{"id":1270,"date":"2014-09-18T12:23:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-18T10:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kosma.pl\/diaries\/2014\/09\/18\/bad-apples\/"},"modified":"2016-03-08T05:32:52","modified_gmt":"2016-03-08T04:32:52","slug":"bad-apples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kosma.pl\/diaries\/2014\/09\/18\/bad-apples\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad Apples"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One thing I&rsquo;m consistently doing at the workplace is weeding out bad apples. If someone doesn&rsquo;t ship, poisons the atmosphere, doesn&rsquo;t want to cooperate or is <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect\">incompetent and overconfident<\/a>, they&rsquo;re <em>dead<\/em> in my eyes. I don&rsquo;t destroy people &#8211; I just make sure they work somewhere else.<\/p>\n<p>There&rsquo;s a brighter side of this. If someone ships, is willing to learn, and is generally awesome, I&rsquo;ll defend them with my bare hands if needs be. It&rsquo;s a battlefield loyalty: if you&rsquo;re a real soldier, we&rsquo;ll march together to victory; but if you constantly slack off on your duty, all you&rsquo;ll get from me is a prompt bullet in the head.<\/p>\n<p>Sorry, nothing personal. Business is business.<\/p>\n<p>PS. As you can probably guess, I&rsquo;m permanently unfit for corporate jobs. ;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One thing I&rsquo;m consistently doing at the workplace is weeding out bad apples. If someone doesn&rsquo;t ship, poisons the atmosphere, doesn&rsquo;t want to cooperate or is incompetent and overconfident, they&rsquo;re dead in my eyes. I don&rsquo;t destroy people &#8211; I just make sure they work somewhere else. There&rsquo;s a brighter side of this. If someone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[318],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosma.pl\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosma.pl\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosma.pl\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosma.pl\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosma.pl\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kosma.pl\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1880,"href":"https:\/\/kosma.pl\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270\/revisions\/1880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosma.pl\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosma.pl\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosma.pl\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}