{"id":2566,"date":"2017-12-07T01:07:18","date_gmt":"2017-12-07T06:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=2566"},"modified":"2017-11-30T08:13:43","modified_gmt":"2017-11-30T13:13:43","slug":"we-know-its-broken-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2017\/12\/we-know-its-broken-but\/","title":{"rendered":"We Know It&#8217;s Broken, but&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n<p><strong>For some reason (and we have a lot of these reasons), we just let things go when we know better.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yes, that thing doesn&#8217;t work right, but you know, we just don&#8217;t fix it because&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I don&#8217;t like fixing things<\/li>\n<li>It is someone else&#8217;s problem, they broke it or they installed it wrong<\/li>\n<li>I have more fun things to do<\/li>\n<li>I have more interesting things to do<\/li>\n<li>If you ask me to fix it, I&#8217;ll quit this job and get one where they let me do what I like<\/li>\n<li>I don&#8217;t work for you, or<\/li>\n<li>You&#8217;re not the boss of me<\/li>\n<li>and besides, people are so accustomed to it not working that they stopped complaining<\/li>\n<li>and we could keep growing the list.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And so this management job isn&#8217;t as easy as people told me it would be because there are all these people working here, and they don&#8217;t do what I say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips For some reason (and we have a lot of these reasons), we just let things go when we know better. Yes, that thing doesn&#8217;t work right, but you know, we just don&#8217;t fix it because&#8230; I don&#8217;t like fixing things It is someone else&#8217;s problem, they broke it or they installed it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,9,10],"tags":[190,132,133],"class_list":["post-2566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excuses","category-management","category-people","tag-excuses","tag-management","tag-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2566","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=2566"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2567,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2566\/revisions\/2567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}