It's April Fools....

[benfica_77]

What's the best April fools joke you did or saw? 

Here's mine...I did this a couple years ago at work I put a sign saying that the new printer was now voice activated. I caught a couple people including an IT guy!!! On the link you can pick your printer "instructions"

 

[JGD]

I enjoyed this one (and not only because it was designed by my wife).

http://www.puzzlenation.com/fest

[El Presidente]

When in banking, I sent a fax (remember those) to my corporate clients stating that through a computer error, .25% interest wasn't calculated on their development loans for the month of February. 

I notified them that as account manager, I would  write off the amount owing. However, they could buy me lunch or dinner. 

 I told each of them it was a prank. I told them straight after lunch/dinner. 

.....it was a very good month 

[Fuzz]

My ex co-worker was a notorious user of hand sanitisers. So I took an empty bottle of hand sanitiser, poured in some lube (it was from a new bottle) and swapped it when she went to lunch. She came back and proceeded to squirt a generous amount on her hands... a minute later she was wondering why the hand sanitiser had not evaporated. Off to the bathroom she went to wash her hands, and I swapped back the real bottle. She returned and tried some again... it worked! I told her that sometimes if your hands were oily, the sanitiser won't work properly. Said it was best if she washed her hands first before using the sanitiser.

I kept swapping out the bottle for the next few days. She had a good laugh when I eventually told her.

[Shelby07]

Years ago when we had the old desk phones with plastic handsets and mouthpiece covers that you could unscrew I played a trick on my office mate who was a certified genius but not very observant in every day matters  

I’d take lead shot and put them in heat shrink tubing. Every day or 2 I’d unscrew the mouthpiece and slide another piece in the handset. Eventually the handset would get pretty heavy. Whenever he called maintenance I’d swap his handset with mine and when they found nothing wrong I’d start all over again...

 

[SignalJoe]

About three weeks ago I installed a wireless mouse on my coworkers computer via a USB port on the back.  Then proceeded to periodically use it to take over her computer.  I would minimize windows she had open, open windows willy nilly, randomly right click or just frantically move her cursor around her monitor .  She would call out to those around "look it's doing it again!"  whils holding her hands flat on her desk.  Since everyone around was in the prank they fed her various theories from the batteries in her mouse running low to needing to have her mouse digitally "calibrated."  This morning she brought in a replacement wireless mouse to solve the "problem."  Ironically the "problem" was watching her over the cube wall and waited patiently until she installed the mouse and...surprise, surprise the problem(s) persisted.  

After the failed mouse swap I pointed out that today was April fools day, she responded with "You're not going to get me."   I let her believe that until lunch when I called her over to my cube to show her something.  I told her to look at her monitor while moving the cursor erratically around it.  The light bulb came on followed shortly thereafter by her calling me a bastard and a son of a bitch (which I found to be contradictory) as well as accusing me of engaging in carnal activities with someones mother (though she didn't specify whose).     

 

[RupertPupkin]

I really enjoyed reading all of these. A couple of friends and I were talking about this today. One of the best April Fools pranks ever pulled:

 

[stogieluver]

11 hours ago, El Presidente said:

When in banking, I sent a fax (remember those) to my corporate clients stating that through a computer error, .25% interest wasn't calculated on their development loans for the month of February. 

I notified them that as account manager, I would  write off the amount owing. However, they could buy me lunch or dinner. 

 I told each of them it was a prank. I told them straight after lunch/dinner. 

.....it was a very good month 

So, now we know why you’re no longer in banking. 

And another piece of the puzzle is in place.  ?

[ac031898]

A running prank in the office used to be to take a screen shot of the person's desktop, then set that as their background image and hide (or delete if you're really mean) all of the actual desktop icons...they would inevitably return to their desk and not be able to open any of their desktop shortcuts/files.

[Habana Mike]

45 minutes ago, ac031898 said:

A running prank in the office used to be to take a screen shot of the person's desktop, then set that as their background image and hide (or delete if you're really mean) all of the actual desktop icons...they would inevitably return to their desk and not be able to open any of their desktop shortcuts/files.

My son pulled this on us a couple of times. I figured it out pretty quickly, drove my wife nuts!

[Fuzz]

I once put gladwrap on my computer screen. Later that day, as I was typing out a report in MS Word, I cursed loudly and proceeded to put liquid paper on my screen. Then complained that the stupid computer wouldn't type over the liquid paper.

Other pranks I have pulled at the office (this was my old job):

• removed the trackball from a mouse / placed a Post-It under a laser mouse
• swapped the "N" key with the "M" key on a keyboard (for people who can't touch type, and was doubly worse as all of our staff login IDs started with an "n")
• disconnected the handset from the back of a phone / taped down the receiver button on the phone
• removed the contents of a co-worker's cabinet (the sliding door kind, not a filing draw cabinet), hid inside, and when she returned back from lunch and opened it to put her purse inside, I yelled out, "Do you mind?! I'm trying to sleep in here!!"
• placed a piece of black plastic over a co-worker's monitor to make them think it wouldn't turn on. removed it when they went for coffee and before the IT tech turned up
• returning to work after a 2 week vacation and quitting 1 month before a major implementation.... oh wait, that wasn't a prank!

[cigcars]

        One of my co-workers on the MARTA transit lines truly, TRULY couldn't stand Sugar Ray Leonard, who was top news at the time. So before everybody was due in the offices, I convinced his co-workers to let me at his locker which thankfully for me was still open. I posted at 26 inch color poster of Sugar Ray, his boxing gloves on and ready for combat, in there, and wrote on it, "Hey (man)! Gimme some sugar!" The folks in there played along when he came in and saw it, saying they didn't know how it got there. He was very perceptive: "I know who it was - that got - damn GARNETT!!"  BOY was that fun!! Heh heh heh!  

 

[BeerPimp]

Several years ago for April's fools day I put an Annoy-A-Tron from Thinkgeek behind my coworkers desk.   I had read description and reviews about how crazy it made people.   It is basically a small circuit board with a small speaker that randomly beeps.   My coworker who is always super level headed was getting super annoyed at this random beep he could not find.   It doesn't help that my other coworker who has a desk next to him has trouble hearing high pitch sounds.   So he could not hear it at all so my coworker would ask him about it and he would say he doesn't hear it.  I finally told him when he was clearly out of sorts because of the beeping.