General Work Pranks

Let's liven up that workplace. Shall we?


After everyone has gone home or before anyone arrives switch the nameplates from people's desks and doors. Switch them around enough so that everyone has someone else’s nameplate on their desk or door.

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When your boss or colleague goes away on vacation, pour water and scatter cress seeds or lettuce onto the carpeted area in their office. With decent light, the seeds should germinate on the damp carpet and the person should find a growing carpet upon their return.

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If you work in an office where the temperature fluctuates dramatically during the day, then you probably have more that one colleague that has a sweater for such times. When this person is not around use small binder clips, or similar items, to clip the end of the sleeve to the hem or bind the inside of the sleeve shut.

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Try our regular and advanced versions of Hostage here.

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Advertise a colleague’s job and leave their number with extension for contact. Make sure it is well paying and with low qualifications.

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Call one of your co-workers and tell them that you are a producer from the Ricki Lake Show and that someone from their past would like to confront them or reunite with them on the show. Then talk about airline reservations, hotel accommodations, etc. When they ask for more information, say that you're not able to give them any information and they will find out the day of the show. Their brains will be working overtime trying to think of who would want to confront them that nothing will get done that day.

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Discreetly go around your place of work and collect all the little paper circles left over in the paper hole punches. Then carefully place them all on top of the visor of a colleague’s a car. Be sure to remove any strays from the seat and floor. When the sun visor is eventually used you can be sure that a subsequent blizzard will follow.

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Sloppily write the following on a scrap piece of paper: "Sorry about the dent. You were parked awkwardly and I had some problems, but my insurance will cover it. Besides, its only a small dent, right? Once again, sorry." Take it to the parking lot at work and put it on the boss’ or colleague’s car in the parking lot. Then find a place to observe the inspection and subsequent head-scratching that follows.

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Tell your co-workers that the new employee is very hard of hearing and you must speak very loud to him/her since they are a bit sensitive about asking you to speak up and watch everyone shout at him/her for the rest of the day.

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Write a fake letter from some nameless union representative about a study that is being conducted on the effects of computer monitor radiation on men's sperm count asking them to bring a sample into work the next day. Ask them to drop off the samples with whomever you also want to embarrass. Then place copies of these letters in the pigeonholes of some men around the office you also want to get.

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Be sure to visit our other pranks pages like: Desk Pranks, Telephone Pranks, Computer Pranks, Bathroom Pranks, and Breaktime Pranks.


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