Best Office Pranks

Office fun and prank pictures from around the world. A lot of fun can be had with some creative thinking and some post it notes, Jelly, Cheetos or foil!












Video of Mari's Aluminium Desk










Easy Office Prank Ideas

• At the end of the day, everyday, empty someone's stapler leaving only 2 or 3 staples. They will have to refill it everyday, and go crazy.
• Advertise a colleague's job as available. Leave their number with extension for contact. Be sure it is well paying and with low qualifications.
• Each day move a co-workers desk an inch.
• Drop a lemon slice or maraschino cherry into someone's water bottle.
• Spray glitter
• Move everything off someone's desk and into the office fridge.
• Play "Eye of the Tiger" everytime your boss walks in.
• Replace photos of friends and family with that of say Scott Baio, Eugene Levy, Drew Carey, William Shatner, or The New Kids on the Block. Also set their screen saver to a slideshow of these photos.
• Drop a rubber duckie into the watercooler when you are changing the bottle.
• Remove the ink from every one of their pens.
• Open a container of lice powder, and leave it in the bathroom. Say nothing to anyone. Panic will slowly rise.
• Put a brown paper bag in the office fridge labeled "squirrel"
• Before an important meeting, replace everything on a co-workers desk with the Hello-Kitty version (pens with feather tops, pink pads, ...)
• Tape a really long memo or calendar to the inside door of the elevator.
• Install the clapper on something (anything)
  

Red Bull Office Pictures

There are some seriously cool workplaces around the world and Red Bull Office in London is one of our favourites. Why is this office cool? Well, it’s easier to be productive, creative and happy at work in a colourful, organic, playful environment than in a grey, linear, boring one. It is the interior of offices that make the difference, not what it looks like from the outside. Many companies have office that are sleek, modern, architectural masterpieces from the outside - and cubicle wastelands on the inside. These companies need to remember that most employees tend to work inside the building. With that in mind, here are pictures from the Red Bull Office in London.

Time Traveling Furniture

Looking around the house, I realise that my furniture is far more than functional. It actually tells a story, the story of my life to date.

Unlike other things I've purchased, each chair, table or bookcase marks a specific time or event. Why? Well, perhaps because buying furniture tells the story of growing up. It's something that we don't even need to consider buying until we leave home.

I remember when 'moving house' meant fitting everything into my Mum's car. Last time I moved I needed a Luton van. With every move, the vehicle required has got bigger - one day I'll have one of those huge trucks and enough cash to actually pay people to do my packing.

The milestone comes, I guess, when we stop renting furnished accommodation. Nowadays, I shudder at the thought of sleeping in a bed that has been dreamt on by who knows how many strangers. Names of previous occupants might still flutter through the letterbox on junk mail, but at least I've not 'shared' a bed with them.

Like most people, my first unfurnished flat was filled with an eclectic range of hand-me-downs from relatives and car boot purchases. And, like most people, my first 'big' new purchase was a bed. There's something that makes you feel so grown up when you buy your first bed. Looking around the house now, I can see evidence of each new job or pay rise over the years. There are still things that were there in my first flat, but since none of my donated furniture was an heirloom antique, I know it's inevitable that at some point, I'll need, or want to replace those things too.

For some time I kept the catalogue of a well-known Scandinavian furniture shop in the bathroom. I'd spend hours planning fantasy shopping trips to deck out the house. Then came the day that I realised how many people's houses looked almost identikit, because they'd done that very same thing. Or, rather they'd actually gone out and purchased everything rather than thinking about it in the bathroom. These days, living too far away from one of those big Scandinavian shops makes buying furniture there nearly impossible. It's actually done me the world of good as I've found far bigger treasures online or in local shops.

Some things that we buy - shoes, clothes, even books and music - might reflect a moment in our lives. They're like a photo album of specific days: a CD bought on a sunny day, or shoes purchased to cheer yourself up. But furniture's more like a long running video; it's on show, it's there everyday.

When we part with a significant amount of cash for something, we've got to be pretty certain that we'll still love that 'something' a few years down the line.

So, as well as telling the story of my life to date, buying furniture is also like playing a guessing game about whom I'll be in the years to come. It's fair to say, that the new sofa I need will also become a time-travel machine.

By Sarah Maple

Furniture Shopping Online

Where we live it's in a town but not on a road. Difficult to explain to delivery companies or online retailers when ordering furniture online, but self-explanatory if you could see where we live.

It's what is known as a medieval quarter. Sounds all twee and old fashioned but in essence it's a collection of small terraced cottages on a hill, with fruit trees and small green spaces, and a series of pathways connecting them.

The cottages probably aren't that old, maybe two hundred years at the most, but they're probably built on the sites of older dwellings, and still not new enough for anybody then to have considered the needs of big clunky vans delivering furniture that has been ordered via the web.

We live as Sherpas, us folk round here. Driving as near we can to the terraces, then off loading our goods and lugging them up the pathways. I explained on the telephone after going online and finding some new furniture.

The great thing about lots of furniture retail web sites is that you can look at the products but then just telephone them to order, so as to explain any delivery notes.

I know from previous experience that delivery drivers have driven around in circles round the entire part of town that contains these terraced pathways, their SatNavs showing the delivery address but mysteriously guiding them round and round.

My next concern was to how we were actually going to get the three piece suit inside the cottage. I knew we could maneuver the sofa along the pathway, including a tricky tight corner.

I'd taken measurements of the corner; it was actually a three way junction, with two paths wide and one narrow. The narrow one led to our terrace, but by executing a three point turn including a high lift over a hedge to cut the corner, and then back up the narrow path, the sofa would be safely delivered.

Yet our front door was too narrow for the sofa to go through without it getting scraped at best, stuck at worst. Accessed through the front garden the living room window was wide enough, I guessed.

When the delivery van arrived, the sofa was carefully placed in the garden, and therefore followed a contained yet heated argument within our household on how the sofa would fit in through the living room window. I argued that it would have to be tilted at an angle, others disagreed. To avoid damaging the thing we needed to agree on how it would be carried through - it would also avoid damaging us, if we decided to continue our disagreement through the lifting procedure.

After all the trouble I'd taken to ordering our sofa and chair furniture online, getting the sofa along the last 3 yards of its journey seemed an incredible task. It's not about choosing furniture online that's the problem; it's deciding how to move it into your house.

By Sarah Maple

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Coolest Offices

We all know that in order to be productive at work, your workspace needs to be comfortable, relaxing, and even a little bit fun – but these offices take it to the next level. Does your office have a 3 storey high twisty slide, a full home theatre setup equipped with a PS3, a swimming pool, a fully equipped recreation room, or a full gourmet kitchen for when you get hungry?

If not, then check-out some of these ultra-cool offices that do have all of these sweet features. As a matter of fact, I wouldn’t mind living in some of these offices. Maybe you can use it to persuade your boss to make some changes around your boring, cubicle-laced office? You never know. At least then you’d have no problem logging-in some extra overtime hours at work!

Mass Studios, Seoul
Mass Studios: There’s no doubt that integrating the outdoors with the inside of an office can have a sort of calming effect on the employees that work there, but some offices go above and beyond the ‘green’ theme.

Mass Studios in Seoul, Korea is one of the only buildings on earth that needs to be landscaped both outside and inside the space.


ING Headquarters, Amsterdam
ING Headquarters - This extremely innovative office building in the Netherlands is not only cool on the inside but also the building itself is extraordinarily unique in its design.

The 5,600 square meter building is built upon 16 steel legs, and it stands 10 storeys high. The inside of this building contains a total of six inner gardens, 250 seat auditorium, a restaurant, library and ‘flexible’ workspaces that allow employees to change the scenery whenever they fell that they need a change.


Pallotta TeamWorks Headquarters, Los Angeles
Pallotta TeamWorks Headquarters: This may be one of the weirdest offices ever created. The individual offices are located inside of shipping containers that are stacked on top of one another.

Other areas of the office are located underneath tents that are anchored by the shipping containers / offices. This unique office is a one-of-a-kind creation that is truly a fine piece of design and architecture.


Red Bull Office, London
What do you get when you mix an unlimited supply of Red Bull and a 3 storey office filled with a group of fun-loving employees? You get one of the coolest offices on the planet.

Talk about looking forward to coming to work each day, this place has got it all – recreation areas, cafe, comfortable lounge area, bar, floating staircases, slippery slides and much more.


TBWA/Chiat/Day Office
TBWA is an ad agency with a very cool office in New York City. This innovative office features a huge wide-open floor plan, full-court basketball court, big-screen TV and even has trees growing inside of the building to give it a more ‘outdoorsy’, or fresh, feeling to the office.


FCB Worldwide, California
This office is more like a work of art than anything else. This place is laced with sheep skin furniture, and the huge conference room features 150 custom surf boards suspended from the ceiling with steel cables – you won’t see that very often!


Disney Store Headquarters, Pasadena
The magic of Disney can definitely be found at the Disney Store headquarters inside of a huge 85,000 square foot building that was redesigned back in 2007.

The coolest part of this office is the conference room surrounded by large, colourful foam blocks, which when taken apart creates seating for up to 200 people during the larger company meetings.


DVF Studio, New York City
This innovative building is headquarters of fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg, and it serves both as an office building and a 5,000 square foot showroom.

One of the coolest parts of this building is the stairway which is a cross between a staircase and a chandelier, or ’stairdelier’, that collects natural light from outside and helps distribute it throughout the building.

Nike, London
The 1,500 square meter Nike building in London has won numerous awards for having the most innovative office interior in the world.

The 3 floors of office space consists of many different meeting areas from small, intimate settings, to larger rooms with clean lines and even a large cafe for when the employees need a little pick-me-up during the work day.

Macromedia Headquarters, San Francisco
This software giant’s home office is located inside of a registered Historic Landmark built back in 1905. The design of this office is centered on bringing the employees together to create and build upon ideas.
In order to do this, huge open areas were created, as well as an auditorium, home theatre room, and a cafe area – it must be tough to go to work each day at Macromedia!

Google’s Engineering Headquarters, Zurich
This may just be the ultimate office space. There’s a plethora of ‘relaxation’ rooms with a library, cafe, restaurant and much more.

There’s even a huge twisty slide that can get you down to the bottom floor quicker than ever – and if a slide isn’t your thing, you can slide down the fireman poles.

Lego’s Development Department, Billund
Lego’s Development Department: This office is designed around the idea of relaxation, stimulation, bright colours – all of which helps to enhance the ability of the workers to think more clearly, and to develop new ideas.

This is evident as soon as you walk in the doors of the office and step into the full-service cafe area. This place has a total of 13 meeting rooms, each with its own theme that is supposed to help the employees conjure-up ideas for the next big Lego innovation.

Googleplex, Mountain View
The Google headquarters is more like a 500,000 square foot city than an office. This eco-friendly building features huge, wide open spaces, windows and natural lighting everywhere, and a huge courtyard for employees to relax in when they get stressed out from playing around at the recreational facilities or pigging-out at the food court.

It’s a tough life but someone has to do it!

Pixar Studios, Emeryville
The headquarters of the animation company Pixar is situated on a huge campus in California, which is far from your typical office.

The offices here feature loads of creativity and various types of mood lighting, which helps the employees to get their creative juices flowing. It must be working given their recent successes.

Three RingsDesign Inc., San Francisco
This 3,000 square foot office features what the employees call a ‘Victorian/Steam Punk’ design theme that is totally customised to fit the needs (and wants) of the employees at this startup video game company.

The desks in this office are handmade works of art that each employee designed themselves. Aside from the office itself just looking cool, it also has a pool table, a video game room (of course), a full bar with built-in kegorator for those long nights at the office and even a secret door to the Captain’s Lounge if you need to relax or take a nap.

Ilse Media, Netherlands
This office is truly one-of-a-kind – to say the least. Stepping into this place is like stepping into an old 8-bit video game, because there are pixels everywhere.

The table, a lunch truck, coat rack, and even the food on the table cloths are all pixelised.