Office Dares

[First Lady]

Try these dares for a day / week with other people in your office. Whoever gets the most points at the end wins ...

ONE-POINT DARES

1. Ignore the first five people who say 'good morning' to you.

2. To signal the end of a conversation, clamp your hands over your ears and grimace.

3. Leave your fly open for one hour. If anyone points it out, say, "Sorry, I really prefer it this way".

4. Walk sideways to the photocopier.

5. While going in an elevator, gasp dramatically each time the doors open.

6. When in elevator with one other person, tap them on the shoulder and pretend it wasn't you.

7. Finish all your sentences with "In accordance with the prophecy..."

8. Don't use any punctuation.

9. Interrupt your conversation with someone by giving a huge dejected sigh.

10. Use your highlighter pen on the computer screen.

THREE-POINT DARES

1. Say to your boss, "I like your style", wink, and shoot him with double-barrelled fingers.

2. Kneel in front of the water cooler and drink directly from the nozzle.

3. Shout random numbers while someone is counting.

4. Every time you get an email, shout ''email''.

5. Put decaf in the coffee maker for 3 weeks. Once everyone has got over his or her caffeine addictions, switch to espresso.

6. Keep hole punching your finger. Each time you do, shout, "dagnamit, it's happened again!". Then do it again.

7. Introduce yourself to a new colleague as "the office bicycle". Then wink and pout.

8. Call I.T. helpdesk and tell them that you can't seem to access any pornography web sites.

FIVE-POINT DARES

1. At the end of a meeting, suggest that, for once, it would be nice to conclude with the singing of the national anthem (extra points if you actually launch into it yourself).

2. Walk into a very busy person's office and while they watch you with growing irritation, turn the light switch on/off 10 times.

3. For an hour, refer to everyone you speak to as "Dave".

4. Announce to everyone in a meeting that you "really have to go do a number two".

5. After every sentence, say 'Mon' in a really bad Jamaican accent. As in: "The report's on your desk, Mon." Keep this up for one hour.

6. In a meeting or crowded situation, slap your forehead repeatedly and mutter, "Shut up, damn it, all of you just shut up!" (love this one )

7. At lunchtime, get down on your knees and announce, "As God is my witness, I'll never go hungry again!"

8. Repeat the following conversation 10 times to the same person: "Do you hear that?" "What?" "Never mind, it's gone now."

9. Present meeting attendees with a cup of coffee and biscuit; smash biscuit with your fist.

10. During the course of a meeting, slowly edge your chair towards the door.

11. As often as possible, skip rather than walk.

12. Ask people what sex they are. Laugh hysterically after they answer.

13. Hump the photocopier. When someone spots you, stop and cough embarrassingly, then lean in to the machine and whisper loudly, "I'll call you tonight".

[mazolaman]

Doesn't everyone do that to the photocopier......?

They are such little minxes,grrrr

[Fuzz]

Try these dares for a day / week with other people in your office. Whoever gets the most points at the end wins ...

ONE-POINT DARES

1. Ignore the first five people who say 'good morning' to you. - I do this every morning, until I get my first cup of coffee.

4. Walk sideways to the photocopier. - At my old office, this was the only way to get around. Too many filing cabinets in the corridors!

8. Don't use any punctuation. - I tried giving a presentation in a non-stop monotone that kept going and going with no break between sentences so nobody could get a word in edgewise. It worked for about 5 minutes.

9. Interrupt your conversation with someone by giving a huge dejected sigh. - Every time my boss starts to talk...

10. Use your highlighter pen on the computer screen. - I have used white out, does that count? (covered the monitor in clingfilm before this prank)

THREE-POINT DARES

3. Shout random numbers while someone is counting. - Eh, schoolboy prank. Not worth 3 points.

FIVE-POINT DARES

2. Walk into a very busy person's office and while they watch you with growing irritation, turn the light switch on/off 10 times. - Did this when I worked for NAB as a temp. I didn't get the full time job...

6. In a meeting or crowded situation, slap your forehead repeatedly and mutter, "Shut up, damn it, all of you just shut up!" (love this one ) - I do this at my desk. As a variation, I tell people, "It's not the voices in my head that are bothering me... it's the voices in yours!"

A few other pranks that I have pulled:

1. Went to reception and paged myself over the office intercom.

2. During a fire drill, I ran out of the building screaming, "We're all going to die!".

3. Came in early one morning, covered my pod in camouflague netting and put on my camo gear (I use it for paintball).

4. When my female co-worker went to lunch, I emptied out the cabinet next to her desk (she kept her handbag there). Just before she came back, I hid in the cabinet and waited. Wehn she opened the cabinet, I stuck my head out and yelled, "Do you mind?! I'm trying to get some sleep!!". Naturally she screamed and everyone got a good chuckle. She still talks about it to this day.

5. Came into the office with a fake cast and sling. Made a fake phone call to a store that sold "adult parephenalia" and proceeded to complain loudly that they sold me a defective sex swing.

6. Called Rob and pretended to be a customer complaining about the FOH custom cigars. Started the call with, "Rob? Hi, I'm Holden McGroyne".

Come to think of it, it's time to prank Rob again....

[CBL]

These are awesome! I'm in class right now laughing hysterically!!

[First Lady]

As you can see Fuzz the photo below is my desktop.... scares the **** out of Rob LOLOL

[acng77]

I was laughing like crazy just reading through them.

[Fuzz]

As you can see Fuzz the photo below is my desktop.... scares the **** out of Rob LOLOL

Sorry Lisa, but I know it's all fake. The only danger you represent is to my wallet!

[headstand]

Hah. That's funny. Thanks Lisa.

"In accordance with the prophecy..." I can have fun with that.

Don't use any punctuation. The engineers in my office have that one covered already.

[Stalebread]

A few other pranks that I have pulled: . . .

I admire your style.

[Dbone]

FIVE-POINT DARES

8. Repeat the following conversation 10 times to the same person: "Do you hear that?" "What?" "Never mind, it's gone now."

This one I really like

[Warren]

I've often noticed Rob attempting number 3 in the first group.

[Fuzz]

I've often noticed Rob attempting number 3 in the first group.

That's just drunken slovenliness...

[drubcurtis]

That is a good laugh Lisa! Sadly, we have a guy in our office who has a constant conversations with himself. We all talk to ourselves from time to time, but when you start to answer yourself...you are a strange duck!

[First Lady]

Nothing wrong with talking back to yourself LOLOL at least you get the answer you want to hear

[kcheek]

This is good stuff! Thx Lisa!!

[nick17]

love it i need to modify them so they work as school/ classroom dares

[Fuzz]

Nothing wrong with talking back to yourself LOLOL at least you get the answer you want to hear

Absolutely agree! My workmates hate it that I have full-blown conversations with myself, as they keep thinking I'm talking to them. To be honest, I only do it when I'm trying to find a solution to a difficult piece of work, but it is useful. It's like group brainstorming... only with yourself!

[Diamondog]

I did not see anywhere in thelist about spending an entire day talking to anyone you speak with in the office in the 3rd person...

[Fuzz]

I did not see anywhere in thelist about spending an entire day talking to anyone you speak with in the office in the 3rd person...

Or using the royal "We" instead of "I". For you Yanks, bonus points if you do this on Independence Day and put on a British accent.

[stogieokie]

So who's in the lead at CZ HQ???