What are you go-to ways to mess with a colleague?
Posted by Petey619@reddit | AskUK | View on Reddit | 198 comments
Stuck in work on a slow Friday with one of my favourite coworkers. I love messing with him when it's slow/boring(he returns the favour) Just this morning I've locked his security pass in the tool vending machine and taped his sports bottle shut. Nothing major, just childish messing from grown adults.. Any suggestions for the afternoon to go quicker?
Dazz316@reddit
Take a screenshot of their desktop.
Edit the screenshot so it's upside down.
Apply screenshot as the background
Move as many desktop items to another folder as possible
Set the taskbar to autohide
Swap the left and right click buttons on the mouse
Minimise the mouse speed
If multiple screen, move them around so they're the wrong way around
Flip the screen orientation upside down
Now there desktop will look normall, but their icons are just the background wallpaper. The taskbar is too and is secretely hidden at the top. The mouse moves INCREDIBLY slowely and in the wrong direction and when they click it'll be the wrong way around and if they need to go to the other screen they'll go the wrong way.
SnooHamsters7166@reddit
Along these lines, when a colleague left their desk and didn't lock the screen, use the windows shortcut tomrotste then screen 90 or 180 degrees,then lock the screen.
Dazz316@reddit
That was my second last step. that's why you flip the image of the desktop. So that it looks the right way up but they don't realise. That way the mouse is inverted.
ZombieGash@reddit
I like you
Dazz316@reddit
I thought you loved me :(
ZombieGash@reddit
Sorry I LOVE YOUUU
Dazz316@reddit
No, YOU'VE SAID IT NOW :'(
ZombieGash@reddit
Forgive me. Don’t hurt me, I know you’re capable of bad things.
🤣
Dazz316@reddit
You make me do them!
IntermediateFolder@reddit
… Is this supposed to be funny? I’d just report whoever did it to IT and let them handle it.
Dazz316@reddit
I am the IT and I'm doing it to other IT people. Even whne you know how to fix it, it's frustrating to fix and hilarious for the others.
If you phoned IT, they'd be happy you did. I'd love to get that call.
IntermediateFolder@reddit
Maybe it’s funny if you work with friends, if someone at my current workplace did this I’d be like “I’m not dealing with this shit, I want this fixed”.
IsOkay_No@reddit
I think IT would just laugh
Ok_Young1709@reddit
IT are usually the ones doing that
Rymundo88@reddit
And then come down on the person you've replied to for leaving their work computer unlocked
Howard1981@reddit
Certain old graphics cards used to let you press CTRL ALT (arrow) to spin the screen in that direction.
Used to work as an IT technician in a school 25 years ago and that was the number one issue we kept having to resolve.
Dazz316@reddit
That was my second last step.
Howard1981@reddit
You weren’t a student at my school were you 😂
Dazz316@reddit
That's why you flipped the background imagine you took, so when you flip the screen it looks the right way up.
Howard1981@reddit
I have to say this is genius. The kids at my school just used to flip the screen. Then again they used to hit each other over the head with the keyboards and call it “alphabet wars” as it caused all the keys to fly off.
bornfromanegg@reddit
This is evil in all the right ways. But it is truly evil.
saswir@reddit
...who hurt you friend
SnooHamsters7166@reddit
Many years ago we could dial 9 for an outside line and also press # to transfer a call. Much fun to be had by dialling the speaking clock then transfering the call.
shuffling_crabwise@reddit
I was at caua, chat style interview. Interviewer got an email saying something like "have you noticed your pass is missing yet? Time for a treasure hunt! Then detailed the first clue" Unfortunately, I did not get to see how it turned out. Definitely helped sell the place haha
KyloMac125@reddit
A simple piece of paper stuck underneath the light on a mouse can stop it from working/moving on screen. They will quickly realise why it’s not working, but still a quick fun prank.
LAcasper@reddit
I pull my boss' chair away from her desk when she's at her computer and leave her in the middle of the room to shuffle herself awkwardly back to the desk.
When she nips to the toilet I will flip her chair and everything on her desk upside down.
I also occasionally swap everyone's Bluetooth dongles round so that one person wiggles their mouse and the cursor moves on someone else's screen.
CRMechEng@reddit
Steal his dog, shag his wife, hide his car keys
gemmajenkins2890@reddit
This is hilarious. I also have a favourite colleague that I can get away with shit like this with.
Which I shall be doing when we work together tomorrow…
😏😆
PrincessPK475@reddit
Sellotape on the bottom of his mouse.
Pip1710@reddit
I used to work in a butcher's. Our favorite joke was to encase someone's belongings in a mixture of water and sawdust turned into ice (pykrete.) We would vacuum pack it first so nothing got damaged. It was always funny when someone went to put their wooly hat on at the end of the day to find out that it's in the bottom of a bucket of near impenetrable ice.
CleeBrummie@reddit
The butcher did this to my sweater 45 years ago without the vacuum pack on a cold winters day.
Pip1710@reddit
We mostly kept our pranks so they were not going to damage someone's stuff. I think we all knew it would escalate to someone's phone getting thrown in a bucket. Although if you left a slice of cake lying around, you might find that in the vacuum packer.
DC4840@reddit
We do that but vacuum pack their stuff with parsley, rusk, water, wrapped in aprons etc
DiscoKids12@reddit
That's savage
Ruskythegreat@reddit
Subtly changing their email signature.
Ok-Error2510@reddit
Not a quick job, but this was amazing.
I was working as head chef in a big office complex, chefs a natorius for pranking each other stupid little things like asking for a long wait (weight) or chicken lips etc. But on this occasion it was my last day and we had drinks planned in town after work. A colleague, who is a really good friend as well, a very cheeky Aussie. He managed to get hold of my locker key (the spare one in the office where his girlfriend worked. He took out my civis wet them and pressed them between boxes in the walk in deep freeze. Just before the end of the day he took them out and hung them back in my locker. So as i went to get changed i had frozen flat sheets for clothes to change into, so i had to go to my leaving drinks do wearing my chef's whites, carrying cardboard clothes around with me. Still havent had a chance to get him back but one day, one day soo .
Dissidant@reddit
To me a long weight (wait) is sending the newbie off to the merchants yard and them returning several hours later with a bucket of random stuff (usually spare bolts/screws)
Another one is getting them to use henry the hoover (outdoors) to get them from under everyones feet
ADM_ShadowStalker@reddit
As chemistry student our tutor sent one of the more unruly lads off for a big stand...
Ok-Error2510@reddit
Yeah, wherever i work i try to get to know the otjer head chefs in the area, lots of reasons not just for jokes, but we'd always send new staff to each other for longs waits, cod legs etc, then you'd send them on to the next site "oh the Greyhound bprrowed that last week" and so on until they've been all around town.
Back fired once when the guy was either smart or had had it done before amd the first place he wemt to he sat and had lunch and put it on my tab. Good on him to be honest.
Worst i've done is when our ice cream machine broke so i got the junior chef to make the custard and sit in the walk in freezer stirring it. We all fprgot abput him and service started, about an hour into lunch i realised and he was still in there still whisking and very cold.
martyrees76@reddit
Swap the N and M keys around. You wouldn’t believe the trouble I caused doing this, thinking somebody who uses a keyboard every day would notice (they didn’t, nobody else did and they had to call in a software engineer or someone to sort it as their password to get in wasn’t working (and obviously contained an m or n))
MrSteveBob@reddit
Used to swap letters on an old work mate’s keyboard. Just two so it’s subtle enough, but still enough to weird you out for a short period
ceehred@reddit
We'd return from holiday to find QWERTY... changed to TWATF@CE, and the like :-D
Spiritual_Edge_1831@reddit
I once changed my colleague's screensaver to a man naked streaking across a football pitch. I thought it was funny but she was fuming so I had to apologise :/
ClericalRogue@reddit
Plug in a second mouse, or keyboard and jide it. Occassionally move the mouse or type something. Watch their frustration and confusion build. Bonus points if you can sneakily program some hotkeys to bring up specific websites or programs of choice.
TheRealPyroManiac@reddit
Offer to make him tea or coffee and just give him a grin when he takes a drink
Spiritual_Edge_1831@reddit
And rub your hands together 🙏
JohnLennonsNotDead@reddit
Hahahahaha
GraphicDesignMonkey@reddit
Well that's just evil.
getoutmywayatonce@reddit
I pick out a totally innocuous thing someone mentions and pretend I’ve never heard of it. If you strike the right balance of picking something that you really would expect a person to know, but not soooo borderline impossible to not know it, the confusion really causes low level chaos.
E.g them - “I got a load of salmon in the reduced section that I need to cook by tonight”
Me - “Salmon?! What on earth is that 🤔”
When I keep a straight face long enough people tend to tell me to google it. I then spell it really badly, and say nothings coming up. So for salmon you’d google “what is sammern”
Anddddd that’s how I waste a good 30 mins to make painful family visits go a bit faster lol.
tiorzol@reddit
Ah the potato tactic
Spiritual_Edge_1831@reddit
Was hoping to see this comment! 🥔
Tallman_james420@reddit
Potato?
getoutmywayatonce@reddit
Indeed. A classic for a reason 😅 using potatoes never worked for me though. I’m seen eating them too much for it to be remotely believable
Evening-Tomatillo-47@reddit
Wasn't there a film about this, some guy got trolled about the beatles never existing
getoutmywayatonce@reddit
Yes 😆 can’t remember what it’s called, but it was worth a watch
Natural_Computer4312@reddit
Yesterday
getoutmywayatonce@reddit
Ok, if you watched it yesterday then surely you remember what it’s called 😜
Evening-Tomatillo-47@reddit
No it came out a few years ago 😁
dantes_b1tch@reddit
Reading this has annoyed me 🤣
getoutmywayatonce@reddit
Annoyed you, you say. That’s a word I haven’t come across before, how is that pronounced please? Guessing it’s something like annow-yedd? 😏😏😏
dantes_b1tch@reddit
😝😝😝😝😝
Fickle-Watercress-37@reddit
Take a shit in his desk drawers.
JohnLennonsNotDead@reddit
One of my favourites is when someone walks in the room and you turn to your colleague and say “here he is now, say it to his face”, cue either dirty looks from the person that just walked into the room our straight out “what the fuck have you been saying?
Another, route their mouse to your desk next to them and shadow their movements then just go wild and move it completely different ways and open shit.
A bit of paper under the laser on the mouse is also a fine bit of amusement when they start moving it round faster and checking the USB etc.
ceehred@reddit
I worked at a place where, whenever someone was away on holiday, they'd return to find all cables missing from the back of their computer. And, in those days of removable keycaps, if the keyboard was even still there, the keys would be totally rearranged. They might also be gifted the one duff chair that did the rounds.
And in the days of MS-DOS, I changed one guy's autoexec.bat to show a message during startup to announce his computer had been quarantined due to the discovery of all the porn he'd downloaded and for him to call a tech support number to discuss. We almost let him call it...
Another place, while looking for my next job due to being at the end of my contract, I was left a note to call back a recruitment agency. I called it - it was one of those voice-responsive automated services with some angry guy at the end, starting with "who gave you this number" and developing into "i will find you and beat you". Stay on long enough and it apparently explained the joke, but I didn't get that far :)
An early job I had that made medical equipment once played a joke on a manager. They rigged-up a syringe, poked the needle through the tiles in his office ceiling - aimed at his chair, with a tube that went through to a room opposite, terminated with another syringe full of water. Every now and then they'd push some water through it and watch his reaction through the glass dividing walls, falling about laughing at his reaction.
frontroomhog@reddit
Used to put random things in a colleague’s bag. Nuts, bolts, empty loo rolls and at Easter cadburys cream eggs. He blamed everyone but me. A few guys knew it was me but he still doesn’t.
Abwettar@reddit
Put a frozen chip on their windscreen and ask them how they got the chip on their windscreen.
Then hand them an autoglass business card when they try to be mad about it.
RohanDavidson@reddit
If they like tea, and use a kettle, fill it up completely regularly throughout the day. When I was in aus i worked with a brit who would lose his mind at a full kettle when he only wanted a cup
ceehred@reddit
I had a colleague who would always change the toilet roll around so the paper came down behind. We only had the one sitting toilet (small office), so I would change it back so the paper fell to the front. Each day, I'd find it turned back around, I assume after his early morning dump, reading the newspaper.
After many, many months - he figured out it was me. He came back into the office and threw the toilet roll at me :-D
huntinwabbits@reddit
If you have two colleagues sitting close to each other, you can swap their keyboard connectors around so that they are typing on each others computer.
Always good for a laugh
g_junkin4200@reddit
I like the gas lighting method. When I worked at an office id drop the brightness on this dudes screen by one every couple days or so. His chair had one of the lumbar supports that you expand by squeezing a rubber ball. One squeeze of that every day. Make it super gradual. The guy thought he was losing his marbles.
Pribprib@reddit
We once had a bunch of branded seethrough water bottles given out to staff. The kind with a straw that reaches to the bottom so you can sip from the spout lid.
One colleague started complaining that the straw didn't get to the bottom so you couldn't drink the last few ml in the bottle. Every time he would go to the bathroom, we would take the straw out and cut a couple of mm off. It was very gradual progress and he would comment on how dumb it was multiple times per week but never figure it out.
It took months for him to realise and by the time he did, the straw was about 25% shorter than when we started.
StretchEducational73@reddit
Putting a random size of glove in their glove dispenser so they think they have odd sized hands or the classic clip a plastic spider on their labcoat and wait.
DanFran81@reddit
Stick a post it note to the bottom of their mouse if they have a light sensor one.
For a Brucey Bonus, draw a Willy on the post it note.
If you have time, draw the line.
Boogaaa@reddit
We used to tape everything on this one guys desk to the wall on a regular basis. Including his chair.
We wasted a lot of tape.
LegendaryTJC@reddit
Someone put a script on my computer that opened and closed my CD tray every 100,000 seconds.
alfienicho@reddit
This is amazing. Not a script but something similar, I once found a chrome extension that changed every single picture in your browser to a different picture of Nicholas Cage.
It was the funniest hour of my working life.
mellonians@reddit
This but Steve McDonald.
colin_staples@reddit
You have a computer with a CD tray?
LegendaryTJC@reddit
I wrote it in the past tense. Nothing implied this was recent.
Howard1981@reddit
25 years ago I worked as an iIT engineer in a school. The weird management software we used (that overlaid Windows 98) had the ability to open and close an entire room of computer CD drives with one click. Having an entire room of 30 PCs open and close their drives never failed to amuse me and for freak out a few of the students.
deltree000@reddit
I plugged a second wireless mouse and keyboard into a colleagues computer. The range just about reached my desk across the room, so whenever they'd spent 90% of the day dossing around and now were frantically arranging the schedule for tomorrow, I'd jiggle their mouse or add a few random numbers and letters in for them.
ButterscotchSure6589@reddit
I once swapped a colleagues mouse from left click to right click. When he complained it wasn't working I tried it and of course it did for me. Rinse and repeat.
ddmf@reddit
You mean the coffee cup holder :)
I have a script that uses the inbuilt text to speech generator to say "help me, I'm stuck" - installed it in our patching software so we can push and run it to any computer at will.
Snave96@reddit
Every 27.78 hours for those also wondering.
Big-Mortgage-7254@reddit
I find swapping the "M" and "N" keys around on the keyboard. They'll start spelling incorrectly but looking at the keyboard its an easy difference to miss!
Rendogog@reddit
My favourite was when kitkat came in silver paper with a paper outer, you could carefully unwrap and replace with plasticine or similar. Almost always the kitkat was reached for when someone was in need of a boost and it would create instant misery.
Also used to be able swap out our stores issued rubbers (eraser's for those across the pond) with the cheese blocks from lunch, usually pretty hilarious.
Fioreborn@reddit
I used to save my empty pens and replaced every pen on a colleagues desk with empty ones. They were a bully, they deserved it.
Wales147@reddit
Put clear sticky tape at eye level where they frequently walk. If they wear glasses it's an added bonus as they stay suspended in the air
buntypieface@reddit
Switch mouse from right handed to left handed
Kvark33@reddit
I could take some time, but, buy an identical keyboard, sprinkle chive seeds over it, grow them, when he leaves for holiday, replace the keyboard
GraphicDesignMonkey@reddit
Ooh I did this when my mate went on a 2 week holiday! Found an old broken keyboard in the cupboard that matched his, swept a bunch of soil and watercress seeds between the keys, watered it, then tied it in a clear bag and put it in a sunny window for the whole two weeks. We swapped it out the morning he came back.
TequilaSlammer86@reddit
I used to work with a guy who was scared of moths.
We worked in an office in the middle of a field by a large rail yard in Crewe.
On night in the middle of summer I was the last one out so I opened all the windows and left the lights on.
Came in at the butt crack of dawn in the morning with my butterfly net and caught all the moths that came in overnight.
I proceeded to decant them onto the top drawer of his desk.
I'm sure you can work out the rest.
GraphicDesignMonkey@reddit
I printed out a piece of paper where the corner was a £20 note, but the rest was Nelson going HAA HA! Left it sticking out of some papers on his desk so just the £20 note part was visible.
I also taped an old school troll face to the underside of his mouse.
ultimateberk@reddit
I enjoy rubbing the seed end of a chilli round the rim of their tea mug and then watching the horror as their lips begin to burn
neo101b@reddit
My brother did that once to the door handle of a toilet by accident.
The stuff was on his hand, the pub wasn't happy.
He was told not to bring the chilly sauce in again.
Sixforsilver7for@reddit
At least he can still bring his hot sauce.
paolog@reddit
Tell them someone has hidden my security pass and taped their water bottle shut, and when you find out just who the blighter is, you'll be reporting them to PR.
lottesometimes@reddit
at a previous job, if someone left their desk and didn't close their laptop, we'd put a picture of Michael Hasselhoff as their background.
EyeAware3519@reddit
Put his stapler in jelly
tamhenk@reddit
That's not a trifling matter.
johnnydanger91@reddit
Just trying to think of some more…
Willsagain2@reddit
There must be hundreds and thousands.
space_coyote_86@reddit
Don't grab it unless you've got one ready cos it slows it down.
tamhenk@reddit
EXPERMINATE!
Outside_Natural7210@reddit
He could put you in custard for that.
wolfhelp@reddit
"Custardy"
bobbyroberts72@reddit
Then put it in his coat pocket
Willsagain2@reddit
Swap the N & M keys on his keyboard. Hours of fun
cdh79@reddit
Engineers blue inside the padding of their safety helmet. Friday afternoon is best.
malacoda13@reddit
I've personally had lots of fun swapping two of the keyboard keys round. M&N for example, or D&F. Just two so though it takes a while to realise.
Alternatively it's also fun to personalise their autocorrect list. Kind Regards becomes Kind Retards for example. Also fun to change a word they won't use often so it goes unnoticed for a long time. Booking to Bonking.
stealth941@reddit
If he's got a desk drawer... packing peanuts
spinfold@reddit
Set Word (or Outlook) to auto-correct a specific word to something else.
I did this where I set it to auto-correct our company name to that of a competitor... I forgot about it for about six months, and then one day just asked the guy outright. He said it had been driving him mad, but hadn't (as far as he'd known) ever sent anything out with the wrong name in (thankfully)
oso-oco@reddit
Also. Swapped the 'i' and the 'o' on his keyboard.
oso-oco@reddit
I ran a 3.5mm jack from my computer to my desk neighbours monitor speakers.
Just played the world whistling championship very quietly.
Every so often just raising and lowering the volume.
He absolutely fucking hates people whistling.
Oh he got his own back more then once
CarpetGripperRod@reddit
My father (may he RIP) said he nailed a kippers to the underside of two of the tables in his workplace canteen on a Friday. He was not due in until the following Wednesday.
spikewilliams2@reddit
Pop a few random keys off their keyboard and swap them.
Crazycatladyanddave@reddit
Switch the dongle of his wireless mouse with yours and watch as he gets infuriated when it won’t do what he wants it to.
StardustOasis@reddit
If they still use desktops, or have screens with USB ports, plug a wireless mouse in and occasionally move it about. Works especially well if you can time it when they're using their actual mouse.
I've done this to multiple people, and none of them ever worked it out.
FluffyMumbles@reddit
Same with wireless USB keyboards - I used to get much joy from connecting my mini wireless keyboard and randomly press the Windows key, or lock their screen. I was always found out, though, as I'd start giggling when they started to show frustration.
Vetni@reddit
Have you tried shitting on their desk?
Rob_Haggis@reddit
That’s not a prank, that’s just a Tuesday.
Vetni@reddit
Even worse when you wfh
Scared-One9295@reddit
Joke's on you, I work on the toilet
TheBigBadCusp@reddit
On the last day of working away on a 2 week stint if someone leaves their case/travel bag around me I put some rocks in it. Nothing major just a couple of boring close to hand rocks. They get home unpack and boom
Miniteshi@reddit
Switch keys on the keyboard. Great fun when they can't touch type.
ddmf@reddit
I work in IT so apparently all we do is mess with colleagues: "have you been messing with the internet today, my computer is slow?"
WinkyNurdo@reddit
Used to sit next to a guy and we were always on the wind up. One day a couple of us printed out loads of phone booth shemale prostitute calling cards, about 100, each the size of a business card. We hid them all over his workstation, stuck them on every surface, in every drawer, under the keyboard, backing monitor, in every book, stuffed in his wallet, folding phone case, coat pockets, every bag pocket, you name it. So he comes back from lunch and sees all this shit (yeah, ha fucking ha, verrrry funny guys), and is still finding them a week later. He texts us over the weekend, YOU CUNTS! He’d got his wallet out to pay for some fags and these sex cards all fall out in front of the guy behind the counter. At his local shop. With his wife. Years later when we moved office we found a few that he’d missed, they were fucking everywhere.
We also stuck a YOU CUNT sticker inside the flap of his phone case, which he didn’t notice for a few days. Every time he used his phone you could see it. I liked to imagine him sat on the tube, reading his phone and the sticker showing to the other passengers.
RunningCrow_@reddit
This is brilliant, know that you made me properly laugh.
IsOkay_No@reddit
Are they married? If so sleep with his wife
honestlyVERYhonest@reddit
Or their husband. Especially If you are a straight male.
IsOkay_No@reddit
Definitely a power move
RunningCrow_@reddit
As a former apprentice engineer, I'd like to share my stories of messing with colleagues.
It was an old company that had been around for decades, as well as most of the employees. The guy who was training me was the former pornography dealer in the company. This was pre internet era, so VHS and magazines. Anyway, the old stash of magazines was still in the building in one of the lockers.
Me and a mate who I worked with at the time used to get a lot of stick from everyone else, so we utilised the porn stash to mess with people. We started cutting out images and placing them in people's possessions.
Firstly, we stuck pictures in people phone cases. One guy had a clear case, so we put an image in the back of that facing out. Another guy has a fold up leather case so we put porn in that. We messed with someone's clock by cutting out penises and sticking them on the hands of the clock. Among other things, this is what I remember best. People hated what we were doing and left us alone not long after.
When my mate left, he pinned quite an obscene picture to ceiling of the computer room. I was in the computer room when my short manager was stood on a spinning office chair trying to get it down. He had the worst case of short man syndrome I've ever seen and it was incredibly satisfying to watch. Moreso knowing I could've just reached up and removed it for him with little effort.
davus_maximus@reddit
Screenshot their desktop and set it as the wallpaper.
alexwhit80@reddit
I did that about 25 years ago. It drove the guy mad
Oxygene13@reddit
I made someone's screensaver the blue screen of death many years ago and laughed my head off when they were idle for a minute and it came up. Hearing them scream in annoyance was only enjoyable for a few seconds because they reset their PC and lost all their work before I could tell them it was a fake. I managed to remove it without them noticing and got away with it lol
WalkerJoggerSprinter@reddit
If you can access their computer, change the language on it to something very obscure
WinkyNurdo@reddit
We changed my mates phone language to Japanese once. It took a while and a lot of expletives before he worked out how to change it back
Timely_Egg_6827@reddit
English(pirate) is a good one on Google
Control+alt+down arrow also good - my pets do that one a lot.
redwolve378@reddit
I believe that Microsoft have disabled that feature now unfortunately, as that was my all time go to walking passed someones desk while they were distracted.
Green_destiny@reddit
I used to do this to a teacher when he left the classroom, fortunately nobody ever grassed me up. One day I flipped the screen and another student went to flip it back the correct way. As he was doing this the teacher came back in and screamed at him thinking it was him all along, he told him if he ever caught him touching his laptop again he would be out of the class for good. The other student tried to blame me, but all the teacher saw was him at his laptop so he had all the proof he needed. Watching the other pupil doing litter duty filled me with immense satisfaction. Although, I do look back and realise I was a bit of a prick at school.
elon_mu5ket33r@reddit
we used to call that hotdogging for some reason and we'd replace the desktop picture of david hasselhoff in.a playboy pose in a leopard print thong
Dedward5@reddit
My favourite was to take a screen shot of their desktop and then set it as the desktop background and move the icons.
WalkerJoggerSprinter@reddit
Love this
michaelscottdundmiff@reddit
Sticky keys was always fun. Shift 5 times if memory serves. Slows everything down
Ornery_Pipe_9243@reddit
Buy 100 little plastic ducks and hide them in his bag one by one. Obviously this cannot commence today lol
bbgun24@reddit
Number them all but remove one duck randomly so they always think there’s another duck.
srogijogi@reddit
Oh, various things I have now in my mind 😅 Examples: - we have a guy who's serious Leeds United fan, to the point that he claims that he can't even touch anything related to Manchester United. One day we have found lots of Manchester United themed greetings cards...you know what happened after; - the very same guy was messing with another guy and suddenly decided (don't remember the reason) that he needs to give some special gift to that lad. I made the gift, as requested. It was a pair of pants made from black bin bags and sticky tape. Well, I can say that after ai received quite a few tailoring requests :) - one day my boss requested that I will go to next department and will count something (stock?). He wanted to be funny so he said "get you abacus and go and count". I came back with beautiful A4 picture of abacus 'configured' to give him the number :P - another story about the same boss: one day we made from cardboard and paper 'special' car plates and we attached them to his car. Well, he didn't realise that his car has new plates for some time...
chronicbint@reddit
Set fire to their car.
Appropriate_Trader@reddit
Swapped the M & N keys around on their keyboard.
CthulhusEvilTwin@reddit
Take a screenshot of their screen, then put everything on the screen in the recycle bin making sure the recycle bin doesn't move.
theNixher@reddit
Sharpie some bluetac black, let it try, block their mouse sensor with it.
davus_maximus@reddit
Cut an orgasmic moan out of a porno and set it as the email arrival notification.
VardaElentari86@reddit
When we were all in office we'd swap desktop keys around, and flip the display screen upside down/sideways
Living_Substance9973@reddit
Swap the m & n keys on their keyboard
EpponeeRae@reddit
You nomster
burneracc99999999@reddit
Get a computer keyboard and Wer come cress seeds then put them into all the gaps. Eventually cress will grow and you can connect keyboard to his computer.
OpportunityNew5685@reddit
Put their rival football team sticker on the bottom of their cup before a meeting.
Unplug their monitor power lead just enough that sometimes it still connects.
BinarySecond@reddit
I tape the picture of the gorilla giving a middle finger of their mouse sensor
SkeletorOnLSD@reddit
We have to take photos regularly at work. I have gone through all the cameras we use and changed the shutter sound to one of those rubber chickens.
Oodlydang@reddit
Autocorrect their surname to something embarrassing
Superb-Pudding-6532@reddit
My work lads mess around constantly, have learnt never to leave lace up shoes unattended as they tie them all together in really tight knots 🤣 Best one I saw them do.... Took some planning but they managed to get hold of the spare key for one of the lads very nice mercedes. They waited outside his house (At a discrete distance) and every time he locked the car and walked away they popped the boot open! They filmed it, was hilarious to watch
Kbridges89@reddit
Cable ties are your friend here. Do they have a rucksack or anything? Cable tie it to a chair or table leg. They won’t notice it right away and just go to pick it up and a chair will go with it. Just cable tie things to other things to make a mild Inconvenience. Also, for bonus fun, cable tie scissors together so they can’t use them to undo the other ties and have to find another pair of scissors.
EvaM87@reddit
Pop off and swap a couple of their keyboard keys.
To go a step further, if you have a friendly IT team, get them to save you the keys from some old keyboards and use them to swap letters and spell something amusing on his keyboard.
Traditional_Map3571@reddit
Turn the brightness right down on their monitor and resize it so the image is either tiny or going off the side of the screen.
Onethe old CRT monitors you could turn them down enough that they looked like they were broken unless you pressed the menu buttons, not sure if LCDs do this.
Superb-Pudding-6532@reddit
Un clip the cord from the desk phone hand set. My colleague once pulled the phone from my ear mucking around, I pulled it back, he let go, I got a sore ear 😂😂
greggery@reddit
Many years ago I weaned my office manager off sugar in her tea. I used to sit next to her, and over the course of several weeks I would gradually reduce the amount of sugar I was putting in it too the point where I omitted it entirely. She never noticed it until one day at home until one day at home her husband (who hardly ever made her tea, apparently) made her one with the two spoons she used to have and she spat it out saying it was disgusting. She came in the following Monday saying "Greg, what have you done to me?"
-mmmusic-@reddit
i'm a bus driver. if i see my friends driving, i'll go up and have a chat, and as i leave, tuck their mirror in :)
CanWeNapPlease@reddit
I had this love hate relationship with this coworker, he'd drive me mad, doing all sorts of stuff. One day he put my side desk in the accessible toilet (luckily no one in the company really used it unless they had a broken foot).
He had a framed picture of him and his gf on his side desk. I decided every week I'd print a copy of the picture and enlarge his head and nose by like 1% in photoshop. It took a long time for him to notice.
Cha_r_ley@reddit
One day, every time my boss (who sat next to me) left his desk, I moved his phone a teeny bit further away to his right and his monitor a teeny bit further left, so at some point mid-afternoon his phone rang and he was almost laying across his desk trying to answer it. It doesn’t sound hilarious, but the noise he made trying to reach it was preposterously funny.
atomic_mermaid@reddit
I actually laughed out loud at the bit just before you said "it doesn't sound hilarious". Love this.
Cha_r_ley@reddit
You gotta be patient, but it was worth it 😂
snackingsnek@reddit
Modify the custom dictionary on their PC
lapsongsue@reddit
Change their desktop wallpaper for a picture of them dropping their kids off at school.
Amateur_yoghurt@reddit
I had someone mix up the actual keys on my office keyboard. Jokes on them, I can blind type so didn't bother me... But it was funny to see my manager trying to use it because he couldn't figure it out 🤷🏼
Amateur_yoghurt@reddit
When people say they are looking forward to the weekend, tell them it's only Thursday... Only works for a few seconds but the panic on their faces is worth it
two_beards@reddit
Sneak up behind them and hit the lower chair lever on their chair while they are sat in it. Never gets old.
Put tape over their mouse sensor. Put a framed picture of their boss on their desk.
Kudosnotkang@reddit
Plug a wireless mouse and or keyboard into the back of their PC and ‘share control’ - ideally while they aren’t looking for a second .
Amazing the exciting websites you can find when someone else is accountable …
Cynderyella@reddit
I used to swap around the letters on the keyboard, it was a real pain for the people in the office that couldn’t touch type.
cmpthepirate@reddit
Delete his development environment. JOKES!
honestlyVERYhonest@reddit
Buy a mug that looks incredibly similar to theirs and swap it out. Would confuse the fuck out of me.
Supergoose5000@reddit
Can't beat a ctrl+alt+arrow key and rotating their screen if their not to pc savvy.
cognitiveglitch@reddit
Bit of tape over the usb contacts for his mouse.
NoDrama430@reddit
Tape a tiny, almost unnoticeable piece of clear tape over the laser on the bottom of his mouse. He will spend at least ten minutes unplugging it, restarting his computer and questioning his sanity before he figures it out. It's a slow burn, but it's beautiful to watch.
sbaldrick33@reddit
I put the weirdest, most niche, most risque horror films I can think of on my Elfster list every Christmas.
Crazyblondie11@reddit
Blue tack his mouse or take the batteries out was always my fave 😬
Ok_Introduction_7829@reddit
Compress winRAR in a zip file and wait
Limit_Ok@reddit
I used to put a line of tape across doorways, so when people went through it would get em in the face. One time a manager ran through but cos he was so short it just grazed the top of his head.
I dont do anythin like that these days though.. Im professional. 👌
RoutineAbroad3486@reddit
Eat their lunch
InfectedEllie@reddit
Nah add laxatives to their lunch
The_Crow68@reddit
Buy a multipack of those plastic babies or ducks. Put them in his pockets, tea, on his computer etc. If he asks about them - tell him you don't know anything about it.
Active-Strawberry-37@reddit
If they use a phone headset then unclip the headset, put a piece of tape in the middle and reclip it.
Negative-Fondant1373@reddit
Spit in his cuppa ☕️
Sherbetlaces@reddit
too far
JWK3@reddit
Post-it note on the bottom of the mouse
Laff_like_a_Giraff@reddit
Tell em so and so is looking for you n it sounded urgent
Chrisaudi27t@reddit
Move stuff that they have moved back to where it was.
TeaAndCrumpetGhoul@reddit
Probably can't do it now, but my sister had a thing with her colleagues where they'd surprise each other with heavy handed slaps on the ass. The one problem was that she mistook one of the asses she used to slap for someone else's. She almost got into trouble for that.
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