33 of the Best Pranks People Pulled at Work

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33 of the Best Pranks People Pulled at Work

Work sucks, which is why you should do your part to make it as entertaining as possible. This philosophy may come at your coworkers’ expense, but there are always going to be a few casualties in the game of life. 

One Redditor certainly did his part. He printed out a rather official-looking sign that read, “Please don’t urinate in the sinks. Thanks, Mgmt,” and taped it to the bathroom mirror. It’s simple, sure, but it caused his coworkers to forgo the sink entirely and use hand sanitizer until they could suss out who the sink-pisser was. Of course, that person didn’t exist, but the prank sowed long-lasting distrust in the workplace, which ranks pretty high in entertainment value. 

Other Redditors have revealed some of the best pranks they executed at work, including a picture switcheroo, a desk drawer aquarium and a pickpocketing contest.

JohnnyDollar 13y ago I take meetings sometimes much to my displeasure. Sometimes they are large ones. And never productive. So a few minutes in I'll let out a huge yawn complete with all the physicality of it. And then I wait. And watch my yawn go around the room. - 65 ...
 13y ago | like to put 45 cents in the candy vending machines coin return; everything in there costs 75 cents, so I put the money in there with the idea that most people use a dollar and get a quarter back, reach in the coin slot, oh WOW I guess I get two candy bars instead of one, but then they realize they are 5 cents short, the look of dissapointment is priceless. - 858 ...
stryrker 13y ago as a prank, my co-worker put a one of those walgreens motion detector halloween things that said Where you going!, hey!, etc when you walked by his cube. Не took it apart so you couldn't see it at all. | shot the motion detector with a laser pen from across the lab ~100 feet away, setting it off over & over. Не would reposition each time, and after a while, he took it down, thinking it was malfunctioning. I'll tell him some day. - 380 ...
2bitaxe 13y ago As a former cubicle inmate I used to pull some pranks. One time I printed out a sign and taped it to the bathroom mirror saying, Please don't urinate in the sinks. Thanks, Mgmt. For a long time after that people would use hand sanitizer instead of using the sink in the bathroom. Sometimes in a big meeting I would take a stack of paper plates, take one and pass the stack along. Eventually everyone would be holding a plate thinking they're about to get some free food or something, but поре, just left the meeting with
RainbowDildo 13y ago I work at a sports bar that was an upscale restaurant for thirty years before it became a bar six years ago. The basement looks a hell of a lot like the first saw movie. Disgusting bathroom, flickering lights, little dark rooms you have to crawl up into etc... So I crawled into one of the rooms and noticed somebody had left one single chair in there, obviously to scare people. So I started to brainstorm what would be even worse than something as explainable as a chair. I went to the thrift store, bought a porcelain
 13y ago I'm one of the internet managers at the car dealership I work at. The other manager doesn't really grasp the internet. I'll send her fake leads with names like Dick Fappington, Titter Gore, etc. but attach real phone numbers. So basically I get my co-worker to prank call people, asking if Harry Naples is interested in purchasing a new vehicle. - 1.1K ...
drfunkenstien014 13y ago We have a life sized cut out of Dewey from Malcom in thr Middle, which we hide around the office in random places to scare the shit out of unsuspecting folks. 261 ...
ayethen 6y ago - Edited 6y ago | had this prank pulled on me. This was in my first job, about 12 years ago. We weren't allowed to share music files via work email, but my work buddy begged me to anyway. I'd only just sent him some song he asked for, when I got a pop up from an anon sender basically saying: this is IT, we observed you sent, blah blah, blah and we're locking your account. I flipped out, thinking it was for real, and then I hear him laughing a few cubicles away. Не sent me
 6y ago Two of my co-workers sat across from each other. One day they were both out and our boss says hey lets switch their cubes while they're gone so we did exactly that. We literally moved everything so their desks were exactly the same but on opposite sides. - 2.2K ...
GreenGemsOmally 6y ago It's small but I have a friend at work who keeps leaving his computer unlocked. I go into the mouse settings and slow down the mouse movement as much as possible. We have three huge monitors and it's such a hilarious time to watch him try to mouse back over to the settings window that I've hidden in the bottom corner of one of the monitors. 2.9K ...
MattHurting 6y ago Put a small RC car in a nearby office trashcan, under the bag so you can't see it. Just twitch the remote once in a while to make noise. 3.2K ...
TheButtholeProfessor 13y ago I work at a roofing company and it's great fun to prank my со- workers with caulk. One will be in a man lift and toss down his bottle for me to get him some more water. So it's my opportunity to cover this bottle in caulk and throw it up to him and listen to all the cussing when he grabs it. - 46 ...
Missteeze 7y ago | used to work in this restaurant in the downtown area of my city which had several restaurants near by. Whenever we would get a new dishwasher or inexperienced cook we would say something like Hey, we're out of ice mix, head to restaurant X and grab some. The other restaurants were in on this and the poor kid would be sent restaurant to restaurant until he caught on. Another good one is to send them for the long stand. Same kind of thing but they come in and ask for the long stand, then they are
Caruthers 7y ago I work in an office full of millennials with a really casual dress code. Well, no dress code. You will never see panic like circulating a fake dress code memo in an office of 20-somethings who wear t-shirts, ball caps and jerseys to work every day. 562 ...
Wolfpackomega 7y ago About 2 years ago or so | put a script on our bookkeeper's computer that will cause her DVD drive to open and close at random intervals. She mentioned it once or twice, but we all told her it was because she was watching Chippendales videos on her breaks. She's kind of just accepted it at this point. 89 ...
forman98 6y ago Pretty simple to do, but zip tie the lever that adjusts the height of the chair so that when they sit in it, it lowers all the way down. Then when they get up, it raises back up. It will take them a minute to think about looking under the seat, and it's funny to watch them sink when they sit down. - 1.5K ...
 7y ago We pickpocket eachother. It's always something harmless like paperwork, radios, cell phones. The best was one of my coworkers got my crew leaders cell phone, slit the bottom of a tissue box and put it inside. Не turned my office upside down trying to find it. The tissues muffled the ring tone enough that he couldn't pin down where it was comming from. - 122 ...
slp033000 7y ago Started signing up a coworker for spam mailings to fill up his physical mailbox. Started out small enough with things like Good Housekeeping, J Crew catalog, etc, but got progressively weirder until his small cubby hole of a mail box was overflowing with Black Entrepreneurs Monthly and Alpaca Breeders Quarterly on a daily basis. Не never found out who was doing it. Even when he moved on to a different job, we started signing him up for mailings at his new company. 201 ...
_Surf_Ninja_ 7y ago Edited 7y ago Emptied out my boss' largest desk drawer (1 ft X 1.5 ft X 1 ft), used heavy-duty-staples to secure a shower liner to the inside of the drawer, and filled it with water and aquarium rocks. Then I placed 4 live goldfish and a crab in the drawer, and partially closed it. I also bought him a fish tank and fish food, so after he dismantled his fish tank drawer, he would have new office pets. It worked out perfectly. No damage to his desk or office. All fish survived the overnight drawer life. And
lpm_me_ur_habs_nudes . 7y ago When | worked at Burger King we had new employees look for charcoal for the gas grill. 435 ...
NatureNerd988 0 7y ago | created a folder on a coworkers USB drive that said cow PORN. Не opened the drive in front of a customer. It was pretty hilarious. A few months later he was fired for downloading porn on the company network. 827 ...
IrishGuyGolfer 7y ago I made 20 copies of a paperclip and put them in the paper tray of copier. A woman in my office made a copy and got the paperclip in the pictures and thought there was a paperclip in the copy machine somewhere. She was searching and searching and even went and got a flashlight and started looking everywhere in the machine. She was opening up drawers and panels for 20 minutes. It was pretty fun to watch. - 1.9K ...
lopo4 . 13y ago I work on a dock where spider webs crossing the main pathways are common. Instead of knocking them down I walk around them and get on a nearby boat. Then I yell for the new guy to come help me with something on the boat. 90% of the time he runs through the spider web and flips the fuck out. Im a terrible person.
g_brown61 e 13y ago We only have one stall in our bathroom. We usually set up a pair of boots and put some pants over them so when people walk into the bathroom think someone is taking a crunch. It's pretty funny watching people go in an out of the shitter clenching their cheeks together. 140 ...
JesuslnABox 13y ago Whenever I would find someone with their computer unlocked, I would go into the sound option in the Windows control panel, and make it so whenever they opened a program, closed a program, maximize, minimize, or select it would play that horn from inception. That was a very funny week of scaring the shit out of people. 26 ...
FinalEdit 7y ago You know how you can fray Duct tape and pull off long little sticky threads of it? So I pulled off a single long piece of it, and put it down the side of my manager's brand new car. Looks like a deep, horrifying scratch on the paintwork. The look on his face when we went out for a smoke. Не threw his hands onto his head, his knees went weak and he basically crawled over to it, and pulled the thread of sticky duct tape off easily. Harmless and fun, that one. 1.9K ... I
littleredhoodlum 7y ago One of my Co-Worker has a ton of family pictures all over his desk and walls. I was slowly changing them all to pictures of me. I worked really hard to find similar pictures to replace them. I even traveled to some of the places to replicate them. I just about had them all when another guy we worked with asked him why he had so many pictures of me. Не thought this married guy had a crush on me or something. - 3.5K ...
AdequateSteve 11y ago If you know amyome who has to look at the keyboard whem they type, switch the N amd M keys. Just pop then off the keyboard and switch then. Hilarity will emsue. - 830 ...
HangingShoe57 13y ago I got my left foot chopped off by a lawnmower. As a result, I have a prosthetic foot. No one really knew it yet, because I was still new and hadn't told anyone yet. (I'm incredibly handicapable) So, all of my executive managers were on their lunch break talking about our stores awesome safety record. I turn my prosthetic foot around backwards and pretend to trip and fall into the break room. I start screaming and yelling while grasping my ankle that looks to have been broken and twisted 180 degrees. They freak out and run over
kingximax 11y ago Edited 11y ago Finally a thread i can contribute to. On of my colleagues is a very funny guy and often pranks some coworkers by changing wallpapers, etc. Once he wrote a little note to one of his colleagues: Dear Ms. XY, Mr. Bear (actually a last name in germany) called you whenl you were away, can you please call him back? Here is his number: 1234567890 Не gave her the number of the local zoo. She was so confused that she asked for Mr. Bear several times before she realized that it was a prank.
franlung 11y ago Any time we get a new person, we hand them a plastic bag and tell them that we need an air sample to send to corporate. We tell them to go around the store with the bag open to get air from all parts of the store. Watching the new person walk around the store while flailing a plastic bag is classic. - 509 ...
Manimal_6 11y ago Put a sign on the printer/coffee maker/etc. saying it is now voice activated. Sit back and listen out to hear if people yell, print or, on. 272 ...
Benjizee 11y ago Put a cake in the office fridge saying '-person-'s birthday cake do not eat' and watch as people from all over the building say happy birthday to an increasingly confused and irrate coworker. 1.8K ...

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