Emotional Labor

The energy expended to control your feelings when dealing with other people, particularly in the workplace.

That customer was such an ass! I should be getting paid extra for all of my emotional labor!

by OkiShisa July 8, 2018

Emotional Labor

A feminist notion that emotions are somehow hard work, and that they should be financially compensated for them. Men don't seem to have a problem being nice to people, and are rightfully perplexed when women use this term.

Given the amount of emotions a normal woman has every few minutes, about virtually everything, emotional labor seems to be an oxymoron.

"Omg, Brad's such a bad manager, he doesn't recognize all the emotional labor I put in, trying to be nice to customers all the time!"

by AntiSuffragette October 11, 2018

Emotional labour

Emotional labour was originally a word for people who have to put a lot of uncompensated emotional effort into their job. Recently, however, it's more along the lines of "idk, it kinda sucks when I have to listen to my boyfriend" or "now that I've made my statement, I don't want to defend myself or back it up because it's emotionally laborious"

If you're willing to PayPal me $5 for the emotional labour, I'll explain my vague/ridiculous statement"

by Lefty Lucy August 10, 2018