{"id":11045,"date":"2008-02-05T21:47:56","date_gmt":"2008-02-05T18:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2008\/02\/05\/little-things\/"},"modified":"2008-02-05T21:47:56","modified_gmt":"2008-02-05T18:47:56","slug":"little-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2008\/02\/05\/little-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Little things"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>I just got another revelation on how important little things are in our lives.\u00c2\u00a0 Take, for example, your office job (if you ever had one).\u00c2\u00a0 When I mention your job, you probably think of the office, salary, annoying clients, evil boss, and things like that, right?\u00c2\u00a0 Or at least something along those lines.\u00c2\u00a0 Well, how about some tiny things which can make or break your day, every day?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Parking space<\/strong>. Is there a parking place?\u00c2\u00a0 Do you have to spend half an hour driving around the building in order to find the hole to squeeze in?\u00c2\u00a0 How many traffic rules (running red lights, forbidden U-turn, etc) do you have to break to even drive into your parking space?\u00c2\u00a0 Is\u00c2\u00a0 your parking space in mud or tarmac?\u00c2\u00a0 What happens to it after the rain?\u00c2\u00a0 Is there any shade for those extra sunny days?\u00c2\u00a0 How often is you car locked by another one when you want to leave for lunch?\u00c2\u00a0 Or maybe you had to punch the crowds for two hours in the public transportation to get to your office?<\/li>\n<li><strong>Water closet<\/strong> (aka WC, bathroom, toilet). Is there one in your office or do you have to take an elevator trip every time you want to wash your hands?\u00c2\u00a0 How busy is that place?\u00c2\u00a0 Does it have all the essentials like paper, water and door locks?\u00c2\u00a0 How clean is it?<\/li>\n<li><strong>Kitchen<\/strong> (food and drinks).\u00c2\u00a0 Can you have a cup of coffee at your desk?\u00c2\u00a0 How about a coke?\u00c2\u00a0 A sandwich?\u00c2\u00a0 Do you have to pay for it?\u00c2\u00a0 Can you get any snack at all when you stay late?\u00c2\u00a0 How far is your lunch?\u00c2\u00a0 How expensive is it? Are there any cups, teaspoons, toothpicks, towels or paper tissues, salt, catchup?<\/li>\n<li><strong>Stationary<\/strong>. Do you have to bring your own notepads?\u00c2\u00a0 How long does it take you to find an empty CD\/DVD for that extra backup?\u00c2\u00a0 How pens are there in your immediate reach that actually work?\u00c2\u00a0 Does it take you more than 5 seconds to find a calendar?\u00c2\u00a0 How about a calculator?\u00c2\u00a0 Can you get one while still on the phone? Do you even have a phone?\u00c2\u00a0 What about an extra network cable?\u00c2\u00a0 Printer cartridge? A4 paper?<\/li>\n<li><strong>Smells<\/strong>.\u00c2\u00a0 Does it smell like food in your office?\u00c2\u00a0 Do they smoke in there?\u00c2\u00a0 How often do they clean their ashtrays? Maybe it&#8217;s this guy right next to you?\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe it&#8217;s a flower, and only in spring?<\/li>\n<li><strong>Temperature<\/strong>.\u00c2\u00a0 Is thre any air condition?\u00c2\u00a0 How about a heater?\u00c2\u00a0 Can you even close that window behind you?\u00c2\u00a0 How sensitive are other people in the room?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I can go on and on an on&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 Brings the memories, doesn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>I just got another revelation on how important little things are in our lives.\u00c2\u00a0 Take, for example, your office job (if you ever had one).\u00c2\u00a0 When I mention your job, you probably think of the office, salary, annoying clients, evil boss, and things like that, right?\u00c2\u00a0 Or at least something along those lines.\u00c2\u00a0 Well, how &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2008\/02\/05\/little-things\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Little things<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[787,139,79,2416,17],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-11045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-personal","tag-life","tag-office","tag-people","tag-thoughts","tag-work"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8371,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/12\/23\/picture-of-the-day\/","url_meta":{"origin":11045,"position":0},"title":"Parking lot","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"December 23, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"It has been a while since I posted anything to the \"Picture of the day\" project, so today I decided to warm up a little bit before the holiday season. 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