Covid Scotland: Power and pitfalls of humour in the workplace
Brace yourself. Joke time. Did you hear the bloke who invented predictive texts has died? They’re holding his funfair next monkey. Okay, I admit it’s not the best gag in the world. But maybe, just maybe, a small chemical reaction took place in your brain as you read the words and led to something unexpected, even pleasurable . . . a wry smile. My children laugh all the time, usually at my expense. But I honestly cannot remember the last time I had a good old belly laugh. And I’m sure I’m not alone. And despite being the best medicine, in one of the more bizarre twists of the p...