{"id":941179,"date":"2025-06-25T07:56:27","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T02:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=941179"},"modified":"2025-06-25T08:49:55","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T03:19:55","slug":"the-it-monk-who-drove-a-taxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/06\/25\/the-it-monk-who-drove-a-taxi\/","title":{"rendered":"The IT Monk Who Drove a Taxi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, a Bengaluru IT professional booked a cab and was shocked to realise that the driver was a team leader from work. Apparently, he was doing it out of boredom. Assuming that it\u2019s a true story and not a fever dream that the author saw during long hours of traffic, I wasn\u2019t overly shocked that a team leader would moonlight as a cab driver. Indian bosses always had trouble understanding the concept of work-life balance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, a Bengaluru IT professional booked a cab and was shocked to realise that the driver was a team leader from work. Apparently, he was doing it out of boredom. Assuming that it\u2019s a true story and not a fever dream that the author saw during long hours of traffic, I wasn\u2019t overly shocked that a team leader would moonlight as a cab driver. Indian bosses always had trouble understanding the concept of work-life balance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-941179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=941179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=941179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=941179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=941179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}