'All right. I know one of you took the wheels off my chair': Office of engineers embarks on pranking spree

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
Jun 23, 2024 11:00 AM EDT

So many pranks and so little time. Having an office full of good-natured bosses and coworkers who can take a joke makes the work week fly by. 

Some workplaces prank each other more than others, though, like the employees of u/Apatheric_Anger's place of employment. They wrote that since the pay was low, morale was raised every time someone played a prank. I'm sure that pranking higher-ups was especially common in an atmosphere like that. The employee writes that "few were immune to pranks." 

Playing a good office prank can raise morale for an entire day. It gives the whole office the giggles as they wait for the person to notice the prank, whether it's a stapler encased in Jello, or a computer monitor covered in sticky notes, or a chair that has had every wheel removed and hidden. It gives every employee the chance to diffuse some office tension and participate in some good-natured ribbing… and maybe they'll eventually become the subject of the next prank!

Next up, tweets only get funnier once they're deleted, revealing that the author has thought better of the statement, like one person who tweeted and deleted, "I'm gonna be a better man today." 

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    Office Chair Prank TL;DR at the bottom. English is my first language, but I'll blame all errors on the public school system.
    via u/Apatheric_Anger
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    Years ago I worked at a place that didn't pay very well, but shenanigans helped make up for it. Few were immune to pranks, and even managers (and the company president) were known to punk (before that was a term) the employees.
    via u/Apatheric_Anger
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    One day our manager was out of his office for something, so a couple of us quickly snuck into his office. Less than thirty seconds later his chair was tucked back beneath his desk... minus the casters. Within a minute we were back at our desks and earning our pitiful wages.
    via u/Apatheric_Anger
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    The rush wasn't necessary, because it was nearly a half hour later that out manger came into our room. Manager: "All right. I know one of you took the wheels off my chair."
    via u/Apatheric_Anger
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    Us: "Don't know what you're talking about, boss." There were two of us, and they were casters. (Room full of mechanical engineers, and the manager was one too.)
    via u/Apatheric_Anger
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    Manager: does the fish gulping thing at our denial for a moment "Well... someone did. I'm going into a client meeting, and when I come back in an hour those wheels had better be back in there."
    via u/Apatheric_Anger
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    Approximately sixty-three minutes later he returns to the room to find all five caster back in their respective places... but the chair is gone. We hear heavy footsteps coming our way, whether from anger or the weight of responsibility we don't know. We're of course dutifully working to earn our weakly paycheck, and trying very hard not to look his way. We all know doing so will cause us to begin laughing.
    via u/Apatheric_Anger
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    Manager: sighs heavily "Okay, guys. Where's my chair." That tells us the client meeting went well and it's the weight of being responsible for a group of such stellar and respectful employees. Otherwise, he would have been cursing, throwing things, and one of us would have won the pool on the vein on his forehead bursting.
    via u/Apatheric_Anger
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    We all exchange glances, communicating with nothing but our eyes, and take pity on the guy. We do rock, paper, scissors without looking away from our monitors or taking our fingers from the keyboard. Justin (not his real name) picks rock, as always, and is beaten by seven papers. Justin: "Check the conference room, boss."
    via u/Apatheric_Anger
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    When our manager enters the conference room he find his chair, sitting in the center of the long table. His head drops, his fingers pinch the bridge of his nose, and he begins counting to ten. He made it to four. Manager: "Gdd***t!"
    via u/Apatheric_Anger
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    He takes his chair from the table, brings it back to his office, and shuts the door. The rest of the day was quite peaceful. Actually, it was the next afternoon before he spoke to any of us.
    via u/Apatheric_Anger
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    We know this last part because one of our people in purchasing sits next to the meeting room, and emailed all of us his reaction. TL;DR "Borrowed" casters from bosses chair, told to put them back, put them back... and took the chair.
    via u/Apatheric_Anger
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    halokost That was a great laugh. I can hear the defeat is the "Okay guys. Where's my chair." A perfect, innocent prank, and I love it. Well done.
    via u/halokost
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    vee756 We took the anti glare screen off the pc monitor, and glued black paper inside it, then put it back on the monitor. When the boss tried to turn his computer on, NOTHING would make it "work". Fun.
    via u/vee756
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    krazekrittermom When having a serious job it helps if you can have a chuckle and there is absolutely nothing better than having a belly laugh. If the job is being done and done well it's great to have this level of humor and camaraderie.
    via u/krazekrittermom
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    || nymalous We're of course dutifully working to earn our weakly paycheck "...deliberate play. on words?
    via u/nymalous
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    jbuckets44 Any rational person - given what already occurred - would've expected some kind of shenanigans in the conference room. Lol
    via u/jbuckets44

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