April Fool went so wrong.
Little did John know that his little way of putting a smile on people's faces would almost cost the life of his colleague and also cost him his means of survival.
John worked in a very big company where there were over 50 workers, everyone had their own office, but John worked with a group of some of the other staff in the same office.
Before now, every year, one member of the staff would come up with a prank on the first of April as April fool, and most times, it was within the staff. The manager never knew what was going on.
Unfortunately, there was a new staff who was asthmatic but her health condition wasn't revealed to everyone in the office because she decided to keep it a secret.
So April 1 was approaching and Mr John was busy planning on something that would make everyone laugh but unknown to him that it would cause a very big challenge for him.
Mr. John thought about the new staff since she didn't know about such a prank, Mr John thought that it would be great if He pranked her, a way of saying welcome to her.
Mr John created an email containing fake documents and results, and the email was addressed to the new staff, accusing her of getting her position with fake documents. As a result, she has been dismissed.
Mr. John sent this email to her, telling her the email was from the HR department. Since Mr. John is part of the HR committee, the lady will definitely think it was a real email from HR.
"How can this be true? How can they fire me without hearing from me? These are not my documents." The new staff replied immensely when she got the mail.
"Maybe you go see the HR" Mr John replied to the new staff.
Mr. John thought he would stop her from going and tell her that it was a prank (April Fool's prank), but unfortunately, it became a serious matter.
The new staff started panicking, and she started having an asthmatic crisis, she was rushed to the company clinic, but they couldn't manage it, so she was rushed to a different hospital where she was resuscitated.
The company manager went to visit her in the hospital, and she told him what had led to her problem, the manager reached out to HR, and they confirmed that there was no such mail, in fact, she's more qualified than some people working there, including Mr. John.
On investigation, it was known that Mr John sent the email, when confronted, Mr John said it was April's fool prank.
"Mr. John, you mean you did what? What if this young lady lost her life? Do you think you would go free?" The manager asked Mr. John.
"I am sorry, sir, it was just a prank, I never knew it would result in this; it will never happen again," Mr John replied.
"Yes, there will be no time again because you are fired, you are not even qualified for your position," the Manager told Mr John.
Everyone in the office blamed Mr. John, his family members were very upset with him, now he has no job again, how will he take care of his family?
His wife got so upset that she moved out with her children because she couldn't take it anymore. She warned him beforehand to focus on his work and stop such expensive jokes but he didn't listen.
April fool cost Mr. John his job.