{"id":163,"date":"2005-01-14T00:58:21","date_gmt":"2005-01-14T00:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/j.unoccupied.org\/?p=163"},"modified":"2005-01-14T00:58:21","modified_gmt":"2005-01-14T00:58:21","slug":"it-cant-always-be-perfect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/j.unoccupied.org\/?p=163","title":{"rendered":"it can\\&#8217;t always be perfect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff admits that he\\&#8217;s slightly obnoxious.  And inconsiderate.<\/p>\n<p>When he first made that observation, I was surprised.  At the time, I appreciated his bluntness without much thought.  Yet over time (perhaps it was because I was looking for this characteristic), I wasn\\&#8217;t happy when he would made blunt remarks without the polite effect.<\/p>\n<p>For example, I have always expected that people clarify the part they don\\&#8217;t understand when I say something confusing.  Like <i>what does ___ mean<\/i> instead of general blanket statements like <i>huh<\/i>  or <i>what<\/i>.  Then again, people do that all the time.  In IM, it seems so much more blatant and so much more rude.  Maybe I am sensitive.<\/p>\n<p>At this point in my career, I have come to realize that I just am not a natural leader.  That sort of saddens me because that means I can\\&#8217;t be the best.  I am not the person that would motivate everyone.  I have to first become comfortable with the group I am working with&#8230;and then only then will I suddenly have all the leadership skills within my reach.  But perhaps I am wrong, perhaps I can really get those skills and push through the glass ceiling.  Perhaps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff admits that he\\&#8217;s slightly obnoxious. And inconsiderate. When he first made that observation, I was surprised. At the time, I appreciated his bluntness without much thought. Yet over time (perhaps it was because I was looking for this characteristic), I wasn\\&#8217;t happy when he would made blunt remarks without the polite effect. For example, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/j.unoccupied.org\/?p=163\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">it can\\&#8217;t always be perfect<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/j.unoccupied.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/j.unoccupied.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/j.unoccupied.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/j.unoccupied.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/j.unoccupied.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/j.unoccupied.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/j.unoccupied.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/j.unoccupied.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/j.unoccupied.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}