{"id":15003,"date":"2010-02-09T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2010\/02\/09\/moving-by-staying-put\/"},"modified":"2010-02-09T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T07:00:00","slug":"moving-by-staying-put","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20100209-00\/?p=15003","title":{"rendered":"Moving by staying put"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few years ago, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/michkap\/\"> Michael Kaplan<\/a> opined on his distaste for office moves, particular the ones for which <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/michkap\/archive\/2007\/10\/02\/5233452.aspx\"> there appears to be very little benefit<\/a>. One of his options was &#8220;interview with whatever group moves into Building 24 and work for them instead.&#8221;\n Many years ago, an organizational change to the project I was working on resulted in my group ceasing to exist. The reason isn&#8217;t important to the story; what&#8217;s important is that the members of that group were redeployed to other parts of the project. At the time, I hadn&#8217;t yet learned that <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2005\/11\/11\/491780.aspx\"> material goods are a burden<\/a>, and I dreaded moving offices because of all the packing and unpacking I would have to do.\n Solution: Join whatever group was moving into my hallway on the condition that I get to keep my office.<\/p>\n<p> They gladly accepted the terms of this agreement. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few years ago, Michael Kaplan opined on his distaste for office moves, particular the ones for which there appears to be very little benefit. One of his options was &#8220;interview with whatever group moves into Building 24 and work for them instead.&#8221; Many years ago, an organizational change to the project I was working [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-15003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-other"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>A few years ago, Michael Kaplan opined on his distaste for office moves, particular the ones for which there appears to be very little benefit. One of his options was &#8220;interview with whatever group moves into Building 24 and work for them instead.&#8221; Many years ago, an organizational change to the project I was working [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}