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Currently out of ideas for office pranks (business is slow 3/5 days each week) and we have a few colleagues on leave next week so we were talking about potential pranks to welcome them back from their vacations.

Problem is, we've pretty much done all the classics, anything personal we could think of (we have a colleague that absolutely hates tomatoes) and we're drawing blanks at this point.

 

Any ideas for new things to do? Stories also welcome (and encouraged!)

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Change desktop backgrounds when your coworkers are away from their desks.

 

Remove one caster from desk chairs

 

Just last week I rigged up a push-pull cable to the power switch on the PSU of one of my coworkers PC's. Every few hours I would kill his power and just turn it back on in a second or two.

 

I came to work once and one of my storage cabinets in my cubicle was filled with 1800 ping-pong balls.

 

I once inverted all the furniture in one of my coworkers offices.

 

My coworkers once suspended my desk chair from a crane in the shop.

 

Once my office was filled with 39 gallon trash cans all half full of water.

 

My workplace is perhaps a bit immature...

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Change desktop backgrounds when your coworkers are away from their desks.

 

Remove one caster from desk chairs

 

Just last week I rigged up a push-pull cable to the power switch on the PSU of one of my coworkers PC's. Every few hours I would kill his power and just turn it back on in a second or two.

 

I came to work once and one of my storage cabinets in my cubicle was filled with 1800 ping-pong balls.

 

I once inverted all the furniture in one of my coworkers offices.

 

My coworkers once suspended my desk chair from a crane in the shop.

 

Once my office was filled with 39 gallon trash cans all half full of water.

 

My workplace is perhaps a bit immature...

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nice idea, but the PSUs on our PCs don't have a power switch

we don't have cubicles :(

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we did something like that, but it involved the ceiling and ALOT of duct tape

water damage in an office full of PCs is a no-no

 

 

Thanks :)

Remember kids, the only difference between screwing around and science is writing it down. - Adam Savage

 

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D.VA coming soon™ xoxo

Sapphire Acer Aspire 1410 Celeron 743 | 3Gb DDR2-667 | 120Gb HDD | Windows 10 Home x32

Vault Tec Celeron 420 | 2Gb DDR2-667 | Storage pending | Open Media Vault

gh0st Asus K50IJ T3100 | 2Gb DDR2-667 | 40Gb HDD | Ubuntu 17.04

Diskord Apple MacBook A1181 Mid-2007 Core2Duo T7400 @2.16GHz | 4Gb DDR2-667 | 120Gb HDD | Windows 10 Pro x32

Firebird//Phoeniix FX-4320 | Gigabyte 990X-Gaming SLI | Asus GTS 450 | 16Gb DDR3-1600 | 2x Intel 535 250Gb | 4x 10Tb Western Digital Red | 600W Segotep custom refurb unit | Windows 10 Pro x64 // offisite backup and dad's PC

 

Saint Olms Apple iPhone 6 16Gb Gold

Archon Microsoft Lumia 640 LTE

Gulliver Nokia Lumia 1320

Werkfern Nokia Lumia 520

Hydromancer Acer Liquid Z220

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