How to Prank a Co-Worker at the Office
Life in a an office -- especially an office that's packed like a sardine can with cubicles -- can be mundane, monotonous, depressing and demoralizing. Maintaining a positive attitude is imperative to successful job performance. So why not boost your mood at a co-worker's expense with some light-hearted pranks?
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Instructions
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Fill a cubicle with packing peanuts
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This can be done in a number of ways, depending on the amount of time you have in which to pull the prank and the volume of packing peanuts you can loot from the warehouse. First, acquire a large amount of packing peanuts and packing tape. Wait for the victim to leave for lunch or for the day.
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If you have amassed a massive quantity of packing peanuts, tape up the doorway of the cubicle. Run packing tape all the way up the doorway, creating a packing-tape door. Then fill the cubicle completely with the foam filler. When the victim returns, he'll find his cubicle usurped by a mass quantity of Styrofoam and requiring a good hour or so of clean-up.
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If you don't have that much time or packing peanuts, just empty your pigeon's desk drawers and fill them with the peanuts.
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You can also use the packing tape to seal the arms of your victim's jacket and fill the sleeves with peanuts or shredded paper.
Other pranks
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At someone's desk or in the supply closet, pull out all the paper clips and chain them together. Then just put them back and wait for your mark to grab one paper clip.
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If your computers are set up close together in a series or have long monitor cables, you can switch the cables of co-workers' monitors.
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Super glue items to a desk. This may damage equipment, so use good judgment before pulling this prank. Use super glue to stick everything to your victim's desk -- or at least the mouse to the mouse pad, or the telephone receiver to the jack. You could also glue the keyboard in an awkward position and watch your co-worker struggle to put it back in place.
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Take the ink out of all the pens on your victim's desk.
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Tips & Warnings
Be judicious in who you prank and how far you go with the prank. You're doing this to liven up the workplace, not get fired or injure someone.
Not all bosses welcome office pranks.
