Anybody else playing April Fools jokes on anyone?

[sms001]

They had been telling me all week that i could never get them

And doesn't that make it all the sweeter?

I have a part time early morning job. We do quantity work - XX pieces depending on the day. Occasionally this number goes up from demand. So my CW trick was a no brainer - tell him that our number for the day is up. WAY up. 120 pieces, or about 3 extra hours.

Unfortunately, his mother lives April Fools like others do Halloween or Christmas, so he is extra wary. (He caught her saran wrapping his truck doors at 5 am. )

Had our site supervisor write up a note for the extra work, and the immediate supervisor "rush" us verbally every once in a while. Had him do extra prep work which would be totally unnecessary if the higher count weren't real. Laid out the work load so that the extra was at the end of the day.

He didn't catch me until just before clean up. I finally turned to him as I was taking away the containers for the extra product and told him thanks for playing along, I knew he had figured it out. (Since he never questioned whether it was an April Fool's Joke, I thought he knew right away and was stringing me.) He said he'd caught on about ten minutes previous! Got him cold.

[Jack T. Chance]

There's only 1 April Fool's Day prank I wanted to pull today, since I'm stuck at work. My evil plan was as follows:

1. Leave LED Open sign OFF.
2. Leave manually-flipped Open/Closed shingle displaying "CLOSED will return at 10:00 AM"
3. Print out note on bright yellow paper reading "Due to an emergency, our store will be CLOSED on Wednesday, April 1st, 2009. Apologies for any inconvenience.", tape note to door.
4. Leave lights OFF.
5. Unlock door.
6. Sit in area of store where customers can't see me, wait for them to come up to the store, and see what they do!

Sadly, as brilliant as my plan is, I haven't done it and won't do it.

Why, you ask?

Well, it's really very simple. Several years ago, I was watching a news program, and they did a little story about how behavioral researchers did a study of customer behavior when a customer is approaching and entering a place of business. What they found was quite astonishing.

Thanks to the use of a revolutionary camera system, that focused the camera right where the customer's eyes were looking, they discovered something that very observant retailers already knew to be the case: when a customer is approaching your store, no matter what time of day or night it is, their mind subconsciously forms a sort of tunnel vision, and locks their gaze on one thing, and one thing only: The handle of the door, which they will be grabbing in a moment to enter your establishment! This is quite LITERALLY the ONLY thing their mind is seeing as they approach your store! And, when questioned about it, they didn't even realize they had been doing it, because this behavior operates at the subconscious level!

Unless the customer is smarter and/or much more observant than the usual twit on the street, they will completely IGNORE any and all signs that you are closed, including, but not limited to, such signs as the lights being OFF and the sign in the window reading "CLOSED"! This is why you can be in your store, say, 15 minutes after the posted closing time, door locked, sign flipped around reading "CLOSED!", etc., etc., finishing up your closing duties, and some complete and total ASSHAT will come marching right up to the door, yank on the door handle, get this confused look on his face, then try the other door handle (assuming you have double doors), look even more confused, press his hands up to the sides of his head, press said hands against the glass, look back and forth for signs of life, and upon spotting an employee, will then BANG on the glass, jump up and down, wave, scream for attention, etc. And all BEFORE he EVER notices the sign, usually hung at eye level, right in his face, that reads CLOSED!

So, yeah, customers being the unobservant, stupid ignorant twats that they are, I gave up on the idea of pulling that particular prank. It would be completely lost on these cretins.

In the immortal words of Randall Graves... "I always said this job would be great if it wasn't for the fucking customers!"

[monolayth]

woke the bf's kids up at midnight telling them it was time to go to school. be believed me till they tried to tun on the cartoons and noticed the time.

They had been telling me all week that i could never get them

[lordlundar]

Suffice to say, my sister is going to hate me by the time she goes to sleep.

Blizzard kicked in their forum joke now. Every post is now modified in a novel form. And on their main page is the new "dance battle system"

A torrent site I go to also made a modification to their text.

[Wingates_Hellsing]

My chosen Warhammer 40K site has changed the default background to pink, instead of white and blue... they are also pretending that the site is to be slowly phased into a fishing forum...

It's priceless, and little 'ol me got promoted too late to get in on it

[Saydrah]

I moderate an online community for discussions of gender equality.

Here it is today:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Equality

As you can see, it's a little less equal than usual

[SengaKitty]

I'm hoping NOT to have one played on me today! I've got an interview... 0.o

[Sheldonrs]

I've been going up to people at work at letting them know that I've given my 2 weeks notice. :-)
The responses have been gratifying. hehehe