‘Forced Joy’ Is a Miserable Corporate Trend.
That’s appalling. Someone needs to liberate Luigi and let him have a crack at clown CEO Brian Niccol.
‘Forced Joy’ Is a Miserable Corporate Trend.
That’s appalling. Someone needs to liberate Luigi and let him have a crack at clown CEO Brian Niccol.
I don’t think you’re happy enough
That’s right! I’ll teach you to be happy!
I’ll teach your grandmother to suck eggs!
Now, boys and girls, let’s try it again
Did everyone lose it during covid?
Society I think had been moving towards authoritarianism and away from the freewheeling spirit of the 1990s for a long time. But Covid certainly did not help matters.
In one survey I saw (can’t recall where), due to Covid something like 30% of people wanted to ban people going to nightclubs and bars and such forever.
Were the 1990s more free, or was I a child? I remember doing things I can’t now, for various reasons.
The FUN AND IRONY IS OVER caucus has been around for a while though (the Clear Channel memorandum.)
Imagine people being so fragile that a corporate directive to write “you are awesome” with a smiley on a cup is the difference that makes a repeat customer. Especially when so many of those people are performatively abrasive in a way they weren’t in the past?
I was an adult for most of the nineties, so I don’t think it was just being a child. For half of the nineties, I was in the army — not exactly an experience of sublime happiness. And I still felt that it was far more optimistic and fun and noticed when that started to decrease.
I don’t even mind “abrasive” from a barista or waitress as long as it’s not rude. But I think you’re talking about the customers and it does seem also to have gotten worse with the general public after Covid in that respect too. Everyone is just more of a jerk.