To think grow up!

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I am at work. I am full of cold and groggy so I'm not sure this is bringing my tolerance levels down.

But it is a colleague's birthday and another colleague has decided to prank that colleague by putting cellophane on the toilet. There is one toilet in our office. They have emailed all to say they are doing this so that when birthday person comes out of their meeting and uses the loo this will be hilarious...

Said person is still in a meeting, I am dying for the loo, which is covered in cellophane. I am tempted to go and rip it up and tell them to grow up. Its not normal behaviour, and we are talking people in there 40s and 50s here.

I thought it was a stupid idea regardless of restricting my own toilet needs. Because IF the prank works then this will make a mess of the ONE toilet we all have to share!!!

Work is not the place for “pranks”. Twats.

erm, thats an awful 'joke' - how is that funny?

This is a very stupid primary school level joke and the kids would be rightly told off. Doing this as grown-ups, total idiocy. I hope the person who came with this idiotic idea will be the one to clean it.

Who is going to clean it after?!

And the worker who presumably ends up with their clothes covered in urine?

Are you at work or nursery? That's ridiculous.

I would do it anyway on the basis that it’s a stupid and unkind prank to pull even if it is someone’s birthday. How is it even remotely appropriate AT WORK to risk forcing a coworker to end up with pissy clothes, humiliated by others?

Just be a decent person and tear it off.

I'm glad its not just my tired grumpy brain not finding this funny.

Everywhere I’ve worked HR would have taken a dim view of that kind of thing. Not only is it humiliating for the person being “pranked” but it creates an unsanitary mess someone has to clean up.

Wow. I would be fuming if I worked there.

Go to the loo and take it off. Idiots.

Go and take it off.

Jesus, remove it. That's disgusting and will cause massive embarrassment for your colleague.

It’s humiliating to shame the birthday person who stinks off piss all day

I assume the pranked is happy to clean the toilet?

Pranker sorry

I would email back 'to all' with exactly what you've said, cc the most senior person relevant. Ridiculous.

The prankster is a gobshite. Get rid of the cellophane and pee in peace.

I'm so hoping birthday-colleague comes out of their meeting and goes straight out to lunch without using the loo.

That’s stupid and disgusting. Take it off and use it. Ynibu

I have no tolerance for ‘pranks’, this is likely to really upset someone. Rip it off and tell them to grow up and not be so silly.

That's not ok. The person could end up soiled. And if they have issues, from their bowel to infections it could be very bad indeed and totally humiliating, even worse in a place of work.

It needs to be removed. Or the person given a heads up. As that's not funny.

Agree with pp. rip it off. Work is not the place for pranks and pranks are never funny. Just meant to humiliate the victim

The prankee is a pranker which is why they have decided to do this and I would say will likely take it on the chin and even find it amusing.

But them behaving like kids shouldn't affect anyone else. I am full of cold and have been necking fluids all morning to try and feel ok and have now been unable to use the loo for over an hour and a half.

I'm ripping it off, I'm sending an email and then I am going out to get my lunch and fume!

Please put us all out of our misery OP - you included, and go and take it off.

It is the right thing to do.
You are not a kill joy, you are brave. Lots of your colleagues probably think it’s ridiculous but won’t pipe up for whatever reason.

Cross post with you.
Yeah let them keep their shitty (no pun intended) ‘jokes’ to themselves.