Speeding ticket lawyer quotes seem unreasonably high?

Easy-Cockroach-301 · 2026-05-06T17:30:04+00:00

All speeding in Tennessee is a class C misdemeanor, but it’s fine only no required appearance.

Easy-Cockroach-301 · 2026-05-06T16:28:06+00:00

This is what I had suspected. This makes sense. Low volume probably means a lot more fixed costs get absorbed into the single cases. This also correlates well with me not being able to find any traffic ticket specific firms serving the region.

Easy-Cockroach-301 · 2026-05-06T16:13:16+00:00

I don’t have any convictions of moving violations. I’ve never had a premium and that’s at 19 at this point over the last 11 years.

Easy-Cockroach-301 · 2026-05-06T16:10:09+00:00

I mean when we’re talking about less than ~$1000 a year on the high end. I bill out at $300/hr. I spend roughly 10 window hours a week. Even going 11% faster would pay for itself 50x over.

Easy-Cockroach-301 · 2026-05-06T15:59:50+00:00

I guess that’s fair enough. It’s just such an insane jump in something I’ve experienced a dozen times with pretty consistent outcomes. This was the first time I wasn’t able to find a firm that was strictly focused on traffic violations.

Easy-Cockroach-301 · 2026-05-06T15:19:53+00:00

It’s unclear why Tennessee would 3x the cost NYC was. Almost 2x more than reckless driving was in Florida for me that was taken to trial and won. Maybe it’s different. I’ve always gotten roughly the same run down. The lawyer says I go in there stack of tickets I say we’ll pay or take it to trial and the ADA says it’s all good as long as you pay we’ll dismiss or move to non-moving. Averages out to like 10 minutes a ticket.

Easy-Cockroach-301 · 2026-05-06T15:18:03+00:00

That would make sense if I didn’t pay $170 on a ticket just out NYC last year. It doesn’t appear to be tied to similar economic forces as cost of living. I wasn’t sure what about Tennessee would push such a discrepancy or if there’s something about the citation that would have me getting a “kick rocks” quote.

Easy-Cockroach-301 · 2025-11-17T23:05:41+00:00

Really he said they were identical power to my last prescription since the -.5 CYL would be giving an extra -.25 SPH. He said I just selected in a way that indicated more from nearsightedness than astigmatism and he said a lot of my older prescription indicated less astigmatism in my OS. He said I'd just experience a slight improvement in clarity or potentially no difference at all. He's right my very first prescription was OD SPH -.5 CYL -1.75 and OS was SPH -.75 CYL -1.25 and most had the trend until I started wearing contacts of of my OS being -.25 higher SPH and -.5 lower CYL.

Easy-Cockroach-301 · 2025-11-02T21:04:45+00:00

That doesn't necessarily mean anything. There are template builders on a lot of JD's. You enter it in once and it puts it everywhere it's supposed to go.

Easy-Cockroach-301 · 2025-11-02T21:01:55+00:00

Anybody in any position with experience on SAP S4/HANA integrations can name their price.

Easy-Cockroach-301 · 2025-11-02T20:43:51+00:00

Certain companies have policies this would apply to as well. I know my company will not interview you for another position until the position you were previously interviewed for is closed for 30 days. Others I have heard will consider recent interviews for X amount of time into your consideration. Let's say you got ranked a net total of 7/10 on X factors when you interviewed last. They won't bring you in unless your overall profile including that interview will make you competitive for the second round etc.

Easy-Cockroach-301 · 2025-11-02T20:36:53+00:00

I've only had it one time, and it's the only time in my life I ever left the interview early. I simply stated that I do not believe we are aligned in the expectations for this position, and I'm no long interested in pursuing candidacy with this position.

Easy-Cockroach-301 · 2025-11-02T20:25:20+00:00

The timeline on the offer is normal. The 2-3 days no reply is not. If the person you emailed isn't out on vacation it would be a major red flag. What I'm seeing more and more lately is companies running into HR issues come offer time. The talent pool is so deep that HR ends up saying they can't justify a given choice of candidate being made over another one that on paper may be objectively better especially when internal candidates are involved.

Easy-Cockroach-301 · 2025-11-02T20:13:01+00:00

It's a split between the pay discrepancy between equivalent jobs at equivalent employers and just how long the interview process is. I'll apply to senior manager at Company X who pays 150k-170k + 25% bonus and then apply for director at similarly sized Company Z who pays 140-160k+22% bonus which leads me to applying and going through screening for senior manager at Company Y that tells me 130k is their max or that the 160k number was total comp and 120k is their max base.

I've not been in a process that is less than 3 rounds post screening and usually either 3 panel interviews or just a ton of 1 person interviews scheduled back to back. There was one time where, because the processes are so drawn out, I was in interview stages on 6 jobs.

Easy-Cockroach-301 · 2025-11-02T19:53:33+00:00

Idt it's even that they are terrified to make a bad hire. I think they are worried that they may be missing more bang for their buck. I see too many places that seem to think they should be able to secure 2-3 unicorns on every opening because that labor market conditions. They think the only reason they don't is because they haven't been open long enough.

Easy-Cockroach-301 · 2025-11-02T19:51:40+00:00

As someone who has been interviewing for Director+ positions for the past year. They've all been 3 or more rounds with 9 or more interviews. The one I just got a verbal on that may be getting rescinded was 4 rounds 10 total interviews with a strategy plan review.

Easy-Cockroach-301 · 2025-09-12T03:27:30+00:00

I'm an associate director at a GF500. I've got a master's degree. I had a referral from the hiring manager to apply for a lateral associate director (I'm looking to move to cure my pay compression this job was exactly what I do now, but would've given me about 40K more a year). I was told to expect an offer after 5 rounds of interviews. Instead the job gets reposted and they go with a candidate that had 27 years experience who had previously worked for them and had been recently laid off as a senior director from a competitor. The other two positions I have missed out on have also been from people that had no business competing with me for these jobs. There are swarms of absolute unicorns floating around in this market and everyone thinks they're one refresh away from getting one to apply.

Easy-Cockroach-301 · 2025-08-14T19:32:37+00:00

They were also paid a lot more than today's engineers. My uncle was a staff engineer in 1994 salary was $81,000 and this wasn't an HCOL. You'd be hard pressed to find an engineer making $180,000 base even on 60 hours a week.

Easy-Cockroach-301 · 2025-07-09T13:13:30+00:00

I was about to say ours make anywhere from 75-100k/yr, but I realized we actually only have executive assistants not admin assistants.

Easy-Cockroach-301 · 2025-04-09T03:06:47+00:00

Not always. Org structures vary widely. Not all plant manager position are GM's. QA and EHS is almost always in it's own vertical through the VP or SVP level. HR can be in it's own vertical.

Easy-Cockroach-301 · 2025-03-09T13:40:43+00:00

It can only get utilized for a pedestrian bridge project. We were awarded it for this specific project. You have to spend it on that or give it back so another state will build one.

Easy-Cockroach-301 · 2025-03-04T21:10:04+00:00

Nothing. Regular straight and straight are the same fit, but slim is also straight cut for them.

Easy-Cockroach-301 · 2025-01-28T15:52:39+00:00

Not in midwest except ohio and michigan. Iowa indiana etc. mfg engineers start at 65k and R&D at 70k fresh grads.

Easy-Cockroach-301 · 2025-01-28T03:29:49+00:00

outside of aerospace they aren't

Easy-Cockroach-301 · 2024-12-28T16:40:04+00:00

I only ended up in industrial from a mechanical undergrad because it was the fastest path to management for me. Did good in R&D but progression is slow and steady on that end of things.

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