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what's your greatest or most original office prank?

This question came to me while watching the movie get smart this weekend. there's one great scene where one of the main characters actually staples a piece of paper to another guys forehead. what pranks, practical jokes or hi jinks have you played on your colleagues. here at the office we're a bunch of jokers been known to steal some guys shoes (he routinely walks round without them) or yesterday we moved one colleagues new motorbike around the corner of the building. so entertain me with some of your office or work pranks.

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1. I used to note which of my coworkers looked at the keyboards when they typed, and then when they were gone, I'd switch the 'm' and 'n' keys. You never notice because you don't really pay attention to which is which. They would get furiously angry trying to type out e-mails and such. Oh, another awesome and fun one that I forgot about. Take a screen shot of your coworkers desktop. Then hide all the desktop icons, hide the start menu, and make that screen shot their background. It'll look like their computer, but it will appear to be frozen when they try to click on icons.
2. moved stuff around on people's desk, disconnect the mouse and hid the ball, disconnect the keyboard, put sticky notes all over their desk saying random things and once we put a note on the snack machine that said 'please stock with those little bottles of jack daniels'
3. place a small postit under your coworker's optical mouse's light. it will take 'em a minute to figure out there is a piece of paper blocking the light. always works...never fails! have fun!
4. I like the one where everything gets covered in tin foil...but that's just me. Or when the cubical is stuffed with packing peanuts.
5. My boss is losing his mind and he keeps one of his cars in the garage at work, at all times. I had his secretary switch the cars and because he really is crazy, thought that he had driven the other car.
6. Frosting a section of 2" x 10" wood and letting it sit on the coffee table. I told everyone it was an ice cream cake and needed to be defrosted. The attempts by people to cut it were priceless.
7. Love these! Once our HR person went out of town and left their car in the lot. We created our own warning you will be towed sticker and put it on the window. Pain to get off! Another time we put some boards together and basically made them look like legs. From under the bathroom stall you just saw tennis shoes and jeans. But we left them in there all day. As the day went on we'd add things like wads of paper or a half eaten apple all around the feet. People were like, "who's been in the bathroom all day?" The easiest one is taping the ball of a mouse.
8. Some years ago for my friends birthday her office mates aluminum foiled her entire office. Everything! Plants, chair, keyboard. It was quite an undertaking but they did do it. Very shiny! Another officemate had his cubicle filled with packing peanuts. They plastic wrapped the opening then dumped boxes and boxes of peanuts. As long as its not harmful and all in good fun, these things work well. Of course, I wouldn't suggest an office prank if the "victim" has recently gone through a horrible divorce, received a speeding ticket or just got fired - kind of wrecks the mood ;-)
9. I don't work in an office, but my manager has one. for her birthday we filled her office with kettle corn(her favorite snack) and balloons in her various favorite colors. It was fun!
10. Use a water-tight garbage bag to line a desk drawer, then fill it up with water. Splash!
11. We work at a bank. At a meeting once, a fellow supervisor (who does not have a racist bone in her body) accidentally used the expression "working like a Mexican." The majority of the employees at our branch are hispanic, including both the manager and the assistant manager. No one was offended, but to teach her a lesson, the assistant manager set up an email group and titled it "Human Resources" and only linked his own email to it. He then typed out an emails to our "human resources department" about how offended he was and how she should be disciplined and carbon copied them to her. She was a nervous wreck about losing her job and everyone else was laughing inside. A few days and fake HR responses later, he told her it was fake.
12. In the one of the research labs I worked in about 20 years ago we had this woman chemical engineer who used to ware spike heels to work than change into safety shoes required in the lab first thing in the morning.She would leave her high heels by my desk in the lab. One day one of the technicians super glued her heels to the floor. Guess who got the blame? She called HR and launched a complaint. One of the other technicians Super-glued the receiver of her office phone to the phone cradle. It took me 5 years to find out who these jokers were. I thought I was going to lose my job over it. I worked for Mobil Oil at the time and they were very touchy about harassment. It was kinda fun watching her fume as she a very arrogant and thoughtless person. I almost wish I had done it. One of the guys involved is the president of a fortune 500 company now LOL.