Categories
Adulting Etiquette Mrs Enginerd

You Can Disagree With an Opinion and Be Wrong

I’ve spent the entirety of my life on this planet educating myself, and being educated by my peers and family, about every single subject that crossed our paths. Great care was taken by my elders to discuss any issue -past, present and future – that was deemed important and necessary to have a vetted view […]

Categories
Etiquette Mrs Enginerd

#BlackLivesMatter

I know what many are thinking, #AllLivesMatter is more accurate. Right? Wrong! Check yourself in a mirror and adjust yourself because your privilege is showing. *Gasp!* Many white leaders decided to detract from the #BlackLivesMatter campaign to claim #alllivesmatter because they fear that for once in their lifetimes their ignorance about race and racial discrimination […]

Categories
Etiquette Mrs Enginerd

The Show Must Go On…

The tragedy in Orlando’s Pulse Club reminded me of Freddie Mercury’s iconic performance during the video and Queen tours of the song The Show Must Go On. He had been fighting HIV/AIDS for a long time  and we didn’t even know how close we were to losing him. Mercury was a symbol of the struggles […]

Categories
Mrs Enginerd Travel

Women Don’t Travel Alone: They Travel. Period.

Two Argentinian women were brutally murdered in Ecuador after they refused their attackers sexual advances and fought to not get raped. The mysoginistic Latin American press made the mistake of labeling the news “Women Traveling Alone…”. The fact is there were two of them so it is preposterous to assume they were alone as they […]

Categories
Mrs Enginerd Nerd Stuff

The Real Problem With Unions

Ok, so you may be thinking, “What do Unions have to do with Enginerds?” but the reality is there are many unions out there that protect and lobby for engineers. In Washington and Kansas, for example, engineers in aerospace are unionized. Workers in assembly lines throughout the USA are represented by local chapters of national […]