Recent Comments

1. about 17 hours ago on Working Daze

   The place where I retired from was always doing this sort of stuff with management. One female manager had to come onto my shop floor and say something nice about me and each of my guys. I looked at her and said, “This is killing you, isn’t it?”

2. about 18 hours ago on La Cucaracha

   I worry about a couple of my Latin friends. One’s a naturalized citizen. One was born and raised in Puerto Rico, so a born US citizen. Both speak with a Spanish accent. I feel the nut jobs will target those two.

3. 4 days ago on Kliban

   Kind sorta

4. 7 days ago on The Argyle Sweater

   I know how he feels. I didn’t fit in , either.

5. 8 days ago on Arlo and Janis

   And I practice every day.

6. 10 days ago on FoxTrot

   We used to say the it took just one “You idiot” to destroy a file full of “Atta Boys”.

7. 11 days ago on FoxTrot

   In the first 23 years of my working life, the engineers at that company were great people. If there was an issue with a product or process, they’d come out to see if it was a tooling or design issue and we worked together to make things right. I spent the next 27 years with a different outfit with the engineering staff in Europe. Again, a helpful group of people. The last 7 years, though, we hired a US staff. They never saw a railroad track before but claimed to know more about it than people with 20 to 30 years experience. Anything they designed was fraught with problems and when pointed out we were told we weren’t smart enough to use it. So yeah, I have somewhat of a jaundiced view.

8. 12 days ago on FoxTrot

   The engineers where I retired from caused problems.

9. 12 days ago on Baldo

   Parents help with homework? Mine yelled.

10. 13 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

    MMMM, maple frosting with bacon donuts