Office Pranks
I’m a jerk.
My manager and three of my co-workers went off to the SungardHE Summit conference in Las Vegas last week…I was left to fend for myself in the office. Nope. I didn’t go. But I didn’t sit idle! I wrangled up a crew (Al, Casey, Cliff, Tim, Laurianne, and a couple others) and “decorated” their offices.
Firstly was my boss’ office, wrapped up nicely in Tin-Foil. See the full article here.
Tin Foil Used: 1,100 square feet
Time Spent: 3 hours
Continual Manpower: 5
Cost: $30
Secondly was Zach’s office, Wallpapered in Post-It Notes. See the full article here.
Post-It Notes used: 5,300 (248.45 square feet of note surface).
Time Spent: 4 hours
Continual Manpower: 3
Cost: $60.71
Thirdly was Dan’s office, covered in cups, a number partially filled with water. See the full article here.
Cups Used: 575
Time Spent: 45 minutes
Continual Manpower: 4
Cost: $25.99
Lastly was Dee’s office, I stole her monitor then filled her office section with balloons See the full article here.
Balloons Used: 280
Time Spent: 1.5 hours
Continual Manpower: 3
Cost: $12
All work was done after hours or during our lunch break on Friday. No work resources were used (save for half a role of tape and a little bit of electricity). A whole lot of plotting and fun was had by all. In fact, our Administrative God, Colleen, helped formulate a plan to ensure that the 4 prankees remained away from the office until Monday morning that involved buy-in from our CIO and the Plymouth State University Facility Services office. Basically, we told them that the carpets were being steam cleaned all weekend with some serious chemicals. Fun times :)
Following the completion of the first prank, I found myself giving numerous tours of the offices throughout the week as each prank was completed. Overall, a lot of fun! When they come in on Monday, I plan to have 4 video cameras…one in each office…to get their first reactions. Thats the plan and if I succeed, the vids will be going on YouTube.
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11 Responses to “Office Pranks”
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(UNH) Mike
Posted: Mar 26th, 2007 at 6:24 am1 -
Chris
Posted: Mar 26th, 2007 at 6:34 amReply to this comment.As one of Dee’s best and longest friends, I must tell you that you are my GOD!! I LOVE IT- I never want to work with you but - I LOVE IT!!
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ironmule
Posted: Mar 26th, 2007 at 6:47 amReply to this comment.Having seen all these in person I have to say the pictures are good but just dont do them justice. I too can’t wait to see the reaction videos!
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Dee
Posted: Mar 26th, 2007 at 7:10 amReply to this comment.I’ve been ballooned!!!! OMG!!! I can’t believe I fell for “the rugs are being steam cleaned this weekend so don’t come in the office” email. That should have been a clue that something was up! Why would they ever clean the rugs?
Bork, clearly it was a mistake to leave you behind while going to Summit in Vegas. I guess we had it coming.
Paternity leave = turn about fair play…
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Matt
Posted: Mar 26th, 2007 at 7:28 amReply to this comment.Oh, you guys were so pwned :)
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Karla
Posted: Mar 27th, 2007 at 4:11 pmReply to this comment.Absolutely the best! Miss working with ya (especially on April Fools Day!)
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Posted: Apr 21st, 2008 at 8:44 amPRNKR » Blog Archive » Four office pranks at BorkWeb Reply to this comment.[...] This guy pranked his manager and three coworkers with such pranks as Tinfoil, Post-it Notes, Cups and Balloons. [...]
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Peter
Posted: Sep 13th, 2008 at 1:06 amReply to this comment.Those are some great pranks, my personal favourite which is easy to do and only takes a minute is to put scotch tape over the optical sensor in an optical mouse, the mouse will still work but not very well. Will drive them insane! ;)
If you do not understand from my description check out the photos here:
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This is great! I’d love to see the reactions of the prey. Although having been gone just recently I’m sooooooo glad you guys are at a distance. ;-)
Prank “via truck” anyone?