Being stuck in the corporate machine means you get to experience some of the most absurd behavior imaginable, but that doesn't mean you can't have fun with it. In "Working for the Man: Inspiring and Subversive Projects for Residents of Cubicle-Land," Jeff Yamaguchi offers tips for quiet little pranks you can pull around the office that will make a statement without ruffling too many feathers (and hopefully without anyone catching on that you're the perpetrator).
We asked Jeff to take pictures of some of his favorite projects. If you decide to pull some of these (or others) around the office, don't forget to let us know how they went.


























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Friday 11 January
By Stephanie Saunders
I work in the outpatient offices of a mental health hospital, so we are all used to silliness. Me and the two other girls in our office scraped out the creme on Oreo cookies and replaced it with toothpaste (and we colored it orange for Halloween). We arranged it all on a plate really nice with other candy and took it down to the other depts. They laughed but told us they would be on the lookout next year!
In college, one of my roommates always ate our food...even just taking bites out of things and putting them back. So when she made biscuits one morning, I went in and licked the bottoms of every last one! I know she never found out, but it gives me some satisfaction and my other roommates thought it was hilarious!
Steph
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Friday 11 January
By Steve
If you are having a problem with people eating baked goods that are on your desk, make a batch and throw in a small handful of aquarium gravel into the brownie mix.
There is a product on the web called "Liquid Ass"...offices have shut down early because people think the plumbing is messed up and it lingers for HOURS.
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Friday 11 January
By Kat
We had a boss who would regularly use the ladies room, stating that the men's room 'stunk'. No big deal, except that he would NEVER put the toilet seat up before using it, spraying his golden shower all over the seat, the ONLY seat in the small restroom. Sooooooooo, I sat down to 'do my business' one day, forgetting to check for his remnants, and I got REALLY pi**ed off (pun intended). I went to the break room, grabbed the saran wrap, put a layer over the bowl and put the seat back down. Next time he used the restroom, he had to go home and change his golden sprayed clothes. Mean? Sure, but I felt better.
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Friday 11 January
By dave
When i was younger my sister played jokes on me and my brother all the time. Once our little brother ran in the house from playing outside while my sister was washing the dishes and said, "give me a glass of water and hurry up". She gave him a glass of vinger! It made him vomit all over the place.
She also got me by mixing cat tuna in with a day old tuna casserole she was going to give it to her cats. She mixed it and put it back in the frig. I came home and ate all there was left. When she got home she asked where was the tuna casserole. I made fun of her because I thought she wanted some, so I picked with her and said, " I ate it all and you didn't get any". After about 20 mins of laughing she told me about her mixing in the cat food. She got me.
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Friday 11 January
By vetteman46
I recall a situation where a co worker wood eat My fod. I was selling cars When I orered a burger, He would come by and take a bite. Yery uncuth. I bought some Chiklets, replaced them with Feniment laxative. He would come by My desk, shake out some , chewing away. When it come to close, He got up to go outside, He made a quick return. He had Sh** His pants..
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Saturday 12 January
By jerry
My bosses name is Ernie and we suspect he is watching porn most of the day 'cause he shrinks the page everytime anyone gets near. So, one day, we rigged his computer to automatically load this page anytime he signs on the internet.
http://www.crazyerniesblog.com
It was funny watching his reactions when he showed up for work and signed on the internet.
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Friday 11 January
By Barkia
I don't know how one would get a rubber band half way into a cigarette, but, I'm sure it consumed idle time! LOL
Miss Teresa needs a class in sentencing structure and punctuation, aside from spelling! LOL
Tampering with food can be a very dangerous and pathetic attack. What ever happened to the "whoopie cushion" that created a harmless laugh?!?!
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Friday 11 January
By Paul
To battle back against someone stealing lunches out of the fridge at work, I made a ham, cheese, and oil of olay sandwich lightly peppered. Then, I hollowed out cheese blocks, filled them with Elmers glue, and capped them with the cheese pieces. Sure enough, the lunch went missing. But that day was the last day lunches went missing too!!!
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Friday 11 January
By Melisa
We used to have a lot of fun playing innocent practical jokes on each other at work. Some of them were really funny:
Rearranging all the keys on someone's keyboard.
Hiding the mouse to the computer.
Disconnecting the mouse and keyboard so they think it's broken.
Hiding their desk chair.
Removing all the light bulbs from their lamps.
Switching pictures in their picture frames with pics of everyone around the office.
We had a good time, and no one got hurt, though sometimes we probably spent more time thinking of good pranks than actually working.
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Friday 11 January
By LuckyDuck!
Did you know that there's a series of computer keys (like shift + alt + the arrow keys) it will turn the computer screen sideways, or upside down if you do the down arrow and your co-worker will have a hell of a time figuring out how to turn it back if they don't already know the trick (and most people don't)? That's a fun one watching them try to fix it and go nearly insane in the process. We had fun with that at the iSold it on eBay store I worked at!
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Friday 11 January
By Teri
Did you know that there's a series of computer keys (like shift + alt + the arrow keys) it will turn the computer screen sideways, or upside down if you do the down arrow and your co-worker will have a hell of a time figuring out how to turn it back if they don't already know the trick (and most people don't)? That's a fun one watching them try to fix it and go nearly insane in the process. We had fun with that at the iSold it on eBay store I worked at!
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Friday 11 January
By brenda
we had a nasty female officer at work so we put hot sauce and i mean hot sauce in her folgers ground coffee!!! she got the message and changed her attitude quickly toward her fellow officers.
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Friday 11 January
By Gary
Lift the toilet lid and cover the bowl with saran wrap pulled tight the lower the seat. Oh what a surprise
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Friday 11 January
By brenda
i like the sponge cake item good idea and cat food the best!! we had a co worker that would eat everyone's food never bring anything in to share would always say next week my treat i will bring chicken wings celery and dip for the shift never happened biggest scam and con people would hide their food so he was forced to go to vending machine!!! hated spending $$ too
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Friday 11 January
By Gary
Raise the toilet lid, cover the bowl with saran wrap pulled tight then lower the seat. What a surprise for the next person
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Friday 11 January
By Gary
Raise the toilet lid, cover the bowl with saran wrap pulled tight then lower the seat. What a surprise for the next person
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Friday 11 January
By Gary
Raise the toilet lid, cover the bowl with saran wrap pulled tight then lower the seat. What a surprise for the next person
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Friday 11 January
By CHARLES REED
There was a lady boss that was a very clean and sharp drisser that thought her shit did not stink. She was hot shit she thought. One day she ordered me to get her a coke out of the paper cup coke machine. I got it but before I gave it to her I took it to the mens room and stuck my dick in it and all around the lip. I got a real kick from watching her drink it. I asked if it was good and she said, Very good.
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Friday 11 January
By brenda
we had the same co worker who would eat our food every shift bum cigs never replace or buy a coworker a fresh pack even on paydays we had a female coworker too that would borrow $ never pay back and another one that would want an officers lunch! all black w ehave worked with some fine officers all different races and cultures but always a few that think us white folks owe! i say bs! classless and ignorant too
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Friday 11 January
By TNM
I made coffee one morning even though I don't drink it. I put decaf in the regular pot (I refuse to put regular in the decaf pot because some medical conditions don't allow caffeine and I didn't want to chance hurting anybody) and so many people were still sluggish until lunchtime. A few people noticed the taste difference, but most didn't. Another time we took the rollers off my supervisor's chair when he was at break. He came back and sat down, then we asked him to roll over and look at something with us. He was stuck behind his desk laughing with us!! I had also made a decorative centerpiece for a girl's baby shower which was pepermint Lifesavers and JellyBeans hot-glued together to make a pacifier. It's a really cute party favor and you can even use the edible glue icing, but I was in a hurry and just hot-glued them. My big boss, the OPS manager, didn't realize they were glued until after he ate one. His teeth were sticking together (like a dog eating peanut butter) and he finally asked me if they were edible. We all laughed at him. That one wasn't a joke but was still funny.
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