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The April Fools joke that might have got me fired

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511 points goldenskye | 1 comments | 01 Apr 25 07:11 UTC | HN request time: 0.216s | source
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glimshe ◴[01 Apr 25 12:11 UTC] No.43545801[source]▶
Hot take: workplace and social media April Fools jokes aren't funny and are often inappropriate and disrespectful to people's time.

It's cool to do these to your friends in High school, but I once wasted a good amount of time at work because of an April's fool joke. I already didn't want to do the work so I got really upset to have wasted time doing something boring and useless.

Additionally, the scale of social media can create situations where it wastes everybody's time several times per day... Including on HN.

Feel free to prank your friends, but don't bring it to work or the Internet, please.

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1. wat10000 ◴[01 Apr 25 15:12 UTC] No.43547756[source]▶
I'm surprised this is being downvoted. Don't waste hours of other people's time for your fun.

Imagine being one of the people who had to field all of those phone calls. Probably quite a few of those callers were quite angry. Imagine being subject to that anger because some moron in IT you never met thought it would be funny to play a prank that lands on your head.