@andriver Yes I am a fellow Red Raider. When did you graduate? I emailed the hiring manager and asked if the vacation time was negotiable. If not then I have no choice but to walk from the offer.
I am in Texas, USA. I will find out if they offer FMLA. I will definitely play hard ball as you said SlideRuleEra. I agree Compositepro that vacation should be negotiable after working in the industry for several years. It doesn't seem fair to have to "start over".
They do offer 7 days of sick leave per year although it wasn't clear in the offer when I would be able to use it. They also offer flex time which the hiring manager said can be used if approved by my supervisor. I have requested the time off for the baby and also a vacation in June that has been...
I received a job offer this past week from a CE firm with approx. 50 employees. I have been a PE for nearly 2 years and have about 8 years experience. The vacation time offered is no vacation for a year, 5 days after one year, 10 days after two years, and 15 after seven years. I currently get 11...
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I decided to stay with the original company which has turned out to be a great choice. The final 2 weeks of my ex-bosses employment were the most awkward and uncomfortable weeks I have ever experienced. His recruiting efforts became pretty much a constant thing and were not limited to...
Here is an update...I have found out a little more information about the situation. Apparently there is going to be some legal issues. I have overheard that one of the guys from the new company was stealing client info from this company after he had quit. He apparently was somehow remotely...
A little more info after reading everybody's posts...I do have a good working relationship with my boss. I don't like working for him though, and that is part of the reason I don't want to go with him. I have been questioning the ethics of the whole things as well. He said he didn't want to be...
So here is the situation. I have been working for an AE consulting company for a year now. The owner of the company hired my boss about 14 months ago to start up a Civil/Surveying department. My boss hired me 2 months later, and then a couple months later he hired a surveyor. It hasn’t been the...
StructuralEIT-you pretty much hit it right on. He has done surveying for a long time and now wants to become an RPLS, so he is now going to school just to get a degree. My boss is an RPLS so my intern works under him and they do most of the survey work that we do here the company. And then my...
I understand that he has a lot of survey experience. I just question the whole situation because a $10 an hour raise is a lot of money. And my intern told me that when they offered him the job that they had to do some serious thinking about giving him his previous hourly wage. It seems that they...
The company I work for started a Civil/Survey department in August 2008. I began working here in September as a Civil EIT. I now have worked 2 and half years as an EIT. It was just me and my boss in the department until he hired an "intern" in January. The intern is going to school for his...
A little more info..We are just doing the site development. The architect has given us his site plan already. We have already located water, sewer, electric around the site. My boss and I are actually doing the survey but we have already figured up time for that. The site is relatively small...
Our company just recently added a civil department. We have a client that wants to put in a building in a relatively flat site with no detention. I am an EIT with about a year of experience in site development at another company, but this will be my first full blown site development project with...
JAE, yes what you are saying is correct. To make things even more interesting, my boss pulled the Mechanical Engineer off the project. I know he didn't have much civil experience but anything helps. So now i'm at it alone! And to make this situation even worse, my boss just calls and says I...
We have a modular trailer that was originally designed for a live load of 50 psf. There was no indication of the design load for dead load, but i am assuming 20 psf. This trailer is 1900 ft^2 but is in two halves, so each half is 950 ft^2. The floor is made of 2x8 joists (#2 H.F. can someone...
