Re: Help a damsel in distress with Quality Jokes?
My jokes are anonymised anecdotes about real situations I've seen as an auditor. Sorry, I'm reserving them for my book, you know, that one that everyone has in them. But everyone who has worked in quality has seen situations that, with hindsight, are funny.
For example, I asked a software engineering manager why his software quality was poor.
"Because the technologies we use are complex and not all the engineers understand all of them," he said.
"Why's that?" I asked.
"They don't go on the training classes."
"Why?" (I had studied five whys well.)
"I don't send them."
"Um, why don't you send them on the training classes you know they need?" I asked; auditors have to be persistent, right?
"No time?"
"They have no time to attend training? Why?"
"They're too busy fixing the bugs they made by not knowing enough... Ok," he sighed, "Write it up. I'll fix it."
I typically used this joke to enliven the lecture about 6.2.2. I don't like jokes that are there just to make people laugh, I use them to reinforce learning points.
I'd suggest going back over your own experience. What made you laugh? The thing is, jokes about real life bring people together. Especially if, as above, a senior manager is the butt of the joke.
BTW I don't think people resist change. They resist badly managed change that places them at risk.
Hope this helps
Pat