'Had a guy think it was funny to spray a coworkers shoe with Brake Kleen': Office pranks that caused the pranksters their jobs

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  • A trio of funnily dressed coworkers attempt to prank their colleague

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  • When you introduce pranks to an ecosystem, things get complicated. You make one wrong move, and suddenly you've done something inexcusable and jeopardized your job. Most of us know better than to prank to the point of job loss… but not all of us. And boy, isn't it fun to read about the ones who don't? That's what we're here to do today. These are a bunch of pranks that lost the prankster their job. You might not have wanted to be involved in this prank, but you probably do want to read about it. Scroll on to see exactly what happened here. 

  • Have you ever witnessed an office prank that cost someone their job?

  • Inevitable_Tone3... I worked at Chuck E Cheese years ago and two of the busboys took cameras off of a birthday party table, went into one of the back rooms, pulled down their pants and took pictures of their butts and put the cameras back on the party table.

  • A couple weeks later the dad from the birthday party came into the restaurant with the photos and asked the general manager about it. They identified the employees in the photos by their shoes and fired them.

  • S2kDriver One of my colleagues took a sharp pin and a small eraser. He stuck the pin all the way through the eraser making a small arrow. He threw it down the hall trying to hit the wall on the other side. At the same time someone happened to be walking across the hall. The pin stuck him on the cheek. The colleague that threw the pin was gone within the hour.

  • 30 laughing and asking if anyone had a hard time getting logged in this morning. He was escorted out before lunch.

  • WRA1THLORD Jesus where do I start? I used to work in concerts, theatres and corporate events for many years and I've seen some crackers, largely because I kinda worked across the gap between the generation where anything short of ending up in hospital was

  • considered workplace banter and the new one where you can get sued for using the wrong words Probably the worst one was in a theatre I once worked in, where the initiation ceremonies were pretty notorious. My own welcome to the theatre cost me a bit chunk of hair. They had a

  • new general stage hand start one day when I was the head electrician, and while I was out for a few hours doing something they gaffer taped him to a fly bar and hauled him 20 ft up into the ceiling. Poor kid was s ing himself but he wasn't in any danger, proper gaffer tape is

  • stupidly strong. If he'd been left there for 5 minutes it would have been all "yeah, funny guys, you're all wankers". But they forgot about the kid for over 2 hours. By the time I found him the poor lad had wet himself, and was absolutely shaking. 3 people got fired, and rightly so

  • hmo_ Few decades ago (prior cellphones) I was an intern and I was shadowing a junior engineer. We shared a long and thin desk, with our shared computer in the middle. I had the habit to talk out my wallet from my back pocket and put it over the desk, because it was uncomfortable when seating.

  • A person holds a rubber band back on their finger, ready to launch it

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  • One given Friday, before a long weekend/ holiday, she finished early and was gone by 4:30. I was finishing something for the owner, the lead engineer (we had some CAD program only me and the engineer who Shay the computer knew how to use. I still remember it was a 386 with a grayscale VGA monitor, because the color ones were very expensive...)

  • I finished the drawing a little after 6, the owner was at my side talking to me, and when I looked to the place where I usually let it, it was gone. I started to look around, the owner called his assistant, a lot of people came to look for it. About 7, no sign of my wallet, I went home, told my

  • dad, and we went to the police stay to make a report, because we were going to travel about 300 miles, other state, not a good idea travel with no ID or driver license. Tuesday I was back to the office in the afternoon (I had classes in the morning), as

  • soon as the owner saw me he asked if I had found the wallet. This moment engineer turned white, and grab my wallet from her desk drawer, telling us she hide to prank me, but because she left earlier she forgot to told me...

  • The owner was visibly upset and angry, told her it was completely unprofessional, and left. The rest of the day was uneventful, next day I didn't show up because I had classes all day, when I arrived Thursday her side of the desk was clean, they had fired her the day before...

  • When the owner told me his reason to do that it was because he grew up in a dictatorship, and if you were caught with documents, the police would arrest you without thinking twice. Besides that, he also thought messing with personal belongings was unacceptable. I still think they overreacted, just a write up would be enough for me, but I was able to understand his reasoning.

  • KatanaMac3001 In UK, a train operations manager decided to steal the hubcaps from a union rep who was both a local and network representative. The Ops Mgr had CCTV oversight of the staff carpark and turned the switch at the back of the

  • monitor off. All this was bad enough but this was at a depot where not one but 2 of his colleagues were reserve police officers (1 Sergeant and 1 Inspector). It took less than 10 mins to watch the recording because the idiot had switched the monitor on his

  • desk off but not the recording function. Worse, it showed him in clear view doing it. Astoundingly the rep was prepared to let it go but word reached the COO who wanted the manager gone ASAP. He resigned before he was fired. Nobody got to the bottom of why he did it so it was charitably attributed to a prank.

  • jim_br Coworker went to another coworker's computer and e- mailed a love letter to a third coworker. Fired for using someone else's credentials when the recipient went to HR. He admitted he did it when the innocent person was told they would be fired.

  • RoyalPuzzlehead... Almost. But I kept my mouth shut and didn't get caught. Our production manager was a world class Everyone hated him. This guy would have 5 alarms set throughout the night so he could wake up and check on the production numbers from 3rd shift. And would

  • often call the shift supervisor and chew his a out for efficiency. Anyway. This canoe goes and gets himself a D II. I found the crime report in the local newspaper, with his mugshot. I printed a few copies out and pinned them on the bulletin boards around the plant. They were

  • only up for maybe 20 minutes before all h I broke loose and within an hour the production manager was in the plant having a meeting with the whole shift demanding the culprit come forward and making threats to punish the whole shift by withholding our annual

  • bonus if nobody spoke up. I sat quietly with a look of shock on my face like everyone else. Nobody was ever reprimanded for it and we all got our bonuses.

  • Aggravating-Win... Yes. Revenue prank of saran wrapping a car. It was hilarious. Even the target found it funny.

  • Cr... Had a guy think it was funny to spray a coworkers shoe with Brake Kleen and set it on fire while the coworker was wearing it. Manager walked around the corner and saw the shoe in flames and fired him on the spot.

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