Occupational humour

[His Noodly Appendage]

...particularly of the gallows kind. Every field has its own frustrations, and channelling them into humour is not only therapeutic but often side-splitting as well.

The two best sources I've run across so far are

Things I Learn From My Patients (http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=257985) (medical), and

The Daily WTF (http://www.thedailywtf.com)'s Code Snippet Of The Day (http://thedailywtf.com/Series/CodeSOD.aspx) (programming)

Any other favourites out there?

[shipload]

Sources...no.

I've got a couple of good economist jokes, though. I'd love to hear more.

I'll see if I can track down an appropriate site.

[shipload]

This one (http://www.workjoke.com/projoke44.htm) is okay.

[Garnet]

Dilbert is often painfully close to my work environment.

[Goldie]

Working as a large animal vet tech, the surgery banter was much like that in M*A*S*H*
Tho, most of our jokes would be considered VERY gross by the general population.

For example:
We always wore very loose, dark blue cover-all's.
One day, during a season when we were performing mass castorations, I was completely focused on assisting with C-section on a cow. I was SOOOOOO focused, that I did not notice that one of the older vets (Ray) had stuck two enormous testicles in my right covey pocket.

It was 1/2 a day before I discovered them. I KNEW immediately who would do such a thing.... but I said nothing.
I left them there and collected up several very small testicles from another series of castorations.
I then managed to place about 6 into one of Ray's pockets.

He really thought he had got me.
At the end of the day... in front of the entire staff. I pulled the two huge testicles out of my pocket. "Hey, Ray. Got change for these?" He smiled...looked puzzled... "What, Little Sister?"
"I asked if you've got change for these?" I smirked.

He reached in his pocket, and when he felt that gooey mess... the look on his face was priceless.

He was actually MORE tickled,I think, that I had turned the tables on him.
"OOOOOOOH! You got me, sis!" He went on for days about it. :)

We also used to place bets on how many pieces we'd have to cut a rotten calf fetus into before we could get it out.
We made jokes about prolapsed uteruses and while semen testing bulls.
We laughted at maggots and spewing abscesses.

We HAD to. That work was hard... often thankless... and full of the goriest stuff you've ever seen. Joking was how we kept our sanity.

That was the funnest job I ever had.

[Lanakila]

This I found on youtube about my job and it's kind of funny. I have workplace stories that I could tell but might offend people so I do not do it often. I've been asked about the weirdest things I"ve found in bags checked or carry on and new weird things happen all the time. But I have found fully gassed up chainsaws in baggage and seen a vanity sink for a bathroom in the checkpoint as well as numerous other weird things in my year and a half working for the TSA in a small city in Montana. I'm sure that airports in big cities see weirder things multiplied many times.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7AWw7t5zj0

[Per Ahlberg]

Occupational humour....hmm.....

"What do you say to an evolutionary biologist with a PhD, six years of postdoctoral experience and fourteen publications in major peer-reviewed journals?

Big Mac and a large fries to go please!"

You will hear variants of this many, many times during a research career.

[Don Alhambra]

I must post only this:

www.phdcomics.com

...and my work here is done.

[ck1]

My son is an engineering student. He just sent me this:

http://www.savageresearch.com/humor/engineers.html

[spikepipsqueak]

Airline Maintenance –

Here are some actual maintenance complaints submitted by the pilots (marked with a P) and the solutions recorded (marked with an S) by maintenance engineers. Never let it be said that ground crews lack a sense of humour. By the way, this airline is the only major airline that has never had an accident.
P: Evidence of leak on right main landing gear.
S: Evidence removed.
P: DME volume unbelievably loud.
S: DME volume set to more believable level.
P: Friction locks cause throttle levers to stick.
S: That's what they're for.
P:IFF inoperative.
S:IFF always inoperative in OFF mode.
P: Suspected crack in windshield.
S: Suspect you're right.

[bovie]

I made a microscopic appearance in this book: Doctors Book of Humorous Quotations and One-Liners (http://www.amazon.com/Doctors-Book-Humorous-Quotations-One-Liners/dp/1560534524/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1208368418&sr=1-4) . Dr. Bennett is a strong believer in the therapeutic value of humor.

There was the story of the partial penis amputation I made on a closely related forum. I don't know how many of you have already seen it and won't risk being a bore and repeating it unless there's a request.