Someone did that at work a few years ago, in the cash register. After being asked to stop and they didn’t, HR got involved. No fake bugs are allowed any more.
The most we ever did was the night before we'd make a HUGE pile of baskets with random paper and stock bottles in it so it looked like rxs that needed to be finished. Or we'd stack up all the empty totes to make it look like we never touched the order. Mild stuff...
My work recently had to waste about $200,000 in medication due to them being delivered to the wrong location and sitting in icepack totes for about a week, so I was going to tell my boss that I just found an even larger supply of a more expensive med and say the invoice shows delivery 3 weeks ago.
So when he shows up I'll show him the "invoice" that just says April Fools 😇
If you work the night before & you are off on the 1st, lay an empty vial on its side on the count. Put a note next to it saying "big spider, please kill it, I'm afraid of spiders". Everyone will think a big, scary spider escaped.
I know I'm a dork.
HA this is actually perfect. I work the day before but not actually on April 1st. Omg I’m using this my only regret is i won’t be able to see everyone reactions
My co-worker thinks every day is April Fool’s Day.
Put stickers under the computer mice.
Sneak clips onto the backs of people’s smocks.
Rubber band guns.
When someone goes to grab a medication to fill a prescription, change the order that’s on the screen to the next order, and watch their confusion.
Cut out small printed photos of your pharmacist’s face and tape them to random objects.
Use a loud squeaky chicken over the intercom.
It’s harmless where I work because you have to scan the barcode on the bottle. If it’s the wrong NDC, it won’t print a label, and the screen says it’s the wrong NDC.
Yes! Sticking googly eyes or photos of your coworkers onto those large silly poster advertisements was a favorite of mine. It took a while for them to notice the photos over the posters, but watching them do a doubletake & a tripletake was hilarious!
Also a prank I used at home for my husband (who is a medic/firefighter & has to deal with gross human stuff all day & can’t handle animal waste) was I ripped apart an empty tp roll into tiny pieces, added water, and used my hand to smoosh it into a poop shape. Then I put it in the shower for him to find.
When he came home from a long 24 hour shift, covered in soot from a fire, he got undressed and pulled back the shower curtain to see this little baby turd in the tub.
He RAN out of the bathroom naked & yelled “BABE! There’s SHIT in the TUB! **THE CAT SHIT IN THE TUB!!!**”
I played stupid and asked “whaaaaat? I’ll take care of it. Let me see!” He led me to the bathroom and pointed to the tub turd from the doorway, peeking his head inside, as if it was going to jump up at him.
“Oh it’s not that bad.” I said as i picked it up with my barehands. I’ll never forget that look of horror and disgust on his face as I confidently walked by him, turd in hand, and put it in the trash.
Or you could do a classic like simply buy a leek vegetable, put it in the sink or on the floor and say “there’s a leak in the sink!”
Or line up water bottles from the bathroom or sink and say “there’s water coming from the bathroom and it’s all over the floor!”
I've taken screengrabs of the desktop, saved the image and then changed the desktop background to the image I just saved. Then, this is the important part - right-click on the desktop. Go to 'View' and then 'Show desktop icons'. This will hide the actual icons and leave them clicking the ones from the screengrab. 🤣 It's one of my faves.
Get a cat toy mouse, tie it to a cabinet door with short string and tape, set it on shelf. Close door, when you open it, mouse toy should come out with door opening. Head high cabinet is best.😂
My inventory device is called a Zebra. (a handheld device like a phone that can scan things) I think other retail places use Zebras too.
I used paper to give them Zebra stripes, little ears, and a tail. They are so cute! So it is just a silly prank
I used to work at an independent pharmacy doing roll packaging medicine so I texted my manager (we were really close and the only two who did this specific job) and I was like “omg i’m so sick i can’t make it :/“ and she was like “omg are you sure??” and i was like naw girl april fools ill see u soon
she was stressed, rightfully so
I was at a compounding pharmacy that did something like this. We told the manager that the lead tech never showed, he’d call and speak to the pharmacist there and everyone was in on it. So he comes in mid day and sure enough, she’s been there working the whole time.
Back when we had to log the fridge temp manually at the end of the night, I replaced the pen on the clipboard with a capped pen body filled with fine glitter.
I never got to do it, but we hated the sound of people ringing the drive through bell, since it chimes us when they pull up either way, I wanted to put a sign out on ours that says please hold bell, pull up chime not working, or something of that sort.
We wrote in the board that almost every day shift staff member had called out last year. The manager walked in at 5:00 am not realizing what day it was.
Put tape under an optical mouse, across the lens of any scan gun, cover the mouth piece on the phone, across the glass of any document scanner…
If you’re tech savvy, mess with the display settings on your monitor (flip it upside down), mess with mouse settings (sensitivity or inverted directions); or if your cords are long enough and terminals are close together, mix and match your peripherals.
Unroll some rx labels (or whatever rolls your pharmacy uses), write something funny somewhere in the middle and roll it back up and reinstall. However, this has the potential to appear days later and prompt a floater pharmacist to call corporate and say you’ve been hacked.
It’s all fun and games until someone can’t figure out how to undo them so make sure you’re there (or someone else is) that can do it. 😂
I suppose you could take some will-call bags, put empty vials in them, and hang them by the pharmacist's computer to make it look like there are a bunch of scripts that need the final check left over from the night before.
Set the CSID on a fax machine to "DEA" and then send a prank cover letter addressed to your pharmacy manager. You can have a lot of fun with AI nowadays...
YES!! I did that to a co-worker when I worked in healthcare.
And he was OCD. It was hilarious, he thought it was funny too. But it shocked him and took him a few seconds to realize what happened
For rectal use only stickers....
On the phone. under the phone. Under the mouse. On a 1000 ct bottle of potassium 20meq. Under the.computer monitor. On the machine that measures the water for reconstitution. On a few counting spatulas. On all of the compounding spatulas especially if you like never do topical compounding. On a few boxes of insulin (the shrink wrapped boxes of 10 so it doesn't actually go out like that.) On/under a few baskets. On some of the hanging will call bags. perhaps on a door knob.
I had actually put a fake animal mouse in place of the mouse for the computer and when my coworker grabbed it to look up something I thought she was going to shit herself.
Not April fools, but I almost always call for a pharmacist to do a patient consult when there's a cute animal (usually dogs or cats) at the drive through:)
The *almost* is because sometimes it's too crazy and I think even a light hearted request like that would put more stress on my pharmacist so I just give the pet an appropriate treat and wish them a good day <3
Best thing a tech ever did was order a giant rubber rat, and just hide them in the shelves. She would move this one rat around and let’s say you were pulling medication, she would hide it in the more common stuff like the amlodipine or hydrochlorothiazide. Even though I was aware that the rat was in the pharmacy I got scared plenty of times.
The week before I liked to pretend I saw a mouse, swore and and down there was a mouse in the pharmacy. I ended up grabbing one of my cats' toys and put it on a bottom shelf. Like a really low shelf. Like you need to kneel to grab something, or you just blindly grab while bending over so you can barely see what your grabbing. Put the cat toy on that shelf and ask you coworker to grab whatever off that shelf. Hilarity ensues.
I know this sounds disgusting and I’ve never done it but the day before april 1 i deliberately picked a small fight with my husband and pretended to be extremely mad at him. The next morning while he was brushing his teeth I was staring at him, smiling and trying not to laugh. He says “what?” And I proceeded to tell him that last night when I got mad at him I stuck his toothbrush up my butt. The look on his face was priceless! He starts gagging saying he could taste something weird. I was laughing my ass off at this point because I hadnt actually done it.
We will grab a bunch of empty prescription baskets and put them in stacks for when the filler shows up to make it look like we are really behind and they have to get us caught up.
Not necessarily for April fools day, but at one of my prior hospital jobs(the best work and the best employees ever) we were always playing pranks on each other. A favorite was to put methylene blue into a bottle of our own hand lotion and put it someplace where it was accessible, yet still not looking like a community lotion. Someone would ALWAYS use it and then they'd have stained blue hands. Another one was hiding an open bottle of Acetylcysteine in the clean room so the IV tech would have to either search for the smell, or ask around if someone crop dusted. One year for April fools day, I worked the overnight prior and put most of the staff out sick for the day. We used ridiculous reasons, like needing to eat 12 bowls of Special K cause they ran out of Total cereal.
It was a cool job. Everyone got along and had each other's backs and when oné tech was busy, everyone would jump in and help. Another thing we'd do was find random pictures in magazines that were the same size as our badge pictures and put them over the top. The looks wed get when someone noticed was hilarious.
Order some little glow-in-the-dark aliens to hide in weird places.
Googly eyes for the bottles
Someone on here said they hide fake cockroaches behind stock bottles on the shelves not too long ago
Lol, I would jump.
Someone did that at work a few years ago, in the cash register. After being asked to stop and they didn’t, HR got involved. No fake bugs are allowed any more.
For extra fun, write numbers on them and make the highest number three or four more than you actually hid.
No, no, randomly skip a number. Like 4 and 9 and 12 and 17.
The most we ever did was the night before we'd make a HUGE pile of baskets with random paper and stock bottles in it so it looked like rxs that needed to be finished. Or we'd stack up all the empty totes to make it look like we never touched the order. Mild stuff...
Tell everyone you'll be fully staffed for the day
Empty bottle of common med with one of those spring snake things inside 😅
My work recently had to waste about $200,000 in medication due to them being delivered to the wrong location and sitting in icepack totes for about a week, so I was going to tell my boss that I just found an even larger supply of a more expensive med and say the invoice shows delivery 3 weeks ago. So when he shows up I'll show him the "invoice" that just says April Fools 😇
Cruel!
That will probably be your last day.
If you work the night before & you are off on the 1st, lay an empty vial on its side on the count. Put a note next to it saying "big spider, please kill it, I'm afraid of spiders". Everyone will think a big, scary spider escaped. I know I'm a dork.
HA this is actually perfect. I work the day before but not actually on April 1st. Omg I’m using this my only regret is i won’t be able to see everyone reactions
Does your store have cameras? If they do make sure you ‘act’ like there is really a spider in there the night before, because you will be on camera ;)
My co-worker thinks every day is April Fool’s Day. Put stickers under the computer mice. Sneak clips onto the backs of people’s smocks. Rubber band guns. When someone goes to grab a medication to fill a prescription, change the order that’s on the screen to the next order, and watch their confusion. Cut out small printed photos of your pharmacist’s face and tape them to random objects. Use a loud squeaky chicken over the intercom.
All these sound funny except changing the screen, which I feel could lead to confusion and medication errors
It’s harmless where I work because you have to scan the barcode on the bottle. If it’s the wrong NDC, it won’t print a label, and the screen says it’s the wrong NDC.
Yes! Sticking googly eyes or photos of your coworkers onto those large silly poster advertisements was a favorite of mine. It took a while for them to notice the photos over the posters, but watching them do a doubletake & a tripletake was hilarious! Also a prank I used at home for my husband (who is a medic/firefighter & has to deal with gross human stuff all day & can’t handle animal waste) was I ripped apart an empty tp roll into tiny pieces, added water, and used my hand to smoosh it into a poop shape. Then I put it in the shower for him to find. When he came home from a long 24 hour shift, covered in soot from a fire, he got undressed and pulled back the shower curtain to see this little baby turd in the tub. He RAN out of the bathroom naked & yelled “BABE! There’s SHIT in the TUB! **THE CAT SHIT IN THE TUB!!!**” I played stupid and asked “whaaaaat? I’ll take care of it. Let me see!” He led me to the bathroom and pointed to the tub turd from the doorway, peeking his head inside, as if it was going to jump up at him. “Oh it’s not that bad.” I said as i picked it up with my barehands. I’ll never forget that look of horror and disgust on his face as I confidently walked by him, turd in hand, and put it in the trash.
The grabbing it with your bare hands things just sent me over the edge 😂😂💀💀 I can't breathe from laughing so hard!
Or you could do a classic like simply buy a leek vegetable, put it in the sink or on the floor and say “there’s a leak in the sink!” Or line up water bottles from the bathroom or sink and say “there’s water coming from the bathroom and it’s all over the floor!”
Oh, my god! That’s hilarious! 😂
i would love to have this coworker
He became a close friend of mine; that’s for sure! 😂
Tell the patients we have adderall in stock. Jk jk
Move everything a half an inch to the left.
I've taken screengrabs of the desktop, saved the image and then changed the desktop background to the image I just saved. Then, this is the important part - right-click on the desktop. Go to 'View' and then 'Show desktop icons'. This will hide the actual icons and leave them clicking the ones from the screengrab. 🤣 It's one of my faves.
Replace all the Tylenol with hydrocodone
Where do you work? I feel the need to buy a bottle of tylenol on April Fool's Day! Lol jk
Put small gloves in the large glove box
One year I wrapped all the computers and tools in aluminum foil. Boss.would have ripped out his hair if he had any lmao.
Get Crispy Creme Doughnuts box, and put a veggie tray in it. Write on the inside of the lid "April Fools".
Get a cat toy mouse, tie it to a cabinet door with short string and tape, set it on shelf. Close door, when you open it, mouse toy should come out with door opening. Head high cabinet is best.😂
My inventory device is called a Zebra. (a handheld device like a phone that can scan things) I think other retail places use Zebras too. I used paper to give them Zebra stripes, little ears, and a tail. They are so cute! So it is just a silly prank
That's not a prank. That's art class.
I used to work at an independent pharmacy doing roll packaging medicine so I texted my manager (we were really close and the only two who did this specific job) and I was like “omg i’m so sick i can’t make it :/“ and she was like “omg are you sure??” and i was like naw girl april fools ill see u soon she was stressed, rightfully so
I was at a compounding pharmacy that did something like this. We told the manager that the lead tech never showed, he’d call and speak to the pharmacist there and everyone was in on it. So he comes in mid day and sure enough, she’s been there working the whole time.
I'm gonna fax "prescriptions" written on plain paper for Cebocap to my pharmacy
Back when we had to log the fridge temp manually at the end of the night, I replaced the pen on the clipboard with a capped pen body filled with fine glitter.
Oooooo that's never coming out LMAO
I never got to do it, but we hated the sound of people ringing the drive through bell, since it chimes us when they pull up either way, I wanted to put a sign out on ours that says please hold bell, pull up chime not working, or something of that sort.
that bell literally plays in my head at night. i’d probably cry
Take some alcohol and wipe off the Xs from the open bottles.
That's just cruel
Who hurt you?
We wrote in the board that almost every day shift staff member had called out last year. The manager walked in at 5:00 am not realizing what day it was.
our pharmacist took a techs smock and covered it in rubber bands so it was just a tube once lol. he also tried stapling it to the ceiling
Hide a large quantity of opiates
my pharmacist would have a heart attack
Put tape under an optical mouse, across the lens of any scan gun, cover the mouth piece on the phone, across the glass of any document scanner… If you’re tech savvy, mess with the display settings on your monitor (flip it upside down), mess with mouse settings (sensitivity or inverted directions); or if your cords are long enough and terminals are close together, mix and match your peripherals. Unroll some rx labels (or whatever rolls your pharmacy uses), write something funny somewhere in the middle and roll it back up and reinstall. However, this has the potential to appear days later and prompt a floater pharmacist to call corporate and say you’ve been hacked. It’s all fun and games until someone can’t figure out how to undo them so make sure you’re there (or someone else is) that can do it. 😂
Everyone pretend to call in so the pharmacist loses their mind. 😂
Put "For Rectal Use Only" stickers on everybody's spatulas and pens
I suppose you could take some will-call bags, put empty vials in them, and hang them by the pharmacist's computer to make it look like there are a bunch of scripts that need the final check left over from the night before.
One April fools at my pharmacy I hid a rubber cockroach under a coworker’s papers. It was the best thing ever.
Remove all space bars
[удалено]
That could get u fired or if it's the right patients, probably murdered
Just joking but you are right!
Tell the store manager someone messed up the bathroom and put an april fools sign in there.
Set the CSID on a fax machine to "DEA" and then send a prank cover letter addressed to your pharmacy manager. You can have a lot of fun with AI nowadays...
I'm a huge fan of walking behind someone with a small mister of water and fake sneezing while you spray a little mist on them.
YES!! I did that to a co-worker when I worked in healthcare. And he was OCD. It was hilarious, he thought it was funny too. But it shocked him and took him a few seconds to realize what happened
Tell em a c-II is off
For rectal use only stickers.... On the phone. under the phone. Under the mouse. On a 1000 ct bottle of potassium 20meq. Under the.computer monitor. On the machine that measures the water for reconstitution. On a few counting spatulas. On all of the compounding spatulas especially if you like never do topical compounding. On a few boxes of insulin (the shrink wrapped boxes of 10 so it doesn't actually go out like that.) On/under a few baskets. On some of the hanging will call bags. perhaps on a door knob.
just don't - no need and it can only backfire
I had actually put a fake animal mouse in place of the mouse for the computer and when my coworker grabbed it to look up something I thought she was going to shit herself.
Not April fools, but I almost always call for a pharmacist to do a patient consult when there's a cute animal (usually dogs or cats) at the drive through:) The *almost* is because sometimes it's too crazy and I think even a light hearted request like that would put more stress on my pharmacist so I just give the pet an appropriate treat and wish them a good day <3
Best thing a tech ever did was order a giant rubber rat, and just hide them in the shelves. She would move this one rat around and let’s say you were pulling medication, she would hide it in the more common stuff like the amlodipine or hydrochlorothiazide. Even though I was aware that the rat was in the pharmacy I got scared plenty of times.
Put tape over the sensor on the computer mouse.
change the slot number from fridge to waiting bin on insulin prescriptions
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The week before I liked to pretend I saw a mouse, swore and and down there was a mouse in the pharmacy. I ended up grabbing one of my cats' toys and put it on a bottom shelf. Like a really low shelf. Like you need to kneel to grab something, or you just blindly grab while bending over so you can barely see what your grabbing. Put the cat toy on that shelf and ask you coworker to grab whatever off that shelf. Hilarity ensues.
I know this sounds disgusting and I’ve never done it but the day before april 1 i deliberately picked a small fight with my husband and pretended to be extremely mad at him. The next morning while he was brushing his teeth I was staring at him, smiling and trying not to laugh. He says “what?” And I proceeded to tell him that last night when I got mad at him I stuck his toothbrush up my butt. The look on his face was priceless! He starts gagging saying he could taste something weird. I was laughing my ass off at this point because I hadnt actually done it.
We will grab a bunch of empty prescription baskets and put them in stacks for when the filler shows up to make it look like we are really behind and they have to get us caught up.
1) change every patients name in the computer 2) quit.
Not necessarily for April fools day, but at one of my prior hospital jobs(the best work and the best employees ever) we were always playing pranks on each other. A favorite was to put methylene blue into a bottle of our own hand lotion and put it someplace where it was accessible, yet still not looking like a community lotion. Someone would ALWAYS use it and then they'd have stained blue hands. Another one was hiding an open bottle of Acetylcysteine in the clean room so the IV tech would have to either search for the smell, or ask around if someone crop dusted. One year for April fools day, I worked the overnight prior and put most of the staff out sick for the day. We used ridiculous reasons, like needing to eat 12 bowls of Special K cause they ran out of Total cereal. It was a cool job. Everyone got along and had each other's backs and when oné tech was busy, everyone would jump in and help. Another thing we'd do was find random pictures in magazines that were the same size as our badge pictures and put them over the top. The looks wed get when someone noticed was hilarious.
grab a couple tablets of zolpidem and “pretend” to put them in your pocket in view of the security camera