It was a dark day indeed when businesses started thinking about their employees as people and not numbers. Being a number was wonderful, even if your number was zero! A number is anonymous. A number has no feelings. A number doesn’t mind being squished into a tiny cubicle in some isolated office outpost, being ignored … Read more
100 Years Ago: Santa Clara News (December 30, 1913) Electric Car Service Will Replace Steam Line Over Cut-Off Henry Menzel Received Patent for Auto Device Municipal Paving Plant Urged by Progressive Booster—A.T. Helm 50 Years Ago: Santa Clara Journal (January 1, 1964) 484 Affected: City Employees Win Pay Boosts Costing $161,491 Agnew Village says … Read more
Now I’ve heard everything. After years of telling us how to think, employers are suddenly obsessed with what we think. Or, to be more specific, what we think about what they tell us to think. Think you’re confused? Let SurveyMonkey explain. SurveyMonkey is in the survey business. Why they called themselves SurveyMonkey instead of SurveySimian, … Read more
Several Santa Clara Police officers played the role of Santa’s helper during Santa Clara PAL’s third annual Shop-With-A-P.A.L. program on Dec. 14. Fifty-one Santa Clara Unified School District elementary and middle school students were paired with volunteers and officers for a holiday shopping spree at Kohl’s Department Store. Before the store opened, the children were … Read more
100 Years Ago: Santa Clara News (December 23, 1913) Parents Approve of Social Activities of Grammar School Pupils: Talents of Children Witnessed by Parents L. M. Fatjo’s ‘Granadafig’ is the Real Thing: Becoming Popular Christmas Confection Investigation Proves Attorney Rankin’s Charges to be False Pioneer Woman Passes Away: Mrs. A. A. Billings Defeat of Highway … Read more
The Triton Museum of Art held its annual Holiday Gift Fair on Dec. 7-8. The event featured over 20 artists including glassworkers, knitters, crocheters, jewelry makers and painters, and gave community members the opportunity to buy local, original gifts for the holiday season. This year, the museum tried something new by adding entertainment. On Saturday … Read more
100 Years Ago: Santa Clara News (December 16, 1913) * Editorial: Highway Improvement Bonds Should be Favored * Muzzle Laws Will be Enforced: Protection Needed from Diseases of Dogs * Attorney M.J. Rankin Again on Wild Political Rampage: Skulks in the Shadows and Dares Not Back Up Accusations by Oath or Affidavit * L. M. … Read more
Cinerama South Seas Adventure is the fourth Cinerama feature to be released to home video. Reviewed by Karl Scott It was preceded by This is Cinerama, Windjammer, and Cinerama Holiday. Like CH, this film was re-mastered by Image Trends in Austin, Texas, where they digitally reprocess every cell of all three reels of film used … Read more
Always ready to roll up their sleeves to raise funds for library programs, the Santa Clara City Library Foundation and Friends sponsored its 3rd Annual Holiday Craft Fair December 14 at the Central Park Library. One of 30 craftspeople, seventh grader Katrina Espinoza (catscades.weebly.com) sold ruffled scarves. “It was a hobby, and I ended up … Read more
Bad news. After all the effort you have put into becoming the perfect “low- profile” employee, who nobody knows or notices, it turns out the people you see getting ahead are the ones you see. Period. It’s true. While hiding behind a copy of The Wall Street Journal, I came across a Sue Shellenbarger article … Read more