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need some practical joke ideas, please

callktulucallktulu Member Posts: 3,451 ✭✭✭
edited June 2008 in General Discussion
OK, so I thought I would play a little email joke on our Human Resources manager, and in turn she got me back before I even knew if she'd been gotten. Needless to say, the practical joke war is now ON!!

So what can I do to her office that's funny, yet won't get me fired? It can't be anything that gets in the way of doing her job (like super-gluing her phone into the cradle or permanently locking her out of the office), or anything that is offensive to her or other co-workers.

And it needs to be simple. I have neither the time nor resources to cover the office with sticky notes or fill it with Styrofoam peanuts.

[:p]

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  • jwb267jwb267 Member Posts: 19,664 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    try putting grease, or vaseline on her desk drawer handle.put a screw in one of the wheels of her desk chair (cordless drill). sharpen all the pencils to 1"
  • tomahawktomahawk Member Posts: 11,826
    edited November -1
    get some shoe polish the same color as her phone and smear some on the hearing part, then ring it and watch her get her ear full


    take a paper cup and put a little water in it, cover it with an index card and carefully turn it upside down and place it on her desk, pull out the card real easy, when she goes to throw the cup away the water will come out all over


    call her phone and leave a message to return a call to mr. bear. leave the number to the local zoo.[;)][:D][:D][:D]
  • westernMDhunterwesternMDhunter Member Posts: 2,938 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Get a hole puncher and collect all the little dots of paper that are inside of them or just sit and punch a bunch yourself get at least a hundred of em' and hopefully she has an umbrella in her office or at the door and load that baby up secure the strap back on and when she goes to open it she'll be overwhelmed with lots of hole punch clippings. Done it plenty of times and it's just funny every time. It's even better when they put the umbrella down and get rain on em' and they stick like glue to their clothes.
  • slipgateslipgate Member Posts: 12,741
    edited November -1
    One day, for about a year, I turned the phone receiver upside down in the cradle of a coworker. I could hear the guy muttering everytime he answered it but I never told him it was me.
  • TfloggerTflogger Member Posts: 3,399 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Send her flowers with a message from a made up person, she'll go crazy wondering.
  • sarge_3adsarge_3ad Member Posts: 8,387 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Put Tabasco on the seat of her cushy chair. [}:)]
  • Tailgunner1954Tailgunner1954 Member Posts: 7,734 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Take a screen shot of her computers desktop
    Set the screen shot as her background
    Select "hide icons" and watch her try to open anything

    Set the "language/charictor set" to something other than english, Manderan, russian, etc
  • txlawdogtxlawdog Member Posts: 10,039 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Why don't you get to work? [:D][:D]
  • 1911a1-fan1911a1-fan Member Posts: 51,193 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    nothing, let her win and forget it

    it's too dangerous in todays work place, sure you may have done it once and got away with it, count your blessings
  • kiwibird1kiwibird1 Member Posts: 1,639 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Oragel (spelling?). Tiny bit on the outer rim of coffee cup. Very tiny bit. I screwed this up once and the guy was puking all over the place.
  • chappsynychappsyny Member Posts: 3,381 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Is it wise to prank the HR lady?
  • nunnnunn Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 36,085 ******
    edited November -1
    I read something once about putting eye drops, Visine or Murine, in someone's drink. I forgot what it is supposed to do.

    I like pepper spray. Put it where your mark will put his/her hands, such as on door or drawer handles. Once on the fingers, in no time your mark will transfer it to a more sensitive area.
  • NC shooterNC shooter Member Posts: 45 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by nunn
    I read something once about putting eye drops, Visine or Murine, in someone's drink. I forgot what it is supposed to do.


    If you like your job you don't want to try that one! It'll make her have the runs baaaaaaad![}:)]
  • bamafanbamafan Member Posts: 4,011 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by NC shooter
    quote:Originally posted by nunn
    I read something once about putting eye drops, Visine or Murine, in someone's drink. I forgot what it is supposed to do.


    If you like your job you don't want to try that one! It'll make her have the runs baaaaaaad![}:)]



    They changed the ingredients. Doesn't give you the runs any more. I know from experience.
  • Spider7115Spider7115 Member Posts: 29,704 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Flying Clay Disk
    quote:Originally posted by nunn
    I read something once about putting eye drops, Visine or Murine, in someone's drink. I forgot what it is supposed to do.
    ...


    A school teacher just about died here in CO when someone put visine in his coffee cup. Serious, lasting, internal injuries!

    Bad idea!

    +1 Bad idea. There was a CSI episode about someone who died of an allergic reaction from somebody putting Visine in their drink.

    Just rearrange her HR manual pages so she can't find anything.
  • CutiegirlracingCutiegirlracing Member Posts: 2,595 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Put a letter on her desk or some place everyone will see that is marked from the VD clinic and mark on there "your test results."
    Make the letters big and don't hand write it (look's more official).
    Make sure you put her name one there real big too.

    And then just sit around wondering how's she going to get you back. You may wait for days or months. Maybe she'll put and ad on Craig's list in the Man seeking two men to make a funky love train or put real milk in your lactose free milk or both or maybe I'll do worst. You'll never know what I'm capable or Dad. I may post and in the local paper for a roll around Craftsman's tool box full of tools for 50 bucks call anytime or maybe I'll buy 12 tubes of crickets and let them loose in your house huh. Wish you never gave me a key now. Bet that letter joke don't seem so funny now. Does it dad.
  • Marc1301Marc1301 Member Posts: 31,895 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    A take off of the grease on handles, but use a product called Never Seize.
    It is a graphite "paste".
    When put on the back of a door handle, or up inside a vehicle handle, the victim will try to wipe it off with a paper towel, but it just keeps spreading.

    A baggie of shrimp hidden in a desk drawer would also be nice in a few days!

    Hope you have a really good relationship,........HR folks are known to lack a "sense of humour".
    "Beam me up Scotty, there's no intelligent life down here." - William Shatner
  • JamesRKJamesRK Member Posts: 25,670 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I don't think there are any practical jokes that won't either get you fired or maybe fired at.

    Why are they called "practical jokes"? They are neither practical nor funny.
    The road to hell is paved with COMPROMISE.
  • toad67toad67 Member Posts: 13,008 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Take a small piece of scotch tape and put it over the ear piece of her telephone. Then sit back and watch her turn the volume all the way up and hardly hear anything.
  • FrancFFrancF Member Posts: 35,279 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Tailgunner1954
    Take a screen shot of her computers desktop
    Set the screen shot as her background
    Select "hide icons" and watch her try to open anything

    Set the "language/charictor set" to something other than english, Manderan, russian, etc


    That one is always a winner![:D]
  • helicopter_pilothelicopter_pilot Member Posts: 1,145 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Back at Eddie's Air Patch I had an ongoing I-Got-You-Last contest with a coworker. An early gag was to slightly pull out the plug on her phone and then call her. Either she wouldn't hear anything, or else the cord would drop out.

    We had the typical government-issue steel desks with a trough in the front of the skinny middle drawer. I used some large paperclips as anchors for some rubber bands. I made a four-vane 'paddle' out of punch cards (this was in the '80s), which I put in the middle. To prevent it from catching on the desk, I taped some punch cards to the underside of the top of the desk to that the paddle would slide out freely. I filled the middle compartment of the pencil trough with confetti (found in the bottom of a three-hole punch), would up the paddle, and slid the drawer shut.

    Then I pulled the cord slightly from her phone's handset. [:D]

    When she came back from lunch I called my coworker. She quickly figured out the hackneyed phone gag and plugged the cord in. 'Ha ha ha! You're going to have to try harder than that!' she said. To which I replied, 'Yeah, I guess you're right,' and hung up.

    Then she opened her drawer.

    The rattle of the rubber bands unwinding. Confetti flying out of the drawer. A scream.

    Heh heh heh. [8D] [:D] [}:)]
  • ljwrenchljwrench Member Posts: 5,053
    edited November -1
    Find out where she parks and run a wire from her horn to her brake lights. Everytime she hits the brake pedal her horn will go off. I've done this a couple of times.
  • spryorspryor Member Posts: 9,155
    edited November -1
    Lotion on the earpiece of a phone is always good....or stuff tissue
    inside the earpiece..

    Maybe a fake mouse or snake in a drawer...? Or fake spyder that
    falls/dangles in front of her face when she opens a door..?
  • Marc1301Marc1301 Member Posts: 31,895 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by ljwrench
    Find out where she parks and run a wire from her horn to her brake lights. Everytime she hits the brake pedal her horn will go off. I've done this a couple of times.

    This is simply the funniest thing you will ever see,.....I have done it before myself.
    Bad thing is the guy we did it to almost had his * beat by some guy in front of him![:D]
    "Beam me up Scotty, there's no intelligent life down here." - William Shatner
  • callktulucallktulu Member Posts: 3,451 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by westernMDhunter
    Get a hole puncher and collect all the little dots of paper that are inside of them or just sit and punch a bunch yourself get at least a hundred of em' and hopefully she has an umbrella in her office or at the door and load that baby up secure the strap back on and when she goes to open it she'll be overwhelmed with lots of hole punch clippings. Done it plenty of times and it's just funny every time. It's even better when they put the umbrella down and get rain on em' and they stick like glue to their clothes.



    I like this one the best so far.
  • HappyNanoqHappyNanoq Member Posts: 12,023
    edited November -1
    There's always the old....

    Disassemble the mouse and hide the ball - it won't react to anything she does.


    Or order a pizza for her... pay on delivery.


    Or.... http://www.funnypracticaljokes.com/easy-gag-jokes/vaseline.php
  • 11BravoCrunchie11BravoCrunchie Member Posts: 33,423 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Remove rear license plate and replace with the bare metal back side facing out.
  • HappyNanoqHappyNanoq Member Posts: 12,023
    edited November -1
    You also might find those singing santas or snowmen on sale/garagesales...

    They're good as landmines, like under desks.


    A couple of motionactivated singing snowmen and a couple of dancing/singing soundacticated santas will go nicely around someones telephone.
  • remingtonoaksremingtonoaks Member Posts: 26,245 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    the best idea to tell her that you will get her back. then do nothing. it will drive her crazy wondering when it will happen
  • bigcitybillbigcitybill Member Posts: 4,914 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    If you have unobserved access to her car, here's one that's actually a rerun from a past post:

    Get a two-gallon gas can and keep it in your car, full. When you have the opportunity, empty the can in her tank. Do this as often as possible. Wait a couple weeks and get her in a conversation about gas mileage. Make the conversation short and don't tip your hand. She should brag about her car's gas mileage being really great.
    Now stop giving her the gas, wait two more weeks, and tell her what you did.

    Another good one, in the days of four-legged wooden chairs, is to saw off about an inch of the front legs. She will soon have an irresistable urge to stand up.
  • callktulucallktulu Member Posts: 3,451 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by bigcitybill

    Get a two-gallon gas can and keep it in your car, full. When you have the opportunity, empty the can in her tank. Do this as often as possible. Wait a couple weeks and get her in a conversation about gas mileage. Make the conversation short and don't tip your hand. She should brag about her car's gas mileage being really great.
    Now stop giving her the gas, wait two more weeks, and tell her what you did.


    Funny, but entirely unfeasible in today's market!
  • dheffleydheffley Member Posts: 25,000
    edited November -1
    Here's a couple of ideas,

    http://www.prankplace.com/liquidass.htm

    or, get her in a meeting after you've planted this around where she's going to sit,

    http://www.prankplace.com/fart.htm

    Lot's of ideas over on their site!

    I used to crack open the top on a can of sardines and put them in the back of a bottom desl drawer. Takes them a while to find them!
  • BlueTicBlueTic Member Posts: 4,072
    edited November -1
    Tape a piece of smoked salmon skin behind one of the drawers in the desk. Takes some time but will drive her nuts...
    Get some big zip ties and strap several to her drive shaft.
  • watrulookinatwatrulookinat Member Posts: 4,693
    edited November -1
    Send her a sing a gram and have em sing, (You can take this job and shove it...I ain't working her no more!
  • callktulucallktulu Member Posts: 3,451 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Here's the original email I sent her, and then her response. The thing that made this funny, yet almost serious, is that she's dealt with several hotline calls over the past month (one about me actually, which turned out to be bogus), so I knew my email would strike a nerve initially.

    ===============================

    K********,

    This evening an employee brought to my attention that he was being discriminated against due to his minority status. On top of that, the discrimination was also resulting in a safety hazard. He has threatened to call the Corporate Hotline if the situation is not resolved immediately. The individual works in WOS, but wishes to remain nameless. Although I will respect his wishes, I will tell you that his name rhymes with "Ron L*******." I can't be any more specific about his identity, but his claim deals with the new insulated drink mugs we gave out.

    The mugs are designed for use by right-handed people. "Ron" is left-handed, and therefore has to move the spout and cover of the mug 180 degrees around. This is cumbersome and a nuisance! On top of that, the spout (obviously designed by callous right-handed overlords) can still only be operated by the right hand in order to be opened and closed. Since the left-handed drinker would be holding the cup handle with his left hand to drink, he must use his only other hand to open the spout. This is where the safety problem occurs, as this now 2-handed operation makes it even more difficult for left-handed employees to drink, talk on their cell phone, and operate their equipment and/or drive forklifts all at the same time. It is obvious that Management is discriminating against left-handed employees, and hoping to catch them in a safety-related incident due to the mug's handicapping of left-handed individuals.

    Being a fellow Lefty, I told "Ron" to shut up and get back to work.

    ======================================

    And here was her response, which had me sweating bullets for a while:

    Jon,

    Please call me when you get an opportunity to discuss this further.

    Thanks

    =====================

    Needless to say she finally let me off the hook with a "gotcha," but that response from her is the typical "You are in trouble" email.
  • lee_danlee_dan Member Posts: 1,394 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    If its' Friday change the date on your computer to like
    Wednesday ---- send her a E mail and say like "I have this
    really hot deal but you have to contact me today" ----
    What ever story you dream up is up to you ---
    When she get the e mail on Friday she will get in touch with
    you and you tell her you sent her the e mail on Wednesday
    and that you thought she was not interested be cause she did not contact you ---- It will drive her nuts and will wonder what is wrong with her computer --- Be sure to change the Date back ----
    Lee
  • BeeramidBeeramid Member Posts: 7,264 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by remingtonoaks
    the best idea to tell her that you will get her back. then do nothing. it will drive her crazy wondering when it will happen


    Yeah thats funny, when something strange happens to her she'll always blame you.[:D]
    Remote control fart machine.
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