Start your story with a big company pulling an April Fools’ prank that ends up going horribly wrong.

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“Cocapoly” by Kevin Schenk

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The date was approaching duly and many preparations were made to ensure that things would go over smoothly. Ricardo sat in his office and looked at the numbers and they all added up nicely. The higher-ups in the hierarchy had cascaded the plans for the big reveal and he prepared them accordingly. The hardest thing he had to do was deal with the cartel that was shipping the produce to the warehouses. At first they were suspicious about him and his request. Why would the Coca-Cola Company want to buy such copious amounts of cocaine? They were ...

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“When Corporations Own Your Mom” by Florian Wolf

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It was a month before the first of April, and the thousands of workers of ripConnection were stoked. Their flagship product - friendlyMilBoomer or FMB for short - served about 7 billion users a day. Each year the company tried to pull some prank on its users. So far, they did it ten times, and ten times it ended up in a total disaster. You may wonder why they didn't stop this tradition. Simple, it is the only social network that nobody can even think about touching due to its gigantic size. It too may help that the CEO spend too much of his ...

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“The Great Chase ” by Amanda Lin

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Big Companies like mine are always so cocky when it comes to being able to outshine others, and when we do something bad, the rest of the world just shakes it off as if it was a minor inconvenience. Not saying that that is a good thing but it's more of a luxury than anything. It’s always funny how people who follow or enjoy buying things from our company can just dismiss the things we do. Our boss has done many things that have made a fair amount of people take a second glance at our company, but for the most part, we’ve been doing fine. Tim...

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“"We got carried away by pranking." by Ye Wint Aung” by Ye Wint Aung

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Working can be very People get bored every day; every day can be the same. Sometimes we are sad, angry or others, but the one thing that cheers up everyone are laughter and joy. Even the saddest and the angriest person will laugh if they hear a joke, a really good one. April 1st, also know as April’s fool’s day is the day when everyone pranks each other. Pranking each other and having fun is the only thing in your head on April’s Fool’s day. Some people will avoid being pranked, and some are having fun pranking friends. It’s the only one da...

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“Company pulling” by Aboh Pride Akom

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There’s been some work stuff in the past, like pranks at work years ago. I remember vaguely one time a boss of mine when I worked in the advertising industry, has sent out some email about us all getting raises or something, which is cruel. I blocked it out. It is nice when you work for someone who has that sense of humor, but it’s also a little bit cruel. Have you ever played a good April Fool’s joke on someone? I haven’t. Even as a kid? No, not that I could recall. Your example is a good one because it’s a very uncomfortable April Fool’s...

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“THE GOING OF THE GONE” by 487 AJ

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‘Next week Thursday first-April, we will be celebrating our 10th year anniversary. We are going to usher in a new beginning for L&J holdiiiiiiiings!’ ululation, whistles and applause filled the air upon the remarks by Mr. John, the company CEO. L&J holdings for its 10 year anniversary had decided to go public, started to sell shares, its returns were soaring higher. The Gum-Arabic it had ventured into two years back was proving to be a good investment. The employees and the employers were all having best moments of their lives ...

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“The Last Joke ” by Marianna Mills

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Rex arrived at the office early, two days before Aril 1st, 'day of fools' he thought to himself, as he put his briefcase down and his lunch tucked away in the top drawer. He'd been working for the company for 3 years now. A shy man, well groomed, quiet, kept mostly to himself, his nose dusted with freckles and hair as blond as the sun sparkles. The small local newspaper was an ideal place for Rex, as a copy editor's assistant, he did well for himself, and lived at home with his mother, whom he helped with bills and providing a home care w...

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“The birthday party” by Arnab Roy

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Close the door. Rakesh. Bring the food. Vikas was the pick of the group. 'This time its gonna be fun. There is a plan. We will make fool of rajiv this time around'. Actually it was sampreet's birthday,which was on 1st of next month. The group was very excited for the event and this time around they are even more excited. It was three days remaining for the party. The party was held at hotel grand and it was going to be a very big affair. The plan was told to everybody. The plan begins with the placement of key in rajiv's bag. The key will be...

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“APRIL FOOL” by Sajid Bijapure

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"You don't have to worry, Tom", said the manager with a smile while Tom stood quietly looking at the list of employees pinned on the board next to the manager's cabin. It was the list of employees who were being laid off after the company's business nosedived during the pandemic. Tom seemed worried. "Is it 'the list'", he thought, "or 'the first list'?" He wiped his brow with his palm. Actually, everyone was worried. The whole economy of the country was badly hit by a wrong kind of sequence of nucleotides that could replicate quickly ins...

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“April's Backstabbing” by Luna Smith

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It was two days before the biggest holiday at the infamous company. The team at the Allis Company came all together to meet up at the sixth floor to discuss what they should do this year. Everyone was there, except Mr. Sams. He was the owner of the company, but he was far too strict. He loathed April Fools’ more than anyone. That didn't stop the huge company from creating the biggest prank of the year that will soon be on every social media platform. Little did the company know things will go down fall from there. "Let's burn this place for ...

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“Never Try to Fool Me” by Thohira Mohamed

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Never Try to Fool Me "Did your boss gave you another big project or something?" I said to my husband while coming out from my room after waking up. "Yea Leeshan..it's really not that easy to work as a manager in a big company with people who changes their mind like weather this days" Laak replied. He got up and came near me to give a hug and kiss by saying that he loves me while I was making coffee for him. I was so happy that I had to say that I love him so much and offered the tasty coffee I made for him. In which he took a sip and...

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“A Step Too Far?” by Alison Clayton

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10am April 2nd 1950 ‘Bill! We’ve had 560 inquiries and 36 orders so far and it’s only 10 o’clock,’ Sam said, turning to his over-large companion at the rickety wooden desk behind him. Piles of papers littered the surface, marked with coffee cup stains and an ash tray spilling over with cigarette butts and gum wrappers. A calendar from the previous year still hung on the corrugated metal walls, it’s pages left unturned after the January page which featured a pretty pin-up girl draped over the hood of a rather drab looking truck. Janua...

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“Modern days, good old pranks!” by Vanessa Nascimento

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It is common knowledge that FunInNature Inc. follows the good old April Fool's day traditions, so Nancy, the HR manager, has been up every night for over a month, thinking about how to come up with a good prank in the middle of a crazy pandemic, where a great portion of its employees have to isolate due to the 6 confirmed cases last Wednesday, and it had to be in the marketing department, the one department where people get up to talk to every single person on the floor. So it was a pretty big commotion to have to place 20 people in hotel ro...

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“What could go wrong?” by Danish Shaikh

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It was the toughest summer for everybody due to the condition facing the whole world. Companies were losing their sales due to no way to deliver the products to customers. But after the situation got settled and the services were back on, the market started to heal as income started to flow in people's homes. After the delivery services started to work, some companies started with their sales and offered to motivate people. And ' DS parks ' was one of the companies who decided to make the biggest sale of their l...

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“Fool's Gold” by Sean Salzman

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Fool’s Gold By Sean Salzman Rays of golden sunshine crept onto budding azalea bushes and yellow ticked flowers that surrounded the one-story house. The wild verdure swayed gently in the morning breeze which turned the long, Floridian flatlands into a fragrant ocean. Mike poured himself a cup of yesterday’s coffee, let it warm up in the microwave, and stirred in his powdered creamer. Eyelids half-open, he gazed out the kitchen window. Friends had offered him plenty of unwarranted advice for rooting out the tickseed that dominated his ac...

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Start your story with a big company pulling an April Fools’ prank that ends up going horribly wrong.

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✍️ 82 stories

“Cocapoly” by Kevin Schenk

“When Corporations Own Your Mom” by Florian Wolf

“The Great Chase ” by Amanda Lin

“"We got carried away by pranking." by Ye Wint Aung” by Ye Wint Aung

“Company pulling” by Aboh Pride Akom

“THE GOING OF THE GONE” by 487 AJ

“The Last Joke ” by Marianna Mills

“The birthday party” by Arnab Roy

“APRIL FOOL” by Sajid Bijapure

“April's Backstabbing” by Luna Smith

“Never Try to Fool Me” by Thohira Mohamed

“A Step Too Far?” by Alison Clayton

“Modern days, good old pranks!” by Vanessa Nascimento

“What could go wrong?” by Danish Shaikh

“Fool's Gold” by Sean Salzman

🌟 Similar prompts

Write about a mischievous pixie or trickster god.

Write about someone who’s spent a whole year planning a big prank, and now they’re finally ready to pull it off.

Write about someone who hates pranks and spends April Fools’ Day doing good deeds instead.

Write about someone who goes to great lengths to avoid being pranked on April 1st, only to realize they had the date wrong and it’s already April 2nd.

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