Friday Amusement: Office Pranks

It’s Friday! Hells yeah! TGIF.

Have you had a long week? Do you need something to laugh about in your cubicle? If you’re in a prankster mood, here are some classic office pranks and some things you can do to rile up office zombies.

1. Staple your reports in the wrong corner
2. Swap the regular and decaf coffee - This is EVIL!
3. Play with the auto-correct on your co-workers computer. Configure the word ‘and’ to change to ‘It’s 5 o’clock somewhere’
4. Put tape over the mouse optics
5. Cut your fingernails or toe nails
6. Unplug a co-worker’s monitor
7. Talk to sick employees while wearing a dust mask
8. Turn your earphones up all the way
9. Turn your speakerphone up all the way
10. Burn popcorn in the microwave
11. When your co-worker is out of down, cover their office in foil, plastic wrap or post-its (and then send us the picture!)
12. ‘Forget’ to put your tuna sandwich in the fridge
13. Leave your tuna sandwich in the fridge
14. Empty the paper out of the main printer/copier
15. Empty the ink or toner out of the main printer/copier
16. Hang up the phone before they say, ‘good bye’
17. Slurp hot coffee during meetings
18. Chew ice during meetings
19. Walk around the office barefooted
20. Empty out a co-workers office on a Friday afternoon
21. Glue their mouse to the desk
22. Turn down or turn up the contrast on their monitor
23. Use goofy event sounds for your programs
24. Send flowers from one co-worker to another
25. Leave hole punches all over
26. Leave your lunch garbage in other people’s cans
27. After each sip give a refreshing, ‘Ahhh’
28. Set a password on someone’s screensaver
29. Carry on a conversation with someone two cubes down
30. Smirk when a co-worker walks by
31. Eat half of someone’s lunch
32. Swap co-worker’s chairs
33. Take all the ice out of the community freezer
34. Hit all the floor buttons when you leave the elevator
35. Make hissing sounds into the phone and insist you have a bad connection
36. Flip the left and right mouse button defaults
37. Take out the ball in the mouse
38. Tell a long story without a point
39. Tell a co-worker you liked their hair better last week
40. Bring Cheetos for food days
41. Drag your feet when you walk down the halls
42. Exclaim your co-worker didn’t wash his hands when leaving the restroom
43. Set your mobile phone to an obnoxious ring tone
44. Forward chain letters and other spam to co-workers
45. Express your political views at length
46. Whisper loudly
47. Drink the last cup of coffee without making a new pot- Raise your hand if you’re GUILTY!
48. Answer your mobile during meetings
49. Stand over someone while they are on the phone
50. Sneak up behind someone
51. Mess with the thermostat
52. Recycle other people’s print jobs
53. Be overly nice to people
54. Leave fingerprints on the copier glass
55. Type loudly
56. Give everyone a nickname from a TV show- ‘Intern’
57. Peer over the cube and wait for a co-worker to look up and notice
58. Use the intercom and page yourself
59. Hide the sugar and creamer
60. Type emails in uppercase and excessive punctuation

We accept no responsibility for encouraging you to have fun on Fridays. We would love to hear your cube farm adventures. And, on a more serious note, if you need this post to add some sort of value, be self-aware of your actions. It’s good to be mindful of how your actions affect your co-workers. But, have some fun too

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