Managers' pay-Total Bullshit?

Can anyone explain to me why most ERAC employees all the way up to city managers rent apartments and dont live in houses?

Possible answers are....

1-low pay
2-low pay
3-low pay

Any of these could be a factor or possibly all of the above.I realized that all managers lie about their salary.Dont be fooled by what you hear MTs....You manager is earning fuck all!

In fact most of the people that work at erac wouldnt even qaulify to rent a car there!

I don't know about that....my old area manager drove a BMW and lived in a really nice house.

Several Level III's houses I have been to are nice.
Maybe Gerardy just doesn't have any taste.
Have you met his wife?

[Tim O' Tei]

Originally Posted by Unregistered

I don't know about that....my old area manager drove a BMW and lived in a really nice house.

Several Level III's houses I have been to are nice.
Maybe Gerardy just doesn't have any taste.
Have you met his wife?

What - he didnt have a company car? Hardly a team player.

BMW's are crap anyway, bet it wasn't new - the depreciation is astonishing. You can get a z3 (bought new at £23,000+) for less than £5k now about 4 yrs old

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Can anyone explain to me why most ERAC employees all the way up to city managers rent apartments and dont live in houses?

Possible answers are....

1-low pay
2-low pay
3-low pay

Any of these could be a factor or possibly all of the above.I realized that all managers lie about their salary.Dont be fooled by what you hear MTs....You manager is earning fuck all!

If you are not a BM that is close to a L3 promotion you have to rent to stay "flexible". The company has a really SHITTY relocation program for anybody that is not a L3. So, it doesn't make sense unless you like to take your lumps financially. If you are a new L3 it might be in a crap location that you can't wait to get out of. So, you don't buy there, but hope to get promoted soon.

Anyway... call your GRM of VP. I am sure they will call BS on you and tell you to earn more so that you can buy whatever you want.

[GP57 Dropout]

Originally Posted by Tim O' Tei

What - he didnt have a company car? Hardly a team player.

BMW's are crap anyway, bet it wasn't new - the depreciation is astonishing. You can get a z3 (bought new at £23,000+) for less than £5k now about 4 yrs old

Even with the monetary conversions I'm pretty sure BMWs differ in price depending whether you are in the UK or the US. Aren't BMWs more afforable in the UK...or am I way off base here?


Back on topic...the reason most people at ERAC live in apts. is also because a lot of them are single, and it's not easy to buy a house with one income, even if you are doing "half-decent" in ERAC terms ($40-50K). I owned a house when I was an MA...but I had my fiancee's help. So together we were making about $65K and could make it work. So I'm going to alter the reasons for not being able to buy a house.

1-low pay
2-work life is not conducive to relationships, so many are single
3-If they were financially smart enough to buy a house, they'd be smart enough to quit ERAC.

Sorry, that last one was a low blow.

[Tim O' Tei]

[1-low pay
2-work life is not conducive to relationships, so many are single
3-If they were financially smart enough to buy a house, they'd be smart enough to quit ERAC.

Sorry, that last one was a low blow.[/quote]

LMFAO!

BMWs are supposedly a great car but they aren't. Don't believe all this German engineering crap. VW's break down left right and centre too. Any remarketer will tell you the same.

Pricewise I think we're about the same given the exchange rate. Wither way it's too high!

In the UK, second hand BMW's are worth next to nothing because they have become a victim of their own success and the world and his wife owns one, thus reducing their premium status and therefore their value. How many G-K regs 3 series do you see on the road driven by someone who clearly would be a lot better off driver something slightly more affordable? Exactly. This is why only a mug would buy a 3 series BMW. Saying that though the new 5 series is nice, and so is the Z4, though for the money you'd be better off with a Lotus Elise, a proper sports car rather than a hairdressers one.

Admin do we need an off topic BMW section for our European experts? Stay on topic you thread whores!

[Tim O' Tei]

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Admin do we need an off topic BMW section for our European experts? Stay on topic you thread whores!

Sorry chap. I am a whore.

As for the previous poster, the Z4 looks nice but is a terrible drive. It has the hardest suspension I have ever felt. Five series is OK but when you are outperformed by a Volvo C70 which hasn't been redesigned since 1997 your in trouble.