During my formative years (ok, college), I spent my summers doing what most Engineering students do. I was an intern/co-op. That meant I got to spend my days in the typical nerd confine, a “cubicle farm” (as Dilbert author Scott Adams would term it). But, I spent short terms there, which meant I was not privy to all of the politics that get ensconced in such an environment. And let’s face it, I was naive and bushytailed, like a young starlet going for her first photo-shoot who instead ends up in a seedy apartment with a photographer that her cousin’s sister vouched for. Six years later, I have now been able to form a few observations about life here on the farm.
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