Becoming independently wealthy and telling my employer I no longer require their services.

-- Access colleague system
-- Create a screen saver with an "Updating your Windows" snapshot.
-- Add shortcut key to start screen saver.

Anytime I noticed that they left their desk for a brief... I'll head up to their PC and press the key combination to start up the screen saver... Then return to my seat and put on my sorry face. 😒

What's an office?

Best work prank?

Get a random friend to burst into my home office during a zoom call, wearing a ski mask, gun in hand, speak foreign language, and drag me out of the room. Have another masked friend go up the camera and threaten to kill me if my coworkers go to the police. Disappear for a week, then email my boss saying I need 100k or they’ll start killing my family members one by one, take the money, then go on vacation while I fill out job applications. Get a new job and repeat the prank every few months until I retire.

I show up for work sober and on time.

I was actually successful in one that I literally got from the American version of The Office.

I conditioned one of my employees to want chewing gum after I did a clap motion with my hands: snap the fingers on both hands really quick and do a fist to palm tap and say "hey bud, want gum?" and because I specifically bought his favorite he would always say yes.

Eventually, and after months of doing it, I was walking around the office when I did the motion, but this time without gum. Now, he was on the fifth levek of the virtual world doing his shit fully concentrated and he STILL looked up at me looking anxious. I said "what's up?" and he just said nothing, that he felt that he was missing something but couldn't put the finger on it.

Just like in the show, he then complained that his mouth felt funny. Eventually he waddled his way to my office to ask for gum 🤣🤣🤣🤣

tl;dr I successfully Pavlov'ed one of my employees to have a need of chewing gum every time I do a finger snap clap motion.

I am the best manager in the world.

Silently change all the coffee to decaf

Handing in my resignation letter on April 1st, but then actually leaving.

Not really a prank, that's something I genuinely feel like doing nowadays.

Phish everyone's slack tokens, make markov chain bots that immitate everyone and delete any messages not coming from the bots.

Have the entire company chatting with itself nonsensically without allowing any human interaction for a whole day.

Then buy the sysadmin their favorite bottle of alochol for the trouble I put them through.

Install a little tool on all machines that randomly discards every ~200th keyboard input.

Watch them suffer.

Myself and a fellow coworker both joined post-covid, so we've never been into the office.

Considering our voices aren't a million miles apart, we're both rather tempted to introduce ourselves as the other person when we eventually go back to the office, just to see if anyone cottons on 😁

Gandalf Sax Guy

Go on leave for one month

Office? What’s an office?

As it's online at the moment.
A live background of myself handing me a glass of wheat beer.
And then actually having it.

My favorite office prank is sending *VERY URGENT* emails to devs with ominous feature requests camouflaged as *FIX BUG ASAP* and then don't reply to followup questions for three weeks.

Works every time.

actually show up at the office

Anyone who left their workstation unlocked and unattended would come back to find their background replaced with My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.

> Drops production database.
> Wait for chaos to ensue.
“It’s just a prank, bro”

I remember a certain prank that amuses me till today....

Just add some devices to monitoring and the notification queue of the build chain / ... ...and wait patiently.

I still cry tears remembering an manager screaming what the hell "the poop train clogged the drain" means and why this is a critical system failure.

(Notice: next time check the mailing aliases of mailing aliases)

Although I can only recommend this if you know your team well. In my case we had a whole lot of fun after I got my head chewed off. XD (got an earful, but in the end he laughed his ass off)

Change haproxy config on the remote machine so that every developer gets rerouted to an older version of the development app.

A mouse that randomly decides to do a double click

Let's just say I'm hoping to finish my bad USB soon :)

The prank happened last 2 years ago. Me and my office mate we love to prank inside the office using our technical skills. One time while our target is on break we took an exact screenshot of his desktop and we manage to hide both cursor and his entire desktop exept the screenshot of his desktop.

After half an hour, the target approach us to fix his issue he restarted the PC multiple times and we laugh so hard because he said his PC keeps hanging or freeze. Hahaha LMAO.

Then after we laugh we reveal that his PC is fine we just replace his desktop with a fake desktop image. He even laugh on our prank hahaha.

Did you prank your office mate the same prank we did? Haha I would advice choose carefully who to prank.

I should try to put ascii arts of pepe memes instead of meaningful error handling messages in my code, this way I would know for sure if people are actually not just patching fucking try catch silence everywhere instead of doing proper code.

I should probably do the same with documentation as well while being at it.

Make the analog clocks at work run faster. Might be able to do this with changing the timing crystal. Depends upon the clock I guess.

"Good office party last night! Oh btw I was informed today that I got corona."

Would be worth it if this was after a reunion with the client...

Dress up like godzilla and stroke my penis with my reptilian arm! Then take a dino shit in the middle of the floor bc godzilla loves burritos more than he loves water towers! Lol godzilla loves Tito’s vodka more than anything lol I’m so glad someone here suggested it

Eye drops in the coffee

I just thought about shelfing the progress of a colleague that always leaves his pc unlocked and resetting his branch to the last release locally.
But that would be a bit too harsch and risky.

Work prank i want to pull of....

We kind of did all of it🤗😂

Wanted to put a bull horn under my co workers table. We did actually do it and made a video of it.

Have never stopped crying from laughs🤗

If you can’t have fun then why bother!?!?

Replace all the python scripts with Perl file extensions. It wouldn't really do anything because people would still be able to run things if they did things right, it would just be a harmless funny prank

Once I configured someone's bashrc so that everytime he opened the terminal he would get a creepy ascii art version of Sans from Undertale. We both are big fans.

A nice prank vould be starting sshd on someone else's pc and changing stuff here and there the whole day.

Of course "don't do this at home", I suppose it might be dangerous and I have no idea how to do it in a safe way.

Everything from the show Breaking In with Christian Slater :D Screwing a coworkers deskt to the ceiling might do the trick. Or how about making the offices printer (seemingly) sentient?

The three body problem in work place: having 3 directors, each in charge of different area. It is a real chaos when there is a proposal need to be passed by all three.