Rave: Pranking People

[Hungary Jack]

I'll do pretty much anything to get a laugh, and pranking friends and co-workers is one of my faves. About 2 months ago, I pranked a co-worker using the Fred Sanford web soundboard and my speakerphone. My co-worker is (was) a somewhat gullible Director of Communications at the university where I worked. It went something like this:

Coworker (CW). Hello this is XXX at YYY. Can I help you?
FS: Hello. I am looking for my son Lamont.
CW: OK. Is he a student?
FS: Yea. Are you the owner?
CW: No, I am the Director of Communications.
FS: That's the dumbest thing I ever heard.
CW: Pardon me?
FS: Hold on. Don't get so angry. We just chittin' and chattin'
CW: How can I help you? Your son is a student here?
FS: And I bet you don't even speak English.
CW: (getting angry) Excuse me. Who is this?
FS: You better read your Bible!
CW: Wait, is this (HJ)?

I LMAO'ed for about 10 minutes.

[JL21]

That's spectacular. When he confronted you with it, did you say "This is the big one!"?

[StatmanCrothers]

Back when i worked at Martin marietta in Orlando, in the 80s, a co-worker of mine pranked another co-worker by removing all his hanging files in the bottom drawer of his file cabinet, lining the drawer with thick plastic, and moving the contents of a small aquarium into it, including a few fish.

He got to work, pulled the file drawer open, the water sloshed but didn't spill (it was only about half full), and there were the fish swimming around.

[StatmanCrothers]

the guy at the desk next to me, somebody would call him every day, ask for "Jerry Smith" ... when told there was nobody by that name at the number, the caller would ask if he could leave a message for Jerry. Of course the co-worker was getting pretty annoyed after about two weeks of this. Every day. Jerry Smith? No? Can I leave a message for him?

After two weeks he got a call. "Hi, this is Jerry Smith, are there any messages for me?"

[StatmanCrothers]

Also simple but strangely hilarious, when co-worker Jeff Kline was out of the cubicle, we would dump the little circles of paper from the hole punch into his umbrella.

It finally rained, he took the umbrella, went through the turnstiles, opened the umbrella and WHOOSH, thousands of little paper dots showered him.

[Popeye_Card]

We currently have a half-eaten chicken wing placed in a mug of milk and vinegar inside of a box on a co-worker's messy desk who's been out of the office for a week.

When he gets back next week, we'll crack it open for him. It'll probably take him a few days to wonder where the smell is coming from.

[haltz]

I hate soundboards. I was really drunk one night years ago and regretting that I had slept with someone (and hadn't used the proper precautions). I guess I had told one of my friends, and they used the Miss Cleo soundboard to tell me about a new baby on the way. Anyway, none of it made sense, but to make a long story short I cussed out a recording of a jamaican woman at 2 am.

[Popeye_Card]

A few years ago, a co-worker brought in a bunch of extra habenero peppers from his garden for people to take home. So I grabbed one, and squeezed it around my buddy's water cup during lunch. After lunch, we would typically walk down to the cafeteria and fill up our water cups. The conversation on the way back went something like this.

Buddy: (takes a sip) "Do you ever get a pepper stuck in your teeth, then it comes out later and it's still really spicy?"
Me: "Yeah."
Buddy: "That just happened. Man is it hot." (takes big gulp of water) "This water REALLY isn't helping either!"
Me: "They say you should drink milk. What did you have for lunch?"
Buddy: "Just some Olive Garden. I think it's black pepper." (takes another big gulp) "This water seems to only be making it worse!"

Good times.

[TabascoElvis]

Not really a prank, I guess, but we snapped a couple of random pics of a co-worker making faces with another guy's brand new digital camera. For over a couple years we'd find random goofy pics online and Photoshop his head into them. By the time he left I think we had over 600, (and a coupld of us had MAD photoshop skills) the ppt we stuck them in ran for about 45 mins. I had the idea of doing a calendar with a different image every month. At one point our distribution was probably close to 50 people across the building.

Another one of our guys had a hard time remembering to logout his phone when he left. It's not that big of a deal, if a call comes in on his line it rings 4x and goes to the next guy available, but at that point the caller's been on the phone through at least 5 rings or more. (Our dept goal is 2 rings per call. So we took to basically taking his phone apart every time he did it. Or turning up the ringer volume so the next call that came in could be heard 100 feet across the building. After a while he'd be leaving, get to his car, and walk back into the building to make sure he'd logged out.

The fish in the file drawer is one of the best things I've ever heard.

[JL21]

I like taking screen shots of news websites, photoshopping a friend's face into the headline, and creating a fake headline saying ridiculous things. "Area Man Arrested for Indecent Exposure" and such. Then, when they're away at lunch, make it their desktop background so everyone who walks by their desk sees their face on the cover of the P-D website saying that they were arrested for exposing themselves in public.

I've done something similar for GRB for omaha before: