CaliAngel

I have never tipped a maid but I tip the bellboys for bringing up the bags and typically tip 20% at restaurants/bars if the service is great. If not, it goes down from there. I don't even know how much you'd tip a maid, $5 a night? What if they never come in and clean the room? If their pay sucks find a new effing job. It's not like they come in and give out foot massages or pour me cocktails. I don't really get this one.

Good stuff.

Pretty much can't agree more. To me once the postseason comes Hamilton is going to be exposed for his inability to recognize off speed junk even more viciously than he was during the regular season, and will be a wasted at-bat for a majority of the times he steps up to the plate. I also don't care for him on defense, and would rather he DH if Scioscia really insists on putting him in the lineup. Sorry Josh, just haven't been impressed by anything I've seen out of you since putting on an Angel uniform, and if I had it my way you wouldn't have been on the team to begin with.

I nominate krAbs for a ban until the Halos have officially clinched the 2014 AL West title.

I just assumed they pick one part of the plate and use that for every pitch track, for example, the front line of the plate. So no, I don't think it would count as out of the zone.

Had to say it didn't cha?

Excellent advice guys. I'm not going to call, and will instead write an email or send a letter. So what do you think about mailing a letter? I would sign it and get it in the mail tomorrow and pay so it gets to the office by Monday. Here's what I think I'm going to write. Dear Mr. ----, Thank you for taking the time on Friday to sit and talk with me about the Entry Level Accountant position at ---- ----- ------. The work environment and offices were very impressive, and it would be an amazing opportunity for me to begin my accounting career with your company. All of the job duties we discussed including preparing billing sheets for flights, assisting with the monthly recap analysis, and organizing inventory counts are responsibilities I would be able to accomplish professionally. I also enjoyed how you went into detail about the positive changes in the company during the past year. Coming into the office reinforced my excitement to become a part of the ----- ---- ------ team. My motivation for superior performance and ability to assist in various departments throughout the company will no doubt be a valuable commodity to the growth and future of ----- ----- ------. It was great meeting you, and I look forward to hearing from ----- in the next couple days so we can move forward with the hiring process. Sincerely, ------- (sign my name) Thanks again guys you are all giving great advice and input.

^^It actually is a pretty top notch company, so I'm going to stay positive until late next week. Also, my dad brought up to consider mailing him a letter and signing it, says it is more personal. I'm kind of afraid he might not get it. What do you all think of that? Thanks everyone for the advice, information, and input. I appreciate you taking the time to hear me out. If anyone else has something they'd like to share feel more than welcome to continue to post, I use all the help I can get. And mp170, I actually did a little searching and found his email on the companies website, so I will be sending him an email Monday. Crossing my fingers.

Had a job interview for an accounting position today, and was told they had other applicants to interview before making a decision. This is a place I really want to work and they said they're looking to hire by next week, and they would get back to me to let me know about a second interview. So I don't know if that's a bad sign to begin with, not setting up another interview immediately, but I thought overall the interview went well. I wanted to get some advice about possibly calling on Monday, to ask to speak to my interviewer who is a controller in the company, just to say Thank You for spending the time to sit and interview me. I would also mention that I know they have other people to interview, but that it was the first place in a while I got excited about working for, and that I hope to hear from him soon. What do you interview/hiring people think about doing something like that? Is it a bad move? Is Monday too soon, maybe wait until Wednesday? I would email him but I don't have his email address. I also don't want to waste his time, although I would try to make the call brief, only a minute long. Any advice, ideas, or thoughts on what to do/not do, and if saying they'll get back to me is a bad sign, would be really helpful. I typically try not to think about getting a job so much after an interview, but like I said I loved the place immediately and this is the first job in a while that i'm actually excited about possibly working at. Thanks in advance, I know some of you guys have a good idea about how these thing work. -CaliAngel

I don't know how he keeps such damn good track of these kinds of threads. He's got a well organized archive, that's for sure.

Way to not only let down your team, but way to boot yourself from a team that is pretty much a lock to make the playoffs, an opportunity some people wait their entire careers to have.

I think the Rangers might end up losing 100 games this season. Amazing how far they've fallen.

There's a farmers market called Pike Place somewhere along the water in downtown, super old school. One of those places where they actually "chuck" fish back and forth from the salesman to the cashier, and there are cool flower arrangements and food and pubs and restaurants around there. Kinda dumpy, but its over 100 years old. We tried the Athenian Seafood Market and Bar. It's where Tom Hanks was in the movie Sleepless in Seattle, and there's actually a plaque in the actual seat he sat in. We found a seat with a view of the water, had happy hour appetizers and drinks. Let the locals sink in a bit. Actually had a great time. Walked around the city, but not much to do, really. Took the ferry across the water a few times, bought an umbrella at Target. It wouldn't effing stop raining. Sorry I can't help more. It was a quick effing business trip and we were running around mostly the entire time. The biggest bitch I remember was when you wanted to get to downtown from where we were, you had do drive south all the way around the water and it took like an hour.

When I was there on Friday that off speed pitch had so much spin to it I swear you could almost hear it cutting through the air. Not sure if it's a new pitch, but I definitely know what you're talking about.

Yeah I can't f***ing stand this kinda sh**.

Really too bad we couldn't shut them out 3 games in a row. But it don't matter, this series couldn't have gone any better!

Meaningless home run.

Calhoun has cooled down, but it's okay, he'll heat up towards mid September when we're going to need him most.

29 scoreless inning streak snapped

Because the umps are pissed that Trout is the best player in the game and he's not on the Stankees, Tigers, or BoSux.

Yeah I don't know what's going on with Freese. He just isn't getting it done in the box.

Waiting for another enthralling Harper update from Monkey that nobody cares about...

He wasn't pitching well for them for the past season. But IMO everything I saw about Grilli I thought he had the mechanics and great stuff. I don't know what they were thinking about getting Frieri. Yeah he got the job done, but he always made it tight, and I was never impressed by him. I have NO problems with the Street trade the second it happened. I knew he would be a signifigant driving force behind the confidence for this team and that he'd also be the kind of guy that shrinks the game down to 8 innings. Love Street, he should be here for the rest of his career IMO.

Best record in baseball. In the middle of a race for the west, we've won the last 3 games against our competition, and now we're up 6 in the 3rd inning. Yah, I think we're finally becoming THAT team others are afraid of. Bet they're looking at the scoreboard like WOW.

Why Trout.