{"id":355,"date":"2009-04-22T22:43:22","date_gmt":"2009-04-22T21:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/?p=355"},"modified":"2009-04-22T22:43:22","modified_gmt":"2009-04-22T21:43:22","slug":"the-invitation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/22\/the-invitation\/","title":{"rendered":"The invitation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did I mention that I was told to expect an invitation to a new employer, after all jobs of my kind are purged from our tentacle of government?  Well, I got it today.  All names are changed for security reasons. Translated from Norwegian.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hi.<br \/>\nAn agreement has been reached with [tentacle of government] that you will be transferred to [Himitsu Corp.] from June 1, 09.<br \/>\nWe have planned a number of activities from week 20 up to and including week 25.  These activities are:<br \/>\n[secret]<br \/>\nI bid you welcome to us in [Himitsu Corp.]&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Huh. Well, it certainly beats going to the employment office to look for a new job. Even in Norway, this is not the best possible time and my work experience is fairly specific.  Still, I found it amusing that I have evidently been handed over like a crate* without asking or being asked.  If this is the corporate culture, I foresee an interesting time in [Himitsu Corp.]<\/p>\n<p>(* Or, as a friend of mine commented, like a <em>companion cube<\/em>. The &#8220;weighted companion cube&#8221; is an inanimate object from the video game Portal. \u00c2\u00a0It is praised for its loyalty, then incinerated.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did I mention that I was told to expect an invitation to a new employer, after all jobs of my kind are purged from our tentacle of government? Well, I got it today. All names are changed for security reasons. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/22\/the-invitation\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-slice-of-life","category-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":356,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions\/356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}