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Fuck I hope I'm not too late. I never follow AMA schedules and just saw this but you literally shaped my life from 13 to like 25. So here goes: Why the fuck was Tim, Lynt, in OP IVEY? What's the real truth to the fact that Billie Joe was almost a part of Rancid? Why didn't it work out a and where did LARS come in? How come you guys were screaming "OI" all the time when best case scenario you guys were establishing a punk sound that would become midly popular?

Finally what's your view on the warped tour and how it has affected what's now considered punk? It seems now that any "unique" music that doesn't garner mainstream labels is now considered punk.

it helps the drivers as it is a report card for them with Amazon. While no bad reviews or no reviews at all are generally good the bad reviews (also depends on what they did to make it a bad review) can lead to the driver being suspended or even fired by their Manager who contracts with Amazon. More often than not though little happens because the Third party treats their drivers so poorly and pay them so cheaply it’s hard to find replacements for them. Most drivers do the right thing and will go the extra mile, some drivers are not good at all but are very few. usually only a couple out of a crew of maybe 20 drivers. One thing I can say is that customers can sometimes be worse than anything for a driver regardless of what they do. I can’t tell you how many times we had a customer call customer service to tell them the driver did not follow directions or didn’t call when they arrived or didn’t carry it in to the house etc and that they wanted a refund or for the driver to come back out to their residence to fix a problem. What those customers didn’t know is we require the drivers to use company owned phones and software that allows them to take pictures of where they drop the item and to keep records of when they called the customer for the drop off. A lot of times the customer would pay extra for a scheduled delivery, meaning they would receive their item within a 2 hour time window. They would always say the drivers didn’t show up on time and call and they’d raise holy hell. 90% of the time the driver would arrive call the customer and the customer wouldn’t pick up. Then customer service would call to set a new time and they wouldn’t pick up for customer service either. Amazon sucks but so do a lot of their customers.

Also any of you fans who can answer my questions would be appreciated. I'm not sure I'm actually gonna get answers.

employees don’t even get free prime

Hey I was on the exact same path as you when I left high school and was going into college. I took criminal justice as a major at a university with a respected program and I have to say unfortunately it was not a smart choice. It may be different state by state (illinois here) but let me just give you a bit of my experience.

I loved my course work. It was interesting and I believe would have been very beneficial once securing a job in law enforcement. Unfortunately this did not secure me any type of leg up in my career path. One of the issues (in my state at least) is that law enforcement pays really well and often college degree requirements are the exception not the rule. Since the job does pay well with such great benefits it means that when a department (local, city, sheriff, state) has an opening depending on how many are available they may only have 4-5 spots and 600 applicants. This usually means that those people picked for those open positions usually find themselves close to the top not only based on excellent written and physical tests but also because of past experience. In illinois it doesn't matter if you have a criminal justice degree really because once you get hired on you have to go to the state academy for certification where you'll be taking accelerated versions of what you took in school anyways. I know this all sounds doom and gloom but it isnt. The main point is that if you are going to go get a 4 yr degree I say go for it but maybe look for a degree in business or pre law or something like that. When you get out you can start applying for positions immediately and start testing for departments right away but the process is long so you may need a job until an LEO one comes along. Also it's important to network. What I mean by that is volunteering or interning for a department you're interested in or getting to know someone in a higher up position who is involved in hiring. Something that will help when your app comes across their desk where they'll remember you're name. Anyways though most of what I just told you is for local to state level agencies Federal agencies are a different story.

Federal agencies are the cream of the crop in a LEO career and are highly competitive as well but not unatainable. For agencies like the FBI I would absolutely suggest you get a degree but definetley in either business, abnormal psychology or even some type of computer based major. For the FBI having a graduate degree may even be needed to be competitive. Again though this is just what I came to hear through my experiences but it isn't always required. Other agencies like DEA, ICE, ATF they usually like to hire people with prior experience. Usually they pull from past military or past law enforcement. Again though it's not impossible to get in right away either but with any federal agency a 4 yr degree is good to have and I would suggest the same majors I already mentioned. Also with federal agencies you have to be willing to relocate anywhere in the US or even maybe oversees. So that's always an advantage for the young and unmarried. You usually start off in a small office in a small city but you could also be thrown somewhere large right away. Now when I was looking for my career there was a sort of fast track way of getting into federal positions by getting into the border patrol. They usual have large open nrollments because they always need bodies. The draw back however is the postings are isolated and tough. Alot of people I spoke to said it was alot like being in the military. Sometimes being helicoptered out to a remote post along the border for a week lo g stint etc. After a few years people would then transfer out after applying to other federal agencies.

TL,DR; law enforcement is much more competitive than it used to be due to better pay and technology. It has also become much more highly specialized meaning they are looking for highly specialized people. APPLY APPLY APPLY and don't stop until you have a job. Grab the first spot you can get and gain experience until you can start tracking towards the career you ultimately want.