ok...now's your chance so get your creative juices flowing..... We have started having a computer conversion contest...as part of the contest, we have been split into different teams which are competing against each other. and as a result all out office wars have begun now yesterday my office got totally trashed...toliet paper everywhere lotion on everything...stuff taken off the walls and hung in various places throughout the company...etc..etc...etc all this is in good natured fun of course and all of it is back office kind of stuff so none of our customers really know about it.

what I want to know is a good way to repay what happened...i need some creative ideas....i've already taken up collections of hole punches and emptied those in file cabnets and desk drawers, changed their drink with water from the flower vase, emptied paper clips throughout their desk, stolen the type writer tap, removed wheels off their chair, etc....

but what I need is something good, that won't cause permenant damage, that will be taken in good humor and is easy with little supplies....any ideas???

 

Here is a few I've encountered over the years.

Replace the caffenated coffee with decaff and watch people dragass.

Exlax brownies piled high and pretty in the break room. (I never eat food brought by others, or leave food in the company fridge)

A guy had a newly painted yellow MGB. Yellow toner from the color copier was sprinkled around the car on the first rainy afternoon after the paint job.

Sticky stuff (like kids Slime) placed on *****, drawers, chair arms...ect.

Whenever someone's spouse calls tell them they've already left for the day.

Remove toilet paper from the restroom. Or just leave one square...

Someone in a solo bathroom? Roll a firecracker under the door to help them out.

 

Hmmmm, we've had some fun. One that is particularly annoying is when someone takes ALL your writing instruments while you're gone, and then when you get back the phones are ringing like crazy and its a little hard to write a message. Or one we've played over and over and over, take the handset off the phone (unplug it and stick it in a desk drawer then place some pennies or something on the button. Take all the books off their shelves and stack them on their chair. Ohhh, a really good one (if you have a shipping dept. or access to shipping supplies) is to someones desk with styrofoam peanuts. After one particularly stressful day that the boss was gone and I was left to handle it all on my own (without a clue what he actually did all day until that time) a friend and I spread scratch paper ALL over his office to make it look like a tornado swept thru. Vaseline on the handset was always a nice touch but you've already got that covered with lotion........Could be a little dangerous I suppose but I've always had it in mind to take some clear fishing line and tie it to one thing here and another across the room until you've got a huge web going all the way around the office. I'll have to think somemore on it though....

 

Could you email them all a fun little program? I have one that is a riot to send to people. Let me know and I'll send it to you. I don't think that I can put it anywhere on here.

Beyond that, take all the wheels off of the chairs.

Loosen the bolts that hold the drawer handles on just enough to keep the handle on the drawer so that they pull off

Turn desks around so that the drawers are on the opposite side

Just push the phone cord in so that it looks okay, but doesn't pick up the line when the handset is picked up.

Take the ball part out of the mouse and put a stickit note in there that says "I've left to play with my friends. Be back soon."

 

Saran wrap over the toilets is always fun.

 

never thought about that one before gonna have to try it

 

all very good suggestions...will try a few and let ya know what happens...right now I'm just trying to hold the fort down and keep from being victimized again!!!! don't know about the exlax brownies and saran wrap stuff....I'm a big fan of some of the cooking around here and sure don't want to fall victim to that myself and we have several "older ladies" in our part of the building....they don't seem to mind our little pranks, but I think they might kill us if we saran wrapped their potties

 

I read this one in this months Maxium, and I loved it. You have to know a little about MS Word though.

You know the auto-correct feature in Word? Like if you type teh Word will automaticly replace it with the? Well you can edit the list of words the the program will search for and what it replaces them with.

This will really screw with peoples heads. Set the auto correct list up to look for common words, and then tell it to replace them with something totally different.

So when they type a simple sentence like: "There will be a meeting today in the conference room" MS Word's auto-correct will make it come out something like: "There will be a mud fight yesterday in the company car"

 

If you have the older style telephones with the round ends on the handset you can unscrew the earpiece and the speaker will come out. Place scotch tape on the contacts and put the speaker back in and screw the cap back on. The weight is still the same so your modification isn't readily noticed but they won't be able to hear a thing on the phone.

With vinyl chairs and short people, you can crank the chair up so their feet don't touch the ground, and spray the chair with a silicone spray and watch them slide right out of the chair.

You're in TX right? Any Aggies in the office? Take an index card and write "How do you keep an Aggie occupied? Turn over for answer." on both sides and leave it on their desk. Aggies usually get very perturbed after turning it over 4 or 5 times and it finally sinks in.

Not that I'VE ever done any of these of course.

 

Here's a few...

Dis-assembe everything in the office to its base components, and stack it neatly in the corner.

Flush a big water balloon down the toilet. Make sure it gets stuck, then keep flushing toilet for flood.

If their chairs have black cloth, put black toner on the seat. Loosen all the bolts in the chairs as well...
If the chairs have wheels, remove them...
If you could, heck, replace all the chairs with little kid chairs.

Change their voice mail (be creative).

Shut off the water and power.

Put Gin in the water cooler.

Fake video camera in the bathroom.

Line the floor with thousands of little bathroom cups filled with water.

Replace all their pencils and inkpens with ones that are dull and break, or are out of ink.

Remove the keys from their keyboards. Take out the mouse ball as well.

If you have a computer network, change the backgrounds on all the computers (again, be creative...)

Remove light bulbs, replace with black light bulbs.

Unhook the wiring on all 2-prong plug-in terminals. Turn the power off first when you do this.

Exlax in food products is now a felony offense, by the way...

Replace their printer cartridges with the wrong ones...

Switch their phone and fax lines, if applicable...

Put the droors of their desk in upside down, fill with marbles (Drew Carey Show!!!)

After that last one, I would say watch the Drew Carey show, they always have really good pranks.

 

good ones...I'm liking them...but remember : THEY MUST NOT CAUSE PERMENANT DAMAGE....and we do have to keep some sort of a working environment.

as for computer stuff....I love that kind of stuff, but our DP deparmtent freaks when we do stuff like that with the computer....probably because some person that doesn' t know how to turn it on is the one that always tries it....

several years ago, our SVP of marketing had been jacking with us so we decided to get even. we got our DP guys to put this picture we found as her background....it was a old fat guys chip and dales picture....you know like the ones in the 7up commercial....it was NASTY, yet tasteful !!! I still have bad dreams from seeing that, but the best part is that we had auditors in the office at the time. while she was gone to lunch, they (two older women) walked past her door and just about passed out...stopped looked again and put their hand over their mouth and left quickly....funniest thing I can remember in a long time.....except for one time we put some staples that we had twisted together in our supervisors chair...when he sat down he screamed like a girl ....I never laughed so hard !!!!

 

They are suggestions. Nothing more. None of the stuff I said will cause permanent damage (if done properly).

 

I have a utility somewhere the turns your Microsoft Windows screen upside down....

 

Hey Ken, can you email that to me. I'm sure my boss would enjoy it . No worries, it won't get me in trouble. If you're not comfortable, that is fine. No problem.

 

JUST CHANGE THEIR MOUSE FROM RIGHT HAND TO LEFT HAND.