{"id":22931,"date":"2016-01-07T16:49:56","date_gmt":"2016-01-07T16:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=22931"},"modified":"2016-01-07T14:59:07","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T14:59:07","slug":"7-what-do-you-do-when-everything-goes-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/2016\/01\/07\/7-what-do-you-do-when-everything-goes-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"7: What do you do when everything goes wrong?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today has been possibly the least productive day I&#8217;ve had &#8211; certainly\u00a0the worst in a long while.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing at work has gone well &#8211; I have been out of class for a lot of it with PPA and PPA catch up from time I&#8217;ve missed recently. Normally, I can get a lot of little jobs done. The planning P of PPA is something I never touch at school as I can get far more done far quicker at home. However, I&#8217;m fairly sure that fixing USB cables and laptops isn&#8217;t something I should be doing with my time. I end up doing so because I have fallen into a triage-style way of working for our main technician &#8211; a wonderful guy who is with us for just one morning a week. This is just about enough to cater for our needs, but if I didn&#8217;t catch the issues I do, he would get nothing done through the firefighting he would be doing!<\/p>\n<p>So, what do you do when everything goes wrong? Well, from today&#8217;s experience, you pick yourself up and simply get on with sorting it out. If you can&#8217;t do that, you seek help. As I write this, I am receiving a number of emails to help me find a solution to another problem that has arisen and we will get there.<\/p>\n<p>These events have meant that I&#8217;ve been in a total grumpy mood for much of the day, which is never good&#8230; Tomorrow will be better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today has been possibly the least productive day I&#8217;ve had &#8211; certainly\u00a0the worst in a long while. Nothing at work has gone well &#8211; I have been out of class for a lot of it with PPA and PPA catch up from time I&#8217;ve missed recently. Normally, I can get a lot of little jobs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3355,33],"tags":[1031,3373,3375,3376,3374],"class_list":["post-22931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3355","category-work","tag-emails","tag-grrrr","tag-grumpy","tag-ppa","tag-usb","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6OeSW-5XR","jetpack-related-posts":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22932,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22931\/revisions\/22932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}