{"id":13944,"date":"2013-10-26T19:35:25","date_gmt":"2013-10-26T23:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.albany.com\/hr\/2013\/10\/good-for-you-is-the-worst-compliment-you-can-give-someone.html"},"modified":"2013-10-26T19:35:25","modified_gmt":"2013-10-26T23:35:25","slug":"good-for-you-is-the-worst-compliment-you-can-give-someone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.albany.com\/hr\/2013\/10\/good-for-you-is-the-worst-compliment-you-can-give-someone\/","title":{"rendered":"Good for you – the worst compliment you can give someone"},"content":{"rendered":"
Good for you is a compliment I never take well. To me, a “good for you” expresses either a lack of care for someone’s good news or a cop out of a compliment where no compliment at all would be better.<\/p>\n
Similarly, people who say “that’s funny” when something is funny aren’t really amused, because if they were they’d actually laugh.<\/p>\n
The next time you give a compliment to someone, choose a genuine smile or a pat on the back over a “good for you”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Good for you is a compliment I never take well. To me, a “good for you” expresses either a lack of care for someone’s good news or a cop out of a compliment where no compliment at all would be…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":147,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,30],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\r\n