{"id":193,"date":"2003-03-10T14:19:53","date_gmt":"2003-03-10T21:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/?p=193"},"modified":"2012-05-02T14:37:41","modified_gmt":"2012-05-02T21:37:41","slug":"the-ends-justify-the-meanness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2003\/03\/the-ends-justify-the-meanness\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ends Justify the Meanness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogcritics.org\/archives\/2003\/03\/10\/172404.php\">(This is cross-posted)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some days I go to work, and I can smile at people. We exchange pleasantries and stale jokes in the coffee room.<\/p>\n<p>It is easy to forget that none of them want what&#8217;s best for me. NONE of them.<\/p>\n<p>In a perfect world, we would all work together towards improved efficiency, lowering costs and bettering service.<\/p>\n<p>This is not that world. Everyone has to watch out for their own interests.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s not such a bad thing. Who is the one most qualified to watch out for your own interests than you? really, the scheme is an excellent division of labor.<br \/>\nIn the system, NOT looking out for your own interests would really be letting your employer down.<\/p>\n<p>A book that I picked up at a trade show after a cranky and frustrating morning at work reminds me of my duty to look out for number one.<\/p>\n<p><em>What Would Machiavelli Do? the Ends Justify the Meanness<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s pretty silly, but sometimes I have to remember that I am not among friends. I am among co-workers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(This is cross-posted) Some days I go to work, and I can smile at people. We exchange pleasantries and stale jokes in the coffee room. It is easy to forget that none of them want what&#8217;s best for me. NONE &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2003\/03\/the-ends-justify-the-meanness\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,22,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","category-bookworthy","category-my-day-job"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}