title: Laughing Nine to Five: The Quest for Humor in the Workplace
author:  Clyde Fahlman 
description: &#34;..decries the disappearance of humor on the job and suggests ways to recpature it, chuckle by chuckle.&#34; --<i>The Oregonian</i><br /><br />Humor and laughter in the workplace can facilitate communication and creativity on the job: how to achieve it? Fahlman uses anecdotes of workshop participants and humor formulas to present a lively discourse on how to promote workplace humor and use it to stimulate renewal and effectiveness. --<i>Midwest Book Review</i>
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  ## Helsinki White
  
  
    
  
  
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  _( Inspector Vaara - 3 )_
  
  
  
  
  
  ### James Thompson
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## James Thompson
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Helsinki White
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Prologue
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  It’s May second, a sunny Sunday, a chilly spring evening. I walk around
  downtown, check out the main drags. The outdoor bars are packed, everyone
  drunk and happy. Yesterday was Vappu-May Day, the heaviest drinking holiday of
  the year-and most of these people have been drunk non-stop, morning to night,
  since they got off from work on Friday. Morning drinking delays hangovers.
  Eventually, the price has to be paid, but they can be sick at work tomorrow,
  on the company dime.
  
  
  Raucous laughter emanates from everywhere. I stop under the clock in front of
  the main doors of Stockmann Department Store, the biggest and best in the
  city. I sometimes shop here because they almost always have what I want, and
  specialize in quality merchandise, even though the pric