What are some pranks you have played at work (without losing friends and/or getting fired)?

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Took screenshot of desktop. Deleted all shortcuts. Made screenshot the wallpaper. "All my shortcuts are there but I can't click on them...!"

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I once managed to sneak a macro into a friend's PERSONAL.XLS that ran every time Excel opened, and would randomly close the program straight away 10% of the time. No real harm done, just used to take him a couple of goes to open the program. Took him AGES to figure out what was going on.

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I made my managers wallpaper a picture of me. It stayed there for a week

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Change the language + rotate the screen + swap mouse buttons + slow pointer speed down + slow double click speed down. That takes forever to reverse

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You know the windows 7 load screen? I changed it to a picture of Ron Swanson.

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Set an alarm for 3am on their locked iPhone.

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Put tape on the telephone microphone

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Convinced a staff member he was getting fired for wearing headphones on client site - solidified by the fact I got a prank-friendly partner to send the "you're fired" message to him

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Mix skittles and Reese's pieces to a girl's giant bag of m&m... she's was equally confused & PISSED!!!

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Set the mouse wheel to scroll only 1 line at a time. Dude uses a mouse to do Excel and Word and so it was great!

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@D1, that's savage! Well played 🙇

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