There was a prank pulled off at FedEx when I was still doing Data Entry last year.
The Senior Data Entry Agent (My ex-gf which we broke up few months before) had brought bunch of little art thing that looks like chicks (As in chicken) and brought enough to put one on everybody's computer including mine and some 15 on her computer (What an odd girl).
In the weeks leading up to April's Fools Day, one by one went missing until someone finally pointed out that they were starting to disappear. Rumours and speculations went flying, everybody was a suspect including myself and my boss. Of course I denied it all. I think the chicks started disappearing few weeks before April's Fool. In fact there was even a ransom note the week before April's Fool, demanding a pay increase and more hot chocolate
Prior to the big day, it came down to 1 last chicks on the Senior Agent's computer station. While I was doing some work on my computer, a coworker rolled up in his chair alongside me and asked me "Hey Jeff, where'd you hide the chicks?" I knew that the Senior Agent had sent somebody to "investigate" me and I figured I'll play along by responding that I had hidden them in a cabinet that was in the same room "over there". Of course he went away and the Senior Agent immediately went over to the cabinet that I pointed out and searched through the whole thing and found nothing. Her logic failed in this case because it was the same cabinet that everybody opens everyday for the last few weeks and didn't even find a single chick?
After the Senior Agent extensive search came up nothing, she begin to openly accuse me of "stealing" the chicks. I denied it all, again. Everytime she would accuse me, I deny it, she would go back to work for a few minutes and start over again. It had gotten to the point where she threw out wild facts including one time that she "saw" me taking them, obviously a lie. The Senior Agent continues to accuse me and arguments would start and get heated up to the point where my manager comes in and saw the whole thing happening and ordered the two of us to his office.
In his office, we both explained our point of view and my manager asked me a simple question "Did you take it?" and I replied "No" and that was it. I left his office, leaving my manager to have a dicussion with the Senior Agent about apporiate workplace ethics regarding this situation. She came back crying and went home early for the night.
On April's Fool, the next day, a mysterious FedEx package had arrived from another FedEx location's Data Entry department (I saw the package information and all the detail) and it was addressed to the Senior Data Entry Agent of the Calgary station, which was my ex-gf. She opens the package and inside the package was a photo. On the photo, it was a picture of the data entry computer station in other location with one noticeable detail: They all had chicks on them, including 15 on one station.
Yes, I do admit that I was part of the prank that my manager had pulled off along with several people at the other location. My part was to take the chicks and FedEx it to Vancouver and even throw in the ransom note
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