LONDON
- TAXI-DRIVERS are Britain's grumpiest workers, according to a
survey on Monday, while secretaries are the happiest.
The
gloomy prospect of ferrying around strangers every day makes
taxi-drivers laugh less than any other profession, according to the
survey of 4,000 workers.
Drivers cited traffic jams, the rising cost of petrol, drunken
passengers and frisky couples as reasons not to be cheerful.
Fitness instructors could lighten up too, with just 0.9 per cent
of them saying they enjoy a giggle in the gym.
Those in recruitment could also do with a good dose of humour,
the survey said, as just 3.8 per cent laughed regularly during the
working day.
By contrast, 53.5 per cent of secretaries said they laughed on a
regular basis during a working day, with a quarter of those
surveyed confessing that most of their amusement comes from
watching the stressful lives of their disgruntled bosses.
Other workers scoring high on the laughter scale were, perhaps
surprisingly, accountants - many of whom said they regularly played
pranks or wound up their workmates to alleviate the daily grind -
and teachers.
The results of the survey, conducted for comedy TV channel
G.O.L.D. also revealed a correlation between laughter at work and
days off taken sick.
The more we laugh, it seems, the less we skive. -- REUTERS
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