Friday Amusement: Office Pranks
It’s Friday! Hells yeah! TGIF.
Have you had a long week? Do you need something to laugh about in your cubicle? If you’re in a prankster mood, here are some classic office pranks and some things you can do to rile up office zombies.

- Staple your reports in the wrong corner
- Swap the regular and decaf coffee – This is EVIL!
- Play with the auto-correct on your co-workers computer. Configure the word “and” to change to “It’s 5 o’clock somewhere”
- Put tape over the mouse optics
- Cut your fingernails or toe nails
- Unplug a co-worker’s monitor
- Talk to sick employees while wearing a dust mask
- Turn your earphones up all the way
- Turn your speakerphone up all the way
- Burn popcorn in the microwave
- When your co-worker is out of down, cover their office in foil, plastic wrap or post-its (and then send us the picture!)
- “Forget” to put your tuna sandwich in the fridge
- Leave your tuna sandwich in the fridge
- Empty the paper out of the main printer/copier
- Empty the ink or toner out of the main printer/copier
- Hang up the phone before they say, “good bye”
- Slurp hot coffee during meetings
- Chew ice during meetings
- Walk around the office barefooted
- Empty out a co-workers office on a Friday afternoon
- Glue their mouse to the desk
- Turn down or turn up the contrast on their monitor
- Use goofy event sounds for your programs
- Send flowers from one co-worker to another
- Leave hole punches all over
- Leave your lunch garbage in other people’s cans
- After each sip give a refreshing, “Ahhh”
- Set a password on someone’s screensaver
- Carry on a conversation with someone two cubes down
- Smirk when a co-worker walks by
- Eat half of someone’s lunch
- Swap co-worker’s chairs
- Take all the ice out of the community freezer
- Hit all the floor buttons when you leave the elevator
- Make hissing sounds into the phone and insist you have a bad connection
- Flip the left and right mouse button defaults
- Take out the ball in the mouse
- Tell a long story without a point
- Tell a co-worker you liked their hair better last week
- Bring Cheetos for food days
- Drag your feet when you walk down the halls
- Exclaim your co-worker didn’t wash his hands when leaving the restroom
- Set your mobile phone to an obnoxious ring tone
- Forward chain letters and other spam to co-workers
- Express your political views at length
- Whisper loudly
- Drink the last cup of coffee without making a new pot- Raise your hand if you’re GUILTY!
- Answer your mobile during meetings
- Stand over someone while they are on the phone
- Sneak up behind someone
- Mess with the thermostat
- Recycle other people’s print jobs
- Be overly nice to people
- Leave fingerprints on the copier glass
- Type loudly
- Give everyone a nickname from a TV show- “Intern”
- Peer over the cube and wait for a co-worker to look up and notice
- Use the intercom and page yourself
- Hide the sugar and creamer
- Type emails in uppercase and excessive punctuation
Some steps compiled from here and here .
We accept no responsibility for encouraging you to have fun on Fridays. We would love to hear your cube farm adventures. And, on a more serious note, if you need this post to add some sort of value, be self-aware of your actions. It’s good to be mindful of how your actions affect your co-workers. But, have some fun too


UnPlug the speaker cable half way on the back of the pc (typically green plug), they’ll only hear “Mono”
Stand at the window (no matter what level of floor you’re on, and wave at ANYTHING)
Give everyone Pre-scratched off lottery tickets and wish them good luck!
Wear a black shoe, and a brown shoe in the office and skip.
Walk like the Pink Panther cartoon character.
Wish someone Happy Birthday 6 months early/late, and make a big deal about it…
Turn your wallpaper sideways on your monitor and tilt your head sideways with a confused look on your face.
Blink really fast in the meeting… turning your head in a jerking motion side to side like a typewriter.
Just smile at the other clown office, and let him/her be the only slacker on a Friday…
Ask someone… “Can you smell that?” and make a sour face…
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