Office Humor

In honor of April Fool's Day, I'm listing the following office pranks appropriate for the holiday as listed on MSN Careers. As commentary, I think someone who has never worked in an office wouldn't get just how funny some of these could be. Out of the playful spirit of the holiday, for the last part of this entry, you have to higlight the words in order to view them. It's like invisible ink for the computer. After the list and before the timestamp, get that mouse moving.

1. Changed the caller ID on a co-worker's phone to read "Mr. Kitten" every time he called someone.
2. Placed random objects from people's desks in the vending machine. This one would have been good for Gareth on the British version of The Office
3. Placed a live goldfish in an IV bag in a clinic.
4. Snuck onto someone else's computer and sent out an "I love you" e-mail to the entire office.
5. Wall papered someone's entire cube with headshots of his co-workers.
6. Convinced a colleague that a co-worker was in love with him.
7. Sat on the copier and placed the copies back in the paper bin. Anytime co-workers made copies, they had the image of the prankster's backside in the background.
8. Turned all the clocks in the office one hour back to make the work day seem longer.
9. Locked all the doors, shut off the lights and put a "Closed" sign in the window when the boss went out for lunch.
10. Placed fake rubber chocolates in the break room and watched as co-workers tried to chew them. This one would be especially humorous if I put them in a Neuhaus box and told the people who know I work at Neuhaus they were in the kitchen.

I also had a little Office Space humor last week when my cube became the storage space for a mountain of boxes. I joked about building a fort and said I just needed to steal my cube neighbor's red stapler to become Milton from Office Space. Someone came and cleaned out my entire cube a couple of days ago and now strangely I feel naked. There's almost TOO much space in here. Who would have thought a cube monkey would enjoy less space? Which brings me to a question I've always wondered, why is the monkey the animal of choice when speaking of a worker in a cube? I'm currently in my cube and I see nothing monkey-like about it.