Poor Ol' Jeff

Needless to say, I have seen quite a few pranks pulled around my office and have even pulled one or two myself.

There was this time when Jeff (he is the office manager who does he best to keep us all on the straight and narrow) took a week off for vacation with this wife. First off I want to say that it was kind of his fault we pranked him while he was gone. I mean come on, you can’t be the office manager and NOT expect nefarious activities taking place in your absence can you?

So the first day he was on vacation we began taking prank ideas. Now something to point out here is to really get someone good you have to try and get inside their head. See, the more you personalize the prank the more effective it is. With Jeff this came a lot easier to us than we thought it would. We tossed out the usual ideas, stuff like putting super glue on his pens or covering his office in Post-it Notes.

See Jeff is rather Monkish and is a walking hand sanitizer most days, everything must me symmetrical and all that. So what we decided to do was almost devilish considering his phobias.

We decided to wait until the day before he came back and plastic wrap his desk. But we weren’t just wrapping the desk. We decided to wrap things up in the desk. We wrapped up toilet tissue (dipped in chocolate pudding), a hot beef sandwich left smeared on his desk top, tapioca pudding flung on the wrapping to look like the residue of someone’s sneezing. All of the files in his cabinet were turned around backwards and tabs switched around on the folders.

When Jeff came back from vacation we all thought the poor guy was going to cry. He stood there, hands folded across his stomach as if he was about to vomit. It took him nearly three hours to clean the mess and he had to use breathing masks while cleaning. He was so freaked out about the germs.

It wasn’t the prettiest prank we ever pulled but it sure got Jeff better than anything we had ever done before or since.