In the City and Guilds biannual survey of professions, hairdressers are consistently scored as the happiest workers in the UK, despite very modest financial rewards, because of strong social ties at work and good relations with clients.
The happiest workers, the research suggests, are vicars and priests.
She is happiest, workers say, when she is distracted from her past.
"CareerBliss finds that the industries with the happiest workers thrive in providing growth opportunities to their employees, as well as foster a strong dedication to the company they work for and also the person the employees work for".
"I am a happy worker at NBC," he said in a recent interview in Manhattan.
But the fantasy of the happy worker has taken on newer and more mind-bending aspects, as has work itself.
My jeans were made by a happy worker who was paid the fair rate for the job".
The clamour to make employees happy at work is driven by one of the oldest cliches in the human resource management playbook: that a happy worker is a good worker.
The scientists are dead or driven mad by a virus, but the security system still works, dolling out droll comments like "a happy worker is an efficient worker, and only efficient workers will be fed".
Even two months ago, Mr. Silverman insisted in an interview that he was "a happy worker at NBC" but the network didn't renew his contract, clearly signaling that he had no future there without formally firing him.
