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There’s nothing wrong or evil about having a bad day. There’s everything wrong with making others have to have it… with you.

Neil Cavuto

And that, ladies and germs, is precisely why you should embrace the glory that is “Have a Bad Day Day”. When you’re having a bad day, you shouldn’t have to suffer alone, so wish everyone you meet “Have a Bad Day”, but do it with the brightest, cheeriest smile you can put on your face. Chaos, my friends, is the heart of the revolution, and all revolutions started on a Bad Day.

Learn about Have A Bad Day Day

We all have bad days from time-to-time, right? We are pretty sure it is impossible to meet someone who has never had a bad day in their life! Whether it was at school, last time you fell ill, or this morning when you work up on the wrong side of the bed; we are sure you are thinking about some of those bad days that you have had right now! Well, Have A Bad Day Day encourages you to embrace these bad days and to stop worrying about the fact you are having a bad day, to begin with!

Have A Bad Day Day was originally created for those in the customer services industry, as we will discuss in more depth below. However, this does not mean you cannot apply Have A Bad Day Day to your own life! After all, we all have days that are worse than others, so we can all take comfort in the fact that we can have a bad day together on this date. Life is full of ups and downs; it is how you handle them that really matters, and that is what this date is all about.

History of Have a Bad Day Day

There’s a job out there that ensures that you’re going to have a Bad Day, possibly dozens of times a day. What job is that? Anything in the customer service industry. If you’ve never worked in the customer service industry it’s important to understand that your soul is impeccably clean, and you’ve never truly known a day of suffering. We are all customers at some point in our lives, and unfortunately, that means that we all join the ranks of the truly walking dead. Retail customers, be afraid friends, be afraid. But Have a Bad Day Day gives our heroes in the customer service industry a chance to strike back…

This date was created by Ruth and Thomas Roy of Wellcat.com. They created the date for the purpose of giving people working in the sales and customer services industry to wish their customers to Have a Bad Day. After all, whenever you leave a store of finish speaking with a customer services agent, they probably wish you to have a good day, right?

Well, on this date, you can expect the opposite. It is a great opportunity to put a smile on people’s faces, as they won’t be expecting you to say such a thing. Plus, for those who are secretly tired of being nice all of the time, you have an opportunity to be impolite for the day and no one can say anything. However, we would advise you stick with just wishing people a bad day, rather than being rude in general…

Every agent has to end their spiel, no matter how rotten the customer was, with the phrase “Have a Nice Day!”, but on Have a Bad Day Day, they get a reprieve from this monotonous platitude and get to instead assail their customers with that most delightful of passive-aggressive phrases. “Have a Bad Day!” announced in the cheeriest tone they can manage, and then they revel in the confusion as their customers try to make out whether or not they’ve just been insulted. They’ll never know.

How to celebrate Have a Bad Day Day

Well, it’s all wrapped up in the above really. Have a Bad Day Day is your opportunity to get out there and truly wish the worst of the worst on people with a cheery “Have a Bad Day!”. Even if you’re not a customer service agent, you’re sure to know someone who deserves to be confused by being told to have a bad day in a voice that says have a good one. Let your malice run unabated today, and pass it on to those who will never know you’re not just being silly. Vengeance is mine, sayeth the teller.

Aside from wishing people a bad day, you are not forced to have a bad day on Have A Bad Day Day. Bit of a tongue twister there! We’re not encouraging you to sit at home and try to make yourself feel as bad as possible. However, if you do have a bad day, try to embrace it and accept it.

You will be surprised how much of a difference it can make to how you are feeling if you decide to be cheery despite the fact that everything seems to be going wrong around you on this date. You can also look out for anyone else who is having a bad day. Make them smile by reassuring them that it is normal, especially considering it is Have A Bad Day Day! Remember, bad days don’t last forever, so embrace them and don’t get too down.

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