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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