There's no better way to welcome back your coworkers from the holidays, vacation, or that long sales trip than with an office prank. There is no need for pranks to be relegated to April Fool's Day; any day of the year is good for a small joke. A prescription for safe office pranks if often perfect for some fun lighthearted fun and/or well deserved payback.

In this day and age, Technology and the Internet rule, and most people spend their time online browsing, emailing or shopping. Why not try and play a joke on your friends where they spend most of their time…their computers and offices.

Remember, any prank you can easily play on someone could just as easily be used against you as well.

Pull the Perfect Prank--Without Losing Your Job

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It may start out as fun and games, but there's always the occasional prank that goes a bit too far, resulting in a firing or maybe even a lawsuit. It's important to remember that there's a balance to having some fun with your fellow employees and crossing moral and ethical boundaries. People need to be very careful about office pranks. While there are undeniable  benefits of humor and laughter in the workplace, people should really think about what they're doing before they do it.

Here are some basic guidelines everyone should keep in mind when pulling a prank:
  1. Make sure it doesn't embarrass someone or cause disruption in the workplace.
  2. Make sure it doesn't cause any harm to people or their property.
  3. Know you office and IT policies and rules and operate with-in them.
  4. Think through all possible consequences of the joke.  Don't create fire hazards, block exits, or otherwise endanger peoples safety.
  5. Do not interfere with peoples food; food allergies or medication reactions can be extremely dangerous.
  6. Don't use April Fools' Day or any other reason as an opportunity to "get back" at someone you don't like.
  7. What's OK to say and/or do at home with family or friends may not be appropriate for the workplace.
  8. If your boss is the subject of your prank, be extremely careful. You need to know them extremely well, understand their sense of humor and never do anything that would diminish your boss's authority.

The Phantom Menace

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Dont you hate it when you go to run some photo copies, you throw your document in there and start running 50, only to find out that the schmuck who was using the machine before you left their original in the machine?  Now, not only do you have 50 copies for the rules for "Fight Club", but you are late for you meeting and have to start your copy job all over again.  Spread the joy and watch your co-workers go insane as you send them on a search for a phantom paperclip.
  1. Take a standard paperclip and make 20-50 copies of it on the office copy machine.
  2. Remove the paperclip and take the copies you made and put them back into the copiers paper tray, ready for the next sucker who needs to make copies.

Invisible Ink

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Writing instruments are always a sore spot in every office.  Nobody can find one when they need one, except for that nasty pen that looks like someone has been chewing on for about a year.  Treat your co-workers to the joy of invisible ink by rendering all of their pens and pencils useless.
  • Either before your victim has arrived in the morning or while they are out to lunch, sneak into the victim’s office/cube and locate every pencil and pen in their desk. 
  • Paint the tips with clear nail polish making sure to return the

Is Mr. MI Yow Available?

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This one is especially good for sales people or anyone else who is constantly on the phone, in meetings, chasing around new clients, and playing telephone-tag with people.
  1. When they run out to lunch, leave a "While You Were Out" messages on their desk from either
    1. Mr. Lyon 
    2. Mr. Behr 
    3. Mr. Don Key
  2. In the phone number field, provide the number for the local zoo and note that the person needs to be called back ASAP.  If they are working on an important project at the time, say it is regarding that project.
  3. Watch as they call the number back and asking for the person, only to put two and two together after the name comes out of their mouth.
Alternatively, you can have them call a local Veterinary Hospital or Animal Shelter looking for Mr. Mi Yow.

That's Outright Criminal

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You have always had suspicions about the shady dealings that go down in the office after you leave, bring them to life by transforming your co-workers area into a crime scene.  This prank isn't hilarious, but it definitely is fun.

  1. Get police crime scene tape and either chalk or colored tape

Let Me Find a Pen That Works

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It's always the case that at the moment you need to write something down, you can never find a pen and after frantically searching, the one you dig out from the back of your desk drawer hasn't worked since the day you started.  Stop pen thieves and  be sure you and/or your victim has a pen handy when you need by simply glueing the pen caps on the pen.  While pens are generally cheap, its probably best if you pull this one off with one of the many dead pens you find laying around the office.

  1. Borrow all of your victims pens from their desk and, using Krazy Glue, glue the pen caps on the pen, preventing the pen from being uncapped and useable.

What'cha Watching?

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This genius little universal remote is the perfect weapon in your arsenal to confuse hoards of TV viewers and perhaps save the free world as we know it. In seconds (just hold the mute button until the TV target mutes), you can take control of almost any television set. Perfect for turning off the TV during a boring promotional video from a vendor, convincing the receptionist the TV in the lobby is possessed, or for simply putting something worth watching on while exercising in the company gym.