April Fool’s Day Jokes Sent in by Readers
April Fool’s Jokes sent in by Humor at Work readers.
- Telling my supervisor on a Friday that I accepted a new job with an organization I had already been involved in, and that basic training started on the Monday. This was at a time when we’ve already had a few key people leave our organization, and my expertise and knowledge was all that was left for a very specialized area of our work. I had everyone in on it except my direct supervisor, even her bosses knew so they played along as well.
- The best ones are the jokes where no one ever knows, who did it!
- Made bean soup with the blender and placed it into a baggie. Took the bag to a tech and told her it was a fecal sample that had to be run asap…but before I gave it to her, I opened it up, took a sniff, put my finger in it…and ate some…completely grossed her out till she realized it was soup.
- Putting maple syrup in the washroom soap dispenser.
- I am thinking of scrambling all the building’s name plates on their
- “The Marker that Smelt Like Dead Pig”
A co-worker was leading a budget planning discussion using a white board and those smelly dry erase markers. He opened a new green and quickly closed it saying it smelt too much like dead pig. I had to ask, so the co-worker described a horrific childhood story on the farm where he jumped on the family pig that had been missing for a couple days. He ended up going through the pig. I then collected as many new green dry erase markers and left them uncapped in his office. Taped under his desk & chair, in his pencil cup, in the venting, under his keyboard. This went on for weeks, always finding new spots to leave an uncapped dry erase marker. - An interoffice memo went round telling the female employees that their bathroom break time was limited, cameras were going to be installed in the main area of the bathroom and alarms were going to go off and the bathroom stall doors would burst open if we were in there too long. That is the gist of the joke, but the memo was worded much more eloquently.
- I think you sent me the link which led to this idea: http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/aprilfool/
I sent an email to our graphic design dept suggesting that San Serrifee was a great vacation destination, some jumped on the bandwagon and praised the virtues of this location which further fuelled the entertainment value when the others figured it out. http://cybernations.wikia.com/wiki/San_Serriffe - I had my supervisor call the Water Bed Factory and ask for Rusty Bedsprings.
- For April Fool’s day last year, our events team created a hilarious email outlining the fictitious new jobs that the management team were moonlighting at to maintain their ‘glamorous’ lifestyle and provided photographic evidence. For instance, the CEO and COO were now also washing windows and the photo was of two men hanging from the side of a building with Bob and Brad’s faces superimposed.
This email was the source of great hilarity and was enjoyed by all, especially the managers!! - An employee found a goldfish in her glass water jug that she kept on her desk.
- A coworker had a new car and someone else pretended to have hit it in the parking lot. Luckily we work for a municipality so we could even involve the bylaw officer to make it more “real”. We soaked a cotton ball in oyster juices and hid it inside the mouth piece of the phone and then popped the number buttons and re-arranged them. It was hilarious to see the sniffing and key pounding on the phone
- Got into bosses office and removed all the furniture
- Pictures from the youth of a worker posted around the office on her 40th birthday
- Filling an office with boxes
- We created a Newspaper front page with stories about a gentleman’s accomplishments (all fake) for his 50th birthday. He loved it and still keeps it up on his wall.
- There are a few. Tin-foiled desk components, taped desk components, modified pictures of the joke recipient.
- Filled the maintenance worker’s room with balled up newspaper from the ceiling to the floor, filling the entire room right up to the door. When he opened the door to get his equipment all you could see was newspaper.
- Taping everything on someone’s desk to the desk so it could not easily be moved.
- Our web team faked an online news story depicting our executive director in a compromising situation. He had the last laugh, though, as he wasn’t fooled by it but pretended to be freaked out and told staff he’d been in touch with “head office” and lawyers to move forward with liable charges etc. The staff who started the joke were terrified thinking that what they’d started was now out of control. Towards the end of the day the executive director let them off the hook. He knew the web story was a joke.
- Black shoe polish on the phone (in the old days)
And a few jokes that backfired!
- The situation is too long for this note but it backfired because the person responsible for stopping the joke before it got out of control was ill for a couple days and other “pranksters” were on travel status. The joke got out of control before the recipient was told the situation was not real. (We still laugh about this one!)
- Poured water on vehicle in -30 broke door handle opening door when frozen
- Loss of unsaved data.
We stumbled across the Ctrl-Alt-arrow down feature (flips the image on your monitor). We did this to a co-worker who we thought might ask for assistance in repairing (Ctrl-Alt-arrow up to go back to normal … if you can read this upside down … since you inevitably tried the Ctrl-Alt-arrow down and are freaking out by now). The co-worker shut down his computer (which doesn’t fix the issue) and neglected to save his work from the morning. - There was a mutiny which ended up being funnier than the joke!
- Somebody sent me a strip-o-gram once, but that was 17 years ago, times were different then I suppose.
- I left a note on my friend/co-workers motorcycle that was parked in the company parking lot that was for visitors only. In the note I told him that he was not allowed to park there and if he did it again that he would be punished and signed the Executive Directors name to it. I thought it was quite funny and waited to see my friend again. When I did I was surprised to see how mad he was and even more surprised to hear that he had grabbed the note off his motorcycle, rushed into the Executive Directors office and was quite prepared to tell the Executive Director where to go and how to get there. Fortunately the Executive Director was gone for the day and I was able to calm my buddy down.
- Someone tied door knobs of the washroom together from the OUTSIDE when worker was in the washroom. Everyone was waiting outside for their reaction — not funny.
- They filled someone’s office with balloons for his birthday. Turns out they should have checked because the guy had a severe fear of balloons and had to go home!
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