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!!!

it was my birthday once,
i was working, at the end of my shift i went and said bye to everyone and said that i was racing home to get changed and my boyfriend and i were off to the next town to go out clubbing ( its was already 10.30ish pm)
they all yelled wait we got you a gift!!!! ) i was so touched they all remembered)
and i was told to close my eyes and hold out my hands, i did, they cream pied me, it had been sitting out for a while, as the whipped cream dripped down my face and hair all i could smell was rancid cream...
i think i burst into tears turned around got my bag and walked out and walked the 20 mins home, in the cold covered in stinking rancid whipped cream, crying! I didnt go out clubbing

do me a favor
TAKE THE FUCKEN PLASTIC WRAP OFF THE TOILET

oh thats so horrible @TheSerenDipitY what a bunch of total wankers

Forward the email to the person who was going to get pranked. Then promptly prank the pranker.

We once emptied the contents of a colleague's desk drawers onto his desk. Cling filmed his keyboard and hid his monitor cable

TheSerenDipitY that is proper shit.

I have removed it now. And my bladder is grateful to be relieved.

If anyone accuses me of being humourless or a killjoy they are likely to get barked at!

'I have removed it now. And my bladder is grateful to be relieved. '

Well done! I'm sure others will be secretly grateful to you for taking a stand. What a pathetic idea

I’ll send you an extra Woof for your barking!

I have a fully functioning sense of humour, but very rarely is ‘pranking’ funny, it’s mostly just utterly ridiculous. Like this.

I am so glad you removed it, OP. My DS1 tried this when he was about five. It wasn't funny then, either.

I’d be happy to be a humourless killjoy in this situation.

But what if the person didn’t even use it? I often go a full day without trout using the loo. If it was the birthday or son you would all be waiting a very long time for the prank to pay off. What was supposed to be a birthday prank would only obsbky ebd up a Christmas prank. Or even April fools.

Missing the point - but one toilet between all employees, male and female??? How many of you work there?

pranking is putting sellotape over an open can of coke or something. This is just stupid.

Thank god you removed it! When a 'prank' reaches the level of having to email everyone about it- it has certainly gone too far. Imagine having to walk out covered in your own urine into a room full of people laughing at you knowing exactly what has just happened to you. Not at all funny and actually quite repulsive to me

How pathetic and unkind. I would have already removed this and told them it was both bullying and ridiculous. What was the plan when the poor victim pisses on themselves and the whole toilet area exactly- who will be cleaning this up?!. Your colleagues clearly don't have enough actual work to be doing and sound a right bunch of puerile embarrassments. Thank your lucky stars you clearly aren't one of them OP!

Ugh, a childish sense of humour just isn't funny in a professional environment. Well done for removing the clingfilm. Practical jokes involving toilets - yuck.

I would copy the intended victim in on the email as well just in case ther pranker decided to do it again while you’re out.

Stuff like this isn’t funny.
It’s humiliating. Therefore bullying.
Don’t stand by and let it happen.
Take it off.
Honestly pathetic behaviour from a bunch of adults.

Ah you’ve removed it good for you

They will prank you loads now!

Am being a bit dense - but how would anyone NOT notice cellophane across the toilet?

That's was nice of them, what were they going to do when the piss was all over the floor and possibly the person being pranked. What a knobby thing to do!

I can't even imagine having to work with people that mean and pathetic. You did the right thing OP.

I hate practical jokes.

See I don’t mind pranks that don’t involve physically impacting someone but it takes some fairly sophisticated social skills to be really sure who genuinely doesn’t mind being part of the joke which is why work is not the place for them.

Cling film on the toilet is an exercise in humiliation and I would instantly write off anyone proposing that as someone whose sense of humour and judgement are massively out of whack.

Swapping the letters round on someone’s keyboard, blutacing their phone into the cradle or changing the monitor settings to display the screen upside down (particularly funny because remote IT support can’t see it) are harmless pranks in my book. Still need to be very sure of the receipients likely reaction.

I would go and remove it and tell your work colleagues to grow up. I think it’s a shitty prank to play on anyone and if someone played it on me I would probably cry and be very embarrassed. It’s not really funny at all.

Piss all over it from a height then go to lunch.

@Cornettoninja

The things you mention as "harmless" could easily be viewed as woekplace bullying or harassment.