin type chap who caused lots of problems for us young engineers, as he worked in admin we felt an office based prank would be most fitting so we collected the waste from all the paper hole punchers in the office, filled the heater in his car pointed the vents at face level and left the blower on full, the result as he got in and turned the ignition was akin to a xmas snow globe and probably one of the funniest most side splitting things I have ever witnessed, still having a good old chuckle now a as I type this.
Now that is funny, a harmless prank with no nasty repercussions :cheers:
BigBaddad
02-08-12, 10:17 AM
I used to work in a small office of fellow engineers, my boss was a bit of a knob so here's what I used to do,
1, Leave a voicemail on his phone only leaving a first name, saying how important it was for them to call back about "the project". The dopey self important twonk used to spend hours trying to find out who called.
2, I'd get a paper clip and tie it around the phone cord where the receiver meets the phone. I'd phone their extension and upon picking up the receiver the whole phone lifted and sung towards their face.
3, My desk would face onto a colleagues some I'd unplug his keyboard and plug mine into his machine. Then when he tried to type nothing would happen. I'd either type in something inappropriate or are a few minutes of him button pressing just keep my finger on a key. IT could not find a problem....strangle that.
4. Very funny, but could get someone in a whole heap of crap with IT. Change their homepage to something pornographic BBC (not the broadcaster) is quite amusing.
5, sending people virals, scary maze etc. or the ones to appear to delete everything and crash a pc. I've seen people ripping power leads out.
6, change someone auto correct on their office package, changing commonly misused words works well i.e. specific to pacific, misspelling someone's name is also good, there are many others.
granty92
02-08-12, 11:06 AM
so im sat here with my mobile infront of me and im blocking my number and keep calling my bosses landline, he seems to be getting a bit annoyed now so i shall keep going :)
femaleacid
02-08-12, 11:23 AM
so im sat here with my mobile infront of me and im blocking my number and keep calling my bosses landline, he seems to be getting a bit annoyed now so i shall keep going :)
Id hate to work with you ;)
granty92
02-08-12, 11:27 AM
ok turned out it wasnt blocking my number so called me back and i hadn't put it on silent :/ tehe and no im usually good to work with but i like to liven things up :)
femaleacid
02-08-12, 12:22 PM
Haha, I like to do the same...
I'm trying to think of good ones to do when I'm at the new site and for the rest of the IT workers!
granty92
02-08-12, 12:31 PM
another one is label every single thing on their desk :) thats amusing
tactcom7
02-08-12, 12:39 PM
another one is label every single thing on their desk :) thats amusing
Sounds more like Lean than a practical joke
granty92
02-08-12, 12:42 PM
what do you mean lean?
Brettus
02-08-12, 12:45 PM
what do you mean lean?
Ignorance is bliss, some things you just don't want to know.
tactcom7
02-08-12, 12:45 PM
Oh the joy of lean in a workplace. Basically increasing productivity by reducing inefficieny. Having everything to hand on the desk and everything has its place. v dull.
granty92
02-08-12, 12:47 PM
ahwell i have done it to my colleague before and it was funny watching how confused she was seeing everything labeled
tactcom7
02-08-12, 12:47 PM
THIS...
http://community.asq.org/assets/americansocietyforquality/users/D/6/E/1/D6E1C18D-6954-4FFC-8604-37F4B6485CB3/photos/24CDB985-4BFD-4D17-AEEB-6B8889A5B317/2BF9B00B-2723-4543-9C4C-0458A9DC637B.jpg
granty92
02-08-12, 12:49 PM
oh thats weird
Dave20046
02-08-12, 12:59 PM
THe car one's by far the worst so far, that'd be a nightmare to clean up!
At much previous workplaces ,these have featured:
Shrink wrapped to forklift and extended to its highest and left for lunch
Fire extinguisher when unawares/distracted
LOads of jumping out in creepy warehouses
Playing dead on cctv then disappearing when they come to investigate
FArting in motorbike helmets just before home time
No drink was safe!
Taking a screenshot of desktops removing all icons and set as background
Lots of social engineering emails,or rather disrupting! (All-staff emails etc)
SEtting out of office replies detailing that they're at fat camp or on a saucy holiday
Phoning people with an umcanny impression of the boss and harsh message
Cellotape over optical mouse/phone receivers/phone chords
Altering driving licences
Putting people in bins/trying to ship them
It was quite stressful actually in a hilarious way
keith_d
02-08-12, 01:11 PM
One of my colleagues left his new mobile phone ringing on his desk all morning while he was in a meeting. So I scrounged up a dead copy of the same phone and left it in a pint of water on his desk, along with a post-it reading "just too annoying".
Best bit was watching him storming into the Boss' office holding the glass and shouting "What is this a ****ing kindergarten". The Boss was in on it too... :D
keith_d
02-08-12, 01:38 PM
Many years ago we spent a happy afternoon subscribing someone to every free offer in the tabloid newspapers using joke names. Zimmer frames for Mr L.J. Silver, incontinence pants for Ian P. Daily, etc. Worst/best was a hearing aid salesman who travelled 80 miles to visit Mr Simon Lence (well, no point phoning :) ) only to find out it was a joke. Apparently he wasn't amused.
We heard afterwards that he'd kept all the crap he was sent with a view to giving it all back to the culprits with interest. Glad he didn't guess who it was.
maviczap
02-08-12, 02:23 PM
THe car one's by far the worst so far, that'd be a nightmare to clean up!
At much previous workplaces ,these have featured:
Shrink wrapped to forklift and extended to its highest and left for lunch
Fire extinguisher when unawares/distracted
LOads of jumping out in creepy warehouses
Playing dead on cctv then disappearing when they come to investigate
FArting in motorbike helmets just before home time
No drink was safe!
Taking a screenshot of desktops removing all icons and set as background
Lots of social engineering emails,or rather disrupting! (All-staff emails etc)
SEtting out of office replies detailing that they're at fat camp or on a saucy holiday
Phoning people with an umcanny impression of the boss and harsh message
Cellotape over optical mouse/phone receivers/phone chords
Altering driving licences
Putting people in bins/trying to ship them
It was quite stressful actually in a hilarious way
I likes some of these :p
AndyBrad
02-08-12, 03:46 PM
THIS...
http://community.asq.org/assets/americansocietyforquality/users/D/6/E/1/D6E1C18D-6954-4FFC-8604-37F4B6485CB3/photos/24CDB985-4BFD-4D17-AEEB-6B8889A5B317/2BF9B00B-2723-4543-9C4C-0458A9DC637B.jpg
i love that!
So far its been stuff like tims at our place. crucified on a crane 20 ft in the air etc.
yorkie_chris
02-08-12, 03:49 PM
What a waste of a drawer.
There should definitely be half a carb in bits, 4 empty fag packets, that sandwich you forgot about, a soldering iron and a 7/16ths socket in there.
andrewsmith
02-08-12, 03:54 PM
What a waste of a drawer.
There should definitely be half a carb in bits, 4 empty fag packets, that sandwich you forgot about, a soldering iron and a 7/16ths socket in there.
Yep
Anyone with marginal OCD look away now :king:
http://i1034.photobucket.com/albums/a426/andrewsmith1708/02082012306.jpg
That is tidy aswel!
Dave20046
02-08-12, 04:12 PM
A bit of a potentially nasty one I had to checkout at work;
A chap had broken up with a long-term girlfriend some months ago and they'd recently rekindled their relationship. Someone had set his desktop wallpaper to a picture of this girl with her interim boyfriend.
He amazingly took it in good humour!
I likes some of these :p
Oh another of my faves ; an audio loop created using audio from a hardcore porno and well placed dog-barking samples. Audio on laptop set to full, and all controls removed. Then set to activate next time they're due on a train journey :batman:
femaleacid
02-08-12, 04:25 PM
When I was in school last year, I saved all the default home pages on the computers a rick roll website. So everytime somebody went on internet - they had rick astley at their ears.
And it was one of those annoying websites that wouldn't let you close it.
Fruity-ya-ya
02-08-12, 05:45 PM
Yep
Anyone with marginal OCD look away now :king:
http://i1034.photobucket.com/albums/a426/andrewsmith1708/02082012306.jpg
That is tidy aswel!
Nice dymo ;)
ruddlad
02-08-12, 06:31 PM
Bosses chair, ancient and falling apart, wheels missing but"comfortable" he refused to get rid of it. Has no choice now!!!
11205
femaleacid
02-08-12, 06:44 PM
Bosses chair, ancient and falling apart, wheels missing but"comfortable" he refused to get rid of it. Has no choice now!!!
11205
Hahahahahahahhaahhhahahaha! :lol:
punyXpress
02-08-12, 06:45 PM
Nice dymo ;)
b.b.b but Quick Tac blue is SO 90's
missyburd
02-08-12, 06:53 PM
When I was in school last year, I saved all the default home pages on the computers a rick roll website. So everytime somebody went on internet - they had rick astley at their ears.
And it was one of those annoying websites that wouldn't let you close it.
Really? Don't think anybody's EVER used that on this forum as a prank, how does that song go again? :smt083:king:;)
femaleacid
02-08-12, 06:57 PM
Really? Don't think anybody's EVER used that on this forum as a prank, how does that song go again? :smt083:king:;)
Tempted... To... Post... Full.. Lyrics...
Resisting, resisting ;)
andrewsmith
02-08-12, 07:11 PM
b.b.b but Quick Tac blue is SO 90's
I've got 2 big sets of desk draws and a 6ft cabinet, all full of adhesion methods ;)
FYY that hasn't been used in a while, got abused for the first 6 months
Tempted... To... Post... Full.. Lyrics...
Resisting, resisting ;)
Wolfie, Speedplay....
Wakey Wakey
Souldude
02-08-12, 09:59 PM
Made up a dummy out of overalls, safety hat, boots etc and dangled it from a tower crane over a road near Swindon bus station.
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