{"id":10748,"date":"2022-06-05T04:56:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-05T04:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=10748"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:34:10","slug":"assuming-the-worst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=10748","title":{"rendered":"ASSUMING THE WORST"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A story I came across this morning has been on my mind all day.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s a sad little story about an older man working at a company where a new project required two normally isolated departments to work together.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This man thought the project was a great idea and so he joked to a young co-worker from the other department, &#8220;You got your chocolate in my peanut butter!&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you are my age or older, you will immediately recognize this as a reference to the Reese&#8217;s Peanut Butter Cups commercials from decades ago. In those ads, two people would collide into each other, one carrying a chocolate bar and the other an open jar of peanut butter. The chocolate ends up in the jar. Momentarily irritated, both quickly realize they have discovered &#8220;two great tastes that taste great together&#8221;.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anyway, this man quoted this commercial and later that day was called to the HR department. The young lady had reported him for possible harassment!\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She didn&#8217;t know what he meant with his comment about chocolate and peanut butter, but she figured it was some weird sexual innuendo.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the most unfortunate aspects of fallen human nature is our penchant for assuming the worst about other people&#8217;s motives. Once you notice it, you will see it everywhere.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even in your own heart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A story I came across this morning has been on my mind all day. It&#8217;s a sad little story about an older man working at a company where a new project required two normally isolated departments to work together. This man thought the project was a great idea and so he joked to a young [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10749,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10748\/revisions\/10749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}