{"id":753,"date":"2012-05-08T10:21:36","date_gmt":"2012-05-08T02:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ramfree17.net\/capsule\/?p=753"},"modified":"2012-05-08T10:21:36","modified_gmt":"2012-05-08T02:21:36","slug":"welcome-to-reality-a-parody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ramfree17.net\/capsule\/?p=753","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to reality! A parody."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The image below was posted in a yammer group and I felt inspired to write a parody. All resemblance to real life are imaginary. It is not meant to reflect my place of work. Now with the legalese out of the way&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/iphoneheadlines.com\/images\/welcome-to-apple_llpao_0.jpg\" alt=\"welcome-to-apple\" height=\"459\" width=\"459\"\/><\/p>\n<p><code>There is work and there is your life-at-work.<\/p>\n<p>The kind of work that has your and your team's fingerprints all over it as documented in the metrics you worked all night and submitted 1 day late.<br \/>\nThe kind of work that you'd never compromise on, except with that tiny incident one that we don't really like to talk about as the metrics doesn't agree with it.<br \/>\nThat we don't expect you to sacrifice your weekend but expect you to do it anyway because we over committed and under-estimated.<br \/>\nYou can do that kind of work here. People here think safety first, where <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cover_your_ass\">CYA<\/a> is the norm and security, as we defined it, is the top most priority.<br \/>\nPeople come here to swim in the deep end but you need a swimmer and diving certification before you can do that. And you need to sign a waiver. Afterwards we still don't let you do it because it is risky and it wasn't an activity approved by HR.<\/p>\n<p>They want their work to add up to something. We don't know yet but the laws of physics say that energy is not lost so it must go somewhere. I think it becomes a paycheck or something.<\/p>\n<p>Something big, at least as was stated in the executive memos. Something that couldn't happen anywhere else except for Dilbert cartoons.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to the place where dreams meet the pavement of reality. In the wipe out kind of way.  <\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The image below was posted in a yammer group and I felt inspired to write a parody. All resemblance to real life are imaginary. It is not meant to reflect my place of work. Now with the legalese out of the way&#8230; There is work and there is your life-at-work. The kind of work that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[76,155],"class_list":["post-753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","tag-humor-2","tag-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramfree17.net\/capsule\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramfree17.net\/capsule\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramfree17.net\/capsule\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramfree17.net\/capsule\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramfree17.net\/capsule\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ramfree17.net\/capsule\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramfree17.net\/capsule\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramfree17.net\/capsule\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramfree17.net\/capsule\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}