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I’m ba-aaack!
(It’s possible nobody noticed I was gone…but in case anybody DID–)
In the past year or so I have gone on many, many, many business trips. Oh, to think that there was a time when I thought that business travel was probably Glamorous and Exciting and You Get To See Lots of Cool Places […]

I think I confuse them sometimes by being half-woman, half-engineer!, and that’s how I end up on these e-mail chains at work. Yes, I did say “AT WORK.”
Subject Line: FW: WOMEN AS EXPLAINED BY ENGINEERS

This just really, really irritates me.
Mother’s love worth $117,000 per year, study says
No, THAT isn’t what irritates me…actually I’d say that mother’s love, or any healthy parental love, is priceless. I think we’ve all seen how damaged people can end up being when they aren’t on the receiving end of much, or any, as […]

I spent a day offsite again–my company is building a new, very large scale manufacturing facility and so we are buying all kinds of goodies for it from a whole slew of outside companies. On this occasion, the company in question was going to show us their pride and joy, a software package that […]

I spent a recent day offsite–my company hired an outside company to design and build a piece of equipment for our manufacturing plant and the outside company had asked us to come down to their fabrication shop and vet the design, see what we thought of the work in progress, etc. With me were […]

Note to self: when offered a piece of Valentine’s chocolate from the only black person in the department, do NOT accept it by saying in a chipper voice, “Sure, everything’s better when wrapped in dark chocolate!” because it can be construed in the most hideously inappropriate manner and although he will just laugh at what […]

…where you can get a high school diploma by working in McDonald’s
Do I need to point out everything that’s wrong with this? Corporate sponsorship of public education is a vicious cycle. First, the government cuts funding to schools. Next, a corporation approaches the desperately underfunded school to bail it out—Nike will build you a new […]

Last year, I was fortunate enough to have to work in a cleanroom once a week, which as the name implies is supposed to be a Very Clean Room. I had largely forgotten about that fun until today, when iGoogle posted in its “how to” section on my homepage these instructions for entering a […]

If you live in North America, you might have gotten a day off today owing to the success of the ruling class in banishing the spectre of labour history from the minds of the toiling masses. You should have actually got May 1st off.
Here are a few drive-by links:
Nihilistic_kid talks about racist and nativist […]

Every cloud has a silver lining. The best part about any needlessly reactionary legislative battle is waiting for the unintended consequences to pop up. Like remember when a bunch of states made vague anti-gay-marriage Constitutional amendments and now it’s harder in those states to get a DV conviction if you’re not married to […]

Well hello! Long time no see! I’m sure nothing whatsoever has happened in my absence. I have actually been writing here goddamn near every day but fucking Marc has scrubbed the archives in fear of… ellipses and incomplete sentences. I cuss too much, apparently, and somebody had to scrub my dirty, […]

One of the perks of working at Big Media Co. is free services. Free internet connection, free movies, free cable, free telephone. For someone making jack-shit-you-owe-us-a-dollar wages this is a mighty big benefit, not to mention that it helps with the porn sales:
“I understand that you didn’t mean to order Barnyard Bunnies: Taking […]