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  1. My dad and stepmom have a place in Naples and I think this is the second time it's going to get slammed in about 5-10 years. Naples is one of the most culturally disgusting places I've ever been, a suburban hellscape with a bunch of super entitled east coast and midwest Boomers treating a largely brown Spanish-speaking or white trash underclass like "the help." My dad and stepmom are cool, but some sort of supermajority of people are like that. Including my uncle and aunt, who also have a place down there. When we visit them at their high-class condo complex (which I admit is kind of cool with a resort-level pool complex, poolside bar, etc.) I am beyond embarrassed watching how they and the other residents treat the pool staff, bartenders, and so on. Same goes for watching people interact at restaurants and in stores. Everyone there has "made it" because they've paid some ungodly amount to live in the Villages by the Sea. And although it would harm my (small) inheritance -- he's a retired autoworker who got beat to shit over 30+ years on the job and lives off his pension -- I don't feel that bad for the jerks that get their reckoning (condos/houses, cars, etc.), though I hope the underclass makes it through safe and sound, both physically and financially.
  2. Ridiculous Tigers homer here and agree with you.
  3. Make up for that horseshit "catch" in left field
  4. I am about as pro-union as they come -- growing up with a weird autoimmune issue as a kid, I literally would not be alive were it not for my dad's USW and UAW health plans over the years! -- but there are two issues I don't align with unions on: Making ridiculous initial demands that get picked up by the news and that hurts the cause. To me, it's like animal welfare advocates that throw the buckets of paint on people. It's easy to paint poorly in the news and just hurts the cause overall. Unions that are overextractive and hurt the cause. If those stats about these dockworkers are true, they're just as culpable as executives that 100x their employees' income and, again, it's easy to paint in a negative light and hurt the cause. Also, to the overextractive piece, I'd add public sector unions that "get theirs" for retirees and older workers with respect to pensions and health care and bankrupt or hamstring government entities. Again, it makes it easy to paint the union as the bad guy and hurts the union's effectiveness when it comes to actually fighting for things we all deserve like a living wage, reasonable health and retirement benefits, and safe working conditions. The way I am following this story, seems like these dockworkers are fucking both up.
  5. TLDR: I'm getting frustrated by the AI/HR grind, am getting rejected in large part for being overexperienced/overqualified so far, and want advice or word tracks for contacting hiring managers, especially where LinkedIn shows 1+ quality connections (not recruiters, not spammy connections). I am FEELING this. I have been searching for about 9 months and am beyond frustrated by the algorithm/HR grind. For the first 8 months of the 9, I applied to jobs for which I was a great fit, typically slightly or greatly overqualified, and touched up my resume and crafted a directly on-point cover letter. I got ONE interview, where I did well and made it to the hiring manager. I did not get the job and, in fact, the hiring manager contacted me and told me I'd be great for the role except that she was uncomfortable managing someone with more experience than her. About a month ago, I was out for beers with friends -- one who is in IT and was applying for jobs, another who is in HR/training -- and they told me that almost all medium- or large- companies run all resumes through an AI-based screen prior to a human ever seeing them, and that was probably my issue. The IT guy suggested a particular platform (Teal) that uses AI to synthesize your resume and the job description, plus any custom prompts you give it, to create a cover letter. I do this and then touch up the cover letter because sometimes there's AI weirdness. This has been great for getting past that first step. I'm up to 5 interviews in the last two weeks. 2 jobs I was a finalist and not selected, 1 a semi-finalist, and I have two pending. So that's progress. but I guess I a frustrated as fuck to keep getting stonewalled when I'm so close. For two of the three where I wasn't selected, I got feedback that they had concerns whether I'd be a good fit for the role because it was a more junior/mid-career role. The experience/overqualification issue: For background, I am a lawyer with 15 years' experience, 16 years out of law school. I have some pretty good schools on my resume (Michigan undergrad, Northwestern law, Harvard management) and am an honorably discharged veteran. I spent the first 3 years at a large law firm focused on finance/banking before one of our clients, a public transit agency, hired me to go in-house. I was there for a year and a half before switching cities and staying in house a a quasi-governmental airport operator (900+ direct employees, 19,000+ badged employees through contracts). In that role, I rose to be General Counsel and also had the Government Affairs and Government Departments under me. So I was a do-it-all generalist -- with a focus on contracting and procurement, as we ground through a few hundred contracts per year -- with significant leadership and budget management experience. COVID hit and I left that job after a few months, in June 2020, because we had two kids under two, my wife has her dream job, and daycare was closed while we were in a ~750ft^2 rental while our house was being renovated. Once daycare and school normalized around here, in September 2021, I went back to work with a large law firm as Counsel, in its Transactional/Commercial Contracts Group. One, I wanted a job, and two, I wanted to rebrand myself outside of the public sector or public sector-adjacent space. This has been good but not great. A couple months after starting, I was seconded to (embedded with) a nascent spin-off of a F500, reporting directly to its GC. Loved this role. But about a month ago, the engagement ended and I'm back to billing hours rather than just entering "Secondment day" and am now reminded that tracking and billing time, frankly, sucks. Also, I really want to get into something more permanent and direct than a counsel/contract relationship. So the challenge I have on this front is that anything with 10+ years experience I see wants SPECIFIC experience. For example, they want a generalist but someone that's spent [X]+ years in automotive, or at tech startups, or at wherever. Obviously, I don't have this so I haven't bothered applying. OTOH, I'm applying for less experienced in-house jobs with less specific industry requirements and getting through to interviews, but getting the vibe that someone with ~6-10 years does not want someone with 15 years, including leading a large department, reporting to them. It's come up multiple times, and in each case I mention that I took some time off and pivoted industries a bit, so I understand and am completely comfortable with repositioning myself. I suppose either this is not a good answer or it's not coming off as genuine (?), although it is. the fact that this keeps coming up is frustrating. I'm not an ego guy and have reported to people older/more experienced and younger/less experienced than me. Contacting people directly via Email/LinkedIn - Catching up on this thread, I see some of y'all have had success reaching out directly to recruiters/hiring managers. Is anyone willing to share examples of word tracks or messages that worked? I'm kind of at a loss at how to approach it with someone I don't personally know but with whom I have connections. For example, "Hi Jane, I'm reaching out because I applied to your open widget sorter position. I see that we have x, y, and z as common connections and I'm sure they'd be happy to vouch for me, if asked. I am very interested in the position and hope you'd be willing to make sure my cover letter and resume get a look. Thanks for your time! - Choripan" But it's hard to make the cold call ask and some forms I could modify would be great. I realize I've written a novel here, but it's been therapeutic to do so and I'm at a loss. I've never felt so lost and frustrated professionally. Thanks for reading and I'd really appreciate any help with word tracks and advice on how to position myself with respect to being "overqualified." Like, does my answer above just suck?
  6. Twins lose! My beloved Tigers are tied for the Wild Card (and one game back by the tiebreaker...) Yeah!
  7. She has some redeeming qualities, I'll give her that.
  8. Love seeing the reviews and pics, y'all. Especially the Pinball Pete's one. Just took my 6 and 5 year old there the other day. Just wish you would have been enjoying these things in order to take the edge off of a loss, though.
  9. Good clarification for the group, as I already understood that. I'd clarify that the de facto was tied to the shittiness of non-SC charging networks. Too often they're out of service, slow, unavailable, etc. If I were to build a trip relying on charging stations, I would not depend on non-Tesla charging stations, either an individual brand or as a group. Sucks that that's where our infrastructure is now, but IIWIS
  10. We had a Chevy Volt (Gen 2) hybrid as a company car when my wife worked at GM 7-8 years ago. Loved that we could tool around town and not buy gas for weeks at a time, and the car itself was nice, too. but when we had a road trip we didn't have to mess with chargers. Was bummed when we had to give it back (they make you swap every six months). Based on that experience, when it was time to replace our Jeep last year, we got the PHEV. Same deal, we buy gas about once a month and it charges fully in our garage overnight at 110v. We would have considered Tesla a few (4-5?) years ago -- my MIL loves her early-run Model 3 -- but now, and especially now-now after the last few months, we're like the folks mentioned above who won't consider Tesla under any circumstances. Hell, I don't know that we'll go full EV when we replace our car if the industry switch to the Tesla cable means de facto having to use superchargers and put money in Musk's pockets.
  11. Unlikely you'd have an issue, especially on game day. We live about a 7 minute walk from Main Street and usually have an en route beer in a solo cup on our way there. But I'd never say never. The go cup program is only in the greater downtown area, kinda like how I recall Memphis having a go cup zone only in Beale Street. Here's a link to a page about it with a map: https://mainstreetannarbor.org/social-district
  12. Are you talking Friday evening? Or early Saturday morning, with the implication the tailgate lot won't be open yet? If Friday evening, I'd suggest anywhere outdoors and downtown, because it's central. If you're a craft beer guy, I suggest the Grotto, since there's a lot of outdoor seating near the sidewalk and people could just swoop through and grab their wristbands without having to buy anything. Alternatively, and probably better, downtown Ann Arbor will be pedestrianized and go-cups are allowed in a designated downtown area. You could post up with a couple chairs and a table on the corner of Main and Liberty or something like that and just chill with some go-cups from Pretzel Bell or one of the other bars that participates in the go-cup program. Kicking myself for not mentioning this before, but if you don't have the beer situation figured out, an old baseball buddy of mine owns the Blue Front, about a block and a half from your location. PM me if you want a connection there.
  13. As a Michigan guy, I have no clue if we were not opening up the playbook or our QBs really suck that badly. I think it may be both. Good news is we have a few god-level players on the defense with good players throughout. I share the same concerns as the poster above, about whether Martindale's schemes will work well in college, especially if Sark runs a lot of crossers and other man beaters (pause) against blitzes with man behind them. Either way, can ride the high from last season for another season or two! I'm sure it was the same for you guys after the magical Vince year.
  14. Should be DJs at Pretzel Bell and LoFi, right next to each other. Also might want to try the second floor at Circ, though that can get studenty, though nowhere near 100%. Old dudes welcome at essentially all places on game weekends, but you want to be on that side of downtown to avoid students. The further east you go, the more studenty it is, as a rule, with the e/w dividing line kind of being Division Street.
  15. Word is coaches are going with Warren. Here's Mgoblog's writeup on him: Warren had leukemia in high school and got healthy just in time for COVID to cancel his senior season. This man is high in the rankings of worst-scouted quarterbacks. This continued a theme for Warren, who has caught the eye in multiple spring games. In 2021 Warren and Alan Bowman went head to head and "observers thought Warren was better" than a guy who ended up starting for Oklahoma State last year. He's not going to be Orji but you don't have to dump the zone read out of the playbook if he enters. Add it up and I think Warren has displayed enough over the course of the last two years to believe he could step in and be a version of Stetson Bennett, Georgia's walk-on turned national champion QB. Emphasis on "a version": Bennett was a fourth-round pick and threw for over 9 YPA during his two-year run as Georgia's starter. That's the best-case scenario, and thus unlikely. But could he be Cade McNamara? Yeah, probably. So with money on the line, the head coach went with a higher-floor guy. FWIW, if you're reading up on Michigan this year, Mgoblog is doing position-by-position previews, which will end in a teamwide summation tomorrow, the day before gameday. They do really good work and, as much as the paysites tend to be overly-optimistic (to maintain access), Mgoblog tends toward disaffected nerd slightly pessimistic.
  16. Haha, we were talking about this at the bar the other night. Is there some manner in which they can securely vote absentee?
  17. East Part of Campus / South U (what what!) Okay, we don't have anything like Dirty Sixth in Ann Arbor. Nor anything like what East Sixth was prior to mega-gentrification. And we lack the serial murders of Rainey. Interestingly enough, when I was in undergrad, it was like Rainey pre-towers, with 1-2 story buildings and a shitload of lowkey, chill bars with other stuff mixed in. Now every block has a generic 10-15 story tower or is slated to have a tower within a few years. But we're not here to talk about that folks, we're here to talk about getting dronk on the cheap with 19 year olds with fake IDs through grad students, though the oldsters like me are welcome on football weekends. This area is called South U (because it's off South University Street, duh), and in undergrad I lived just a few blocks away, just past Washtenaw to the east on the map above 😁.This is the "X" that's farthest to the east in that same map Onto the business at hand: Joe's Pizza - Outpost of a place from NY. Does a really good NY style slice. Good Time Charleys - A student classic. The prices are usually really good, especially if you catch a special, and there's a really cool circular bar area in the middle of the bar that, functionally, sets up vibes like Carousel Bar in New Orleans, except people get 3-4 deep around that bar. Also known for their list of like 100 shooters. Pizza House / Garage Bar - Pizza House is the restaurant that branched off into a bar called Garage Bar just adjacent, underneath the parking garage. They share a kitchen. This is a classic place and the fav of Tom Brady, among others. Garage Bar is relatively new but has a great vibe, big beers, and is open air, so it's a good spot. Recommend both. Rick's - This is THE undergrad and grad student "I'm trying to get laid, no one goes there before 11pm place." Sticky floors, sweaty people, loud music, dancing, the whole nine. Sometimes, during a game weekend, our group will do the old "fuck it, Rick's?" and it's always a blast, even if we look like decrepit olds. Definitely worth a visit if the vibes of your night veer off that direction, or if you want to take them that direction. Line starts getting bad around 1100-1130pm most weekend nights. For me, this has been Burnside's a few times in Austin, especially since my BIL (UT Grad / Austin Resident) is almost a dead ringer for Tristan Thompson, especially for drunk folks. (If we ever meet in person, ask me about my Kenny Vacaro/Burnside's story). Back Room Pizza - Shitty, cheap slice at the end of the night that hits the spot. I don't know if they've ever sold a slice before 2am. Little Brown Jug - Classic pub. Mix on game weekends is probably 2/3 oldsters and 1/3 students. Has a great hanging vibe, wood paneled kinda place. Lot of Michigan themed drinks and food. IIRC, this is the place where Harbaugh bought the recruit a cheeseburger (and fries and a pop, I admit!) during the COVID dead period. Worth a visit if you're on this side of town, as it's a classic. Pinball Pete's - Classic arcade and, if you're with a kid, a must-visit. Really, they don't make them like this anymore and Pete's won't be around much longer because the City Planning Commission just approved the demo of this block for a high-rise. Study Hall Lounge - Second floor lounge/club that tends to skew more adult than student, oddly enough for being located in this area. Only been once, they played hip hop/contemporary music and it was a good time. But can't recommend it because I've only been once. Blue Leprechaun - Basement club with fair-priced drinks and usually a good DJ. The youngs call it the "Blue Lep" but us older heads still call it "Touchdown Cafe" because Touchdown's was BELOVED (and got shut down by state Liquor Control in the late-2000s for their legendary beer pong tournaments and drinking contests. RIP thug. As far as I know, the same owners just made a new LLC or corp, transferred the liquor license, and reopened as Blue Leprechaun like a year later after the license suspension was lifted. Maize and Blue Deli - Zingerman's is the world-famous deli and it's good. But Maize and Blue is just as good -- if not better, depending on who you ask -- and is located in this area. Alright, I also want to mention two three places that I love in the "X" most to the South on the map. York - They have a huge open terrace area/yard drinking area that is a good vibe, especially when they have a DJ. This is more of a chill spot -- they have a kids' play area, for example -- but the food and drinks and vibes are GREAT. In addition to their own kitchen, there's usually a couple food trucks out back and there's the original location of Ricewood BBQ, which is the only good/passable brisket in Ann Arbor besides my own. Fraser's Pub - Classic neighborhood sports bar right across the street. It gets busy on game days, but the prices are fair and the food is good bar food. Arborside Dispensary - My favorite dispensary because they have a 20-pack of my favorite 10mg gummies for like 6-7 bucks. Don't forget that recreational weed is completely legal in Michigan. Another note. Michigan, and since Ann Arbor is in it, is an early-closing state. It sucks but bars and clubs close at 2am if you don't find an after. So get your ducks in order to get your fun in by 2am.
  18. Here's your UM scouting report: Coaching: Lot of good coaches. Moore did well when Harbaugh out last season, but can he do it as the man? We shall see. Tough schedule this year, especially with UT out-of-conference. QB: Total wildcard. We have the athletic wizard with a cannon in Orji, a good game manager transfer in Tuttle, and a kinda hybrid in Warren. Orji is lowest floor, highest ceiling. The outcome here is the difference between a great season and something like 8-4. RB: Excellent. Edwards is a 5* that panned out and the backup Mullings would start and do well at most other schools. WR: Who knows? Morris smoked Bama's secondary last year, Semaj Morgan is a great jitterbug, and we have some talented guys who haven't seen much of the field. Definitely talented, but production? TE: Top-15 draft pick next year in Loveland, the more in-line guy who I can't remember is also really good. This is a strength. OL: A number of guys with spot starting experience and they all performed well. If Moore's experience as OL coach is any indication, at least 3-4 of the positions will be plus and we'll be at least average at the other 1-2. DT: God-level. Top-10 pick in Graham and Grant is 1st rounder. Solid depth. DE: Heavy talent, light on experience. Should be good but not great, like I'd expect from the OL. LB: Hearing great things about Hausmann and the other guy I can't remember, writing this off the cuff. CB: Top-5 pick stud in Will Johnson. Other side could be a weakness, though. Who knows? S: Loaded. Two-deep with guys who are at least quality starters. Big position battle. Special Teams: Don't have a clue. Nerds will kick balls and athletic dudes will return them. Intangibles: Team seems to be coming together over this NCAA stuff. Our strawman joke is that it was "about a hamburger" but if you look at the source material, the key things are buying a couple of meals for recruits and their families during the covid dead period, buying a $100 entry to a charity golf outing affiliated with the family member of a recruit, and (no joke) assisting a recruit with getting verified on Instagram. The rub is that we essentially went between telling the NCAA to fuck off, in not so many words, and ignoring them, especially in light of what had recently happened at UNC, Tennessee, etc. If QB pans out, I could see an easy Michigan win. If QB is weak, I can see an easy Texas win. Middle-of-the-road, I see a good game between a probably-better Texas team and a playing-at-home Michigan team. Looking forward to it!
  19. Okay, I've spoilered the map that I reference above so it's readily available. Now for East Downtown/Campus-ish - This is the area that is most student-like at it's core, though in the Xs the southeast and northwest on my map above, you have more adults. Starting in the northwest part of the map: Aventura - It's a good, if a bit overpriced, tapas joint. The paella is very good; this coming from someone (me) who has lived in Spain on and off for the last three years. They have a Valenciano master that makes it. Some background: https://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/2023/08/world-class-paella-ann-arbor-chef-set-to-represent-us-in-international-competition.html. If they have the cochinillo/suckling pig on the menu, it's divine. Blue Nile - Ethiopian joint. Very good but not spectacular. Worth it for the novelty if you haven't tried Ethiopian or don't have an Ethiopian restaurant nearby. Afternoon Delight - Pretty much a typical breakfast joint/diner but has good ingredients and really good eggs benedict. Great for a hangover. Mexican Food - Just avoid it. Nothing good in the greater downtown area, especially if you're coming from Texas. Only good Mexican in Ann Arbor, IMO, is from a counter at Tienda Libertad on the west side of town. Tomukun - Noodle/Ramen bar on one side, Korean BBQ on the other, and they do both very well. Knight's - Downtown outpost of an old school steakhouse on the west side. Good steaks, good cocktails, and usually a HEAVY pour. Sava's - I'm not a huge fan, though it's good. It's American/Contemporary food done well and, if you have a larger group, I recommend it for that. A go-to for recruiting dinners because there's something everyone would like, so if you have ta picky eater or two in your group, this'll do, pig. SCOREKEEPER'S(!) - My favorite bar in undergrad. During the day it's a sports bar and around 10pm they take up all the tables, have a DJ on the balcony above the dance floor, and the music is mostly the new hot shit. Used to have 75 cent bottles on Thursdays and Saturdays when I was in undergrad. Although I'd stick out on the dance floor now, it's kind of accepted for alums/oldsters to be anywhere on gameday weekends. Great place to recommend for your college/grad school aged kid, if they come out. Iggy's Eggies - Good breakfast sandwiches and stuff like that. Not really sit-down. If you send someone on a hungover "please just fuckin grab us something" mission, this is a good choice. New York Pizza Depot (NYPD) - Great spot to get a late-night slice after the bar. They usually have a dozen or two options. Ashley's - Irish pub with a GREAT burger, which many consider the best in the city. I think it's really good but I'm not a huge fan of gigantic burgers that require me to dislodge my jaw like a snake. Red Hawk - Low key place for microbrews and good pub food. I'm not a fancy beer drinkin' guy -- I mean, it goes down as well as anything else -- but my craft beer nerd (uh, connoisseur) friends say it's a good spot. Blom Meadery - I never thought I'd like mead, thinking it'd be too sweet, but they have a lot of good meads and the food is good. Nice if you want to swoop through and try something different While you're in the area, I recommend a stop by Nickels Arcade. It's a block-long arcade with a lot of cute stores and it's a block you'll probably walk anyway: Visit and spin the Cube. I'm sure it has some fancy name, but we just all call it the cube. Integral part of the UM campus experience like the Tower or the Turtle Pond at UT: From there, you could walk through the Diag, the beating heart of Michigan's campus, and an intersection you walk through hundreds of times as a student: Then walk through the Law Quad... and Pop your head into the Law Library... And there's your 10 minute tour of the highlights of Michigan's campus. Across the street from the Law School is this frat that always puts up signs and spills their party into the front yard. Worth a look, especially because sometimes you'll get a free beer from the youngsters! So that's the northwest portion and heart of the campus on the map. I'll do the east side of campus in a separate post because my kids are finishing up breakfast and I promised them we'd take them to the amusement park today.
  20. Oh, also, at lunch today, I was trying to explain to my wife how Elon is a traitor and that SpaceX should be given the ultimatum "Elon needs to go, or your contracts are gone," or at least to put the company on some sort of probation. Obviously there's the Starlink satellites in Ukraine thing, but I couldn't think of anything else in the moment. Most of the ammo I had was the racist incel stuff, but I was lacking on the traitor stuff. Any help?
  21. Yeah, that's cool. You care about what Tesla dweebs care about. Nothing wrong with that. The confluence is funny to me. And yeah, that rolypoly lookin' Tesla can't compare to a classic Stang. Not much can.
  22. FWIW, I find it kind of hilarious the way extremes come together in the weirdest ways. Can't remember the theory, but it's something about how the far-left and fsr-right end up being similar. In this case, it's hilarious to see Tesla dweebs call their cars "performance" cars when all the can do really well is go fast in a straight line, which makes them the modern equivalent of Boomer muscle car guys. I know I'm probably irritating off a lot of people with that, but I find it hilarious.
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