Relax. I thought everyone would know it was fake.”
Nobody laughed. My manager asked him to come into the meeting room. Twenty minutes later, he came out looking completely different. Apparently, HR didn’t find it funny that he’d accessed my work email and impersonated me.
By the end of the day, his computer had been taken away and he’d been suspended pending an investigation. He texted me that evening. “I hope you’re happy. You could’ve just told them it was a prank.”