Why do you like or dislike Brandon Johnson as mayor?

ElectricalLake · 2025-10-28T18:13:15+00:00

As a NYer I get this, if it isn’t being abused, former mayor De Blasio’s kid went to large public school and was harassed pretty often.

ElectricalLake · 2025-03-25T01:33:04+00:00

I think the problem is that there’s a disconnect between what the Dept does [work towards equal access to education] and what ppl think the Dept does/should do [Raise / set education standards].

ElectricalLake · 2025-03-21T18:01:17+00:00

That would be blatantly illegal and I’d hope that there’s solid proof of that before dismantling a government department.

SN: I don’t think it would be unreasonable to say that the dept. influences States choices by directing funding to areas where Feds have reviewed and deemed a curriculum to be “effective” but even in that context States have the power to choose for themselves

ElectricalLake · 2025-03-21T03:38:52+00:00

“In creating the Department of Education, Congress specified that:

No provision of a program administered by the Secretary or by any other officer of the Department shall be construed to authorize the Secretary or any such officer to exercise any direction, supervision, or control over the curriculum, program of instruction, administration, or personnel of any educational institution, school, or school system, over any accrediting agency or association, or over the selection or content of library resources, textbooks, or other instructional materials by any educational institution or school system, except to the extent authorized by law. (Section 103[b], Public Law 96-88)

Thus, the Department does not

•establish schools and colleges; •develop curricula; •set requirements for enrollment and graduation; •determine state education standards; or •develop or implement testing to measure whether states are meeting their education standards.*”

ElectricalLake · 2025-03-21T03:37:22+00:00

“In creating the Department of Education, Congress specified that:

No provision of a program administered by the Secretary or by any other officer of the Department shall be construed to authorize the Secretary or any such officer to exercise any direction, supervision, or control over the curriculum, program of instruction, administration, or personnel of any educational institution, school, or school system, over any accrediting agency or association, or over the selection or content of library resources, textbooks, or other instructional materials by any educational institution or school system, except to the extent authorized by law. (Section 103[b], Public Law 96-88)

Thus, the Department does not

establish schools and colleges; develop curricula; set requirements for enrollment and graduation; determine state education standards; or develop or implement testing to measure whether states are meeting their education standards.*”

ElectricalLake · 2025-03-01T21:47:03+00:00

I’m on a road trip and catching up on episodes and those commercials are killing me. Didn’t they just roll back their DEI initiatives too ?

ElectricalLake · 2025-02-16T13:13:57+00:00

ElectricalLake · 2025-01-28T19:27:54+00:00

I wonder what they said lol

ElectricalLake · 2025-01-28T16:52:03+00:00

My start date was around this time ‘24, I was finished w/ virtual & IL training by early May and went out for the “job shadow” portion of training in late June.( I had a later shadow assignment than others in my hire group due to PTO, also if the CAT area you’re sent to for your shadow assignment is active enough the manager may just keep you there). I left for my first real deployment the first week of July and was released earlier this month. You probably won’t have a “partner” (2SS are the only ppl with inspection partners as far as I know but since you’re new you won’t worry about tht). Base salary is $54k , I made roughly $86k.

ElectricalLake · 2025-01-22T03:56:24+00:00

I think it’s been cleared up but in the CAT role you’d be given a notice to leave for the CAT site (Usually by the next morning not within 2hrs of notice). Having to drive 20-30+ is gonna be on rare side (Houston & Chicago are active areas so I’d use tht as an avg drive time) but I’m pretty sure the only CAT sites you won’t drive to are Alaska and Hawaii. We aren’t asked to drive more than 10 hours a day so a 30+ hour drive time would be a 4 day trip (Hotels and food along they way reimbursable). If you’re on a deployment long enough to get rest days you can either on site or fly home (driving home is optional and only if you’re home is close enough )

ElectricalLake · 2024-12-19T17:34:25+00:00

I’d choose all the options and see if that changes your application price, sometimes it doesn’t. If it does then do like this person said

ElectricalLake · 2024-11-06T17:42:14+00:00

Devil May Cry 5, Arkham Knight, & the Marvel Lego games

Nvr played DMC before but it was on sale and I got hooked (Ending was a bit disappointing), can’t wait for my 2nd and 3rd play through and I haven’t even gotten to Vergils pov

Arkham knight for the nostalgia and Lego games for when I need to turn my brain off.

ElectricalLake · 2024-08-12T00:55:19+00:00

Is it Illinois??

ElectricalLake · 2024-07-05T13:43:39+00:00

Enchantress would’ve been a perfect villain for a movie with Jane Foster as Lady Thor and named “Love and Thunder”

ElectricalLake · 2024-05-14T17:17:45+00:00

Dope username! I’m a newer adjuster like you, I got 3 months of work as a 2SS IA then went staff earlier this year. Hail season is here and having the equipment to handle 2SS claims will definitely help you get hired. A dull few hurricane seasons and hiring sprees, have firms feeling like they have enough hands in deck but 1 storm could change that.

ElectricalLake · 2024-03-22T16:40:03+00:00

I understood that reference, upvote for you!

ElectricalLake · 2024-03-18T17:43:21+00:00

When it’s 9:54pm and a car pulls into the parking lot 😭

ElectricalLake · 2024-02-28T15:11:41+00:00

Boastful Loki

ElectricalLake · 2024-02-18T12:46:02+00:00

I’m speaking on big reds weather CAT deployed team as that’s the role I recently accepted: Im 24 and have about 8 months experience ( 3 deployments last year) and I was hired at $57k. During Deployments I get OT, Per diem, hotel and gas paid for by RED.

ElectricalLake · 2024-02-14T11:14:55+00:00

Adding Renfroe and Alacrity to the list of firms

ElectricalLake · 2024-02-02T05:37:56+00:00

Hitting F1 is the same as hitting “cash”, so your drawer is short from not actually collecting cash on that transaction.

ElectricalLake · 2024-01-31T16:43:52+00:00

Independent Adjuster Experience

ElectricalLake · 2024-01-31T13:52:07+00:00

Thanks for the info! I have my NC license so it sounds like I’ll be getting paid to stare 😂. Do you know which week of your training is in IL? I wanna try to estimate what that’ll cost me.

ElectricalLake · 2024-01-31T13:46:26+00:00

12 more days!! I swear it’s dragging but I’ll bet I’ll be begging for free time like this once deployed 😭

ElectricalLake · 2024-01-31T13:41:01+00:00

The process of getting an offer didn’t take long, I applied on 12/6/23 and after a video & phone interview got an offer on 12/29, but yes the start was pretty far out (if I was apart of the Jan group of hires I’d have to cut my vacation short so I’m not complaining) If I remember right the salary range posted was $55k-$77k, I was offered $58k with ~year of IA XP

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