Water Cooler Hijinks

The office water cooler is usually known as the trusty touchstone of the office. It’s the little safe haven where employees can take unofficial mini breaks; a place where they can drink from their paper cups and discuss last night’s episode of True Blood or how Ron Artest is clearly, yet loveably, insane.

Yes, it’s the warm, little hearth in which all employees huddle around for comfort….or as a means to kill time until work is finally over. So, using the office water cooler as the main tool in your prank is a devilishly great idea.
One of the simplest and funniest pranks having to do with the office cooler is to put salt in the water jug.

Just come into work a little earlier than everyone else, take a box of salt and pour in a little less than half of it. Then, sit back and watch as everyone unassumingly strolls in to drink a cup of water. Everyone will be super-annoyed and, until the saltwater fiasco is fixed, will, no longer, have a viable excuse for not working. You might want to pull this prank if you’re a boss, actually, and you need a way to get your employees to stop gossiping at the water cooler all day long.

Another little trick is to switch the hot and cold buttons on the cooler. This is another way to annoy and confuse your coworkers, and it’s a pretty easy trick as well.

If it’s around Halloween or Friday the 13th, you can also put red syrup in the water cooler to make it look like blood. You should do this especially if your office is big on decorating and getting into the Halloween spirit.

So, those were just a few quick and easy ideas. I guarantee that, if you pull them off successfully, the next time everyone’s standing around the water cooler, they’ll be discussing your pranks.