{"id":485,"date":"2007-09-11T17:13:06","date_gmt":"2007-09-12T01:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/godammit.com\/2007\/09\/11\/funning-up-the-workplace\/"},"modified":"2007-09-11T17:17:02","modified_gmt":"2007-09-12T01:17:02","slug":"funning-up-the-workplace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/funning-up-the-workplace\/","title":{"rendered":"Funning Up The Workplace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"imagelink\" title=\"rubberchicken.jpg\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/rubberchicken.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image484\" height=\"96\" alt=\"rubberchicken.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/rubberchicken.jpg?fit=640%2C96\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If Office Jargon gives you a perverse thrill, you must read this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weeklystandard.com\/Utilities\/printer_preview.asp?idArticle=14081&#038;R=114FC2EF61\" target=\"_blank\">essay<\/a> by Mark Labash on the&nbsp;\u00a0movement to bring&nbsp;\u00a0&#8220;Coercive Joviality&#8221; to the workplace.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s about &#8216;the infantilization of corporate America.&#8217; It is delightful reading material, and enlightening as well. I learned that the ancient Greek word for work was <em>ponos<\/em>, derived from the same root as the Latin <em>poena<\/em>, meaning sorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Office Jargon gives you a perverse thrill, you must read this essay by Mark Labash on the&nbsp;\u00a0movement to bring&nbsp;\u00a0&#8220;Coercive Joviality&#8221; to the workplace. It&#8217;s about &#8216;the infantilization of corporate America.&#8217; It is delightful reading material, and enlightening as well. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/godammit.com\/funning-up-the-workplace\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7t44M-7P","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}