It's a fine sunny day in the forest, and a rabbit
is sitting outside his
burrow, tippy-tapping on his typewriter.

Along comes a fox, out for a walk.
Fox: "What are you working on?"
Rabbit: "My thesis."
Fox: "Hmm... What is it about?"
Rabbit: "Oh, I'm writing about how rabbits eat
foxes."

Fox: "That's ridiculous! Any fool knows that
rabbits don't eat foxes!"
Rabbit: "Come with me and I'll show you!"

They both disappear into the rabbit's burrow.
After few minutes, gnawing
on
a fox bone, the rabbit returns to his typewriter
and resumes typing.

Soon a wolf comes along and stops to watch the
hardworking rabbit.
Wolf: "What's that you are writing?"
Rabbit: "I'm doing a thesis on how rabbits eat
wolves."
Wolf: "you don't expect to get such rubbish
published, do you?"
Rabbit: "No problem. Do you want to see why?"

The rabbit and the wolf go into the burrow and
again the rabbit returns by
himself, after a few minutes, and goes back to
typing.

Finally a bear comes along and asks, "What are you
doing?
Rabbit: "I'm doing a thesis on how rabbits eat
bears."
Bear: "Well that's absurd!

Rabbit: "Come into my home and I'll show you"

As they enter the burrow, the rabbit introduces
the bear to the lion.

Moral:
IT DOESN'T MATTER HOW SILLY YOUR THESIS TOPIC IS.
WHAT MATTERS IS WHO YOU HAVE FOR A SUPERVISOR.
In the context of the working world:

IT DOESN'T MATTER HOW BAD YOUR PERFORMANCE IS;
WHAT MATTERS IS WHETHER YOUR BOSS LIKES YOU