{"id":10767,"date":"2013-11-16T13:45:27","date_gmt":"2013-11-16T19:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=10767"},"modified":"2013-11-16T13:48:40","modified_gmt":"2013-11-16T19:48:40","slug":"its-the-little-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=10767","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s the Little Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A year ago I was invited to attend a super secret meeting with Don, Jim, and some hotel chain execs who were vetting Wichita as a possible location for their newest call center. I put on my best suit for the meeting but something was noticeably missing. <\/p>\n<p>Don and Jim both had fancy name tags. &#8220;Don&#8217;t you have one of these?&#8221; Jim asked. I didn&#8217;t have one then, but guess what. I have one now &#8212; thanks to the Operations team. We were all given these fancy metal name tags at the Operations leadership conference that I attended this week. <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/10869801595\/\"  title=\"Finally got an official looking name plate. It only took 11 years. LOL. by Ching, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"pic\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7421\/10869801595_a65655d833.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Finally got an official looking nameplate. It only took 11 years. LOL.\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I joked to coworker\/friend Sally that they had to switch to the fancy metal nameplates in place of the sticker ones so that she wouldn&#8217;t feel people up under the guise of helping them keep their name tag sticker on. So she actually gets credit for getting us all fancy metal name tags. LOL.<\/p>\n<p>Jokes aside, it&#8217;s the little things that make my day. Believe it or not, I was really excited to finally get my very own fancy name tag. I have arrived!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A year ago I was invited to attend a super secret meeting with Don, Jim, and some hotel chain execs who were vetting Wichita as a possible location for their newest call center. I put on my best suit for the meeting but something was noticeably missing. Don and Jim both had fancy name tags. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1382],"tags":[2220,218],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10767"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10767"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10774,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10767\/revisions\/10774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}