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what is the best prank you've pulled on a colleague and did it go wrong?

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mustsleep · 20/02/2008 09:36

we moved a vac so that our colleague couldn;t find it for a laugh and she went mental shouting and swearing at us and now she isn;t talking to me at all

imo she is totally overreacting as we have never fallen out or had a cross word in the past and it was clearly a joke cos i offered to go and get it for her ..... some people

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LolaTheShowgirl · 20/02/2008 13:19

How uptight is she? You moved a vacuum cleaner and she isn't speaking to you? Did she get into trouble from a boss for it or something? If not, she sounds like a bit of an arse.

southeastastra · 20/02/2008 13:55

how odd of her!

we once put the clock forward one hour and nearly all got sent home early, until someone blabbed.

perpetualworrier · 20/02/2008 14:03

A colleague once got really bent out of shape because he hadn't enough filing space. Eventually he ordered himself a new cabinet and was dead chuffed when it arrived.

However, by the time he got back from lunch, it had gone! It had been "hidden" next the to the existing row of cabinets, so he walked past it all the time, but he didn't "find" it for days.

Still makes me laugh - he was a nice man and took the joke well.

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mustsleep · 20/02/2008 14:05

no she didn;t get into trouble and has just completely spat her dummy out over it, there were other vacs to use anyway it's just that she prefers that one and doesn't like anyone else using and always tries to make out that it's blocked if they have

we are just going to ignore her now

hmmm the clock thing would be worth a try but we only work a couple of hours so i think they might notice

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Eaglebird · 20/02/2008 21:20

A colleague at work put a load of bits of paper from a hole-punch inside my brolly, so it all fell on my head when I later put the brolly up outside. I put it up whilst standing waiting to cross the road, so loads of motorists saw it .

At a later date, I saw what I thought was the culprit's brolly, so I put a load of bits of paper in his brolly to get revenge. Unfortunately it wasn't the culprit's brolly. It was a brolly belonging to another colleague's wife. Oh dear.

Remotew · 20/02/2008 21:25

I was once so hungover at work that I shut my eyes at my desk. A couple of days later a colleague wrote on my timesheet 2 hours sleeping. I got him back by writing on his two hours wanking. Not that shocking really but his little face turned crimson. He was only a young trainee.

filthymindedvixen · 20/02/2008 21:28

we used to put a tiny bit of sellotape over the holes on the phone ear peice so when someone rang, our hot-headed colleague couldn't hear what they were saying and would get more and more irate. hours of fun...

pickie · 20/02/2008 21:30

I swapped over the mice on PC's. Even the IT manager couldnt figure it out.

Also turned all batteries in bleepers on last day.

Blue tack on scroller bit on mouse also works a treat.

spamm · 20/02/2008 21:34

We taped a colleagues mobile phone to the underside of his desk one afternoon when we were bored. We waited for the ideal moment and then started ringing it. It drove him mad for the 3 mins he could not find it among his papers and in the drawers.

It was very childish and great fun. And the boss put on his serious face and told us off, but he secretly loved it as well.

ambercat · 20/02/2008 21:44

I'm a nurse and once on nights we were all really bored so thought we'd play a joke on the Dr.

I put loads of blackcurrant jam in a bedpan (it looks like malena, which is digested blood).

I called the dr over and said to him "I'm a bit worried about mrs xxx, shes just passed this" and showed him the bedpan,then stuck my finger in it and licked it " Yep, definatly malena!"

I have never seen a dr jump backwards so quickly, he looked like he was going to be sick, til he realised everyone else was pissing themselves laughing!!

wrinklytum · 20/02/2008 21:55

I worked with a lovely lovely boss,she was a ward sister.Anyhow one day the consultant rang her up and told her that she urgently needed to create a bed,in fact a private cubicle was required as there had been a terrible road accident,and a Very Well Known young actor had been one of the victims,so there could be publicity and press attention etc.

She spent the next hour contacting bed managers and so on and arranging for people to be shifted around.

It was only later on when the consultant (not generally known for his sense of humour) came up to the ward and drily reminded her of the date (April 1st) that the penny dropped.

bellavita · 20/02/2008 21:57

We had a new trainee at work who confessed that he had put down on his application form that he did not smoke - only he did.

Our Head Office was in Edinburgh but one of our girls was Scottish so she rang him as Head Office Personnel asking for a sample of urine to be tested for nicotine.

For days he agonised about what to do, eventually he did a sample and put it in the post room for it to be sent via internal mail - we did not send it.

He got another phonecall from "Head Office" to say they had got the tests back and found nicotine traces - well he came clean on the phone.

By this time, we really were rolling about.

I laughed that much, I could not even get the story out properly to DH.

I've got tears in my eyes now laughing as I can still picture him on the phone.

MAMAZON · 20/02/2008 22:02

We had a student social worker join our team as part of her year 3 work placement.

we made up a bogus complaint of child neglect giving a senior staff members details (with her full consent) and sent poor student round to do the initial assesment.

senior staff member was deliberatly obnoxious and student returned to teh office going on about how awful this woman was.

later that day a staff meeting was called and poor student was placed right next to senior member....her face was pure horror until she twigged.

entire office fell about laughing.
it was absolutly hilarious.

My boss was so impressed by how well student took the joke (and her subsequant work) that once she graduated she was offered a full time position on the team.

Bubble99 · 20/02/2008 22:05

I used to be a nurse and when I was a student we had a really arsey junior doctor on the ward. We bundled some pillows (which just goes to show how long ago this was - no pillows on the NHS now!) onto a bed and covered them up with a counterpane to look like a patient. We also set up an IVI next to the bed and attached it to the 'patient.'

When the junior doc came onto the ward we went over to the bedside, looked concerned and shouted "crash!"
He bolted over, pushing us out of the way and started the resus procedure.

He was a total tosser, BTW.

lucyellensmum · 20/02/2008 22:11

I put a raddish in a male collegues lunch box as he left it with us in the tea bar. He came back, looked very puzzled and smiled to himself and said, wow, when i looked at our raddishes the other day they were tiny - my wife must have put these in for a surprise for me today. We all kept shtum, but i coudlnt keep it up - as i worried that his DP would have been cross (i DID have a tiny bit of a crush on him). But he said she would have thought it was brilliant. Wish i held on to my bottle. Hmmm, thats muppetry isnt it?

ambercat · 20/02/2008 22:12

Bubble we did something similar, but one of the other drs lay in the bed and we asked arsey dr to certfy, as he started to pull back the sheet she sat bolt upright! he freaked !! (evil chuckle!!)

lucyellensmum · 20/02/2008 22:13

glad to see child abuse is taken so seriously by the powers that be

MAMAZON · 20/02/2008 22:26

hardly Lucyellensmum

whilst it was a bit of a giggle for us, it was also a good training excercise for the student. her first assesment flying solo was with an uncooperative servcie user. thankfully it wasn't a real scenario but she would undoubtedly have been more relaxed dealing with the more mundane assesments she was being sent to afterwards.

lucyellensmum · 20/02/2008 22:35

Sorry mamazon, i regretted posting that just after i hit the post message button. I didnt think it through, i apologise. And it was quite a good joke really, and your point is a good one, oh, and i am a twat

paros · 20/02/2008 23:05

My boyfriend at the time (soon to be an X )was a fireman . So one night some girlfriends and myself dressed all in black crept up to his car while it was parked in the firestation carpark and I knew the window was dodgy and could be moved down from the outside,anyway we filled it with those small polystyrene (SP) bits . The whole car was filled to the brim . We took some photos and left.
The next day was the public open day for that particular station andd it took him and four mates 4 hours to clean it up because when he opened the car door it all came out and the wind blew it all round the carpark .

paros · 20/02/2008 23:09

When people still used to use cheques to pay for things we used to get hold of a mates cheque book and on the back of the last cheque we used to write . I REALLY FANCY YOU . They never realised and because it was the last check in the book they had no choice but to use it . So when they handed ove the check and their card to the waiter he would go to the till and write the card number on the back and see what we had written . Well it used to make us laugh LOL

SlightlyMadSecretSoundWinner · 20/02/2008 23:11

I put a joke about my boss into a powerpoint presentaion once.

I evenwent thru a dummy presentaion before hand.

He took it very well.

When I was at school myself and a couple of friends organised a April fools on our form tutor, with help from head of year.

After assembly we went off to a different classroom. When tutor got to classroom we had left a trail of clues to lead him around hte school. Meanwhile we were safely with the Head of Year who was busy doing the register. The whole class played along

Eaglebird · 21/02/2008 21:40

Years ago I had a job which involved working outdoors sometimes. After returning to the depot after working in the rain all day, soaked to the skin and thoroughly fed up, I found one of my colleagues standing at the sink and filling one of my boots with water. I was so mad I took off my work-boots and threw one of them at him.
He then fell about laughing and revealed that he had hidden a tumbler inside my boot and was, in fact, filling the tumbler with water. That colleague is now my DP.

MrsSchadenfreude · 23/02/2008 14:59

Wrote on random pages in "Pete the Tosser's" diary: "See how I look in tights" "Mmm, looking good today!" "Order thong to see if it will contain balls adequately." He was completely bemused by this and kept telling all and sundry what was written in his diary.

Changed over the M and the N on the keyboard.

Altered the QWERTY line to read WANKER

EzrasMummy · 23/02/2008 15:33

My friend borrowed my car for the evening when i was about 8 months pg. She lives down the road from me. In the morning i got up and used my spare keys to take the car home. when she woke up and called to say when shes bringing it up and she looked out the window, and saw no car!

She told me my car wasnt there and I was telling her to stop being silly as im in no mood for a joke. She said shed call back.

After a few mins i called back, she had already called the police and was so worried! It was at that point that i owned up.

Ive been watching my back ever since...

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