Smile! or your FIRED!

Those crazy Japanese are at it again! HERE is a story about Japanese railworkers that are required to "check their smiles" on a laptop computer with a webcam attached before starting their shifts. It gives them a Smile rating. Wow. I love this quote:

"I don't think that we have had much opportunity to stare at our faces that close and for that long to check our facial expressions until now."

This is one of those things that makes you go, "Hmmmmm." Working in a busy train station it makes sense that smiling employees would help ease stress. I'll bet this theory would work in any job situation. How many of us think this way? I'm guessing not very many.