Office Workers Prank Boss By Wrapping Everything In His Office In Tin Foil

It took 14 people, 32 rolls of aluminium foil, and exactly 47 minutes during a lunch break. The result was a boss’s office so thoroughly wrapped in shiny silver that colleagues later described walking in as “like entering a spacecraft.” The prank, carried out by the staff of a marketing agency in Chicago, was meticulously documented and has since become one of the most-viewed workplace prank videos ever posted.

The Scope of The Operation

Every item was wrapped. Every. Single. Item. The computer monitor. The keyboard. The individual keys on the keyboard. The stapler. The staples inside the stapler. Each pen was individually wrapped. The desk plant — each leaf. The framed family photos. The frames around the framed family photos. The chair. The wheels on the chair. One employee spent 15 minutes carefully wrapping every single page of a notepad individually before stacking them back in order.

The Boss’s Reaction

Their boss — a man who clearly works with the right people — stood in the doorway for a full 10 seconds. Then he said: “How long did this take you?” Told 47 minutes, he nodded and replied: “Worth it. This is worth it.” He then asked HR if he could expense 32 rolls of aluminium foil. He could not.

The Aftermath

He works at the foil-wrapped desk. He says the aesthetic has “grown on him.”