{"id":771,"date":"2005-08-12T10:59:30","date_gmt":"2005-08-12T18:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chriscorrigan.com\/blogs\/?p=771"},"modified":"2005-08-12T10:59:30","modified_gmt":"2005-08-12T18:59:30","slug":"happy-at-work-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/happy-at-work-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy At Work Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My friend (and one time <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/2004\/01\/my-friend-alex-kjerulf-is-wonderful.html\">guest blogger here<\/a>) Alex Kjerulf is ploughing ahead with his Happy At Work Project and he now has a <a href=\"http:\/\/spredarbejdsglaede.dk\/\">website up<\/a> and an international conference in the offing for next month.<\/p>\n<p>In his inaugural English newsletter, he quotes from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.funsulting.com\/h_june_2004_newsletter.html\">this article<\/a> about Southwest Airlines and reiterates the following story:<\/p>\n<div>[One] time, a senior executive spent a day working at the ticket counter and with the ground crew to have a better understanding of their roles. While she was helping direct a plane to the gate using those long orange directional devises, one of the seasoned ground crew members told her to rotate her wrists in a circular manner. When she did this, the plane did a 360 degree turn!  She began to scream thinking she had sent a confusing signal to the pilot.  In reality, the ground crew had contacted the pilot and told them they had a &#8220;greeny&#8221; directing the plane and that they wanted to have some fun with her.  The pilot enthusiastically agreed to play along.  Very cool.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend (and one time guest blogger here) Alex Kjerulf is ploughing ahead with his Happy At Work Project and he now has a website up and an international conference in the offing for next month. In his inaugural English newsletter, he quotes from this article about Southwest Airlines and reiterates the following story: [One] time, a senior executive spent a day working at the ticket counter and with the ground crew to have a better understanding of their roles. While she was helping direct a plane to the gate using those long orange directional devises, one of the seasoned &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piBp1-cr","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}