BAD MOOD TYPE A: caused by the brutal thing that happened at the very beginning of the day before we got to work
BAD MOOD TYPE B: caused by the brutal things that continuously happen to us while we're at work.
The complete study is pretty interesting but allow us to spoil the article for you:
"One of our findings shows that the mood people bring with them at the very start of the workday influenced employee mood more powerfully and consistently than any other variable," Rothbard and Wilk write. "We also found that for the most part, as expected, customer mood influenced employee mood. Interestingly, negative customer interactions only affected less experienced workers. Last, we show that daily mood at work can influence important work outcomes."Start-of-day moods may be more potent because they are caused by events that are more important to workers than interactions with customers, the researchers note. It is also possible that workers are trained to handle customer moods but get no similar training on dealing with start-of-day moods. Future research, they suggest, should look at various events that influence those start-of-day moods.
So there you have it. You didn't get that promotion because you couldn't find your shoes this morning, and your blog is bad because your mom yelled at you!
ps. we feel really badly about our picture choice. It was hard to find, if you google image search perezhilton you'll find 8 billion pictures of a smiley person, and just this one sad one. He must have read this study and knows to keep the sad in a bag.
check out his uber successful blog @ http://www.perezhilton.com/
check out his uber successful blog @ http://www.perezhilton.com/
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