April Fools Joke

One of my co-workers just had a new baby last week. This put him out of the office for 4 days leading up to April Fools day. The day before April Fools I realized he was going to be back the next day. We had to do something to welcome him back.

We thought about switching his cubicle around in reverse, but didn't think it would get much of a reaction. Then we thought about turning his desk in his cube so that it was blocking the entrance. Too much work. Then I thought, "Why don't we use part of his desk and make it look like someone else has a computer set up in his cubicle with him."

For the past few months one of the other departments at work has been hiring interns like crazy. It's to the point that they have run out of room to place them. This situation made it so our prank was somewhat believable.

We stole half of his desk and put it in the opposite corner from his computer. Setup a computer, placed a notepad on the desk and filled out a time sheet for the past two days. Then waited for him to come back to work on Wednesday.

Wednesday morning we heard our boss' phone ring. It was him saying he was going to be in later that day. Finally he came in. The first thing he asked was, "What is this, some kind of April Fools?" Of course we had to tell him no. We all just went back to work like it was nothing big.

He never really fell for the prank totally, but we had him a little nervous. It probably would have been better to pull this prank on a day that wasn't April Fools. I've definately pulled better ones, but it was still fun.