List of Contributions

When Covid hit hard, we all left the office and worked from home and it lasted around 18 months. The new CEO was old school and liked to see butts in seats. I got used to the 50' commute vs the 25 miles one way from home to bus and bus to work downtown. We seemed to get the work out. Some people could ...

I work for an old electric utility that has rigid published policies of use-it-or-lose-it. There are exceptions subject to VP approval to carry over 1 or 2 weeks. We have hurricanes and during restoration duty, we work 7-16's until power is restored. We are typically paid straight time for the storm ...

"Cut to fit, weld to hold, paint to match" is an old one I heard over the years. "The cost savings will more than offset the loss of human life." I believe this was from National Lampoon of from Ford vehicle managers when they used the top of the gas tank as the bottom of the trunk in the original ...

Willard, you brought back memories. Before I started in 1973, colleagues told of hand drafting in the old building without air conditioning in downtown hot and humid Houston. The drafters worked on paper with a lead holder and had to wear sleeves over their arms to keep from sweating on the paper. ...

The basics never change. I began college in 1967 and learning to use a Slide rule was a required college course. I had used one in High School for the basics. Beginning Physics was the flunk out course to see who was going to last and who was going to Vietnam. I made a grade on the final exam just ...