Bear Down Wildcats

Chicat wrote:My current work status .......

Laid off due to the current economic climate.

Groan. Black Thursday.

It's OK Chi. My job posted 10 days ago too...without my knowledge or prior notice.

Didn't even have a teacher evaluation all year. So it goes.

I'm sure you'll land a great job (nowhere NEAR Bumfuck, Indiana) really soon.

Chicat wrote:
Really not looking forward to hitting the job market though. I imagine it is rough out there.

Machina will hook you up. If he can find jobs for Tesla and SpaceX workers...

Damn chi, sorry to hear it. Glad to hear you'll be solid financially though.

Appreciate it guys. Me and Ari will have to start doing a BDW Podcast with all of our free time.

Chicat wrote:Appreciate it guys. Me and Ari will have to start doing a BDW Podcast with all of our free time.

Chicat wrote:Appreciate it guys. Me and Ari will have to start doing a BDW Podcast with all of our free time.

That's... actually a good idea. Talk about the same stuff as we do on the board. Arizona sports, recruiting, politics, beer, music, star wars, anything. But definitely with an Arizona sports/University of Arizona lean. Could be something that not just us but Arizona students/alums would gravitate to. Could probably get some donations and a decent following.

Only if you start the podcast 4 drinks in each time

I'm so sorry, Chi. This is bad fucking awful.

It does nothing to make this awful situation better, but still I'll just point to your record of moving on to better things every time shit out of your control goes down.

Longhorned wrote:I'm so sorry, Chi. This is bad fucking awful.

It does nothing to make this awful situation better, but still I'll just point to your record of moving on to better things every time shit out of your control goes down.

I do seem to fail up with the best of them...

Sorry to hear Chi. This whole thing just friggin sucks.
Btw, if you need any references you got plenty from this board who will vouch for you.

Keep doing your thing...

Chicat wrote:Appreciate it guys. Me and Ari will have to start doing a BDW Podcast with all of our free time.

Ha!!!!

Alieberman wrote:

Chicat wrote:Appreciate it guys. Me and Ari will have to start doing a BDW Podcast with all of our free time.

Ha!!!!

You, me, and "Professor Longbottom" (how my wife still refers to Longhorned). Let's do this.

Chicat wrote:Appreciate it guys. Me and Ari will have to start doing a BDW Podcast with all of our free time.

Jacob Wohl could be your first guest.

ByJoveByJingle wrote: Very cool!

Hope you don’t need to do that, but I’m sure things are going to get tough if they aren’t already. I started teaching back in 2006 just to get out ahead of the last economic crisis. Let me know if I can do anything for you, though I’m sure you are far better connected than I am.

Thanks man, next time I'm in town I'll make sure to pop in and say hi. Great timing in 2006, hope you used that wisdom to game the stock market at the same time

I'm in NYC and even in the worst job markets it seems like there are more opportunities here than in other parts of the country. I'm cautiously optimistic I suppose!

Longhorned wrote:
I honestly thought you were a really old prospector.

It's funny how avatars influence me.

I may have to resort to finding money in the ground soon enough.

Chicat wrote:My current work status .......

Laid off due to the current economic climate.

Sorry to hear this.

We need my job for the health insurance and pension...

ASUHATER! wrote:

Chicat wrote:Appreciate it guys. Me and Ari will have to start doing a BDW Podcast with all of our free time.

That's... actually a good idea. Talk about the same stuff as we do on the board. Arizona sports, recruiting, politics, beer, music, star wars, anything. But definitely with an Arizona sports/University of Arizona lean. Could be something that not just us but Arizona students/alums would gravitate to. Could probably get some donations and a decent following.

Love this idea and bring in special guests like LH, 97, Greg, and other colorful characters!

Seriously through, I am really sorry to hear this chi and want to go break things for you, I am so angry when I hear this shit happens to my friends and good people in general.

This thread needs to temporarily be renamed The Bad News Thread. Just a bummer to hear about people struggling. And anybody still employed is looking over their shoulder for the Grim Reaper. Hopefully this will be a short-lived setback for all the BDW family.

Not all bad news. I picked a really good time to retire. Although I truly feel awful for the rest of the BDW family and for the US in general.



California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday proposed steep cuts to the state’s budget, including a 10% pay cut for all state workers, reflecting challenges California and other state governments are facing as they contend with depleted state budgets and uncertain federal aid.

I work in the casino industry in Las Vegas. Looks like some casinos will be opening up as soon as next week possibly. Not sure about my company. I’ll have a job once things open up. I’m in corporate so I won’t necessarily have to go into the casinos but not sure how I feel about going back to work so soon.

VegasCatFan wrote:I work in the casino industry in Las Vegas. Looks like some casinos will be opening up as soon as next week possibly. Not sure about my company. I’ll have a job once things open up. I’m in corporate so I won’t necessarily have to go into the casinos but not sure how I feel about going back to work so soon.

What potential would there be for moving the casinos outdoors, as in poolside and stuff like that? I know casinos don’t want us to know if it’s night or day, but I’m thinking about the science and sustainable gambling. You basically can’t catch it outside.

That would be fucking rad!

Pool side blackjack? Damn

Outside is a natures best ventilation

Longhorned wrote:

VegasCatFan wrote:I work in the casino industry in Las Vegas. Looks like some casinos will be opening up as soon as next week possibly. Not sure about my company. I’ll have a job once things open up. I’m in corporate so I won’t necessarily have to go into the casinos but not sure how I feel about going back to work so soon.

What potential would there be for moving the casinos outdoors, as in poolside and stuff like that? I know casinos don’t want us to know if it’s night or day, but I’m thinking about the science and sustainable gambling. You basically can’t catch it outside.

Zero talk about that but it would be cool. There used to be swim up blackjack tables at Tropicana and Mandalay Bay I believe. Right now the hotels are only going to allow 25-30% occupancy. Only 3 players at a blackjack table and 6 at craps. Not sure how they’re handling poker. Every other slot machine will either be turned off or removed for social distancing.

No shows either. As of tonight they’ve given restaurants permission to open inside the casinos. Most of them are leased out and if they allow them to open they can start collecting lease payments on them. But the restaurants have so many rules they’ll have to follow that they probably won’t open until the casinos open up.

VegasCatFan wrote:

Longhorned wrote:

VegasCatFan wrote:I work in the casino industry in Las Vegas. Looks like some casinos will be opening up as soon as next week possibly. Not sure about my company. I’ll have a job once things open up. I’m in corporate so I won’t necessarily have to go into the casinos but not sure how I feel about going back to work so soon.

What potential would there be for moving the casinos outdoors, as in poolside and stuff like that? I know casinos don’t want us to know if it’s night or day, but I’m thinking about the science and sustainable gambling. You basically can’t catch it outside.

Zero talk about that but it would be cool. There used to be swim up blackjack tables at Tropicana and Mandalay Bay I believe. Right now the hotels are only going to allow 25-30% occupancy. Only 3 players at a blackjack table and 6 at craps. Not sure how they’re handling poker. Every other slot machine will either be turned off or removed for social distancing.

No shows either. As of tonight they’ve given restaurants permission to open inside the casinos. Most of them are leased out and if they allow them to open they can start collecting lease payments on them. But the restaurants have so many rules they’ll have to follow that they probably won’t open until the casinos open up.

As a poker player, I would be freaked out - both the variety of characters who play, plus the fact that everyone touches cards and chips, not to mention merely breathing over long periods of time in close quarters, seems like a classic petri dish environment....

Merkin wrote:

AFAIC, that would alter the experience too much to make it even remotely worth it....

If it's blackjack it doesn't matter what the other players cards are. It only matters if you can see the dealer's hole card.

UAEebs86 wrote:If it's blackjack it doesn't matter what the other players cards are. It only matters if you can see the dealer's hole card.

Unless they are counting cards if that's still a thing.

Merkin wrote:

UAEebs86 wrote:If it's blackjack it doesn't matter what the other players cards are. It only matters if you can see the dealer's hole card.

Unless they are counting cards if that's still a thing.

Not with 8 deck tables.

Never gambled once in my entire life. Just don't get it. It's like face tattoos. Why?

dovecanyoncat wrote:Never gambled once in my entire life. Just don't get it. It's like face tattoos. Why?

I'm thinking of getting a face tattoo of a medical mask just to piss off the Trumpsters.

Alieberman wrote:

dovecanyoncat wrote:Never gambled once in my entire life. Just don't get it. It's like face tattoos. Why?

I'm thinking of getting a face tattoo of a medical mask just to piss off the Trumpsters.

Permanently owning the Shiteaters?

We just had a 15% reduction in workforce yesterday. Not a good day.

dovecanyoncat wrote:Never gambled once in my entire life. Just don't get it. It's like face tattoos. Why?

Check this out...

Poker and the Psychology of Uncertainty

The game has plenty to teach about making decisions with the cards we’ve been dealt—on and off the table.

Maria Konnikova

...In poker, you can win with the worst hand and you can lose with the best hand. In every other game in a casino—and in games of perfect information like chess and Go—you simply must have the best of it to win. No other way is possible. And that, in a nutshell, is why poker is a skilled endeavor rather than a gambling one....

https://www.wired.com/story/poker-psych ... certainty/" target="_blank

My R0 for emails sent is like 6.

Guys I have to ask, have you ever suffered from email anxiety?

This is the end of the fiscal year for the “multi matrixed integrated health system” so this week has been a bear getting everything submitted and in line. As such I havent checked my other email account for my volunteer work and specialty society work in a week. I know it’s blown up and I feel is like the horror movie closet with blood seeping under the door and each day more blood seeps. You don’t want to open the door but you know you have too.

How do you deal with this?

Or maybe I’m just nuts.

Diving in now....

CalStateTempe wrote:Guys I have to ask, have you ever suffered from email anxiety?

This is the end of the fiscal year for the “multi matrixed integrated health system” so this week has been a bear getting everything submitted and in line. As such I havent checked my other email account for my volunteer work and specialty society work in a week. I know it’s blown up and I feel is like the horror movie closet with blood seeping under the door and each day more blood seeps. You don’t want to open the door but you know you have too.

How do you deal with this?

Or maybe I’m just nuts.

Diving in now....

Unfortunately I deal with it by checking my email and responding almost 24/7 on my phone if I have to. I try to zero it out every night no matter what even if I had dozens of things to respond to.

Mike Pence is coming to Tucson next week and I was just asked to work the event.

I have hardly worked at all since mid March.

I thought about it for about 2 seconds. "Fuck No" were my exact words

Alieberman wrote:Mike Pence is coming to Tucson next week and I was just asked to work the event.

I have hardly worked at all since mid March.

I thought about it for about 2 seconds. "Fuck No" were my exact words

Fight the power Ari!

Too bad taking the job and then sabotaging the event would have fucked over your future career prospects, because that shit could have been epic.

“I honestly have no idea how all that gay porn got spliced into the welcome video. Have you asked the Vice President? He may know...”

Chicat wrote:Too bad taking the job and then sabotaging the event would have fucked over your future career prospects, because that shit could have been epic.

“I honestly have no idea how all that gay porn got spliced into the welcome video. Have you asked the Vice President? He may know...”

That's why it took me an extra 2 seconds to decide.

scumdevils86 wrote:

CalStateTempe wrote:Guys I have to ask, have you ever suffered from email anxiety?

This is the end of the fiscal year for the “multi matrixed integrated health system” so this week has been a bear getting everything submitted and in line. As such I havent checked my other email account for my volunteer work and specialty society work in a week. I know it’s blown up and I feel is like the horror movie closet with blood seeping under the door and each day more blood seeps. You don’t want to open the door but you know you have too.

How do you deal with this?

Or maybe I’m just nuts.

Diving in now....

Unfortunately I deal with it by checking my email and responding almost 24/7 on my phone if I have to. I try to zero it out every night no matter what even if I had dozens of things to respond to.

See email is a minimal part of my job, but I’ve involved with lots of activities in addition with some leadership position.

I try to be accessible but this week was hell at work.

Anyways it’s all good, took care of what I needed to take care of.

Clickbait on twitter, but thought is was fitting for our professors here

Merkin wrote:Clickbait on twitter, but thought is was fitting for our professors here

As to the photo on the right, I had this happen at UA. I remember the class and the "professor" (the term was used loosely in those days), but will leave the identification out. The "professor" was from a prominent family in town. I was in the BPA school.

I was given the final grade of C in the class. I thought I deserved a B, so I appealed my case. His response? Okay, I'll give you a B. The whole thing lasted about 10 minutes.

I also remember a class taught by a PA. He began to see the class hottie out of class. She got an A. Was it deserved? So it seems.

Just got this email from HR:

Employer Matching Contributions
Effective August 1, 2020, ATDC will discontinue the Employer Matching contribution to the 401(k) plan due to the economic impact of the COVID-19 crisis. Our intention is to resume the match as soon as economically feasible.

Automatic Enrollment
Additionally, as of August 1st, 2020, we will be removing the Automatic Enrollment provisions in our 401(k) plan. If you are a participant who is currently automatically enrolled for employee deferral contributions, your employee elective deferral amount will be updated to 0% effective August 1st, unless you make a deferral election.

azgreg wrote:Just got this email from HR:

Employer Matching Contributions
Effective August 1, 2020, ATDC will discontinue the Employer Matching contribution to the 401(k) plan due to the economic impact of the COVID-19 crisis. Our intention is to resume the match as soon as economically feasible.

Automatic Enrollment
Additionally, as of August 1st, 2020, we will be removing the Automatic Enrollment provisions in our 401(k) plan. If you are a participant who is currently automatically enrolled for employee deferral contributions, your employee elective deferral amount will be updated to 0% effective August 1st, unless you make a deferral election.

The beatings will continue until morale improves.

azgreg wrote:Just got this email from HR:

Employer Matching Contributions
Effective August 1, 2020, ATDC will discontinue the Employer Matching contribution to the 401(k) plan due to the economic impact of the COVID-19 crisis. Our intention is to resume the match as soon as economically feasible.

Automatic Enrollment
Additionally, as of August 1st, 2020, we will be removing the Automatic Enrollment provisions in our 401(k) plan. If you are a participant who is currently automatically enrolled for employee deferral contributions, your employee elective deferral amount will be updated to 0% effective August 1st, unless you make a deferral election.

I haven't got any employee matching since April and I work for a hospital.

OriginalAZ wrote:

azgreg wrote:Just got this email from HR:

Employer Matching Contributions
Effective August 1, 2020, ATDC will discontinue the Employer Matching contribution to the 401(k) plan due to the economic impact of the COVID-19 crisis. Our intention is to resume the match as soon as economically feasible.

Automatic Enrollment
Additionally, as of August 1st, 2020, we will be removing the Automatic Enrollment provisions in our 401(k) plan. If you are a participant who is currently automatically enrolled for employee deferral contributions, your employee elective deferral amount will be updated to 0% effective August 1st, unless you make a deferral election.

I haven't got any employee matching since April and I work for a hospital.

I imagine the highly profitable elective surgery ban has something to do with that.

Merkin wrote:

OriginalAZ wrote:

azgreg wrote:Just got this email from HR:

Employer Matching Contributions
Effective August 1, 2020, ATDC will discontinue the Employer Matching contribution to the 401(k) plan due to the economic impact of the COVID-19 crisis. Our intention is to resume the match as soon as economically feasible.

Automatic Enrollment
Additionally, as of August 1st, 2020, we will be removing the Automatic Enrollment provisions in our 401(k) plan. If you are a participant who is currently automatically enrolled for employee deferral contributions, your employee elective deferral amount will be updated to 0% effective August 1st, unless you make a deferral election.

I haven't got any employee matching since April and I work for a hospital.

I imagine the highly profitable elective surgery ban has something to do with that.

Yup that was their excuse even though I'm a psychiatrist not a surgeon. They were losing a lot of money due to that ban. Even though elective surgeries are back they still aren't giving us our match back.

I have a work email chain where one of my vendors is referring to himself as Mr.chubywubs The cat.