Comments on: A Compendium of Office Pranks and Practical Jokes http://onemansblog.com/2007/02/23/a-compendium-of-office-pranks-and-practical-jokes/ Specialization is for Insects. Tue, 14 Feb 2012 05:44:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: 60 Slick Office Tricks for April Fool’s Day | BSchool.com Business Schools Directory http://onemansblog.com/2007/02/23/a-compendium-of-office-pranks-and-practical-jokes/comment-page-1/#comment-81408 60 Slick Office Tricks for April Fool’s Day | BSchool.com Business Schools Directory Fri, 01 Apr 2011 03:36:46 +0000 http://onemansblog.com/2007/02/23/a-compendium-of-office-pranks-and-practical-jokes/#comment-81408 [...] Muffled Voices: If the target sports a gracious sense of humor, wrap a layer of tape beneath the foam on his or her headset. Anyone chatting over the phone will keep complaining of the hushed volume. Be sure to remove it rather quickly to make the day go by smoother. [...] [...] Muffled Voices: If the target sports a gracious sense of humor, wrap a layer of tape beneath the foam on his or her headset. Anyone chatting over the phone will keep complaining of the hushed volume. Be sure to remove it rather quickly to make the day go by smoother. [...]

]]> By: Terrie http://onemansblog.com/2007/02/23/a-compendium-of-office-pranks-and-practical-jokes/comment-page-1/#comment-74564 Terrie Mon, 17 Jan 2011 23:18:39 +0000 http://onemansblog.com/2007/02/23/a-compendium-of-office-pranks-and-practical-jokes/#comment-74564 We took everything out of our bosses desk drawer and lined it with clear contact paper that fit perfectly, put in fish tank gravel, water, and live goldfish! He came in the next morning and reached back to his drawer for a pen and water went everywhere. That was the best prank I had ever heard of. The next day (Friday), before he could get anyone back, I went out and put a suggestive magnetic bumber sticker on his car. He had a family reunion that weekend and didn't notice it for days. Funniest part about that was the freeway between work and his home was under construction and everyone had to slow down to 55 and people were pretty much bumper to bumper...I laughed at the thought of whoever got stuck behind him on his 1/2 hour drive home. We took everything out of our bosses desk drawer and lined it with clear contact paper that fit perfectly, put in fish tank gravel, water, and live goldfish! He came in the next morning and reached back to his drawer for a pen and water went everywhere. That was the best prank I had ever heard of. The next day (Friday), before he could get anyone back, I went out and put a suggestive magnetic bumber sticker on his car. He had a family reunion that weekend and didn’t notice it for days. Funniest part about that was the freeway between work and his home was under construction and everyone had to slow down to 55 and people were pretty much bumper to bumper…I laughed at the thought of whoever got stuck behind him on his 1/2 hour drive home.

]]> By: Scott http://onemansblog.com/2007/02/23/a-compendium-of-office-pranks-and-practical-jokes/comment-page-1/#comment-65588 Scott Tue, 12 Oct 2010 16:45:46 +0000 http://onemansblog.com/2007/02/23/a-compendium-of-office-pranks-and-practical-jokes/#comment-65588 The best one I did was to write a script (did this for the mac, but works equally well on PC's) to turn off another computer, then write a script to turn off the first computer and place those scripts in the user's startup folder. Took them about 10 minutes to figure out what was happening. The best one I did was to write a script (did this for the mac, but works equally well on PC’s) to turn off another computer, then write a script to turn off the first computer and place those scripts in the user’s startup folder. Took them about 10 minutes to figure out what was happening.

]]> By: George http://onemansblog.com/2007/02/23/a-compendium-of-office-pranks-and-practical-jokes/comment-page-1/#comment-63979 George Thu, 02 Sep 2010 03:32:46 +0000 http://onemansblog.com/2007/02/23/a-compendium-of-office-pranks-and-practical-jokes/#comment-63979 The best prank that we ever pulled was to use the "blue screen of death" screen saver from Sysinternals (or Wininternals, can never remember). We had a policy not to leave admin pc's unlocked, and my co-worker left for lunch, so my supervisor and I set up the screen saver..... he came back from lunch, and read it, and by the time we could come over to chastise him and ask him if he liked the joke, he was already formatting his computer. Felt bad after the fact, but darn its funny now :D The best prank that we ever pulled was to use the “blue screen of death” screen saver from Sysinternals (or Wininternals, can never remember). We had a policy not to leave admin pc’s unlocked, and my co-worker left for lunch, so my supervisor and I set up the screen saver….. he came back from lunch, and read it, and by the time we could come over to chastise him and ask him if he liked the joke, he was already formatting his computer. Felt bad after the fact, but darn its funny now :D

]]> By: Marcel http://onemansblog.com/2007/02/23/a-compendium-of-office-pranks-and-practical-jokes/comment-page-1/#comment-46751 Marcel Mon, 16 Mar 2009 09:59:37 +0000 http://onemansblog.com/2007/02/23/a-compendium-of-office-pranks-and-practical-jokes/#comment-46751 Hey everybody, I am watching porno over here, woohoo: http://www.jardmail.co.uk/attachments/rabbit1.shtml Hey everybody, I am watching porno over here, woohoo:
http://www.jardmail.co.uk/attachments/rabbit1.shtml

]]> By: Trisha http://onemansblog.com/2007/02/23/a-compendium-of-office-pranks-and-practical-jokes/comment-page-1/#comment-46014 Trisha Thu, 05 Feb 2009 06:16:27 +0000 http://onemansblog.com/2007/02/23/a-compendium-of-office-pranks-and-practical-jokes/#comment-46014 We always flip the screen upside down and then hold the shift key down to turn off the filter keys and many people don't know how to get the screen back in the right side position! LoL, One guy even wanted to change his keyboard! We always flip the screen upside down and then hold the shift key down to turn off the filter keys and many people don’t know how to get the screen back in the right side position! LoL, One guy even wanted to change his keyboard!

]]> By: TheDane http://onemansblog.com/2007/02/23/a-compendium-of-office-pranks-and-practical-jokes/comment-page-1/#comment-35777 TheDane Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:59:32 +0000 http://onemansblog.com/2007/02/23/a-compendium-of-office-pranks-and-practical-jokes/#comment-35777 Autoshutdown every time the computer boots, that is just mean :) Kim:) Autoshutdown every time the computer boots, that is just mean :)

Kim:)

]]> By: Steve Elliott http://onemansblog.com/2007/02/23/a-compendium-of-office-pranks-and-practical-jokes/comment-page-1/#comment-35775 Steve Elliott Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:11:25 +0000 http://onemansblog.com/2007/02/23/a-compendium-of-office-pranks-and-practical-jokes/#comment-35775 Ten years ago we could get away with all sorts of pranks but the office is so much more serious now. The best were joke phone calls. You know the ones, recorded messages with appropriate pauses - class ! Ten years ago we could get away with all sorts of pranks but the office is so much more serious now.

The best were joke phone calls. You know the ones, recorded messages with appropriate pauses – class !

]]> By: soultraveler http://onemansblog.com/2007/02/23/a-compendium-of-office-pranks-and-practical-jokes/comment-page-1/#comment-17586 soultraveler Tue, 18 Sep 2007 20:49:16 +0000 http://onemansblog.com/2007/02/23/a-compendium-of-office-pranks-and-practical-jokes/#comment-17586 did you ever find the HEY, EVERYONE! I’m LOOKING AT PORNO OVER HERE! WOOHOO! file? I would love to find this again. Thanks did you ever find the HEY, EVERYONE! I’m LOOKING AT PORNO OVER HERE! WOOHOO! file? I would love to find this again. Thanks

]]> By: dngloz http://onemansblog.com/2007/02/23/a-compendium-of-office-pranks-and-practical-jokes/comment-page-1/#comment-7667 dngloz Wed, 18 Jul 2007 18:37:13 +0000 http://onemansblog.com/2007/02/23/a-compendium-of-office-pranks-and-practical-jokes/#comment-7667 I once was rudely asked to be silent in the universities computer center by a moron, having hacked (actually cracked the admin password) the computers there from day 1, I ran that HEY EVERYONE prank remotely on his pc by putting it in his computers scheduled task ;) then I politely asked him to be silent hehehe he didnt have a clue what hit him, the place was packed and there was not one person who wasn't laughing at him hehehe poor sucker. I also used to create a batch file with shutdown -r in it, and put this file in the startup of windowz, every time the computer booted, it restarted hehehe that was fun to do with the teachers pc... fun days :) I once was rudely asked to be silent in the universities computer center by a moron, having hacked (actually cracked the admin password) the computers there from day 1, I ran that HEY EVERYONE prank remotely on his pc by putting it in his computers scheduled task ;) then I politely asked him to be silent hehehe he didnt have a clue what hit him, the place was packed and there was not one person who wasn’t laughing at him hehehe poor sucker.

I also used to create a batch file with shutdown -r in it, and put this file in the startup of windowz, every time the computer booted, it restarted hehehe that was fun to do with the teachers pc… fun days :)

]]> By: Ty http://onemansblog.com/2007/02/23/a-compendium-of-office-pranks-and-practical-jokes/comment-page-1/#comment-2818 Ty Fri, 20 Apr 2007 18:18:41 +0000 http://onemansblog.com/2007/02/23/a-compendium-of-office-pranks-and-practical-jokes/#comment-2818 Do you know where I can get the prank HEY, EVERYONE! I’m LOOKING AT PORNO OVER HERE! WOOHOO!” The “woohoo ? Thanks Ty Do you know where I can get the prank HEY, EVERYONE! I’m LOOKING AT PORNO OVER HERE! WOOHOO!” The “woohoo ?

Thanks

Ty

]]> By: The Man http://onemansblog.com/2007/02/23/a-compendium-of-office-pranks-and-practical-jokes/comment-page-1/#comment-1823 The Man Wed, 04 Apr 2007 05:14:45 +0000 http://onemansblog.com/2007/02/23/a-compendium-of-office-pranks-and-practical-jokes/#comment-1823 Yes Travis, that one is a classic. I think it's my second favorite one to loading up their startup folder with URLs so that every time they turn the PC on their web browser spawns a ton of windows. John Yes Travis, that one is a classic. I think it’s my second favorite one to loading up their startup folder with URLs so that every time they turn the PC on their web browser spawns a ton of windows.

John

]]> By: Travis http://onemansblog.com/2007/02/23/a-compendium-of-office-pranks-and-practical-jokes/comment-page-1/#comment-1819 Travis Wed, 04 Apr 2007 02:33:20 +0000 http://onemansblog.com/2007/02/23/a-compendium-of-office-pranks-and-practical-jokes/#comment-1819 Oh crud I didnt see the wallpaper desktop comment. Oh well. IT WORKS GREAT! :) Keeps employees from using the "anonymous logon" and surfing for porn and getting everyone ELSE in trouble when they saved to shared "My Pictures" folder. Dummies! Oh crud I didnt see the wallpaper desktop comment. Oh well. IT WORKS GREAT! :) Keeps employees from using the “anonymous logon” and surfing for porn and getting everyone ELSE in trouble when they saved to shared “My Pictures” folder. Dummies!

]]> By: Travis http://onemansblog.com/2007/02/23/a-compendium-of-office-pranks-and-practical-jokes/comment-page-1/#comment-1818 Travis Wed, 04 Apr 2007 02:30:43 +0000 http://onemansblog.com/2007/02/23/a-compendium-of-office-pranks-and-practical-jokes/#comment-1818 I have the Mother of all Computer Desktop pranks, I'll let you have it here. Take a screenshot of their desktop, and save it as their background. Hide or delete all their icons (If certain permissions are locked, move them off-screen or hide offscreen using the recycle bin as the "corner" item selected so the others will move offscreen as a group. You must turn off icon auto-arrange or your target will figure it out fast. Disable in the registry if you know how). When they come back, they will be clicking all their shortcuts, trying to open ANYTHING... but all they are really doing is left-clicking on the desktop and nothing is clickable. You might have to play with this one a bit if you're capturing the taskbar - can also set it to keep windows on top of the task bar, then HIDE the taskbar... so the time never changes There was a flash application going around that blinked the screen, turned your volume up all the way and played a .wav "HEY, EVERYONE! I'm LOOKING AT PORNO OVER HERE! WOOHOO!" The "woohoo" made it hilarious. I have the Mother of all Computer Desktop pranks, I’ll let you have it here.

Take a screenshot of their desktop, and save it as their background. Hide or delete all their icons (If certain permissions are locked, move them off-screen or hide offscreen using the recycle bin as the “corner” item selected so the others will move offscreen as a group. You must turn off icon auto-arrange or your target will figure it out fast. Disable in the registry if you know how).

When they come back, they will be clicking all their shortcuts, trying to open ANYTHING… but all they are really doing is left-clicking on the desktop and nothing is clickable.

You might have to play with this one a bit if you’re capturing the taskbar – can also set it to keep windows on top of the task bar, then HIDE the taskbar… so the time never changes

There was a flash application going around that blinked the screen, turned your volume up all the way and played a .wav “HEY, EVERYONE! I’m LOOKING AT PORNO OVER HERE! WOOHOO!” The “woohoo” made it hilarious.

]]> By: jimbeau http://onemansblog.com/2007/02/23/a-compendium-of-office-pranks-and-practical-jokes/comment-page-1/#comment-657 jimbeau Fri, 23 Feb 2007 11:16:09 +0000 http://onemansblog.com/2007/02/23/a-compendium-of-office-pranks-and-practical-jokes/#comment-657 Ahhh... The good ol' days. I did notice one important one you missed. How could you forget about shrink wrapping someone’s (Dale) car? I can still remember looking out the window as he walked to his car. The ink on the headset is a great idea. I've been using shoe polish for that little jewel, but the smell gives it away sometimes. Back in the day, I managed a small inside sales group for a software company. I had a certain employee that I couldn’t get rid of so I went in to her account deck and randomly changed some of her contact phone numbers to 911. We were using a contact manager program named telemagic that would auto dial your phone for you. You can figure out what happened next…. j- Ahhh… The good ol’ days. I did notice one important one you missed.
How could you forget about shrink wrapping someone’s (Dale) car? I can still remember looking out the window as he walked to his car.
The ink on the headset is a great idea. I’ve been using shoe polish for that little jewel, but the smell gives it away sometimes.
Back in the day, I managed a small inside sales group for a software company. I had a certain employee that I couldn’t get rid of so I went in to her account deck and randomly changed some of her contact phone numbers to 911. We were using a contact manager program named telemagic that would auto dial your phone for you. You can figure out what happened next….

j-

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