An employee pulled a prank like ‘The Office.’ It didn’t turn out well

Steve Carell appears in “The Office.” | Screenshot, NBC

Here’s what happened when someone tried to be like Jim from ‘The Office.’

An accounting worker recently said he caused a disruption in his office by performing a prank like Jim from “The Office.”

The employee shared his story on Reddit — it was later picked up by Fox News — about how he “thought it would be funny to put a Bluetooth speaker in the ceiling and play sounds of cats over it.”

The Reddit user said: “I found an eight-hour video of cats meowing on YouTube that was perfect.”

So he put the speaker under a ceiling panel. He paired a Bluetooth speaker with his phone and so it began.

• “It was perfect,” the prankster recalls. “You could only hear the cats if you listened real close. It sounded like there was a cat in the ceiling, but you really couldn’t tell exactly where it was coming from.”

His office then had to shutdown the department so a team could go in and find the cats. The workers found the speaker system and asked employees to identify the person who performed the prank.

The office later developed conspiracy theories that the cats were real.

Performing pranks in real life isn’t anything new. And there are plenty of office pranks out there to use for April Fool’s Day.

Of course, the pandemic has forced a lot of people to work from home, or lose their jobs overall. So who knows when we might get another opportunity to prank our co-workers.

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