Easy Office Pranks

Easy office pranks help to lighten the mood in the middle of a tedious and hectic work day. They help to turn a boring and dull day into an exciting one. A moment’s laughter makes all the co-workers feel better even in a hectic schedule and introduces a tone of informality in an otherwise formal environment. In the office, you get paid for the work that you do, so you do not expect to laze around. Yet, ‘all work and no play, makes Jack a dull boy.’ So, why not play some easy office pranks so that neither you nor the office seems so dull.

You do not need to wait for the April fool’s day to slide in. All you should keep in mind is that your pranks are harmless, and that you do not mess up with the wrong person at the wrong time. Office pranks help to strengthen the bonds between you and your colleagues. In a formal environment, it brings in a streak of informal relations. A hearty laugh or a simple smile on recognizing your folly relieves you of the dry profit and lost accounts that you have to maintain from morning till night.

Say you come back after having lunch and sit on your computer to find the mouse not working. What will be your instant reaction? You will try for a few seconds and then you will feel like throwing it away. You will feel disgusted and your concern regarding how to complete the day’s assignments will bite you from within. However, before you curse the computer or the mouse or the office or anything for that matter, just check to see if the ball of the mouse is not taped. This could be one of those easy office pranks that your colleague might have played on you.

In another instance, say you come back from the washroom to find your computer screen completely black. Before you get annoyed at it for disrupting your day’s work, check if the control and the settings are all right. It might be possible that your neighbor in the next cubicle has done all the required adjustments to play pranks on you while you were busy splashing water to soothe your tired eyes. So, if you find yourself in such a situation, do not forget to laugh heartily with your co-workers at these harmless pranks.

You could also be the initiator and turn a boring day in office into an interesting one with the many easy office pranks. Say you slink into your colleague’s computer while he is away talking to the boss and send out an e-mail of invitation to all for a treat in the office canteen on the occasion of a supposed anniversary. By the time he comes in, he will find you in your designated place and find all others congratulating him and thanking him for the invitation. Poor man, until later he will not understand what is going on.

Thus, office pranks help to brighten the day for not only the one who victimizes and the one who is victimized, but for all the people working there. It revitalizes you and helps you to concentrate on work better once you have had a cheerful laugh.