Listen you young whippersnapper, I can look in the mirror and see how old I am without all your hippity-hoppity newfangled slang making me feel even older!

I feel like her name is in a bunch of pop songs lately, are millennials particularly fond of her?

Because they have to do that at home around their wives! My first job out of school (in Dallas, mind you), I was the first female on my particular team. We had a meeting with an outside tech sales rep and they usually took our team out to lunch. My first time meeting this rep, he looks directly at me after the…

This is true and sadly some of the worst offenders are untouchable. There was an a-hole higher level manager who everyone (men included) joked about. One of my coworkers used to joke with myself and some of the other female engineers “that guy is one pencil skirt comment away from a lawsuit”. He thankfully was high up…

In fairness, HR has helped me many times with benefit or insurance stuff. But when it comes to performance or dealing with workplace issues, their job is solely to make sure the company’s a$$ is covered. I worked at tech company that grew from ~300 to 1000 while I worked there. The HR group decided to do a general…

I am a female EE and have worked at different size companies on technical engineering teams in 3 different states (but never in Silicon Valley). Yes, there is some truth to the socially awkward engineer, but I don’t think that is the issue at all. My purely anecdotal observations are as follows, most (I’ll happily go…

Hah! That’s what my grandma always called it :) Meanwhile other kids in the neighborhood had ketchup on their spaghetti.

Or 5-to-9 job as the case may be.

Agreed. I would most like(d) to see Pruitt and DeVos out, but happy to take this one in the W column.

No. In fact, that is the only rational response when you find out someone is a scientologist.

Bannon.

Totally agree. FBI, CIA. etc go through some serious vetting (annual lie detector testing, etc) and it is highly unlikely that Comey is compromised. Everyone who came in via the Trump train is suspect, especially folks who have never worked in government before. I almost never see photos of Trump and Pence together…

Aside from the whole “All In” affair, isn’t Petraeus generally considered a moderate? He seems to good to be true compared with Kelly which makes me think there is zero chance of him becoming the next pick.

I only know of her because I read tony ortega’s scientology blog. She is a scientologist, which actually, explains a lot about this mess.

Come to my workplace and all will become clear! (Female engineer here) There is a depressing amount of overlap between libertarian and tech.

Reminded me about LeRoi Moore from the Dave Matthews’ Band. We border more rural areas and I have definitely seen youngsters driving these things or adults with toddlers on their laps and no helmets involved. I don’t think there is much that can be done to make them safer, only perhaps limits on how old you have to be…

Or C. Your new president!

One small silver lining in this for me is even my mostly apolitical FB friends are all “WTF?” Trump is truly a unifier and he is also taking credit for increased sales of posterboard and shoes.

Very similar to the anti-vaccine arguments I’ve heard - “if it is only 90% effective, why should I use it?” If you had a serious illness and the doctors offer you medication that works 90% of the time - you would say “no thanks”??

I personally think he will just retweet people who will think any tragedy that takes place in the next 4 years is a “false flag” op meant to make Trump look bad. He’ll accuse the city of working with the intelligence community to pretend something bad happened and then will choose not to play into their charade by…