{"id":1559,"date":"2013-12-16T01:40:54","date_gmt":"2013-12-16T06:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=1559"},"modified":"2013-11-30T12:50:43","modified_gmt":"2013-11-30T17:50:43","slug":"no-surprises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2013\/12\/no-surprises\/","title":{"rendered":"No Surprises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n<p><strong>A phrase I often heard from my superiors, what &#8220;no surprises&#8221; really means.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know how many times I heard it uttered in angst, &#8220;No surprises, no surprises, no surprises.&#8221; That is what my superiors constantly told me and my colleagues.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This was one of those things that everyone acted like everyone knew what it meant, but no one &#8211; especially me &#8211; had any idea what it meant.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I was too afraid to ask. Afraid that the reply would be ugly and also afraid that the superior I asked wouldn&#8217;t be able to answer and he would chew me out for embarrassing him in front of other people.<\/p>\n<p>Years later I learned the meaning:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you tell me something so late that I don&#8217;t have time to do anything, that is a surprise, and that is bad.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Aha, so that was it. The interpretation:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Monitor your project closely with a keen eye towards the future. Tell me about potential problems as soon as you have an inkling.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I could work with that. I wish those guys would learn to speak English, but that is a wish.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips A phrase I often heard from my superiors, what &#8220;no surprises&#8221; really means. I don&#8217;t know how many times I heard it uttered in angst, &#8220;No surprises, no surprises, no surprises.&#8221; That is what my superiors constantly told me and my colleagues. This was one of those things that everyone acted like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,9],"tags":[154,132],"class_list":["post-1559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication","category-management","tag-communication","tag-management"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1560,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1559\/revisions\/1560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}