April Fools only comes around once a year, and Office Pranks are just too hard to pass up. While the most common of April Fools jokes tend to be, “I’m pregnant” and “Joe Died” type verbal banter, I like to go with a more creative hands on prank. After getting a tip that all of the Directors were going to be in a meeting from 10 to 11, (thanks G) I quickly came up with an impromptu office prank to play on our Director of Customer Service. Having no rope, glue, tar, or feathers, I had to improvise with the props at hand.
And so I bring to you my office humor loving readers, the Jungle Office.
Here we have an over the top view of my office prank on our Director of Customer Support. You may also know him a B. Lumbergh from my Work IM posts.
Relishing in the glory of my April Fools prank. The chair I’m sitting in tends to be where write-ups are handed out.
Can’t hide the “Nice Smile”, even in a jungle.
The office pranks didn’t end there. Someone caught wind of the April Fools prank I pulled and thought they would join in the fun. The Director of Sales had his office (kinda) filled with chairs.
(crickets)
Yeah, I didn’t think it was that funny either.
After the meeting got out I was able to catch part of his reaction to the Office Jungle prank I pulled, just as he was marching off to find who done it.
You know he likes the new look, office jungles are soo in right now.
Cramming his office with every fake/real plant I could find wasn’t enough, and to be honest, he seemed to like it to much judging from the picture above. He left for lunch about an hour later and while he was out, I removed ALL plants from his office (even the ones he had to begin with.)
I finished the day off by replacing the Director’s profile picture in the hall with a picture of the character Bill Lumbergh from the movie Office Space .
Have any great April Fools pranks you’ve played or heard about today? I’ve seen a few good office pranks today, but keep in mind, it doesn’t have to be April 1st to pull off a prank at the office.
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April 1, 2008 at 4:43 pm
Shirley Tipsy
SOOOO good. Massively successful.
P.S. – FIRST! HA HA HA AH
April 1, 2008 at 4:53 pm
John Jones
Several of us in the office rounded up other people from different departments to come to our Managers office and ask, “You wanted to see me?”. After about 8 – 10 visitors our Manager decided that our IT department was pulling this off by accessing his IM and sending the requests.
Our Manager has now changed his password and the first words out of his mouth whenever anyone comes in is, “It’s a prank!”
One of the funniest office pranks I’ve seen today next to The Jungle.
John Jones
– 10 minutes of SEO, SEM & Internet Marketing
April 1, 2008 at 5:51 pm
bharnish
I could not stop laughing all day with these pranks. Absolutely brilliant. Well done.
John can tell the story about the one I fell for. 😉
April 2, 2008 at 7:39 pm
Bukowsky
DUDE! That’s awesome!
We didn’t do anything like that in our office. We only printed up some fake citations from our management company and put them on some coworkers car with messages like, “You parked crooked. This is reason to tow, please don’t let it happen again” or “You are too close to the white line. This is warning #1”
I like your prank better!
April 2, 2008 at 9:06 pm
John Jones
With Bharnish the story started a day earlier…
Towards the end of my work day I often head over to news.google.com and check out news stories from Google. Well I came accross the Gday prank Google pulled on their .au side.
I sent this to Brian (Bharnish) and he completely and utterly bought into it. He was even trying to get it to work for lottery ticket numbers. Google had a Q & A with lottery in it too which made this even more classic.
Brian never once clicked on the ‘Sign up’ link which would have given it away. Instead he bookmarked it and tried getting it to work by going to google.au.
It was rather classical to see his face when he found out about it. Provided hours of amusement.
John Jones
-10 Minutes of SEO, SEM & Internet Marketing
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November 16, 2009 at 12:34 pm
Dan
Hey This is great! Would you mind if I posted a pic of this on my office pranks photo blog?
February 24, 2010 at 4:52 pm
Zak Nicola
As long as you credit the source, its cool with me 🙂
February 28, 2010 at 11:32 am
Dan
Thanks!
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