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Quote:German IT outfit Nutzwerk Ltd has come up with the perfect solution to whining in the workplace - it's made cheerfulness a contractual obligation. What's more, Manager Thomas Kuwatsch has declared that those who don't measure up to the prescribed level of jollity in the morning should stay at home until they cheer up

full article: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/11/04/moaning_ban/

Quote:it's made cheerfulness a contractual obligation

There is one person at my work who is so cheery and happy and smiling and cutsie wootsie all the time that it's so friggin' annoying.  I just want to slap her silly sometimes.  Hmmmm, I guess I wouldn't measure up to that places's cheerful contract obligation.

Can you imagine someone working there and getting fired and they are being interviewed for a job somewhere else?

"why did you leave your last job?"
"I was fired because I wasn't cheerful on Monday". 

*sigh*

It's just a lot more fun to glare at folks and watch 'em squirm.