Office Pranks

Started by aliciak | 1 contributor
updated about 1 month ago

I'm kind of an anomaly because I've never had an office job, never had a cube/desk to call my own. No complaints here, but I feel like I miss out on the good stuff about offices. Not the office politics, not the bland-looking break rooms, not the memos. But mainly, the pranks. Every time I watch "The Office," which I realize is NOT most offices, I look dreamily at Jim, laugh at everything Dwight says and does, and a little part of me wishes I understood that kind of workplace. What office pranks have YOU come up with or been the target of?

Baked Potatoes aren't funny?

So, my office pranks are few and far between, but I used to work at my college’s library and, while I didn’t work IN the office, my bosses did. (I was on the front line! Where all the action is! Er…I checked out books).

One time when we were working after hours without any supervision (bad news if Alicia is in charge, people!) a co-worker/friend of mine took the leftover baked potatoes from a library function and decided to do a little decorating. We did some carving, impaled the spuds with things and placed them on everyone’s desks.

Yeah…so, guess what? They were NOT amused the next day. I think we pretended we didn’t do it. My co-worker would eventually get fired because she never showed up for work and never did work while there. Lesson: do your job well (like me), play later, and you’re less likely to get in trouble when you adorn everyone’s desk with cold tubers.