{"id":480,"date":"2004-04-12T20:24:34","date_gmt":"2004-04-13T03:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/?p=480"},"modified":"2004-04-12T20:24:34","modified_gmt":"2004-04-13T03:24:34","slug":"last-resorts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2004\/04\/last-resorts\/","title":{"rendered":"last resorts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes the last thing you would ever do turns out to be exactly the right thing.<\/p>\n<p>I went to HR today to talk about my issues with being used for target practice.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve always been afraid of HR. I&#8217;ve always been afraid of asking for help. Any help is always with strings attached; that&#8217;s how I feel. And I never know when those strings will be pulled.<\/p>\n<p>But I had nothing left to lose. I was a walking wound, and I just couldn&#8217;t deal anymore.<\/p>\n<p>So I figured I&#8217;d go.<\/p>\n<p>It worked out all right. I feel much better about the situation. They didn&#8217;t make me confront my oppressors, they mostly just talked to me and gave me some advice about how to proceed.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s good just to be heard, sometimes.<\/p>\n<p>I have a feeling this happens a lot at this firm. Peopple have to come and cry in HR to get over the mean people who run the company.<\/p>\n<p>Well, it makes it much easier for me to go on the vacation I am leaving on tomorrow. I&#8217;ll be able to go ahead without the lingering demons of work.<\/p>\n<p>THANK GOD!<\/p>\n<p>So, because I&#8217;m bringing my computer on this vacation, i will probably be able to give some posts about my trip.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes the last thing you would ever do turns out to be exactly the right thing. I went to HR today to talk about my issues with being used for target practice. I&#8217;ve always been afraid of HR. I&#8217;ve always &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2004\/04\/last-resorts\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2004\/04\/last-resorts\/\">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":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","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\/480","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=480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}