{"id":941,"date":"2006-07-14T23:59:41","date_gmt":"2006-07-15T06:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=941"},"modified":"2006-07-14T23:59:42","modified_gmt":"2006-07-15T06:59:42","slug":"genius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=941","title":{"rendered":"Genius."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I forgot to post anything last night because after a day full of meetings and a trip to the gym to try to exorcise the meetings from my system, I started watching some recorded TV shows and underestimated the time it would take. Genius forgot that <i>Monk<\/i> and <i>Psych<\/i> were hour-long shows.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been hating life at megacorp lately. My manager told me to do one thing, the project lead told me another. My co-worker suggested that I listen to what the manager was saying, and what the manager was saying was misleading. It was frustrating the heck out of me. Fortunately, I&#8217;m still a pain in the ass (my manager told me I was the biggest problem and better watch it) but at least I&#8217;m not as inclined to give them the finger and walk out the door. I&#8217;m supposed to, &#8220;take initiative,&#8221; and I think that means, &#8220;look like I&#8217;m leading,&#8221; while I&#8217;m doing whatever the project needs.<\/p>\n<p>Now that I have that off my chest I can say I work because I have this THING that I look forward to and is my reason for living. That would be nice and poetic. Unfortunately, all I can say is that I work because I need HEALTH INSURANCE and it&#8217;s nice that I also get a PAYCHECK. I probably need a new hobby.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I forgot to post anything last night because after a day full of meetings and a trip to the gym to try to exorcise the meetings from my system, I started watching some recorded TV shows and underestimated the time it would take. Genius forgot that Monk and Psych were hour-long shows. I&#8217;ve been hating life at megacorp lately. My manager told me to do one thing, the project lead told me another. My co-worker suggested that I listen to what the manager was saying, and what the manager was saying was misleading. It was frustrating the heck out of me. Fortunately, I&#8217;m still a pain in the ass (my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=941\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Genius.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}