If you work 9 hours a day, share an office with coworkers, and execute the same tasks every day, it can get a little bit boring. The good thing is April Fool’s is just around the corner, and you can make your everyday routine a little more fun by adding some laughs. Here are 30 ideas for you to try.
Annoying Disc Drive
There’s a script that’ll make your coworker’s disc drive often and close randomly. If you do this, you’ll get on their nerves for sure.
Blank Printer
Whenever someone tries to print something, you can send a document with blank pages at the same time to the printer just to mess with them.
Hacking Spotify
If they leave their Spotify accounts open, just add some Barney the Dinosaur tracks to their libraries.
Googlying It
Putting googly eyes on everything will never get old. If it’s super funny to watch, imagine how much funnier it’d be if you wait to see how many days it takes them to notice.
Background Check
Changing every desktop background to a very embarrassing picture of each coworker might be an easy and fun way to celebrate April Fool’s.
Annoying Car Music
If you use a company car, whenever you return it, just leave it on annoying music stations such as Polka or Heavy Metal, and set the volume at its maximum.
Christmas During July
Start whistling Christmas songs any time of the year and in a few hours, all of your colleagues will start wondering why they have Jingle Bells stuck in their brains when it’s the middle of July.
Sticky Threads of Duct Tape
You can pull off threads of Duct tape and put them on the side of your colleague’s car to make it look like a deep, horrifying paintwork scratch.
A Very Merry Unbirthday to You
If you teach at an elementary school, you can tell the kids that it’s your coworker’s birthday and that they love birthday hugs.
Fake Folder
Create a new folder on your colleague’s desktop and give it a bizarre or funny name, take a screenshot, and then set it as their desktop background. It’ll take them weeks to realise it while they try to delete it.
Picture Perfect
Replace your coworker’s picture frames with pictures of yourself. You could even do it slowly to see how long it takes them to notice. If you try to recreate them, that’d be top tier.
Funny Chrome Addons
There are plenty of funny add-ons for you to add to your coworker’s browser. There’s one that’ll replace the word “cloud” with “butt” and nothing will make sense anymore.
Lots of Faces
Print out very tiny copies of a coworker’s head and leave them around the office. They’ll never know who it is.
Mysterious Sticky Notes
Just leave them on random desks and write “Come see me” but don’t sign them. They’ll be both confused and worried.
Jell-O Stapler
If you know, you know. This is a classic for The Office fans and it will ensure a few laughs at work.
It’s a Bug’s Life (Office Version)
Get fake plastic cockroaches and spiders and I guarantee you’ll have fun for months. You can hide them in drawers, under their laptops, and even in their coats’ pockets.
Seat Air Fresheners
Just get a bunch of these and tape them under your coworker’s chair. They will smell the scent but may never figure out where it’s coming from.
A Mouse Intruder
Plug in a wireless mouse to their computers and move them a few times a day. You’ll hear the slamming of their mouse and muttering under their breath each time.
Fake Post-Its
Add fake post-it notes to their desks and make them believe they have something to do. Use terms such as “URGENT,” “Meeting,” and even “Evaluation” to freak them out.
Pharmacy Stickers
You can take stickers that say “For rectal use only”, usually in pharmacies, and randomly stick them to pens, phones, or staplers.
Jurassic Work
Get teeny tiny dinosaurs and place them in random places. You’ll create a fun scavenger hunt that’ll foster your teamwork.
Fake Robot
Pretend you’re a robot when picking up the office phone. Use a super neutral voice and see how long it takes people to find out it’s you.
Unsteady Keyboard
When your desk partner leaves the desk, just put back only one of the keyboard rests to make it off balance, and they’ll lose it.
Missing Cat
Hide a tiny speaker in a cubicle near yours and play soft cat meows every two hours. Your coworkers might spend hours looking for the imaginary cat.
Auto-INcorrect
You can always change your colleague’s auto-correct settings so that when they type their names, it’ll correct it to something like “-their name-, Prince of pies”.
Paper Clips
You can make everyone think there’s a paper clip in the copier by making some copies of one and putting those papers back in the tray. People will spend hours trying to find them.
Keep Messing with Mice
If you unplug their mouse and put a sticky note over the sensor, you’ll see them freak out after plugging it in and seeing it’s not working either.
Fairy Mail
You can always send a coworker an envelope filled with glitter. Their desk will sparkle forever making them the designated office fairy.
Kids = Dogs
If you have a coworker who won’t stop talking about their kids, whenever they mention something about them, you have to mention something your dog did.
Slowly Conquering
If your desks are separated by a movable divider, you can try moving it one centimeter closer to your coworker every day and see how long it takes them to notice they’re running out of space.
