Bridges are always up around here.

https://youtu.be/bReTN2Rfygg?t=21s

I wonder what a data analyst at QBP makes for a salary?

https://rew31.ultipro.com/QUA1003/Jo...48D600C279DB16

Two ways to find out.

Oh God, I hate all that corporate bull****!
So glad I am out of that rat race. http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i3...man52/puke.gif

Way to go. You just spoiled a mans dream.

You probably take the candy from kids trick-or-treat bags at Halloween too.

Only the Mounds, Reeses, Hersheys, Kisses and Kit Kat. I'll hurt a kid over some chocolate. :notamused:

In other news, he needs to pay his dues like I and everybody else did. Nothing personal, corporate takes no prisoners. :p

Like employee pricing on bikes and parts???

wut

You pay dearly for that discount. :lol:

Sometimes you feel like a nut; sometimes you don't.

I did corporate for 35 years with remarkably few scars. Really kind of pleasant...I certainly don't remember a lot of pain. But then I worked (mostly) for some top companies. I think that helps.

Corp bull is bull, but since I've come to realize my career is on a plateau and not a climb I find it much easier to deal with. Not giving a crap what others think is liberating and at times actually sorta fun. It's still bull, but tolerable and...

It is hard to accept being on a plateau...at first. The top tier is very narrow indeed. If you can live with limited advancement at a top company (like yours, Herbie), the job satisfaction can still be very great...assuming you aren't pushing paper around your desk every day. I think I would just have to shoot myself in that case. In fact when my travel and customer contact opportunities were significantly restricted due to penny pinching, that is when I started to plan retirement. A few years of being in the office every day made leaving rather easy.

I've done a great circle... my first job was project management... and now again I am doing project management. Different subject matter, but the game is very similar. I'm actually happier working projects that are bringing on something new/driving change than I ever was in a operational don't rock the boat role.

It took me about two and a half decades to sort this out.

and on that note i told my boss that im quitting my PT retail job today

i will have weekends off for the first time in 10 years and just my 9-5 hours back, no 5 am 4 hr shifts of stupidity and certainly no holiday season insanity

so relieved, so much more time for bicycle cycles

25 miles this afternoon. At a VERY casual pace. I mean an Extracycle even passed me.

Sometimes, you just have to smell the roses...

My new Project (N+1)
http://bikeforums.net/attachment.php...hmentid=482273

Speaking of real steel, someone brought in a Pashley for repair today.

http://www.pashley.co.uk/images/prod...sov450x450.jpg

I was planning a ride in the nice 70 degree weather this afternoon, but I got suckered into working at the bike shop instead.

Getting manipulated by the man? Looks like oppression to me. :mad:

It all depends on the actual work environment. Before I went back to school, I did two years at the second largest aftermarket motorcycle parts and apparel distributor. Back then, I was a daily motorcycle commuter and hadn't even owned a car in quite a long while, aside from "our" car when I got married. At first it was the "dream job" because of all the discounts on parts and shizzle. Then I went from a grunt level job to a corporate level job. Out of the several hundred employees at the headquarters in Texas, I was one of maybe 3 or 4 regular motorcycle riders. What's wrong with that picture? A LOT. Everyone was driven solely by numbers on a spreadsheet and I HATED it. I quickly burned out and when I moved forever away and had trouble making it in on time, my boss found a reason to let me go. Thank God for that.

On the flip side, working in the bicycle shop during the last part of school is something I sorely miss. Sure, I'm making like 3 times what I could make there, but nobody here rides bikes, understands why I have a pink bike, why I shave my legs, etc. I feel like an alien. I'm willing to bet if my life had led me towards the QBP headquarters and I took my experience from one distributor to there, I'd be much happier there than I was at that motorcycle parts distributor.

So by the way: I know people like to do the "reverse pissing contest" when the subject of price of gear/apparel comes up, but holy cow did that bib short thread take a fast turn to the dark side.

Also: I finally got on the bike again this morning (still felt a little congested yesterday) and it was awesome. 50 degrees on the way in. I wore a jacket. What does the forecast say for the afternoon? Oh? 90?!?! WTF?!

Hoping the weather here gets itself straightened out soon.

My last job was corporate and I put in my one year and got out. It was miserable in that there was either no work for me to do or such a vast amount of work that it was unpossible. No in between. I'm actually very happy with my current employment and don't really want to get a job at QBP and I'm almost certain I would have to take a pay cut to work there. Not happening.

I'm also fairly certain that, while I love bicycle cycles, I would not fit with the company culture there. I would like to get my foot in with more companies in the cycling industry though. Unfortunately, I'm a horrible salesman so I can't really pick and choose my clients.

I did get paid to ride a bit, while I was there.

Test riding repair bikes. :o