Everything in life that is done in an organised way and meticulously taking care of the details, guarantees the achievement of the objective, even if it is a good prank.
I work with a team of people where we all contribute our efforts and work towards the achievement of objectives and goals. Just as there is a common goal, there is also a personal and individual work and private objectives of each one.
It could be said that, although we form a group, the organisation has both group and individual goals and we help each other to achieve all the goals in general.
There is a lot of organisation, everyone takes care of different tasks that are carried out, of course there are always things to resolve and there have also been moments of decisions and stress, like any job, but we get through it.
We all get along very well and one way of making the work more enjoyable is to have those funny moments, where we all have a good joke. But there is one member of the team who is the most... let's say joker and among the women in the group we decided to play a good joke on her.
I took the initiative to organise it, which took me a while. We have a conversation group, just like Telegram or Whatsapp and that group is organised by topics as if they were conversation folders, according to the topic... you know everything is minutely detailed or at least that's what we try to do.
So there is a general space and other sub-spaces created by this colleague to deal with particular issues in different spaces. This group has a name, a logo, a specific structure.
Well, days before the time set for the joke, I created a mirror group, but without such a detailed organisation. Just the name and the logo. The women in the group joined that space and we saw that everything worked correctly. Besides, there are only a few of us in our group and no one else is allowed to join. Closed group. But the mirror group is not the real one...
On 28 December, April Fool's Day, I pulled off the big prank: we simulated a failure in the original group and moved this colleague to the mirror group, all virtually, of course. Everything looked the same, but without the departments or dividing folders..... He went crazy because there was no organisation and we girls played dumb.
But not only that, we introduced another stranger to the little group. The madness of our partner was extreme. Like his face was on fire or something and we were laughing our asses off. Let's say he takes care of us a lot and there was a stranger, a stranger we knew, but a stranger to the group and that was not conceivable... but it was the mirror group, nothing was happening... but he didn't know that.
Everything was messed up, there were no more folders with all the details and there were also strange people, it was chaos for our partner who is so mathematical and structured. A real chaos.
The whole prank was going great, until at one point we told him the truth, we wished him happy April Fool's Day, World Prank Day, and everything went back to normal.
Privately he said to me: Congratulations, your prank went perfectly.... Hats off!
It was a fun day where a good time was had by all and even the guest had a good time.
From time to time this kind of thing is not bad, not heavy jokes, but fun ones, I think besides creating a nice atmosphere, it unites the group more and you work differently and with smiles. Smiling is contagious and makes the day-to-day tasks more pleasant.
When I saw weekend topics, I couldn't resist telling this story because when I read it, a smile was drawn again on my face remembering that moment in the year 2023.
Thank you very much for reading me today, I wish you a great weekend. See you soon.
Amonet.
All photographs are my own.
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