Laughter the Best Medicine @ Work is a collection of eight decades’ worth of Reader’s Digest magazine jokes invovling jobs, the workplace, co-workers, bosses, excuses, sick days, etc. There are over 1,000 jokes and anecdotes to lighten up your day!
Lighten up and laugh your way through the 9-to-5 grind with this mix of hilarious wisecracks, uproarious one-liners, full-color cartoons, and quotations from famous (and not-so-famous) wits. The hundreds of jokes and quips in Laughter the Best Medicine @ Work have been collected from more than eight decades’ worth of Reader’s Digest magazines and are guaranteed to brighten up your workday. You’ll find everything from outrageous resumes to creative excuses for calling in sick. So whether you suffer from an e-mail gone wrong, an irritating coworker, or a dreadful boss, you’ll see that laughter is the best medicine for all your work woes.
A survey sent out to our contractors posed the question, “What motivates you to come to work every day?” One guy answered, “Probation officer.”
—E. Hewitt
One of the less difficult blanks to fill in on our job-agency application is “Position Wanted.” One job seeker wrote “Sitting.”
—Flo Traywick, Lynchburg, Virginia
What do you call twin policemen? Copies.
—Tyler Meason
My sister Angela was impressed by a job applicant’s confidence. “How will you gain your coworkers’ respect?” she asked. The reply: “Mainly through my misdemeanor.”
—Gretchen Duff, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
My laptop was driving me crazy. “The A, E, and I keys always stick,” I complained to a friend.
She quickly diagnosed the problem. “Your computer is suffering from irritable vowel syndrome.”
—Angie Bulakites
My coworker at the hotel was miserable at his job and was desperately searching for a new one.
“Why don’t you work for your mother?” I suggested.
He shook his head. “I can’t,” he said. “Her company has a very strict policy against hiring relatives.”
“Who made up that ridiculous rule?”
“My mother.”
—Doug Barilla, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Laughter is the best medicine at work brings together all the best work … Laughter is the best medicine at work brings together all the best work related stories from Laughter is the Best Medicine. If you are like me and read Laughter is the Best Medicine before any other articles in Readers Digest, you will enjoy this book.
good book ever been at work and you looking at a co worker sideways and cross eyed because they said or did something that truly made you feel like you were in the twilight zone or something? well this book goes there and thensome and it will make you laugh and take you down a certain memory lane. very entertaining and a good way to unwind and get some much needed laughter in.
Couldn’t stop laughing… I burst into laughter so many times already, even though I’m only 1/3 way through the book. Every time I flip to a page randomly, there is always a joke that makes me laugh out loud. I originally thought I might not enjoy the jokes as much since they’re all work-related; but I was pleasantly surprise. Sure glad I bought this joke book!