<![CDATA[Gizmodo: office pranks]]> http://tags.gizmodo.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gizmodo.com.png <![CDATA[Gizmodo: office pranks]]> http://gizmodo.com/tag/officepranks http://gizmodo.com/tag/officepranks <![CDATA[Friday Is the Perfect Day for an Office Riot]]> Aside from some nice tapas, wine, and caipirinhas, is there any better way to end the week than a revolution at the office? I say NO! Here are the complete instructions:

Warning: Pictures in the gallery contain NSFW illustrations with nudity

According to its creators—the Centennial Society—the pamphlet is really designed to strike back against junk mail companies:

This small, sixteen-page pamphlet is produced to put inside the postage-paid, business-reply envelopes that come with junk mail offers. Every envelope collected is stuffed with the pamphlet and mailed back to its original company.

Whatever. Here's my idea: Let's all follow the instructions and start a new world order. One in which I can go naked outside my office hours too. [Centennial Society via Boing Boing]

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<![CDATA[Probably the Smallest Cubicle In the World]]> The image associated with this post is best viewed using a browser.The caption says: "Our intern starts today. We figured we'd start her off with a little prank." I don't see how this is funny. It looks like our interns' cubicles. [Flickr—Thanks Alice]

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<![CDATA[The Anatomy of the Office Prank]]>

The casual office employee stalks his coworker with the intensity of a lion hunting a wildebeest on the African savanna. Never rushed, always contemplated, the average office prank is executed with all the precision found in a well-pressed shirt.

In part one of our examination of the office prank, we study the first of many techniques office workers use to triumph over co-adversaries. To those with soft stomachs, the gruesome techniques used to humiliate one's peers with cardboard might be better left unseen.

For thousands of years, the office prankster has had to make due with his limited available resources. One such plentiful resource is cardboard. Don't see any around? Look closer. Cardboard can be found in anything from packaging materials from shipments to old cereal boxes from the office kitchen. Just be careful of the fabled "cardboard paper cut." Legend has it the that the victim could lose an entire finger.
Notice the attention to detail here, the Windows error messages and the "My Crappy Award for Something."

Notice that there's a good chance someone else has already pulled the exact same cardboard cubicle prank you once considered so original. Bonus points, however, for the cardboard headset.

Here it's about not just the excellent craftsmanship but the ever-underestimated synchronized gloating.

This engineering firm did some work on the Extreme Home Makeover. We hoped it worked out better for the less privileged.

A vicious cardboard blow, notice the incorporation of a plastic bucket...a maneuver of some aptitude.


Now, humble student, you have seen the various attacks in the cardboard master's arsenal. There are only two known defenses to this attack. Recycling and a pocket lighter. And one may get you fired.

Special thanks to Dustin Schirer, Brando, Ed Chaput, Chris Alleman and Randy Mumma.

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<![CDATA[Office Pranks: Surprise Ambush ]]> Tomorrow will mark an important day in the history of office jobs. With the help of our readers, we've assembled an elite guidebook to illustrate the dangerous world of the corporate cubicle world—to warn you of the troubles that lie ahead and teach you, should the situation be the most dire, how to fight back. Until then, we wanted to show you what could happen should you drop your guard for even a moment. Our reader explains, "We were having our office refurbed and this part was empty whilst all the big bosses worked around the other side of the building." Always be ready, friends. Always. [Thanks Ben!]

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<![CDATA[We Want to See Your Best Office Pranks]]> Technology was meant to empower us—to clothe us, feed us and enable us to be more than chimps slinging poo from the trees. But it's been misused. Offices are filled to the brim with technology where it plays a role of oppressor. Fluorescent lights, computer monitors, fax machines, copiers, cellphones—these things are all great tech, but they can create world that's nearly intolerable to most people who work there. Yet a majority of our readers manage to sit in these places all day, every day, with no end in sight. These readers are heroes.

And it's in that spirit that we'd like to see your best office pranks.

We shouldn't have to wait for 3M to sponsor office fun when it's all around us already, copying its drunken rump, launching airplanes anonymously from cubicle bunkers and playing pick-up paper basketball on company trophies.

So if you've pulled a grand office prank and have the pictures, video and prose to back it up, let us know in an email labeled "Office Pranks" sent to our tips line. Of course we'd never condone mean-spirited attacks covered up as a joke, but we'd really like to bear witness to the little guy triumphing over the corporation, if only for a day.

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<![CDATA[Normal Person's Lighter, Pyro's Fire Extinguisher]]>

If only this were full-sized, it would make for the best pranks.
"John, toss me the extinguisher!"
"Don't be a hero."
"I wasn't put on this earth to sit in a cubicle all day...tell my kids I love them."
"Don't!"
"I need to - get the hell out of here while you still can."
"Ok, here's the extinguisher...good luck in there."
(beat)
"Ahhh! WTF! This thing is shooting out fire!! FIRE!!! HELP!!!!"
"They say you fight fire with fire!"
"I just burned a puppy alive you maniac!"

[Aving]

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