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What are some office pranks you've seen pulled on coworkers?

On The Office (US version) Jim is always doing things to Dwight, like sending him faxes from "Future Dwight," or putting his office supplies in Jello. One time at my office someone put a fart machine under a chair in a conference room and would make it fart quietly during meetings, which would make the person in the chair look guilty and everyone else would have to act like they didn't hear anything.

What are some things you've seen?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    friend of mine worked in an office with cubicles. the night before april fool's day, some of his co-workers put packaging tape across the front of his cubicle and filled the entire thing with packing peanuts! To this day, I still don't know where they got all the peanuts

  • 1 decade ago

    I don't work in an office, I work in a hospital kitchen and the other day two guys set up another guy to get all wet. They went over to the sink where this guy would be working the next day and positioned the sprayer to spray him when he turned on the main valve. I don't know if it worked or not. The guy never said anything and I can't ask him without him knowing that I knew about it.

  • 1 decade ago

    One of the things I've done is when I had to deal with a co-worker who spend most of her time in the cafeteria drinking coffee. With the help of a few other office criminals, we were able to get inside one night, and we took everything in her office - desk, chair, computer, right down to the last paperclip and rubber band - and set it all up in a corner of the cafeteria.

    The CEO was not pleased.

  • 5 years ago

    I used to delight in phoning new secretaries and asking to talk to between the seek Brothers, the two Isaac or Mike relying on my temper or ask to talk to Mr Drew Peedick. i could regularly set up with a colleague previously hand so as that they might ask for repetition ideally loudly. This rarely did not reason a snigger. yet another trick i pulled at a storage the place i grew to become into employed as a supervisor some years in the past grew to become into to; positioned up a memo on corporation headed notepaper photocopied (with the unique text cloth blanked out different than the signature on the backside) affirming that as from 0000hrs on March thirty first group does not be authorized to apply the bogs on website yet could ought to stroll 2 hundred yards to the closest Public conveniences to accomplish their ablutions. The storage by the way grew to become into single manned lots of the time and group have been required to make up for shortfalls brought about by ability of people driving off with out figuring out to purchase petrol except they might grant registration numbers and or descriptions of the offenders. I additionally emailed such as different garages in the group. distinctive group contacted head place of work quoting human rights and so on and as quickly as I owned up i've got been given off with a mild warning because of the fact the bosses stumbled on it somewhat exciting too.

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  • 1 decade ago

    I had a co-worker asked me if I liked heavy metal in the 80's so when I said yes I found myself standing at the subway with my hands in my coat and pockets full of paper clips and a note that said - here's some heavy metal for you to enjoy

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    1 decade ago

    I've seen people leave their email open, and someone sent everyone an email requesting money for a sex change.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I've put a guys hand in a blender. I don't think he thought it as funny as I thought it was, though.

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