Bring out your inner prankster

Job search engine Simply Hired has an alter ego with a humorous bent called Simply Fired. As a publicity gimmick, Simply Fired is holding a monthlong contest -- "The Prankies" -- to honor office pranks. You know, like when Jim sends Dwight faxes from his future self or encases his office supplies in Jell-O on "The Office."

People can submit their pranks via video, photograph or text. The entries will be judged by a number of characters including 1980s comedian Andrew Dice Clay. The grand prize "involves Las Vegas." Winners in other categories such as "best way to get fired" and "fired fan favorite" will receive "Prankies" T-shirts.

Among the entries:

Operation Duck Duck: The prankster whose chief financial officer thought he was intimidated by him covered the honcho's office in 1,500 rubber ducks, put a recording of live ducks on an endless loop and hung a sign on the door that said: "Always behave like a duck. Keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath." He waited outside the office in a duck bill mask. "I did not get fired and he has not challenged me again," the prankster wrote.

Worldwide porn call: This prankster dialed into a conference call but no one could hear the company president as they followed a PowerPoint presentation using meeting software. Employees in satellite offices around the globe kept typing messages in the chat section: "We can't hear you" and "Can you adjust the speakerphone?"

Ten minutes later, the prankster decides to throw out another toll-free number for everyone to dial "for better clarity:" a porn line. "I found out later that many people who were sitting in conference rooms while their managers squirmed while falling for my prank could hardly hold in their laughter. One manager had some new hires in his meeting and literally jumped over the conference room table to hang up the phone."

Company car goof: The prankster was a new customer service engineer at Hewlett-Packard in the late 1980s. He discovered that one set of keys unlocked several company cars. So while a co-worker was eating lunch, he and his cohorts moved all of his personal gear and equipment from one car to another identical one, then switched parking spaces. The car screeched to a halt at the end of the driveway as the victim realized he was in the wrong car. "He then began shouting some rather unpleasant expletives at the rest of us watching from the windows," the prankster said. "Extremely unprofessional, but very funny."

None of the entries are quite up to "The Office" standards....

See them all HERE…