{"id":9775,"date":"2015-04-17T05:00:06","date_gmt":"2015-04-17T12:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michellejolin.com\/wordpress\/?p=9775"},"modified":"2015-04-16T22:08:14","modified_gmt":"2015-04-17T05:08:14","slug":"how-talking-to-people-at-work-goes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?p=9775","title":{"rendered":"How IM-ing people at work goes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Him: Hey, have you got a second to answer a question? I know it isn&#8217;t really something that is your job, but you seem to always have all the answers.<\/p>\n<p>Me: Sure, what&#8217;s up?<\/p>\n<p>Him: I need to send a ticket to Engineering, but I can&#8217;t find them in our ticketing system.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Me: They aren&#8217;t in our ticketing system. You can just call or email.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Him: &nbsp;They told me to send a ticket!<\/p>\n<p>Me: Uh. Not that I know of! We always just call their admin.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Him: &nbsp;It was their admin who said I should transfer a ticket over to them. Thanks for your help. You know everything.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Me: Well, at least my lack of help was helpful.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Him: And you always have such a pretty smile&#8211;I can see your smile even through IM.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Me: No way. I am frowning. Hard.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Him: Nope. Smiling.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Me: Damn. Caught in a lie again.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>5 minutes go by. He shows up in my cube. I hear &#8220;hey&#8221; and turn around.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Him: See? I knew you were smiling!<\/p>\n<p>Me: It&#8217;s a lying, deceitful sort of smile though.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Him: That is the most best kind!<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>And then I start laughing.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As usual.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if anyone laughs more at work than I do?<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Him: Hey, have you got a second to answer a question? I know it isn&#8217;t really something that is your job, but you seem to always have all the answers. Me: Sure, what&#8217;s up? Him: I need to send a ticket to Engineering, but I can&#8217;t find them in our ticketing system.&nbsp; Me: They aren&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?p=9775\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How IM-ing people at work goes<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7lr3R-2xF","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8543,"url":"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?p=8543","url_meta":{"origin":9775,"position":0},"title":"An imaginary conversation about being a jackass","author":"Michelle","date":"February 5, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"The concert is in an hour...what time do you think you'll be here? 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