{"id":3059,"date":"2009-07-28T14:21:22","date_gmt":"2009-07-28T06:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=3059"},"modified":"2009-07-28T14:40:33","modified_gmt":"2009-07-28T06:40:33","slug":"disease-of-lousiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2009\/07\/disease-of-lousiness\/","title":{"rendered":"Disease of Lousiness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3060\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/19.gif?resize=96%2C96\" alt=\"\" width=\"96\" height=\"96\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nic: What&#8217;s worse than having a lousy big boss?<br \/>\nNac: Er&#8230; a lousy middle management boss?<br \/>\nNic: Yup &#8211; the kind who are just messengers.<br \/>\nNac: Yeah &#8211; they just pass messages to and fro without question from the big boss.<br \/>\nNic: Utterly useless &#8216;managers&#8217; &#8211; they are just fit to be messenger boys.<br \/>\nNac: Such &#8216;managers&#8217; also expect staff to just do as told. <span id=\":ut\" dir=\"ltr\"><br \/>\nNic: What&#8217;s worse is that the big boss is blind to see how useless such &#8216;managers&#8217; are.<br \/>\nNac: Ya &#8211; while thinking they are effective in getting things done.<\/span><br \/>\nNic: Yes &#8211; it&#8217;s a disease of following the big boss&#8217; expectations blindly, that infects the whole company.<br \/>\nNac: Yup &#8211; and those who propose betterment of the situation with suggestions are seen as troublemakers.<br \/>\nNic: When they are the truly dedicated ones!<br \/>\nNac: Well, what one does not treasure, one will stop deserving in time.<br \/>\nNic: Karma! Those who remain will be lousy staff or stifled good ones!<br \/>\nNac: And the company either decays or fails to grow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nic: What&#8217;s worse than having a lousy big boss? Nac: Er&#8230; a lousy middle management boss? Nic: Yup &#8211; the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[139],"class_list":["post-3059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mix","tag-karma","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}