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Alex
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Posted 16-01-2009Reply

The Rabbit's Thesis



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: "That'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."



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



Moral: It doesn't matter how silly our thesis topic is. What matters is whom we have for a supervisor.



In the context of the working world: It doesn't matter how bad our performance is; what matters is whether our boss likes us.



Lesson for Management Student: To survive in the corporate world successfully, our boss is going to be the key player.

Ashwini
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  Rated 0 | Posted 16-01-2009

agree ... a bitter truth !

Pallavi
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  Rated 0 | Posted 16-01-2009

Absolutely True.............

Jagan
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  Rated 0 | Posted 22-01-2009

Hi Alex,

Not exactly....

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