{"id":939,"date":"2003-02-13T19:06:56","date_gmt":"2003-02-14T11:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/02\/14\/seems-simple-to-me\/"},"modified":"2019-12-04T14:22:15","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T22:22:15","slug":"seems-simple-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/02\/13\/seems-simple-to-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Seems simple to me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is just something that&#8217;s been amusing me for a while now, ever since I started working on the Microsoft campus. Here I am, working at the single biggest software company in the world, packed to the brim with some of the brightest people in the tech industry (and no matter what I think of Microsoft&#8217;s software or practices, I can&#8217;t deny that they&#8217;ve got some pretty sharp people working for them) &#8212; and yet they need signs posted outlining a four-step process to get a free soda out of the vending machines.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/graphics\/2003\/02\/graphics\/freesoda.jpg\" title=\"Instructions for free soda\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Instructions for free soda\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/graphics\/2003\/02\/graphics\/freesoda-thumb.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Somehow, <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/02\/graphics\/schoolforthegifted3.html\" title=\"Midvale School for the Gifted\">this is what I&#8217;m reminded of<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here I am, working at the single biggest software company in the world, packed to the brim with some of the brightest people in the tech industry &mdash; and yet they need signs posted outlining a four-step process to get a free soda out of the vending machines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}