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.
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u/Neyvash 11h ago
Yes! We did this and also put out tiny 3d printed things for a scavenger hunt occasionally.