{"id":27436,"date":"2021-01-04T07:52:08","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T13:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=27436"},"modified":"2021-01-03T06:03:28","modified_gmt":"2021-01-03T12:03:28","slug":"maybe-i-should-get-to-know-my-co-workers-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/04\/maybe-i-should-get-to-know-my-co-workers-better\/","title":{"rendered":"Maybe I Should Get To Know My Co-Workers Better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know, being a remote-first employee means that most of my contact with co-workers is through the phone (not even video calls that much so far).  Which means I only get to know my co-workers based on conversations on those calls, or often the snippets I glean from phone calls&#8211;my last job had massive phone calls, with lots of people on the phone but only a couple speaking.<\/p>\n<p>So it&#8217;s only after I left that I learned that one of my former bosses had a degree in philosophy and wrote and self-published a book about dreams.<\/p>\n<p>Another, apparently, is a musician who has written and recorded a couple of Christian songs on YouTube:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IWau0U-cWmg\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Huh.<\/p>\n<p>And to think, the virtual crowd I fell into at that job was the <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/08\/an-underwhelming-weekend\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">multi-sport malcreants<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I should have talked to more people.  Maybe next time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know, being a remote-first employee means that most of my contact with co-workers is through the phone (not even video calls that much so far). Which means I only get to know my co-workers based on conversations on those calls, or often the snippets I glean from phone calls&#8211;my last job had massive phone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27436"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27438,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27436\/revisions\/27438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}