{"id":1027,"date":"2010-03-27T13:23:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-27T19:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/semperjase.com\/?p=1027"},"modified":"2010-04-08T23:12:15","modified_gmt":"2010-04-09T05:12:15","slug":"disposable-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/?p=1027","title":{"rendered":"Disposable or not?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2010\/03\/27\/why-america-needs-to-start-investing-in-its-workforce-again-2\/\">In an article about employee training<\/a>, Techcrunch makes a sad but true observation.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>American corporations consider their workforce to be disposable \u2014 like ball-point pens and cigarette lighters. Gone are the days when a company would train a factory worker to become a computer programmer or offer lifelong employment. It\u2019s all about quarterly revenue and profits now.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And this is exactly why you should read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Linchpin-Are-Indispensable-Seth-Godin\/dp\/1591843162\">Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?<\/a> by Seth Godin.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an article about employee training, Techcrunch makes a sad but true observation. American corporations consider their workforce to be disposable \u2014 like ball-point pens and cigarette lighters. Gone are the days when a company would train a factory worker to become a computer programmer or offer lifelong employment. It\u2019s all about quarterly revenue and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/?p=1027\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Disposable or not?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,59],"tags":[164],"class_list":["post-1027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-jasons-super-fantastic-bookclub","tag-godin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}