{"id":83628,"date":"2015-12-28T20:58:57","date_gmt":"2015-12-29T04:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=83628"},"modified":"2023-09-07T03:57:50","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T11:57:50","slug":"i-have-a-serious-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=83628","title":{"rendered":"Laughing My Way Into Poverty And Social Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All of my life, with few exceptions, I have considered work a joke and I just can&#8217;t stop myself from making inappropriate jokes. Few of my bosses have appreciated this.<\/p>\n<p>(I worked in radio news for three years and never made an inappropriate joke on the air. I never got fired from KAHI\/KHYL. I quit in 1987 to concentrate on my schooling.)<\/p>\n<p>Almost everything at work seems like a joke to me. I can&#8217;t stop.<\/p>\n<p>Almost all of my bosses have hated this. They have kept complaining over the years, &#8220;Everything is a joke to you. Will you be laughing when I fire you?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m best suited for working for myself. <\/p>\n<p>My favorite topics for jokes are Muslims, homosexuals, pederasts and anything remotely sexual. <\/p>\n<p>I was telling a coworker a while ago that he should take his three boys to Neverland.<\/p>\n<p>Friend: &#8220;You have a problem, but it&#8217;s still funny.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The only way I find to get through prosaic tasks is by wondering aloud which groups I would vote off the island in which order.<\/p>\n<p>It just takes more willpower than I&#8217;ve got these days to suppress the phrase &#8220;queer with AIDS,&#8221; as in, &#8220;Sure, if I were a queer with AIDS, I&#8217;d be glad to help you with that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Friend: &#8220;If you would just treat your mouth like your penis, maybe you could finally restrain your inappropriate words.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I said to this latino guy at work, &#8220;How&#8217;s your sister?&#8221; And he got all ticked off like I was about to suggest something immoral.<\/p>\n<p>Note to self: Never ask your boss if his mother was able to find sparks with his step-dad. <\/p>\n<p>I just put on my CPAP, got under the covers and then started snorting and spitting when I imagined myself saying to my latin friend, &#8220;Do you have any pictures of your sisters? I&#8217;m sure they&#8217;re very pretty just like you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At my last job, my boss would fire me 3-5 times a day for inappropriate humor.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m asking a representative sample of different groups, &#8220;Do you have any pictures of your sister?&#8221; and I will be charting their reactions. Which group do you think would react most negatively to such a question and what does that mean? <\/p>\n<p>So I was in the sauna last night getting mentored by my rabbi&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All of my life, with few exceptions, I have considered work a joke and I just can&#8217;t stop myself from making inappropriate jokes. Few of my bosses have appreciated this. (I worked in radio news for three years and never &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=83628\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83628"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151275,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83628\/revisions\/151275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}