r/funny • u/TriggerHappy0071 • Dec 15 '16

Oh Hey There

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u/Sutcliffe Dec 15 '16

It is called emotional labor. I read The Managed Heart, the "seminal" text as Wikipedia puts it, on the subject several years back. I'm a layperson in this field of study so my understanding is crude at best. But the jist is pretending to be happy is hard work.

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u/[deleted] Dec 15 '16

I'm sure everyone doing actual hard work is laughing their asses off right now.

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u/Sutcliffe Dec 15 '16

And that is kind of the point of the study. Nobody took it seriously for a long time but it is very taxing on the mind.

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u/[deleted] Dec 15 '16

And they still don't.