Occupy Yourself At Work

[Merika]

When two (or more) people are working at desks that are next to each other, switch their telephone cords. With all those cables lying around it will take some time before they find that one out!

Put a piece of onion or a clove of garlic inside the mouthpiece of a phone. Give it some time for it to fester and build up a strong odor. Then call them and keep them on the phone for as long as possible.

It is always a good habit to lock your computer before heading off for coffee or a smoke. When someone forgets and leaves a Word document or an email open, type a single word somewhere in the text. “sh*t” or so will do nicely. They’ll never notice and send it out.

Get a hold of someone's cell phone and change the greeting banner to say "NO SERVICE". Many cell phones have greeting banners on them that you can personalize to say whatever you want them to and it stays on there when you're not using your phone. Also, when there is no service where you are, most cell phone companies have a banner that pops up on your screen saying "no service".

Go into MS Word or similar program on co-worker's computer, and add an entry to the AutoCorrect feature. This is a very simple prank that will send the novice user into a frenzy. Configure the AutoCorrect option to replace the word "the" with the phrase "you suck!” They will usually panic and start scanning for viruses.

Take clear tape and tape the underside of the mouse. Make sure you take the sticky end of the tape and apply it to the bottom of the mouse so it locks the ball in place. The victim will most likely check the connections in the back, reinstall drivers, reboot, etc., before they realize what has happened.

Do a "Print Screen" of the user's desktop, and then paste the image from the clipboard to a photo program, and save the image as a bitmap. Then, set the 'snapshot' of their desktop as the actual desktop wallpaper. Change the Windows toolbar to 'auto-hide' and uncheck "Show icons" in the desktop properties. The user will see their desktop as always, but everything on it will appear to be frozen when they try to click on it...sending them into a rebooting and virus scanning fit!

This will mostly only work with people with very little PC knowledge. Stick in a floppy in there floppy drive. They will be unable to boot up windows until the disk is out. This is fun to watch.

Try to find a very obnoxious CD lying around. Preferably a reggae or rap CD. Pop it in their CD ROM. Put up the sound full blast by double clicking on the volume control on the bottom right. On normal configurations the audio CD will auto play when windows first starts up. The person starting up their PC in the morning will definitely be embarrassed.

This is for that special person you just cant stand in the office, the one who talks on the phone all day with their boyfriend/girlfriend and gets personal e-mail all day. Go into their e-mail and change their defaults to automatically "blind carbon copy" their boss or supervisor. Heads will roll!

Change the coffee in the office coffee maker to decaf. Wait about three weeks (or until you think everybody has gotten over their caffeine addiction) and switch to espresso!

Try "password securing" someone's screen saver. First I suggest changing the screen saver to "scrolling marquee" and inserting your own word or phrase, "Mr. Jones (president or supervisor) eats SH*T" or something to that effect.

With someone who is on the phone a lot during work - This works if you have phones that the handset comes apart. Take the handset apart and put scotch tape over the mouthpiece inside. They can still be heard, but they have to talk loud to be heard. The next day take it off, and put it in the earpiece. Usually they will be yelling to the other person on the line the next day, and won't be able to hear them. When they complain about the phone, and get a replacement, do it on the next phone. After about a week you will notice the calls to be down considerably.

Depending where you are at you may have a cafeteria in you place of work. Every week most of them put out a menu so you know what they are serving. Usually it is done on Word or Excel, and not extremely fancy. With a little work, matching fonts, and images you can make your own menus, and post them by your desk. Works great with picky eaters.

Simply pop out the 'm' and 'n' key on someone's keyboard and reverse the two. Any flat tool will work. Just pry it with little pressure and they will easily come right off. Then just sit back and watch the confusion.

[Evil_CSM_Yu]

THis one works with people sitting close together - swictch the keyboards so PC 1's typing appears on PC 2 and vice versa - or just switch it with your own to really freak them out. "Ow! You're typing to hard! " And other off the wall typings will make them go crazy...until you can't stifle your laughter anymore.

Take some vaseline and smear it on the earpiece of their phone. :twisted:

[Merika]

Vaseline on the phone GEEZ! I have worked with a couple of people where it would've been tempting.

[Evil_CSM_Yu]

Obtain Co-ed restroom signs and replace all restroom signs with them. Or just get "Warning: This area under video surveilance" signs and post them on the restroom doors.

[dogula]

No, you should peel off the signs on the men's and women's restrooms and switch them. People familiar with the office will naturally go to the correct room and other people will go to the wrong one.

[Merika]

If you actually pulled something like this off at work....would everyone automatically assume it was YOU....based on your personality?

[Evil_CSM_Yu]

Well, I'd probably be ione of the top two suspects.

[Merika]

I would probably do it at work if I had a cohort to help and also shoulder some of the blame later.

When we used to go out all the time....while other people were dancing...we would move their stuff to another table. Then watch them come back all confused.

[Adonaicole]

Merika, I am so glad that I'm not sitting next to you at work...you're a little devious. We're so busy at work that we don't have much time for games, but I still make it a point to pick on certain people.

[Merika]

We could ban together and get a JOINT enemy....they we would both be safe! LOL!

[Adonaicole]

We could ban together and get a JOINT enemy....they we would both be safe! LOL!

I feel much better, knowing you'll be on my side... 8)

After all, it is better to give than receive.

[Duke]

I sometimes get vaseline on the phone but it's for completely different reasons

[Merika]

Originally Posted by Adonaicole

After all, it is better to give than receive.

TMI Duke! LOL!

[Duke]

Ya ya, I bet you can't sleep tonite now.

[Merika]

Yeah....I'm sooooo dreaming of you.....DANCING BOY!

This smiley looks so much like you it's down right SCARY!