{"id":2783,"date":"2018-12-03T01:13:08","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T06:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=2783"},"modified":"2018-11-10T09:21:26","modified_gmt":"2018-11-10T14:21:26","slug":"pleasant-and-productive-or-profitable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2018\/12\/pleasant-and-productive-or-profitable\/","title":{"rendered":"Pleasant and Productive (or Profitable)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n<p><strong>Simple desires for the workplace.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Years ago, a wise old man once told me, &#8220;The workplace should be pleasant and profitable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He worked in a commercial business. No profits, no business, no jobs. Profits were necessary. Also necessary, in his experience, was that the workplace be pleasant. If it wasn&#8217;t pleasant, people would go elsewhere. No people, no work, no workplace. Simple.<\/p>\n<p>I worked in government for 28 years. Profit was not for us. I substituted another &#8220;p&#8221; word. Non-profit work should be pleasant and productive. It is easy to goof off in many non-profit jobs. Enough non-productive work eventually catches up with the most non-profitable of the non-profits\u2014even government.<\/p>\n<p>These little sayings aren&#8217;t complicated. Perhaps that is how I have always remembered them. Please consider them for your workplace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips Simple desires for the workplace. Years ago, a wise old man once told me, &#8220;The workplace should be pleasant and profitable.&#8221; He worked in a commercial business. No profits, no business, no jobs. Profits were necessary. Also necessary, in his experience, was that the workplace be pleasant. If it wasn&#8217;t pleasant, people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,63,29,10,67],"tags":[154,183,151,133,187],"class_list":["post-2783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication","category-expectations","category-government","category-people","category-work","tag-communication","tag-expectations","tag-government","tag-people","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2783","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=2783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2784,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2783\/revisions\/2784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}