{"id":42,"date":"2009-04-06T13:56:55","date_gmt":"2009-04-06T19:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tech.stlview.net\/?p=42"},"modified":"2009-06-28T08:26:51","modified_gmt":"2009-06-28T14:26:51","slug":"a-difficult-opportunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tech.stlview.net\/?p=42","title":{"rendered":"A Difficult Opportunity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A difficult opportunity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s what a consultant called the recommendation to outsource our IT services nearly 100%.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, that&#8217;s an understatement.<\/p>\n<p>Gotta love those people who take a negative situation and spin it with positive attributes. I guess they should tell those 10 or so people who will in the end wind up losing their jobs that this is an &#8220;opportunity&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>To do what, collect unemployment?  We don&#8217;t pay into unemployment insurance where I work, so that&#8217;s a no-go.  To make a new start?  In the current economy?  Oy.  It boggles the mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A difficult opportunity.&#8221; That&#8217;s what a consultant called the recommendation to outsource our IT services nearly 100%. Yeah, that&#8217;s an understatement. Gotta love those people who take a negative situation and spin it with positive attributes. I guess they should &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tech.stlview.net\/?p=42\">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":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tech.stlview.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tech.stlview.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tech.stlview.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tech.stlview.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tech.stlview.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tech.stlview.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49,"href":"https:\/\/tech.stlview.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions\/49"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tech.stlview.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tech.stlview.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tech.stlview.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}