Computer pranks are only funny if you
are in the right mood. The extra factor on 'All Fool's Day', is
that the victim too has to be in the right mood for the hoax.
Send a colleague a fake email from HR, demanding that they go to
the HR floor to discuss their email habits.
Move the contents of a desk to another part of the office.
Tell male colleagues it's "wear a brightly coloured shirt day".
Switch the refrigerator's handle.
Hang clear cellophane across a doorway.
Hand someone a phone message asking them to return an urgent
call from Mr Lyon. The number listed is for the local zoo.
Tape is very good when placed over the pickup button on a
telephone - no ring tone follows.
Do some "replacement changes" by switching the coffee room's
sugar with salt.
Go into the victim's office and locate every pencil and pen in
their desk. Paint the tips with clear nail polish. When they try to
write, none of them will work. [After the prank is revealed, the
nail polish can be removed by dipping the pens and pencils in polish
remover.]
'Office pranks are good for morale and could even help reduce
stress,' a new report has claimed.
Will and Guy suggest that pranksters consider their victims
carefully to ensure appropriateness. We have been friends for many
years have learned that Guy is much more relaxed about pranks than
Will - so tread carefully.
'Playing a practical joke on a colleague could encourage
creativity and improve team-working,' according to an executive
jobsite. 'When people come together to create a prank, it encourages
creativity, teamwork and gives the office a shared experience
outside of the workload.' So writes Sarah Drew, general manager of
TheLadders.co.uk.
Whoopee cushions may be deemed inappropriate.
However, an alternative view is taken by Rosemary Haefner, Vice
President of human resources at CareerBuilder.com when she says, 'Pranking
at work can be risky business.'
When I was a green horn teacher I
was slightly shocked by some of the strokes that older teachers pulled on their students. One episode that opened my eyes was Ned's
photography stunt. Because of cut-backs, old Ned Foreman had to run his 3rd year
photography class (now called Year 9?) with no money for film.
What Ned did was to assure his pupils that there was film in the cameras.
He then send them around and about to take pictures for their projects. When it came to printing
the non-existent photographs, Ned had a myriad of excuses; he seemed to invent a different excuse for every class. If he was in a bad mood, Ned would stage an event where the class
duffer opened the cameras. Ned then lambasted the stooge for accidentally exposing some old film he that he secreted in the cameras between lessons.
If he was in a good mood, Ned would take partial
responsibility himself, I remember him spellbinding my class with a dramatic tale of how a bird flew into the photography dark room (aka his kitchen) and caused a shaft of light to expose the film. On another occasion it was a long saga about
how a rabid dog ate the
film.
Guy the Greenhorn and his yogurt project
As a greenhorn, I was the reverse of Ned. I remember devising a bold project whereby the class made yogurt out of sour milk. It would be
illegal now of course, but rules were lax 25 years ago. Far from giving the class reasons why the sour milk did not turn into yogurt, I spent my own money and bought a dozen real cartons of plain yogurt
and claimed that their experiment was a great success.
Guy and the
Cactus - April Fools Day Prank
Years later when I was an older and wiser teacher, I pulled a stunt on my
class. The project for the Easter term was cactus. I invested some of the departmental
budget in some nice cactus plants for the pupils to take cuttings, we even had proper pots and a greenhouse to keep them warm.
Next, I arranged for a class outing to visit a local expert and admire his collection
of cacti. When they returned to the lab, the class were impressed, but they now wanted to grow
their own cactus from seed. Have you ever seen cactus seeds? They look just like gravel. Today is March 31st, what shall I do for tomorrow's
lesson?
Time for an April Fools
joke.
I could hardly keep a straight face as I told them that I managed to get some Cactus seed at great expense. In fact I was giving them gravel that I picked up on the way to the lesson. My pupils
dutifully planted the 'seeds'
in their pots. Finally, we formed a crocodile and deferentially stored the 'seeds'
in the greenhouse to germinate over Easter. At this point the bell went for the end of the
lesson, so I dismissed them with the words, 'You know those Cactus seeds you just planted - April Fool'.
Tech Support Jokes
Perhaps one of these jokes will inspire you for an April Fools computer
joke.
Double-space Customer: 'My disk ran out of space
when trying to save my Word document, so I changed it from double spaced to
single spaced and it still wouldn't fit!'
Change of Mind Customer: I keep getting inappropriate pop-ups on my computer and don't want my wife to think that it's me.' Advisor: 'I will remove them for you.'
Customer: 'How do I get them back when
she is not in?'
Change Channel? Customer: How do I change channel on
my monitor? Advisor: Your monitor won't have channels like a TV.
Customer: But I was watching the internet channel the other day and now I
just get the word processing channel.
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