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Thesun 2009-06-02 Page10 Australian PM Slams Attacks On Indian Students
Thesun 2009-06-02 Page10 Australian PM Slams Attacks On Indian Students
LONDON: Taxi-drivers are Britain’s up too, with just 0.9% of them Other workers scoring high on more name,
grumpiest workers, according to a saying they enjoy a giggle in the the laughter scale were, perhaps bringing their list
survey on Monday, while secretar- gymnasium. surprisingly, accountants – many of victims to 195.
ies are the happiest. Those in recruitment could also of whom said they regularly played Zhang believes
The gloomy prospect of ferrying do with a good dose of humour, pranks or wound up their work- they have only
around strangers every day makes the survey said, as just 3.8% laughed mates to alleviate the daily grind identified about
taxi-drivers laugh less than any regularly during the working day. – and teachers. one-tenth of
other profession, according to the By contrast, 53.5% of secretar- The results of the survey, con- those killed.
survey of 4,000 workers. ies said they laughed on a regular ducted for comedy TV channel “Our greatest
Drivers cited traffic jams, the ris- basis during a working day, with a G.O.L.D. also revealed a correlation hope is to be able
ing cost of petrol, drunken passen- quarter of those surveyed confessing between laughter at work and days to openly say it
gers and frisky couples as reasons that most of their amusement comes off taken sick. was wrong for
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not to be cheerful. from watching the stressful lives of The more we laugh, it seems, the the army to fire
Fitness instructors could lighten their disgruntled bosses. less we skive. – Reuters on people. Civil