{"id":3736,"date":"2016-01-02T19:14:22","date_gmt":"2016-01-02T19:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/?p=3736"},"modified":"2016-01-02T19:14:22","modified_gmt":"2016-01-02T19:14:22","slug":"qwest-nightmare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/2016\/01\/02\/qwest-nightmare\/","title":{"rendered":"Qwest Nightmare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 If it involves Qwest that automatically qualifies it as a nightmare.\u00a0 Actually they&#8217;ve been eaten By CenturyLink so no longer exist, except in my nightmares.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Last night I had a dream in which I was interviewing for a job with them, (I did work for them at one time but left in 1995, 21 years ago and they still haunt me in my dreams).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In the interview, the interviewer kept telling me that we would be wearing company provided shirts and that they contained a fiber they had developed which would detect any marijuana use, even weeks prior and change color signaling it&#8217;s use.\u00a0 I asked why should I care as I haven&#8217;t used marijuana in 31 years (which is true, although a return to Qwest would probably involve or require the use of some drug probably much stronger), but the interviewer kept repeating and emphasizing this detail.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I think Qwest was probably on my mind because I had been talking to a former co-worker in Facebook, Len Hickey, and he was relating how he went back to work for Qwest Communications in California.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 If it involves Qwest that automatically qualifies it as a nightmare.\u00a0 Actually they&#8217;ve been eaten By CenturyLink so no longer exist, except in my nightmares. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Last night I had a dream in which I was interviewing for a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/2016\/01\/02\/qwest-nightmare\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpautop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}