{"id":386,"date":"2006-07-26T08:26:41","date_gmt":"2006-07-26T14:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/?p=386"},"modified":"2006-07-26T08:26:41","modified_gmt":"2006-07-26T14:26:41","slug":"ineptitude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/26\/ineptitude\/","title":{"rendered":"Ineptitude"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am going to have to put on my mean face for the next few days.\u00a0 Once again, my theory that people don&#8217;t take you seriously unless you are a complete hard-nosed bi#!* is being proven correct.\u00a0 I have been patient with our insurance agent for almost two weeks now &#8211; she just isn&#8217;t doing her job.\u00a0 It seems that she could, at the very minimum, answer her phone &#8211; but even that seems like it is out of her ability.\u00a0 It is beyond ridiculous to me.\u00a0 The part that irks me is that I feel like she has taken the route of inefficiency because we came off as friendly and nice (apparently the indicator to use as a doormat).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As much as I don&#8217;t like it, I am afraid that I am starting to become one of those people who is immediately brusk and quasi-ugly to anyone whom they do business with.\u00a0 Insurance agents, credit card companies, car salesmen, utility companies &#8211; they all seem to think that if you are a genuinly nice person that that gives them license to shat on you left and right.\u00a0 What is that??<\/p>\n<p>So, time to put on my game face, I guess.\u00a0 I just hope that I don&#8217;t have to put it on so often that it becomes me regular face.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am going to have to put on my mean face for the next few days.\u00a0 Once again, my theory that people don&#8217;t take you seriously unless you are a complete hard-nosed bi#!* is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102,86,90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-insurance","category-mental-health","category-poison"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}