'We froze [his bike] to the freezer floor': 20+ Extra creative workplace pranks

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
Jul 24, 2024 5:00 PM EDT

Have you ever been involved in a workplace prank? One prank is fun, and it can really liven up the job and boost morale. That often leads to a second prank! That first person has to get back at the prankster, after all. And maybe the prank fight turns into a full-office pranking extravaganza, because everyone wants to get in on the fun! 

Well, if you want to start your own workplace pranking spree, look no further than the genius answers from u/LastResortXL's question to the Ask Reddit community. They were wondering how to finish a prank war started at their own workplace: their coworkers greased up their car door handles and tied a trash bag to the front of the truck! The original poster was left with a giant mess to clean up, and a vendetta against the coworkers who got them good. Scroll down to read about the excellent pranks people conjured up, like the folks who froze a bike to a freezer floor, or the person who kept sending "black faxes." Incredible work, folks, keep it up! 

Up next, an assembly line worker who came in two minutes late to work got an earful from their boss, so they finally stood up to their boss saying, "Nope, not my problem." 

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    '[Put] glitter or confetti on the ceiling fan'
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    So someone started a prank war with me at work. What are some of the best workplace pranks you have ever pulled? After finishing up on our Jobsite yesterday, I opened the door to my truck to find the door handles had been greased, along with the handle of my tackle box. When I backed out of the parking space,
    via u/LastResortXL
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    I realized that they had also tied a trash barrel to the front of my truck spilling garbage everywhere. Today is D-day for me, and I want to know: what are your best workplace pranks?
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    JCurry2 A guy at work was bugging me about being single and told me to go out there and start "sport-%$#*ing" so I found out his daughters name (he was considerably older than me) and found her on Facebook. I asked her if she would help me prank her dad and she agreed so we went out on a date and I got a picture taken of us drinking out of a big fruity
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    drink with two straws and put it in a heart-shaped frame on my desk at work. I then got someone else to tell this guy that I fell head- over-heels for a girl and have a picture on my desk of her. He came up and saw the picture and there was about three minutes of silence then all I heard him mumble is "but that's my daughter"......I was the king of the office for awhile after that one.
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    [deleted] Get one of those big zip ties, you're looking for something at least 18" long. Now go put the zip tie on their driveshaft; the tail should be long enough to hit the body (or something else).
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    [deleted] I took apart Oreo cookies. and refilled them with toothpaste and left them in the lunch room.
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    [deleted] People kept taking my chair so one day I took all of the chairs in the office and hid them in the locked storage room. If I can't have a chair, no one can.
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    JohnnyRoyale This one happened a few years ago when I worked at a major office supply store. Backstory. We had an awesome manager, (who was like a father to me) let's call him "T", who would only drink Pepsi. Not even other Pepsi products, just Pepsi. Now one day a print shop girl, "K"
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    went out to get food and drinks for all of us. Every single one of us ordered Coke, except T. When K returned, she forgot T's Pepsi, which he took as a slight. Here's where the fun starts. The next day, T took K's headset (which were connected to radios and we were required to wear,) and wrapped it in a MASSIVE ball
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    of packing tape. Seriously, this ball was a good foot in diameter. He then wrote "WHERE'S MY PEPSI?" on it in Sharpie, and put it with the head sets. K wasn't able to cut through the tape because she might have snipped the headset wire, so she had to spend most of the day unwinding. this tape ball.
    via u/JohnnyRoyale
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    The next day, K bought a 2 litre (Canada, here) bottle of Pepsi, and wrapped T's headset around it. She then started wrapping tape around it, inserting layers of thick plastic signage to stop any attempts to cut through. When she was done, this tape/headset/plastic/pepsi ball was around 2 feet in diameter. She then wrote "RIGHT HERE" on it, and left it with the headsets. T then had to spend most of HIS
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    day to get his headset out and drink the Pepsi. Finally, T got his revenge about a week later on his day off. He came to work during K's shift, and wrapped her entire vehicle (a Blazer) in shipping saran wrap. Layer upon layer, covering the entire Blazer. He then phoned the print shop and asked K to come outside. When K walked outside, T (in his Ford Flex)
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    screamed "THANKS FOR THE PEPSI!" and ripped out of the parking lot. The war ended that day.
    via u/JohnnyRoyale
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    [deleted] I decorated my coworkers car with rainbows, unicorns and angels. He painted all of my windows black.
    via u/JohnnyRoyale
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    reebzor This will all depend on how lax your IT policies are but since I'm a Network Admin I was able to pull this one off: I wrote a script that everyday, at around 2pm, would uninstall the mouse from a coworkers computer. The best part about the prank is the subtlety. All it takes to correct the problem is unplugging the mouse
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    and plugging it back in, no real damage is done to the computer or anything, so there was no reason to believe someone was messing with him. After a few days of unplugging and replugging the mouse, he came in a swapped his mouse for a new one because "something is wrong with this one." The problem continued.. After a half
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    dozen more mice, he eventually came to the conclusion that this was a computer issue, not something related to the mouse. I must have let him google it for 3 more days. before I removed the script. Never told him I did it, the problem just "fixed" itself.
    via u/reebzor
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    uncle-woody The old plastic cup on the top of the open door prank. Water dumps on person, hilarity ensues. Been using that one since I was 5.
    via u/uncle-woody
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    ragincarnage Nothing as great as these, but I had a small prank war with my cube-mate not too long ago: • Put a piece of post-it paper under his mouse, so he would think it stopped working. I did this to him 3 times in one day, and all 3 times. he thought his machine locked up.
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    . Unplugged his keyboard Changed the settings on his chair Raised/lowered the volume of his headset Hung his mouse up on the wall Unplugged the cable of his monitor so the screen would flicker with movement
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    . Replaced his cup of water with an identical cup of hot water
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    TheThird Wheel Simple one, grab 4' of clear packing tape. When they go in the bathroom put a line of the packing tape across the doorway at face level. They will almost always walk right into it and go bananas.
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    blacktalon47 You'll need a second person for this one. Get a bucket full of water and place it against the ceiling. Have someone else grab a pole and press on the bottom holding the bucket in place.
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    Frantically start screaming your targets name. Tell them its an emergency and they need to hold this pole RIGHT NOW while you go get a tool. Then leave them there. They either have to stand there holding the pole or spill water all over themselves.
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    I... I work on a tour boat, and this is one we pulled on the annoying kid who had just started working there. We told him we needed prop cleaner, and for him to get it from the warehouse. He went and asked one of the engineers about it, and the engineer asked if he wanted the red or blue kind. We had this kid running back and
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    forth asking everyone in the company where the prop cleaner was kept, and almost everyone played along with it, until one of the captains finally told him it didn't exist.
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    [deleted] Went to Sweden. Bought a can of Surströmming. Surströmming is sold in cans, which may bulge after prolonged storage, due to the continued fermentation. When opened, the contents release a strong and
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    sometimes overwhelming odor, which explains why the dish is often eaten outdoors. A Japanese study has shown that the smell of a newly opened can of surströmming is the most putrid smell of food in the world, beating similar fermented fish dishes such as the Korean Hongeohoe or
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    Japanese Kusaya. Gave it to my boss as a gift on my last day, told him it was delicious. He opened it in the office. after I left. They couldn't work in the office for weeks.
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    julio26pt2 I worked with 2 guys who were in a prank war. One of the guys was meticulously organized. Everything had its place. When he was on vacation, the other guy put it in a folder and hid it right where a dead fish should be filed. His office began to stink. When the guy returned from vacation, he searched high-and-low
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    (ceiling tiles, behind books, etc). Everywhere. Finally, he found it right where it belonged. Filed under "Fish, Dead." That one still makes me chuckle...
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    TattManDewey I'm a military fire fighter so some of these may not work for all of you!... Potato with hole long ways through it, whistle at one end and shove it into the tail pipe. While your target is sleeping or busy, take car keys and pop hood, use speaker wire to run from the horn to the
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    brake lights, hide all wires and evidence and enjoy driving behind them! Glitter or confetti on ceiling fan Dismantle their bed and replace the dow Ross that hold the bottom frame in place with a small bundle of toothpicks and listen forms crash!
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    Take apart an alarm clock, un-wire the speaker and place a wireless transmitter in its place, wire the receiver to a set of good, loud speakers under the targets bed and set the clock to go off at 00333 At full volume!
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    iKnit Yogurt Not one I pulled or was pranked with, but I got told: The guy was on vacation for two weeks and loves to go climbing. His colleagues took the ceiling off (basically just some metal plates suspended from the "real" ceiling, hiding cables and stuff) and attached everything in the office to steel ropes, which were tied to the ceiling. So basically
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    when he came back he found his office, but completely hanging in the air hip-high.
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    ThinkItsThe80s The invention of the fax machine has brought with it some great pranks. The best being the "black fax". Anybody here with an office job uses a fax machine, like, 50 times a day, minimum, right? If you fax someone black paper it will make their
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    fax machine spit out something with black ink, thus using up all of their ink and making them unable to receive any faxes!
    via u/ThinkItsThe80s
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    Huntralice You'll need: Frebeeze air spray, zip tie Place the ziptie around the trigger, pull tight, throw and run.
    via u/Huntralice
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    magicmuds My dad used to own a bar and he said there was always some smartass that would superglue a quarter to the floor. Apparently, drunk people will spend a lot more time and effort picking up a quarter stuck to the floor than a sober person would.
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    jezzerka Not mine, but my dad convince a guy to wrap his own hotel room key with duct tape while out of town on a job site. My dad had started to wrap up the poor guy's key and had already covered the number. When the guy saw what he was up to, my dad told him it was "someone else's" key. The guy got
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    excited and decided to get in on the action and wrapped the key up, even ripping it into small strips so it could not be pulled off in one giant piece. Well, the guy gave the key back to my dad to put it into the said guy's lunchbox. The guy who duct taped the key waited for the guy to get into his lunch after work and realized that when he didn't
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    find the duct taped key in his lunchbox that he had been tricked into wrapping up his own key. My dad does stuff like this all the time, even to me.
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    jlorenzatti Guy I worked with hated the squeaking sound that Styrofoam makes when you cut it. So for his birthday we took a Styrofoam hat (round with a round brim), cut the brim off, stuffed it full of Styrofoam peanuts, glued it to a piece of cardboard, and then frosted it and added frosted words "happy birthday!". As he plunged
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    the knife into the middle of the "cake" he was stunned at how hard it was (asked if one of the co-worker's young daughter made it) and then started to cut it to the outside of the "cake". He kept on cutting even though it started to do the "squeak" sound he hated so much. Finally, he cut down the cake to find it was fake... To say he was pissed was an understatement!
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    Firebellyed_Fig I used to work in a deli, and we had a huge freezer in the back room as well as a few shelves with deli type stuff. There was guy who would always bring his bike into work so we froze it to the freezer floor. Kinda lame but it is the best I got.
    via u/Firebellyed_Fig
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    [deleted] • When I was a transcriber I would change the settings in word on my colleagues computer so that when they typed a word I knew they'd type a lot that day, it would change to another word they'd typically type a lot. Effectively they'd have to do it all again when I pointed it out.
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    • Would change the font on word so that it flashed, colleague thinks computer/moniter is broken. Working in retail, hung up a bunch of empty hangers in the change rooms looks as - though people are stealing.
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    • Did the classic turn the clock back, then pretend that I'm sticking it to the boss. and closed early.
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    S... Once took a coworkers stuff and shrinkwrapped it all into a huge lump and took it to a whole other part of the building. They came in to a 100% barren desk (not even a chair) and once they finally found their stuff, spent about 4 hours unpacking it and hooking it all up.
    via u/Sterculius

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