{"id":7511,"date":"2015-10-20T22:10:27","date_gmt":"2015-10-21T06:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/al6400.com\/blog\/?p=7511"},"modified":"2015-10-20T22:10:27","modified_gmt":"2015-10-21T06:10:27","slug":"courageous-or-silly-business-effort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/courageous-or-silly-business-effort\/","title":{"rendered":"Courageous or Silly Business Effort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was passed on this video today that seems like it was from last year. By the looks of it, the company Elon Musk was having a shareholder meeting where it then opened up the forum for questions. As you can see in the video, a man then uses this as an opportunity to seriously ask for a job as vice president of the company. Sometimes they say you need to know the right people to get a job. But would this be going a bit too far?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iRFRyimg57A?list=PLF3EA06A917BB5ADC\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Strangely enough, if he didn\u2019t ask for such a high ranking position in the company I would be almost inclined to think more positively of the effort. Something about a person coming out of nowhere and asking for a position with so much power in a company comes across as a bit too silly to take seriously. Sometimes that is what you have to do to get like a deal. But there should be a realistic ceiling as to the type of requests you should make right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was passed on this video today that seems like it was from last year. By the looks of it, the company Elon Musk was having a shareholder meeting where it then opened up the forum for questions. As you can see in the video, a man then uses this as an opportunity to seriously [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4],"tags":[6046,5953,6047,6045,65,6048,3566],"class_list":["post-7511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-asking-for-a-job","tag-business","tag-courage","tag-elon-musk","tag-networking","tag-silly","tag-video"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/grousecitylook.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6VnHC-1X9","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7511"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7512,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7511\/revisions\/7512"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}