The Funniest Office Pranks Of All Time (PHOTOS)

The American workplace is truly a unique innovation, based on hard work, ingenuity, and finding any excuse for dicking around. The office prank is sometimes the only thing keeping us sane in the workplace, and just as businesses grow more creative and innovative, its workers' pranks have become more elaborate. The Internet has allowed us to document these pranks like never before. Here are some of our favorite office practical jokes. Vote for the most impressive!

 

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Eliza Delgado:
Some coworkers thought it would be funny to treat me to a tanning booth.

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[drxcreatures]

02:46 AM on 12/31/2010

I feel sorry for the person's cubicle in #24.

[Patricia Meloy]

02:30 PM on 11/18/2010

Well, perhaps we have a bit of insight here as to why there is waste in our educational system.....

[Patricia Meloy]

02:39 PM on 11/18/2010

This should have been sequenced after HockeyMom's posting.

[Patricia Meloy]

02:28 PM on 11/18/2010

And our education system is fingered for "waste?" Heck, as a teacher for 30 years (now retired), this business model looks like a whole lot more fun!

[sonjakellen]

04:10 PM on 11/17/2010

We did something similar, but far more elaborate.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8woh2mTnE4

[HockeyMom]

03:58 PM on 11/17/2010

My son and his friend placed blank disks in the drives of all computers in his HS computer lab. It took the well paid personal 4 days to figure out why none of the computers would boot. We still laugh about the problems it caused.

[jrackles95]

04:31 AM on 11/18/2010

lol thats a good one

[JJovana]

09:25 AM on 11/10/2010

I wish someone would Hasselhoff my office.....

[Jessica Wolfe]

01:46 AM on 11/08/2010

We had a week of pranks on a guy who went away for his honeymoon. One of the things we did was we shrink wrapped his office. Down to the paperclips.

[random100]

11:45 PM on 11/08/2010

That couldn't have been good for productivity.

[JJovana]

09:26 AM on 11/10/2010

Or your sense of humor.

[Gronkie]

07:04 PM on 11/06/2010

I used to leave a few plastic ants on my assistant's keyboard when she went to lunch. It never failed to get a blood-curdling scream when she got back, no matter how many times I did it. Simple, but effective.

In college we had a guy who thought he was the RA's buddy and was constantly tattling on everybody for everything. One night, someone took a bunch of cinder blocks from a work site across the street and stacked them in front of his door while he was sleeping. He woke up in morning and opened his door to a brick wall. Another time, someone tied a wire around his doorknob and stretched it tight across the hall and tied it around his buddy's doorknob directly across the hall. He woke up, couldn't get the door to open, and called his buddy to come and help him. His buddy tried to open his door and found it wouldn't open either! I wish I could take credit for them, but I didn't do them.

[Sheiban S]

01:16 PM on 11/06/2010

Not quite an office prank, but a friend of mine in university performed an April Fool's prank on his roommate - who was quite the adult content connoisseur. For a few weeks, my friend worked at a recycling plant part time and took all the adult content that was being recycled, was able to get his roommate out of the house for a few hours on April 1, and posted pornography all over his room - not an inch was spared! To top it all off, he put a Quagmire bobblehead on his bedstand :D

[Imzadi]

10:33 AM on 11/06/2010

I'd like to work in the office with the fake wall where everyone could wear shorts.

[chaapai]

01:49 AM on 11/06/2010

to quote Dr. Sheldon Cooper..."bazinga!"

[SarahFiggTock]

09:45 PM on 11/05/2010

I would get fired if I tried any of that crap. I want to work where they work! particularly at packing peanuts place and the 50th brithday gravestone.

[Kitten of D00M]

08:59 AM on 11/09/2010

I once unplugged everyone's monitor when I was alone at the office late at night. The next morning the IT department was having a total meltdown- they couldn't figure out the problem for several hours! Word got around quickly that the person responsible would get canned. Luckily, I'm a good actress and pretended to be just as pissed as everybody else when they figured out the prank.

[SarahFiggTock]

12:39 PM on 11/09/2010

LOL, well played!

[Boogerwolf]

08:51 PM on 11/05/2010

my favorite thing to do in the office is to pop out all the letter keys on co-worker's keyboards and put them back in random order after they leave for the day. If people leave their computers unlocked at lunch its also fun to take a screenshot of a document and then set it as a background image. No matter what they can't figure out how to get rid of the window on the screen. I can't help but laugh when I hear them shutting down and restarting.

[Richard Pearce]

12:51 AM on 11/06/2010

Even more fun would be modifying the startup boing to a sound file of someone cursing about their computer not working.

[Lennon Girl]

07:16 PM on 11/05/2010

Lol the Happy 50th Birthday was hilarious XD and the Post it with the HaHa must have taken forever! :) These are cool, I'll have to watch the vids later

[Dunkleberger Karl]

04:51 PM on 11/05/2010

If you feel John Bonher is taking too long to get us jobs , call his office @513) 779-5400 or [phone]. Let him know Its been a week, where are the jobs,Calanders are for Democrates, we republicans won last night , we are now in charge, and any lame duck regulations or legisltion will be overturned befor the ink is dry(Vitter)

[chaapai]

01:50 AM on 11/06/2010

That david Vitter... he sure is efficient for a prostitute enthusiast!