Good Office April Fool's Day Jokes

April Fool's Day brings out the comedian in everyone, but you must be clever to pull off a truly comical April Fool's Day prank. Office pranks are some of the best because, if executed properly, they can relieve stress, but make sure to use discretion when performing any April Fool's day jokes in your office.

The Paper Clip Copier

Place a paper clip on the glass of your office's copy machine and make 10 to 20 copies of the image of the paperclip. Put the pieces of paper with the copied image of the paper clip back into the paper tray and remove the paperclip from the scanning bed. Watch in amusement as people try to find the paperclip in the scanning bed.

I'll Be Right Out

Take a pair of pants and stuff them with used paper so they appear filled as if they were being worn by a person. Go into you office's bathroom and place these pants on the toilet with a pair of shoes directly below the pant's hem. Do this so it looks like a person is sitting on the toilet. Lock the door and crawl under the bottom of the stall and let people think someone is taking a really long time to use the restroom.

Failure to Communicate

Find an unattended cell phone and change the language settings to a foreign language. The more obscure the better, as this joke works really well when the person has no idea what is going on with his phone.

Fatal Error

Use Windows Paint or a similar image editing program to create a "fatal error" screen or "blue screen of death." Start with a blue background and add white text that reads as a fatal error screen would read. You do not have to be exact, as the very sight of this screen is enough to scare most people. Copy it onto a disc that can be read by the victim's computer and then stealthily install it as their screen saver.

Pen Issues

Glue the pen caps onto every pen in a co-worker's work space. Watch in amusement as they attempt to take the cap off and get increasingly frustrated as they progress through their pen supply.

High Chair

Find a co-worker with a standard office chair that has the height adjustment under the seat. Tie the adjustment lever down so that when they sit down in the chair it slides all the way down, but when they rise from the chair it slides back up. It is best to use an invisible fishing line to tie the lever at its base so it is as inconspicuous as possible.