{"id":1194,"date":"2007-09-20T09:32:56","date_gmt":"2007-09-20T14:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/09\/flamboyant-incompetence\/"},"modified":"2007-09-20T09:33:30","modified_gmt":"2007-09-20T14:33:30","slug":"flamboyant-incompetence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/09\/flamboyant-incompetence\/","title":{"rendered":"Flamboyant Incompetence"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been swamped of late and am still trying to catch up on my RSS reading. I did just read this hilarious post from GL over at What Would Dad Say<\/a>. You have to read the whole thing – it is excellent. I’m still laughing as I type. The content primarily discusses what not<\/strong> to do in a layoff The post is written from the recently laid-off employee’s perspective.<\/p>\n

The line that got me laughing (emphasis mine):<\/p>\n

1. Include an obvious misspelling or two in the letter \u20ac\u201d ideally, something that would slip past a spell checker but be caught easily by anyone who bothered to proofread it. Suggestion: \u20ac\u0153If you have nay questions . . .\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n
Unemployed people like to see the kind of flamboyant incompetence that still draws a paycheck.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Oh man, have I been there. I know exactly what the author is experiencing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I’ve been swamped of late and am still trying to catch up on my RSS reading. I did just read this hilarious post from GL over at What Would Dad Say. You have to read the whole thing – it is excellent. I’m still laughing as I type. The content primarily discusses what not to do in a layoff The post is written from the recently laid-off employee’s perspective. The line that got me laughing (emphasis mine): 1. Include an obvious misspelling or two in the letter \u20ac\u201d ideally, something that would slip past a spell checker but be caught easily by anyone who bothered to proofread it. Suggestion: \u20ac\u0153If… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,11],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-jg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}