Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Diversity & Cynicism

My boss was chosen to sit on a committee assigned to advocate diversity within the college that our department lies. This committee, committed to diversity, is made up of woman faculty from the other departments within the college....with the exception of ours, as we have no women faculty. Thus, my boss (who is renowned campus wide for his 30+ years of support and encouragement of woman in our field) was chosen along with a young, soggy, long haired, South American male professor.

My boss says to me, "I can understand why the dean chose me, but why that other guy?"

I said, "Well Professor, you are known for your "minority" outreach, and that other guy clearly has breasts, so he was the closest thing to a woman they could get.

At this point, my 69 year old conservative boss with a pulmonary problems laid his head on his desk and started shaking violently. I thought that I had killed him! When he lifted his head, his face was red and his eyes were tearing with laughter.

He said, "You are far to young to be such a cynic.....but I appreciate every minute of it."

3 comments:

Phenome-nonnon said...

You might want to lay off the jokes until after surgery :)

anouk said...

It was no joke. The dude really does have man breasts. I can think of few things more frightening than having this guy run down the hall towards me.

kntgrl said...

you are so cute!