SimonBolivar

One Market Under God What a title there Tom.

A significant minority of us are unemployed maniacs that drink milk from saucers.

I don't remember all of the specifics, but she hadn't been there the required year for FMLA and it was at the end of the year where they required her to finish the year as a probationary teacher. It was a tiny ass 6-man school in Texas so they might have fucked up some paperwork/laws in their one person HR department that surely had other duties assigned. Her admin thought it was bull too so they let her "work from home" for the last day to keep her healthcare over the summer. I have another teacher bs story on healthcare at a large district. My wife did a program (during COVID) where the school district paid for their masters if they promised to stay 5 years at the district. Well the university that was facilitating the masters program was also in charge of making sure that everyone got the tests they needed to be fully certified teachers by the state. The university made sure that everyone was able to finish their MEd in one-year and let the state testing fall behind as they weren't getting paid for teachers to pass their state tests like they were to take their university courses. Well about 10 months into the 12 month program they had a zoom meeting where the students are asking their advisor about the tests they haven't taken yet and the college told them not to worry about it that they'll get an waiver from the college program to go another year without testing and everything was fine....well until graduation day where the advisor sends an email to the whole graduating class telling all of them that they're losing their certification because none of them took the state mandated test yet. The school district responded by making all of them long-term subs instead of teachers until they were able to schedule and pass their state tests. As long-term subs they only made something like $100/day and received no health care. My wife was pissed, but ultimately fine for the 4 months it took to take all the tests and get the results. The one that really pissed everyone off was that one of the teachers was 5 months pregnant when this happened and lost her healthcare. Fortunately, she passed the tests under pressure to be considered a fulltime teacher by the time she had the kid and had her insurance reinstated.

In my experience, but I'm never after any rich Chilangos.

Really Marion Co? Really?

"Tens of gallons were saved!"

My sister was a first year teacher when she had her kid and the way that ended up in the school year she had to go back 5 days after having the kid or she would've lost healthcare.

Let's see what happens in this Brighton/Luton game.

Well yeah but our housing used to be cheaper or something, I forget.

Master race huh

God, can ya'll imagine what would happen if kids start to grow up thinking that people of different races can be kind and welcoming to each other? That trustee might just be Texas' Citizen of the Year for helping us steer clear of that disaster!

Well let's not make any rash decisions here. What if you need the cash and the AMEX?

I heard about this on NPR yesterday and they asked if you would be more scared of the snake or the hawk and they all said snake. I can't imagine being more afraid of a non-venomous snake than a hawk. Have they seen the talons on those fuckers?

My wife if very leery of Surly in general, but the hatch bacon has started to shift that opinion.

"Don't be a Baylor grad, don't be a Baylor grad, don't be a Baylor grad" Phew, ACU and UT Law

AVFC gets another European spot this year.

Why would the neo-confederates cheer for the USA?

Well if you're Donald Trump it does.

And to not pick up reds against recently promoted teams at home.

Wednesday of this week is the switch day when the average high temperature finally starts to go down instead of up.

Sunderland continues to bring the lulz losing to Ipswich 2-1 at home.

Does he really not know how the judiciary works?

I'm a bit embarrassed to say that I've never read Foundation until now. I enjoyed it a lot more than I thought I would and will finish all of them if they keep up this way (which is still shorter than a single book in the Expanse series)