You're allowed to be sad, upset and angry with situations. It's an 'Merican right, damnit.

Do you have a boss that continually barks inane acronyms into the black abyss that is your "don't give a fuck" attitude, all while attempting to force positivity towards areas that don't need it for the entire seven hours and fifty-seven minutes you're on the clock? It's unbearable. According to a court ruling from the National Labor Relations Board, that behavior is also getting in the way of the 1st Amendment and your right to be pissed off.

The ruling comes from a dispute between T-Mobile and its employees, more specifically about the company's handbook that states everyone must "maintain a positive work environment” by “communicating in a manner that is conducive to effective working relationships with internal and external customers, clients, co-workers, and management." But 'maintaining' a happy face at times when a situation may call for the exact opposite — say when there's a dispute — no company has any right to restrict negative emotions. 

As the Guardian reports: "Studies of businesses and human psychology have shown us that in spite of our professed cultural love for optimists and a sunny, can-do attitude, the people who actually meet with success are those who approach life with a 'defensive pessimism': a willingness to embrace and factor in all of the ways that a plan can go wrong before they implement it."

Yet, this doesn't give you the right to nickname your superior "Mr. Asshat" and flick snot at customers all day; things like subordination, customer service and just overall human decency are still fire-able offenses at literally every occupation in the world. This just means that if you have issues with someone in the workplace, you don't have to be all Joyce fuckin' Manners about it.

You're allowed to be sad, upset and angry with situations. It's an 'Merican right, damnit.