Russia Is Country of Jolly Bosses, Sad Pensioners - Poll
Interfax - 3.29.12 - JRL 2012-59
MOSCOW. March 29 (Interfax) - The majority of school and university students and two-thirds of bosses in Russia like jokes, while pensioners and people with low incomes feel sad, the Levada Center told Interfax in commenting on a nationwide poll done before April 1, April Fool's Day.
file photo of laughing officialForty percent of the respondents said they were cheerful all the time, and 38% admitted laughing from time to time.
The majority of cheerful people are school and university students (78%), managers and bosses (66%), housewives (46%) people with a higher education (43%), people with a high consumer status (50%) and voters who supported Liberal Democratic Party leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky in the presidential election (54%).
Pensioners (30%), Russians older than 55 (26%), people with less than a secondary education (23%) and those who live from hand to mouth (47%) laugh rarely.
Most of Russians are offended by harmless jokes of their relatives, friends or colleagues either rarely (35%) or never (37%). Only 6% of the respondents said they were offended frequently, and 17% said they were offended sometimes.
The HeadHunter research service held its poll to find out that 76% of people play jokes on their colleagues at least once in a while, and 21% do that regularly. The number of jokers is higher amongst men (81%) than amongst women (69%).
The most popular office jokes involve the boss: for instance, a person is told to see the boss when he or she is really not supposed to or to fulfill an order the boss did not give (16%). Ten percent play jokes with office stationary, 10% use personal belongings of a colleague in their practical jokes, and others make verbal jokes.
Sixty-six percent said that office jokes helped brighten up the day. Sixty-three percent of jokers claimed their jokes made colleagues smile, and 33% said they heard jokes in response.
Meanwhile, an online poll of the Career.ru young specialists' portal showed that 24% of students played jokes on their professors at least once. Thirteen percent claimed they could play a joke even on the rector.
The majority of students who play jokes on their professors study law (38%), engineering and technology (30%).
The wish to make a serious professor smile (39%) and to tease a professor with a good sense of humor (31%) is the main cause of jokes.
Eighty-six percent of students are not afraid to play jokes on their professors. Fourteen percent admitted that they played jokes although they were afraid.
The outcome was rather positive: 50% said that their professors laughed and 28% said that professors joked in reply.
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MOSCOW. March 29 (Interfax) - The majority of school and university students and two-thirds of bosses in Russia like jokes, while pensioners and people with low incomes feel sad, the Levada Center told Interfax in commenting on a nationwide poll done before April 1, April Fool's Day.
file photo of laughing officialForty percent of the respondents said they were cheerful all the time, and 38% admitted laughing from time to time.
The majority of cheerful people are school and university students (78%), managers and bosses (66%), housewives (46%) people with a higher education (43%), people with a high consumer status (50%) and voters who supported Liberal Democratic Party leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky in the presidential election (54%).
Pensioners (30%), Russians older than 55 (26%), people with less than a secondary education (23%) and those who live from hand to mouth (47%) laugh rarely.
Most of Russians are offended by harmless jokes of their relatives, friends or colleagues either rarely (35%) or never (37%). Only 6% of the respondents said they were offended frequently, and 17% said they were offended sometimes.
The HeadHunter research service held its poll to find out that 76% of people play jokes on their colleagues at least once in a while, and 21% do that regularly. The number of jokers is higher amongst men (81%) than amongst women (69%).
The most popular office jokes involve the boss: for instance, a person is told to see the boss when he or she is really not supposed to or to fulfill an order the boss did not give (16%). Ten percent play jokes with office stationary, 10% use personal belongings of a colleague in their practical jokes, and others make verbal jokes.
Sixty-six percent said that office jokes helped brighten up the day. Sixty-three percent of jokers claimed their jokes made colleagues smile, and 33% said they heard jokes in response.
Meanwhile, an online poll of the Career.ru young specialists' portal showed that 24% of students played jokes on their professors at least once. Thirteen percent claimed they could play a joke even on the rector.
The majority of students who play jokes on their professors study law (38%), engineering and technology (30%).
The wish to make a serious professor smile (39%) and to tease a professor with a good sense of humor (31%) is the main cause of jokes.
Eighty-six percent of students are not afraid to play jokes on their professors. Fourteen percent admitted that they played jokes although they were afraid.
The outcome was rather positive: 50% said that their professors laughed and 28% said that professors joked in reply.