How to Drive an Annoying Coworker Crazy

Every office has one. That one employee that drives everyone around them crazy with incessant gum popping or nail clicking or worse, telling boring stories repeatedly. When you just can't take it anymore, here are a few tricks to turn the tables on the annoying coworker.

Difficulty:

Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need

• A Good Imagination
• A Warped Sense of Humor
• A Sneaky, Underhanded Nature

Drive an Annoying Coworker Crazy

1. Offer to make copies of a report and staple them all in the wrong corner.

2. Unplug your coworker's monitor when they leave for lunch.

3. Burn popcorn in the microwave in the morning so the smell lingers throughout the day.

4. Bring a smelly sandwich like tuna for lunch and "forget" to put it in the fridge for, oh, about three days.

5. Empty the paper trays on the copier or fax machine.

6. Hum show tunes every time you are near your coworker.

7. Take all the files on your coworker's desk and put them in a drawer.

8. Borrow pens every day and never return them.

9. Abruptly quit talking every time your coworker enters the room.

10. Hide an open can of tuna in an unused desk drawer.

11. Print a phony memo from the boss discussing the need for cutbacks and leave it lying near the copier.

12. Remove the ball from your coworker's mouse.

13. Confetti your coworker's desk with hole punches.

More Annoying Things to Drive a Coworker Crazy

1. Superglue your coworker's coffee cup to his mouse pad.

2. Switch the names on coworkers lunch sacks in the office fridge.

3. Lower or raise your coworker's chair.

4. Swap your coworker's chair with an old broken chair.

5. Hit all the floor buttons when you get off the elevator.

6. Stare at your coworker's hair, nose, or teeth and then pretend you weren't looking.

7. Look at your coworker but don't respond when they talk to you.

8. Walk loudly or drag your feet when you walk by your coworker.

9. Hang over your coworker's cubicle and wait for them to finish a personal phone call.

10. Bend all of your coworker's paper clips into geometric shapes.

11. Set the thermostat very low and complain loudly about how hot you are.

12. Drink the last cup of coffee and leave the dredges in the pot on the hot burner.

Tips & Warnings

• Take these actions at your own risk. Those on the giving end will find these pranks hilarious, but some people just have no sense of humor! Just remember you might be on the receiving end of the next round of pranks!