2012 April Fools
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- orrinward20
My best office prank was just a revenge prank not even on April Fools.
My colleague directly opposite would always just yell at me to make the tea for everyone (we got on fine but I was the placement student so I was the bitch of the group).
One day when he went down for a fag break I switched a few keys on his keyboard round (this bit is unremarkable) and I lugged a spare keyboard into the back of his machine with it reachable by my feet.
What ensued was a day of torture for him trying to figure out why at random times his keyboard would hang on certain keys or why he seemed to always be hitting Caps Lock, or why when he locked his machine to go out for a fag (we used to lock to prevent joke all-staffers going out).
Maybe a third of the way through the day in his frustration he noticed the N and M key had been switched and then assumed correctly it was me. He gave me a good yelling for breaking his keyboard and how weak a prank it was.
Luckily for him the office had plenty of keyboards so he proudly 'solved' the problem by getting a new keyboard... I think by the end of the day he'd tried about 10 keyboards when I suggested the reason he might be having some trouble is because I had plugged a 2nd one in the back and had been randomly hitting caps lock/shift/holding down keys at times when I could see he was typing all day.
That was very fun!