When planning a workplace prank, it is helpful sometimes to let a few of your other coworkers in on the joke. Your joke might require a few other people in order to work better, plus it’s always good to have someone to act as a lookout. And when you fail to let the appropriate people know what’s coming up? Well, here’s a cautionary tale:
Hands scraped and bloody from climbing two barbed-wire fences and out of breath from a half-mile sprint, James Clithero called 9-1-1 about 5 p.m. Thursday from a stranger’s home in Southeast Portland.
He was reporting that his boss had just gunned down a co-worker.
“I was in there working today and my boss came downstairs and started firing a gun at one of the employees,” he told the dispatcher.
So this guy risked his life in order to report that his boss shot a coworker…what a hero, right?
But when officers cautiously approached the business with rifles and shotguns in hand, they were surprised by what they saw: Four men playing football.
Thirty minutes later, after police left, the boss and co-owner, Chad Paranto, 35, and three workers stood in the business’s gravel parking lot, shaken but somewhat amused.
They explained that the shooting was a prank, like a version of the MTV practical-joke show “Punk’d.”
See, people? Badly executed workplace prank. And if you have to use the now-cancelled show Punk’d in order to explain your prank? Failure all around.
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