Yes, this is us right this very instant. #UnderHappy
Ah finally, a snarky stock answer to salutations from overly chirpy morning people in the office. How am I? Perfectly underhappy, thank you very much.
Some context: This delightful new term arose from National Workplace Happiness Survey 2014, culled from the responses of over 5,000 good folks from the Singapore workforce.
Goal of said survey? To create a “scientific” schema for our very own national yardstick for workplace satisfaction, with a (very Singaporean) banding system to divvy us up into “Happy” (68 to 100 points), “Unhappy” (0 to 50) and yes, you guessed it “Underhappy”, that no-woman’s land of workers scoring 51 to 67 points.
The findings are exactly what you would expect from us Singaporeans: Pretty much everyone working is … well, not happy per se, but not unhappy, either. Underhappy!
News of this newly coined emotion – sort of like a more “high-class” version of the colloquial “so-so, lah” – has erupted into a Twitter-storm of gleeful wisecracks from Singaporeans who, while resolutely underhappy, are more than happy (sorry) to vent on the Internet.
As for us at herworldPLUS, a quick and dirty informal poll of my colleagues yielded responses ranging from a very underhappy “I’ll get back to you later” to the cautiously optimistic (“I'm #happy because nothing has gone wrong today... yet”) to the incredibly adorable and sickly saccharine (I’m #happy today because I'm drinking tea from a cute new moustache mug”).
So I guess the only thing left to do is for you, dear reader, to tell us if you’re #UnderHappy or not. Tweet us now, and have a very happy day ahead!
Leave house, phone at 50%, no power bank #UnderHappy
— Nicholas Lee (@furryphotos) November 12, 2014
Gave my girlfriend one cockle from my char kuay teow. There was only one cockle in my char kuay teow. #UnderHappy#truestory
— Ivan 害人 (@hai_ren) November 12, 2014
"Under happy"? Is that from the same phrasebook as "consciously uncoupling"? Good grief. Call a spade a spade... http://t.co/4pGGl4KJuZ
— Janice Koh (@janicekoh) November 12, 2014