Get them to say that you're the #1 candidate, and ask them to explain why. It embeds in their minds why you're valuable. Hiring mgr may be less likely to let the best choice go over a reasonable request like additional PTO. Subconscious stoney tricks.Broke my glasses last night. FTS. Very good second conversation with new opportunity. Sounds like an offer is on the table, but vacation is a week less. That might be a deal breaker for me, more money or not.
I brought up that I already have a week more and will be picking up another week in 3.5 months, but he pushed back that it's a non-bending point for the position and tenure does not appreciate vacation. That could be enough to kill it. $30k/yr (min) doesn't offset 2 weeks of vacation, sorry. I played that game before. $100k didn't do it then, $30k isn't going to do it now.Get them to say that you're the #1 candidate, and ask them to explain why. It embeds in their minds why you're valuable. Hiring mgr may be less likely to let the best choice go over a reasonable request like additional PTO. Subconscious stoney tricks.
If that is the case when you get a formal offer, tell them so. You have the leverage to say that's a reduction xomparco to your current PTO.vacation is a week less. That might be a deal breaker for me
Call their bluff, and be prepared to walk.I brought up that I already have a week more and will be picking up another week in 3.5 months, but he pushed back that it's a non-bending point for the position and tenure does not appreciate vacation. That could be enough to kill it. $30k/yr (min) doesn't offset 2 weeks of vacation, sorry. I played that game before. $100k didn't do it then, $30k isn't going to do it now.
I'm always prepared to walk. Job market here is such that employees are needed more than employers.Call their bluff, and be prepared to walk.
Keep in mind - it's gonna be a shitty corporate job like any other. Issues may be less and different, but still just a shitty corporate job.I brought up that I already have a week more and will be picking up another week in 3.5 months, but he pushed back that it's a non-bending point for the position and tenure does not appreciate vacation. That could be enough to kill it. $30k/yr (min) doesn't offset 2 weeks of vacation, sorry. I played that game before. $100k didn't do it then, $30k isn't going to do it now.
Deer Creek connector.Today is the day to rent two Shockwizes and ride that new Bear Creek connector trail.
Go ride Mountain Lion and Longhorn. That will really put Shockwiz to work.Today is the day to rent two Shockwizes and ride that new Bear Creek connector trail.
I'd wager those 438 switchbacks will be easy on a motorcycle... you gonna do the extended loop?Hildebrand Creek Bear-Deer Connector Trail, right?
I am thinking to do the Plymouth Mountain trail loop atop Deer Creek-Bear, too.I'd wager those 438 switchbacks will be easy on a motorcycle... you gonna do the extended loop?
I'd wager it'd be a waste of time if you didn't. Head over to South Valley and do Columbine from N->S on "the way back"...I am thinking to do the Plymouth Mountain trail loop atop Deer Creek-Bear, too.
Does it look something like this?Can anyone guess where I’m headed to ride ? Can ya, can ya, huh ?
Glad we are not getting any smoke...Air quality warnings cancelled all soccer practices last night and the elite tryouts this morning. The smoke here is pretty nuts. Haven't been on in a few days, so someone (Westy) may have beat me to this, but this is not a drill! Or fog. It's smoke from WA, OR, CA, BC.... We're boxed in! ...But it should clear up tomorrow for our area. Good thing... I ran yesterday, but today the air is "unhealthy for healthy people" and everyone is supposed to stay inside and stick to mellow activities... It's weird to look out the window and the house across the street is hazy. We are lucky, I know, that we are not experiencing the fires themselves.
Seattle this morning:
The satellite view:
tell those hikers to GTFO of the way!!Does it look something like this?
Wednesderp indeed. We are currently huddled down in camp, in this valley here. Big ass thunder storm is rolling through. Boomers loud enough to shake the tents.
Them ROX are going to be slippery.....assuming this storm ever stops.
You should get LASIK.Broke my glasses last night. FTS. Very good second conversation with new opportunity. Sounds like an offer is on the table, but vacation is a week less. That might be a deal breaker for me, more money or not.
It's the bestest, fastest way to build climbing legs close to home. I have found a sustained 10 mile climb about an hour away - it should be over 2K with 40MPH descents!Excited about road riding... wut?
Best money I've ever spent.You should get LASIK.