Woke Engineers

…there’s no such thing.  Temperature doesn’t “identify” as Celsius or Fahrenheit. Metric and Imperial measurements don’t have feelings.  Engineers use the laws of physics. They don’t re-write their definitions.  Sloppy thinking causes loud noises at your job site, and it will get your picture on the internet.  Woke Employers Do Exist Companies around the world…

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Auto Magic

A family member was coming to the end of a three-year lease.  She wanted to get a new car. There are no new cars. So, she bought her existing car out of lease.  Of course, the purchase price was based on lease documents written three years ago.  The instant she signed the papers, the retail…

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Buying In To Bias

Software written for Recruiters and Hiring Authorities often proposes to overcome bias, using Artificial Intelligence.  The premise is, human bias creates blind spots, causing missed opportunities.  Shocker:  We’re all biased, all the time.  That includes the programmers who wrote the software. Every living thing has always had (and always will have) bias. Does that make…

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Amazing Employment Numbers

The BLS did some in-your-face editing to conjure up astonishing payroll reports.   Anyone using their headline numbers was wildly mistaken.  Actual data was horrible.  The amazing part was how those numbers were conjured up.  It wasn’t any show of initiative that caused me to open the ADP payroll report for January. It was just…

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