{"id":855,"date":"2010-02-24T10:17:22","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T15:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/?p=855"},"modified":"2010-02-24T10:17:22","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T15:17:22","slug":"why-you-cant-work-at-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/why-you-cant-work-at-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Why You Can&#8217;t Work At Work."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script src=\"http:\/\/video.bigthink.com\/player.js?height=360&amp;autoplay=0&amp;width=640&amp;deepLinkEmbedCode=03NG42MTqVnn6kOnuDv8k_iDC2HEGniT&amp;embedCode=03NG42MTqVnn6kOnuDv8k_iDC2HEGniT\"><\/script><\/p><span class=\"first-letter\">\n<\/span><p>8:53am: Arrive at work.<\/p>\n<p>9 \u2013 9:56am: Coffee first. Knock out a few emails. RSS.<\/p>\n<p>10 \u2013 11am: Ugh, meeting.<\/p>\n<p>11:27am: Meeting ran late. I probably shouldn&#8217;t start anything before lunch, right?<\/p>\n<p>12 \u2013 1pm: Lunch.<\/p>\n<p>1:30pm: Another meeting. Remind me which one this is again?<\/p>\n<p>2:03pm: Food coma. Maybe just a little RSSZZZZZZZZZZZZ.<\/p>\n<p>2:48pm: Alright, I really need to start on something.<\/p>\n<p>3:06pm: Oh no, here comes the project manager. Surprise, it&#8217;s urgent.<\/p>\n<p>4:27pm: OK, put out that fire.<\/p>\n<p>4:34pm: Man, it&#8217;s 4:30 already?<\/p>\n<p>4:52pm: Phone&#8217;s ringing. It&#8217;s the client. I shouldn&#8217;t pick it up. I guess I have to.<\/p>\n<p>4:56pm: Surprise, it&#8217;s urgent.<\/p>\n<p>5:47pm: Leave office, having accomplished virtually nothing.<\/p>\n<p>6:30 \u2013 10pm: Dinner. American Idol.<\/p>\n<p>10 \u2013 12am: Finally sit down to get some real work done.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2022 \u2022 \u2022<\/p>\n<p>Sound familiar? &#8220;The modern workplace is optimized for interruptions.&#8221;\u00a0As always, 37signals&#8217; Jason Fried <a title=\"Big Think - Jason Fried\" href=\"http:\/\/bigthink.com\/ideas\/18522\" target=\"_self\">tells it like it is<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(via Zeldman\u00a0and Big Think)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>8:53am: Arrive at work. 9 \u2013 9:56am: Coffee first. Knock out a few emails. RSS. 10 \u2013 11am: Ugh, meeting. 11:27am: Meeting ran late. I probably shouldn&#8217;t start anything before lunch, right? 12 \u2013 1pm: Lunch. 1:30pm: Another meeting. Remind me which one this is again? 2:03pm: Food coma. Maybe just a little RSSZZZZZZZZZZZZ. 2:48pm: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[35,29],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=855"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":867,"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855\/revisions\/867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}