SMILE!!!

[Sunshine]

is what i got told by one of my last customers before vacation this week. i said "i honestly HATE it when people tell me to smile, i dont smile on command and i find it offensive to be told to do so"...yeah. i NEEDED this vacation!
i've been away for 3 days now and i feel great.

[HotelMinion]

LOL. I hate that too. Some smartass came up to me and said, "Everything is so great except for the EMPLOYEES THAT DON'T SMILE!!!" and put his face about two inches from mine and breathed all over me. I'll effing smile when I want to.

[Food Lady]

Sunshine, can't believe you said that and didn't get in trouble! I HATE when people order me to smile. As long as I'm polite, I've done nothing wrong. No one has the right to tell me how to feel. And I'm not there to emotionally fulfill them.

[Iseeyouthere]

"You are suppost to SMILE! Why are you not SMILING!?"

Give me a reason to SMILE then.

[dalesys]

"You are suppost to SMILE! Why are you not SMILING!?"

Give my dog a BJ and I'll laugh out loud.

[EricKei]

Order: Request to Smile

Result: Stare of Death

[pzychobitch]

Whenever customers tell me to smile, I just give a death glare. I don't smile on command either. I'm not naturally happy, if I do smile it's to get you to fuck off.

[pzychobitch]

Order: Request to Smile

Result: Stare of Death

OMG LMAO! Very nice! I'm going to remember this one!

[XCashier]

Some smartass came up to me and said, "Everything is so great except for the EMPLOYEES THAT DON'T SMILE!!!" and put his face about two inches from mine and breathed all over me.

"Yeah, well, it's kinda hard to smile when I'm trying not to puke from you breathing your putrid halitosis into my face!"

Or even better, the ones who yell at you over some stupid policy, screaming at you for several minutes, calling you every name in the book, then ask why you aren't smiling. DIAF, TYVM.

You want a smiling employee? Here, this fellow will help you, he's always smiling.

[thehuckster]

When people told me to smile, I'd just say,

"Oh, sorry. I was just thinking back about 6 months ago when my brother was alive and we did surfing together. Good times... good times."

I guarantee you, they'll never as anyone to smile again.

[dragon_wings]

Order: Request to Smile

Result: Stare of Death

QFT. I'm cheerful by nature but if I'm having a shitty day or am depressed I have to force myself to smile. Which is one of the single worst things to have to do when you just wanna go home and go to sleep.

[customersruinmylife]

I HATE HATE HATE that! People assume that because you are not smiling, you are grumpy. Could it be that I am busy concentrating on getting tables cleared and serving food? No of course not. I must have a permenant smile on my face at all times, no matter what I am doing! Doing my job comes second to smiling.

[Jay 2K Winger]

Them: "Smile!"

My stock responses.

* (deadpan) "I am smiling." (no I'm not)

* "They don't pay me enough to smile."

* (rictus grin)

[JLG]

I get this all the time and it pisses me off. Just because I don't walk around all day not smiling does not mean that I am not happy or that I am mad.
Last Christmas Eve I got up early to go to the store to buy things for our Christmas dinner because I was working that day. It was about 6am and some stranger taps me on the shoulder. I turn around and it is the man checking out in the next line and he tells me "Smile sweetheart you have one mad look on your face" I told him, not when you work retail and you have to go to work after this.

[Andara Bledin]

When someone assumes you're angry or upset because you're concentrating and bugs you about it, just say this:

"Oh, yeah, that's a common mistake. See, us smart people look angry when we're concentrating, and it tends to make other people think we're upset when we're just focusing."

Then flash an actual grin, and go right back to what you were doing, complete with your concentration-face and ignoring the person who likely can't quite figure out where in that statement you dissed them.

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