April 1st — Who is the fool now?

Apparently having fun at someone’s expense on April Fool’s Day will not be well received these days — so consider yourself warned.

“Employees tempted to fill the boss’s office with balloons or plant whoopee cushions in their coworkers’ chairs this April Fools’ Day may want to think twice. Seven out of 10 (71 percent) marketing executives polled by The Creative Group consider April Fools’ jokes unsuitable for the office. The responses were more evenly split among advertising executives, with about half (51 percent) finding workplace pranks appropriate versus 45 percent who gave a thumbs down.”

So ad folks are looser about this stuff than your CMO crowd apparently — but still getting your boss to look into that water-gun flower you have pinned to your lapel and squirting them in the face — classic stuff!  I’m personally going to go with wrapping every single solitary item in foil — that always goes over well.

(ed note: Still I’m left wondering what prompts people to think up such survey topics — there has to be something better for them to waste away their work day & pass the time until the final whistle blows — like reading and commenting on AgencySpy. *hint hint*)