The Office Jester: How to Enjoy your Work

The Office Jester… every office needs one to teach each one of you how to enjoy your work

The worst part of modern day civilisation is that very few people enjoy what they do. Going to work has quickly turned into the equivalent of a constant harangue for most people. Whether it is the work hours, the nature of the work, the troublesome colleagues, or even the atrocious bosses, it is likely that you, like most other people, have forgotten how to enjoy your work. That’s not sustainable at all which is probably why job attrition is so high these days.

If you get a decent pay and helpful benefits, then you need to retain that job even if you still find it hard to enjoy your work. The trick, of course, is to make work more fun. Do you remember what you used to do when you were bored as a child?

Well, two things – you either entertained yourself by playing a book or reading a game (ol’ bait and switch) or by pulling pranks on your siblings and friends. Since reading a sport or playing a novel isn’t possible at work (unless you have a drama society), you can use pranks to enjoy your work!

Enjoy Your Work with Some Wicked Pranks

The suggestions in this video fall in a wide range with respect to both, the ease of the prank and its evilness. However, most of them are very, very effective and definitely will help work become more fun. Consider.

1. Insert secret words in meetings: The fun bit in this prank revolves around which words you use as your secret words. You could really play around with this one. For example, you can try to change purpose with porpoise, objective with adjective, retention with detention, or even simply try to include words like poop into the conversation. Another side quest could be to use as many variations of poop as possible in a day.
2. Hiding colleagues’ stuff: This one’s old school and incredibly easy to do but it will keep you entertained and busy. A rendition that can make this one ‘laugh out loud’ fun is to hide the glasses of an individual. There’s something incredibly satisfying seeing a half blind man going through the office in search of his glasses.
3. Sniff tally: This isn’t exactly a prank unless the whole office does it. Wait, that’s a great idea. Do the sniff prank every time someone uses his favourite word or phrase, except get the whole office to sniff in unison. As for the other one i.e. count and predict how much a person sniffs or coughs, you could start a betting pool where everyone predicts and the winner gets free lunches or even beers!
4. Overlaying photos on the eldest child’s face: This prank is wonderful because there’ll be two reactions that will help you enjoy your work more. The first will be when the colleague actually discovers your face in his desk photos and the other will be when you actually tell him how long it took him. Oh, the guilt on his face will be priceless!
5. Swap contents from cubicles: If you have similar looking cubicles, then how much you enjoy your work with this prank will increase exponentially. The more similar the cubicles are, the more confounded the colleagues will get, especially if the rest of the office tells them that they always sat in the new place and that nothing has changed.
6. Move their car secretly: This prank is a better and easier version of the one above. This is more subtle as well. Besides, the colleague gradually getting mad and not knowing who to blame will be particularly special. You could take it one step further by actually moving his car even after he has noticed that it is being moved!
7. Changing Desktops: If the victim’s aggravation was a measure of how much you enjoy your work, then this prank will take the cake. People do get properly aggravated when something goes wrong with their computers. How aggravated they gets even worse if they’re not that technologically savvy. So, that’s something to aim for while screening your victim who will help you enjoy your work.