31 Funny Ways People Subtly Pranked Their Coworkers

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31 Funny Ways People Subtly Pranked Their Coworkers
GeronimoEKIAx2 8y ago Edited 8y ago Everyday I would get into the locker room before him and place one penny in his right boot. This went on for 2 months. After about a week and a half I could see him getting frustrated. After a while it just became the norm for him to shake the penny out of his right boot everyday. Не wasn't frustrated anymore, he was defeated, and just accepted it now. So, one day I decided to put it in his left boot. Не came in shook his right boot out like usual, but nothing fell
8y ago Made a new folder on his desktop called Russian Dwarf Porn and then took a screenshot. Set the screenshot as his desktop background. For an engineer it took him a ridiculous amount of time before he realised why he couldn't delete the folder. - 11K ...
Jabez77 8y ago I teach elementary music. Once, I had a rivalry with the gym/PE teacher. She would send the kindergarten class to mine and tell them it was my birthday and I loved birthday hugs. She would do this about twice a month. I sent them back to her and told them she loved it when people would step on her foot. They rushed her and started stomping. She also told the kids to go into my class, say nothing, and just stare at me. It was the creepiest damn thing. She won. 4.8K ...
SnaggyKrab 8y ago Found a little script a while back that would randomly open and close the disc drive on my coworker's computer. Not incredibly often, but enough to the point where it was annoying. Не requested a new computer, I reinstalled the .scr as soon as he left that day. - 8K ...
Nelfoos5 8y ago Edited 8y ago I sit beside a guy who is a good friend of mine and our desks are separated by a moveable divider. Since I moved beside him 2 weeks ago I've been moving the divider a centimetre towards him each day. We're at 13cm and he hasn't noticed yet. I have to shift his monitors soon though so that will be interesting Edit: photo for proof 2.9K ... + 97 more replies
rnpbamc . 8y ago Coworker. I have very tiny printouts of just his head. I sneak them all over the office in inconspicuous places. This has been going on for 2 years. Не still doesn't know it's me. 765 ... + 7 more replies
ExtraMediumGonzo 8y ago I think I've mentioned this before, but I have a few со- workers (myself included) that run on post-it notes. Seriously, some of our desks look like that Pepe Silva scene in Always Sunny. That said, I take advantage of this. I do fairly well at copying other's handwriting. I'll do my best facsimile of something innocuous or mildly ominous and place it among their other post-its. My notable favorites were: Ask Linda about the bees. and Knife Parade? 6.3K ...
FuckCazadors . 8y ago Gradually increase the pressure required to open the office door by adjusting the automatic door-closer with a screwdriver so they become accustomed to giving it a mighty shove then one day disconnect the arm altogether. 12K ...
varro-reatinus 0 8y ago E Edited 8y ago I plant evil questions in their lectures and tutorials, seeding them to students we have in common. I've been doing it for years, and they have no idea it's happening. They're just constantly baffled that the same kids each year keep asking obscure, graduate- level, often borderline unanswerable questions in person, but never quite manage that level of insight in their writing. - 11K ...
CrepuscularPizza e 8y ago Once I plugged in a wireless mouse into their computer without them knowing. And a few times a day I would just jiggle the mouse. Just enough to hear them slamming down the mouse and muttering under their breath and I'd stop. This went on for several days. Sometimes I'd stop by to chat, and I would bring the mouse. When they we go to click on something I would just move the mouse just slightly so they couldn't actually hover over what they wanted to click. It was brilliant! - 3.6K ...
DadWindu 8y ago | put a simple alarm clock in the ceiling tiles of the server room, so that every 12 hours, it would go off with a simple constant beep that would last about two minutes. I was in the room with my manager one of those times, and she went nuts when it went off. Every day one of these machines has an alarm and I can't figure out which one it is!! She was frantically checking wires and buttons trying to find the source. Very hard to stifle the laughter. This went on for about 4 months
. 8y ago I installed cloud to butt on my coworker's pc. It's a Chrome addon that changes all instances of the word cloud being displayed to butt. Не didn't notice for months. Last week he finally asked me what that customer could possibly mean by uploading files to my butt. - 12K ...
. 8y ago I'm a 28 year old dude and I used to put up one new kitten photograph in my cubicle per week to see if any of my managers would say anything. After putting up enough pictures to cover my whole cube wall, and no one commenting, I started to feel like I was going crazy. I guess the joke was on me, or else all my managers were just super accepting. - 11K ...
LupinThe8th 8y ago Put a strip of scotch tape on the underside of their computer mouse. It's transparent enough that the mouse will still function, it will just kind of suck and annoy them slightly for the rest of the day. They likely won't even notice, just be subconsciously frustrated. Add an additional strip each day until they notice. 3.2K ...
Tenaciousdaphne 8y ago I used to mess with a former co-worker that was always rude to me. She had an earlier shift than I did, so after she would leave for the evening I would go to her desk and rearrange her pen cup so that the moment a pen was taken out the whole thing would fall over. I did this every night for about 2 weeks or so before she gave up and stopped using the pen cup but not before she threw the whole thing across her work area in a fit of rage. - 4.9K ...
ogbarisme 8y ago on the stapler, I reverse the metal part that usually shapes the staple inward when you staple through the paper and make it face outward. yeeeaaaaaa take that. - 2.6K ...
tinker_dinker . 8y ago This is only to my bosses, but when I know I'm due for a raise/promotion and they tell me they don't have budget/I need to wait a while, I start wearing suits to work. Not everyday, but maybe once a week, maybe twice, skip a few, repeat. Looks like you're going to interviews during lunch or after work. - 16K ...
whistledick 8y ago I have hidden a tiny speaker in an adjacent cubicle wall that emits a soft cat meow every 2 hours. - 17K ... 8y ago the cat from cubicle 4 peers around, bewildered What? Did someone say something? 5.5K ...
USMC_0481 8y ago Change their auto-correct settings in Outlook so when they type their name it adds a ridiculous title. Example: Tom Smith = His eloquence, master of ceremonial duck herding, and debater of microwave etiquette, Thomas The Velvet Hammer Smith, Esq. - 10K ...
Yoinkie2013 8y ago Way back when i used to work at a safeway gas station. A lot of our tasks made us make the long walk to the actual store( we were a gas station at the end of the safeway parking lot). I told my manager that my со worker wanted all the instore duties because he had a huge crush on one of the cashiers. I got out of doing garbage, sending daily reports, and other in store trips for a month before my coworker caught on. 2.6K ... + 14 more replies
deathtastic 8y ago We have two microwaves in the break room that somebody needs the time to be the same on. I used to change the time on one by twenty minutes and wait for them to fix it. Now i change it by one minute everyday until they fix it and i start over. - 3.4K ...
8y ago My coworkers think I have a cat. I've named him Winston. I've pleasantly avoided many after-work happy hours and other work events with I have to get home and feed the cat. I even have a photo of some random cat on my phone in case anyone inquires further. | don't have a cat, of course. But I do chuckle to myself at the thought of Winston, My Imaginary Cat. - 3K ...
8y ago There was this girl sitting next to me in an open plan office and we were always joking with each other. One day, she had a meeting scheduled at her desk with a male coworker I knew she had a crush on. So while she was in the bathroom getting ready, I went on her PC, found the guy's photo on the company website and made it her desktop background. Then I tabbed back to whatever programme she had been using so she wouldn't notice right away. She comes back. Guy arrives for the meeting. They're talking
. 8y ago Grabbed a roll of stickers from the pharmacy that say For rectal use only and randomly attach them to pens, phones, staplers, the water cooler. It's all good till our director comes in and loses his shit and can't help but laugh. - 6.4K ...
JamezPS . 8y ago . Edited 8y ago I whistle Christmas songs in months other than December. Just the first few lines once or twice an hour. Give it a few hours and they're questioning why jingle bells is stuck in their head mid June. 7.1K ...
AtL_eAsTwOoD 8y ago E Edited 8y ago I screen shot their desktops, put all their shortcuts in one folder, then set that screen shot as their wallpaper. I find it amusing listening to their call to IT. Edit: I've also been known to change the Windows start sound to a Chewbacca yell and crank their speakers all the way up. - 5.7K ...
Frey147 . 8y ago I move everything on their desks slightly to the left everyday. After a few days they notice something off but can't tell what it is and it drives them nuts. 1.7K ... + 24 more replies
NitroBetty 8y ago My coworker has many allergies, most of which are made up in her mind. If she hears of a new allergy she instantly has that allergy too. She is allergic to all cleaning supplies. We are not allowed to use any cleaners in our cubicles because it will make her sick. When she's really annoying me I will spray a bottle of water in my cube. She will hear the sound of the spray bottle and within half an hour she will go home sick because someone was spraying cleaners in the office. 318 ...
FuckCazadors 0 8y ago Gradually change the sensitivity settings on their computer mouse and leave leaflets about Multiple Sclerosis and Motor Neurone Disease lying around in the break room. - 5.1K ... 8y ago Jesus man. Idk if I'm horrified or delighted. 2K ...
habdragon08 . 8y ago So our mens bathroom had a code to get in 123. For months whenever I entered or left the bathroom I would enter in a number in the keypad. If anyone went in after me, the code wouldn't work the first time. They actually had to remove the code after about a year. - 1.8K ...
beagle_dog 8y ago Our old HR director was notorious for having a messy desk. My manager and I made it our mission to add an additional 1,000 random sheets of paper to his desk over the course of a few weeks without him noticing. Every morning he'd come in and 10-15 more sheets would be added to the mess. It took a long time for him to suspect something was up. - 3K ...

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