Workplace pranks...

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i’m bored at work and started to think of all the awesome stuff i’ve been a party to in the workplace, figured it would make a good thread.

keep in mind this is all 100% true and i’m laughing my ass off reliving it all.

back in highschool I worked at the Canadian call centre for US based Cox communications. I handled in-bound billing for Cable and internet…

although i did some fun stuff the best was my buddy Jordan who lost interest in the job and started to actually fuck with the customers.

I remember my goal was to keep my average call time down. Target for the centre was 3:20 thereabouts. I had my average call time down under 2 minutes and was hitting over 110 calls in an 8 hour shift…

So I was sitting there whipping through the calls and noticed Jordan was just chillin out with the headset on doing nothing… there were hundreds of calls in queue so in between calls I asked WTF?

What he was doing was when calls came in he would mute them so that the hold music stopped but the customer couldn’t hear anything. So they thought they were going to be picked up soon.

Keep in mind Jordan can hear everything they say.

So he’d leave them like that for a few minutes and then he would conference call them into other depts. The thing here is that if you transfer you essentially lose the call, if you conference, but are on mute, it is the same as a transfer but you retain ownership of the call.

He would typically conference the customer into the Spanish dept. obviously there was some confusion on behalf of both parties, after they got that cleared up the CSR would be all: “okay I can help you out still…”

A minute or two later Jordan would end the conference call and put the customer back on mute… they’d be swearing and all confused again.

Then he’d conference them into the tech dept and pretty much the same shit would happen.

Then after about 15 minutes of all this shit, conferencing them in and out of depts. Without being on long enough to resolve anything he would disconnect the call entirely.

I was laughing while he explained this and then he told me he had one going at that very moment, he then left to disconnect the call and start another one.

Oh man I laughed my ass off.

Before we were allowed on the floor we had to go through a 2 week training course. We were training using a sample data base and i found out that i could manipulate the data base and change accounts and that the accounts would change on all the other computers.

I remember the trainer, named Les, was walking us through something like a bill payment through this sample account and when he went to switch screens i had changed the account information to his information… so when he went to refer back to the account holder he saw his name and figured he had done something wrong and it messed up his whole training programs… oh god i could barely contain myself.

i would peak over to see what sample accounts people were working on and i would change all the shit in the account to their own information and freak them right out…

then i figured out how to send messages to other computers and it was all over…

oh shit highschool was awesome. i wish i cared that little about work these days.

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i think i mentioned some hotel stories that were nominated in best nyspeed posts ever… i have plenty more where that came from…

what do you guys got?

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thats some f’ed up shit

the worst i do at my work is when idiots trying to fax us dial our regular number, ill just xfer to someone I dont like and then they get all pissy like “who xferred me a frigging fax??”

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i like to observe peoples shoes and when i see them taking a shit I kill the lights in the bathroom when i leave

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^^ hahhaha i’ve done that to afew of my co workers too

they NEVER say anything

if that was me i’d be like " Mother F-er, put that shit back on" and i wouldn’t care if i knew em or not

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I cut the warehouse guys gas off on there forklifts. when they fire it up, it will run for like a minute or so then die

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[quote=“Toda Party,post:4,topic:34302"”]

^^ hahhaha i’ve done that to afew of my co workers too

they NEVER say anything

if that was me i’d be like " Mother F-er, put that shit back on" and i wouldn’t care if i knew em or not

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its the best…cause then i see them in the office they look kinda pissed but dont say a word

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I went around the office and emptied all the 3 hole punches into a large cup. I then took all those little round paper dots and put them on a piece of paper inside a co-workers overhead cabinet, and taped the paper to the inside of their overhead cabinet door.

Later, when he had sat his cup of coffee down with the lid off, I asked him to borrow a manual that I knew was in that cabinet. POOF, snowing. All in his coffee, his keyboard… good times.

We also had this rather ditzy office manager (aka, secretary who was given a fancy job title because she had been there so long). I wrote a little VB app that would play random ghost like sounds at a really low volume at random times. She actually got up and ran screaming from her office.

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^^^
both awesome

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http://nyspeed.com/forums/showthread.php?t=34883

back at client logic, a freind and I would run a program in the back ground on other peoples PC’s letting us maximize/minimize windows, open a website of our choosing, open the cd tray, make our own error messages…
like " have you have homosexual encounters" with only a “yes” button…

and we would play quake the entire time.
IT actually put a file on the C; drive called: if quake gets installed on this pc again your name will be reported to human resources.

after that we never logged in as ourselfs again.

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I’m sorry I couldn’t read this thread…after I saw the word “centre” I lost interest.

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LOL… ^^^

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earlir this year i worked at premier car audio and i was only there for about a week or two when i decided it was a good time to play a prank. Dwayne, the owner, was installing a flip down dvd player in an SUV of some sort. well for those of you that dont know, you need to screw it into the headliner. well dwayne had it all done and walked up front or something and while he was up fornt i grabbed a screw and cut the had off. i then proceeded to take said screw and attach it to the roof with a small dab of hot glue. so it looked as if he had screwed it right through the roof. he came back and i was like “DWAYNE WTF DID YOU DO!!!” he tryed blaming it on everyone but himself it was so funny. hes was all nervous about what to do and shit. so i go, “dwayne,what if we do this…” and i took the screw off the roof… hilarity ensued.

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I work at a paint store, and when a co-worker is tinting gallons, it’s always funny to put as much shit as possible into the wet paint lids that’s upside down on the counter while they tint. Stuff like pens, can openers, etc, etc.

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I like removing one of the wheels off the bottom of peoples chairs… there are still 4 good wheels, but once they lean the wrong way, they eat the floor.

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I got really bored one day but slightly inspired , so i took my coworkers tool box when he went to lunch, took every single tool out and put them in bags put lots of grease in the bags then vaccum sealed each one shut. Including his scissors. Coincedently the following day my entired box was plastic wrapped in grease.

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At work I took every one of my managers tools out of his box, then screwed each one down to the work bench and stripped off all the heads of the screws. We then shrink wrapped his tool box shut.

Another guy we took his toolbox and built a wooden box around it, again rounding off all the screw heads. But previous to this we built a latching relay wired to a pin switch and a 120db peizo siren and a drill battery, then covered the entire contraption with about 20 sticks of hot glue. When he did eventually get into his box and opened it up the siren went off for about 10 hours before the battery eventually died.

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[quote=“supry,post:16,topic:34302"”]

At work I took every one of my managers tools out of his box, then screwed each one down to the work bench and stripped off all the heads of the screws. We then shrink wrapped his tool box shut.

Another guy we took his toolbox and built a wooden box around it, again rounding off all the screw heads. But previous to this we built a latching relay wired to a pin switch and a 120db peizo siren and a drill battery, then covered the entire contraption with about 20 sticks of hot glue. When he did eventually get into his box and opened it up the siren went off for about 10 hours before the battery eventually died.

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where do you work?

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We used to look for the largest rock that can fit down the “chimney” of the port-o-potty, and run over and toss it in when someone was taking a shit. Once you heard footsteps coming quick, you moved your ass off that seat real quick.:wink: That or just launched a huge rock at the side to scare the shit out of someone. My boss got charged $50 extra for the rock collection by the company that vacuums the shit out.:lol:

At the car lot, we would punish the douchebag who parked in the wrong lot all the time by parking cars inches from his doors, and hiding the keys. By the time he noticed his car blocked in, walked back up and looked for the 1st set of keys, tracked down a manager for the spares, and moved all of the cars around, he was going home 15 minutes late.

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[quote=“dirtye30,post:17,topic:34302"”]

where do you work?

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I’m the install supervisor at Circuit City in Cheektowaga, but I did those things when I worked at CC in Henrietta.

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we used to stick basketballs under the duals of some of the trucks at work so when they pulled out kabooom lol, that got alot of people riled up haha.

One time this one foreman was being an asshat to me and was always ordering me around to be a tool, so he told me to get his tool belt and climbing gear for him and i went and got it for him so he could finish this one pole we were working on. Anyway, he climbs up and starts working and realizes that i tied all of his tools to his tool holster with short pieces of yellow rope. Boy was he pissed haha

I was always messing with this other lineman, hed be driving down the street our job is on and he would run over all of our road cones in his company pickup so i would always turn on the heat in the middle of summer and crank it up if he came to get somthing from us. Soo much for leaving it running with the air conditioning. I bet the can of open sardines is still under the seat too… I cant remember if it was him or another guy that we dumped all the 3 hole punch dots into the vents and then turned the fan switch on while the truck was keyed off…