Clearly ours aren't as lucrative compared to yours, I have $30 worth of points to give away each month in $5 chunks per "recognition" I give.
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A whole $5!? Wow, talk about motivational stuff.
People eat that shit up around here and management hands such title around like participation trophies. It got so bad that on one team everyone was some kind of lead, everyone constantly argued and used their "lead" titles as some kind of fake trump card. The manager had to give someone the Sr. Lead title to amend the situation.I had an old boss that lamented that he couldn't get folks to take a team-lead position... I had to point out that not paying someone more for a "promotion" was bullshit.
we're an ESOP, so we get stock each year, and based on performance / metrics we're up about 350% since I started. AND! I'm fully vested in a few months. [obligatory monocle]
when I had direct reports I had a fund of a few hundo per month to distribute for jobs well done.
when I had direct reports I had a fund of a few hundo per month to distribute for jobs well done.
1.5 metric hours on the phone with SAS to find out the box can fly. Super cool setup to fly with them. Instead of a checked bag theres an option for bike. No bike fee. I worried because it looks like a substitute which would mean the bike box is over the united inches of a checked bag (hammer in the oversize fees). SAS doesn't treat it that way, my box is equivalent to an evoc bag size. So the bike flys free as my ticket included one check, one carry, one personal. I paid nearly $300 once to fly a bike to Miami.
It always astounds me how this is *shocking* to them. AND if they find someone to take the gig, they leave for a better paying job after that new title has appropriately built up the résumé.I had an old boss that lamented that he couldn't get folks to take a team-lead position... I had to point out that not paying someone more for a "promotion" was bullshit.
I tell ya, none of it makes sense.
where ya at/what'd ya ride?
Maguras are fucking great IMO. I love mine, and have loved them in the past.
We're in Mineral, Virginia, didn't ride anything you'd be interested in. Yesterday was High Bridge rail trail, today was Leakes Mills, then Powhatan. Tomorrow we're drifting up towards Delaware, no fixed target.
We have a team lead. He has to do sale coaching to Jr reps. He got a $2k/yr promotion for it. Everything lead-level still gets deferred to me, including handling manager level issues when he's out. I still get paid more despite him having the better title and now his CFP as well. Gotta get paid for your actions, not your titles.
We also have casual overtime so if being a lead requires more work, you get paid for the extra work. I could easily give myself a small raise by working a few more hours a week but I'd rather get paid less to work fewer hours.
Ride #2 (this one with Wifey) in the books. 1k that felt like 3k, dead legs. I could live in Salida.
Date night, kiddo is at camp for three weeks!
Date night, kiddo is at camp for three weeks!
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Yeah I have had MT5s for a few years and have bled them once, they still seem fine.
It took some convincing for me to try them as the three sets of Maguras before them were all shite.
Yeah, I’m gonna try and avoid him, but it’s a really small town.If it wasn't for that numbnut @Full Trucker I could also live in Salida... but as it stands.
Rellenos, my good man, are a breakfast food.Tell me you had rellenos for dinner yesterday?
Unless you're a bitch?
well if we're parting it out, i'll take the shifter/derailleur...
I don't need a full AXS kit, just a Reverb for le wife.
