What's a crazy joke you played on someone at work?

In the Army we used to send Privates to the motor pool for:

Muffler Oil
Squelch grease
Grid squares
TR-EE's
Contour Lines
Left and/or Right handed Crescent wrenches
etc... Those are all "Ha-ha" because it's happened to almost every soldier, that wasn't fore-warned by the soldier in-processing them, or at AIT.

But, how about jokes in Corporate America? Some how this came up today, and I thought I'd share it:
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In 1997, when I used to work for EDS, as a newby I got "set-up" by my peers to refer the customer to call "1-800 CALL EDS" if they wanted to follow-up on a problem.

I gave the customer that number, amidst muffled snickers in the background.

After hanging up, they told me to call the number myself to make sure it was working, which I did. The first thing I hear is moaning, and clacking of an erotic nature, and "Ah-yeah baby, right there..."

I thik I got 4 shades lighter when I heard that... I didn't call the customer back, thinkign that would prompt the customer to call that number...

Either the customer had a great sense of humor, or never called back...
Either way, I kept my job, and didn't have to whip a co-worker's @$$ for getting me in trouble...

 

It doesn't get real creative around here.

Guy across the way made up this little phone extension list in Excel and hung it on his partition. While he's away on vacation I make a new one to look exactly like it and rearranged the extensions with the names.

We also have these company calenders that have 2005 on one side and 2006 on the other. Got the creative idea to copy the 2006 number at the top and tape it to the 2005 side. Hung it back up with the fixed 2005 facing out.

Supposed to lock down our computers when we are away from our desks. Someone will forget everynow and then. I have an image of Mr. T saved on a disk so I can quickly change backgrounds to this:


Boring I know.

edit: Wait a minute. I just thought of a pretty good one. As our company works on federal contracts, we are required to have a totally secure room from the rest of the building. Meaning whoever works in that room are the few people that know a code to unlock the door. They of course can help out with other projects.

We had just hired a new CADD guy and we had sent some stuff down to the room to get some help with. We sent him down there to pick it up, but we told him before he left the secret password to get in. I call down to the room ahead of our CADD guy and told him I sent the newbie down and told him the secret password as well. Here is how I heard it went:

Newbie: *knock, knock*

Guy in room: *cracks the door* "What's the password?" With a straight face.

Newbie: "Uhh, *******?"

Guy in room: *proceeds to bust up laughing*

 

I'm a geek so I install stupid computer pranks on peoples systems.

There's one that makes your mouse pointer poop.
There's one that produces X-10 style mini-camera Pop-ups with the person's picture in the main ad
Yadda yadda

 

I found these (thnx GooGle). I've done a few:

1. Tell everyone but your target to bring a couple of changes of clothes to work. Then walk by your target with a different set of clothes on every time.

2. If you have a coworker that is extremely picky about the placement of their work materials, adjust them ever so slightly every day. It may be work tools, pens, supplies, computer monitor anything else in their work area.

3. Ask the target some ridiculous rumor, "Like is it true you are getting fired?" Other questions could be that they are dating somebody, working for the competition, moonlighting, closet knitter or any other ridiculous rumor. Really there is no limit to the possibilities. Just make sure that you get as many people involved with this one. After they are asked about it enough times they will certainly lose their mind.

4. Unplug the keyboard, tape over the "eye" of an optical mouse, or tape the ball of the mouse, disconnect monitor, insert a floppy and reboot their machine when they are away, change a few keys around on their keyboard for those that look at the keyboard when they type, etc.

5. If time permits, gift wrap someones cube like a present. That was fun.

6. When they've left their desk, make a screen capture (print screen) of the person's desktop (preferably with a program open). Go into Windows Paint program and paste. Save as a bmp. Load the picture as the person's background. Sit back and watch them double clicking and rebooting fruitlessly. (Note: you can also create a bmp of an entire black screen and do the same. The mouse moves, but there's nothing to click on if you hide the icons!)

 

send a fax on memory to a persons phone.

When you send it via memory, it redials, many, many times.

Very infuriating (especially if you override the redial occasions to something more like 30+ redials)

 

Hey can I get a copy of that!

 

Sure if you PM your email

 

1. Liquid dish soap in the urinal.
2. If the person drinks coffee, drill a very small hole underneath the handle of the cup. This will cause a small drip of coffee and a never ending ring on the desk.

I have more, but they are more of a get even with the guy that pisses you off...most times they are not that funny..

R/
Craig

 

We've wrapped people's keyboards with saran wrap.
Remove the ball from their mouse (before opticals, but yeah, electrical tape to cover the eye...)

VNC into their PC and move the mouse just a little bit the opposite direction whenever you see them moving it, close programs, open programs, type ghostly messages to the user.

One time I swapped the keyboard and mouse from one PC to control the one beside it.

 

The problem I have with VNC is not being able to hide the little icon on their tray. That gives you away

 

PM Sent

 

GREAT!

What are the odds of you sending me that info in a PM?

 

There used to be a theater in the Chicago area that catered to the most flaming of the same sex relationship types and the recording for the upcoming shows was off the scale. During quiet times, we would dial and then transfer the “bijou” to some poor unsuspecting worker sitting at their desk-< man, the reactions were great. This was really good to do to the newbie’s…there was one guy that was so red we thought we was going to have a heart attach-> although he did listed all the way thru the recording???

All was fine until one afternoon when our resident prankster goofed and transferred it to our branch manager: when the boss opened his door, the office was dead quiet except for the clicks on the keyboard. His reaction was not fit to print here. Needless to say, that was the last time that joke was pulled.

Woof
Bowser

 

There's a way in the remote install settings... I just don't remember where. I used to actually USE it for being Big Brother here at work, but now just for fun. Plus, most of my users are, how shall I put it... "Constantly receiving PEBCAK and ID-10-T errors..."

 

I've done this one quite often. The key is to save it as the background then lock the computer and move the unlock message off the screen, that way they don't see any icons on the desktop and just figure the computer is unlocked.