{"id":974,"date":"2006-08-14T22:47:50","date_gmt":"2006-08-15T05:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=974"},"modified":"2006-08-14T22:47:51","modified_gmt":"2006-08-15T05:47:51","slug":"happy-belated-birthday-to-my-sister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=974","title":{"rendered":"Happy Belated Birthday to my sister."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is just a reminder that she NEEDS TO GIVE ME HER LIST or she&#8217;s not getting any loot for her birthday (which was several days ago.)<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re all looking for things at Megacorp that give us hints on whether we&#8217;re getting canned or not. For example, a co-worker was the only one in his group who didn&#8217;t get asked for a &#8220;personal development plan.&#8221; Sometimes it&#8217;s much more obvious, like how my manager sent out a monthly status report and listed the members of his group, including interns and temporary contractors, but NOT ME. Kind of ominous, huh?<\/p>\n<p>If I get canned, I&#8217;m taking a trip to Japan, I think. At the very least I&#8217;m going to a state or province I&#8217;ve never been to. I&#8217;ve never been to Alberta or Nevada, for example, and those aren&#8217;t too far away. Or maybe I&#8217;ll just go to Crater Lake in Southern Oregon. Maybe I&#8217;ll just go to the Lents neighborhood. I really haven&#8217;t been to Felony Flats in a long time.<\/p>\n<p>At least football season is starting soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is just a reminder that she NEEDS TO GIVE ME HER LIST or she&#8217;s not getting any loot for her birthday (which was several days ago.) We&#8217;re all looking for things at Megacorp that give us hints on whether we&#8217;re getting canned or not. For example, a co-worker was the only one in his group who didn&#8217;t get asked for a &#8220;personal development plan.&#8221; Sometimes it&#8217;s much more obvious, like how my manager sent out a monthly status report and listed the members of his group, including interns and temporary contractors, but NOT ME. Kind of ominous, huh? If I get canned, I&#8217;m taking a trip to Japan, I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=974\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Happy Belated Birthday to my sister.<\/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-974","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\/974","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=974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}