{"id":2409,"date":"2018-04-20T12:51:02","date_gmt":"2018-04-20T12:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ozone.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=2409"},"modified":"2018-04-20T12:51:02","modified_gmt":"2018-04-20T12:51:02","slug":"long-tenured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ozone.me.uk\/?p=2409","title":{"rendered":"Long tenured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A colleague in the office just got 30 years of Company.<\/p>\n<p>He told us of an old story that his dad (an ex-Xerox as well) told him many years ago. without going into the details, the below poem is worth a bit of reflection.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><b>The Indispensable Man<\/b><\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/center><center><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">(by Saxon White Kessinger)<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Sometime when you&#8217;re feeling important;<br \/>\nSometime when your ego &#8216;s in bloom;<br \/>\nSometime when you take it for granted,<br \/>\nYou&#8217;re the best qualified in the room:<br \/>\nSometime when you feel that your going,<br \/>\nWould leave an unfillable hole,<br \/>\nJust follow these simple instructions,<br \/>\nAnd see how they humble your soul.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Take a bucket and fill it with water,<br \/>\nPut your hand in it up to the wrist,<br \/>\nPull it out and the hole that&#8217;s remaining,<br \/>\nIs a measure of how much you&#8217;ll be missed.<br \/>\nYou can splash all you wish when you enter,<br \/>\nYou may stir up the water galore,<br \/>\nBut stop, and you&#8217;ll find that in no time,<br \/>\nIt looks quite the same as before.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The moral of this quaint example,<br \/>\nIs to do just the best that you can,<br \/>\nBe proud of yourself but remember,<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s no indispensable man.<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A colleague in the office just got 30 years of Company. He told us of an old story that his dad (an ex-Xerox as well) told him many years ago. without going into the details, the below poem is worth &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ozone.me.uk\/?p=2409\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ozone.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ozone.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ozone.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozone.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozone.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ozone.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ozone.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozone.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozone.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}