Yelled at for not being happy enough

[MadMike]

Imagine I'm Hannibal Lecter. Do you REALLY want me to be smiling, Claris?

That would be me. Apparently I just have a naturally evil expression. If I'm not smiling, people think I want to kill someone. If I am smiling, people think I already did.

[protege]

I had my boss bust my balls because I "wasn't happy enough" at work. Never mind that my dad was dealing with possible cancer plus an auto accident, and my grandmother had a stroke and was in failing health. He actually told me that those things weren't his problem. He's lucky I didn't decide to beat the crap out of him with a keyboard

[PepperElf]

I had my boss bust my balls because I "wasn't happy enough" at work. Never mind that my dad was dealing with possible cancer plus an auto accident, and my grandmother had a stroke and was in failing health. He actually told me that those things weren't his problem. He's lucky I didn't decide to beat the crap out of him with a keyboard

Yeah I see stuff like that sometimes (here and at PFB or M3C) where people feel "well if you're having such a bad day why did you come in to work?" as if going to work means you can magically put everything away in your head.

Although I can imagine how to respond to that too...
jerk: well why did you come in then
worker: good point! I'm going home. You take care of this line yourself!


some people have no heart

[Snowbird]

And yet, if she had wanted you to sound serious, and you had sounded happy, she would have griped at you just as much. ("Are you smiling? You think this is funny?!") It really is a lose lose situation.

[bhskittykatt]

And yet, if she had wanted you to sound serious, and you had sounded happy, she would have griped at you just as much. ("Are you smiling? You think this is funny?!") It really is a lose lose situation.

Actually, CW once got a customer complaint that she was too happy and her "sing-songy voice just sounded fake". Knowing CW the way I do, I know that's just how she is and that it's not fake. So yeah...you can get complaints both ways.

[HotelMinion]

I usually plaster a fake smile on my face because when I'm not smiling I look annoyed, which I usually am. Annoyed = unfriendly, apparently in SC land. Once I had the audacity to not smile at this annoying customer and his wife, and they complained that I was being unfriendly. So I said "good morning" pleasantly the next time they reared their heads, and the guy gave a huge exaggerated leap of surprise and said a shocked "Good Morning!" back. I continued fakely smiling until they rounded the corner, still looking back at me as if I have two heads, and then I puked because their nitpicking made me ill.

[EricKei]

I'd be tempted to smile like this instead: [stewie]

I see nothing at all unusual about how he's smiling

I used to have a really good plastic smile when I worked retail...Albeit a creepy, Lecter and/or The Grinch-type smile. I knew I was doing it right when CW's asked me to please stop.