Office Etiquette: Pranking

There aren't too many things better than an office prank.  (As long as the following rules are observed).

1. Make it a big prank.
2. Make it a big prank on the right person
3. Make it a big prank on the right person at a convenient time.

To clarify: Don't prank a busy co-worker who has been out of town for a week, biatch.

Sometimes a co-worker will go out of town for an extended period of time. While this might seem like the opportune time to prank him, it is not. There can't be anything worse than coming home to a week's worth of work ...and a good prank. Rather, choose a time when the co-worker has been gone for just one day. And prank 'em good! If you have a brain, you should be able to see the sense in these instructions.

The exception to the rule is this: When a co-worker who doesn't have much to do leaves the office for a week, go ahead. Prank away! It'll give them something to work on when they return.

This brings us to another point. If you have made this error and pranked a busy person in the workplace, you MUST help him clean that $h!t up. Otherwise the busy person and his busy assistant will have to spend the afternoon cleaning it up, thus putting them behind another day. That is 6 work days of not working.

If you have time to prank somebody, it is greatly encouraged. But please, please prank another person who has some time. This way you and the prankee can spend all day giggling, photographing and cleaning up said prank together. Easy peasy. Errbody's happy.