Speaker 1: It's it time to go home yet working jewel in
Speaker 1: the morning. It doesn't matter what your job is, if
Speaker 1: you're an engineer, or you work in sales, or you're
Speaker 1: a naturally syndicated radio host with the body of a
Speaker 1: Greek god. You know, even if you have the best
Speaker 1: career in the world, sometimes work just isn't fun. Hours
Speaker 1: of monotonous work, the freezing cold temperatures in your office,
Speaker 1: the company assigned passwords which you're two hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: characters long and don't spell any real words, and eventually
Speaker 1: your brain just goes numb and it all starts to
Speaker 1: blend together, so you can't even remember what day it is.
Speaker 1: Is a Wednesday or Thursday that accidentally come in on
Speaker 1: Sunday again. That's why it's important to find little things
Speaker 1: at your job that can actually spark some joy back
Speaker 1: into your lifeless body. And nothing does that better than
Speaker 1: a quality office prank. By now you've seen all the
Speaker 1: classic ones, like putting a piece of tape on the
Speaker 1: bottom of a mouse sensor or changing the computer background
Speaker 1: to a close up of Hitler. It's a good one,
Speaker 1: but one of them. A group of employees in Canada
Speaker 1: is going viral today because of the prank that they
Speaker 1: pulled on one of their co workers. The guy's name
Speaker 1: is Dave, and it all started when a woman named
Speaker 1: Heather felt bored one day and wanted to do something
Speaker 1: funny to make herself laugh, so she decided to give
Speaker 1: one of her co workers, the guy named Dave, a
Speaker 1: random gift. It was a tiny flower pot filled with
Speaker 1: some decorative rocks, and in the center there was a
Speaker 1: mini little cactus. Oh okay, I don't know it's funny
Speaker 1: about that, but okay, Heather, you have a different sense
Speaker 1: of humor than we do. Heather said that when Dave
Speaker 1: saw his gift, he quote really loved it and it
Speaker 1: was very happy he got it as a present because
Speaker 1: he rarely keeps anything on his desk. So Dave put
Speaker 1: his due cactus right next to his window and seemed
Speaker 1: completely thrilled about it. But what Dave didn't realize is
Speaker 1: that the plant wasn't even a cactus at all. Heather
Speaker 1: had actually planted a pickle in the pot, and she
Speaker 1: just convinced Dave that it was a special South American cactus.
Speaker 1: Just became a hero that we all needed a pickle.
Speaker 1: How boring office work is you plan a pickle in there,
Speaker 1: and you're like, this is gonna be hilarious. And she's
Speaker 1: just sitting there for hours, not thinking about work. She's
Speaker 1: coming up with a pickle. Schemes soured that after a
Speaker 1: day or two, the pickle would start to wither up,
Speaker 1: and Dave would eventually figure it out and they could
Speaker 1: both laugh about it. But that's when the rest of
Speaker 1: the office got wind of the joke and they wanted
Speaker 1: in on the prank two so soon it turned into
Speaker 1: a full blown office scheme. Every couple of days before
Speaker 1: the pickle started to wither, one co worker would go
Speaker 1: into Dave's office and offer to water his cactus for
Speaker 1: him in the break room, and then they would take
Speaker 1: it and then swap out the old pickle for a
Speaker 1: brand new pickle, like everybody loves him a cactus so much,
Speaker 1: and Dave never seemed to notice, even when the pickle
Speaker 1: would start to get really shriveled or sweaty. Father said quote.
Speaker 1: After one weekend, we all got back to work and
Speaker 1: found that the pickle was almost completely dried out. Dave
Speaker 1: was pretty bummed when he saw it, so a girl
Speaker 1: to go water the cactus for him and when she
Speaker 1: came back, it seemed to be all better, and Dave shouted, see,
Speaker 1: I told you the cactus just needed water. It's perfect now,
Speaker 1: the most water cactus ever. The office took the joke
Speaker 1: one step further, and they wanted to make it seem
Speaker 1: like the cactus was actually growing, so they started replacing
Speaker 1: the old pickle with slightly larger pickles each and every time,
Speaker 1: and they kept the prank going for two weeks, and
Speaker 1: Dave still didn't seem to notice that his blossoming cactus
Speaker 1: plant was really just a bunch of pickles. That's amazing
Speaker 1: that they kept it up for two weeks. So everything
Speaker 1: was going so well. Heather decided to share the idea
Speaker 1: on social media and thousands of people started commenting. Most
Speaker 1: people loved the idea, but a lot of readers were skeptical,
Speaker 1: wondering if Dave actually believed the pickle was a cactus.
Speaker 1: Somebody said, there's no way that he legitimately believes it's
Speaker 1: a cactus. He's just being kind to humor you. Another
Speaker 1: person suggested that Dave is just pretending it's a cactus
Speaker 1: to see how long you guys will keep buying her
Speaker 1: Placing a pickle in his office every two days, he's
Speaker 1: reversed pranking you, But either way, it's the best two
Speaker 1: weeks of work you've ever had. Everyone was excited. At
Speaker 1: least they all had something to do now. After reading
Speaker 1: all the comments, Heather realized that they were probably right
Speaker 1: and she was probably the one getting punked. So the
Speaker 1: next morning, she marched into Dave's office and told him
Speaker 1: the whole story. And the worst part is Heather found
Speaker 1: out Dave really had zero clue that it was a prank.
Speaker 1: He actually believed that it was a cactus, not a pickle.
Speaker 1: This isn't a cactus. Everybody's been coming in here every
Speaker 1: five minutes wanting to water my cactus. That seems perfectly normal.
Speaker 1: And all of their co workers were upset because they
Speaker 1: thought they could have kept the prank going for months,
Speaker 1: possibly even years. She stole their joy. And even though
Speaker 1: the prank was officially over, Heather says, the entire office
Speaker 1: felt bonded together because the joke turned out to be
Speaker 1: such a huge success. Apparently, office morale had never been higher. Again,
Speaker 1: that's how sad it is working in an office. Yeah. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: Dave was so disappointed that he decided to go out
Speaker 1: and buy a real cactus to keep on his desk,
Speaker 1: and now he doesn't let anybody touch his real cactus. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll take it to get watered, he realizes for two
Speaker 1: weeks they've been making fun of him behind his back.
Speaker 1: How do you kill time in your office? Have you
Speaker 1: ever pulled a prank on anybody? Texted seven eight five
Speaker 1: nine two calls eight six six six eight forty six
Speaker 1: ninety two tell us the best office prank that you
Speaker 1: were a coworker has ever pulled. I'll take your text
Speaker 1: and phone calls right after this. Broken Jewel in the
Speaker 1: Morning the text in at seven eight five, nine and
Speaker 1: two that says, I plugged an extra mouse into my
Speaker 1: cubicle mates computer. I left it underneath our desk so
Speaker 1: he couldn't see it, and every once in a while
Speaker 1: I would reach over and move it with my foot
Speaker 1: so that his cursor would jump around and get frustrated
Speaker 1: and scream at the computer. I kept it up for
Speaker 1: three weeks. Broke and Jewel in the Morning, we're talking
Speaker 1: about the best office pranks that you've ever pulled on
Speaker 1: a coworker or another text came in it seven eighty
Speaker 1: five and nine two that says I photocopied a single
Speaker 1: paper clip a bunch of times, and then randomly placed
Speaker 1: the copied paper back into the tray. Throughout the day,
Speaker 1: I watched people get confused when their copies had random
Speaker 1: paper clips on them. Eventually the machine had to be
Speaker 1: taken apart in an attempt to find the rogue paper
Speaker 1: clip that mysteriously appeared on important office memos. I still
Speaker 1: haven't told anybody what I did. Probably a good idea
Speaker 1: that you don't tell anybody that because you probably would
Speaker 1: be on the hook for a lot of money for
Speaker 1: fixing that copy. Er. Hey, Alex, what's the best office
Speaker 1: prank that you've ever pulled on a coworker? Well, I
Speaker 1: don't know if this is the best one, but it
Speaker 1: might be the cruelest one. But I just got back
Speaker 1: from a trip to Indonesia and it was like a Monday.
Speaker 1: I was early and this guy, my buddy, my office buddy, Dave.
Speaker 1: He kept telling me like, hey, you got to bring
Speaker 1: me back something right, And so I had for some reason.
Speaker 1: I went to the office closet and there was these
Speaker 1: urinal cakes, oh there, And so I took them out
Speaker 1: and I there was some old wrapping from another party
Speaker 1: or whatever, and I wrapped them up and then people
Speaker 1: were filing in. I told him, look, I'm gonna see
Speaker 1: if Dave will bite into this urinal cake. Right, And
Speaker 1: so it wasn't a used urinal cake. I mean it
Speaker 1: was like a fresh year olds in your heart's saying
Speaker 1: everybody knows. I mean, there's like almost like an office
Speaker 1: pool going on on the weather day's gonna bite into
Speaker 1: this cake or not? And so that everyone's kind of
Speaker 1: acting like they're busy, and I tell them the whole story,
Speaker 1: you know. I even made up a story about the
Speaker 1: vendor and how he's such a great guy and and
Speaker 1: then um, this this girl least they walked by and
Speaker 1: just like man, great great cookie, right, and I was like, hey,
Speaker 1: I'm glad you enjoyed it, and so yeah, this is
Speaker 1: these are Indonesian cookies, right, And so you know, it
Speaker 1: took a little bit, like maybe about ten or fifteen
Speaker 1: minutes and then he unwrapped it. We're all watching, and
Speaker 1: then he bit into it, and every erupted, erupted that
Speaker 1: even we even got it on video because we have
Speaker 1: like surveillance in the office, so like we have it
Speaker 1: and we have a tape. I'm biting into it and
Speaker 1: he's like, this is delicious and just kept eating the
Speaker 1: whole thing. It's like Indonesian cookies. They know what they're
Speaker 1: doing over there. Got another text in a sevent eighty
Speaker 1: five nine two says, our office has a super gruppy
Speaker 1: coworker named Dan. One morning, I put a cake in
Speaker 1: the fridge with a sign on it and said Dan's
Speaker 1: Birthday cake, do not eat. And the thing is, it
Speaker 1: wasn't his birthday, but he spent the entire day having
Speaker 1: people walk up and tell him Happy Birthday from all
Speaker 1: over the building. And he had no idea why, and
Speaker 1: he's cranky, so he was mad about it. Hey, Laura,
Speaker 1: what's the best office prank you've ever pulled on a coworker? Okay,
Speaker 1: so there's a woman in my office, but you know
Speaker 1: we're pals and whatever, but she's gone through she was
Speaker 1: going through a hard time at the time, so you know,
Speaker 1: I was like, I think this might, you know, make
Speaker 1: her feel better. So, um, you know, a couple times
Speaker 1: a day she's like go to the bathroom or whatever,
Speaker 1: and I and she'd like leave her computer unlocked, and
Speaker 1: so I would go on her computer and I would
Speaker 1: send an email from her email to this just just
Speaker 1: painfully awkward guy that we work with about like having lunch.
Speaker 1: So did this happened twice now? And so like I
Speaker 1: have told some of the other coworkers or whatever, but
Speaker 1: the guy will just like walk up to her and
Speaker 1: be like, all right, time for lunch, and like she
Speaker 1: has no idea that like she instigated this these lunch
Speaker 1: dates and for lunch if you're forcing her to have
Speaker 1: the most awkward, horrible lunches ever, I don't know how
Speaker 1: that's making her feel better. I mean, I think it's
Speaker 1: making you feel better. But hey, Cole, what is the
Speaker 1: best office brank you've ever pulled on a co worker? So? Um,
Speaker 1: I had a co worker and I am Tom, and
Speaker 1: I was super bored, like you know, However, one I
Speaker 1: was in the office, so I changed his auto correct
Speaker 1: settings and his outlook um so that whenever he sent
Speaker 1: an email it would be signed Tom the Velvet Hammer.
Speaker 1: That's funny. How long did it take him to notice it? Honestly,
Speaker 1: took like a few weeks before before he noticed, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he just got the best nickname. Ever. Though, when you're
Speaker 1: doing for weeks, people are like, yeah, it wasn't a
Speaker 1: one day. They're like, no, he's actually really calling himself
Speaker 1: the velvet hammer. That's interesting. That's a strange move. And
Speaker 1: you know everyone's like, what's wrong with Tom that's going on?
Speaker 1: Finally he's just finally being himself. You know, what does
Speaker 1: it even mean? He's always wanted to be the velvet hammer.
Speaker 1: Another text d at seven eighty five ninths who says
Speaker 1: I grabbed a roll of stickers from the pharmacy that
Speaker 1: say for recol use only, and one day I randomly
Speaker 1: attached them to pins, phones and staplers and the water
Speaker 1: cooler and basically everything in the office. It was all
Speaker 1: good until our director came in and went into an
Speaker 1: angry rage over being professional at work. Come on, professional,
Speaker 1: I have a stapler in my butt right now. It's
Speaker 1: for refuse, Claire. What's the best office prank you've ever
Speaker 1: pulled on a coworker? So I used to work with
Speaker 1: these two women who basically sat across for me in
Speaker 1: my office, and they were super tight, and they would
Speaker 1: have lunch with each other every day, and they would
Speaker 1: always like leave the office and come back to the
Speaker 1: office through this like backdoor basically and to get to
Speaker 1: that door, you had to go between two bookshelves, okay,
Speaker 1: And so eventually I started to slightly move the bookshelves
Speaker 1: just a little bit closer together and so that they
Speaker 1: would have a hard time like getting back and getting
Speaker 1: smaller and smaller. Didn't even realize it because it was
Speaker 1: happening at such a small right, It was just a
Speaker 1: little bit every day. And then eventually I started hearing
Speaker 1: them talk about how they're like they thought they were
Speaker 1: gaining weight a hard time, Like, I don't get it.
Speaker 1: I feel like I've been working out needing right, but
Speaker 1: I've got to be gaining weight because I can't even
Speaker 1: get in the door really anymore. And so they were
Speaker 1: like really stressed out that they were gaining weight, and
Speaker 1: it was just me moving the shelves like just like
Speaker 1: an inch every day. Text in seven eight five nine
Speaker 1: to call us eight six six six six eight forty
Speaker 1: six ninety two, tell us the best office prank that
Speaker 1: you've ever seen or you've ever pulled on a co worker.
Speaker 1: We'll take more phone calls and text messages right after this.
Speaker 1: It's broken jewel. In the morning, I got a text
Speaker 1: in at seven eight five nine two says we had
Speaker 1: a coworker who had hearing aids, and so every time
Speaker 1: we'd walk by the desk, we just mouth words with
Speaker 1: no sound. So they kept with their hearing aids taking
Speaker 1: out broken. That's amazing. Asking you what the best office
Speaker 1: prank you've ever pulled on a co worker is? Call
Speaker 1: sight six six six six eight forty six ninety two
Speaker 1: text in seven eight five nine to Whitney, what's the
Speaker 1: best office prank you've ever pulled? So? I used to
Speaker 1: work for a foot doctor and we used to change
Speaker 1: his computer background. We used to google sexy feet, and
Speaker 1: so he changed his background to pick throughs of such
Speaker 1: a little feet. And so when he threw the patients
Speaker 1: outcomes her. Actually that's the first thing they see. Oh
Speaker 1: my god, he's got no one who's in this line
Speaker 1: of business. That's amazing. But it may be really good
Speaker 1: at it because he knows a lot about it, really
Speaker 1: about feet. Hey, Pam, what's the best office prank you've
Speaker 1: ever pulled on a coworkers? I work in a mortuary
Speaker 1: and I had an intern and she was a little paranoid,
Speaker 1: and I slowly convinced her that the office was haunted,
Speaker 1: and one day she went out for lunch, and when
Speaker 1: she came back, I was hiding and I jumped out
Speaker 1: and I scared her, and she was so scared she
Speaker 1: just about wet herself. Oh my god. I feel like
Speaker 1: any prank get a mortuary is going to make you
Speaker 1: wet yourself. Totally. That's amazing. I'm kind of cruel on
Speaker 1: that one too. I like that one. Yeah. And she
Speaker 1: you could still hear the joy in her voice when
Speaker 1: she told the story. You know, like, ha, keep texting
Speaker 1: in seven eight, five nine two. What's the best office
Speaker 1: prank you've ever pulled on a coworker? It's a Brook
Speaker 1: and Jugle in the morning.