Now that celebrity Covid-19 has mostly become a has-been, companies are requiring workers to come back to the office and return to pre-Covid work policies. A lot of people are very unhappy with this. However, companies are emphasizing the importance of face-to-face interaction and collaboration in the office. …

Long before Smithee started working at the Company, McKinney scheduled a meeting with me entitled “3D Pornography.” McKinney was the Network Manager who, on the surface, fit the stereotype perfectly: glasses, short hair with no discernible style, pleated slacks, white tube socks and those hybrid dress shoes that fell somewhere…

While congress debates the elimination of Daylight Saving in the US, the outspoken Representative from Georgia, Marjorie Taylor Greene, proposes the world change to CST, or Christian Standard Time, so that we can eliminate the need to “count on our fingers” what time it is in other countries. …

When Steve Martin was doing standup as an up-and-coming comedian, he had a bit that went something like this: You can be a millionaire and never pay taxes. How, you ask? First: get a million dollars. Every article I’ve read about how to increase traffic to your website is the…

Benjamin Franklin once said: Don’t put off until tomorrow what you can do today. Are these words of wisdom? Or just an insult to the universe? I say, the latter. With the recent rains in California, my Ring doorbell lost its WIFI connection. I tried resetting it, but that didn’t…

I recently informed the CFO (of the business division I support) that a corporate decision had been made to centralize Engineering and Product services. His response: “Oh, I didn’t realize the company hired a new CIO.” The business understands that when a new CIO joins a company, IT either moves…

You’re at a party and you meet up with someone you haven’t seen in a while, and you are surprised to find them more confident, more positive, and an all-around happier person than the last encounter. And you want to punch that person right in the face. As a writer…

The day Mulhausen shot the CIO in weekly staff was also the day I ignored Blair all morning. Although she was pissed off and cannily antagonistic toward me for allegedly having sex with my wife, I pretended to be pissed off and cannily antagonistic toward her for no apparent reason…

In the words of Pablo Picasso: Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success. Kind of makes you wonder: was this Picasso person really an artist…