{"id":80,"date":"2005-05-11T06:25:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-11T13:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/management-stylings\/"},"modified":"2005-05-11T06:25:00","modified_gmt":"2005-05-11T13:25:00","slug":"management-stylings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/11\/management-stylings\/","title":{"rendered":"Management stylings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t have the strength\/time\/interest to slog through the entries at Arianna Huffington&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/\">celebrity blog<\/a>, but others do.  <a href=\"http:\/\/tigerhawk.blogspot.com\/2005\/05\/huffington-posts-beacon-of-er-scorn.html\">Tigerhawk<\/a> highlights this piece by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/theblog\/archive\/2005\/05\/why-i-support-j.html\">Larry David<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Why, even this morning my moronic assistant handed me a cup of coffee with way too much milk in it. I was incensed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You stupid ignoramus,&#8221; I screamed, doing all I could to restrain myself from tossing the luke-warm liquid in her face. \u201cThere&#8217;s too much freaking (I didn\u2019t say freaking) milk in here! What the freak is wrong with you?!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m sorry, sir,\u201d she stammered. Like sorry\u2019s going to fix everything. I\u2019m not interested in sorry. Sorry doesn\u2019t cut it with me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLook, you idiot,\u201d I continued, \u201cI wouldn\u2019t mind so much if you gave me too little milk. Little can be fixed. We can add to little.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShall I get you another cup?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, I\u2019ll suck on my thumb. Yes, get me another cup, you douche bag! And chew on this &#8212; it\u2019s going to cost you a dollar!\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>  It reminded me of a similar anecdote I had recently read &#8212; where was that, now? &#8212; ah yes, at <a href=\"http:\/\/darthside.blogspot.com\/2005\/05\/keep-on-darthin-in-free-world.html\">Darth Vader&#8217;s blog<\/a>:   <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I am aboard the StarDestroyer <i>Avenger<\/i>, en route to the outlands of Mordell at the galactic rim &#8212; but I started my morning on Coruscant. I was having my morning tea when the new girl came through to tell me the Emperor commanded my presence at the palace.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;Is your breakfast quite satisfactory, Lord Vader?&#8221; she asked.<\/p>\n<p> It was not, but we shall let her next of kin worry about that.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>  Larry David <i>wishes<\/i> he was Darth Vader.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t have the strength\/time\/interest to slog through the entries at Arianna Huffington&#8217;s celebrity blog, but others do. Tigerhawk highlights this piece by Larry David: Why, even this morning my moronic assistant handed me a cup of coffee with way too much milk in it. I was incensed. &#8220;You stupid ignoramus,&#8221; I screamed, doing all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}