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Great looking buck! Congratulations!

Congratulations Mike! Great looking buck!

Good luck to all heading out for the hunts starting tomorrow. Can't wait for my first muley hunt starting next Friday.

Nice looking bull! Wish I was up there hunting cows, but struck out on drawing a unit 9 tag this year. Will be headed up next week for some deer hunting.

Congratulations. Way to stick with it through all the challenges!

Aweslome! Congratulations Dylan and Travis!

Awesome! Congratulations to you and Kursty. Thanks for the great write-up too!

It sucks, but it also sounds "normal" for projects during crunch time. Is he/she "covered" or "uncovered"? I spent 10 years with the state and at the time, they had "covered" and "uncovered" exempt employees. The covered had union type representation and it was basically impossible to fire any of them even if they didn't do anything. I believe the covered also get overtime pay. A number of these people were with the state for decades and were highly unproductive. When I first started there, we had one guy put on a performance review plan, and after 3 months of non-performance, he was able to reclassify his position to a lower grade and had 2 years to meet those lower standards. Oh, and kept his full salary during that period. Just didn't seem right to me. Regarding your relative's situation, it partially depends on their manager. I've seen managers grant "comp time" for a portion of the required OT, but not all of it. As many on here have said, your relative has to decide whether or not the pay and benefits are worth the required OT. If so, stick it out. if not, start looking elsewhere. It doesn't matter whether your work in the private or public sector, we each have to decide when it's time to make a job change. Regarding the Christmas shut down, I've heard that happens frequently in manufacturing facilities in the private sector, but I never saw it in the state agencies where I worked.

Awesome!!! Thank You Lord for taking care of Jared and his family through all of this!

Thoughts and prayers for you and your family Bob. Praying for peace and comfort for you all during this time.

Congratulations on a great buck Emily!

Congratulations on an awesome bull Bob! Thanks for sharing your hunt and pics.

Congratulations on a great bear!

Congratulations to the young lady on a great looking bull!

WOW! Awesome month! Congrats to you and all involved. Some real monsters there!

Awesome bulls!

Sorry to hear this. Prayers sent for your Dad and for the doctors.

Cool pics! Lots of animals and great variety.

Very cool pics!

Congrats on a couple of awesome bulls!

Awesome bull! Congratulations to you and your son!

Awesome! Congratulations Jared and Mike on a fine bull capping a very challenging year. Thoughts and prayers for Jared's final testing too!

Awesome bull! Congratulations and great job sticking with it and getting it done!

Congratulations on an awesome bull. Way to stick it out and get it done!

Awesome scouting trip! Hope you find him on the rifle hunt and Taylor puts that big boy down!