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My co-worker and I are always trying to spook each other, but I got her good this morning.

Parked around the back of the building so she wouldn't see my car. Then went into the office and kept the lights off and the door locked.

Sent her a text message I was running late. then when she came in I was hiding in another office. I let her get settled in, then came around the corner and shouted INSPECTION!!!!! and startled the beejesus outta her.

Good times, good times! Happy April Fools Day! Anyone else pulling pranks today?
 
The company I'm contracted to at the moment sent an email telling staff they were introducing a work uniform (we're office based). A few people were pissed as it's a relaxed dress code here (jeans and t-shirts).

Then it clicked...
 
Anthony Martino said:
My co-worker and I are always trying to spook each other, but I got her good this morning.

Parked around the back of the building so she wouldn't see my car. Then went into the office and kept the lights off and the door locked.

Sent her a text message I was running late. then when she came in I was hiding in another office. I let her get settled in, then came around the corner and shouted INSPECTION!!!!! and startled the beejesus outta her.

Good times, good times! Happy April Fools Day! Anyone else pulling pranks today?
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Are you 7? :)
 
I had my co-worker send me a text message and I saved his contact name as my kids school. He sent me a text during breakfast that school was cancelled due to a broken water main. The kids were back in bed before I yelled through the house "April Fools!"
 
CraigT78 said:
I had my co-worker send me a text message and I saved his contact name as my kids school. He sent me a text during breakfast that school was cancelled due to a broken water main. The kids were back in bed before I yelled through the house "April Fools!"
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Love the teamwork and planning used to crush the dreams of children.
 
A fun one going back many years when I worked in I.T. I came in before a lot of the other guys, we were always pranking one another. I opened up one guys PC and unseated the RAM from the motherboard, but ever so slightly so it still looked like it was connected.

When he came in and hit the power button his PC just started beeping like crazy and he was asking us what was wrong with his computer. I said "you're a desktop support technician........figure it out!"

Then another time a bunch of the guys took stuff from my desk and hid it around the place (we were in this huge room in the basement of Cigna) so I remoted into their PC's and cut all the icons from their desktop (programs they used to do troubleshooting, receive tickets, etc) and hid them into their C drive somewhere. In retaliation one of the kids remotely logged into my PC and initiated a shutdown command while I was working, lol.

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Lol, MSI (a motherboard, graphics card manufacturer) just pulled an April Fools joke on their facebook page. They advertised "The One" a "modular" motherboard that would never go obsolete because you could remove parts of it and replace them with new components, allowing you to be able to handle AMD or Intel processors, any memory format, etc. They even created a page on their website to promote it, but then when you click to pre-order you get an April Fools message.

And my co-worker just saw Redbox advertising for "kiosk ambassadors" to work at their stand-alone kiosks, you have to "like sitting in small dark places" :p
 
I stole this idea from a Facebook meme, but bought a dozen donuts and took them all out and filled the box with carrots and celery this morning. I kept the donuts hidden and am going to hand them out when someone finally discovers it.

Seriously, it's been 30 minutes and no one in our office (we have about 10 in the office today) has taken one yet.

My wife has a friend who switched her kids (aged 3-5) into each others' bedrooms in the middle of the night last night. She was awoken at 2 a.m. to an inconsolable 3 year old who couldn't understand why he was asleep in his sister's room. Oops!
 
snooptodd said:
... an inconsolable 3 year old who couldn't understand why he was asleep in his sister's room. Oops!
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Maybe double prank by getting the babysitter/daycare provider/preschool teacher to sit down with your wife and explain the ramifications of trauma on young children, recommending a good trauma focused therapist in your area.
 
NicholasAK said:
Maybe double prank by getting the babysitter/daycare provider/preschool teacher to sit down with your wife and explain the ramifications of trauma on young children, recommending a good trauma focused therapist in your area.
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If you want to go all-out you have someone pretend to be Social Services claiming they received a complaint about children being mistreated.
 
Not bad, but I'd go the realistic route. Of course your options for "social workers" are much wider. Coworkers could help you there
 
Anthony Martino said:
A fun one going back many years when I worked in I.T. I came in before a lot of the other guys, we were always pranking one another. I opened up one guys PC and unseated the RAM from the motherboard, but ever so slightly so it still looked like it was connected.

When he came in and hit the power button his PC just started beeping like crazy and he was asking us what was wrong with his computer. I said "you're a desktop support technician........figure it out!"

Then another time a bunch of the guys took stuff from my desk and hid it around the place (we were in this huge room in the basement of Cigna) so I remoted into their PC's and cut all the icons from their desktop (programs they used to do troubleshooting, receive tickets, etc) and hid them into their C drive somewhere. In retaliation one of the kids remotely logged into my PC and initiated a shutdown command while I was working, lol.

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Reminds me of the time messed with a colleagues machine, swapped his monitor cable with the PC next to him, put a post-it note under his mouse so it wouldn't work and also unplugged it enough for it not to work when he discovered the post-it note. Used the Control + Alt trick to rotate his screen so it made it harder for him to turn the screen back to normal from black and white. Also stuck down the receiver on his phone.
 
AdamAAAA said:
Reminds me of the time messed with a colleagues machine, swapped his monitor cable with the PC next to him, put a post-it note under his mouse so it wouldn't work and also unplugged it enough for it not to work when he discovered the post-it note. Used the Control + Alt trick to rotate his screen so it made it harder for him to turn the screen back to normal from black and white. Also stuck down the receiver on his phone.
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AHAHAHHAAHAHA! You sir are a true villain, I applaud this!
 
BiGGyT said:
Google killed its April Fools' Day joke after it allegedly lost people their jobs
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This has got to be the stupidest corporate 'prank' I've ever heard of. As a user interface engineer, I would have quit my job before building that button..because I would have expected to get fired anyway.
 

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