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April Fools Day Pranks for the Office

by Michael Small | March 31, 2010 at 03:13 pm

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April Fools Day Pranks and Gags in the Work Place

April Fools Day can be a blast at work. April 1st gives you the perfect excuse to mess with your co-workers. Just make sure you know how far you can take your pranks, as some are more good natured about being pranked than others.

April Fools Day in the office allows you to utilize your surroundings, and play pranks that would only work in an office environment.

Office Pranks for April Fool's Day

If you're the first person in the office, move all the clocks one hour ahead.
Switch someone's background picture on their computer to something they hate ie. spiders, snakes, John Mayer etc.
Poke holes in the paper cups at the water cooler
Add salt to the morning coffee
Completely rearrange someone's desk
Copy someone's ring tone, and then call yourself all day.
Post 'missing' posters of one of your co-workers all around the office
Create a fake Facebook account and send love letters to your target all day
Adjust the height of people's chairs -- super low for tall people and really high for short people
Paint the tips of pens and pencils with clear nail polish so they won't write
Unplug your target's computer, keyboard or mouse
Glue down paper clips or pens to the target's desk
Photoshop a co-workers face into a bunch of funny pictures and pass them around the office

Now remember, April Fools Day is supposed to be fun, so don't go get fired playing an over-exuberant prank. Have fun and make sure your co-workers do too.

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Amy Judd

at 15:43 on March 31st, 2010

Tampering with the coffee in the morning would be really bad in the NowPublic office

hidflect

at 23:01 on March 31st, 2010

Forget about April 1st. Getting a job would be Christmas Day for me.

Prank Yanker (not verified)

at 06:32 on April 1st, 2010

The one that I've always liked (and think that I originally invented because I've been a geek so long, before it was cool really) is simply reversing a person's mouse-if they're right handed make it a left handed mouse (via control panel) and visa versa. When you see them fumbling go to their rescue and look at them like they're nuts--tell them that you do notice that you have to really pound on the mouse buttons, maybe a reboot will help, think of all of the geeky fun! It's best when you have another true geek to share it with especially when the boss (that is always the one that knows nothing about computers) is the target! What fun!!!

Natya Anderson (not verified)

at 08:42 on April 1st, 2010

Hey Prank Yanker, wish I worked with you. sounds like u keep the cubicles happy :-)

Cornholio (not verified)

at 10:16 on April 1st, 2010

I like to bring donuts in for the first meeting of the morning. Then on April 2nd I email a picture of me and my friends posing while wearing donuts on our cocks. Hilarious

AT (not verified)

at 10:56 on April 1st, 2010

Ok, unpluggin the mouse & keyboard is soft... relatively easy to figure out. HOWEVER! switching them around (plug the mouse in the keyboard slot and vice versa) would do the trick. I did it on one of my colleges ones - he ended up taking computer apart... =)))

Mellie (not verified)

at 13:14 on April 1st, 2010

filled my supers cube with chairs from the breakroom while he was in a meeting tee hee

jimmyt (not verified)

at 13:28 on April 1st, 2010

Try hitting Ctrl +Alt and the arrow down key. The screen goes upside down and the mouse works backwards.... drives people nuts. to reverse it go back and Ctrl+ Alt and Up key.