>with a bright shinny piece of paper calling her a Ph.D.

PhD. *sigh* I've decided that interally, everytime I say "Dr. Whatshisface" at school, I'll really be thinking "Bishop Whatshisface". They mean the same thing to me.

>I had done some very important work for this corporation and received written acknowledgement for my accomplishments. My action created millions of dollars for the corporation. As I was 49 at the time I was given 6 weeks notice.

Yuck. I'm real sorry to hear that, Thomas.

An interesting experimient would be to see if Google would hire you:

http://www.google.com/jobs/great-people-needed.html

Compared to every company I've seen, especially in this biz, Google seems to be the most unique and magnanimous company around. I'm wondering if they're image is accurate.