Boston.com - A lost client, crashing computer, a boss's sharp rebuke, or a bad news phone call from home, and pow - you begin to lose it at work. The tears start to well up. It's not a good day.But is crying a black mark on your office reputation, even a career-killer? Carynne Corvaia, a marketing manager in Lowell, has seen all kinds during a career that's taken her from high-tech to healthcare and now tourism, and she's shed one or two herself at the office. "There's being silent at your desk when a tear rolls down your face, and there's sniffling and ignoring your own tears, then there's acting out your crying," says Corvaia, marketing director for the Greater Merrimack Valley Convention and Visitors Bureau. "Good tears are tears under control - the moist eye, the almost-tears that show that a person feels very deeply, but still is under control of her or his emotion," says Stephanie Shields, a psychology and women's studies professor at Pennsylvania State University who has done research on people's perception of public crying.

Is Boston.com really asking whether crying is ever good at the office?   Listen you don’t need a degree in Psychology from Bridgewater State to know that crying is NEVER good at work.  I don’t care whether it’s somebody bawling or somebody who just has “the moist eye.”  If you think you’re about to cry you better get the hell out of the office.   Because take it from me, the CEO of a multi-international smut peddling empire, crying equals you’re fired.    Sure I may act all nice if some chick comes into my office and starts getting emotional about her workload.  Hell I may even let her suck my dick.  But I guarantee you that she’ll have a pink slip on her cube before she returns to sit down.   The bottom line is that only freaks cry at work.   End of story.