Inference - A Management Story, Part 2

It's a fine sunny day in the forest and a rabbit is sitting outside his burrow, tippy-tapping on his typewriter. Along comes a fox, out for a walk.

Fox	:	"What are you working on?"
Rabbit	:	"My thesis."
Fox	:	"Hmm... What is it about?"
Rabbit	:	"Oh, I'm writing about how rabbits eat foxes."
Fox	:	"hat's ridiculous ! Any fool knows that rabbits don't eat foxes!"
Rabbit	:	"Come with me and I'll show you!"

They both disappear into the rabbit's burrow. After few minutes, gnawing on a fox bone, the rabbit returns to his typewriter and resumes typing. Soon a wolf comes along and stops to watch the hardworking rabbit.

Wolf	:	"What's that you are writing?"
Rabbit	:	"I'm doing a thesis on how rabbits eat wolves."
Wolf	:	"You don't expect to get such rubbish published, do you?"
Rabbit	:	"No problem. Do you want to see why?"

The rabbit and the wolf go into the burrow and again the rabbit returns by himself, after a few minutes, and goes back to typing.

Finally a bear comes along and asks, "What are you doing?

Rabbit	:	"I'm doing a thesis on how rabbits eat bears."
Bear	:	"Well that's absurd ! "
Rabbit	:	"Come into my home and I'll show you"

Scene :

As they enter the burrow, the rabbit introduces the bear to the lion.

Moral:

IT DOESN'T MATTER HOW SILLY YOUR THESIS TOPIC IS; WHAT MATTERS IS WHOM YOU HAVE AS A SUPERVISOR.

Management Lesson In the context of the working world:

IT DOESN'T MATTER HOW BAD YOUR PERFORMANCE IS; WHAT MATTERS IS WHETHER YOUR BOSS LIKES YOU OR NOT.