{"id":1765,"date":"2013-05-18T11:48:07","date_gmt":"2013-05-18T18:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/?p=1765"},"modified":"2013-05-04T11:52:19","modified_gmt":"2013-05-04T18:52:19","slug":"co-worker-quit-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/?p=1765","title":{"rendered":"Co-Worker quit today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;I&#8217;ve been sitting on this post for a while undecided if I wanted published &#8211; here it is &#8211; now a couple of months old&gt;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>One minute you&#8217;re having a meaningful technical discussion about something at work and hours later that person is gone without any advanced notice &#8211; weird feeling. Very weird, indeed. &#8220;At-will-employment&#8221; works both ways, I guess. Coming from Europe, I&#8217;m not a friend of this policy&#8230; It&#8217;s like: sudden death. BTW: we had \u00a0a co-worker passing away\u00a0earlier this year, too. Very disturbing, I can say. Also, because nobody is legally allowed to talk about what happened medically at work&#8230; Village gossip used to bridge that gap&#8230; No more. Lawyers have closed that hole. The only indication of sudden death is the announcement of such occurance, as well as the reassignment of the office space. Sad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;I&#8217;ve been sitting on this post for a while undecided if I wanted published &#8211; here it is &#8211; now a couple of months old&gt; &nbsp; One minute you&#8217;re having a meaningful technical discussion about something at work and hours later that person is gone without any advanced notice &#8211; weird feeling. Very weird, indeed. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/?p=1765\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Co-Worker quit today<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1851,"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1765\/revisions\/1851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}