Office Pranks

Each year around this time, workers at the Como Zoo in St. Paul, Minn., endure a flood of calls from pranksters looking to speak with Al E. Gator, Billy Goat and other assorted fictitious folks who just happen to have animal-themed names. Last year, the park handled 300 such calls in one day, so this year ...

Popular TV sitcom 'The Office' has spawned a re-emergence of some good, clean old-fashioned workplace pranks. Whether its prank phone calls, whoopee cushions or staplers in Jello molds, the characters on 'The Office' remind the rest of us that working a day job in a cubicle does not have to box you or your ...

Any time you walk through the halls of an elementary school or frequent a playground all you hear are giggles and laughter, but when you walk the maze of cubicles at work or along the hallways in your office, you rarely hear those same sounds of glee. It's not that we have outgrown laughter as we have entered ...

Being a police officer can have its ups and downs, and not many workers have the chance to dance or sing on the job. Some traffic cops, however, are taking advantage of their outdoor jobs standing up all day, and are dancing and moving while keeping traffic flowing. Here's our favorite, a traffic policeman at ...

Here's a question for you: What do you think would happen if you make profanity-laced videos about how much you hate your job and how stupid your customers are, use equipment from your employer to make the videos, and put them on YouTube? If your answer is "get promoted," you must be living on another planet. ...

The office hijinx in movies like Look and Office Space pale in comparison to the crazy office cubicle capers we've found on YouTube. From stuffing a workspace full with packing peanuts to creating an entire office environment out of cardboard, these videos are sure to give you some creative ideas to welcome back ...