{"id":3050,"date":"2020-01-30T01:03:31","date_gmt":"2020-01-30T06:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=3050"},"modified":"2020-01-18T09:13:57","modified_gmt":"2020-01-18T14:13:57","slug":"one-of-the-ultimate-compliments-at-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2020\/01\/one-of-the-ultimate-compliments-at-work\/","title":{"rendered":"One of the Ultimate Compliments at Work"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>One of the ultimate compliments at work is, &#8220;We&#8217;ll do fine without you.&#8221; If you want to be indispensable, do a really bad job.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It may seem backwards, but we can do without our best employees. Of course, this all depends on the definition we use for &#8220;best&#8221; and &#8220;good.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our best employees let everyone know what they are doing. Their work is made visible and is easy to find. They have no &#8220;secret ingredients.&#8221; Why would they have a secret ingredient. Someone is paying them for their ingredients. That someone owns the ingredients, not the employee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our worst employees hide what they are doing. They have magic numbers and secret brews bubbling in a big black cauldron in the dungeon. No one goes near for fear of all those things that lurk in dungeons near big black cauldrons. Indispensable employees are doing a bad job. They produce work, take a paycheck, but no one else can reproduce their work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our best employees can walk out the door with a smile on their face. We can pick up after them without missing a beat. We bid one another farewell with a personal loss, but a professional atmosphere of work. We will do fine without them. And the feeling is mutual.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips One of the ultimate compliments at work is, &#8220;We&#8217;ll do fine without you.&#8221; If you want to be indispensable, do a really bad job. It may seem backwards, but we can do without our best employees. Of course, this all depends on the definition we use for &#8220;best&#8221; and &#8220;good.&#8221; Our best [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,257,231,67],"tags":[164,258,232,187],"class_list":["post-3050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-process","category-respect","category-trust","category-work","tag-process","tag-respect","tag-trust","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3050","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=3050"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3051,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3050\/revisions\/3051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}