This is especially true if everybody but the victim thinks it is funny.
If you are not creative enough to come up with a joke that is funny for both sides, and if you don’t have the character to immidiately excuse for a joke that backfired instead of blaming it on them, you shouldn’t feel good executing any joke at all. If you do feel good or you don’t care, this means you are insecure and/or unempathic.
From the article: In a good-natured group that adheres to those rules, work pranks can sometimes become a form of team building.
Elsethread on this website: Group cohesion's hard, and a lot of the techniques for creating and maintaining it are considered distasteful (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20371253)
As long as the good natured group adheres to the rules of doing the work pranks nowhere near where I am actually trying to get any work done, and preferrably not while at work at all, then it is all good with me.
Can I make an addendum to this list? If your prank is going to make a mess, you need to have a plan to clean it up yourself. Don’t leave it for the cleaning crew/janitors (or the victim).
We try to keep our workplace a prank-free zone. Even a simple prank of turning off lamp when someone in a bathroom is not permitted.
Not that our workplace is a strict and quiet like a library. Its pretty much alive with jokes here and there.
Pretty much the only “pranks” we got is screenshotting someone face during a call when they make funny expressions and we shared it to a Slack channel dedicated for that.
Slate has become a disgraceful magazine. I'm always disappointed to see it on HN.
As per the current comments, this article is purely to feed outrage culture.
Everyone knows a funny prank is also funny to the person it happens to and the people around it and as such is good natured. It almost a dam tautology.
We don't need your self righteous, holier-than-thou, telling us what we already know.
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[ 3.8 ms ] story [ 42.2 ms ] threadIf you are not creative enough to come up with a joke that is funny for both sides, and if you don’t have the character to immidiately excuse for a joke that backfired instead of blaming it on them, you shouldn’t feel good executing any joke at all. If you do feel good or you don’t care, this means you are insecure and/or unempathic.
Think about that before doing it.
When you prank somebody as an adult, don't be surprised if you're victimized next.
http://tech.gaeatimes.com/index.php/archive/april-fool-prank...
I asked Andy about the fish tank 911 at some point .. he said “it never ran correct after”.
Damn funny prank however.
Elsethread on this website: Group cohesion's hard, and a lot of the techniques for creating and maintaining it are considered distasteful (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20371253)
Damn right!
Not that our workplace is a strict and quiet like a library. Its pretty much alive with jokes here and there.
Pretty much the only “pranks” we got is screenshotting someone face during a call when they make funny expressions and we shared it to a Slack channel dedicated for that.
As per the current comments, this article is purely to feed outrage culture.
Everyone knows a funny prank is also funny to the person it happens to and the people around it and as such is good natured. It almost a dam tautology.
We don't need your self righteous, holier-than-thou, telling us what we already know.