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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: 0.202s | 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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fkyoureadthedoc ◴[01 Apr 25 12:27 UTC] No.43545936[source]▶
All jobs I have ever worked have collectively wasted more man hours through incompetence and the usual corporate BS than I could ever hope to with any conceivable April fools joke.
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wat10000 ◴[01 Apr 25 15:05 UTC] No.43547668[source]▶
That doesn't mean you go and deliberately make it worse for a laugh.
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fkyoureadthedoc ◴[01 Apr 25 17:02 UTC] No.43549095[source]▶
It's just disingenuous to pretend it's about corporate efficiency when it's more about personal feelings/vibes.
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1. wat10000 ◴[01 Apr 25 17:23 UTC] No.43549335[source]▶
“Corporate efficiency” is vague and largely meaningless. “Don’t waste a bunch of your coworkers’ time” is a lot more concrete. Especially don’t set up the people who answer the phones to get angry calls due to your prank.