I got pranked with this website: https://updatefaker.com/
I recently switched from manual labor to office labour and learned the hard way to lock my screen :)
In hindsight it was hilarious, but I waited for maybe 20 minutes before I got suspicious. How can I take revenge?
Put some tape over the optical sensor on their mouse. Bonus points if you print out a little dickbutt picture or something.
We would use a picture of Arnold Schwarzenegger with the words “You’ve Been Terminated.”
Bonus points if the light from the sensor lights up his robot eye.
We’d change their desktop background to something stupid
Put one of them fake ransom ware screens
You just gave me an awesome prank to pull on my wife. Thanks!
If you have fixed desks, put a piece of sticky note over the laser on their mouse. That or use the monitor settings to rotate their screen 180 degrees when they aren’t around.
CTL + ALT + arrow keys will do it for ya
Not sure that this is a universally available hotkey for rotating screens. Certainly doesn’t work on my laptop.
Alt + F4 works though.
I think it only works with external displays specifically running on an Intel integrated GPU, iirc
You could ‘upgrade’ them to a better operating system: https://malisipi.github.io/ubuntu-tour/
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Or turn an iPhone into a Samsung via https://trygalaxy.com/
I enjoy how when you connect to it from an Android phone, it’s like:
What in the fuck do you want here?! We’re not spending computing resources on you, dumbass. Go, send it to your heathen friends!
I work at an office which uses Macs. If you have terminal access to a coworker’s machine, you can enter
say "I'm watching you"and their computer will speak the text. Had a lot of fun with that until they figured out it was me.An old boss of mine would find people who left their computer logged in and would send an email to the department from it saying “I love you all so much!”
I worked in a different office and didn’t realize that’s what was happening. I just thought the Russian guy was happy to be in America.
I like this. It’s wholesome
One day when I was visiting home office I ran into him in the elevator. My lead introduced me to him. I blurted out, “Oh the guy who sends the I love everyone!” emails.
He promptly started swearing and cursing our manager and saying what things he would do to him if he caught him in a dark alley and ranted for the duration of the elevator ride. Then shook my hand and said “Nice to meet you!” and went on with his day.
Connect a 2nd wireless mouse keep it at your desk let the fun begin
DON’T do what I’ve done a couple of weeks ago - landed me my first HR meeting ever :D
I had to use my coworkers (lady around 50, not too clever with the computers) computer on remote desktop. As I was about to close it, I thought to myself “Perfect setup for a joke”. On her computer, I went to https://pranx.com/hacker/ and put in on full screen. Literally like 30s later, our IT guy (he’s in the same room as me) get a phone call and all I can hear is shouting in the earpiece. I say to him don’t worry, I know what’s this about, I’m going to sort it out. I went downstairs and boss’s wife is running past shouting that we need to phone the police, I walk into the lady’s room and she’s hysteric. I say cool down, it’s a joke.
Safe to say, they were not laughing (probably the fact that I still was, wasn’t helping my case :D)
Open fakeupdate.net put it in full screen (F11) and watch them debating how much of their work was unsawed.
Buy a live lobster, cut the rubber bands off, and hide in their lunch bag.
That’s a big lunch bag if you can hide in it. Hope it keeps you safe from that angry lobster.
In our office, any time someone leaves their screen unlocked, we turn everything upside down in the display settings. Good way to remind people to Win + L when they get up. 😆
Don’t - one person’s pranking is another person’s bullying.
If you can’t take a prank, you shouldn’t pull a prank.
Edit: apologies, I misunderstood that you were pranked first. I’m not a prank fan but you obviously have cause to retaliate. I’ll leave my original comment below.
This doesn’t make sense. “It’s just a prank bro… Can’t you take a joke?”
If the person being pranked doesn’t find it ‘funny’ what is it?
A very French joke: We used to use their email client and send to the whole team “Hey, I feel generous so tomorrow morning I will bring croissants for everyone. Look forward to it!”
The person would get plenty of “thank you” emails in reply and discover the trick. It was a small office so usually the person would bring the pastries. Yum!
Croissanting is an art form.
In my previous job we had the Constitution of Croissanting printed in every open space, because ignorance of the law is no excuse.
We did this too, always a lesson in locking your computer. “Hey team I’ll be buying lunch today since I forgot to lock my computer!”
Just make sure it’s a small group and not 20 hungry people
