No, you should be required to put on a smile, work 8 hrs a day with a 30 min lunch (betternotbelate) on your feet with no guarantee that you'll have hours or even your job tomorrow. Asking for anything more is simple entitlement.
You - you realize people who *aren't* happy are just as discomfited by putting up with cheerful people, right? There's this whole cultural joke about people who do it too early in the morning. And shit, there are specific stores in town I don't go into because the salespeople are too smiley to deal with.
If I have to put up with their sixty-watt smiles at six in the morning, they can deal with my straight face. So yeah, it's wrong not to want to put up with downers. People exist for reasons other than to make you feel better about your day, like maybe to sell you your groceries and get your change correct. Besides, it's apparently, like, primarily a U.S. thing. Some other countries actually distrust us because we smile so much.
.... Questionable. Technically, the same medical condition that's the primary reason I don't smile much is protected by the ADA.
But I never said they should legally have to hire me. I just said it's *wrong.* There's a shitload of stuff that's wrong to do that would also be wrong to make illegal.
Shit, yes. Actually get to know someone's qualifications rather than making snap judgments based on their facial expression and bullshit like how firm their handshake is and whether they meet your eyes. Also, put down the goddamn copy of "One-Minute Manager," cause if you start following it, morale is going to tank and you'll be left wondering why all of the employees who could find other jobs did so.
It's immoral on a "deciding people's fate on petty bullshit" level, , not quite the "systematically depriving a people group of opportunities in such a way that it diminishes their overall quality of life" level - although there are areas where it gets freakily, cultishly close. More like "I'm not gonna hire anyone wearing a blue shirt" is morally objectionable, but it ain't exactly "I'm not gonna hire anyone I suspect is Jewish" terrible.
Ever been out of work for more than six months? It can definitely be "deciding someone's fate." If I hadn't gotten hired *the week* I got hired by the workplace I refer to as "Hell Lite," I would have been homeless - not moved back in with my parents, not "hey, I gotta crash on a friend's couch for a few weeks," homeless. We'd run through our savings due to an unexpected medical emergency.
"Ever been out of work for more than six months?"
Yes, but I had my parents to fall back on, and laziness was an element in the length of time.
Either way it's not deciding your fate because there's generally more than one employment opportunity, and they're not obligated to hire you in the first place.
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But I never said they should legally have to hire me. I just said it's *wrong.* There's a shitload of stuff that's wrong to do that would also be wrong to make illegal.
Yes, but I had my parents to fall back on, and laziness was an element in the length of time.
Either way it's not deciding your fate because there's generally more than one employment opportunity, and they're not obligated to hire you in the first place.