Every week I bought 2 or 3 picture frames at the dollar store. I would find pictures of ugly babies online or odd celebrities.

And I would leave it on people's desks. No one ever found out it was me.

I imagine after I left for another job they pieced it together, though. Most people would get a laugh, though I remember one specific person got pissed.

I put a picture of Maury Povich and wrote 'you are not the father!' and added a fake autograph. The person who sat there went in that morning and instantly yelled at everyone, 'Whoever's been doing this stupid sh*t, I'm not participating in these stupid office jokes, so leave me out of them'—he then went and violently smashed the frame into the trash.

One of my favorite times though... We had an insurance rep who would come in and explain benefits to new hires.

She would give everyone a card with her picture on it. One day I found a glorious picture frame in the shape of a heart with a gliterry mess of a bedazzled sign that said 'always and forever'.

So naturally, I put her picture in photoshop and blew it up, the quality was horrible, but it just made it that much better because of the frame. It looked like a picture you'd find acceptable to frame if you were thetype of person who would buy that type of frame.

Then I stayed late and left it on my manager's desk. I left it facing the door of his office so it appeared like one of those pictures people put of their family facing you when you speak to them at their desk.

This meant when he opened the door he would see it instantly because of how loud the frame was.

Well, before he could see it, he injured himself and couldn't come into work. So it just sat in his office for days.

He only came in about a week later specifically to welcome a new team member. And of course the benefitsrep was there to walk the new member through their options.

And of all f*cking days, this was the first time I heard her ask him if he had a minute to talk. He said yes and they go into his office."

The second he opens the door he gives a very nervous laugh and says, 'Sh*t. I think I can explain..." then the door shut behind them.

Everyone heard him, but no one else knew what had happened, everyone in the office looked at each other in confusion and shrugged at each other.

I sat at my desk with my face in pain and tears in my eyes from trying so hard not to laugh.

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This is oddly specific, but funny. 

When I was in college, all the theatre kids went abroad to London, almost as tradition. I didn’t go anywhere, because I didn’t have the money.

But one of the theatre kids who was a friendly rival of mine went to France. 

While he was gone, I just kept telling people he was in London. At first they questioned it, but I just kept driving it home. 

By the time he got back, everyone kept asking him how London was. After four months of that, he got real sick of it. 

And then I photoshopped him into some of the London photos and submitted them to the school’s study abroad photo contest and got them on the university’s website. 

It was a great long term prank.

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Not subtle, but when I put my dad into an ALF I was contacted by a priest who asked permission to visit my dad on a regular basis.

No hesitation from me:

"Please do! He used to be devout but slipped away a few years ago. I'm sure he just needs to be encouraged to come back to the lord. He might seem resistant at first but please don't give up on him!"

My dad was a devout atheist, an incorrigible curmudgeon, and a supreme a*****e.

This gave me great joy.

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Whenever somebody asks me to take their picture on their phone, typically at a tourist spot, I will quickly take a selfie of myself and then take their picture. I’m sure to take a few pictures to bury myself under the camera roll. When I walk away, I get a good laugh seeing them shift through the pictures only to see my smiling face.

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I worked at a camp a couple of summers this was before digital cameras were very common There were a couple of staff members that when they found an unattended camera would snap a silly selfie on it. I asked them how many times they have snapped a selfie like this their reply was "lots of times."

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If you know your neighbour has an Alexa, wait until you know that they are out, then shout through their letterbox "Alexa, set alarm for 3am tomorrow morning" then other random alarms and reminders.


Use an old WiFi router in your car and name it "Surveillance Van #2" then park it in a public car park.

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Creepy! Shouting through your neighbours letterbox is not cool.

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Change their autocorrect so every time they type 'yes' it automatically changes to 'yeehaw.' Nothing like turning someone into a cowboy without them knowing it!!

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"Hi John, could you feed the cats today?" "Yeehaw" "WTF, John?"

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I went to a small college back when we all used the library for computers. At this time Netflix was a DVD delivery system where you had a subscription and they mailed you DVDs. It was quite amazing for the time.

So I type in my Netflix Account and I see my friend's name pop up on the account as he had forgotten to log off when he had used the same computer in the library.

So I changed all his mission impossible/battle type saved dvds to romcons and dance movies.

Later that week I asked him how he enjoyed his movies and he laughed and said they were actually quite good. Hehehe.

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My old boss bought a new Harley Davidson one summer. No matter where he parked I would put about a table spoon of oil under it. He ended up taking back to the dealer twice before he got himself ejected and banned.

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Back in college, I lived with a group of five complete knuckleheads in a big house.  One of them had a super sweet cat named Riblet. The roommate who owned the cat "stole" one of my other roomate's boyfriends.   


 The spurned roomate and another roommate took turns s******g in the cat's litter box, but did it infrequently enough and stealthily enough the other roommate thought his cat was sick.   


 I feel bad for little Riblet who I imagine on coming to its litter box was like "WTF?".

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1) When I was a kid in the 80s , my neighbor used to to go on vacation for two weeks every year during the summer. And he relied on His friend (my dad) to go get his mail and check on his house. Which my dad did. My neighbor loved elaborate Christmas lights. Like all over his entire house. And that took a lot of work. So he left them up all year and only turned them on at Christmas time. So for two weeks of the summer my dad would turn his friends Christmas lights on during the summer. But no one else in the neighborhood knew what was going on. Every once in a while someone in the neighborhood would mention it and he would act all confused, because he was.


2) My grandpa use to work with a guy during the 60s who use to brag about gas mileage. So his whole office would pitch in and buy gas and siphon it into his car so his gas would last way longer than it should. Like weeks. And he would come in and brag about it and everyone would laugh.

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I’m a teacher. I like to make that little water droplet sound by flicking my cheek and whistling outward as I do it.

My younger kids always ask “what was that noise?” And I always say “I don’t know. I didn’t hear anything.” A few I’ve had for YEARS and they still haven’t figured it out. I just keep gaslighting these children.

I get paid for this s**t.

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Set their clocks ahead by a minute a day. Imperceptible at first, but next thing you know you’re on the road commuting into work at 0615, trying to figure out why morning rush hour traffic seems to be getting lighter every week.

Did this to my parents when I was 13.

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A bit redundant when everyone's clocks now get their time from the network they're connected to.

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Few months ago i met one of my neighbours, she told me her and her husbands names, I've seen them around so i know who her husband is.

few days ago I'm outside and see him coming the other way.

smile and wave "Hi Bob" as if I've known him for years.

He says "hi" back like he just cant remember my name right now.

that's going to be a slow burn. i am very distinctive looking so pretty quickly he'll be thinking "surely i'd remember meeting a [3 foot tall black woman with green spiky hair (all details changed to protect my identity)]".

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At an old office job we messed with an older guy who wasn’t as tech savvy by changing the speed of his mouse to be really slow. He was getting pretty frustrated that he had to scroll so much to barely move his cursor on the screen. We casually suggested that perhaps his mouse was dirty and that he should clean it. He cleans it with an electronics duster spray and when he leaves to put the spray back we set the mouse sensitivity to HIGH. When he came back his reaction was so funny we were physically hurting from trying not to laugh.

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that seems kind of mean though. it would be one thing if the guy was like "I know everything about computers" but it doesn't sound like that.

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During the Cold War the East German state security police aka the Stasi, would monitor suspected dissidents and enemy agents. They'd place bugs in their apartments, and when they were out they'd rearrange things. Maybe hide things, maybe just move them around a bit. Nothing huge, the suspects wouldn't come home to find the place trashed like it had been tossed for clues, but things would be different. The feeling of being watched and if being f****d with would grow over time, til the suspect couldn't sleep, couldn't operate normally, utterly paranoid, not knowing who was an informant, who might be an agent.

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There was a case where one of the US Embassy staff in Moscow was trying unsuccessfully to solve a crossword puzzle. They asked everyone in the office if they knew the "nine letter word for X clue." After 10 minutes of this their telephone rang and a thick Russian accent said "Espionage."

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Put one just one skittle in their bag of m&m's.

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This sounds like something Alanis Morrisette would've sung about in Ironic. "It's a... Skittle... In your bag of M&Ms"

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For about 5 years whenever we were at some random place we'd call a friend of ours and ask for Mr. Sullivan. He would say we have the wrong number and we'd politely apologize and hang up. Sometimes it would be twice in a week and other times a month or two would pass, sometimes we'd have random people we were with make the call so it would be a different voice.

We were all at a house party one night and someone legit called the house with a wrong number, to which our friend goes on a tear about this constant wrong number he's been getting for years. That was as good a time as any to break it to him, but he didn't actually believe us at first. It was one of those "I'm not even mad." reactions when he finally put it together.

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They're doing the prank WRONG! After all those calls over a ridiculous amount of time, the final call should be an unknown voice saying "This is Special Agent Sullivan. Were there any messages for me?"

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If you know someone with a duel control electric blanket, switch the bottom plugs around. Mom was cold so she would turn hers up a number, made pop hot so he turned his down 1. It took them about 3 nights to figure it out. Sorry mom and pop.

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Add in a random "no pun intended" into a conversation.

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Stolen from XKCD. xkcd.com/559

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Move something slightly out of place every time you’re around them, like tilting a picture frame or adjusting a chair. They’ll start questioning their sanity.

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I moved a colleague's desk back towards the wall, just one inch a day. She thought she was putting on weight.

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My manager (who was very chill) had his desk out the back. I noticed once when he was showing me something on his phone he always had NFC turned on. He also had a habit of placing his phone on one particular spot of his desk when working.

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I had a few of these white NFC stickers, basically just a little chip in a small white sticker that mobile phones read when being placed overtop or near it, basically the same tech as PayWave, you could program the chip to perform actions on the phone.
I placed a few in the spot where he usually placed the phone, since the stickers were white they blended in perfectly to his desk.
I programmed the sticker to open Youtube on his phone and play a specific meme or cursed video of my choosing which would happen daily, so much so that he thought his phone was faulty and reset it yet the problem still prevailed 🤭 He was so confused hahaha

I Eventually confessed my crimes and he thought it was hilarious. It then became a routine to set his QR code to a new meme every day when he's away from his desk.

Here's an example of the type of c**p I'd assign to the NFC sticker:

TLDR: Hidden NFC tags linking to silly things when accidentally scanned are the best for messing with someone.

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Whenever someone gives an answer just reply, without context "That explains so much about you".

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I worked in an office where two co workers absolutely hated each other. One of them stuck a small dead fish to the backside of the other’s desk drawer in her office. The smell that grew from that was absolutely terrible and no one could figure out where it was coming from.
There was no cameras in that part of the office so it was never proven. They let the fishmonger go for other reasons.

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This is best done with a small group of co-conspirators.  
Leave small notes that say "I know who you are, I saw what you've done.".

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Purchase a bag tiny plastic babies online, they're pretty cheap. Place a couple on their desk or bag daily and watch them get pissed about it.

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Its almost guaranteed that they will also look back. Do this everyday without them noticing that you are doing it on purpose and if they ask whats up then shrug it down saying you were just distracted.

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I made a Vetinari-style clock. I bought an identical electronic clock to the one at the office. It was just a normal round Ikea clock with minute, hour, and second hands. I created a circuit that generated ticks of varying lengths. Although the ticks were very accurate when observing the minute hand, the changes in tick length were subtle—up to 5 percent, though most were much smaller. The effect was that if you were standing near the clock, your brain would pick up on the ticks and sense something was off, but you couldn’t pinpoint exactly what. A few people suspected the clock, but after verifying it showed the correct time, they looked elsewhere for the source of the issue. I had to take it down and put the original one back when the batteries were about to die, but for over three months, it had caused a subtle nagging in the office.

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At one point I had a job where I came in about an hour before my boss did. Everyday I pushed his desk back about 1/4" until one day he pulled out his chair and it hit the wall and he finally realized his desk was about 2' back from where it used to be.  


Another time I would put a nickel in his phone handset every few days it adds just enough weight to be imperceptible but then when you take all of the nickles out it makes the handset considerably lighter and your muscle memory will cause you to use too much strength and essentially smack yourself in the face with your phone. 

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When they say something completely unambiguous: pause, nod and say "I see what you did there".

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“Have you been crying?” is always a solid way to mess with someone.

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GEORGE CLOONEY! everyday emptied his roommate's cat's litterbox every morning.
The roommate was obviously concerned about the cat's constipation, went to the Vet and everything.

After a couple of weeks, before the morning workout
He took a huge actor-size s**t in the litterbox and left 🤣

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My work colleague likes to adjust the height of my office chair for fun. Gets me every time...

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Call someone a random name every time.

But also make sure to never call them by their actual name.

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Coworker sold his car to another coworker but kept a set of keys. During lunchbreak he would change little things like slightly adjust the rear view mirror and or up the volume on the stereo. It then moved on to moving the car to the adjacent parking spot or reversing it in. At one point he refueled the car before confessing.

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I would love it if someone pranked me by keeping my tank topped off. It would drive me completely bonkers, though.

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Take a screenshot of their desktop, and then use that as their desktop background picture. Hide or move all the icons.

Change their auto correct in outlook from the word "Sincerely" to "I have feelings for you"

CTRL+ALT + Arrow key will flip their desktop

Place an air horn under their chair, tape it so when they sit it goes off

Remove one of their office chair wheels

Download and change their office ringtone using the default passwords to the backstreet boys

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I did the first one to my father, that was a funny day

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When I was a young E-nothing Corpsman in the Navy, we took turns doing the coffee mess for the week. Whenever it was my turn I would switch out for decaf for the whole week. Then the next week I’d switch it back to regular cut with espresso.

Lemme tell yeah, watching all the khakis lose their s**t from caffeine detox one week and then look like jittery coke heads the next was phenomenal. When I eventually gained some rank and left that command, I taught my little trick to one of my juniors. Some traditions must be upheld.

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That's just f*****g wrong. Someone *pranked me at work once adding thickener to my coffee and I genuinely had to make an effort to speak calmly when I asked them to never mess with my coffee. I'm not a morning person. Pranks are fine bit leave the coffee alone.

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Replace all of the breakfast cereal from the box with beans.

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I had the Netflix app on my phone while my wife was trying to pick a something to watch. Every time she picked something I would use my phone to select Hotel Transylvania 3 on the tv.

She started to get REALLY mad about the 7th time. She couldn’t figure out why that was the only thing that would start.

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Told my gf I dropped and broke one of our cups while she was away for a trip, but didn't remember which one.

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Hide one of their shoes inside their house.

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I hate you.

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Tie a cable tie to their car's driveshaft.

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1. Ask "If you could change anything about yourself what would it be....apart from the obvious" and then just leave it there.

2. Holding open a door for someone, but not quite wide enough to actually get through

3. When a waiter/waitress asks if your food is OK, which is almost everytime youve got a mouth full, spit it in your hand, say yes it's good. Then put it back in your mouth and carry on eating.

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This person sounds immature. The last one is disgusting. The waiter/waitress is just doing their job. Yes, it's a bit annoying when you've got a mouth full of food, but I highly doubt they're doing it on purpose. Just do what I do and nod and give a thumbs up.

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At a party, walk up to someone you don’t know and say “hey, I don’t care what anybody else says, I think it’s perfectly fine that you’re here” and then walk off.

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This is just mean.

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Not mine, but a really beautiful one:

Gather a few willing people (like 3, including yourself).

Target a random stranger.

Over the course of the day, have each person bump into them and say the following:

‘Wake up’
‘You’re in a coma’
‘This isn’t real’

After saying your phrase, walk away and pretend it never happened.

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That's mean, not funny at all

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Every time they walk in, say "I'll tell you later" to whomever you're with, and abruptly stop the conversation.

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Walk into an airport and make your way to the boarding gates. Pick someone you see that is travelling solo and stand in front of them until you get their attention. Once their eyes meet yours with the upmost expressionless face say: "Don't get on that plane" and walk back out.

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Don't do this. Can't believe someone is dumb enough to. I'm all for pranks, but just...no.

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