The 7 Stages of Your Office March Madness Pool If your office is like many others around the country, this March will include hours of lost productivity and surreptitious score-checking, as everyone anxiously awaits the fate of their NCAA basketball tournament brackets. And if you’ve joined an office bracket pool, you might go through these seven distinct stages this month. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1467144145037-0'); }); 1. AnticipationEveryone’s excited about the shared fun that lies ahead. Sports! Camaraderie! Prizes!2. Annoyance at the guy who takes it waaaaaay too seriously3. Self-doubtWhy did you pick Podunk State to win it all?!4. Smugness when the upsets start breaking your way5. Despair when your bracket busts like a piñata.6. Rage that the one who DID win it all made her picks based on uniform colors.7. Ready to do the whole thing again next year.
