Awesome April Fool’s Pranks That Won’t Get You Fired

April Fool’s is that one day of the year that divides the world’s population into two camps – the prankers versus the prankees. You want to think that you’re special or different and that you can fit into both categories but the truth is, when it comes down to it, you’re either the former or the latter. I used to think I was one of the cool kids – a pranker, someone always ready with a brilliant idea but, sadly, that isn’t the case. I was about ten when I realized that I was destined to be a prankee for the rest of my life.

That year, my parents convinced me that we were moving to Berlin. I was mid-tearful dramatic goodbye phone call to my best friend, informing her of my upcoming exile, when they told me it was a joke. To this day I don’t think I’ve ever seen them laugh that hard. That was also the day I googled the words “how to emancipate yourself from your family” for the first time. Turns out it’s a lot harder than you’d think.

If you’re like me and you’re trying to change your status this year and you’re looking to join the almighty prankers, here are a few April Fool’s pranks to pull on your family or coworkers that’ll earn you instant street cred.

I. The Food Filler

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If you’re looking to maximize the effort to discomfort ratio, filling food with condiments is as diabolically easy as it gets. The “effort to discomfort” ratio is the industry name given to an effective prank method whereby a person inputs the lowest possible amount of effort into a prank while still managing to cause maximum discomfort in their intended victim. In layman’s terms it’s for the chronically lazy with a penchant for evil. Just buy some of your favorite condiments – mustard, ketchup, relish, mayo – and fill your victim’s food with it. Quick, easy, and sure to ruin someone’s day!

Warning: Messing with people’s food is dangerous. It will probably evoke some long-lost primitive reaction out of your target, sending him or her back into a Cro-Magnon fugue state. You may not be fired, but there’s a distinct possibility that you’ll be murdered.

II. The Febreze Firebomb

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Ah, the Febreze Firebomb, my personal favorite. This prank is the mother of all pranks in terms of the effort to discomfort ratio. It’s as easy as visiting your local store, dropping 5 bucks on a can of Febreze and zip-ties (thank 50 Shades of Grey for making the commercialization of zip-ties a thing), unleashing the bomb with a resonant “fire in the hole!” for dramatic effect, and watching the world burn from the safety of your desk. The beauty of this prank is that your victims have no choice but to wait it out. Have you ever tried approaching a Febreze Firebomb? It’s like approaching a live skunk. No one is going to volunteer to dive on the runaway can, and even if they do, there’s no way to stop it! Pure evil right there. And fun to watch too!

Febreze is marketed as as an “Air Freshener & Odor Eliminating Spray”. Yeah, right. Tell that to your officemates’ affronted nasal cavities post-Febreze Firebomb.

Personal recommendation: Go with the Hawaiian Aloha scent. An innocent few spritzes and it smells like a lovely beachside holiday. A full bottle unleashed in an enclosed space and it smells like a delightful combination of vanilla vodka and thirty years worth of pineapples left to rot in the sun.

III. Toilet Paper Toils

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Keep me far, far away from the psycho who came up with this idea. 100% diabolical, I only recommend using on your worst enemy.

IV. Office Organization

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For those of you looking for real commitment to a joke this April Fool’s, I suggest this gem. If you’ve got the time and money, have fun printing a picture of your face approximately 2000 times and spreading the selfie joy all over your friend (or enemy’s) office.

Warning: Do not print anything lewd, that will get you fired. And don’t print from your work office, unless you’re going to foot the bill.


That’s a wrap for the best and easiest office pranks to pull in 2015, hopefully you’ve found one that is perfectly suited to your diabolical plans. If not, I suggest you do what going to university taught me to do when I don’t have the perfect answer – you Google it!

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