{"id":340,"date":"2007-10-18T13:50:12","date_gmt":"2007-10-18T19:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/?p=340"},"modified":"2007-10-18T13:50:12","modified_gmt":"2007-10-18T19:50:12","slug":"the-truth-about-working-too-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/?p=340","title":{"rendered":"The Truth about Working Too Hard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just read a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dilbert.com\/comics\/dilbert\/archive\/dilbert-20071014.html\">Dilbert comic<\/a> and it shows a great truth about working too hard on a project and completing it\u00c2\u00a0 ahead of schedule.\u00c2\u00a0 When you complete a project ahead of schedule all the future goals and expectations will be modified and be set as though you\u00c2\u00a0 are working at the higher level.\u00c2\u00a0 So sometimes you really have to look at the disadvantages of working too hard or completing things ahead of schedule.\u00c2\u00a0 If by completing one thing quickly it will raise all the expectations of you, then you have to wonder what will be your motivation for doing it.\u00c2\u00a0 Since working extra hard without any sort of reward can become a demotivational.\u00c2\u00a0 One of the things about good management is that a boss will know what to expect from his workers and to know when something is done with greater than normal effort.\u00c2\u00a0 Also, positive reinforcement of a job well done will go a long way, but only so far.\u00c2\u00a0 There may also be a point where monetary bonus could be effective ways at increasing the effort levels further.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just read a Dilbert comic and it shows a great truth about working too hard on a project and completing it\u00c2\u00a0 ahead of schedule.\u00c2\u00a0 When you complete a project ahead of schedule all the future goals and expectations will be modified and be set as though you\u00c2\u00a0 are working at the higher level.\u00c2\u00a0 So &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/?p=340\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Truth about Working Too Hard<\/span> <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":[5,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":409,"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions\/409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}