Well gawwww-lly! It does my heart good to hear my alma mater praised so highly ^___^ We're called 'power engineers' because we *are* trained to engineer, not just to operate. Power Engineering in Canada is a laddered syllabus combining hands-on experience with schooling - most certificate...
Hello Sbush :)
1) The Alberta Boiler Safety Association (ABSA) is a non-profit organization recognized and authorized by the Alberta government to oversee boiler safety. It is not the same as the ASME, whose Canadian equivalent is the CSA (Canadian Standards Association) ABSA collects fees...
This is quite a fascinating topic. Alberta has had a boiler safety association for 108 years, so I was quite unaware that anywhere in the First World would still be without such a regulating body.
Also very interesting is the repeated mention insurance companies. Up here, insurance companies...
What this 'revolution' has done, its certainly given people new respect for the workload of the secretaries that they used to take for granted :)p
I'm a minority: I actually don't mind the paperwork. I enjoy computers and I have some pride in being the most computer-efficient person on staff...
I think you're going to make an excellent manager, Geekmaiden, and I think many people here are going to envy those chaps for being under someone who seeks to solve problems rather than pin blame. Good on you and best of luck wherever your decisions take you!
-- GeneratorGrrl
"Eat well...
You make a good point about 'man management', JMW. I've often complained that I've never had to consciously manipulate people the way I have to here, in my current job. It disgusts me, I *hate* that kind of behaviour with a passion and I feel despicable for doing it, but its the only way I can...
Hi GeneratorGrrl! ..... no, wait, that's me, you're Geekmaiden... Got confused there for a second because your situation sounds so familiar! ^_^
I really sympathize with you because its bad enough being a flunky on equal footing with the pricks; its so much worse if you've been placed over...
So many many things come to mind......
DeVry's been making those for years...
So that's what happened to "Sea Monkeys"...
Batteries not included....
Requires adult supervision, not suitable for children under 24....
And the worst part is, now my boss wants one! >.<
-- GeneratorGrrl...
*chuckle* Indeed. *At least* one other woman posted to this thread long before I did.
Ass/U/Me ^_~
Oh, and Arun? It was you who made the crack about "no women participants" -- *after* a woman (not me) had participated. Snooze you lose *chuckle*
-- GeneratorGrrl (not offended, just amused)...
Keep your resume updated. As the others have said, you did the right thing - but one right in a viper's nest full of wrongdoers will quickly find himself pushed out. A sad fact and goes against everything that Mommy and Barney and Sesame Street taught us about honesty. Real incentive to keep...
A good bed contributes to a restful sleep with proper alpha/delta patterning, which is essential to maintaining proper dopamine and seratonin levels, which contribute significantly to the ability to be happy. Then when you wake up, you must create the conditions your personality requires to...
On our tunnel and growing room dampers, exposed to a variety of corrosion-causing conditions, we use a product called "Fluid Film." Its a lanolin-based product, is thicker and provides more protection than WD-40, but still penetrates by capillary action and excludes water, weak acids and...
Tickle, I did do a search before posting. However, my higher-ups are not engineers and have trouble accepting that this company's "linear kinetic cell" is the same product as some other company's gizmo, because it doesn't *say* that it is. They're just seeing the dollar figures. I have to...
Glace, I'd suggest not so much a 'boring' cut, but something that can switch quickly and easily between 'professional' and 'bedhead' -- once you're hired and established and your coworkers get to know you a bit, you can relax again, but when you're competing for that opening, every little weapon...
