20 Classic Office Prank Ideas

Taping down the switch hook buttons on a phone gets some interesting reactions. When your victim answers, the phone keeps ringing.

Tell a new worker that everyone has tomorrow off because of the boss's religious beliefs. See if he shows up the next day.

When victim is not around, open MS Word, and set up autocorrect to change legitimate words into mispelled words as they are typed.

At lunch, swap the worker's real food with look-a-like dog toys.

Build a camoflaged fortress around your desk, complete with sandbags and a campfire. Add some mosquito netting for good measure.

Every time someone asks you to do something, ask if they want fries with that.

Fill an empty white-out bottle with milk and replace it with your victim's real bottle.

If the drawers to the victim's desk has a board under it you can take the drawer out, take the contents out, and put the drawer back in upside-down.

If your boss wins some kind of prestigious award, manufacture a phony memo from the company president announcing the discontinuance of the award.

Ask your victim, "Are you getting fired? Well, that's the rumor."

If your target has a computer, reposition the monitor every day.

In the memo field of all your checks, write "for sexual favors."

Take the paper out of the copier and write "Everything written of the flip side of this paper is a lie!" Put it back into the copier mixed with regular sheets.

Obtain a remote control fart box. Whe the secretary is out of the room, hide it anywhere and leave the room. When she gets back, push the button at random times. This can be done with or without customers present depending on your mood that day.

Put a live lobster or any other creature in the file cabinet.

Put decaf in the coffee maker for 3 weeks. Once everyone has gotten over their caffeine addictions, switch to espresso.

Put your garbage can on your desk and label it "IN."

Reply to everything someone says with, "That's what you think."

Send e-mail to the rest of the company to tell them where you're going. For example: "If anyone needs me, I'll be in the bathroom."

Take some cellophane and open up the glue bottle. Put the cellophane across the opening, then close the bottle. Watch the victim try to squeeze glue out.

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