grrrrr *WARNING...WARNING...RANT ALERT!!!*
Well, I guess my celebration on getting an offer was premature. Ridge Tool called me back today with the offer. I'm not going to give out any specific number, but it was shitty. Real shitty. I told them that I would consider it and call them back tomorrow. According to one website, what they offered me is in the 10th percentile of what starting mechanical engineers get in Elyria, OH. Oh, I know that the economy sucks, but you might as well start looking in India from the get-go if your going to make that kind of an offer.
This is the closest I've ever felt like a pro athelete. I now know the slap-in-the-face feeling when one gets low-balled even though you should be lucky to make any money at all. I'm not like Tim Couch, who is currently one of the top paid quarterbacks in the NFL and has Arena League stats. I graduated mother-summa-cum-fucking-laude, and all I ask is to be offered a wage which is consistent with those offered to average mechanical engineering graduates.
I refuse to get fucked over again like with my co-op. I'm sick of being such a pushover that it makes Neville Chamberlain look like an cameo from Jenghiz Khan on The Apprentice.
I realize that when I take a job, I'm going to be working A LOT. It'll be the only thing to do. I'd like it to be interesting, challenging, and respectable. And I know if I take this pathetic offer, I'm not going to be working my best. I'm going to be thinking of how I got fucked over again. NOTE TO POTENTIAL EMPLOYEERS: I WILL WORK HARD FOR YOU!!!! Because frankly, spending Saturday night alone watching the FOOD Channel makes working long hours at an interesting job look like a cocain binge with Paris Hilton.
AUUGGGHH!!! *sigh* I'm going to make Ridge Tool a counter offer: one that is reasonable. And I will explain in detail WITH SOURCES why this counter offer is reasonable. And if they don't like it, they can all go to hell. And good luck to them trying to find a tool that will accept their "offer".
If they don't bite on this counter offer, I'm going to grad school. I know I've said it before, but this time I mean it. I'm sick of trying to prove myself to be a valuable human being to these assholes. I have the undergrad grades to get into a grad school, and I have the money to pay for it just in case. They reject this counter offer, and I'm going to show these philistines what "qualified" is all about.
This is the closest I've ever felt like a pro athelete. I now know the slap-in-the-face feeling when one gets low-balled even though you should be lucky to make any money at all. I'm not like Tim Couch, who is currently one of the top paid quarterbacks in the NFL and has Arena League stats. I graduated mother-summa-cum-fucking-laude, and all I ask is to be offered a wage which is consistent with those offered to average mechanical engineering graduates.
I refuse to get fucked over again like with my co-op. I'm sick of being such a pushover that it makes Neville Chamberlain look like an cameo from Jenghiz Khan on The Apprentice.
I realize that when I take a job, I'm going to be working A LOT. It'll be the only thing to do. I'd like it to be interesting, challenging, and respectable. And I know if I take this pathetic offer, I'm not going to be working my best. I'm going to be thinking of how I got fucked over again. NOTE TO POTENTIAL EMPLOYEERS: I WILL WORK HARD FOR YOU!!!! Because frankly, spending Saturday night alone watching the FOOD Channel makes working long hours at an interesting job look like a cocain binge with Paris Hilton.
AUUGGGHH!!! *sigh* I'm going to make Ridge Tool a counter offer: one that is reasonable. And I will explain in detail WITH SOURCES why this counter offer is reasonable. And if they don't like it, they can all go to hell. And good luck to them trying to find a tool that will accept their "offer".
If they don't bite on this counter offer, I'm going to grad school. I know I've said it before, but this time I mean it. I'm sick of trying to prove myself to be a valuable human being to these assholes. I have the undergrad grades to get into a grad school, and I have the money to pay for it just in case. They reject this counter offer, and I'm going to show these philistines what "qualified" is all about.