Fact: This post on pranks was spammed as a prank
Fact: We are all very irritated
Fact: Bears eat beets (sorry had to put that in there)
While I am not entirely sure if this is the world’s BEST office prank, the idea is pretty novel. This got me to thinking…can we come up with anything better? In honor of April Fools Day, I thought cVillain should put together a contest to reward the best cvillain performing villaneous acts that we will all laugh at for about 5 hrs and then immortalize on the internet forever. Here is how the contest works:
- submit a picture/video of your prank in action-yes, we really DO want to see your co-workers flip their sh*t. Please include a description of the prank as well
- email said picture and description to my cvillain alias @gmail.com by March 31st so we can post by April 1st
- pictures/video will be posted and coded by number to keep in the spirit of cvillain anonymity. cvillains will vote all day April 1st to their heart’s content for the best office prank EVER. Note: if you want to have a claim to fame just let us know and we will include your cvillain alias next to the number
- winner will be chosen by all you lovely villains and announced on April 2nd
We really want you all to step up to the plate for this one. I mean, if you thought the scene in Dumb and Dumber where Harry and Lloyd pack the sandwich full of atomic chili peppers was funny, pretend it isn’t, and out-do those two baffoons. I think I speak for all us when I say we want to be ROFLing, LOLing and peeing pants all over the place. This is really the time to shine for all the devious pranksters out there.
What do you get for thinking outside the box? Dinner IN a noodle box…to be more specific, cVillain’s newest and most favorite food spot, The Box, is offering a $40 dinner to the winner of the Office Prank Contest. Many thanks go to The Box co-owner Chas Webster! To get you fired up here is a funny video showing pranks on Dwight K. Schrute, the beet loving bear fighting Office Manager of….The Office:
In the meantime, what are the pranks you have seen or done that are praiseworthy?
Related posts:
- Speaking of Pranks…WTF!
- Last day to submit your pictures for our best photo of 2007 contest!!!!
- cVillain’s Best Photo of 2007 Competition
some funnies:
-moving someone’s office into a bathroom
-covering an office head-toe with foil
-plaster/spackle/paint over the door/window to an office to make it appear as if it never existed
Strange but true, at Microsoft people actually do this and don’t get fired!
I (steeler fan) saran wrapped my co-workers cubicle (broncos fan) and contents (chair, phone, monitor, keyboard, etc) after a playoff game a couple years ago. filled up the cubicle with black and gold balloons, streamers, etc.
turned out pretty well, unfortunately i did not get nearly enough balloons. lesson learned.
pic: http://cache.deadspin.com/sports/steelerscubicle.jpg
Thats awesome! Thanks for the pic! Ok-so if you want to submit links to your prank in-comment a la Chad, thats cool too.
This is an excellent prank which is perfectly suited for driving a non-computer savvy coworker insane. In Microsoft Word, there are a number of perfectly idiotic substitutions which spellcheck/autocorrect just luuuuuvs to make. The fun part is, you can create your own!
Commandeer the target’s computer.
Go into Microsoft Word, Tools, AutoCorrect Options.
Insert your own autocorrect rule.
Example: replace “the” with “I am a dumbass.”
Sit back and enjoy the fun! Obviously, only works with the darn near computer-illiterate. But since management seems to be full of those, there is plenty of corporate pranking to be done!
WTF, who put SPAM in this post?
It was Cecil and his digital mob trying to rig the damn vote once again!!!
I blame Hawaii. They’re little, but they do love their spam.
This one took more chicklets than you you would expect:
http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/ee159/jae5e/2.jpg
http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/ee159/jae5e/1.jpg
Nice work, 434! It’s deviously delicious.
Empty the water cooler and fill it with vodka.
@ 10: I like you
@8 I love it!
and then hope everyone stays silent all day…whole getting only more tanked!?
I was hoping workers would dance on their desks, and generally make a mess of things.
only works with the darn near computer-illiterate
set all browsers default page to be obnoxious animated gif on local drive or server
set screen capture of desktop as wallpaper, and or open in full wide in viewer
set alert tone to be 12 minute victory speech by winston curchill
oldies, but goodies.
And then there’s this.
(not mine but I was impressed)
I loved that one, B’Yo! Someone went on vacation, as I recall. Ch-ch-ch-chia!
@11 That’s only because I’ve just told you how to get your whole office drunk. But that’s ok, I like you too.
we did this to a guy i worked with a couple of years ago. we got his neighbor to call his desk while he was out to lunch and say that our coworker’s dog had been hit by a car and killed. when our buddy got back to work, he checked his voicemail and flipped out! he raced home all distraught and discovered, of course, that his dog was fine. it was actually his wife who’d been hit by the car. hilarious!
seriously, tho, i like this one. take a screen cap of someone’s desktop and set it as the background image of the desktop. then put all his icons in a folder and hide it on the C:\ drive someplace. he’ll sit there frantically clicking on his icons trying to open programs when they’re really just part of the background. another good one for people w/ LCD monitors is to change their background to the “cracked LCD desktop image” http://www.fontblog.de/C1413545161/E1863918477/Media/cracked_screen_400×300.jpg
This little device would make for a great prank:
“we got his neighbor to call his desk while he was out to lunch and say that our coworker’s dog had been hit by a car and killed.”
Well if that isn’t fucking hilarious, I don’t know what is.
and you wonder why people go postal?
I don’t suggest wearing a name tag if you choose to attend any of our social functions.
I think he was joking Doof.
Oh, snap! Doof got pranked!
Well, if we’re going to talk ready-made for the occasion, I prefer the Annoy-a-tron from ThinkGeek.com:
The Annoy-a-tron generates a short (but very annoying, hence the name) beep every few minutes. Your unsuspecting target will have a hard time ‘timing’ the location of the sound because the beeps will vary in intervals ranging from 2 to 8 minutes. The 2kHz sound is generically annoying enough, but if you really really want to aggravate somebody, select the 12 kHz sound. Trust us. The higher frequency and slight ‘electronic noise’ built into that soundbyte will make a full-grown Admin wonder where his packets are. 3 simple steps. Turn on. Hide it. Muahahaha…
Assuming you have done your part in selecting a suitable hiding location for the Annoy-a-tron, it will do its part to drive your co-workers slowly mad with its short and seemingly random beeps. And when someone does locate the Annoy-a-tron, they’re really not going to know what it is – which is almost as much fun as watching them search for it. Muahaha.
Doof? You sound overdue for your 5 p.m. libation, sweetie.
Oh, and my linky-poo didn’t work. Maybe I’m the one who should be drinking…
Wow, Grrl! How have you ever stayed employed at NL so long?
I don’t work in an office and I feel sorry for you folks that do. But if I did, I would probably put fake poop everywhere and then break those really stinky stink bombs and put whoopie cushions all over the place. I’m laughing right now because poop and farts are so hilarious. I might just get an office job tomorrow.
its not original, but we put a guys stapler in jello. he really appreciated it. i would wager that it ended up being one of the more delicious pranks out there.
back when I worked computer support my evil manifested on one jerk one day – back in the Windows 3.1 days. I made a .WAV (sound) file of a minute of silence and associated every windows action with that sound. Every time he tried to do anything the computer would freeze up for ungodly amounts of time (trying to play the very very large silent sound file).
Hated that guy, but he did give me big props when I “fixed” his machine in about 20 seconds after he reported his “problems”
29: That. Is. Awesome. I bow to you, oy, for the elegant simplicity of that prank. Brilliant.
semi-appropriate linkypoo – not a prank, but some Google offices in Europe.
This time next year (when I’m stinking rich), my company will have offices like this in CVille.
/yes, you’re all hired
linkypoo no workypoo
oops
linkypoo workypoo this time?
33: YES. And I’m now coveting that slide.
I love how you can carry food down the fire pole with you at Google, but no laptops. Heh. Priorities.
BTW, are you guys watching the Duke vs. Belmont game? Freaky.
Belmont??? Are we winning?
The annoytron only works on certain types of people I am convinced. Annoyed the shit out of me but it’s been sitting in a cubicle wall in my work for MONTHS now and I haven’t heard a peep out of the people who are close to it. Those things are fucking LOUD too.
This one’s been around a while but it is my favorite:
http://media3.guzer.com/pictures/cubicle_joke.jpg
VERY close game, with lots of lead changes.
Also Digg’d a while ago but wow. The tin foil prank. The time involved is staggering….
http://rhostudio.squarespace.com/my-blog/2006/12/22/foiled.html
@20 – doof…i was indeed kidding. he didn’t have a dog.
That slide at Google is sweet, but I’m slightly disappointed they don’t have a TARDIS.
Oh, dude. A Tardis would be suh-weet! I have a few, ahem, historical inaccuracies I’d like to correct.
@42 Would you care to share this information with the rest of the class?
The less everyone knows, the better. I’m not even here. Who are you talking to?
What happens in ThatGrrl’s past, stays in ThatGrrl’s past? Oh, and I was talking to your evil twin.
Had a boss at an old job who once created a program that would run the next time someone opened Free Cell or Solitaire, that would give the standard-looking windows grey error box but read “you have reached your gaming allotment for this computer – please submit a request to management for reinstatement.” The subtle panic of everyone thinking they’d been caught was divine.
Once back in the desparate freelance days of yo, I took a job at an “Art Glass Gallery”, not because I had any experience in Art Glass (yet) but because they had a cash register that was run by an Mac (an Apple II, methinks). Now I hated the woman who ran that store. She exemplified the worst kind of boss one can ever work for, namely, someone who has never worked for anyone. She was paranoid, racist, contrrol freaky, all kinds of bad. The stories of my seven months there are legion (turns out Im a bad ass sales person, it kind of scared me). Anyway, she new nothing of computers. During the sow periods, by which I mean most of my day, I would sit at that little mac and make folders. And in each folder, I would make more folders. The folders at the upper levels would have titles like “do not toss”, “financial info”, and “important”. As you got deeper and deeper into the hierarchies, they would have titles like “pelican anatomy”, “sandwich recipes” and “murder victims”. The very top folder was labeled “System Core”, so I know she would never toss it, which would of course eliminate everything. This folder tree, which contained nothing but increasingly oddly named folders was more a gift to my no doubt equally bored successor, but I often imagine her “getting to the bottom of things” and starting to dig through the literally thousands of folders I created over those months.
Full contact retail hell. Only the strong survive.
gosh this sounds like something out of office space, genius
Not an office prank per say, but a couple ones we used to do while killing time in high school…
“The Exploding Jellybean”
Stake out a semi busy stretch of side walk. Friends dispersed, seemingly not together. Pick your mark(s) walking down the street at about 20 yards. Take black jellybean and very conspicuously begin to “light” it as if it were a fire work or explosive right in the path of marks. Make sure they see you by crouching down and having “trouble” with your lighter. Just as they get close enough, run away flinching. Accomplices flinch too. Mark(s) stop not wanting to get asploded. Enjoy long pause of general confusion. Then slowly, over-dramatically and tentatively approach jellybean as if it were a dud as if it were a dud. Enjoy mark(s) perplexion thru corner of eye. Get close to bean and kick at it with your foot. Examine more closely. Then pick it up, sniff it, then eat it and walk away briskly. Hours of fun if you’ve been dropped on your head.
“They’re Drying!”
We used to hang out at this cafe in one of the more tony parts of town (Union Street) at night sometimes in the evenings. Tons of high end restaurants and what not. This cafe was next to a frame shop that was always closed at night. We would sneak around back and take all the mat board holes out of the recycling in the back. We would take all of these colored cardboard squares an lay them all out over the sidewalk leaving perhaps a six inch by six foot path of uncovered sidewalk, then just sit on the stairs to the sidewalk and wait for the very well heeled to walk by. As they would notice this unusual street array, we would very sincerely say “Oh, could you not step on those, they’re drying” I dont know why it gave us such glee to micromanage a small stretch of sidewalk, but it did. Watching the posh set tightrope in front of us single file brought us an enormous sense of adolescent satisfaction.
that sounds like getting a bunch of friends together and forming a line on the downtown mall to nowhere…think its human tendency to get in lines regardless of not knowing why the line is formed.
the open can of tuna in a locked drawer is good if you’re planning on leaving
that’s like the bulls testicles in the door panel of the rental car.
tuna is so much worse!
just watched the video- and deep in my soul, however sleep deprivered i am(that makes up for the words spelled incorrectly) i jujst sp0ent 10 days with the guy(not that guy, but someone reallly like him) being made fun of in the office clip.
but he us 19 and even more bad,in reality. i am pretty sure that was bad english, apologies…
You know, it just occurred to me that if I were to play an office prank and then get fired, that $40 box dinner would have to last a loooong time.
/give us this day our daily noodle
Well I would hate to have anyone fired…what if we change this again to cover any prank? Takers? Free noodles?
Ok now this is funny, common get creative!
Here’s a really good office prank.
Here is the video Echo sent embedded (this will definitely get you an ass kicking at work):
Watch more DIY videos on 5min.com
Now even CNN has posted something about office pranks: http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/worklife/03/31/fool.pranks.work/index.html
Cvillain is so in
Here’s another good one, that will only take a little bit of effort. I think I’ll be trying this myself.
Second attempt
Hahahaha!!! That’s deviously villainous!
/feeling evil
I’m gonna try to embed this video. Don’t know if it will work.
Didn’t work…Here’s another great prank.
I have a feeling today will be great!
five- i fully hope your today is great.
and… i believe so much in your firm belief, that i hope every single one of us reports back how great today is;).
thank you for the making of a great day.
xo.