Office Humor Blog

If you’re willing to spend a little cash on some magazine subscriptions to embarrass a coworker, then you should definitely read on.

Requirements:

• Time (low) - all you need to do is subscribe to a few different magazines.
• Cost (medium) - you are going to need to subscribe to at least 1 magazine and more than that if you want a better effect.
• Risk (medium) - this can have very little risk if you don’t want to go very far, but to get a good reaction you will have to take a bit more of a risk by subscribing to less “work appropriate” magazines so only do so if you won’t get into any trouble.

Steps:

1. Find some good magazine subscriptions. A few examples include Hustler 12 issues, Cosmo Girl! 10 issues, and American Cheerleader 6 issues. Check out Magazania.com for other ideas. Be careful what you do choose though, because your office may not have enough of a sense of humor to deliver a Hustler magazine.
2. Sign up for a few magazine subscriptions but have them deliver to the work address using your coworker’s name.

Result:

Your coworker should start getting the magazines delivered at work, embarassing them in front of everybody. Depending on how the mail is delivered in your office, your results will vary. If somebody walks around to each desk and drops it off, you should get a great reaction as you see your coworker watch as a raunchy or controversial magazine gets hand delivered. If the mail is picked up by each individual, you may not even hear about it if your coworker just finds it and throws it away. If this happens, try to say something to your coworker like “Hey, was that a *fill in the name of the magazine you subscribed to* I saw in your mailbox?” and see how he or she reacts.

When choosing what magazine(s) to subscribe to, consider what your coworker absolutely hates. If he or she hates football, subscribe them to a football magazine, if they hate music, subscribe them to that. If you don’t want to go risky and have the more embarrassing stuff delivered, sending them stuff that they hate can be a decent alternative.