AceFuzzLord,

I am not sure this works anymore or if it ever did since I heard about it years ago, but when you send an email to someone on something like gmail who doesn’t use some form of adblocker, be sure to put some hidden text in whatever color the background of their client is. Apparently they’ll eventually start seeing ads for that specific thing you hid in the email since those emails are most certainly scanned so you can get targeted ads (especially gmail and most likely outlook as well).

peter,
@peter@feddit.uk avatar

You probably need to receive more than one email about a subject before you start getting targeted ads

AceFuzzLord,

Forgot to mention the part about it being something you need to constantly do. Thanks for the heads up.

SlovenianSocket,
@SlovenianSocket@lemmy.ca avatar

Hit my boss with tellyourpartner.org earlier this week, a website that anonymously texts your partner with a list of STIs you select and a suggestion to get tested. Be careful tho it kinda back fired and he messaged a few of his exes lmao

chickenf622,

That’s a horrible thing to do to someone

SlovenianSocket,
@SlovenianSocket@lemmy.ca avatar

That’s construction for ya. The pranks can be ruthless

NightOwl,

Stapler in jello always gets laughs.

jaackf,

Classic Tim

empireOfLove,

DAMMIT JIM!

RoadieRich,

Excuse me, I believe you have my stapler?

ChaoticEntropy,
@ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk avatar

If you have fixed desks, put a piece of sticky note over the laser on their mouse. That or use the monitor settings to rotate their screen 180 degrees when they aren’t around.

Nagairius,

CTL + ALT + arrow keys will do it for ya

ChaoticEntropy,
@ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk avatar

Not sure that this is a universally available hotkey for rotating screens. Certainly doesn’t work on my laptop.

Alt + F4 works though.

peter,
@peter@feddit.uk avatar

I think it only works with external displays specifically running on an Intel integrated GPU, iirc

Tathas,

An old boss of mine would find people who left their computer logged in and would send an email to the department from it saying “I love you all so much!”

I worked in a different office and didn’t realize that’s what was happening. I just thought the Russian guy was happy to be in America.

abbadon420,

I like this. It’s wholesome

Tathas,

One day when I was visiting home office I ran into him in the elevator. My lead introduced me to him. I blurted out, “Oh the guy who sends the I love everyone!” emails.

He promptly started swearing and cursing our manager and saying what things he would do to him if he caught him in a dark alley and ranted for the duration of the elevator ride. Then shook my hand and said “Nice to meet you!” and went on with his day.

thesingingcrow,

Don’t - one person’s pranking is another person’s bullying.

abbadon420,

If you can’t take a prank, you shouldn’t pull a prank.

thesingingcrow, (edited )

Edit: apologies, I misunderstood that you were pranked first. I’m not a prank fan but you obviously have cause to retaliate. I’ll leave my original comment below.


This doesn’t make sense. “It’s just a prank bro… Can’t you take a joke?”

If the person being pranked doesn’t find it ‘funny’ what is it?

_haha_oh_wow_,
@_haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works avatar

Put some tape over the optical sensor on their mouse. Bonus points if you print out a little dickbutt picture or something.

kersploosh,
@kersploosh@sh.itjust.works avatar

We would use a picture of Arnold Schwarzenegger with the words “You’ve Been Terminated.”

_haha_oh_wow_,
@_haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works avatar

Bonus points if the light from the sensor lights up his robot eye.

BlahajEnjoyer,

Put one of them fake ransom ware screens

ezmack,

We’d change their desktop background to something stupid

Blegh,
  • Screenshot their desktop
  • hide all icons
  • set screenshot as desktop background
  • watch them die inside as nothing works, not even a restart.

Optional step:

  • put your wireless mouse receiver in their computer and subtly click occasionally, or move when they move. Has to be subtle enough for them to question their sanity for a few hours.

I managed to do the above once. Worth it.

BananaPeal,
@BananaPeal@sh.itjust.works avatar

Don’t forget to move the taskbar to the other side of the screen and set to auto-hide.

Danilo,
@Danilo@lemmy.eco.br avatar

I did that with the bonus of flipping the screenshot upside down on photoshop first. Then flipped his screen.

bufordt,
@bufordt@sh.itjust.works avatar

That’s a great addition. We used to screenshot it with an application open so they would keep trying to close the application. I had a coworker restart their computer several times before he realized what was going on.

moose_cannon,

Ctrl + Alt + up arrow key sets the monitor output to be upside down.

I also am a fan of making the cursor huge and turning on pointer trails.

MythicWolf,

These are good pranks with the right level of irritating. They make it hard to work but not impossible to do the work

perishthethought,

This happened to me. When you didn’t know this is possible in windows, it takes a surprisingly long time to fix, but there’s no real damage done.

PrunesMakeYouPoop,
  1. Wait until you have to fart while coworker is away from desk.
  2. Position sphincter directly above the tube in the office chair.
  3. Lower chair as far as it will go.
  4. Fart as you raise the chair as high as it will go, sucking the gassy shit particles into the tube.
  5. Walk away.
  6. Watch the carnage when coworker sits and lowers the chair.
Vex_Detrause,

Isn’t the exhaust hole is in the bottom?

PrunesMakeYouPoop,

Depends on the chair, I suppose. It definitely worked on the chairs I had in the US Navy back in 2006.
It doesn't matter though, you're still farting in their chair either way.

RenardDesMers,
@RenardDesMers@lemmy.ml avatar

A very French joke: We used to use their email client and send to the whole team “Hey, I feel generous so tomorrow morning I will bring croissants for everyone. Look forward to it!”

The person would get plenty of “thank you” emails in reply and discover the trick. It was a small office so usually the person would bring the pastries. Yum!

scrubbles,
@scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech avatar

We did this too, always a lesson in locking your computer. “Hey team I’ll be buying lunch today since I forgot to lock my computer!”

Just make sure it’s a small group and not 20 hungry people

everett,

Here’s one I started planning but never got around to actually pulling off. My team had recently moved from Windows to Mac, had a habit of leaving for lunch at the same time and for some reason never, ever locked their screens.

The prank would go like this: I’d grab a copy of a classic Mac emulator, a System 7 disk image and copies of all the Adobe apps circa 1980-whatever, so that they would come back from lunch one day to find all their beefy new Macbook Pros “downgraded” to looking like this, complete with working Photoshop, Illustrator, etc.

I deeply regret not doing this.

Harlan_Cloverseed,
@Harlan_Cloverseed@kbin.social avatar

Pen island dot com

PrunesMakeYouPoop,

experts exchange dot com

Mattador0808,

Big bus tycoons dot com

Drekzak,

Fuck that got me good, didn’t know that one

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