Office prank.....hehehe

My manager has been away on vacation for 2 weeks. He'll be back next Monday. Or is it Tuesday?? Hmmmm....

Anyway, after official work hours finished today, my team mate Muzz & myself pulled an office prank on our manager, to give him a special "welcome back" greeting. We both flooded his office with loads of thick, heavy work files. We filled our manager's shelf, desk & even some of his floor area with files & boxes filled with more files & paperwork. This whole thing was Muzz's idea. The first thing our manager will see when he gets to his office next week is all those files piled up in his office. Wow, what a greeting that will be. The aim of the prank is to scare our manager & create an exaggerated impression as to the amount of work he has to review & go through. When he steps into his office, he is likely to think: "What?? I've got all that work to go through??!!! Arrgghhhh".

The reality is that our manager doesn't need to review all those files. A lot of the files relate to jobs which have already been completed! I put about 20 or more cardboard files on the manager's desk, plus 2 A4 full-lever arch files on his shelf. Manager will probably only take 1-2 seconds to know that the 20 files on the desk came from me. He might panic at the sight. The reality is, the only files that he needs to review/work on are just those 2 full-lever arch files on his shelf. The 20+ files on his desk are mostly finished jobs (some finished way before he went on vacation), with some relating to jobs yet to be completed (& therefore manager can't review until client provides all information). But will my manager immediately recognise the prank when he first sees all those files? We will find out next week.....

Other colleagues at work found the whole thing amusing. Hahaha, I would like to see my manager's face when he gets back to the office. Hmmm, that's an incentive to get in very early on Monday morning, yeah?? Muzz & I are so bad, aren't we?? But then again, it's all Muzz's idea to begin with......