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You there, this is the smile police, be happy

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...ile-scans.html

" a bid to boost their customer services"
More like reduce them.
Anyone with a forced smile basically starts to look like a psycho - yeah, that'll bring the customers in.

Or a punter with some bad news story being met with the company-standard gormless grin as opposed to some genuine empathy will also feel like taking business elsewhere.

Or a customer with a complaint will get well and truly pissed off if the staff member keeps up the inane grin all through the proceedings.
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For those with a below-par grin ...smile-boosting messages will pop up on the computer screen [such as] "lift up your mouth corners",
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You know what? Japan is kind of weird.
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There's a time to smile, and a time to frown. I try to smile all the time while at work as a WalMart cashier and often wear a happy-face sticker on each shirt lapel. I haven't been punched in the face yet for smiling
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Smiling is over-rated. Especially if you are staring at a computer screen, what are you trying to do? Re-assure it? I got into programming so that I wouldn't have to deal with people and by extension of that be nice to them for no reason
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Let's see if the Omron Smile Scan system works on holders of State of California short term debts and bonds. California has started pay off with I.O.U.'s rather than actual money.
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What happens if you flip it the bird, do you get suspended?

I hate when people try to act happy. I get cautious and twitchy around them, and when I get cautious and twitchy: things can get very ugly.
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