I used to work at McDonalds in the 80's and I had a blast most of the time. I'm the type that will add fun to my job if it's too boring and I got away with murder. I was a relatively cute 16 year old then =). One day, I was polishing the front counter with a stainless steel spray cleaner and when I was done, I went to put it away in the back. On my way, I noticed the manager/part owner, sitting at a desk, counting out the money trays. He had a bald head with fringe hair around the sides. All of a sudden, my insanity kicked in like it does every so often, and I sprayed his noggin with the cleaner and wiped it dry with the cloth. I immediately wondered why the hell I did that and a couple of other employees covered thier mouths with thier hands and gasped in shock at my antics, knowing I must surely be fired on the spot. He turned, looked me in the eye, then proceeded to laugh his head off! We all started laughing then! Yes! I really did that! I did not get fired and I even got a chance at a promotion after that! Go figure!

I am sure a lot of you can top that! Tell!

That is funny as hell!
Funniest thing I ever pulled was saran-wrapping a friend to his bed while he slept...

Ha! That sounds like fun! What a way to wake up! Maybe he thought he had "sleep paralysis" at first! LOL!

When I was younger I worked as a cashier in a small town grocery store. We had a few broken buggies out back behind the building. One day my cousin and I brought them in and filled them with discount items. The thing about these buggies though, they were so rusted and had wheels missing . If you would lightly touch the sides little particles of rust would fall on the floor lol. Faye, the owner and manager came in and didn't really say anything about it until she tried pushing them out of the store . Once she saw they wouldn't budge she yelled at us to get it out of there lol.

We also had a microphone system for the cashiers to talk on and ask for one of the guys to carry groceries out for the customers. One day, one of the stocker's mother came through my line and she asked for her son. I got over the intercom and said really babyish "JP, Your mommy is here and she just wanted to let you know she loves you very much. Please come give her a hug now!" You could hear customers laughing all over the store and when he finally arrived at my counter he gave his mom a hug and the customers behind her started applauding . Later he said he was going to kill me .

I love the second one! I would've wanted to kill you too!

i work on the mississippi river as a boat captain,and we have a lot of down time so jokes about each others moms and loved ones only pass the time for so long,,then picking on the green deckhands take over..thats when the fun and trouble start..haha

1. we convinced the new guy the radar needed to be tuned on the 5th of april every year we started this 2 months in advance with everyone complaining about having to do it and no one wanting to do it..april 5th comes around,,,we wraped him in tin foil from head to toe even made a little cone hat and made him stand on the deck of the boat waving his hands in clock like motion every 5 degrees wile alternating standing on one foot haha,,other boats passing knew the joke were blowing their horns laughing,giving the thumbs up and telling people on the radio what was going on,,a great time was had by alll!!!!

2.i told the new guy we had to check the crane hook safety latch, put him into a cargo net picked him 60ft off the ground swong him over the river and went to lunch wile he hung there screaming to let him down hahahahaha...he never trusted me again,but he learned fast amonth later he pulled the same joke on the next new guy except he diped the guy in and out of the water like he was a tea bag,,,hahaha got to admit that took guts

3. i told the new guy we had to check the wheel wash for oil leaks(wheel wash is the wather that comes out the back of the boat wile its moving,,,i gave him a bucket with a rope attached to it,,usually what happens they throw the bucket and the force of the water jerks it out of their hand giving them a funny rope burn,funny for the people watching it anyway,,joke was on me because i didnt see him tie the rope to his arm haha when the bucket hit the water hew was jerked to the back of the boat almost poping his arm out of the socket,,, needless to say when the boss heard that one all jokes here put on hold for a wile haha..

Sadly, I have never pulled a prank at work. It is work, after all - a place where employees come to produce value for society and "make money." Not to be preachy - but during office hours, it's about work. Pull pranks after hours - and at social events (which I don't like, i.e. happy hour for small talk - I'd rather be out camping and/or riding a motorcycle or climbing a mountain). And if the employees want to go camping and tell ghost stories by the fire, or fish in a pristine lake - great - I won't force them to go, just like I won't be forced to go sit in a bar and listen to BS for a few hours...

I'm not Scrooge, I'm just anal about capitalism and personal liberty.

1st Edit: Unless the prank arises at "holiday or down time;" and/or the prankster was expressly hired to be the "amiable" to keep the milieu on an even keel, or unless the business is about Public Relations in general, or a "comedian" venue. I'm just anal about work. Let's do the job - not waste the investors' money - and produce some value whereby society will compensate us for productivity.

Having said all of this, I do expect a light-hearted and productive workplace. Not necessarily pranks - but good hearts, happy souls, and sane consistently learning minds...

We used to play this one particular one on the new staff, when they would leave their desk, we would put a note on it with the local Zoo number asking them to call a certain Mr. Li'on at that number - regarding what ever it was to do with their duties, so it would sound legit. You sholud have seen the look on their faces when they finally figure out after asking 10 times to speak to a Mr. Li'on. The new ones always fell for that one....

oo yea you would be the target of every prank my crew could think of,,they would hold secret meetings just to think of new ways to make your life at work a mind field of pointless immature pranks. now that i have a crew of my own,,,my offical stand on pranks are not in the work place unless its really funny then youll be called into my office for a talk, where i laugh my ass off and tell you how funny it was but tell the other guys i chewed you a new one.

I'd never work for you. In fact, I only work for me - whether it is in a corporation or on my own. I always say this in an interview. I work for myself first, my family second, my community third. If you were lucky, I might work with you, but never for you...

Edit: I try to teach my students the same thing. To work for another is socialist. In my view, and in an ideal society, everyone would implicitly understand that they work for themselves...

Furthermore, any boss who claims that "you work for him/her" is either involved in slavery or socialism.

Done some crazy stuff heres three i got away with

In high school taking all the lights off the school bus's
Stole my grandmothers car one school night to go party we got so wasted on the way back i drove it off in to a pond
One really wild night we shot up the church with the paintball gun and 18 wheelers on the highway then a neighbors house

Sorry, Darksector - those aren't funny. They're criminal and damaging.

Rudeboy's and the Shiny Spot Bald Pate spray were funny.

Can I come work on your team??!!! I just annoyed the heck out of my cat, laughing so hard!

Ha! I wonder how the zoo staff felt about this?

one day I replaced my friends mouthwash with vodka and green food coloring..
he was wanted to kill me after that (he doesnt like vodka for some crazy reason)

..................................How to lose a friend in 5 easy pranks..........................................
a rough guide by Promethius (Tam Robbie)

1) put soap on somebody's toothbrush.
2) waiting until someone's asleep and putting their hand in a glass of water, making them lose control of their bladder
3) put spice in someones coffee/tea
4) Cover someone's hands in toothpaste and waiting till' they wake up... the result is kinda predictable
5) if all else fails, use the good olde tub of water resting on the door frame...

I believe in my time i've tried all of the above...

EDIT: oh i didn't see the bit that mentioned It being at work. Im sure that my above ventures could be adapted to suit the workplace...

Or you could wait untill theres a party and put cling-film over the toilet bowl... its not going to win you many friends mind you...

calm down sparky,
i never once said work FOR ME,,,i said MY CREW meaning the guys i work with everyday that i come to work.now with that being said i am the captain of the boat and peoples lives are in my hands so we do things my way since i will be the one taking the fall if someone gets hurt,but i work WITH my crew,my crew works WITH me,WE work together to get the job done so WE can get back to having fun,,ITS NOT LIKE WORKING IN A OFICE WE HAVE TO BE A TEAM BECAUSE PEOPLES LIVES ARE AT STAKE NOT MISSED FILED PAPERS(as you can tell from my spelling ha),,now some of the lower ranking guys get to do the grunge work but im quick to show them the tricks of the trade to make it easier for them.......i work for the owner, my job is to make sure we get what he wants done,done...still my crew would infact make your life hell if that was the attitude you came to work with.we spend more time with each other then our own family and having someone wound so tightly would def. put a chink in the well grooved machine we have become.



haha yea as long as you can take as much ribbing as you dish out..sometimes more ha....welcome abord now grab a broom haha

QUOTE (Ghost It Notes @ May 7 2008, 03:12 PM)
Can I come work on your team??!!! I just annoyed the heck out of my cat, laughing so hard!

haha yea as long as you can take as much ribbing as you dish out..sometimes more ha....welcome abord now grab a broom haha

You bet! If it's funny, it's funny...even if it's on me! (grabbing said broom)

I worked for a pharmaceutical company... on April Fools Day, we got 6 big guys to put our bosses car on 4 milk crates, then shrink wrapped his car with more rolls of shrink wrap than I care to think about.

Did you know... shrink wrap will take the paint right off a Plymouth Horizon? Ya, we didn't know either.

Luckily, the car was a heap anyway.

I worked at McDonalds in the 80's too. McDonalds puts the Filet buns in a steamer to make them soft like they are. We used to send the new employees into the back stock room to go get 'bottled steam' because the Filet bun steamer would run out soon.
There is no such thing as bottled steam... the machine had a water line hooked up to it so it never needed refilling... it was still funny to time how long the new employees would walk around in the back stockroom looking for 'bottled steam'. It was even funnier when you heard the manager go back and say "What are you in here so long looking for?"


Another time when it was really busy in the grill area and everything was crazy I took a pickle and put it on a fellow employee's shoulder to see how long it would take for him to notice... the manager came back and yelled at me for putting a pickle on a co-workers shoulder and said he would send the next person home that decided to play pranks with the pickles. My co-worker (who happened to be a good friend of mine at the time) laughed hysterically at me for getting in trouble at his expense.... so when he wasn't looking I took another pickle and put it on MY OWN shoulder. The boss came back and saw me working with a pickle on my shoulder and sent my friend home for the night... my buddy was arguing the whole time that he did'nt do anything.

I waited about a half hour after my friend was sent home and put another pickle on my shoulder... (there was no one else in the grill area now, I was the only one left working for the night)... the manager comes back and sees the pickle on my shoulder and looks me sternly, yet confused, in the eyes. I just gave him a 'Benny Hill' kind of smirk and rolled my eyes and we both busted out laughing our arses off because he realized what I had done.

I have many, many other pranks from being a musician on the road with a band that I'll have to come back on this thread to share another time.

we used to do pranks to the new kids all the time when i worked at hungry jacks) burger king

on clean up, the drain buckets would need to be cleaned... so we would get the kids to do it.. they would take out the bucket, and we would say you need to do "second drains" they would have a quizzical look on their face.. we would explain they would need to put their hand down the drain to release the second drains... the kids would be on their bellies up to their shoulder looking for the second drain..
we would get them to mop the ceiling of the freezer too
generally we would have huge food and tomato sauce fights.. they were great fun.
but seeing as it would get really hot in there in summer... my veins in my arms and hands would pop out.. im also quite small in stature but have well toned arms (due to the stock we would put away) anyhoo i had some cops come in and one asked me
"do you work out"
i said "well, no not really, just mainly the lifting around here.. why is that?"
"oh, cos your veins are sticking out.. like weightlifters do"
"oh,. that? no.. im a druggy"
i turned and walked away having a good chuckle to myself.. his look was priceless and his offsider was having a good cackle too.. telling him i was only joking.
thats only a small amount of mischief we would get up too.. the food industry is fraught with naughtiness

Another one of favorite pranks that I pull currently is walking by a user's PC here at work when they aren't at their desk and press Ctrl + Alt + arrow keys. If you have a flippable screen and supported hardware this is a very funny prank to pull on a standard PC user. They come back to their desk and the whole windows desktop is tilted to one side or the other or completely upside down.

I used to work in a restaurant and to break in the new wait staff I'd go up to them and go, "Hey, does this sour cream smell bad to you?" So, they'd take the sour cream up tto their nose and sniff it and that's when I'd go in for the kill and push on their hand so the sour cream would get all over their face. That is a tradition that is going strong over 20 years later. Pretty immature, but all in good fun.

Another time I worked in a salon and we would have prank wars all the time. Our boss went to tan one day and we stole his clothes from the booth. (their was no ceiling to the room, so we got a broom and swiped his clothes). We left him his underwear and that is all he came out with. The salon was hysterical!