RalphBeast
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how the hell is ZMP so fat staffed
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the inquirer
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A lot of locals there. Or they are from the upper Midwest so relatively close. Great city for families and still somewhat affordable. Has everything you would want in a big city. Only city with all 5 major sports teams.
Yea pretty good spot. 155k at check out and releasable. Sounds pretty good
bomber996
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Ask any expat from Minnesota and about 95% of them will want to return. The winters are long, but the summers are amazing. The quality of living is quite good. Seriously, don't hate it until you try it. This is coming from a non Minnesota native.
ZMP has a low checkout rate on paper. The reality is that there were a lot of trainees during COVID that straight up quit. The facility didn't come out of training lockdown as quickly as some other facilities which left a group waiting upstairs in purgatory for over a year before starting D-side training. The training backlog is done now thankfully. Combine that with some fairly difficult areas with seasonality and you have the 4th or 5th lowest success rate in the NAS among Centers.
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Tried it. Hated it lol. But yah people who grew up there generally move back and homestead there.
Worked there for a few years. Nice people, nice summers (short). They get outside and actually do stuff in the winter, just about have to. People called it Moscow on the Mississippi (taxes and politics). But overall a nice city
The checkout rate was still low even before COVID.
It is a very nice city, depending on where you want to live there’s a decent amount of diversity. I’d say majority don’t live too close to Minneapolis, but it’s not that far of a drive if you wanna live close to the metro. The facility itself is not very diverse, that could be important for some . Idk how it looks across the NAS at centers tho as that’s probably a lot of places.
Like you said the majority of people who work there now either are from MN or the surrounding states. Winters haven’t been too brutal the past few years
RalphBeast
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No one had to choose a Cat B facility?
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They probably have enough volunteers to avoid any mandatory placements
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They changed the "rules" like last week, that if the volunteers finish bottom of the class then nobody has to fulfill the Cat B spots. This class happened to have the bottom 2 volunteer, so therefore nobody had to go to a Cat B.
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