{"id":1271,"date":"2010-07-30T08:54:28","date_gmt":"2010-07-30T16:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/?p=1271"},"modified":"2010-07-30T10:50:37","modified_gmt":"2010-07-30T18:50:37","slug":"hiring-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/2010\/07\/30\/hiring-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"hiring friends"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the fall of 2002 I hired a few friends to work under me doing telecommunications salvage for three weeks at a time on a national contract. Questionable Content<\/a> reminded me of these times today. I remember sitting down with each of them after they expressed interest and telling them that this job meant something to me and I took it seriously. I remember a conversation with Matthew years prior about how it was hard to find someone who worked as hard as I did and was self motivated and interested in learning more and doing a better job. I take pride in my work ethic, I always have. I finished reading Shop Class as Soulcraft<\/a><\/em> last night which articulated to me a lot of why I both fix small engines and web infrastructures; the nature of the beast. Anyway, hiring friends didn’t really work out because few of them had pride in their work. You had to have a reason to do a good job.<\/p>\n

I recently had a conversation about interviewing friends with another friend of mine. We didn’t talk about work ethics, but I think we did indirectly. What tier do you stick people in who sort of care? Tier-2, where they don’t have to deal with customers but aren’t responsible either for getting shit done. This is like middle management. It is the meatcloud of hiring friends.<\/p>\n

Anyway, when I have time, there’s a discussion here to be had about work being exciting [or not].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the fall of 2002 I hired a few friends to work under me doing telecommunications salvage for three weeks at a time on a national contract. Questionable Content reminded me of these times today. I remember sitting down with each of them after they expressed interest and telling them that this job meant something […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1271"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1273,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271\/revisions\/1273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}