What you do for a living (work, job)?

So it’s the same truck, that’s wild. He had them to 40k and offered 39, this was over the course of two visits. I thought he had it in the bag but they wouldn’t budge. I’ve bought three tundras and a Camry there and went with him to try and use that to his advantage. He ended up buying a used 19 crewmax in Salem but still says “I thought I had that blue one in the bag!”

I ride locally when I can but go up to Pittsburg and Rangeley. I’ve had atv’s in the past but for me they don’t compare. I have a Harley and old car I race at the drag strip so I have summer pretty covered.

Voodoo is still the best color Toyota has offered in recent years.

 

Agree that VD is the best color, I get a lot of compliments on it when I am out and about! Damnit, I could have got another 1K off LOL! You gotta know when they are at the cap, for 1K if I was your dad and it was the truck I wanted I would have bought it, I am glad he didn't though. ... I guess your dad is stubborn?! I went to TON when I needed a commuter vehicle a few months ago, and they were going to charge me over MSRP despite me using them repeatedly for other vehicles, so I will no longer be a customer there, and they also tried to trick me into doing some expensive unessessary throttle bottle cleaning last service, which I thankfully declined. Ended up going to Grappone in Bow for the new CC, MUCH better dealership with no market adjustment BS, bought a new Honda CRV, and I will be going to their dealerships for service as well! Highly recommend them if you need a Honda or Toyota in the future.

Be safe and happy riding!

-T

 

I thought the same thing, like I said I’ve bought four vehicles there and I will walk with ease. I’m always there buying a mass produced new vehicle that I can get anywhere, not a 70 LS6 Chevelle. He would have paid 40 but my mom set 39 as the number and she she was sitting right next to him so 40 wouldn’t fly.

I went back there with a coworker who wanted a 23 Trd pro tundra, they told him 10k over sticker. Yeah no way. Ordered it from McGee in Claremont (middle of freakin nowhere) for msrp and it’s due in next week at msrp. My mom also bought a 22 4Runner TRD Off Road from them at msrp. I’m also all done with Nashua. Their only saving grace is location and that they usually have what you want sitting there. My fiancé works in Concord and we live close by so I’ll give grappone a shot next time.

 

Ok, so your dad is not stubborn, it's that your mom wears the pants in the house, as it should be , and she sounds like a cool mom driving a 4runner ! Tell your mom thanks, I am enjoying my blue truck!

Haha, I am familiar with Claremont, lots of great ATV trails up there, and it is in fact in the middle of nowhere. 89 is super fun in winter too if its snowing , I used to work on an ambulance up there, so I drove that trek many times!

Hope your co worker has a trouble free delivery on his new TRD PRO, did he get the octane? LOVE that color! DEF give Grappone a try, you won't want to go back to nashua, I drive the 45 minutes to get there, which honestly is the same distance to TON anyway, but it's worth it!

PS: What is a "motor officer".

-T

 

Ive bought parts off McGee, theyre like two miles up the road from the flight park (Morningside) if yall ever get bored and wanna hurl yourselves off a perfectly good mountain or anything.

 

nah he got MGM with a black interior. I would have gone for solar octane but 71k for a truck is not for me. I’m in Auburn so it isn’t all that far for me to go to Concord and I def won’t go to Ira.

Motorcycle Police

 

High school special Ed teacher here as well!

 

Stay-at-home dad with a 2-year old and a second baby due May 16th, 2023.

 

I'm a trophy husband

 

^^^^ Oh yes, that too

 

I worked in the trades all my life. Got a job fixing stuff at a school 20 yrs ago. Pay isn't great, but amazing health benefits and a lot of paid time off. Not as much as the teachers, but it's a lot to me. I don't even use 1/3 of my vaca.
I'm considering retiring early and doing something on the side for extra cash. No, not male prostitution although I'd probably be a hit at the retirement homes. Maybe build a few custom guitars p/yr, maybe some furniture.
Unless they wanna pay me to stick around for a while and just tell people what to do from a desk. But this workin shit is getting old. It also kinda ruined my dream of being a hand model.

 

I just switched from full time private EMS to a full time, really sweet nursing job and per-diem EMS for a municipality, and mostly on a fly car (good bye private EMS!). my insurance went from costing 85.00 a week with a 2K deductible to 35.00 a week with a 750.00 deductible, pay went up another 20.00 an hour, and I went from having to work 48 hours a week, 2 24 hour shifts, to working 32 hours a weeks days only... not to mention the free gym membership and not having to lift obese people down stairs or on manual stretcher (honestly the FDs were really good about helping a lot, but still).



My new booboo bus, power stretcher too!!!

-T

 

Congrats!

And here I am working for a multi-billion dollar, record-profit bragging assed natural gas pipeline company and paying over $500/m for my husband and I for a ‘good’ plan from BCBS where we still have to shell over $3k per year for it to begin to have any meaningful impact. Love it.

 

Same

 

Yikes Crystal, that sucks. Are you guys non-union??

The thing with nursing and hospitals is that hospitals can partially self insure, so if I use the hospital system I work at for healthcare they are able to provide much lower cost insurance and medical care... unfortunately other industries don't have that option, but your insurance sounds horrible! I hope they improve things for you guys!

 

Non union, but its across the board even for the union techs out West from what we hear. On the bright side one day we’ll keel over and wont need insurance anymore so theres that.

 

U.S. Navy (Submarines), 26 years. Retired. Had many different "jobs" here.
Contractor (Department of the Navy), Senior Field Service Engineer, 20 years. Retired.

I'm done...

 

Most every company self-insures at least partially. Because I am in a partnership, I get to pay for my own - full freight - and it is super expensive. $2k/mth for myself plus one.

 

Software Engineer

 

I run a financial institution. 22 years.

 

Awesome, I work for a large mortgage company. We deal with a few financial numbers too

 

What part of the country?

 

Pacific Northwest.

 

Quite a few banks in that area.

 

Umm, that's not quite what I meant.... I meant that the hospital is basically subsidizing the cost of the healthcare provided to employees at their own hospital. In other words, if I go get a cat scan at the hospital I work at, they will just eat all or part of the cost in order to save money on insurance costs for their employees, so instead of the hospital having to pay 500 a month for each employee to have healthcare coverage, they only pay 250 a month since they are offering services at a discounted rate to the insurance company, or in some cases, at no cost. Thus the rate I pay for insurance and the portion that the hospital pays are both lower, when compared to someone who works elsewhere. If you go to get that same cat scan your insurance company is going to pay more for it, thus your healthcare insurance costs are likely to be higher. That's what I mean by a hospital self insuring. I think you are referring to the fact that employers usually pay a portion of insurance costs, usually 80% and the employee pays the rest, usually 20%, that is not self insuring, because they are paying a premium to an insurance carrier or broker.

-T

 

Able to share which O&G company?

Just accepted a new job as an Operations manager for a small O&G company myself

 

Seems we have added Rivian as a new calibration client.

 

I work for a HUGE SAAS Software Company for Dealerships

 

Changed my job

Old job: Senior systems administrator (Army)
New job: Non-supervisory GS technical lead for a contracting team (Navy)