Pranks to pull on your co-workers
Top 100 April Fools hoaxes of all time
32 percent of workers say they have either initiated or been on the receiving end of an April Fools’ Day prank at work, according to CareerBuilder.com’s annual April Fools’ Day survey.
“Pranking at work can be risky business,” says Rosemary Haefner, vice president of human resources at CareerBuilder.com.
“When determining whether a prank is a good idea on April Fools’ Day, employees should consider the worst case scenario of their joke. Will his or her joke simply result in a laugh from fellow co-workers? Or could anybody, including you, lose their job?”
While faking a resignation, gluing office supplies to the desk and covering someone’s cube in aluminum foil are among the most common office pranks, here are 10 of the most memorable pranks from this year’s survey:
1. Place a pair of pants and shoes inside the only toilet stall in a men’s room to make it appear someone was using the stall. It sat there for hours until someone called security to check if the person had died.
2. Send a fake love note to a co-worker from another co-worker.
3. All the women in office individually speak to the president, confiding that she is pregnant. By noon, he ‘knows’ that all of his female workers are pregnant and he can’t tell anyone because each asked for confidentially.
4. Call the electric company, use a co-worker’s name and tell them he is moving so the electricity gets turned off at the co-worker’s house.
5. Fill the vending soda machine with cans of beer.
6. Rig the boss’ chair to drop suddenly during a staff meeting.
7. Place a sign on the restroom door that reads, “The company ran out of toilet tissue; please use your own resources.”
8. Page a co-worker over the loud speaker claiming the CEO is looking for him. The worker will go into the CEOs office and the CEO won’t know who he is or why he iss there.
9. Shrink-wrap everything in a co-worker’s cubicle.
10. Put a ‘house for sale’ ad in the newspaper regarding a co-worker’s home.
