Tomorrow is the big prank day and most of us are stuck in some kind of an office environment which means you have to get creative. For those of you that are tech savvy MaximumPC has instructions for a great prank using Skype and $10. Using the conference call feature in Skype you can make 24 phones in your office ring simaltanously from your computer. The best part is that the caller ID on the office phones will show Unknown Caller so as long as you can keep a straight face no one will know it is you. If you really want to mess with your coworkers ring their cell phones and desk phones at the same time.
CNN has also posted their list of the top ten office pranks which range from kind of lame to just flat out mean. Number 7 on their list was by far my favorite.
7. Placed a sign on the restroom door that read, “The company ran out of toilet tissue; please use your own resources.”
That is just a little slice of genius. Here is one of the meaner pranks.
4. Called the electric company, used a co-worker’s name and told them he was moving so the electricity got turned off at the co-worker’s house.
While I would love to pull the Skype prank the people at my company are spread across three different buildings so it would be hard for me to really enjoy the full effect. However, I think the door to the bathroom out in the maintenance shop is screening for a “The company ran out of toilet tissue; please use your own resources.” sign. On the other hand I could use Group Policy to set the wallpaper on every computer to something funny. The key will be to find a picture that won’t land me in HR.
This is a pretty creative prank call. The prankster calls an electronics store and pronounces all acronyms as if they were words, confusing the hell out of, then pissing off the employee.
If an angry set of Jewish parents going crazy (really crazy, almost overboard) over their daughter dating an Italian guy is going to offend you, I suggest you don’t listen.
To cap off Mr. Bergis Week on Tasty Booze I thought I’d put up this prank call in honor of “America’s Biggest Sport,” as Mr. Bergis so calls it. If you can’t already tell, Mr. Bergis doesn’t want to buy anything, and he sure doesn’t like gay people or black people. This time you hear his take on how a black NASCAR driver would impact the support. I would love to come across a picture of this dickhead so I can see the hater known as Richard Bergis.
I’m going to declare this week Mr. Bergis week on Tasty Booze. I’ve already posted one of the calls (Gay School). I don’t know who these jokers are, but they pull off some pretty good prank calls. Unfortunately for Mr. Bergis (notorious racist/bigot), he’s the victim of every call. Make sure you put your headphones on for these calls.
Mr. Bergis has a new school coming to the neighborhood. Unfortunately for Mr. Bergis, the school is primarily for gay, lesbian, and transgender children, and Mr. Bergis happens to be the biggest bigot these great states have ever seen. Although almost all of the bad words are bleeped out, you might want to throw on some headphones.
When you occasionally have a really bad day, and you just need to take it out on someone, don’t take it out on someone you know, take it out on someone you don’t know.I was sitting at my desk when I remembered a phone call I’d forgotten to make. I found the number and dialed it.
A man answered, saying “Hello.”I politely said, “This is Chris. Could I please speak with Robyn Carter?”Suddenly a manic voice yelled out in my ear “Get the right f***ing number!” and the phone was slammed down on me. I couldn’t believe that anyone could be so rude .
When I tracked down Robyn’s correct number to call her, I found that I had accidentally transposed the last two digits.After hanging up with her, I decided to call the ‘wrong’ number again.When the same guy answered the phone, I yelled “You’re an asshole!” and hung up.
I wrote his number down with the word ‘asshole’ next to it, and put it in my desk drawer. Every couple of weeks, when I was paying bills or had a really bad day, I’d call him up and yell, “You’re an asshole!” It always cheered me up.
When Caller ID was introduced, I thought my therapeutic ‘asshole’ calling would have to stop. So, I called…
“Good afternoon, Acme Pest Elimination. This is Nancy. How may I help you today?”
Me: Yes I need you to kill something that’s bothering me. It’s a total pest. It’s Matt. I need you to kill Matt. He’s the one that’s pestering me.
Nancy: Okay, how many rats do you think are in the infestation? Seven? Twelve? Thirteen? More than thirteen?
Me: I didn’t say rats. I said Matt.
Nancy:…Please tell me Matt is a nickname you’ve given one of the rats.
Me: He could be a rat. If he were a rat, he’d be the biggest, ugliest, tick-ridden rat that ever ratted. He’d be king of the rats. Time for the king to die. So? Can you kill him or can’t you? And how much is this going to cost because as much as I want to kill him, I don’t want to spend that much money on his death. Maybe on the disposal of his corpse, but definitely not on his death. Anyone can shoot some one and dump his body in the woods, but it takes some real skill to chop off the limbs and dump it in an acid bath…
Nancy: Click.
Me: Nancy? Did you just say click? I could’ve sworn we were going some where with this…galactic cunt….
That is just the first of four hilarious prank calls to different exterminators. Brilliant! Takes me back to my Jerky Boys impersonation days.
A 15 year old boy, Cody Webb, spent 12 days in a juvenile detention center accused of making a bomb threat against the school. The problem is that both school faculty and police officers failed to grasp the fact that in the spring time Daylight savings causes clocks to move ahead an hour.
If it hadn’t been Daylight Savings the timeline would have looked like this. 3/11/07 2:17 a.m. – Caller ID registers a call from Cody Webb’s phone number. 3/11/07 3:17 a.m. – School’s voicemail system receives a bomb threat.
With Daylight Savings the timeline looks like this. 3/11/07 3:17 a.m. - Caller ID registers a call from Cody Webb’s phone number. (Caller ID system had been updated for Daylight Savings) 3/11/07 3:17 a.m. – School’s voicemail system receives a bomb threat. (School’s voicemail system hasn’t been updated for Daylight Savings)
I can’t believe that nobody was able to figure out this mistake for 12 days. It didn’t dawn on a single person for 12 days that maybe they should confirm the timestamps because the clocks had changed the night before? Talk about operating with your head up your ass.
Webb gave an insight into the school’s impressive investigative techniques, saying that he was ushered in to see the principal, Kathy Charlton. She asked him what his phone number was, and , according to Webb, when he replied ’she started waving her hands in the air and saying “we got him, we got him.‒
‘They just started flipping out, saying I made a bomb threat to the school,’ he told local television station KDKA. After he protested his innocence, Webb says that the principal said: ‘Well, why should we believe you? You’re a criminal. Criminals lie all the time.’
Of course after reading the above quotes it makes it a little easier to see how the mistake wasn’t found for 12 days.
