Did you happen to make it through the day without a sighting of some plastic vomit or a whoopee cushion?  Maybe your friends are a little more creative and you have to tread lightly when the first day of April rolls around.  The origins of April Fools Day are somewhat uncertain.  It is believed to date back to the Middle Ages and may be associated either with the changing of the seasons or the beginning of what was once considered the new year.  Either way it has become a tradition of lighthearted joking celebrated throughout the Western world. 

 

If you let the day pass this year without pulling one over on a friend here are some ideas to keep in mind for next year.  Not that I’m suggesting any of these.  As always there is a certain level of risk involved when pulling pranks, the consequences are usually fairly closely related to the sense of humor of the prankee!

 

These are actual pranks that people claimed to have pulled on a recent CareerBuilder.com survey. 

 

1. Placed a pair of pants and shoes inside the only toilet stall in a men’s room to make it appear someone was using the stall. It sat there for hours until someone called security to check if the person had died.

 

2. Sent a fake love note to a co-worker from another co-worker. 

 

3. All the women in office individually spoke to the president, confiding that she is pregnant. By noon, he ‘knew’ that all of his female workers were pregnant and he could not tell anyone because each asked for confidentially.

 

4. Called electric company, used a co-worker’s name and told them he was moving so the electricity got turned off at the co-worker’s house.

 

5. Filled the vending soda machine with cans of beer.

 

6. Rigged the bosses chair to drop suddenly during a staff meeting.

 

7. Placed a sign on the restroom door that read, "The company ran out of toilet tissue; please use your own resources."

 

8. Paged a co-worker over the loud speaker claiming the CEO was looking for him.  The worker went into the CEOs office and the CEO didn’t know who he was or why he was there.

 

9. Shrink-wrapped everything in a co-worker’s cubicle.

 

10. Put a ‘house for sale’ ad in the newspaper regarding a co-worker’s home.

 

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