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I got pinged to fill a vacancy by an agency local to me, a while back.
Polite Email, no ' we have this great opportunity' spiel , just a simple ' we saw your CV online and wondered if this would be of interest.
It was 2 jobs, as half of the things required were a different skillset to mine totally, AND the salary was off by a factor of 2.
I pointed out that anyone who would take that job, at that money, clearly cant do it , because if they could, they would already be making twice that.
That seems like a big job, for not a lot of money.
If this has been Kawasaki's M.O. in securing team management personnel, they may find themselves going around the same old mountain again. The age-old adage: "You get what you pay for", is usually a valid one.
No wonder their bike sucks. That salary is laughable.
...why is everyone tripping out over pet insurance and equating it to some "woke" thing?
I live in the Midwest and my wife's Wyoming based company offers it. It's not some new foreign concept, pets can get expensive.
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When you travel …a lot… as in this job that’s being offered…pet care while you’re gone is certainly an issue, too.
Kinda bummed about who’s retiring…he’s one of the good guys.
Who's the old guy that goes to the races, looks kind of like Chase, wears a Kawasaki team shirt, and smokes cigarettes?
A good sized group of the guys balking at 167K have wives with Amazon Prime addictions that require 100k of that right off the pop, but they don't want to frame it like that. That 3 Row SUV, hot yoga membership, lululemon wardrobe, and Starbucks in the Super Target entryway all add up.
Thats about 1700 after taxes.rent for a 1 rm apt around there is what 2-2.5k. Ur not starving but your not setting up yr retirement much
You've got this big fancy position with a manufacturer, and the living situation would be an apartment with roommates? Ahh the American dream in full force.
My dirtbikes, gear, parts, riding fees, gas, truck, etc all add up too. My wife’s butt looks pretty damn good getting out of that third row SUV while wearing lululemons after yoga class. She also works full time, makes almost as much as me, and is an adult. If those things make her happy, then I’m all for it.
All I can think about is how I hope she wears lulu’s when she gets home tonight. What were we talking about again?
Interesting and makes me wonder if they have someone from overseas they want to bring in to fill that post.
I have some experience with these kind of “work skill” visas and generally what happens is they tailor the job requirements so specifically that virtually no US citizens/permanent residents apply and of those that do apply the company can easily give reasons why those applicants don’t qualify for the position, then the overseas person they want to bring in is able to acquire the skilled visa - because the company can show they’re the only person qualified to fill that position.
I’ve seen it done many times.
I’m probably wrong - unless it goes to a non citizen / permanent resident and then I’ll more than likely crow a little ;-) .
You may very well be on to something. That is a crazy list of responsibilities for that salary for someone that is already a professional level translator. And we're talking Japanese here, not Spanish. Japanese is a level 5 language and very few non-native speakers ever achieve a level of proficiency to be translating for the President of Kawasaki.
Duties:
-Supervise 4 people
-Design racing parts in CAD
-Create engineering drawings
-Perform FEA and failure analysis
-Track all shop projects
-Run the shop day-to day
-Program cnc machines
-Set up cnc machines
-Run parts on cnc machines
-Travel 50% of the time
Experience:
-15 years in the race team environment
and
-10 years programming and running cnc equipment
All for $115-$120k in California 😳
In the Portland area we’d pay $120k for someone 5 years out of school with even half of those skills.
You guys should look at vancouver or Toronto in Canada. $167k salary for an $800k house is a dream. Toronto is an avg of like $129k salary and avg home price is over a million$ Vancouver is similar. Full time trades guys are going homeless. They cant afford the homes they get paid to build. Unfortunately our leader is challenged in economics apparently.
I make more than that driving a tractor-trailer, listening to moto podcasts all day.
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