{"id":2823,"date":"2008-12-10T18:14:14","date_gmt":"2008-12-10T23:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=2823"},"modified":"2008-12-10T18:14:14","modified_gmt":"2008-12-10T23:14:14","slug":"at-some-point-or-another","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=2823","title":{"rendered":"At some point or another,"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>we have all dropped a dime to bitch about bad service, complain about a store employee, or a product we disliked, or whatever. <\/p>\n<p>Ever call someone to say they were doing a good job?<\/p>\n<p>I get a lot of those calls. The previous types, I mean. Fifteen, twenty years ago, I started getting thos3e calls- usually customer stupidity, but sometimes a legitimate complaint about a machine, or whatever. <\/p>\n<p>One time, maybe ten years back, I got a call saying &#8220;hey. Thanks. You came and fixed my stuff, and it now works better, and I&#8217;m happy&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>From that moment on, from that phone call on, I have made a point of- at least once a week but USUALLY a LOT more often, of telling people when they are doing a good job. Waitresses, cashiers, suppliers, pastors, friends. <\/p>\n<p>Try it. See what happens. See if your holidays aren&#8217;t a little brighter. And then keep it up, for the rest of your life. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>we have all dropped a dime to bitch about bad service, complain about a store employee, or a product we disliked, or whatever. Ever call someone to say they were doing a good job? I get a lot of those calls. The previous types, I mean. Fifteen, twenty years ago, I started getting thos3e calls- [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2823"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}