They (the unknown they) covered my cow-orker’s entire cubicle with foil. His chair, and the little ergonomic handles. His guest chair. His monitor. His steel-toed shoes! The wastebasket. The markers for his whiteboard. The books on his shelf. The shelf itself! Each and every doo-dad on his desk.
Totally hilarious! He comes back on Monday… I hope I’m there to see his face.
Sounds like somebody read about this prank.
Curses, foiled again!
I’ve done this with foil, and once with plastic wrap. In the latter case we essentially shrink wrapped his cube. Boy, it gets hot in there with a computer running. 
I’ve got some photos here of cubes that have been wrapped in foil, wrapped in newspaper, filled with styro packing peanuts, a cleverly modified keyboard that appeared as if it had been stabbed through the desk, and a keyboard that was so covered in green sprouts that it needed mowing.
When we were in college, long, long before we were married, I once wrapped Mr. SCLs entire car in yarn. Front doors, back doors, trunk, hood - the entire car. Then I hung a little bitty pair of manicure scissors from the drivers side door handle.
I had to be in class, so I was unable to see his face when he saw his car. He only had 10 minutes to drive from the main campus to the theater for his next class, so he cut just enough yarn to enable him to get the drivers side door open, and drove it still covered in yarn.
Heeheehee. And he married me anyway.
My co-worker’s office was foiled last December.
I once ‘living roomed’ a buddies yard in high school. We collected furniture set on curbs for months, then when he went on vacation, we pulled it all out and created a living room in his yard. 2 couches, carpet, big console tv, recliner. All kinds of fun.
We also once decked his yard out with cheesy plastic x-mas lawn ornaments.
In July.
He’s jewish.
I’d like to get a lot of people to try bolting, gluing, and taping all the things that are on the floor to the ceiling, and gluing all the light fixtures to the ground. Then, we’d’d flip all of the posters and pictures on the wall upside down as well. To be able to see the person’s look on their face when they view that would far outweigh the trouble of doing the joke and helping him put everything the way they were.
If the computer is foil-wrapped, and powered on, make sure that the usual venting is available, else the thing may well cook by its’ own heat.
Excellent. I love workplace pranks.
The greatest one that was ever accomplished at my company was when the secretaries of the legal department arranged for the general counsel’s office door to be completely sheetrocked over and painted to match the rest of the wall (complete with hanging piece of office art).
During my fraternity days, a bunch of us removed the door to one guy’s room. He went away for Thanksgiving break, so we took out the door, added a frame, drywalled it, put on some drywall mud, painted it, and added a pirce of baseboard. If you hadn’t seen the place before, you’d have no idea there was a door there.
You are my hero. I know it was a long time ago, but do you have any pictures? I’m trying to figure out how I might be able to pull this one off someday…
I love it.
Firemen are great pranksters. My husband was changing into his uniform one morning, turned his back and his shirt was gone. He had an extra with him, so ni big deal. At lunch he found the first shirt. In the freezer. In a coffee can. Full of water. Well ice. Another time he opened his locker and (he says a couple dozen, but I have it on good authority it was 3) sparrows flew out. His uniform was guanoed, luckily it was the dirty one. Since this was before we met, I didn’t have to wash it!
As pay back, he coaxed a huge male Canada goose into the cap’t office. Pissed off the captain and the goose.
Another one on the same captian, they replaced his desk chair with a toilet. The carefully hung his jacket over the tank. Of course, the seat was up… I saw a picture of the captain’s face when he saw it. It was a look of total confusion. Like he thought it was a trick of the light… Light, my ass, that thing had to weight 40 or 50 pounds, at least.
You can tell him OSHA has new rules for EMF emissions, and he was the first upgrade for compliance.
No, I don’t have any pictures - I wish I did. Mr. SCL says he will always carry around a mental image of that “WTF” moment.
The trick is to use yarn on spools - that way you can toss it under the car and it will roll to the other side. Skeins of yarn would be more difficult.
Last place I worked, a co-worker had taken a vacation day when her kids had off school. We knew it was coming, so we purchased about 300 balloons, and streamers to match, and the entire call center spent their day blowing up balloons. We papered her office with the streamers (hung ceiling to floor, and from one end to the other) and filled it with balloons.
Yeah, her reaction is on a CD somewhere…
Good thing he was a well-liked captain or the thing might have been… :rolleyes: …loaded.
One that a friend of mine did this year was incredibly funny, but very subtle.
He printed up a whole bunch of cards that said:
He then placed one of these cards on every chair in his office. Yes… EVERY chair.
Nobody sat in their chairs that morning.
He gave them about an hour before he let everyone in on the gag.
Actually, the perpetrator left it alone. And the monitor they did wrap was turned off.
Apparently one time when Bon Scott was out of his tree on acid. the other members of AC/DC bolted/glued all of the furniture in his room to the ceiling.