I'm looking for an April Fools Joke to play on my office via email.

I was thinking of using Para's waiver joke but I am looking for other ideas also.

Please contribute if you can!

I have sent an auto send with a fake Microsoft error code in the same format indicating that the user has reached there allowable email limits and to contact Microsoft for additional email licensing.

That got a few folks.

Do you have access to a chainsaw and several gallons of fake blood?

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Originally posted by parabellum:
Do you have access to a chainsaw and several gallons of fake blood?

fake?

^^^ @ Para,

Your employer allows such behavior on your company network?

Send a company wide announcement that all copiers in the office are now voice activated and provide a list of voice commands to activate various functions.

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Originally posted by ensigmatic:
Your employer allows such behavior on your company network?

Yes

I'm looking for light hearted humor...not chainsaw, blood, entrails, and decapitation in the parking lot type humor.

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Originally posted by Angus the Kid:

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Originally posted by ensigmatic:
Your employer allows such behavior on your company network?

Yes

I'm looking for light hearted humor...not chainsaw, blood, entrails, and decapitation in the parking lot type humor.

Conversion to voice activated printer controls?

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Originally posted by ensigmatic:
Your employer allows such behavior on your company network?

When I was a coop student at Donn Corporation April fools gags were almost mandatory. My boss put in a requisition one year for the purchase of a Dragon to melt the snow in the valleys in the roof of the main plant. The following year he put in a requisition for 15 tons of coal. That got the owners attention and he called Rocky to see what in the hell that 15 tons of coal was for. When Rocky told it was to feed the dragon the owner fell out of his chair laughing. I sent in a proposal for the purchase of a Ferrari 308. The savings in this proposal was the reduced travel time between the Medina plant and the main plant in Westlake. Payback period was just 47 years so it was what I considered a reasonable purchase. BTW, as a coop I made just 330 dollars a month and actually did most of the shuttling between Median and Westlake.

Not email, but screenshot their desktops, set as wallpaper, then hide all the icons off screen. Unplug mouse and keyboard.

Restroom trip permits. With conditions, to be filled out prior to each event, and turned in to their supervisor.

"Excessive trips will result in the violator being photographed and the pics posted on the door."

Come in before everybody else and swap hard drives.

Scooter123 must have been living in Cleveland!

I used this and put it on the printer a few feet from my office door. In my case it wasn’t April Fools day, but I was laughing a lot. People kept trying this over and over. It worked well because we had just installed a new Canon printer.

Sometimes these backfire. In 1975 my Texas employer (Engineering/Construction) sent me to the San Francisco office for procurement duties for the Alaska pipeline. There were some cultural differences between the Calif and Texas folks.

Some Texas joker decided to yank some chains by putting a fake announcement on the bulletin board announcing a “Turkey Scramble” just before Thanksgiving break.

The memo described how how live turkeys would be released on a floor of the hi-rise parking lot so that employees could chase them down and keep them for slaughter and prep for Thanksgiving. The memo encouraged employees to bring large coolers, rope etc.

Knowing that the Texas folks were certified knuckle dragging barbarians, some Calif folks took it seriously.

It made the major newspaper. Animal rights groups were triggered. Outrage expressed.

The VP head of the office was interviewed by the media so that a denial that it was a serious event and “Texas Tradition” could be stated.

Several Calif employees didn’t get the message and showed up with coolers and rope on the scheduled day.