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01-21-2003, 05:49 AM
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SoberBiker
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Location: Daytona Beach
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Returning to the forum after a long break...had a heck of a time just getting in and Mongo had to assisst. Now having a heck of a time posting...geeeeez...I can tell when I am not wanted...LOL
01-21-2003, 06:02 AM
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SoberBiker
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Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Daytona Beach
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Just like a bad penny...I keep showin-up 
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We have a bunch of plans...but I screwed around and put a bid in to go back to work for H-D here in Daytona. Now they want me to come back but aren't willin to pay didly squat! ******* can charge all the money to buy a bike, but won't pay their employees nuthin! That urks me to no end! More to follow. I have round two with them today.
So what's up with you Mongo...Last I heard you had lost your job...you workin again?
.We have a bunch of plans...but I screwed around and put a bid in to go back to work for H-D here in Daytona. Now they want me to come back but aren't willin to pay didly squat! ******* can charge all the money to buy a bike, but won't pay their employees nuthin! That urks me to no end! More to follow. I have round two with them today.
So what's up with you Mongo...Last I heard you had lost your job...you workin again?
01-21-2003, 06:09 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Posts: 1,268
Well I'm back on my feet. Actually things worked out pretty good...my *** didn't even touch the unemployment. I got laid off in mid-august, but my boss kept telling me to start looking before that. Luckily I did and was in the middle of interviewing at a place when I got the boot. I smoothe talked my way into a month and a half of compensation for being laid off and actually got hired by the new company in mid september....so I had some extra cash laying around.
Things are going good though, searching for a new bike and just doing what I have to do.
Again, good to have you back on the forums
Things are going good though, searching for a new bike and just doing what I have to do.
Again, good to have you back on the forums
01-21-2003, 06:30 AM
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Join Date: May 2002
Location: Fairfax, Iowa
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******* can charge all the money to buy a bike, but won't pay their employees nuthin!
01-21-2003, 07:41 AM
#6
SoberBiker
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Location: Daytona Beach
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What kind of a scoot are ya in the market for Mongo? Have a limit on the cost (Of course within reason 
) or is it just the model yur interested in?
Phat...
Thanks for the wecome back
I haven't found a dealer yet that is willing to give up a fair share of the profit...at least here I am being offered $9.00 hr. But I have worked for them before and they screwed me! I am only askin that they give me $10.00 hr. If they can't come up off $1 then they can pay some warm body to not be able to do the job...LOL!
) or is it just the model yur interested in?Phat...
Thanks for the wecome back
I haven't found a dealer yet that is willing to give up a fair share of the profit...at least here I am being offered $9.00 hr. But I have worked for them before and they screwed me! I am only askin that they give me $10.00 hr. If they can't come up off $1 then they can pay some warm body to not be able to do the job...LOL!
01-21-2003, 11:05 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Posts: 1,268
I'm in the market for something that goes fast, is loud, draw lots of chicks, and costs close to nothing....but I know those don't exist. I'm looking for a bigger bike again, another heritage or a fatboy.....cost is always a concern but I'm saving so I don't have to worry about it too much.
01-21-2003, 04:46 PM
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Location: Ohio
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Well my wide glide goes fast, to the gas station. It is loud with Vance and Hines straight shots. It draws lots of chicks though they leave as soon as I show up. 
And right now, it cost me close to nothing.(sittin in the garage cause it's toooo DAMN cold out to thump around.)
Oh sun shine! Where art thou? Why am I so damned to 4 degree weather and snow?
Maybe I shoulda bought a four wheeler.
Waitin to be glydin!
It draws lots of chicks though they leave as soon as I show up. And right now, it cost me close to nothing.(sittin in the garage cause it's toooo DAMN cold out to thump around.)Oh sun shine! Where art thou? Why am I so damned to 4 degree weather and snow?
Maybe I shoulda bought a four wheeler.
Waitin to be glydin!
08-26-2003, 09:41 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Colonia Los Pinos, Sinaloa, Mexico
Posts: 21
Hey Sober Biker!
Sober about 4 yrs now. Live and work in Mexico, born in Canada.
Ride a 89 Lowrider. Bike #11. Are you a friend of Bill W.
Have you heard of the Soberiders Association in BC, Canada?
Ride a 89 Lowrider. Bike #11. Are you a friend of Bill W.
Have you heard of the Soberiders Association in BC, Canada?
08-26-2003, 01:17 PM
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Pay Scale
Hey Sober...be cool as some Harley dealers are looking for quality employees. However, too many have tasted the money and got hooked. Had a dealer offer me a job managing his store and almost choked when I gave him a price.
He claimed he had 100's of applications from people asking under $10 an hour. In response I reminded him he had approached me (I live in a different state and he tracked me down) and if he really wanted to save on employee wages, at the cost of everything else pertaining to his business, that I could easily find people that'd work for free just so they could brag about working at a Harley dealership...and with a little more effort could find some that would pay for the "Honor".
Of course as things tighten up, due to competition, dealers like that sell out...
Like a sign, prominently displayed in a Harley dealer I worked for in the 60's, said, "You get what you pay for and oats that have been through a horse are much cheaper than new oats."
Don't sell yourself cheap...if you're a quality mech (or tech as it's written now) demand a quality price or do it on your own...
Edited by Admin: No Commercial links, thanks! Tip: Put the URL in your profile and when people click your "WWW" button on your posts they will be taken to your webspace. Then in your posts say 'click my www button to see my site'. Thanks - Mongo
He claimed he had 100's of applications from people asking under $10 an hour. In response I reminded him he had approached me (I live in a different state and he tracked me down) and if he really wanted to save on employee wages, at the cost of everything else pertaining to his business, that I could easily find people that'd work for free just so they could brag about working at a Harley dealership...and with a little more effort could find some that would pay for the "Honor".
Of course as things tighten up, due to competition, dealers like that sell out...
Like a sign, prominently displayed in a Harley dealer I worked for in the 60's, said, "You get what you pay for and oats that have been through a horse are much cheaper than new oats."
Don't sell yourself cheap...if you're a quality mech (or tech as it's written now) demand a quality price or do it on your own...
Edited by Admin: No Commercial links, thanks! Tip: Put the URL in your profile and when people click your "WWW" button on your posts they will be taken to your webspace. Then in your posts say 'click my www button to see my site'. Thanks - Mongo
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