Best workplace pranks

Azagoth said:
C:> shutdown -t 60 -c "You have been found to have porn on this computer, all your files will be deleted in 1 minute"

Alter the timing and comment to your preferences.
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My brother did that to me, and added it to start-up. Took me a while to work out how to stop it seeing as he only gave me 10 seconds each time it loaded.
 
Red and White said:
who is dumb enough to fall for these?
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My first job out of school (at 15) was working in a factory where we had to use various stands to put moulds on and turn out products. On my second day I was put onto the 30ft moulds with another guy and as he was lifting it with the forklift he told me to go to another shed and ask the guys for the long stand for the 30fters. The boss was in the other shed and when I asked for the long stand he snorted and carried on working. It took me a couple of minutes for it to register.
 
I worked at Little Chef about 10 years ago and this lad who worked there was gullible as hell. We made him water the plant's every day (they were plastic) and once made him vacuum the carpark.
 
SpeedFreak said:
printscreen and hide all the icons on theiir sesktop. Set it as a wallpaper and make sure to stop them before they go to IT for help!
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you have to go the full hog though, if they have an ATI or nvidia control pannel applet....

Print screen, flip the image 180 degrees in paint, set as wallpaper, then go to the control panel and flip the screen 180, so the screen is upside down but looks the right way up.

then hide icons, and finally, auto hide the taskbar:D

hours of fun :D
 
I and a few colleagues made a bat-signal out of black cardboard and a concorde landing light and shone it into the night sky out of my workshop's window. We even made the local paper. We did it every night for a week until the local council worked out where it was coming from and our boss ordered us to stop.

Another favourite was in the same place, we had these de-greasing spray cans which smelt really strongly of orange. One guy was going around spraying it in the pockets of everyone's dustcoats and you'd only realise he'd got you when the whiff of orange hit you. I got my own back by ninja crawling under 20 metres of workbenches and spraying it at his crotch for a good 30 seconds. Sure enough, the whiff of oranges hits him, he starts laughing, asking 'Who's been Tangoed?' as there was no-one around him for a few minutes. Then he feels the wet patch, I had by then made my way back to my own bench and everyone had a laugh at his expense. I miss the stuff we used to pull in that place.
 
We had a new guy start when i worked at O2 and asked him to get -

Long Weight
Glass Hammer
Tartan Paint - Don't mix though or your mess up the pattern :D lol
Sky Hooks

To name but a few :)

Poor litle ****** :D

Andy
 
Azagoth said:
C:> shutdown -t 60 -c "You have been found to have porn on this computer, all your files will be deleted in 1 minute"

Alter the timing and comment to your preferences.
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Could you clarify how to do this please? I tried the following in command prompt:

Code: 
shutdown -t 60 -c "You have been found to have porn on this computer, all your files will be deleted in 1 minute"

But it just logged me off instantly.
 
I once aquired a roll of sticky security tags. Best place I found to hid them were rolled up inside a pen or inside a mobile phone case.

Also, heat paste on one side of a pen or on a phone ear piece. That stuff is a ***** to clean off lol.
 
Back in the day when I was an Aerospace Apprentice if you sent some mug for a Spirit level Bubble, the miserable old Storeman would produce a jam jar almost full of washing up liquid, shake it vigorously and then ask which one they wanted, he also had a Weight with LONG stamped into it (And another longer one with 'VERY LONG'), a miniature Skirtingboard ladder, a Screwdriver with LEFT-HANDED USE ONLY on it, a huge tub of Elbow grease, a tin of Tartan Paint etc.etc... That wise old grumpy man had seen it all ;)
 
p4radox said:
Could you clarify how to do this please? I tried the following in command prompt:
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Sorry, what you do, well what I used to do, is create a new shortcut via the rightclick context menu on the desktop with that code as the target. Then change the icon of the new shortcut to Firefox (or whatever app they're most likely to use). Then watch their face as they sit down to work, double click the icon and get a shock. Normally they just start looking around the office in shocked bemusement.
 
If you have PC's in the office that are back to back, swap the keyboard and mouse around so they control each others base unit... Sit back and watch.
Remote eject user's cd trays.
Stick handset to phone and wait for it to ring.
Ask someone for a 'blank stare' and watch them frown and say 'huh?'. Remember to say thanks and carry on as normal.
 
At TJ Hughes we used to get rolls upon rolls of stick on Sensomatic tags. It was always fun sticking them to people's jackets (we usually folded them in half and just put them in a pocket to avoid getting the adhesive on their coat) while they were hung up in the cloakroom upstairs, and then waiting for merry hell to break out when they left.
 
I must admit that when I was a Michelin Apprentice at 16 that I did fall for the long weight one.
After that I thought about what they sent me for and didn't fall for it BUT I still had to go through with it so not to offend them.
An older Apprentice gave me good advice to never argue with skilled workers and to do what they ask even if I knew it was daft.
I had a good 4 years where others had a hell of a time.

I can also say that a lot of 16 year olds believe anything you tell them.
I do it daily and it never stops amazing me that they take it in.
 
Stuck an A2 "healthy eating" poster to the side of someone's car in the car park. Passenger side, so he didn't see. Also stuck one to the next car along to get someone else. Obviously we had to let the second guy know so he didn't give it away - he forgot to check his own car ;)

Look on his face was priceless as the first guy was driving out of the car park.
 
Azagoth said:
Sorry, what you do, well what I used to do, is create a new shortcut via the rightclick context menu on the desktop with that code as the target. Then change the icon of the new shortcut to Firefox (or whatever app they're most likely to use). Then watch their face as they sit down to work, double click the icon and get a shock. Normally they just start looking around the office in shocked bemusement.
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Awesome. I've got the perfect victim in mind...:)
 
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