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I started off as a Journalism major and just found the content of the coursework excruciatingly boring. It seemed like every class was a review of the same general advertising concepts with new terms for them. So I switched over to History, mainly because I found the coursework interesting at least. About a year and a half into that I was talking to a bartender at my favorite local place who was also a graduate teaching assistant. He was teaching a Cartography class for the upcoming semester, but he needed a minimum number of students to keep the class from getting cancelled (thus losing him a decent chunk of money), so I agreed to sign up for it. I ended up taking to it really well, and I changed my major to Geography with an emphasis in Geographic Information Systems. Finished with that degree along with a minor in History, and somehow ended up becoming an engineer in my post-college professional life.

I started off as a Journalism major and just found the content of the coursework excruciatingly boring. It seemed like every class was a review of the same general advertising concepts with new terms for them. So I switched over to History, mainly because I found the coursework interesting at least. About a year and a half into that I was talking to a bartender at my favorite local place who was also a graduate teaching assistant. He was teaching a Cartography class for the upcoming semester, but he needed a minimum number of students to keep the class from getting cancelled (thus losing him a decent chunk of money), so I agreed to sign up for it. I ended up taking to it really well, and I changed my major to Geography with an emphasis in Geographic Information Systems. Finished with that degree along with a minor in History, and somehow ended up becoming an engineer in my post-college professional life.

I started off as a Journalism major and just found the content of the coursework excruciatingly boring. It seemed like every class was a review of the same general advertising concepts with new terms for them. So I switched over to History, mainly because I found the coursework interesting at least. About a year and a half into that I was talking to a bartender at my favorite local place who was also a graduate teaching assistant. He was teaching a Cartography class for the upcoming semester, but he needed a minimum number of students to keep the class from getting cancelled (thus losing him a decent chunk of money), so I agreed to sign up for it. I ended up taking to it really well, and I changed my major to Geography with an emphasis in Geographic Information Systems. Finished with that degree along with a minor in History, and somehow ended up becoming an engineer in my post-college professional life.

I started off as a Journalism major and just found the content of the coursework excruciatingly boring. It seemed like every class was a review of the same general advertising concepts with new terms for them. So I switched over to History, mainly because I found the coursework interesting at least. About a year and a half into that I was talking to a bartender at my favorite local place who was also a graduate teaching assistant. He was teaching a Cartography class for the upcoming semester, but he needed a minimum number of students to keep the class from getting cancelled (thus losing him a decent chunk of money), so I agreed to sign up for it. I ended up taking to it really well, and I changed my major to Geography with an emphasis in Geographic Information Systems. Finished with that degree along with a minor in History, and somehow ended up becoming an engineer in my post-college professional life.

Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History did a podcast series called Ghosts of the Ost Front about ten years ago that is excellent. That theater of the war was just unrivaled in both scale and mutual brutality. 

you know who you should call?

But first make sure you get your red stapler back.

If you have a written contract stating your position, wage and conditions of employment say you are hourly then you can sue for back pay plus interest. Company policy can't override written contracts. 

First step is get everything in writing. So in your position I would email HR (copy in your manager) to recap your conversations to date over the phone, and then ask them confirm in writing what they have said. For example: "You advised that contract was given in error. Who is liable for that mistake?" "Can you confirm no other employees have this contract?". That sort of thing.
As a general rule of thumb over here, if HR is doing everything over the phone and not in writing, there is something amiss.
Good luck with it.

Watching the guy play, he certainly passes the eye test. He just looks like he belongs here. Seems very comfortable at this level for a guy that was playing games against the Radford Highlanders and Presbyterian Blue Hose a year ago. He seems super hard to project though. Like is this dude gonna be a .240/.290/.350 guy two years from now? Or maybe a .300/.350/.480 sort of dude? Absolutely no clue. I could see it going either way, though I'd definitely like to think the latter. My personal guess (ok, maybe hope) is that he turns into an Edgar Renteria sort of hitter. So maybe not entirely in line with that second slash line, but fairly close to it. I really don't know. But I definitely like the way he's starting off.  

Watching the guy play, he certainly passes the eye test. He just looks like he belongs here. Seems very comfortable at this level for a guy that was playing games against the Radford Highlanders and Presbyterian Blue Hose a year ago. He seems super hard to project though. Like is this dude gonna be a .240/.290/.350 guy two years from now? Or maybe a .300/.350/.480 sort of dude? Absolutely no clue. I could see it going either way, though I'd definitely like to think the latter. My personal guess (ok, maybe hope) is that he turns into an Edgar Renteria sort of hitter. So maybe not entirely in line with that second slash line, but fairly close to it. I really don't know. But I definitely like the way he's starting off.  

Gates definitely isn’t the best barbecue in KC overall, but their sauce definitely is. It’s a lot more peppery than other sauces you’d find in KC, and not nearly as sweet as a lot of the others. It works really really well on burgers too, strangely.
https://gatesbbq.com/product/40-oz-classic-only-bbq-sauce-case/
 
 

Finally got around to watching this. Fantastic show. Thanks for the recommendation.

Accurate. I like it because of the kick, but I also get why people don't like it or aren't used to it for a KC sauce.

I second this recommendation.  It's a lot of fun to watch with a crowd--and if you can find it playing in Dolby Cinema or something roughly equivalent at non-AMC theaters, it's worth it.  Also, if anyone has any reservations about it being a "foreign" movie, 99% of the dialogue is in English.  There are only a few lines of dialogue in Finnish, near the very end of the movie.

Sisu
Went to see this last night. Really well put together in terms of how it looks, feels, sounds, etc… The story is pretty straightforward and uncomplicated. It’s about killing Nazis, plain and simple. Basically John Wick meets Inglorious Basterds, while looking and feeling like a 60s-era western, all set in 1944 Finland.

It's not like he's an All-Star, but he'll almost certainly be quite a bit better than 2022 Marsh/Adell/Magneuris Sierra. Going from that and Andrew Velasquez to Renfroe and Urshela (probably?) in a matter of days improves the overall lineup quite a bit. The back half of our 2022 lineup was abysmal last year, so getting dudes in there who we can count on to not be objectively terrible is a huge improvement in and of itself.

They were, in fact, stupid.

Watched it last night
Very graphic and moving
Good watch

Thanks. I ran across this show last night and added it to my watchlist. Now I'm looking forward to watching it.

Netflix - War Sailor:
A newly released Norwegian short series (three episodes) about merchant marines in WWII. Specifically tracks two friends and one family from shortly before the war until a few years after. EXTREMELY well-made and acted. One of the better things I've seen in a long time. That said, it is F-ING ROUGH. Like horrifically, viscerally, deeply sad and intense. Several times I found myself thinking the scenes they were showing were much more realistic depictions of the sad, scary stuff that can happen when being hunted on the open sea than the (somewhat) glamourized version of death and destruction that you see in a lot of war films. It just sort of highlights the lack of control people have when the world is going absolutely insane around them, and you really get to understand how thoroughly reasonable it is when people slip into various forms of madness as a result.
All in all, a deeply unpleasant series that is really really good and well worth a watch. 

Netflix - War Sailor:
A newly released Norwegian short series (three episodes) about merchant marines in WWII. Specifically tracks two friends and one family from shortly before the war until a few years after. EXTREMELY well-made and acted. One of the better things I've seen in a long time. That said, it is F-ING ROUGH. Like horrifically, viscerally, deeply sad and intense. Several times I found myself thinking the scenes they were showing were much more realistic depictions of the sad, scary stuff that can happen when being hunted on the open sea than the (somewhat) glamourized version of death and destruction that you see in a lot of war films. It just sort of highlights the lack of control people have when the world is going absolutely insane around them, and you really get to understand how thoroughly reasonable it is when people slip into various forms of madness as a result.
All in all, a deeply unpleasant series that is really really good and well worth a watch. 

Netflix - War Sailor:
A newly released Norwegian short series (three episodes) about merchant marines in WWII. Specifically tracks two friends and one family from shortly before the war until a few years after. EXTREMELY well-made and acted. One of the better things I've seen in a long time. That said, it is F-ING ROUGH. Like horrifically, viscerally, deeply sad and intense. Several times I found myself thinking the scenes they were showing were much more realistic depictions of the sad, scary stuff that can happen when being hunted on the open sea than the (somewhat) glamourized version of death and destruction that you see in a lot of war films. It just sort of highlights the lack of control people have when the world is going absolutely insane around them, and you really get to understand how thoroughly reasonable it is when people slip into various forms of madness as a result.
All in all, a deeply unpleasant series that is really really good and well worth a watch. 

Honestly 4 games seems about right.