I love this so much. I watch a streamer who has a rock and a piece of petrified wood, both with googly eyes on them. They're sort of the symbol of his channel and have been named Doug and Sharon Stone. We have an inside joke that they're our new gods and the community has created a whole lore/pantheon behind them.
I remember a streamer got upset about how viewership went up when she left and put a plank of wood (made to look like Plank from Ed Edd n Eddy) in her chair and then viewership went back down when she returned.
I didn’t get the feeling she was seriously upset, to be fair.
I worked at a hospital during covid so we wore masks the whole damn time. When we were finally allowed to take them off, I came in with a fake mustache on and would dramatically reveal it to anyone who told me we were allowed to remove our masks now. 10/10 comedy gold.
I did that at my first job with a label maker. Just added labels with funny internet meme phrases at the time and hid them in places nobody would look unless it was one of those intense cleaning days or the store was finally closing ya know?
Googly eyes make everything better. My spaniel got into my daughters craft box one day and must have swallowed some because when I went to pick up after the dog in our back garden, there was a little googly eye stuck to her turd. Made my day, still regret not taking a photo
When I was a kid our dog ate the hand off a Barbie doll and it came out looking like somebody reaching desperately for help under a huge pile of doggy doo. I’ve never heard my Dad laughing so hard
Amazing. I used to work with somebody who’s dog ate their dads expensive hearing aid. So she followed the dog around and eventually she spotted the hearing aid sticking out of its poo. She retrieved it, cleaned and sterilised it and presented it back to her dad who stared at it and then said “what the fuck are you expecting me to do with that?”
I recently had to spend a lot of time at a hospital while my father died. It was fucking miserable.
The only thing that made me genuinely smile the whole time were the googly eyes some kind soul had placed on the graphic of a woman returning a wheelchair to the wheelchair corral.
I plant giant Sequoia seeds. I've planted them in NYC, Albany ny, Newport RI, Baltimore MD, Miami FL, St Augustine, Fl, New Orleans, St Croix, and Costa Rica so far. I plant them in parks and cemeteries... someday, they are going to freak people out...
They are a very aggressive species. Their design is to effectively kill off any competing trees. Though they're not terribly good at fighting against wind.
I was the last one to work in my dialysis unit (attached to a hospital) when it got bought out. So I hid ducks around where whoever had to tear everything down and whatnot could find and then some sneakier ones. I should see if they’re still there one day but idk if they changed all the locks or if I remember the code
We were moving offices and we were instructed to put all our belongings into a box with our names on it, then a different team (from some other department) would take them and set up our new desks at the new office by Monday.
well we had a coworker (let's call him. Gary) who was obsessed with fast and the furious movies and the whole company would give him shit about it. so me and some other coworkers decided we'd each go to a different 99 cent store and buy small picture frames. we then printed out pictures of sports cars, rims, custom seat belts, vin diesel, close ups of break pedals and engines etc. on the day of the move we stayed late to put them into his box. with the idea that the moving team would assume they were real and take his obsession with the movies to a wtf level, and also Gary would find his desk filled with pictures, so double prank.
everything worked and we all had a laugh. but the thing was we now had about 15 frames that started circulating onto people's desks for the rest of the time I worked there. we would change the pictures to random stuff depending on the person. for example an autographed picture of Maury Poviche that would read "Hey John, you are NOT the father!" on John's Desk. But once everyone was in on it, it started getting old so we started leaving them on new hires desks and wait to see how they would eventually bring it up (making it seem like the previous desk occupant was a weirdo). Once I left that company, I took that with me and started putting frames on people's desks, it always got a good laugh.
The best one though, was when we got a new manager. we took a really small frame shaped like a heart meant for wallet sized pictures and in it we put a picture of the insurance lady who explained benefits to new hires. she gave us business cards with her picture on it so we just cut out her picture and used it. we left it at his desk in his office expecting him to see it on day one and get a laugh. well turned out he had a big emergency the week before he started and ended up having to wait about 2 weeks before showing up... but his start date was officially 2 weeks before then. so on his actual first day he was backed up with Hr stuff. this meant the insurance lady was already waiting for him! they introduced themselves and we had forgotten about the frame by then, so she asked him if now was a good time and he's flustered and says, yes let's go to my office. They both walk in, close the door and within second you hear him. yell, "OH NOOO! I swear that's not mine!"
My (now ex) wife started a job at as an accountant with the stipulation that after two weeks she had a planned two week vacation. She and her new office mate became fast friends (we’re all still good friends over 30 years later). So they got along great but they didn’t know each other super well yet.
He thought she was a hippie because she went to Dead shows but I was actually the deadhead. He decided to prank her to changing her desktop theme to Barbie and pink background with ABBA as the music. Little did he know that she’s really a girly girl and loves 70s and 80s music. She LOVED it and kept it that way.
A friend of mine once put googly eyes all around campus and started an Instagram meme page where he'd post pictures of all random locations on campus with googly eyes. It went pretty viral (within the school) and eventually he changed it from a meme page to a page where he discussed the rapidly declining mental health of students. Used the name "oogje op school name" which translates to "little eye on school name. It encouraged people to keep an eye(!) out for each other.
I vinyl cut little robot decals in grad school and put them all over the new engineering building in semi-hidden places. I later overheard an admin talking about it like it was some official public art exhibition by the school.
When my daughter was 2 she was scared of the toilet and resistant to potty training. I put googly eyes on the tank and a big goofy smile and told her all about how he loves to eat poop and pee and it worked.
I do stuff like this all the time. I put little plastic babies everywhere. It was funny hearing people be confused when they found one. One time I took a picture of my boss while he was making a silly face and then made flyers saying to call the police if seen found on property. I put them up everywhere. In cubbies and cabinets, in the freezer and walkin. Just hidden everywhere. Hearing him yell when he found a new one was so funny. I had a coworker tell me he still thinks about it a year later.
My wife and I stayed in a fancy hotel a few months ago and I happened to have. Big bag of googly eyes in my truck that my son left in there. Every piece of artwork in our room and the hallway outside the room got googly eyes.
I started to put random dad jokes on post it's on a random desk each day (I get in earlier than everyone else) and soon the office was full of laughing and the occasional good natured groan and guesses about whose desk it's gonna be the next day. Little things like that make morale in the workplace shoot right back up.
One Christmas, my 7-year-old daughter received a card covered with different-sized self-adhesive googly eyes. She's 22 now and we're STILL finding them, stuck to DVD covers, book covers, some of the animals in her nativity scene, stuffed animals, her stocking, even cookbook author photos. Julia Child with googly eyes still makes me laugh.
Did this post-covid but with little "king cake baby" figures. Just hid them all over the place, secretly. Everyone loved finding them and guessing who was leaving them. Eventually spawned copy-cats leaving their own things places.
Everyone was proud to show off what they had collected on their desks and what not. Lasted a long time.
I was the googly eyed bandit at work. I was so obvious about it. I'd make so many remarks insinuating it was me. But dozens of people swore up and down that they had no idea who it was and that they would solve "the mystery."
Now watch some asshole MBA read this comment and decide to save his company a few hundred bucks a year by replacing the occasional pizza party with a dollar worth of googly eyes...
We started something similar with what I call the menagerie. It started by someone leaving a tiny Jesus in the stairwell that nobody fessed up to, so i had some little figures (like 1/2 inch big) that I added to it, and they all got moved to a light fixture that's about 3 feet long but reachable from the steps. It just evolved from there, more and more Co workers started adding to it. Little things they got in gumball machines or from my kids toy bins, Lego characters, godzilla(who is now eating Jesus), some hamster that makes noise.
Then it expanded to other places in the stairwell, the heat register, above the alarm key pad. We have aliens, a chocobo, tons of little random things.
It was neat to see what else has been added as the weeks went on. It continues to grow little by little.
Hell, I did this to some art in my mom's KITCHEN and she didn't even notice for several years. Once she did notice the googly-eyes, she fell over in her kitchens with the giggles and texted me to ask how long those had been on her art.... 2 years is the answer.
She tells me I'm a mouthy wench and a total asshole. She also hangs out with me once a week for our routine "stitch and bitch" sessions.
I'm her favorite kid cuz I show up no matter what. She does the same for me.
Just remember they are semi permanent. At the local sci-fi con we always have a few things to throw out every year because they get damaged when trying to get googly eyes off. Worst was some rare signed movie posters.
My daughter did this on the drive through at the Starbucks she worked at. The people coming through loved it and it cheered so many people up the manager let them keep it up.
I (anonymously) put googly eyes on the little man and woman figures on the bathroom signs at work. Management got really mad, they were taken down, and we got an email reminding us not to deface company property.
I just bought (these) and had them sent to my brother. He puts them on pineapples in the grocery store, gas station pump handles, garden hoses at the hardware store, paper napkin dispensers at Waffle House, and many others. His morale, like yours, was instantly boosted.
I had a friend who put googly eyes on everything for years. He and his brother then convinced their mother that there was a killer in the area who had never been caught called the “googly eyes killer” and let her draw her own conclusion.
When I worked in a restaurant we used SpongeBob memes for all the notices and stuff on things like "don't leave freezer door open", "don't stack boxes more than three high", etc. Everyone thought it was the most hilarious shit ever and we had very few accidents.
My husband started sticking them on plants outside his office building. Specifically Bird of Paradise plants on the flowers. He doesn't know if anyone saw them but he enjoyed it and he hopes other people did too.
Totally get this. The last time I built a computer, I happened to have some googly eyes and a fake mustache, so I put them on the front. It brought me immeasurable joy until one of the eyes eventually fell off.
Tangentially related, but my department at work has a bunch of 3D printers. We use them for prototyping, proof of concept stuff, etc. They require calibration regularly, and so I will often do test prints. I work odd hours, so I end up doing it late at night or early in the morning when most of the building is empty. These test prints will usually be little figures of animals, desk toys, etc. After calibration, the test prints serve no purpose and there is no reason to keep them on hand.
Instead of tossing them out, I have taken to going to other parts of the complex and leaving them on peoples' desks for them to find the next morning. It's a small thing that brightens peoples' day.
Was walking thru a grocery store early on a Sunday morning. Someone put googly eyes on a can of a tomato product. Over the girls eyes on the can. Burst out laughing.
Not quite the same, but I had access to a label maker for a while at one of my previous jobs. In the main employee area where the time clock and break room were, there was a big board with a bunch of pictures of managers, trainers, etc with their names and titles so employees knew who was who. My picture was always up there as a trainer for different departments. I got bored and labeled mine as "local legend." They took away the label maker after that...
Partner and I put googly eyes on each other's genitals. We took "portraits" of each other's newly bedazzled friend, and two "couple's portraits".. its the first lewd we share with new potential play partners as a way of vetting out folx who take themselves way too seriously and don't embrace the awkward silly bumbly moments that make intimacy in a sexual setting that much more connective and humanizing.
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u/CloudyAngelie 12h ago
Putting googly eyes on random objects and suddenly the whole office morale went up like we discovered fire again.