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Brewer Development Scout position open: https://blogs.fangraphs.com/instagraphs/job-posting-milwaukee-brewers-development-scout/ [sarcasm]For all of you that know so much better how to do things than our front office, now is the time to put up or shut up![/sarcasm]

+1 This is pretty common place, unfortunately. We had a weird change for recruiting interns this year and they wouldn't allow me to interview for my own intern. Our business chose people in the company to go recruit at certain college events and my intern was offered a job on the spot. I asked what they were doing with the public posting and they said they weren't allowed to consider anyone that applied - only through the recruiting events. At best, it seems border-line legal, but certainly not ethical.

So do I need approval to post and view certain threads now? Where did I say that? I said I was confused as to why you come here and keep telling us how you don't want to cut the cord. It doesn't really contribute to the point of the thread.

Pothole pizza at Kwik Trip was excellent (for frozen pizza). I though the topping/cheese balance on the top was perfect, but I'll admit that it was a bit greasy. Still very good. They are on the higher end for cost and unfortunately in MN, we don't get the discount with the Packers win.

If this is the case, I'm a bit confused as to why you keep coming back here. If you prefer to pay more to have the simple solution and don't have any issues with Cable/Sat hardware and/or service, then do so. This thread is for those that would prefer not to do that and share ideas with others. Personally, I love being able to turn services ON/OFF for a month. - Brewers make the playoffs? Fire up Sling to watch. - Christmas holiday movies? Add a service to get that movie you want. - Summer rolls around? Shut down stuff, save money and go outside. I have a Roku TV, Samsung TV, and a Tivo. I've invested a few hundred dollars in my setup and saved thousands.

Shoot even a standard oven be getting cramped at that size. That is why we bought a double oven We often are baking two things at once or at least using the smaller one as a "warmer" for what I'm grilling. The air fryer feature is very nice and we can get crispy fries for the whole family.

I had good success using the conventional oven to reheat pizza. I think I did 400 degrees for like 6 - 8 minutes. That was back when I was single and getting two Domino's mediums for $12 (or whatever the deal was). I can confirm, I just reheated 4 day old Papa John's, 2 slices of pizza and 2 breadsticks in the oven. Around 7 minutes at 375 degrees on a baking sheet with aluminum foil so it doesn't make a mess. Tasted just like the day it was ordered. Yes, I've done that too. But we have a conventional oven that has an air fryer mode (basically it is just a convection oven). The small air fryers are worthless for a family of 8.

I've yet to find a "good" pizza place in the Twin Cities... I had one deep dish (Chicago style) place highly recommended by 3-4 people so my wife and I did it for a date night. It was passable Pizza Hut level, but not something to out of your way for.

I'll be trying my first pothole pizza this week. My family enjoy Lotzza Motzza pizza and yes, I like the toppings more than I like crust. Too many pizzas have tried to hold the $5 price point and have become pizza flavored cardboard - even after saving costs by removing the cardboard! Either that or they removed the crust... My family used to eat Jack's Rising Crust pizza, but we can't seem to find it around us anymore. That would represent my ideal cheap, frozen pizza. The regular jacks gets back to the cardboard. I also think the Aldi Take-and-Bake brand (Mrs. something or other) is very good, but HORRIBLE for leftovers. My daughter was talking about using our new air-fryer oven to reheat pizza, that might help greatly with soggy crusts and cheese.

Jungle Cruise gets 5 stars for the dad jokes alone! Yes, it wasn't deep and the premise was similar to those movies, but the overall plot felt new. I didn't feel like they rehashed the plot from anyone else (looking at you Star Wars episode 7-9). Predictable plot twists where there, but it is Disney... It is a fun family movie that cause a lot of laughs with my family.

I have a Roku TV (TCL) and Tivo setup in my living room and love it except... Roku's remote stinks. Yes, it is simple, but a bit too simple. There are fixed shortcuts to launch Sling, Netflix and a couple other apps I don't or rarely use. And they only have a skip forward button, no skip backwards.

if you have T-Mobile, they have offered MLB.tv for free the last couple years: https://www.cordcuttersnews.com/t-mobile-customers-can-get-mlb-tv-for-free-starting-today/ Seems that most of the moble phone carriers are providing included streaming services. Since I started with Sprint (bought out by Tmobile), I get Hulu for free or Hulu/Disney+/ESPN+ for a reduced amount. Tmobile accounts get netflix for free.

Awww... I loved Quantum Leap and Al. They brought him into an episode of Enterprise to pair with Scott Bakula (Captain Archer/Sam Beckett on QL) again. He also played a regular bit role in Buck Rodgers TV series. I'm sure many others, but those were the ones I remember off the top of my head.

I just got sling for the baseball playoffs but after the Brewers were out, I started watching the most recent DC films. I agree with the critics that DC can't seem to do heroes well, but has great villains. Aquaman and Batman vs. Superman were terrible. Wonder Woman wasn't bad, but the story never seemed to pull me in. Green Lantern was ok. Suicide Squad was very good (though I still can't stand this Joker). Justice League was pretty good and the best DC hero movie I've seen (of these recent DC comic based movies). The Christian Bale Batman series is still the best by far of any of the DC comic movies.

My experience is that firing is not easily justified unless you break one of the big rules (discrimination, assault, being drunk, etc..). Just firing someone due to poor performance, showing up late, etc... is not easy in a salaried position. Hourly might be different as I don't have as much experience there. Yes, I'd agree layoffs are often silly. But that is the main difference between a layoff and a firing. Layoffs are not about the person or their performance, but about the business. Firings are about the person and you normally need very good documented proof before firing someone (i.e. not showing up for work late once).

I'm just reading what you posted. My greater point was that hiring managers, HR, recruiters... sometimes people are jerks, but more often, we are understaffed and trying to do our best. It is easy to be upset with a faceless representative of corporate America. Harder when it is Joe next door that just got busy and made a mistake. If you happen to run into a jerk, being a jerk... it doesn't help to be a jerk to the next person just because the way you were treated before. Just be glad the jerk didn't hire you. You do realize firing and layoffs are two very different activities. Yes, the person at the end of the day is no longer employed, but the reasons are very different. The check and balance to firing/laying off are lawsuits. And companies (especially corporations) are generally very careful about lawsuits. That is why an individual firing is handled so carefully. Your first example was someone coming in late to work one time and getting fired. My experience is that you need to document a long history of that problem, give them training and opportunity to change, and even have them acknowledge the problem before HR/Legal will allow a firing to happen. For a layoff, the "bar" is certainly lower, but the company is also careful to show financial reasons (loss of a contract, losing sales, etc..) as the driver for laying people off. In short, they want proof to show that the decision wasn't one against the individual but financial reasons.

They can dock your pay if you show up late once, fire you this afternoon and tell you to get bent I've been a people manager for 13 years. And I'll tell you that this is not possible in salaried positions (i.e. engineering). I've documented people's negative behavior, done a 3 month performance improvement plan, then still HR hesitant to remove the person (two times). I've actually never been able to fire someone -despite some pretty outrageous behavior. People do tend to pick up on it and leave themselves, however. FYI, in 26 years of post-college career, I've had three jobs and probably a couple dozen interviews. Far more applications that you never hear back on. But I can't say that I've ever ghosted someone or had someone ghost me (either in as an interviewer or interviewee). I've had people cancel, but I've always heard back from them. The thing about "big corporate America" is that there is always a human at the other end just trying to do his/her own job. We aren't the corporate "fat cats" you despise. Sometimes it is simply about being a nice person and treating others they way you want to be treated.

I'm not big on the "trial project" idea, though examples of personal projects are very helpful. I'm a software engineering manager and I find it very helpful to see a candidate's personal github or LinkedIn profile with examples of various projects they have done. I don't disagree OSS that we are cogs in the corporate world and I don't pretend that employees (myself included) aren't replaceable. Layoffs happen, wrong people get promoted, good ideas are ignored. But both in hiring and in working, you are going to get out what you get in. People that differentiate themselves are promoted and managers work to keep them (or hire them). People that stay "in the pack" are more replaceable and will get more median raises and probably will never actually enjoy their job (yes that is possible).

I'll say that there is a different "view" on hiring than you guys realize on college vs. experience. OWBC hit it on the head with teams that need help NOW (generally reactive hires) vs. a more balanced hiring approach (proactive hiring). My company thankfully does our reactive hiring via contractors (mostly) and maintains a decent influx of college grads as part of the development pipeline. I just hired a college grad solely based on her desire to learn and grow. She has a decent background college gave her, but she is missing many skills my team will develop in her. So far, she hasn't disappointed. Next year, I'm hiring two more college grads and will do similar effort. But I'm also hiring experienced engineers to replace ones that left. They have expectations on leadership at that level, so they do have to have a minimum background skill level that is close to what my team needs as I can't afford to train an experienced person in the basics of this job. Not everyone that changes jobs is disgruntled as OSS. Identifying someone that is disgruntled in their job is actually pretty easy. Everyone has some level if dissatisfaction, but is normally pretty easy to discern if someone is just looking to leave their current situation or if they are actually interested in your job. Write a bland resume that isn't tailored to my job opening, don't bother reading about my company and/or products, don't have a good reason for leaving your current job (and/or complain openly about your current boss), and you won't get a sniff from my hiring. I red-flagged someone (as an interviewer, not hiring manager) that took 30 minutes in her interview to complain about her previous boss. The hiring manager ignored it and hired her anyway. Terrible decision.

I don't do homework for free. My wife had an interview like this, got hired, and the hiring manager used her fake project for a real assignment. He was using the interviews to mine his own work. I assume this happens a lot. She no longer works there. I'm late to the party here but I second all the frustrations with interviews. It's so bad that I don't even bother anymore and just opt to stay put. I'm not doing a phone screen with HR, a phone screen with a manager and then 2 on-sites. You're not that special guys. You don't get 6 un-billed hours of my time. As soon as they mention multiple stages I just decline the whole thing and get off the phone. I realize if you're unemployed you don't have that luxury though. I guess it depends on how important the job is. There are so many candidates that don't really have the right qualifications that you need time vetting them out. We do a recruiter screen (30 min), first interview with me (hiring manager - 60 min), second interviews with engineers on the same team (120 min) and that is it. If you can't handle 3.5 hours "unpaid" in an effort to get a job, I probably don't want you on the team anyway. Also realize that at least 25% of that time is spent answer the candidates questions and/or "selling" our company and the job to him/her. If you aren't interviewing me for the position, I'm concerned about why you want the job.

Sling will also have a free trial. I normally turn it on for a month (Bucks playoffs, Brewers playoffs) and turn it back off. Restarting it costs $10 for the first month. But I should try YouTube TV also... I haven't burnt that free trial.

[sarcasm]Exactly! How can we build a WS team without high draft picks??? We keep running out scrub SPs drafted in the 4th, 11th, and a DR signee. Then close it with a 19th rounder! How can we win this way???[/sarcasm]

Is bat guano the new rotten tomatoes?

I'm jealous... the rest of us had to watch that game without any grilled goose...

For my kids' 14th birthdays, we would get them their "adult" bike (~$400-500 entry level bike shop bike) that they shouldn't outgrow anymore. I have a daughter that is completely blind and we have done biking with tag-alongs and similar things, but it normally worked REALLY bad. Her balance as she grew older was terrible and normally made it frustrating to counterbalance her while pulling her. But we had the opportunity to try a tandem bike and to my surprise it worked really well. There are a few times I have to overcompensate, but since the bike doesn't have any pivot points, it is much easier to manage than the tag-along that pivoted on my bike seat. So for her 14th birthday, we bought a Schwinn Twinn and took it out. I'll probably tweak the bike a bit (upgrade the tires mainly), but overall a very nice and lower cost ($700) tandem bike. It needs some shifting adjustments, but otherwise worked well right out of the box from Amazon. She loves to bike, but our old setup just caused frustration. Hopefully with this setup, we can get a regular riding rhythm now.