Please dont shoot the messenger. But I would humbly state there are many lessons to be drawn from this joke. Personally I laughed my head off because I recognized myself and a lot of people I know!
The joke goes like this:
It takes guts to be a Bengali!!
Bill Gates organized an enormous session to recruit a new Chairman for Microsoft Europe. 5000 candidates assembled in a large room. One candidate was Debdas Banerjee an Bengali guy from India.
Bill Gates thanked all the candidates for coming and asking those who do not know JAVA program to leave. 2000 people left the room. Debdas said to himself, 'I do not know JAVA but I have nothing to lose if I stay. I'll give it a try'
Bill Gates asked the candidates who never had experience of managing more than 100 people to leave. 2000 people left the room. Debdas said to himself ' I never managed anybody by myself but I have nothing to lose if I stay. What can happen to me?' So he stayed.
Then Bill Gates asked candidates who did not have management diplomas to leave. 500 people left the room. Debdas said to himself, 'I left school at 15 but what have I got to lose?' So he stayed in the room.
Lastly, Bill Gates asked the candidates who did not speak Serbo - Croat to leave. 498 people left the room.Debdas said to himself, ' I do not speak one word of Serbo - Croat but what do I have to lose?' So he stayed and found himself with one other candidate. Everyone else had gone.
Bill Gates joined them and said 'Apparently you are the only two candidates who speak Serbo - Croat, so I'd now like to hear you have a conversation together in that language.'
Calmly, Debdas turned to the other candidate and said - 'Ki cholchhe dada. Kemon achho.'(Whats up brother? How are you?) The other candidate answered - 'bhalo achhi bhai.'(I am well.)
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