How about a memo requesting that all printer software be set NOT to suppress the last blank page?
<Blah, blah,> … furthers our corporate initiative toward becoming a paper-only office. thanks for contributing your blank pages
Good advice. A practical joke should be just as entertaining for the victim as the perpetrator, and should not place any burden on the victim to undo your bullshit. Anything that does not meet both those criteria should not be done.
Better yet… tell as many people as you can, privately and individually, that you have a really, really great prank set up for April Fool’s.
Then do… nothing.
It helps if you spend all day Doing Suspicious Things.
To all thread participants, if you feel the need to comment to or about someone who disagrees with your stance on office pranks, please do so without name-calling or other insults.
Unless, of course, you have access to Health Department stationary and print out a gonorrhea notification alert and send it to some dude. Cause that’s transcendental.
You could send an e-mail based on this
And TPS reports?
We have a small local newspaper that does an April Fools issue every year. One year they had a headline saying that a bridge was going to be built across Lake George.
This Lake is highly protected, and people were freaking out. They seem to forget every year when April 1st comes around.
I once pulled a most excellent prank on one of my bosses:
A long time ago, in the days of the original Macintosh, I was able to map different sounds to all of the keys on the keyboard. In those days, no one locked their computer, and this particular one was shared, so it was easy.
I chose a different farm animal for each key. The victim was still able to type, but it sounded like a zoo/barnyard when they did. The sound was interspersed with various NSFW exclamations from the victim, while we were rolling with laughter outside the office.
Looks like this could still be accomplished with some freeware today, but you would still need access to the computer to pull it off.
Playing any kind of jokes or pranks in the workplace is incredibly risky and foolish.
Your behavior on April Fool’s Day might seem like a harmless funny prank, but just pause and think about how that behavior might be written up by HR or anyone in the office with a current (or future) grudge against you. The “joke” can be re-characterized as harassment, poor judgment or even mental instability on your part and end up as a negative item on your permanent employment record with that company.
Not worth the risk, and not everyone appreciates jokes or even realizes it’s April Fool’s Day on the 1st.
Bake “Slithy Tove’s Special Brownies” and label them as such for the break table. Make damn sure they are not special.
If you get the opportunity, change the MS Word auto correct settings on the office jerk’s computer to change public to pubic.
And promptly get fired for sexual harassment. Too funny, ha ha.:dubious:
We were once asked to set “pubic” to autocorrect to “public”, after someone had one too many typos.
Typos. Sure… 
I’m partial to the Annoy-a-tron. Drove one of my co-workers in the IT section crazy until I 'fessed up. I hid it near one of their repair stations and he couldn’t figure out why the monitor was beeping. He got a laugh out of it and no harm was done. You have to know your audience.
Take a picture of somebody’s mouse and mouse pad. Print it out, put his mouse & pad behind the monitor, put the printout where the mousepad went.