When you're at work and you read an e-mail that makes you laugh out loud, what does it say about the person that asks you . . . What?

I have done that, laughed out loud when I read a funny email. I don't mind if my coworker asked what is so funny. I am happy to share a laugh.

I am also one of the coworkers who asks what when someone else laughs out loud. If they don't want to share, then they can easily just say that it is a private joke and I'll understand.

It depends. If the person at work is asking, "what are you wasting company time for? " Reading frivilous personal email is counterproductive, distracting, and doesn't reflect well on integrity.

I wonder how much money this practice actually costs our economy.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.