I put pieces of tape over the optical sensors on co-workers mouses.
Also, tape over the spring-loaded button on the phone. Then put a zip tie around the handset cord. When the phone rings, they pick up the handset, but the base follows, bonks them in the head, and keeps ringing. Classic.
Once I put a ball of chassis wax (the coating that truck chassis come with...this really waxy black stuff) onto the earpiece of a co-workers phone. It took him forever to find out why his ear was always smudged black every day.
Seriously, something I do at work. I leave these ridiculous signs every now and then. Typically in the bathroom.
There's one there now on an empty clipboard that is hanging in the bathroom that has been empty for a year (used to be for a janitorial checklist). The sign states "This is a load bearing clipboard, please do not remove." When someone does remove it, there's another sign underneath...
They built a "smokers shack" that is basically a "bus stop" shelter. I put a completely fabricated bus schedule in it one time (that didn't last long).
I put a sign that said "For Reference Only" next to the thermostat for the HVAC controls in the office (stupid quality system humor FTW!).
I post EVERY certificate I've ever received on the wall of the cubicle. [looking over shoulder] I've got certificates for:
"Stay Current on Electrical Hazzards"
"How to Avoid Electrical Accidents"
"What is Lockout/Tagout"
"Preparing for and Performing a LO/TO Shutdown"
"Southwest (airlines) Boarding School"
"Distinguished Service Award (3 years)"
"Bomb Threat Training Checklist"
and a few others...
Clem
Occasionally drench co-workers with a 5 gallon bucket of ice water adn then hit them with 10lb. of flour. Otherwise drive in the oncoming lane when the need arrives and play in fire. Work is fun, it's the days off that can get boring.
Try to make Scott cry.
Margie
My joke ever at work was quite a few years ago. One day when she had to leave early, I reset the default homepage on my bosses PC to the old "Hampsterdance.com." She and company help desk figured what had by the time I got to work the next day. She thought it was really funny once she found out that her computer was fine.
I supply the people of NY with their daliy allotment of sarcastic and obnoxious answers, and peoplewatch. Some days that can be very entertaining if you are in the right area.
Dept of Tax has the real motivation posters up in the customer service phone bullpen. I replace those with demotivational posters on the weekend when no one is around. I print them on photo stock paper at home and smuggle them into the office via my laptop bag.
Back in the days when the old Classic Mac OS was still current, I changed all my boss's icons to the trash, and all the labels to "trash"... so he had 30 identical trash icons on the desktop.
Hehehe gotta love MacOS for pulling pranks 
We all have 2 machines, a laptop w/ docking station (hence, real keyboard / mouse / monitor) and a desktop an all our desks. Inevitably someone will forget to lock their computer. That inevitably leads to all sorts of shenanigans. Changing the screen saver, adding a screen saver password, and the one that confuses the most people is swapping the keyboards and mice between the 2 machines.
Tim Baxter wrote: Back in the days when the old Classic Mac OS was still current, I changed all my boss's icons to the trash, and all the labels to "trash"... so he had 30 identical trash icons on the desktop.
Ahh, geek humor. Thanks Nick Burns
http://www.jibjab.com/view/155045
http://video.aol.com/partner/hulu/saturday-night-live-nick-burns/IVzzXrrp3yo707SDCaVCzt94RwEAjOCi
I may have found the source for America's economic crisis.
Well, other than surfing GRM and the SpecMiata boards, I've actually been playing some iRacing at work. But the boss knows about that one...and is OK with it :)
Years ago, back in the DOS days, I had a friend that would create a batch file in the root directory on any computer not being watched. The file was named "tryme.bat" and would run "chkdsk" hidden in the background (working the hard drive lights) while the screen said "formating drive c:............." Several people fell for that and cussed while trying to shut the computer down. If you let it run through at the end a line popped up that said "Just kidding!"
When I was in college, a friend took a screenshot of the desktop of one of the PCs in a computer lab. He then set the screenshot as wallpaper and moved all the real icons off to the side. We watched and laughed one of the more clueless students sat down at the machine and wonder why nothing worked when she clicked on the "Icons" in the wallpaper. I know we were not the first ones to do that. But we had fun with it.
Not work related, but back in high school in our art rooms, they had a huge sink with bars of generic pumice soap to wash up with. When I took ceramics and sculpture, on a few occasions I hid the bars of soap and replaced them with bars of clay that I sculpted to look just like the bars of soap we used. I would wait until the end of class and wash my hands with a real bar of soap, and watch the hilarity.
I like to ask my boss if procedure code "L7900" is covered....
"Male Vaccuum Erection System."
She always has to look it up and see.
Type Q wrote: When I was in college, a friend took a screenshot of the desktop of one of the PCs in a computer lab. He then set the screenshot as wallpaper and moved all the real icons off to the side. We watched and laughed one of the more clueless students sat down at the machine and wonder why nothing worked when she clicked on the "Icons" in the wallpaper. I know we were not the first ones to do that. But we had fun with it.
Did that trick too, hilarious. Also did the usual stuff, sticky-notes under the optical mouse, unplug computer or keyboard, etc... Added sound effects to computers and turned up the volume. Also back in the DOS days we used to add ASCII charactures to directory names, the favorite was (I believe) alt-255 which was a blank space. Add a couple of them to a file name and you couldn't open the file without putting in the right amount of blank charactures. Had someone in the office wrap everything in my cube with plastic while I was on a business trip once. When he did that he inadvertiently broke my computer. I got a new computer out of that, went from having the oldest, slowest desktop to the newest and fastest in the office because of him trying to be funny. I thought it was neat after I got my new machine. 
I designed a new Locost chassis in Pro/Engineer. The suspension geometry is based on RX-7 FC front spindles and FB diff. With three young kids at home, that's the extent of the project. I'm hoping that at least one of my girls will catch the car bug.
all i can get away with is snacking on the cooked shrimp. At my old job...free beer and creme brule's
We’ve got about 1,200 people on e-mail distribution here at work and every time someone misplaces something, a company wide lost-n-found memo gets sent.
As a result, I like to scrounge pawn shops, garage sales, etc for the most bizarre stuff possible to misplace in the building to see what the lost-n-found description will be.
Along with disconcerting books like “How To Tell Your Coworkers You’re Gay”, I once got a prosthetic eye for $5.00…Bhahaha
TWO WORDS!
UNREAL TOURNAMENT!
RX Reven' wrote: We’ve got about 1,200 people on e-mail distribution here at work and every time someone misplaces something, a company wide lost-n-found memo gets sent. As a result, I like to scrounge pawn shops, garage sales, etc for the most bizarre stuff possible to misplace in the building to see what the lost-n-found description will be. Along with disconcerting books like “How To Tell Your Coworkers You’re Gay”, I once got a prosthetic eye for $5.00…Bhahaha
Hilarious, I sent this to a co-worker that had been complaining that a new security guard at the building was spamming everyone with lost and found e-mails. I think I gave him an idea for a tasty revenge :)
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