April Fools office ideas

[Big E]

A coworker whose office is across the hall from mine is out of town for a few days, but will return on April 1. Several of us have decided that we should seize this opportunity. This guy is simultaneously the smartest person I have ever met and also the funniest, so whatever we do, he'll likely take it well. FYI, the office is a locked office w/ a regular door and everything, not a cube.

I know we had a long list of these, but that was back on the Powder board and those posts are lost to antiquity I suppose.

[Cornholio]

Do you have the key to his office?

[mushmouth]

if you get to his keyboard, pop off and switch the M key with the N key.

[bad_roo]

Dude's smart, he'll soon rumble that. Fortunately I work in an office of retards who are utterly bamboozled when you set up AutoCorrects on their copy of MS Word or change their screen saver to a screen grab of the Blue Screen of Death.

[Big E]

No problem getting into office, but we can't get into his computer (at least, not without a lot of work or admin help ) since it's password-protected.

Unlike my office mate, who always leaves his screen unlocked and open to access in the computer lab. At various times, I have changed the mouse speeds, switched his to a left-handed mouse, changed the background to eye-searing hot pink, and set the screen saver to read "This computer is locked by Dale, who is not smart enough to figure out how to log out." This in a lab where anyone walking by can read it. I think someone changed the mouse back for him, he's living with all the other ones!

The person we're trying to catch on this one, a few years ago when someone on the machine next to him in the lab left for several hours w/o locking the terminal (this is on Unix workstations), he changed the settings to a white background w/ white text and white lines. Everything was white. Admin was out that day, it took the two of them about 3 hours to get that sorted out.

I was thinking blowing the entire office full of packing peanuts, but I don't think we have enough time to round up that many peanuts. Real peanuts would be too expensive.

[Big E]

Originally posted by mushmouth
if you get to his keyboard, pop off and switch the M key with the N key.

Doesn't work too well if you don't look at the keys when you type.

[CaddyDaddy77]

http://carcino.gen.nz/images/image.p...priceless4.jpg

[girlski0912]

Even if he doesn't look at his keys, every time he types a word with either letter, it is going to be misspelled. So he will go back and delete it, retype it, only to see that it is STILL misspelled. This may only go on for a few minutes, but this could be one of the MANY rearrangements that occur in his office.

[brownmonkey]

Check out these guys' approach;

http://www.brownmonkey.com/postit.jpg


http://www.interactivetools.com/staf...damons_office/

[horizon]

Originally posted by girlski0912
Even if he doesn't look at his keys, every time he types a word with either letter, it is going to be misspelled. So he will go back and delete it, retype it, only to see that it is STILL misspelled. This may only go on for a few minutes, but this could be one of the MANY rearrangements that occur in his office.

err, girlski, are you SURE? read original post and Big E's reply again...

[Big E]

We're leaning towards balloons.

[iceman]

Maybe switch his computer with one that looks just like it that's also password-protected. Should cause a few anxious moments.

[jstead]

Originally posted by Big E
We're leaning towards balloons.

Did this to a buddies bedroom. Man did it stink.

[Dr. Crash]

In my company, it's a tradition to mess with people's office while they're away. One of the nicest low-impact things I've seen done was to shorten an office. Simply build a new wall (drywall's easy) a couple feet in front of the old one, paint to match, and voila. I like the idea because the guy will know that something's wrong but it will likely take him a long time to figure exactly what.

drC

[Buster Highmen]

Does the office have a relight?
I mean a window into the hall?

If so, get a piece of plywood or even stiff cardboard and tape it to the relight. Fill the space between the relight and the window with the idiocy of your choice: foam peanuts, balls, doll parts, whatever strikes your imagination.

[sandytheskier]

Tilting everything is always funny. Of course they notice right away, but are to busy to fix it quick, so they are stuck sitting tilted for a few days.

[Innominatus]

Originally posted by Big E
I know we had a long list of these, but that was back on the Powder board and those posts are lost to antiquity I suppose.

Part of that thread survived:

http://web.archive.org/web/200212010...ML/013027.html

Other simple, easy & impermanent ideas:

1) Wrap every possible topological surface in aluminum foil.

2) Rearrange everything -- furniture, posters, mess on desk, everything -- in the room to be the mirror opposite of the original. Omit no details. Take a few "before" photos to guide you with the minutiae.

3) Find a storage space to put all his stuff in. Install new employee in his "former" office.

[CaddyDaddy77]

The false wall one is good.

Had friends that moved everyones cubicles about 8" towards the main hall, you couldn't quite see it, but it was enough to make moving around a bit more difficult, carts wouldn't fit etc.


This ones a bit messier but amusing. Get a can of shaving cream and place it in the freezer. Once frozen, cut the bottom off with a can opener.
Place in blanks desk, trash can, etc, it will gradually defrost and expand leaking everywhere. Good for heating cooling vents, desk drawers, etc.

[mushmouth]

cover every flat surface with small styrofoam coffee cups full to the very top with water.

[PaSucks]

The pic of with the post it notes is the best. Make sure you put a note on every single one though, or it just is not as funny.

[Innominatus]

Originally posted by CaddyDaddy77
Had friends that moved everyones cubicles about 8" towards the main hall

This is good. If the need for a single-day prank isn't necessary (e.g., April Fools), do it in increments.

Back in my corporate days, a few coworkers fucked with me by gluing little wafers of wood (a 1/8" or so thick) under each leg of my desk. They would add one per day, each morning before I arrived.

It was so gradual I didn't notice until a couple weeks later, when I found myself eye level with the edge of the desk, feet dangling off the chair I had been subconsciously raising all along.

Thought I was going insane. (Well, I was, but that's beside the point).

[CaddyDaddy77]

Originally posted by Innominatus
This is good. If the need for a single-day prank isn't necessary (e.g., April Fools), do it in increments.

Back in my corporate days, a few coworkers fucked with me by gluing little wafers of wood (a 1/8" or so thick) under each leg of my desk. They would add one per day, each morning before I arrived.

It was so gradual I didn't notice until a couple weeks later, when I found myself eye level with the edge of the desk, feet dangling off the chair I had been subconsciously raising all along.

Thought I was going insane. (Well, I was, but that's beside the point).

That's awesome!! It's more torture than a prank, but really good!!

[Odin]

Hmm, so if you don't mind a time consuming little item and if you are in a win2k pushed administrative mode (IE everything will be reinstalled or available that he has after he logs on)

You COULD:

1. Procure separate hard drive

2. Download operating system in Russian

3. Install

4. Enjoy

Note: This only works if you have an administrator working in cahoots with you.

or better yet, you could learn how to crack his password (which is not too difficult) log onto his system and change his startup function to load IE with a home page that sends him on a endless porn loop.

[KQ]

You could assign .wav files to different keystrokes.

Happened in my office - it was pretty funny. They used Sylvester the Cat for the "delete key." He said, "That's despicable!"

[rip]

One prank we did to one of my roommates while he was gone was go and buy about 500 little dixie cups(the paper 1oz ones) then staple them all together in a giant grid and cover anything you want, floor, desk, bed, etc. then fill them all to the brim with water(we actually used skunky keg beer) When they come back they see all the cups and try to start picking them up and dumping them out but its not that easy, picking up one cup spills all the cups that are attached to it. This leads to the very tedious and time consuming task of carefully ripping off each cup from the grid and dumping it out individually.