For many, Twitter is an outlet to express emotion, and that fact isn't any more evident than when it comes to peoples' jobs. According to analysis by Hloom, a site that offers free document templates for professionals, a surprising amount of individuals take to social media to talk about their jobs.
By scraping Twitter for phrases like "I hate my job," "my job sucks," and, "I love my job," Hloom was able to identify which parts of the country were happier about their current employment. What they found was both confusing and entertaining.
The report found that LA professionals' tweets were overwhelmingly positive in comparison to their fellow countrymen, leading the way with 0.70 happy tweets per 100,000 residents. While this might indicate that Los Angelenos are simply happier in general, the report also found that LA professionals had the most rage-filled employees in the US, coming in with 0.34 hate-filled tweets per 100,000 customers.
There are multiple factors that could have gone into the spike in euphoric and spiteful tweets however. For one, LA is the third largest city in America, checking in at just under 12,500,000 residents. Comparatively, Columbus, OH. (which had the lowest 0.11 angry tweets per 100,000 residents) has just under 836,000 residents (as of 2014).
The report also found that the amount of job-related tweeting increased during the summer. While it would be easy enough to attribute this to the boredom brought on by a lack of football in our lives (which isn't at all based in fact), it appears that the summertime heat does have an effect on job-related tweets. Another explanation for this is the influx of college graduates landing positions in the workforce.
As the weather cools, hiring slows down and summer jobs end, resulting in less tweeting about jobs until holiday hirings lead to a small jump again.
In the end, the good practices of social media stand: tweeting about dissatisfaction with a job is still a bad idea, regardless of the temperature outside.
