Finding Wisdom in a Bad Joke
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Jun 9, 2022
The frail little old lady lying beneath several layers of hospital bed linens quietly replied, “I’m fine, just quite sick.”
Jobe’s lifelong struggle with human compassion had resulted in low employee performance scores for Patient Interactions, so today’s personal growth idea, humor them while drawing their blood.
After his perfectly timed punchline of “ground beef” to the setup question of “what do you call a cow with no legs”, he learned that this frail little old lady was a double amputee.
His career counselor could see this clearly humbled him.
