I started a joke
We clown around a lot. Playing the jester is part of our makeup. Most times, people respond positively, but there's always someone who's offended, by almost any kind of humor or sarcasm. Every now and then we get in trouble over it, and it's taken us a long while to be able to see problems coming, and head some of them off.
Comedy always brings risk. Even with 20-20 foresight, some jokes have unintended impacts. But never in our wildest dreams would we expect something like this. What a horror, for everyone involved.
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Comments (3)
I think there is more to this story. There seems to be something missing.
Posted by Portland Native | December 7, 2012 4:27 PM
There is definitely room for some speculation, and though I usually believe the darkest possible conspiracy theory, I was struck by this sentence:
The hospital "had been supporting her throughout this difficult time," the statement said.
That, to me, sounds like spin.
The only way I can possibly make sense out of the official story is if there had been some supervisor that came down on her like a ton of bricks for this.
Of course, a great boss would have had a staff meeting to handle all these contingencies beforehand. How outside calls would be addressed, etc...
A good boss would have been understanding and said, "Look, if the Queen really had called up and you hung up on her, we'd be in real trouble so relax and be more careful next time."
But a tyrant could have gone off on her and maybe caused her to crack. That's my only possible theory of how a nurse used to life and death situations, could get to the point of taking her own life for a simple mistake on the phone.
And even then, it doesn't really add up, does it?
Posted by Bill McDonald | December 7, 2012 7:17 PM
Most times, people respond positively, but there's always someone who's offended, by almost any kind of humor or sarcasm.
Oh, that's rich.
Posted by thor | December 8, 2012 8:38 AM