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What's a good way to prank your coworker? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by abbadon420@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I got pranked with this website: https://updatefaker.com/

I recently switched from manual labor to office labour and learned the hard way to lock my screen :)

In hindsight it was hilarious, but I waited for maybe 20 minutes before I got suspicious. How can I take revenge?

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[–] Klear@lemmy.world 49 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Take a screenshot of their desktop. Set that as the background image. Right-click the desktop and uncheck View -> Display icons on desktop.

[–] AshLassay@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Also auto hide the task bar and move it to another edge.

[–] sarsaparilyptus@lemmy.fmhy.ml 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What you do is take a screenshot of the desktop, rotate it 180° in MSPaint, set it as the background, hide and move the taskbar, hide desktop icons, and set the screen rotation to landscape flipped in the display settings. You'll get a desktop that appears normal but can't be interacted with, and a cursor that moves upside down and backwards. Rotate your victim's mouse the wrong way around if they're gullible and they'll think the mouse messed everything up,

[–] dandroid@dandroid.app 7 points 1 year ago

Lmao, this is really good.

[–] 6jarjar6@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pure evil

[–] variants@possumpat.io 8 points 1 year ago

I did this to our shipping guy that had anger issues, he got so mad I got scared to tell him what I did

[–] Sabata11792@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Your just pranking the IT guy that will have to fix it. A user can't be expected to navigate a context menu.

[–] CmdrShepard@lemmy.one 0 points 1 year ago

Maybe the IT guy was the intended victim. You always want several layers separating you from your crime!