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April Fools' Day Suckered Us
An April Fools' Enigma
It will be one rip roaring April Fools' Day at Graphique Communications Design Inc. in Scottsdale.
The owners are preparing to punk their employees, big-time. (They gave Suckered.us permission to let readers in on the gag.)
This morning, a "police officer" is set to arrive at the office and report to workers there's been a homicide in the building, and facts indicate that somebody at the company may be the culprit.
Employees will be interrogated and at that point removed as potential suspects. When suitably concerned, they'll be let in on the gag and taken to lunch. Then, the bosses intend to sneak out of the eatery and stiff workers with the bill.
"I think April Fools' and Halloween are our two pet holidays," co-owner Stephanie Krinetz said.
Suckered.us believed the majority of Valley HR departments had put the kibosh on April Fools' pranks, but plenty of companies still believe the day encourages office fun.
In a recent CareerBuilder.com survey, 32 percent of workers said they'd either planned or were the target of a workplace prank.
Whether to sanction April Fools' depends on a company's culture, said Aaron Witsoe, president of Creative Business Resources in Phoenix. "If all year long, your office is goofing around, you have a real tight-knit, small organization, to put a memo out saying, 'Don't do anything for April Fools' ' would seem counterculture," he said.
Need a last-minute prank? CareerBuilder collected a couple from past years:
• "Placed a pair of pants and shoes inside the only toilet stall in a men's room to make it appear someone was using the stall. It sat there for hours until someone called security to check if the person had died."
• "Posted a sign on the bathroom door saying, 'The company ran out of toilet tissue; please use your own resources.' " |
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