10 office pranks to drive colleagues crazy
Nothing going on in the office? With these nasty pranks you create a good mood at the workplace. We have collected the 10 best tricks with which you can really drive your colleagues crazy.
10 office pranks for more fun in the workplace: planted keyboard
When the colleague is on vacation:
- Sprinkle some dirt or sand into the colleague's keyboard and then some cress seeds. Then just moisten a little and let the cress grow (for detailed instructions).
- After just three days, the first plants slip through the spaces between the keyboards and ensure that your colleague's facial expression is magnificent.
Take a deep breath: disinfectant spray for the office
Is there a smell worse than that of disinfectant spray?
- Challenge 1: As soon as a colleague comes to your table, first clean the table top with disinfectant spray. It can no longer be seen that quickly (alternatively a portion of Sagrotan).
- Challenge 2: Your colleague is annoying all the time? Put on your most beautiful smile and spray the colleague's table. The hospital smell is gone after a few minutes and, with a bit of luck, the colleague in time too.
Office copier becomes a monster
- Next time you go to the copier, set the following after use:
- 250%, A3, 99 sheets. The colleague after you will enjoy it.
Nutella under the toilet door handle
- Armed with a little Nutella, go to the toilet and smear a little under the doorknobs.
- When the next colleague touches the handle ...
Please call back on the sex hotline
- If your colleague notes down all the callbacks on a piece of paper, use this shamelessly:
- Secretly write the phone number of a sex hotline on the sheet. You can quickly find the numbers on the Internet: 0900 ....
When things have to go fast: turn the screen
- This little prank for in between always works if you only have a few seconds left:
- Press [Ctrl] + [Alt] + [Right Arrow] on the keyboard and the screen rotates 90 degrees.
Office prank: Clicking almost impossible
If you confuse the mouse pointer, your colleague will go mad within a few minutes - guaranteed!
- Right-click on the desktop and then select "Customize."
- In the small window, choose "Change Mouse Pointer"> "Mouse Properties"> "Keys"> "Key Configuration"> "Toggle Primary and Secondary Key".
Swap coffee powder: From decaffeinated coffee to extra strong espresso
For many colleagues, nothing works without a cup of coffee in the morning. You have to use:
- Secretly pour decaffeinated coffee into the coffee machine every morning. If you don't notice the snoring noses in the office after a week, you can keep your faces alert with extra-strong espresso powder.
- Anyone who thinks a rat has been hooked on drugs has never seen an office full of brewed colleagues ...
Have a nap in the office? That can end badly ...
If your colleague is dozing at lunchtime in the office, you only need a few cable ties for the next trick:
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- When the colleague wakes up from his afternoon nap ...
Large employee parking lot? Then the search can lead to despair
- Secretly mop your colleague's car key and quickly park your car. It's best to go straight to the other end of the parking lot.
- The following applies: The larger the parking lot, the greater the despair of the colleague when searching.
Attention: Not everyone has the same sense of humor
Before you play someone's office prank, you should first ask yourself whether your colleague can laugh about it. Because what can make a hearty laugh out of one might rather upset the other. In addition, you should always think about the practices and rules at your place of work before pranking someone.
Our performance in this practical tip is only for entertainment and should not be understood as an instruction. CHIP assumes no liability for the consequences of actually implementing these pranks.
Have you tried all the pranks? Then you should continue with the nastiest technical pranks. Your office doesn't have enough. Also read in the test of our partner Wirecutter which office chair is the best.