Company Loyalty

by | Sep 29, 2014 | Culture, Not Politics

Here’s a dirty little secret: No matter what you’re told, no matter what words you hear about loyalty and family and teams, your company does not care about you. Oh, no. Not a bit. Sure, your supervisor may be a great person, who values your work, looks...

Take All The Time You Want

by | Aug 23, 2014 | Culture, Not Politics

… just don’t take it from me. Yesterday morning, like every other weekday morning, I dropped my wife off at the local Metro North train station. As I started to leave the station, the one road that leads to the exit was blocked by a car discharging a...

An Engineer’s Curse

by | Jul 17, 2014 | Not Politics, Opinion

I had a dream the other night. Actually, I have dreams most nights, but I rarely remember them, and most of the ones I remember tend to fade from my conscious memory rather quickly. From time to time, though, memory fragments stick around long enough for me to wonder...

The Brotherhood of the Mosh Pit

by | Apr 23, 2014 | Culture, Not Politics

Many of my friends know I have a fondness for heavy metal music. Some of my friends share that fondness, some are amused, some have no opinion, but at least a few find it an inscrutable and dissonant element of my personality. It raises an occasional eyebrow when it...

Rules of the Road

by | Apr 8, 2014 | Culture, Not Politics

Those of us who drive have all taken and passed road tests, where we learned all sorts of rules governing how we’re supposed to behave when driving on public roads. Yet many who commute regularly (I log 90 or more minutes a day, 5 days a week, on the highways of...