14 Office Pranks That Are Brilliant and Cruel

Nathan Johnson Published 08/21/2015

You should probably check to see if you'll get fired before trying any of these.

1.
When you put “voice activated” on appliances and laugh at dumb people embarrassing themselves.
2.
When you turn your colleagues filing cabinet into a fish tank.
3.
Covering every surface of the room with pictures of the boss like he’s General Mao. Actually, this is fair enough. You might get fired, but you will have your dignity.
4.
How long would this take?
5.
Stapling your sleeping colleague’s tie to his desk, smacking him in the face and watching him tank it. The triple threat.
6.
When you turn a desk into a ball pit.
7.
Putting petrifying pictures on the ceiling.
8.
Going on to your friend’s computer and opening 80 separate windows of 10-hour Nyan Cat.
9.
Completely covering someone’s environment in cling film.
10.
Making someone’s area a storage facility for takeaway cartons.
11.
Or red cups.
12.
Putting this under the chair of your least favorite colleague.
13.
Re-imagining someone’s desk as an ideal place to scatter birdseed.
14.
When your boss is on holiday, planting cress seeds in their keyboard and then congratulating them on ‘going green’.

1.
When you put “voice activated” on appliances and laugh at dumb people embarrassing themselves.
2.
When you turn your colleagues filing cabinet into a fish tank.
3.
Covering every surface of the room with pictures of the boss like he’s General Mao. Actually, this is fair enough. You might get fired, but you will have your dignity.
4.
How long would this take?
5.
Stapling your sleeping colleague’s tie to his desk, smacking him in the face and watching him tank it. The triple threat.
6.
When you turn a desk into a ball pit.
7.
Putting petrifying pictures on the ceiling.
8.
Going on to your friend’s computer and opening 80 separate windows of 10-hour Nyan Cat.
9.
Completely covering someone’s environment in cling film.
10.
Making someone’s area a storage facility for takeaway cartons.
11.
Or red cups.
12.
Putting this under the chair of your least favorite colleague.
13.
Re-imagining someone’s desk as an ideal place to scatter birdseed.
14.
When your boss is on holiday, planting cress seeds in their keyboard and then congratulating them on ‘going green’.