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?

  • @[email protected]
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    282 years ago

    Ctrl + Alt + up arrow key sets the monitor output to be upside down.

    I also am a fan of making the cursor huge and turning on pointer trails.

    • @[email protected]
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      22 years ago

      These are good pranks with the right level of irritating. They make it hard to work but not impossible to do the work

    • @[email protected]
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      22 years ago

      This happened to me. When you didn’t know this is possible in windows, it takes a surprisingly long time to fix, but there’s no real damage done.

  • Chaotic Entropy
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    142 years ago

    If you have fixed desks, put a piece of sticky note over the laser on their mouse. That or use the monitor settings to rotate their screen 180 degrees when they aren’t around.

      • Chaotic Entropy
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        42 years ago

        Not sure that this is a universally available hotkey for rotating screens. Certainly doesn’t work on my laptop.

        Alt + F4 works though.

        • Big P
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          12 years ago

          I think it only works with external displays specifically running on an Intel integrated GPU, iirc

      • thesingingcrow
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        2 years ago

        Edit: apologies, I misunderstood that you were pranked first. I’m not a prank fan but you obviously have cause to retaliate. I’ll leave my original comment below.


        This doesn’t make sense. “It’s just a prank bro… Can’t you take a joke?”

        If the person being pranked doesn’t find it ‘funny’ what is it?

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    12 years ago

    In our office, any time someone leaves their screen unlocked, we turn everything upside down in the display settings. Good way to remind people to Win + L when they get up. 😆

  • @[email protected]
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    482 years ago

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

    • Sabata11792
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      22 years ago

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

      • @[email protected]
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        02 years ago

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

    • AshLassay
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      2 years ago

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

      • @[email protected]
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        312 years ago

        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,

      • @[email protected]
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        82 years 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

  • @[email protected]
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    182 years ago

    An old boss of mine would find people who left their computer logged in and would send an email to the department from it saying “I love you all so much!”

    I worked in a different office and didn’t realize that’s what was happening. I just thought the Russian guy was happy to be in America.

      • @[email protected]
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        32 years ago

        One day when I was visiting home office I ran into him in the elevator. My lead introduced me to him. I blurted out, “Oh the guy who sends the I love everyone!” emails.

        He promptly started swearing and cursing our manager and saying what things he would do to him if he caught him in a dark alley and ranted for the duration of the elevator ride. Then shook my hand and said “Nice to meet you!” and went on with his day.

  • _haha_oh_wow_
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    92 years ago

    Put some tape over the optical sensor on their mouse. Bonus points if you print out a little dickbutt picture or something.

    • kersploosh
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      82 years ago

      We would use a picture of Arnold Schwarzenegger with the words “You’ve Been Terminated.”

    • Thelsim
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      12 years ago

      That’s a big lunch bag if you can hide in it. Hope it keeps you safe from that angry lobster.

  • CoachDom
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    DON’T do what I’ve done a couple of weeks ago - landed me my first HR meeting ever :D

    I had to use my coworkers (lady around 50, not too clever with the computers) computer on remote desktop. As I was about to close it, I thought to myself “Perfect setup for a joke”. On her computer, I went to https://pranx.com/hacker/ and put in on full screen. Literally like 30s later, our IT guy (he’s in the same room as me) get a phone call and all I can hear is shouting in the earpiece. I say to him don’t worry, I know what’s this about, I’m going to sort it out. I went downstairs and boss’s wife is running past shouting that we need to phone the police, I walk into the lady’s room and she’s hysteric. I say cool down, it’s a joke.

    Safe to say, they were not laughing (probably the fact that I still was, wasn’t helping my case :D)

  • Lakes
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    32 years ago

    Have any other monitors available?

    If you do, literally change the monitor and hide the other one. Smaller the better.