Mar 26th 2008 By Asylum Staff

Office Insanity -- Your Favorite Pranks to Pull on Co-Workers

When we first listed little tips for messing with your co-workers, we never expected the deviousness that would ensue.

Suddenly, our comments section was brimming with suggestions for vindictive, brutal and brilliant pranks that anyone can play on a cubicle comrade or numbskull boss.

Needless to say, your spiteful suggestions blew ours out of the water.

Work with a slacker you'd like to slam? Not a problem. Does someone keep stealing your lunch? There are suggestions for almost everyone.

Pranks to Put Co-Workers in Their Place

Tags: office humor - OfficeHumor - pranks

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Monday 31 March

By shane

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i've done the the usual stuff, paper clips, messed with peoples mouseses and done the whole paper dots thing. but the best has to be when i went to walmart, bought a clapper (you know the clap on clap off things) and plugged my bosses surge protector into it! greatest thing is that in a small room that echoes (government building) you dont actually need to clap. just bang twice! he must've restarted his computer 30 times that week turning it on and off without realizing it! lol

Monday 31 March

By Sara

Neutral

Ok so before your co-worker gets into work put icting powder in their shoe. Especilly if there is a very important meeting they will be so embaressed..... Take a picture of them scratching.

Monday 31 March

By reeny

Neutral

There was a co-worker that loved to eat whatever was in the fridge at work. I got tired of him eating my lunch. So I baked some chocolate chip cookies one day, with a twist, and put them in the my lunch bag. He spend his afternoon, sitting on the toilet in the bathroom. He never touched anyones food but his own after that.

Monday 31 March

By MICHELLE

Neutral

I have a friend who was bored one night....he doesn't sleep well..and had nothing to do. We live in a small town, where everything closes early.

He found some plastic forks and proceeded to fork another friends yard. Using 4,000 plastic forks, he covered the front lawn. This took him most of the night, but the pictures were worth it!!!

Monday 31 March

By Emily

Neutral

When I was in 7th grade we had this stupid math and science teacher who couldnt teach worth crap and we all hated him so when april fools day rolled around we finally saw our chance to get back at him so we did a copule things:

T.P.ed his class room with tolite paper.

took one of the cords off the computer so it wouldnt work and then one of my friends had one of those pens with the game at the top and it was operation and it buzzed when you touched the sides so we taped the twezers to the metal so it kept buzzing. We hid it under his desk and he though his computer was going to explode.

replaced his chalk with white chalk shaped wood

changed the time on the clock

and put a sign on the door that said: DO NOT ENTER! ROOM BEING TESTED FOR POSIN!

I ve never had that much fun in my life

Monday 31 March

By Brenda Bowden

Neutral

I worked in a hospital records dept. The dept head was totally clueless. She was always losing her keys. Or at least she thought she did. They would be laying around and another girl and I would hide them. She finally spent so many hours searching that she bout a keychain that would go off when you whistled. I took the batteries out and watched her go all over the place whistling. She would finally go to the bathroom or for coffee and we would put the batteries back in. This went on for weeks! She was still clueless.

Tuesday 01 April

By Jo-Ann

Neutral

I had this employee that used to look at her keys while typing. She was a very nice person, very formal and professional. On April Fools day I played two tricks on her. One, I changed all the vowels on her keyboard around so when she was typing she would miss spell the words. Then I had another employee call the office and pretend that he was a police officer and tell her they had her son in custody for speeding and that she would need to come down to the station and bail him out the fees would be around $300 that would also include truency fees. I thought she was going to poop her pants. It was way to funny watching her talk on the phone. By the end of the conversation the guy on the phone told her to look at me and ask me if I knew what he was talking about. It was very hard to keep a straight face. She was so MAD at me but I was rolling on the floor laughing so hard I couldn't help it. So, she called her husband when she calmed down and did it to him to, she got a good laugh out of it... one for the books....

Monday 31 March

By Art

Neutral

Worked in a factory at one time. Had a vile 450+lb co-worker who would use the middle stall of our 3 stall bathroom. It was actually his (no one could stomach to use it), because of the vile digusting things he did in here. Anyway, 1 boring day we got a length of plastic tubing & connected it to the tube that fills the tank. Strung tubing in back of the tank...along the floor and up the wall of the adjoining stall. Well he had a habit of flushing when someone entered the b'room.....SO the last thing to do was to get George our broken english speaking janitor to go in and tell (Jack), that the office had just called for him to report to the office. Well, we were close enough to hear the flush and swearing and then see a big dripping wet Jack shuffling towards the office,,,MAN...I'm tearing up while typing..

Monday 31 March

By Dee

Neutral

I had an old coworker who stayed on the phone listening to job announcements the entire time she was at work so another employee and myself decided to take the inside of her phone receivor out of her phone. So whenever her phone rang she could here the person speaking but they could not here her. Frustrated and upset she then went to our tech support for help. But we switched it back before they arrived back into the office. She did not see the humor in it.

Monday 31 March

By Debbie Mayhew

Neutral

I was a school bus driver at one time. One year a friend moved a friend's bus to the other side of the school. At the time, all the keys fit all of the busses. The poor guy thought his bus had been stolen.

Monday 31 March

By Rick

Neutral

I worked with a woman who used to put a candy out on her desk for all who visited her office to snack on when they visited and many of us would just come in and grab a handful of whatever she had out for the day; raisinettes, goobers, M & M's, mints, etc. Well she stayed up late on March 31st making her own special candies and on April 1st, when we grabbed a handful of candy, all of us were gagged by the chocolate covered GARLIC CLOVES that she had painstakingly made the night before.

Monday 31 March

By Shawn

Neutral

I had a jerk of a manager who was very ego-centric. I challenged him to a dexterity feat. Take a dime and with a pencil draw a circle around it. Putting the dime between your two pinky fingers start at your forehead and slide it down your face (forehead, nose, lips and chin) and drop it in the circle you drew. I told him this is VERY difficult to do. Well, it isn't and he did it and was very proud. We all snickered the rest of the day seeing the pencil mark bisecting his face.

Monday 31 March

By Ishan

Neutral

DO NOT CALL SING MAN because he said he'll call the cops on me!!! DO NOT CALL!!!! AND PLEASE have all comments REMOVED made by "Ishan"

Monday 31 March

By Rich

Neutral

Driver Pranks:

If you're in Transportation, Shipping, Receiving, Warehousing and have spotters (drivers who bring empty and full trailers in and out of shipping / receiving docks from a holding area) with nothing to do for short periods of time in between, give them bogus trailer numbers to look for. They'll go crazy looking for them. Then give real numbers again, then back to bogus ones. My trailer yard has about 150 trailers at any one time. Trailer #OU812 is my most often used. Happy searching.

Do you get people who constantly park their cars in loading docks that block trailers from getting in and out? Get some grease from the tractor's fifth wheel and put it under their door handles.

Packing Popcorn Pranks:

Some time ago, co-workers and I used to one-up eachother with pranks. We'd fill eachothers desk drawers with packing popcorn - it's a pain to remove little by little and you end up dumping everything out of every drawer.

One day the covered bed of my pickup was filled with an entire 20 cubic foot bag of packing popcorn - doesn't sound funny at first, but there's a 1 inch gap between the truck bed and the tailgate - as you ride along, airflow sucks it out little by little. I was riding down the expressway on the way home wondering why it looked like snowflakes dancing all over the road in back of me. When I got home and opened my tailgate, I found a small pile left and figured out what happened and knew who did it.

The same smart guy left his window open about 2 inches on his car, we took a whole 20 cubic foot bag of packing popcorn and filled his car. How much popcorn can a carwash vaccuum cleaner pick up or hold???

Oh, and clear shrink wrap on toilet bowls - don't forget put the seat down when your done installing.

:-) :-O :-( ;-)

Monday 31 March

By Kelly

Neutral

Hey Big Al, that is all kinds of effed up. you really suck as a human being.. karma has a weird way of coming back on someone like you who does this to people...
How could you do this to someone and think that its funny????
i am glad that i do not know you....
maybe daddy shoulda given your mommy a bj the night you were conceived...... you are worthless......

Monday 31 March

By Kevin Kurt

Neutral

I know this guy who is really strong and likes to beat people up. He like to always punch everyone he sees. How do I stop this?

Tuesday 08 April

By Ken Whitley

Neutral

Just remember, if the guy you mess with thinks a baseball bat to the knees is an appropriate response to your "prank", well, he as as much of a right to his sense of humor as you do to yours.

Monday 31 March

By darin

Neutral

Took a plate of glazed donuts to work. Sprayed them with water to remove the glaze, rolled donuts in salt to give the "sugar donut" look.....we had a co-worker who always "just ate everyone's food without asking." He placed his diet coke on the desk and went to get a donut. He also had a cup of ice water on the desk....when he left his beverages alone, we poured salt in the drinks, yes both...he took a big bite of the donut, realized it was salt, ran to his diet coke first, gulped down a huge amount of salt, then grabbed the ice water.....yes, salt water as well......he was none to happy....

Monday 31 March

By Julie

Neutral

My friend and I went into a co-workers office and wrapped absolutely everything in his office in plastic wrap. He couldnt use anything until he took it all off. Then while he was doing that, we snuck out to his truck and put peanut butter under the handle. His facial expression was classic when he went to open his door. His hand slipped right off!

Tuesday 01 April

By Samantha

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That's so wierd that they mentioned the oreo toothpaste prank because i was just watching this video on the singer Selena and it said that that was one of her favorite pranks to pull.