{"id":461,"date":"2008-02-21T11:26:28","date_gmt":"2008-02-21T16:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devinreams.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/21\/never-eat-alone-at-work\/"},"modified":"2008-02-21T11:26:28","modified_gmt":"2008-02-21T16:26:28","slug":"never-eat-alone-at-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/?p=461","title":{"rendered":"Never eat alone at work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just don&#8217;t do it. Eating alone, though easier and more enjoyable sometimes (especially if you like yourself as much as I do) we should all do our best to become acquainted with the people at work.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re very entry-level (and young, like myself) it seems very mature of you to invite a group of people to lunch. Taking the quick initiative to say &#8220;hey, did you bring a lunch?&#8221; is all it takes. I&#8217;ve tried my best to go to lunch with everyone in the office because it&#8217;s the only real time you can sit down and just talk. If your job is like mine you end up staying focused and serious all day&#8211;always business. This time lets you relax and hear a little about the people you spend so much time with. And we all know, work is so much more fun if you enjoy the people you work with.<\/p>\n<p>Even if you&#8217;re just talking about work or laughing at shared past experiences you still build rapport. In a group of people at lunch, even if they&#8217;re talking about something I&#8217;ve never experienced it makes for something I can talk about later (hah, this is like that one time at _______ you were talking about). Plus, it&#8217;s better to be interested than interesting (people will like you more).<\/p>\n<p>It just makes sense, I don&#8217;t know how else to put it: never eat alone at work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just don&#8217;t do it. Eating alone, though easier and more enjoyable sometimes (especially if you like yourself as much as I do) we should all do our best to become acquainted with the people at work. If you&#8217;re very entry-level (and young, like myself) it seems very mature of you to invite a group of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","tag-people"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}