{"id":4803,"date":"2012-09-13T14:33:25","date_gmt":"2012-09-13T20:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4803"},"modified":"2012-09-13T14:33:25","modified_gmt":"2012-09-13T20:33:25","slug":"why-is-there-so-much-mediocrity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4803","title":{"rendered":"Why is there so much mediocrity?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/intl\/cms\/s\/0\/66a55542-f0ec-11e1-89b2-00144feabdc0.html\">Lucy Kellaway<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Two years ago I graduated from Oxford university with a 2:1 in philosophy, politics and economics. After a year of looking for a job, I was hired by a large and very well-known business. At first I was in awe, but now I\u2019ve discovered something that surprises and depresses me. Most of my colleagues are neither terribly bright nor terribly hardworking. As this is my first experience of corporate life I\u2019m puzzled and want to know \u2013 is it me? Is it them? Am I missing something? I just don\u2019t get it; if these companies are so hard to get into, how come most of the people who have made it are so mediocre?<\/p>\n<p>Graduate trainee, male, 24<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lucy Kellaway: Two years ago I graduated from Oxford university with a 2:1 in philosophy, politics and economics. After a year of looking for a job, I was hired by a large and very well-known business. At first I was in awe, but now I\u2019ve discovered something that surprises and depresses me. Most of my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4803"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}