{"id":336,"date":"2016-06-27T12:10:22","date_gmt":"2016-06-27T12:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jonelkon.com\/?p=336"},"modified":"2016-06-27T12:11:04","modified_gmt":"2016-06-27T12:11:04","slug":"thanks-but-no-thanks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jonelkon.com\/jnlk\/thanks-but-no-thanks\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanks but No Thanks?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Give thanks for ingratitude! That glorious confirmation of every stereotype and prejudice ever nursed in the deepest corners of the ungrateful soul&#8230;.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Brian said, and I was amazed. Brian Trainis he was called then. He said, when you do things for people expect nothing back!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Oh, I said, of course! Because there will be payback when you really need it, right? Calling in favours&#8230;I said this because Brian was CFO of this thrusting little company I was working for. Known for his sharp practices, his ruthlessness in dealing with suppliers and customers alike. Ethically, a DarkSpace.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>No, he said. I meant it when I said expect nothing back. Ask for nothing back. Never call in favours!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>But, I said.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>But nothing, he said.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>He was, despite his ruthless reputation, something of a mentor and a guru for me. I felt that he let me see into his soul and inside there was a sweet, good little boy who just wanted to be liked. Which was the reason he screwed customers, suppliers and staff&#8230;he just wanted the boss to like him.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I said he was Brian Trainis but now he isn&#8217;t because he killed himself a few years ago. His girl friend apparently said she didn&#8217;t like him anymore. Ungrateful shit.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I followed his advice for years and I still do, and it&#8217;s incredibly liberating, expecting nothing back. Because if you do, well it&#8217;s such a bloody surprise! I mean, people give you awards &#8211; I have shelves of the things and I have no idea why. Not to mention &#8220;likes&#8221; on Facebook! The negative is the embarrassment which people think is false modesty, which it may be&#8230;.<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Give thanks for ingratitude! That glorious confirmation of every stereotype and prejudice ever nursed in the deepest corners of the ungrateful soul&#8230;. Brian said, and I was amazed. Brian Trainis he was called then. He said, when you do things&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonelkon.com\/jnlk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonelkon.com\/jnlk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonelkon.com\/jnlk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonelkon.com\/jnlk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonelkon.com\/jnlk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jonelkon.com\/jnlk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":337,"href":"https:\/\/jonelkon.com\/jnlk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions\/337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonelkon.com\/jnlk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonelkon.com\/jnlk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonelkon.com\/jnlk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}