{"id":1338,"date":"2011-09-08T11:00:17","date_gmt":"2011-09-08T10:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.idenk.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1338"},"modified":"2011-09-06T19:04:24","modified_gmt":"2011-09-06T18:04:24","slug":"irresponsible-or-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/irresponsible-or-what\/","title":{"rendered":"Irresponsible or what?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our June <a rel=\"nofollow&quot;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.idenk.co.uk\/business_briefing\/2011_june.shtml\">business briefing<\/a>\u00a0has proved popular.\u00a0 What about this for a case study in responsibility.<\/p>\n<p>Waiting at caf\u00e9 for meeting.<\/p>\n<p>A guy takes his gum from his mouth and throws it to the ground.<\/p>\n<p>He\u00a0goes inside.<\/p>\n<p>He is young.<\/p>\n<p>With a hoodie.<\/p>\n<p>Is he hard?<\/p>\n<p>But he has a Waterstone\u2019s bookstore bag?<\/p>\n<p>Is it his?<\/p>\n<p>Does it have a book in it?<\/p>\n<p>What sort of book?<\/p>\n<p>Jeremy Clarkson?<\/p>\n<p>Something by Wittgenstein?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Options <\/strong>\u2013 we like the work of John Heron and use his 6 ways of intervening on our coaching cards (which we can provide if you want one).<\/p>\n<p>In this situation some of the main ways of responding include ignoring it through to confronting the person.<\/p>\n<p>When confronting, trying to get the balance right is important. Not pussyfooting (can I find a bin for you) or clobbering (what do you think you are doing), but\u00a0achieving the correct balance on the tightrope between those two extremes (excuse me, I think you may have dropped something).<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>By the way, is the inactive observer just as irresponsible?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our June business briefing\u00a0has proved popular.\u00a0 What about this for a case study in responsibility. Waiting at caf\u00e9 for meeting. A guy takes his gum from his mouth and throws it to the ground. He\u00a0goes inside. He is young. With a hoodie. Is he hard? But he has a Waterstone\u2019s bookstore bag? Is it his? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[128,28],"tags":[50,69],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1338"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1364,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338\/revisions\/1364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}