TheBanyanTree: gratitude for smartypants and jokesters

[Pam North]

It always maddens me how serious funeral directors are too!!!  These guys
need to loosen up!!  Have you ever seen an urn that looked like a toaster,
and then were able to kept a straight face!?!?!?!

Not me.  And that funeral parlor chick almost had a stroke!!!!


On 2/16/06, Julie Anna Teague <jateague at indiana.edu> wrote:
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> I have to stop here, for just a moment, and sing the praises of those
> around me
> here at work who see the need for and the value of workplace humor.  Thank
> you,
> Darren, for emailing the following, in response to an apology for adding
> to the
> confusion of a technical issue:
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> "Don't worry.  We've got enough confusion in general that a bit more
> doesn't
> hurt anything.  In fact, a few more bits of confusion and we're going to
> make an
> aggressive move, corner the market on it, and raise the cost of confusion
> until
> we're all madly wealthy. Since you've contributed to our impending world
> domination, we'll cut you in."
>
> And thanks go to Ethan who is always a crack-up.  I told him that adding
> some
> duplicate values to this table I maintain was not going to work.  He said
> he was
> making changes to the program, and promised it would work.  It didn't
> work.  I
> wrote back, saying, "Remember, unique keys are all that stands between us
> and
> the chaos of the universe."  He replied, "Yes, I have created a glitch in
> the
> Matrix."  Ethan told me, once, that while he enjoys my emails that begin
> with
> "Criminy!", he especially likes the ones that start with "ACK!"
>
> My buddys John and Lisa, too, consistently show their human side with
> sarcastically humorous remarks and a "f*ck 'em if they can't take a joke"
> attitude.  They keep me laughing through the insanity of government
> student loan
> reporting which is never, ever funny. (Don't smile.) Ever. (Dooon't
> smile....)
> Really.
>
> And my undying gratitude goes out to my Internal Auditing posse.  They
> could've
> made my life miserable this week.  That is, in fact, part of their
> job.  But
> they chose, instead, to approach an audit of my area with a sense of humor
> and
> good-natured calm.  I got the sense that these people actually understood
> that
> while we strive for perfection, it ain't brain surgery we're doing here.
>
> And Peter and Patrick--these guys are University Registrars fer crying out
> loud,
> with many serious concerns, and yet they keep their humor about them and
> banter
> it about with me on a regular basis.
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> Truly, I am grateful to these few folks who make my job more enjoyable,
> who
> welcome humor and dish it out in return.  The rest--who wouldn't know
> humor if
> it bit them in the arse, who wouldn't crack a smile, much less a joke, who
> are
> serious as funeral directors every second of every day--they can eat my
> socks.
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> Julie
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