The meeting was continuing. Boss lion was preaching corporate etiquette to his subordinate, the leopard, second line manager the cheetah, and front line manager the fox, the hyena, the wolf and the jackal.
To keep his lecture interesting Boss lion added some joke. It created some giggling in the room. Fox was taught to keep calm and not to laugh in the meeting. So she was not laughing.
Lion noted this. He assumed that the fox was not attentive in the meeting. He came to the fox and asked, "Don't you understand the joke?" The fox couldn't understand the intention of the lion. She became confused so she just saw the face of the lion.
"Do you understand the joke?" lion asked again.
"Ya! yes sir." confused fox answer.
"My next question is are you in the meeting? You are not laughing on jokes! Be attentive and interactive in the meeting." The lion almost roared.
After this objection, the fox laughed on each joke of the lion. She didn't want to be noticed by the boss again. After the meeting, annoyed leopard called the boss of the fox, the cheetah. He warned him that he would not tolerate any indiscipline as shown by the fox in the meeting. He told him to teach etiquette to the fox and how to behave in the meeting.
MORAL OF THE STORY: It doesn't matter whether you laugh on the joke of the boss or not if the boss wants to tight your screw he will find a reason.