With the April Fool’s Day around the corner, we prepared this list of the best office pranks that anyone can play on their coworkers. These pranks are funny and harmless. Remember, always use good judgment when playing pranks on coworkers (especially your boss). Use them at your own risk (we accept no responsibility if you get in trouble)!
Do you know any other good pranks? Please leave your suggestions in the comments! Also, don’t forget to share the outcome of these pranks with us in the comments!
#10 - Clipped
Make some photocopies of a paperclip. Then put them into the paper tray of the copier and watch your coworkers going nuts trying to find the paperclip stuck somewhere in the copier.
#9 - Taking Notes
Replace the victim’s pens with pens that have caps super-glued to them. Another alternative includes painting the tips of pens or pencils with clear nail polish. When they try to write, none of the pens will work. The nail polish can be later removed by dipping tips in polish remover.
#8 - What Do You Want?
If your phone system has conference calling, you can prank two coworkers at once. First, call the first coworker’s extension, then quickly call the second coworker and conference them in. Then listen to them argue over who called whom!
#7 - Human Voicemail
Have coworkers persistently call the victim asking for Larry (or any other name as long as there is no one by that name in the office). Leaving voicemail for Larry works as well. At the end of the day, call them and ask: “Hi! This is Larry! Do you have any messages for me?”
#6 - Who’s Calling?
Leave a note on the victim’s desk that “Mr. Lyon” called for them (Mr. Behr also works) and wants to be called back as soon as possible. Make sure to include the phone number of a local zoo as the call back number!
#5 - Can You Hear Me?
Tape down the hook that presses down when the handset is in the cradle so when the phone starts ringing and they pick it up, it will keep ringing. For an extra effect, put a little piece of scotch tape over the microphone of the phone receiver.
#4 - It’s Possessed!
If you have a wireless mouse, plug the receiver into your coworkers computer (leaver their mouse plugged in). Then periodically, as they are using the computer, use your mouse to slightly move the cursor on their screen. If you have two coworkers’ computers in close proximity, just switch the cords around randomly (mouse, keyboard, monitors, etc.) and watch the coworkers go crazy trying to figure out what’s going on!
#3 - Roller Coaster
If a coworker’s office chair has a lever that adjusts its height, tie it with a piece of cord underneath the chair in its adjusting position. Once the victim sits on the chair, it will slide all the way down, but as soon as they stand up, it will rise back all the way up.
#2 - Important Papers
Take random papers from the recycling bin (it doesn’t matter what they way but it is better if they look important) staple pages together in random order and put them in a coworkers desk file drawer or their mailbox. For better results, make a memo sheet (or a post-it) that says “Confidential” and watch the coworker going nuts trying to figure out what it means.
#1 - Let’s Prank’em!
Send a coworker the e-mail below (Just don’t click on the link unless you want to spend 10 minutes closing annoying popup messages). It works like magic if the victim is a known prankster. They will most likely fall victim of this prank while thinking they are about to prank someone else! In our book, this makes the following the funniest office prank of all:
My friend tried to prank a coworker every year, and it usually worked. One year, my friend put a note on the lady's car, saying that she was parked in someone's spot and that she'll be towed the next time she does it. Her car - which was in a parking spot she won in an auction - was very precious to her, and she came back to the office fuming mad. I can't wait to hear what she tried this year. One year I pranked my husband by bringing home my "pink slip" on company letterhead. He nearly fainted, thinking I'd lost my job. Mean, I know. ;o)
Something we did is you can pop off keys on a keyboard. Use a scissors and pop off and swap the comma and the period, as well as if you have a tenkey on the side of your keyboard pop and swap the 1,2,3 for the 7,8,9 and vice versa. Then we told the prankee that she got a virus from going to yahoo maps and that this is going to take a while to fix it. Drove her nuts for about 3 weeks.
I don't usually do anything for April Fool's Day, but I must say this list has inspired me to try a few around the office today. I get in a good hour to an hour and a half before most anyone else, and today so far no one is here. I will just make sure to do some of this to myself so no one is the wiser.
Thanks for the list!!
I usually buy caution tape and tape off an area outside that most people will see.
I lay down and have someone draw an outline of my body. It's hilarious to watch these people get all worked up about the "crime scene".
Have a prankful day.
All the best,
Ben McGrath
arlene jorgenson
andrew, this was so good, i gave you credit, titled it "Laughter is the Best Medicine" and used it as an entry for my blog HEALTH AUTHORITY at saskatoonhomepage.ca
i will try some of them myself tomorrow!
arlene
Mark Tyrrell
My absolute favorite prank requires a little technical ability and someone running an O.S. before Windows 7. When they step away from their desk and into a meeting and you have time at their computer, minimize all their applications and take a screenshot of their desktop. Then create a temporary folder on their harddrive to move all their desktop icons/items into. Move all the icons so the desktop is clear, set the screenshot image to be their desktop background, and set the Taskbar to Auto-hide. It's a little complicated, but I did it successfully to my old boss who spent easily 10 minutes futilely clicking on the image of her icons. She would rely upon me heavily as the "tech support" guy for the team so when she called me over to try to fix it I spent another 5 minutes pretending I had no idea until she called tech support herself.
With the April Fool’s Day around the corner, we prepared this list of the best office pranks that anyone can play on their coworkers. These pranks are funny and harmless. Remember, always use good judgment when playing pranks on coworkers (especially your boss). Use them at your own risk (we accept no responsibility if you get in trouble)!
