You'll never get even - prank

[r2cagle]

So there is only a few people in my office that seem to be able to take a joke, go with the flow, kick back and relax. With the blessing of my boss, I pranked one of them for his 59th birthday.

With 2 rolls of gift wrap in hand, and numerous other gags, I came into the office this weekend and decked out his space. The keyboard was wrapped, and a new coloring book with crayons was placed on top. His phone was gift wrapped and a 'toy' phone took it's prominent place. A Pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey board was stuck on an open wall. Streamers and a Happy Birthday banner were hung from the ceiling. A piece of paper was taped against the laser sensor of his mouse, and numerous toy dinosaurs cavorted across his desk. Two hundred balloons were inflated and stuck in drawers, files, behind cabinets, shoved into the furthest, darkest recessess under his desk and covered the floor of his cubicle.

I let him wonder who had done this most annoying thing to him until about 2 hours before he left for the day. This was so that he didn't have to do all the cleaning up himself. He had fun and enjoyed it, and it's not easy to dispose of that many balloons 'quietly' in an office environment. I warned him that he was going to be finding balloons all week.

He just brought a 'found' balloon by my desk and again jokingly said he was going to get me back.

I just got vacation time approved for the entire week of my birthday. I don't think I'll tell him.

[Magpie]

I just got vacation time approved for the entire week of my birthday. I don't think I'll tell him.

As in he has an entire week to put his prank together?

[r2cagle]

Oh, he has longer time than that, but I doubt he'll actually do anything. Some people are all talk and no action. I work with most of them. Let him plan it and execute it for the week I'm gone. That is still funny. A decorated cubicle with no one in it...lol. (I have a sickness, I know....)

[BookstoreEscapee]

In my old department we had bar code scanners on the computers (the same ones they use on the registers in the stores). If yours suddenly stops working the first thing to do is check for a piece of black paper stuck on the glass.

They also sometimes wind up with porn DVDs from the returns department (part of their job is to identify all the stuff returns can't figure out what to do with, and we don't carry porn. How it gets to us in the first place is a different question...). They almost invariably will find their way into someone's scanner (regular document scanner, which each person also has one of). (If they ever get someone up there with the wrong sense of humor....)

[JustaCashier]

At the hardware store, some years back, it was the night before the manager's 60th birthday.

The assistant manager replaced the manager's desk chair with the store's customer use wheelchair, filled the small room (basically a closet) that the safe was in, with balloons, put up at least one "Happy Birthday (manager)!" sign on the store sales floor, and sprinkled glitter in the shape of sixes, zeros, and other things I don't recall, all over the manager's desk.

A.M. also wanted to fill the office with balloons, but that plan was cut short due to an employee injury after closing, (This person was a real pain in the ass, and we figure her tripping "accident" was intentional, to be used to blackmail the company, although she had a very real bonk on the forehead) so the A.M. had to devote the rest of his shift dealing with her.

The other thing that kind of fell through, was that the A.M. wanted to have a walker next to the manager's desk as well. He searched a bunch of thrift shops, and finally found one, only to find out it actually belonged to an elderly shopper there, that had stepped aside to look at something. So, he found a fake, inflatable walker, and made due with that.

Manager got his revenge on the A.M.'s following birthday, a few months later. The A.M.'s birthday was on, or near, our store's always several weeks after Christmas, Christmas party.

Manager went to a local grocery's in-store bakery, and had them frost a thick, rectangular, piece of foam rubber, and transfer a pic of the A.M.'s hotrod onto it.

A.M., who comes off as a bit of a tough guy, was literally choked up to see such a cool, well thought out cake. That turned into him turning to the manager, and saying "you got me!", as soon as he tried to cut into it!

Cool thing about it, I believe the "cake" was able to be preserved, with the very cool image of his hotrod on it.

Mike

[Kittish]

You know, provided that having balloons bumping around on the ceiling and coming down randomly all over the place wouldn't be dangerous (ceiling fans, possibly shorting out wiring, encountering hot incandescant light fixtures, coworkers with latex allergies and so forth), it would probably a fun variant to use helium ballons in someone's cubicle or work space. There is some stuff that you put into latex balloons and coat the inside with before filling them with helium that keeps them floating for DAYS.

Use plastic or woven crepe streamers or what have you to put a 'lid' on the space to be filled if needed and set up an assembly line filling the balloons... And then savor the prank for the next week or so as dozens of the things bob merrily around the office before coming down all over the place, providing a constant reminder of the prank.

The person being pranked would not be too likely to expect escapee balloons to head for the ceiling, so there's a good chance that quite a lot of them would make a break for freedom before anyone caught on.

[lordlundar]

That is still funny. A decorated cubicle with no one in it...lol. (I have a sickness, I know....)

Ahh, but the idea is he'll have a fair amount of time to plan and execute it for WHEN you get back.

And don't say never, that's a REALLY long time to be absolute.

[r2cagle]

You all will be the first to know if he does manage to do anything! But hey, according to my defective personality test, I'm mostly arrogant anyway! So I'm always right..