[Nachum]

I bet there are some great FReeper April fools stories...

[N. Theknow]

A co-worker called me one night and told me he would not be in the office in Minneapolis until late the next day as he was stuck in LA.

The next day I started a rumor he had taken the morning off to get a vasectomy.

It was two weeks before he finally had enough of the ladies in the office staring at him and making vasectomy jokes and sexual innuendoes that he finally asked what in the world was going on.

[BreitbartSentMe]

Take end of the curly-cord on the phone handset, disconnect it from the receiver and tape it to the back/bottom of the receiver. It looks like it's connected, but they can't answer the phone when it's ringing. There's also some neat downloadable computer jokes for April Fools: "Mash Here"

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

I work in a computer rich environment. Last year I went to a co-workers Windows desktop PC and pressed Print Screen on his desktop display and pasted the image into the MS Paint program by pressing "Crtl-V".

I saved the image and then changed his wallpaper to use the image and then dragged all his desktop icons off to one side of the screen to hide them. The whole process took only 2 minutes while he was in the men's room.
No matter where he clicked with the mouse, nothing happened.
We let him in on the joke just as he was dialing the IT department.

[jmq]

We placed a remote noise maker(cellphone noise) under (taped) the Judge's chair in the courtroom. He go so mad but couldn't find the noise. I had to leave, we were giggling uncontrollably (Legal Aid and the prosecutor) in the hallway and he sent the bailiff after us but the bailiff started laughing he couldn't catch us....

[Billthedrill]

For April Fool's day I usually just post a sign on my desk:

EASILY PISSED
HEAVILY ARMED

I can always say I was kidding later...

[flying Elvis]

1. Signed a male coworker up for panty-hose of the month club, to be delivered to him at work.

2. Stole my bosses hubcaps.

3. Pretend to be a fictional customer and call about a lost product.

4. Laxative in my snacks. (For the phantom snack raider who rifles through everyone's snacks in the breakroom)

5. Squeezed out a tube of fudge dough onto the bathroom floor.

[FishFace222]

"10. Placed fake rubber chocolates in the break room and watched as co-workers tried to chew them."

Also works to dip cotton balls in chocolate almond bark.

[Woodstock]

Since April 1 is on a Saturday, does anyone have good ones to play on hubby or kids at home?

[bondjamesbond]

My boss has a the Sports Illustrated Bathing Suit screensaver on his PC at work. (It's a pretty un-PC PC)

Last year I took a bunch of screen shots of Heroes of Feminism (Bella Abzug, Hillary!, Eleanor Roosevelt, Susan B. Anthony, Cynthia McKinney, etc) and burned them to a CD. I then redirected the target drive of his screen saver to the CDROM drive and inserted the disk.

As a final coups de gras I password protected the screensaver...

[Dead Dog]

Co-Worker sent me a company mandatory training type email (format was correct, email address was correct..sans gmail domain).

used the company Diversity Class name, and included a statement that it was mandatory and had to be done by Jan 1st. All available dates early Monday mornings, or 6:00pm Dec 22.

Then he sent updates, including homework for a two page essay on how diversity effects me. Then he pulled crap off the diversity website, with an course update that it was mandatory reading, and to be done off hours. I was freakin' pissed for a week.

He actually company mailed hard copies of the reading material to my mail code.

He then urged me to claim a schedule conflict and opt out as he supposedly did, and then sent me their response email...where they urged him to rescheudle as the class would "change the way you think".

[rightinthemiddle]

Several years ago, one of my co-workers ordered an expensive pair of shoes from England. I believe they were actually Doc Marten's. He had been talking about them for weeks and was really looking forward to receiving them.

He had them shipped to our office. They came a day or two before April Fool's Day. He was out, but I saw the package laying on the receptionist's desk, with an English return address.

I carefully removed the shoes from the package without tearing the wrapping. We both wear a size 10. I took off my rather worn shoes and put them in the box, then re-wrapped it. I put his shoes on...and observed. Almost all the people in the office knew about the switch.

When he got back from lunch, he was so excited about the shoes. He carefully opened them, all the time talking about how great these would be for his feet, help cure his back problems, etc. The look on his face when he opened the package was priceless...he face almost fell off. He just looked and looked at the shoes. He said, "I can't believe this...they sent me the wrong shoes....they look used..., etc."

I walked up to him and asked him what wrong...for hours, I would walk by his desk and ask, "Heard anything from the shoe people?" He actually called England, but could only leave messages, since it was after hours. He still called two or three times. He even wrote a letter, called UPS, etc.

Meanwhile, i kept walking by his desk...I would even stomp my feet...I'd say stuff like, "Wow, I was really hoping you would get them..I wanted to try them on." I must have stood next to him 15 times...I even walked around the office with him, helping him look for another package.

After about three hours, the whole office was almost in tears. I finally said, "You know, those shoes they sent you look a lot like some I have."

As the line from "Shawshank Redemption" goes, "How often do you look at a man's shoes?"

I can't repeat what he said when he saw them.

[Dead Dog]

I printed out a copy of CDC's Giardiasis
fact sheet, and left it, folded neatly, on the TP dispenser in the restroom.

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dpd/parasites/giardiasis/factsht_giardia.htm

People just can't leave reading material alone.

[Bean Counter]

"A "practical joker" desrves applause for his wit according to its quality. Bastinado is about right. For exceptional wit one might grant keelhauling. But staking him out on an anthill should be reserved for the very wittiest."

SECOND INTERMISSION
More from the Notebooks of Lazarus Long
"Time Enough For Love"
Robert A. Heinlein

[Junior]

April Fools!

[Drawsing]

We are business casual where I work. I sent out a memo to my boss as if it came from HIS boss (with the secretary's help) telling him about the new dress policy for manager's...coat and tie all of the time from now on. The secretary thought it was so funny she sent it to all of the managers. I didn't really get into trouble, but it got mixed reactions. My boss saw it was a joke right away, but some of our Indian managers believed it and thought it was great. They were looking forward to dressing up.

[Stand Watch Listen]