{"id":2775,"date":"2014-11-06T09:30:05","date_gmt":"2014-11-06T15:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wandaargersinger.com\/blog\/?p=2775"},"modified":"2014-11-06T09:30:05","modified_gmt":"2014-11-06T15:30:05","slug":"any-excuse-is-as-good-as-another","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wandaargersinger.com\/?p=2775","title":{"rendered":"Any Excuse Is As Good As Another"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you are aware that the people you work with have strange excuses for being late, or for not showing up at all, do you let it bother you, or do you just shake your head and go on? Yeah, me too.<\/p>\n<p>In my years as an employee\/cubicle dweller\/supervisor\/manager\/lost at work, I have heard some strange excuses for being late, and perhaps even better ones for not coming in to work at all. I may have even thought of some gems myself, but alas, I am to chicken to use them. I should take lessons from my co-workers. They are much more creative than I am.<\/p>\n<p>A rather young co-worker of mine, who I happen to manage, called one morning to let me know she would be late. She does this from time to time with what <a href=\"https:\/\/wandaargersinger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/excuse.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-2777\" src=\"https:\/\/wandaargersinger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/excuse.jpg\" alt=\"excuse\" width=\"148\" height=\"148\" \/><\/a>in her mind are solid, unquestionable, reasons. I<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are aware that the people you work with have strange excuses for being late, or for not showing up at all, do you let it bother you, or do you just shake your head and go on? Yeah, me too. In my years as an employee\/cubicle dweller\/supervisor\/manager\/lost at work, I have heard some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2777,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[468,14,86,469],"class_list":["post-2775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life-in-the-land-of-confusion","tag-excuses","tag-humor","tag-insanity","tag-late-for-work","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wandaargersinger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wandaargersinger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wandaargersinger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wandaargersinger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wandaargersinger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wandaargersinger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wandaargersinger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wandaargersinger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wandaargersinger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wandaargersinger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}