{"id":4109,"date":"2004-08-05T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-08-05T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/in-the-dark\/"},"modified":"2004-08-05T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-08-05T13:00:00","slug":"in-the-dark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/in-the-dark\/","title":{"rendered":"In the dark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He: &#8220;My boss wanted me to let your folks know when I&#8217;d be out in case something happens.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Me: &#8220;That&#8217;s fine except you left one of them off the distribution list.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He: &#8220;I find it&#8217;s best to keep at least one employee in the dark at all times.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Me: &#8220;Because faulty information enhances productivity?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He: &#8220;No, because it gives the employee a sense of accomplishment when they figure things out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Me: &#8220;Ahhhhh&#8230;I never realized the vital role obfuscation played in employee development.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He: &#8220;Most business books leave it out.  Props, by the way, for the use of obfuscation in a sentence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Me: &#8220;Thanks. I&#8217;m in grad school now, I have to raise the bar.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He: &#8220;My boss wanted me to let your folks know when I&#8217;d be out in case something happens.&#8221; Me: &#8220;That&#8217;s fine except you left one of them off the distribution list.&#8221; He: &#8220;I find it&#8217;s best to keep at least one employee in the dark at all times.&#8221; Me: &#8220;Because faulty information enhances productivity?&#8221; He:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}