My friend RJHSMTS made a comment about my boss Sharon.

"Compared to Sharon, Genghis Khan is somewhat of a pussy."

So a coworker went to some immigration forum at work (I work at a tech company, so we have a large number of international employees). The lawyer in charge of the meeting had a conference call where people from different sites could call in ( Read more... )

I recently read about Donald Rumsfeld's involvement with getting aspartame approved by the FDA as a general sweetener when he was CEO of Searle during the 80's. I asked fellow coworker Jack what sweetener his diet Snapple had, and it was aspartame ( Read more... )

A bunch of us were talking about Wolfowitz and the World Bank scandal of the day. I brought up how interesting it is that his girlfriend Shaha Riza is Middle Eastern, not only because Wolfowitz is a Jewish name but also due to his part in the Iraq War. A Middle Eastern friend of mine, who wishes to remain anonymous, said, "Yeah. He's just trying to ( Read more... )

This story is second hand. You know how a lot of phone support has been outsourced to India? A lot of the support reps also give themselves western names. In fact, this happens at work too. For example, I've talked to "Annie" (ha ( Read more... )