Rumor has it Mr. B is a one man show. He fills the classes and then teaches the majority of them, especially in the first week. So it's reasonable that he has had ZERO time in the last week to make phone calls to the (rest of the?) Dec 3 guys. For example, a buddy in the 29 Oct class mentioned that Mr. B is still trying to get HR to load the guys in that class including family members, into the dlnet database (among others) so that they can start applying for travel and medical benefits. Of course, it's also possible that most of the Dec 3 guys aren't forum readers and his work is done for the year.

How about a poll: any recent hires at DAL get the phone call to start training with less than 2 weeks notice?