{"id":674,"date":"2007-09-18T18:35:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-18T18:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/09\/18\/2007-9-18-non-positive-html\/"},"modified":"2018-06-13T01:28:08","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T01:28:08","slug":"2007-9-18-non-positive-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/2007-9-18-non-positive-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Non-Positive"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">\n<p>Friends,<\/p>\n<p>Just a quick note to spur a bit of debate. I sent a note to everyone in my department describing a change that I&#8217;d made to some equipment here, including instructions on how to use it. The change came about because an outside contractor broke the old equipment a few months ago in a minor accident. Nobody was hurt so the accident was never reported, but dodgy old equipment was put out of service forever, to my relief.<\/p>\n<p>The response from my boss was that I should&#8217;ve reported the accident and to chastise me for the delay in notifying him. I shouldn&#8217;t have been surprised at reading that, but I half-expected some sort of appreciation for sharing the operating instructions for the new equipment. Documentation is pretty thin on the ground around here, so I thought I&#8217;d get the ball rolling.<\/p>\n<p>Should I have anticipated my boss&#8217; non-positive response? Is it impossible after all to communicate any sort of nuance through an email message? I&#8217;ve tried and I&#8217;ve failed&mdash;over and over and over again.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been in the middle of these things before, without learning how to shut up. This time he got a clarification message from me, but nothing more. The lessons come slowly, but I&#8217;ll pick them up eventually.<\/p>\n<p>Your pal,<\/p>\n<p>bob<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friends, Just a quick note to spur a bit of debate. I sent a note to everyone in my department describing a change that I&#8217;d made to some equipment here, including instructions on how to use it. The change came about because an outside contractor broke the old equipment a few months ago in a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/2007-9-18-non-positive-html\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Non-Positive&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21],"class_list":["post-674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-festival-of-dirt"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1223,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions\/1223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}