Office Pranks That Stayed Just on the Right Side of HR

Our readers took the gloves off this month and sent their finest office pranks. Every one of them is harmless, hilarious, and just a tiny bit petty.

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The committee has reviewed your joke.

Group photo, one person blinked.

Nailed it. Mostly.

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The Rules of a Good Prank

A good prank ends with everyone laughing, including the target. Our pranks desk lives by a strict code.

• Nothing that breaks, spills, or stains
• The reveal must be funnier than the setup
• Always clean up before anyone from HR arrives

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

Charlie Chaplin

Try it at your own risk, and please send us the video.

A quick note on how this post came together: the idea arrived in our tips inbox, survived two editorial meetings, one argument about whether it was actually funny, and a vote that was decided by the office cat walking across the keyboard. We cleaned it up, checked every detail, and added only the jokes we could defend in front of our mothers.