{"id":2067,"date":"2015-11-30T01:24:40","date_gmt":"2015-11-30T06:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=2067"},"modified":"2015-11-11T08:31:15","modified_gmt":"2015-11-11T13:31:15","slug":"please-dont-ask-me-to-do-my-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2015\/11\/please-dont-ask-me-to-do-my-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Please Don&#8217;t Ask Me to do My Job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n<p><strong>Many on-the-job frustrations come when we try to do our job.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The title and summary of this blog post may not make any sense. I have, however, heard much grumbling on the job when people are asked to do their jobs.<\/p>\n<p>Some examples I have heard over the years:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I can&#8217;t believe they are asking me to write this!<\/li>\n<li>But, you are the technical writer. It is your job to write things like this.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>and<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I had to call the police to see if you were in jail when you didn&#8217;t show up for work!<\/li>\n<li>But, you work in security. It is your job to call the police.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>and<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>All I do is sit in meetings all day and take notes!<\/li>\n<li>But, you are the meetings facilitator assistant. It is your job to take notes in the meetings.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>and, let&#8217;s just be silly for a moment&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;m sick and tired of hearing people complain.<\/li>\n<li>But, you work in the Complaints Department. It is your job to listen to complaints.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Oh, one more thing\u2014never tell a distraught person,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>but, that&#8217;s your job.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips Many on-the-job frustrations come when we try to do our job. The title and summary of this blog post may not make any sense. I have, however, heard much grumbling on the job when people are asked to do their jobs. Some examples I have heard over the years: I can&#8217;t believe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119,67],"tags":[120,187],"class_list":["post-2067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adults","category-work","tag-adults","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2067","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=2067"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2068,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2067\/revisions\/2068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}