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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The haunted office prank

I just read something pretty funny. This prank requires the help of a few other people to pull off properly, and one of you will need to know a few things about electronics. This is best done in an office of some kind, so at work will do.

Set up every electronics appliance in the victim's office so that you can turn it on or off via remote control. Have one person be a skeptic, who just so happens to never be around when things mysteriously turn themselves on or off. Have another person take the side of the victim, who admits to noticing some strange things going on there as well. Have another person, preferably with some kind of authority. Every time this person notices the victim complaining about strange happenings, this person should act annoyed and tell the victim to stop talking nonsense and get back to work. Spread rumours that the office is haunted, and see how many people believe it.

You could take this further and spread a story that the "machines" have evolved some real intelligence, and have grown tired of being used and they want to gain independence from the humans, and eventually take over the world. Kind of like The Matrix. You could have the printers set to print specific pages with some weird cryptic messages on them, and install strange alien sound effects on the computers to play whenever they start up or shut down.

If you use your imagination, you could start some interesting conversations with a prank like this.

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