5 Evil April Fools Day Pranks To Play On Your Office Colleagues

By: Amisha Shirgave | March 31, 2025

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If you wish to play some humorous pranks on your office colleagues, here are a few pranks

Take a screenshot of their desktop, hide all icons and the taskbar, then set the screenshot as their wallpaper so they’ll keep clicking without anything responding. Sit back and watch as they restart their computer in frustration, thinking it's frozen

Swap a few keys on their keyboard, like switching “M” and “N,” so every time they type, the letters come out wrong. If they aren’t tech-savvy, they’ll be confused why their messages suddenly look like gibberish

Tape a small piece of paper over the bottom of their mouse sensor, making it stop working completely. For extra fun, write "April Fools!" on the tape so they only see it after struggling for a while

Schedule a fake emergency meeting with an official-sounding title, then have everyone stay muted and act like they can’t hear the victim. Let them panic for a few minutes, thinking their mic is broken, before finally revealing the prank

Print out hundreds of copies of their most embarrassing old email, Slack message, or office meme and hide them in their desk, under their keyboard, inside their drawers, and even in their lunchbox. No matter how many they throw away, more will mysteriously appear

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