Is your boss going on vacation? Your coworker taking some time off for their honeymoon? Are your underlings out of town for training? If someone is going to be gone for a week or two, then why not show them how much you appreciate them by growing a garden for them, in their keyboard.
- Spray an old keyboard (one you don't mind ruining) with water. Make sure the entire keyboard is completely misted, including between the keys.
- Sprinkle cress, cat-grass, or clover seeds in the cracks of the keys (cress is fast growing and will produce the best results).
- Place the keyboard inside a clear plastic bag, like a produce bag from the grocery store. Make sure the entire keyboard is nicely wrapped but also leave some room for it to breathe, creating a greenhouse type effect.
- Place the keyboard in direct sunlight, near a window is perfect.
- Two weeks later, watch your co-worker come back and notice their keyboard with a full set of grass coming out of their keyboard.
Do not plug the keyboard into the computer. While the likelihood of an electrical short is minimal and the voltage the keyboard uses is minute, electricity and water do not mix.
When a co-worker leaves their computer unattended for a minute, quickly go to Google's home page and click on "Preferences." There, you can choose the interface language of the search engine and test their skills at foreign languages. Klingon, Hacker and Yiddish are all excellent choices, but Elmer Fudd is definitely a winning choice for anyone. As Elmer, you can use the Google Diwectowy, perform a Google Seawch or find out if you're ‘feewing wucky.'
Furthermore you can set their search results language preference to return search results in select languages and helping them expand their horizons.
Microsoft's Office suite is ubiquitous in offices around the world and its plethora of features helps us all be more productive. One feature that most of us rarely pay attention to is Offices' ability to automatically correct common typing errors with "Autocorrect". To pull this off, you will need about 5 minutes in front of your victims computer and an evil heart.
- First make sure that AutoCorrect is turn on
- In the "Replace Text as You Type" section of the AutoCorrect options, add your own custom entries.
- Save your custom entries and watch as chaos ensues.
There are a couple of different approaches you can take with this one. For example if you want to be:
- Frustrating, you can change it so common words get changed to make their work turn into gibberish:
- the -> thet
- that -> then
- me -> cow
- to -> two
- how -> howl
- can -> box
- when -> slippery
- Evil, you can inject inappropriate language into their work:
- Sir -> Mr. Dipshit
- Sincerely -> Fuck Off and Die
- you -> you stupid fucker
- *bosses name* -> fuckface
Remember, the prank is most effective when they don't notice it immediately so the more AutoCorrections that exist, the more likely it is they will catch it. Also, it is good to note that this is one of those pranks where you need to know your victim and what they are working on. Having a CEO receive the quarterly report with your corrections in it wont be good for anyone.
While the classic prank is great for "ball" mice, most new computers are using laser mice which lack a ball you can remove. Fortunately there is an alternative prank you can pull that is just as quick, (if not quicker) and results in the same frustration. This will take about 15 seconds to execute, perfect for when someone run off to the copy machine, or refill their cup of coffee. When they are out of sight, simply
- Take their computer mouse and turn it over so you can see the bottom of the mouse.
- In the center of the mouse, you will see the bright LED "laser" that the mouse uses to track movement. Using a 1/2" to 1" piece of scotch tape, cover the light ensuring your firmly apply the tape.
- Put their mouse back on their desk and watch them struggle to get their mouse to respond to them.
If the tape is not firmly stuck to the bottom of the mouse, the tape can accidentally come off. With the laser covered, the mouse will not be able to give accurate feedback regarding mouse movement resulting in a dead mouse. To end their misery, simply remove the tape.
This classic prank is simple to pull of and only take about 15 seconds to execute, perfect for when someone run off to the copy machine, or refill their cup of coffee. When they are out of sight, simply
- Take their computer mouse and turn it over so you can see the bottom of the mouse.
- In the center of the mouse, you will see the trackball that registers the mouses movements, there is a circular piece of plastic that surround this, the "ball cover". Using your fingers, rotate the ball cover until you feel it rotate about 90 degrees. (Depending on the brand of mouse, this could be clockwise or counterclockwise.)
- Pick up the mouse and flip it over into your other hand. The cover and mouse ball should fall out of the mouse. If not, give it a little shake until it comes loose.
- Hide the mouse ball (don't loose it) and replace the ball cover (so your evil work is not as obvious).
- Put their mouse back on their desk and watch them struggle to get their mouse to respond to them.
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