I have always been a prankster, and I love a good laugh whether it’s on myself or someone else… as long as it isn’t personal, harmful, or perverse, like that picture down there of the biggest squirrel ever killed by army guys! And since it IS April Fool’s Day, I just had to do something
So I took the liberty of trying to fool 4 of my officemates telling them I have resigned from the company effective today. These are friends that I have told about being offered a better deal by another company 3 weeks ago, and that I had seriously been considering it.
So I sent them an email on my resignation at 9AM, and put on cc my direct manager and the local managing director, but using phony email addresses, so it would come out more genuine. As these 4 good friends of mine (PB, TZ, MB, CG) kept convincing me not to leave last week, I thought it would be a good old joke! I also pranked this same group 2 months ago (hehe), so they’re kind of irritated that I got them twice now and I’m going to be paying for this one!

First surprise, my regional buddy (who is my product lead) called me this morning and was so annoyed, his first words to me were “JO, WHAT DID YOU DO???” I had messaged him yesterday that I had declined the offer already. Apparently, he didn’t get it! So he immediately called the regional big boss after forwarding my phony resignation email! Before he could say anything else after that, I told him “Happy April Fool’s!” and there was dead silence. Hehe. He said that the Philippines is more “americanized” compared to other countries in Asia Pacific, which was why he took it seriously and didn’t even realize it was an April Fool’s prank! Whoops!
We’re good now though, I’ll give him a kiss tomorrow hehe
Sorry EK!
Second surprise, I didn’t realize that sending a bogus email on my resignation to 4 friends of mine, would merit more than 10 people calling me within the company and outside of it. Apparently, it turned out to be a really big deal, so I immediately sent the 4 of them a message telling them it was just an April Fool’s Day joke! Of course, the two guys called me right away and started swearing at me and telling me they’d get back at me for sure. I fear, i fear!
But in the end, the joke didn’t quite have a good lasting feeling. I didn’t quite realize it could have turned out to be a really bad joke… so for this April Fool’s… the joke’s on me!
