The first two hours of the workday at least, you do not have to load the personality up. Let the phrase “good morning” be the autopilot that carries you. It gets you big polite points that actually scale with every use. It doesnt “get old”, you become the polite “good morning!” interaction they anticipate.
The best use of this is when youre running late. Bosses often wont even notice it if youre routine with your “Good morning!” because they’re just gonna be locked into their own social script of exchanging morning pleasantries with you. Take advantage of the fact that we ALL run on social scripts, feed others a line they can easily respond to that yields a positive interaction for both. Yes its fake- youre both at work, youre in fakey make pretend land for as long as youre paid to play that character.














