Whats the silliest thing you ever did while at work??

[LynnTH]

This is a great thread. One of my first jobs in high school was at a clothing store at the mall that was not too busy. So, another gal and I would take turns standing in the window pretending we were mannequins and trying to see how many people we could fool.

My job now (been here 13 years) has been full of pranks since I started. And 99% of them are done by my bosses (who are brothers). Our old phone system would allow you to call (our number) and the person making the call could hang up but the phone would still ring for 2 times but no one would be there. Well, I did not know this. So, my bosses would do this numerous times a day for like a month. (of course, I was always swearing at the dang phone) So, one day I got fed up and called our phone company in to fix the problem. Well, then they had to fess up what they had been doing so I could cancel the service call. We still laugh about that one.

Other pranks include taping every object down on my desk, taking the ball out of mouse (finally fixed that one be getting an optical mouse), taping the the part of the phone where I talked so I could hear the customer but they could not hear me(finally wised up to that one too). My one boss bought a horn at a flea market (like a bike horn) and he will sneak up behind me and honk that thing - of course I scream like someone is murdering me.

We have a lot of fun at work but I know any pranks I do will come back twofold to me.

 

[Todd&Copper]

We used to do a lot of practical jokes in my old office - unplugging the mouse, taping things down, rigging the drawers on someone's desk so they wouldn't open, adjusting the height of their chair. One co-worker was deeathly afraid of worms, so I took a supersized rubberband, cut it so it looked like a worm, and placed it in the pot of her desk plant (she never noticed it -the joke was on me). The *best* joke was a fake engagement ring I had sent to my bud who's boyfriend was in France. Reception called her up to the front, and gave her the box, roses and a card that said "X, please make this a truly happy birthday for me and say yes. Love, Y" [it was his birthday] She was stunned for about 5 minutes, then started saying "I can't marry him. I don't want to marry him. What do I do?" I finally let her off of the hook. She LOVED the joke!

 

[preshi]

We (my officemate Joe and I) are constantly doing silly things all day. We are a weird pair though and I think we might just annoy everyone else in the office. I dress up in my blanket and he takes pictures or the other day I was wearing a red striped shirt and so we played "Where's Waldo". I hid and he took pictures all around the office. We throw confetti at each other. Yesterday we were seeing if he could get the laser pointer on my tounge, or we try to throw food in each others mouths, we hide things, we sing songs (we have the lyrics to "Dont go breaking my heart" printed out and we take turns singing. We highly amuse ourselves. It's not that we are bored we just like to have fun. it's good times.

 

[Tigger&Belle]

I used to be one of only two women working as service advisors at a car dealership. I had about 25 mechanics (all male) to whom I'd give jobs.

They tortured the other woman and I relentlessly. Not in a mean way. Just practical jokes. One of the guys told us it was God's revenge for not having brothers growing up--now we each had 25 brothers. They'd tape the tops to every pen on my desk so I couldn't get them off quickly when I got a phone call. They'd hide and pop out of unexpected places (like a car trunk) to scare us. They'd wait until I was on the phone and hit the button on my chair to make it suddenly lower to the floor. They'd staple all our repair orders together in the middle so you couldn't read them. They'd hide rubber snakes in our desk drawers. It was actually a lot of fun working there and we'd play jokes on them, too. I miss those guys. While they'd try to rile us mercilessly, they were also extremely loyal and would stand up for us, too.

Clean out your PM box!!!

 

[Tigger&Belle]

I can't believe I'm posting this, but....

On a very quiet day at the nursery, we dressed an infant maniquen up in clothes and a blanket. One of us grabbed an attending doc to 'ask a question' and positioned ourselves outside the nursery so that she was facing the glass viewing inside. Meanwhile, another resident on the inside was carrying the 'baby' accross the room. He mimed a gigantic stumble and the 'baby' went flying out of his arms accross the entire nursery. I think the attending about fainted.

(insert evil grinning smiley)

That is so bad!!!! And funny...

I'll have to say, being a SAHM I don't have any stories to add. I'd have to go back in my memory bank too far, but if I was working, you bet your sweet bippy I'd be the type to be doing some of these things. Because I do them around the house with my kids.

 

[arminnie]

I wore my Minnie Mouse ears to work- it was Halloween.

One Halloween in CA I came dressed as a boneless chicken (an interloper from Arkansas) as they were running all of these ads at the time about how out of state chickens were trying to sneak over the line to compete with CA chickens.

I didn't do this, but I contributed cards - We "papered" the boss's office with everyone's old out of date business cards. There must have been 10,000 cards all over this office - every square inch.

 

[MosMom]

Flip Flop Olympics. When I worked at Gymboree (as a manager *cough*) I got stuck with working on the 4th of July and it was DEAD. A gal I work with and I decided to play flip flop olympics and see how far we could flip them across the store.

There was always a rumor they had cameras watching us and after that day, we were pretty certain it was just a rumor. LOL

 

[Pooh_Friend#1]

I use to work at a daycare through high school and college, I worked there for 6 years. One long day of work (6:00am - 4:30 pm) we had to take a CPR/First Aid class that night from 6:30-10:30. Well around 9:30 my best friend and I started to get a little stir crazy and giddy (from being at the daycare since 6:00am) and when it was time to practice mouth-to-mouth on the dummy, we decided to get up on the table and straddle the dummy. Let's just say we almost got written up because the instructor wrote how displeased he was on the bill that was given to the owner of the center to pay. Note: DO NOT STRADDLE CPR DUMMIES, instructors do not find it amuzing and may get you fired!!!

 

[goofygirl]

i thought of another one- a bunch of us were in on this joke:

We were reading the paper at lunch and came across the ad for the show "Puppetry of the P***s" We clipped the ad and wrote a post it note: "We are organizing a group trip to this show, do you want to come?" and left it on this coworker's desk who was kind of an older woman, fuddy-duddy type. She thought it was funny though.