{"id":373,"date":"2015-08-10T16:28:37","date_gmt":"2015-08-10T08:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/magicalbits.net\/?p=373"},"modified":"2015-08-10T16:28:37","modified_gmt":"2015-08-10T08:28:37","slug":"unreasonable-requests-how-do-you-push-back-the-corporate-writer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/?p=373","title":{"rendered":"Unreasonable requests: how do you push back? | The Corporate Writer"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The Push Back Process \u2014 Step 1: Get out the anger in a safe environment or the right person! (Never a coworker!) Step 2: Write what you want to say in your most down-and-dirty, no editing way. Step 3: Rewrite your comments by putting as much as possible in the third-person, objective case. Cut out every \u201cI\u201d and \u201cme\u201d possible. Depersonalize their intent or behavior (no matter how nuts it may have been). Step 4: Offer an alternative to them that is reasonable and better for you.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/corporatewriter.wordpress.com\/2011\/04\/03\/unreasonable-requests-how-do-you-push-back\/\">Unreasonable requests: how do you push back? | The Corporate Writer<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Push Back Process \u2014 Step 1: Get out the anger in a safe environment or the right person! (Never a coworker!) Step 2: Write what you want to say in your most down-and-dirty, no editing way. Step 3: Rewrite your comments by putting as much as possible in the third-person, objective case. Cut out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":374,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions\/374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}