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A Professional Sense of Humor.

Part 1.

Here we go.

This cast answers these questions.

What kind of jokes can I tell?

What standard should I set with my team about humor and jokes? Why do my

directs laugh at my jokes? Well if you want answers these questions and more, keep

listening. I'm glad we're finally going to talk about this particularly the thing we're talking about the end about why do people laugh at my jokes because

It's just funny because I was before I was a manager. I wasn't very funny then I became a manager and all of a sudden people start laughing at my jokes. Great. Well, let me ask you something though. Your directs laugh at your jokes, but do I laugh at your choice? No. You're not laughing now when I'm joking so.

So apparently it's not a function of the funniness either I'm really stupid or maybe it has to do with

roll power.

I'm just saying.

Just saying, well, we'll have to come back to that

because they think there's an inch time tree

have some thoughts there.

Well, cool, okay, so we're talking about,

we're gonna talk about humor in the workplace and tell me there are some rules, right?

I mean, I know not everybody adheres to those rules, but there are rules of some sort.

Yeah, there are rules of comportmentment for professionals and specifically for managers and the

managers standard is slightly higher but probably the most guidance you'll get on jokes these days is you know don't be

politically incorrect but political and correctness is not the issue at all we

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