{"id":2203,"date":"2003-07-05T08:15:15","date_gmt":"2003-07-05T16:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm2\/2003\/07\/05\/leading-thoughts\/"},"modified":"2003-07-05T08:15:15","modified_gmt":"2003-07-05T16:15:15","slug":"leading-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/2003\/07\/05\/leading-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"Leading thoughts&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got to be the agent in charge at work tonight for several hours.  this is the first time I&#8217;ve been in a management position in a while.<\/p>\n<p>I dunno, to me at first its more of a burden than a gift.  Its probably because I look at the responsibilities first.  We had bad weather so first things was, &#8220;Okay be aware of the weather,&#8221; so I made a point to look at that on my lunch break.<\/p>\n<p>Then I had a shit fit making sure everyone got their breaks, which is a pain because third shifters don&#8217;t take their breaks on time.<\/p>\n<p>I like leaders who see their leadership as a responsibility to be used in a prudent and appropriate way; it should never be abused, one should take great care to swerve their constituency\/ies as best as possible.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Politics are the reason I hate leading; it distracts from being a steward leader and makes it messier.  Don&#8217;t get me wrong I love political games for the scheming and the effort but I hate them at the same time because it distracts from being a good leader.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of leaders I&#8217;ve read an interesting piece about our Idiot in Chief and I&#8217;ll be writing him and my congressman a letter.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>And while I&#8217;m on the subject, I think we need to rename Iraq (since we&#8217;re governing it) to &#8220;New Vietnam.&#8221;  It would put things in a proper perspective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got to be the agent in charge at work tonight for several hours. this is the first time I&#8217;ve been in a management position in a while. I dunno, to me at first its more of a burden than a gift. Its probably because I look at the responsibilities first. We had bad weather [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}