Grandma’s Ham ; A Story of Cultural Training:

“Grandma’s Ham”, A Story of Cultural Training.

This is a great story about “cultural training,” which is when one generation (or employee) teaches another a process.

Another word for “cultural training” is O J T (meaning On The Job Training), where one person is tasked with passing down knowledge to another person, often in a short time.

A husband and his wife were in their kitchen. The husband was sitting at the kitchen table reading the newspaper while his wife was preparing a ham for dinner. The husband watched the wife cut off about one inch from either end of the ham. He asked why she cut the end off, proclaiming “that’s a waste of good ham!” She said “that’s the way my mom prepared the ham.” The husband asked “why did your mom cut the ends off?” The wife didn’t know.

Later, the wife called her mom to find out why she cut the ends of the ham off. Her mom said “because that was the way my mom prepared ham.” The wife’s grandma passed away several years earlier, but her Grandpa was still living. She called her Grandpa and asked “Grandpa, why did Grandma cut the ends off of the ham?” He was silent as he thought for a moment. Then he replied, “so the ham could fit in the baking pan.”

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