{"id":790,"date":"2007-09-09T19:42:50","date_gmt":"2007-09-09T23:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.IreneEng.com\/2007\/09\/09\/penny-pinching\/"},"modified":"2007-09-09T19:42:50","modified_gmt":"2007-09-09T23:42:50","slug":"penny-pinching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=790","title":{"rendered":"Penny-pinching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'\">FedEx pocketed $1.4m from the US Open easily, plus another $1m as bonus.\u00a0 A buddy of mine decided to work there every year since\u00a0his\u00a0second year playing tennis.\u00a0 It&#8217;s been 4 years in a row.\u00a0 Each year he has to\u00a0apply, felt lucky being chose.\u00a0 This year his job was crowd control.\u00a0 Working 2 weeks straight.\u00a0 He has a 5 years old daughter. Works full time in IT.\u00a0 &#8216;How many vacation do you get each year?&#8217;\u00a0 3 weeks.\u00a0 How&#8217;s pay at the Open .. $2k to 3k?\u00a0 With overtime yes.\u00a0 Gosh.\u00a0 That&#8217;s stingy.\u00a0 I sometime feel those organizations exploit its core fans.\u00a0 But this is a free world, you do what you like to.\u00a0 Exploit isn&#8217;t the right word when the takers are doing it willingly and happily.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FedEx pocketed $1.4m from the US Open easily, plus another $1m as bonus.\u00a0 A buddy of mine decided to work there every year since\u00a0his\u00a0second year playing tennis.\u00a0 It&#8217;s been 4 years in a row.\u00a0 Each year he has to\u00a0apply, felt lucky being chose.\u00a0 This year his job was crowd control.\u00a0 Working 2 weeks straight.\u00a0 He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}