I'm mostly referring to situations in which you are an employee, waiting on customers(as a sales rep, a server, a fast food employee, etc). There were many past jobs I had, where my employees(most of them "young punks") told me that I was really "annoying" because I was constantly perky and cheerful all the time. Then during the few times that I was sincerely angry/incensed about something and let it show a little, those same "young punks" laughed with me, sided with me, and thought it was "cool" that I was finally not being so overly happy. Are there other instances where being too happy can be a BAD thing? Also, what should one do about this? As an employee that works in the public service sector, aren't we SUPPOSED to be cheerful?
Apparently now it's not just angsty 16-yr-old employees who are annoyed with my constant cheesy happiness...now CUSTOMERS are complaining! Even much-older customers! And no I wasn't being sarcastic or fake happy, I was being bubbly.
2007-04-17
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