{"id":180,"date":"2006-11-04T09:01:55","date_gmt":"2006-11-04T15:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/?p=180"},"modified":"2006-11-04T09:01:58","modified_gmt":"2006-11-04T15:01:58","slug":"starbucks-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/04\/starbucks-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Starbucks Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was edited lightly for profanity but I must admit if I heard this in line at Starbucks I&#8217;d be thinking the same thing. Besides, if <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.guykawasaki.com\/\">Guy Kawasaki<\/a> can post about it, so can I.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.guykawasaki.com\/2006\/10\/you_have_to_lov.html\">How to Change the World: Book Review: The No A**h*** Rule by Robert Sutton<\/a>  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The first step is to recognize who is an a**h***. Sutton\u2019s blog cites one method. It\u2019s called the Starbucks Test It goes like this: If you hear someone at Starbucks order a \u201cdecaf grande half-soy, half-low fat, iced vanilla, double-shot, gingerbread cappuccino, extra dry, light ice, with one Sweet-n\u2019-Low and one NutraSweet,\u201d you\u2019re in the presence of an a**h***. It\u2019s unlikely that this petty combination is necessary\u2014the person ordering is trying to flex their power because they are an a**h***. <\/p>\n<p>The book on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Asshole-Rule-Civilized-Workplace-Surviving\/dp\/0446526568\/sr=1-1\/qid=1162175002?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;tag2=guykawasakico-20\">Amazon<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Kawasaki\" rel=\"tag\">Kawasaki<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Starbucks\" rel=\"tag\">Starbucks<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was edited lightly for profanity but I must admit if I heard this in line at Starbucks I&#8217;d be thinking the same thing. Besides, if Guy Kawasaki can post about it, so can I. How to Change the World: Book Review: The No A**h*** Rule by Robert Sutton The first step is to recognize [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grab-bag"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}