It all started at lunch one day when Peter said he hated marshmallow peeps. Quite conveniently his birthday takes place just shortly after Easter. At work we’re never one to pass up a good office prank (this wound up being the second of many), so we figured we’d do something with peeps and his office
One advantage of being right after Easter is that tons of stores want to offload their leftover peep packages. We went all over town wheeling and dealing, often getting 3-packs of peeps for $0.11. When we were done with purchasing we had enough boxes to completely block off the fireplace in our appartment
It took about six people five hours to do all the work in the picture below. The hardeset part was removing all the ceiling tiles and affixing the peeps to the tiles. We wound up using short lengths of bamboo skewers, although in hindsight a hot-melt glue gun would have worked faster and been easier on our fingers. Some things to note in the pictures below:
The paper bag in the picture below is filled with unopened boxes of peeps. We had a few leftovers.
In the photo with the lamp notice the hanging ball of peeps. It’s actually a Koosh ball wrapped in peeps.
The boxes blocking Peter’s window are, sadly, empty
We did mail Just Born, manufacturers of Peeps, but sadly they never got back to us. The peeps wound up staying in the office for about two years, through at least two occupant changes. Even six months after they were up we had people coming by and eating them off the ceiling. Ugh.
Jessie went on a market research trip to Asia. While in Japan she mailed back and commented on Hello Kitty was everywhere. Voila, a prank was born. The best part of this prank is the stickers on the ethernet hub. A year after the prank was done we were moving offices. Jessie was packing things up and crawled under the table to pack the hub. You could hear her yell “THEY GOT MY HUB TOO!” all the way down the hall.
Jessie’s commando office
We felt really bad about Jessie’s pink office, so we decided to make it up to her. While she was on vacation we moved offices. We had enough time to paint the office tan, but that was it. When she got back she said “Tan!? Why TAN!?”. Two days later we finished the prank. You can’t see in the pictures but we did give her MREs and whatnot to chew on too. The bumper stickers read “I’m out of estrogen and I have a gun” and “Gun control means using both hands”. Note that some of the cammo spots have an errie resemblance to Hello Kitty’s head.
David’s baby office
This one wasn’t too big. We painted David’s office pink to celebrate the birth of his new baby girl, and added some stenciled butterflies.
My igloo office
I went to Hawaii on vacation and when I came back my Office was an igloo. The door is particularly amusing: anyone who wanted to visit me had to crawl in. The crazy part about this prank is how quiet it made the office. All the cotton batting totally deadened noise.
Club Abad
Ms Abad loves to dance so we turned her office into a dance club for her birthday. This is the only prank we’ve done where the building maintenance guys really were unhappy (black paint is a pain to cover up). We distributed grand opening invites to all 500 people in the building. note the parquet floor in the corner. With some black lights and disco balls it’s a built-in party!
Mark’s carrots
It’s a long story, but Mark made a reference to carrots one day and came in the next to find 20 lbs. of carrots hanging from his ceiling. Man, they smelled BAD after day two.
Amy’s confetti
Amy said at lunch she wanted to be showered with adoration for her birthday. We made up 5 garbage bags full of confetti that were printed with the the word “adoration”. All 500 offices in the building got a little brown paper bag with instructions on how to deliver the confetti to Amy. The two leftover garbage bags of confetti were dumped in her office. All day she had people coming by and dumping confetti on her. It was great 🙂
