Top 3 Best Office Pranks of All Time A comedy article
by John Hargrave 116,588 19 08/07/2009 03:51 PM 20075 views
There are day-to-day office pranks, and then there are Great Office Pranks. These are the pranks that can only be carried off with a dedicated team, working together for hours on end, showing the world what great things these employees could do if they were using their time to actually work.
You need several ingredients to make a Great Office Prank: a co-worker away on vacation, a little money, and a lot of imagination. Most importantly, you have to work at a company that encourages creativity and fun (i.e., no Human Resources department).
Here are the three Greatest Office Pranks to ever be captured on video.
#1. Cubicle House. While a co-worker was away for the holidays, the employees at this Utah software development company created the ultimate cubicle makeover, first framing out, then drywalling a complete house where his dingy orange cubicle once stood. They wired electrical lights, a working doorbell, and a ceiling fan (that would surely decapitate anyone upon standing up).
It's the details make this the Greatest Office Prank of all time: the mailbox, house numbers, and window box full of flowers. If there is a greater office prank, then let that prankster step forward.
#2. Missing Hallway. Incorrectly named the "Best Office Prank Ever," this is the second-best office prank ever, but still incredibly impressive. Pranksters at this Philadelphia office came in one night and "walled over the hall," in effect making an entire section of the office simply disappear.
In this little-known version of this well-known prank, the pranksters (who also run the sketch comedy site cheeksdown.com) provide running commentary on the hallway hoax, and how they pulled it off.
#3. 1300 Balloons and Princess Office (tie). Most office pranks involve either wrapping a co-worker's desk with something (gift wrap, aluminum foil, porn), or filling a cubicle with something (balloons, packing peanuts, Jell-O). Our third place is a tie between the best prank in each genre.
If there is a world record for most balloons ever filled for an office prank, it would have to go to this prank, which was done with the aid of an air compressor and a self-tying balloon tool. This prank was pulled on the boss, making it especially daring -- but the true joy is watching the boss walk into the sea of balloons (3:35 into the video) and just disappear.
Finally, this prank from Dallas-based marketing company AutoRevo is the ultimate example of the "desk wrapping prank." While the National Sales Director was on vacation, co-workers gave his office a complete makeover in fairy princess style. Not sure what this says about his masculinity, but they got a nice reaction shot when he came back into work (2:55 into the video). Note the attention to detail -- everything from framed photos of Disney characters to the massively rubber-banded phone.
So next time you leave for vacation, just remember: lock your office first. And if you work in a cubicle -- well, you may come back to find yourself working in a house.
I'm not big on office pranks. Unless you count six years spent posting on a comedy web site instead of doing work as a prank.
By the way, I thought the Hannah Montana screen savers in the last clip were a really nice touch. Does anyone know where I can download them? For a prankmy daughter NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS WHAT IT'S FOR!
My coworkers had a great prank for me when I got back from vacation. When I got back, then kicked me repeatedly in the genitals and shoved me in a broom closet for three days. Oh, those whacky guys.
Oops, I posted this on the dorm room pranks before I saw the office prank page. My bad.
We pulled a pretty solid prank on a coworker last year. I'd like to copy and paste it here, but there's a 350 word limit, so a link to the full story will have to suffice.
The basics were:
1. Filling an office with packing peanuts.
2. Stealing his stuffed bunny and leaving ransom notes around the office.
3. An automatic nerf gun and copy of "Never Gonna Give You Up" in a tape deck set to go off when the door opened.
4. Replacing all technology with old Apple tech from the 80's/90's
5. We placed a webcam inside the office and broadcast it to the entire office. Unfortunately the footage didn't come out too well.
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