These work jokes are so bad they’re brilliant — and we can’t stop laughing

There are bad puns, there are groan-worthy one-liners, and then there is an entirely special category of workplace humour that makes you simultaneously wince and giggle against your better judgment. These nine jokes sit firmly in that third category. From the yoga instructor who bent over backwards to the CEO who clearly needed a lesson in photocopying, they are terrible in exactly the right way. The shredder one, in particular, is perfection.

I got fired as a yoga instructor.  And I bent over backwards for those people!

A young executive was leaving the office late one evening when he found the CEO standing in front of a shredder with a piece of paper in his hand.
‘Listen,’ said the CEO, ‘this is a very sensitive and important document here, and my PA has gone for the night. Can you make this thing work for me?’
‘Certainly,’ said the young executive. He turned the machine on, inserted the paper, and pressed the start button.
‘Excellent, excellent!’ said the CEO, as his paper disappeared inside the machine. ‘I just need one copy…’

I just lost my job as a psychic. I did not see that coming.

Inspecting mirrors is a job I could really see myself doing.

Thought about becoming a witch, so I tried that for a spell.

I’m aspirin’ to be a chemist.

I thought about being a knife-maker. I made great blades, but I just couldn’t handle it.

I found being an electrician interesting, but the work was shocking.

I got fired from the unemployment office, and still had to show up the next day.