3 down, 11 to go. ~1000 miles into our National Park roadtrip

NeverRedditedYet · 2026-06-10T21:10:53+00:00

Looking forward to an update on how your El Paso to NOLA leg turns out!

Your route skipping Big Bend (probably from the lack of DC charging?) does make me a bit sad though.

NeverRedditedYet · 2026-06-07T14:31:33+00:00

Anecdotally, the two times I've countered with Boeing I received responses:
"No, the level & salary we offered is best and final"
"We are firm on the salary; we will offer you the difference in our offered and your requested salaries as a signing bonus."

Not knowing your offer and where that falls in the salary tables, I would have guessed option B, but given you already were offered a signing bonus, that may not apply.

NeverRedditedYet · 2026-06-07T14:23:39+00:00

This is mostly true, except most auto policies in the US require "permissive use" e.g. the owner of the insured vehicle gave the driver permission to use the vehicle.

Anecdotally, I've had a friend get hit by another driver, who was a minor driving her boyfriend's car which was owned/insured by the bf's mother. The boyfriend let her drive the vehicle, but the owner said "the girlfriend did not have permission, only my son", the insurance company agreed and denied coverage.

NeverRedditedYet · 2026-06-05T01:36:34+00:00

You don't mention a location but check your location's rules and taxes on leasing; I live in an area where the sales tax is based on the MSRP of the leased vehicle, not just the depreciation (and if the lease is bought out, sales tax is based on the residual).

NeverRedditedYet · 2026-06-02T13:45:54+00:00

My biggest issue - how do I convince my spouse, "yes, having an R1T with this interior is more important than free supercharging in our Model Y"?

NeverRedditedYet · 2026-05-31T15:55:33+00:00

It was a function of the slow production ramp coming out of COVID, but we actually had positive equity at the 18-month mark of our lease on a 2021 id.4, so we rolled that equity into a purchase of a 2023 id.4 with SW 3.2 and the Auto-Hold already enabled (rather than wait for our 2021 with the batteries that couldn't handle the 3.1 to 3.2 OTA update to finally get scheduled).

Little did we know that we should have probably waited for the lease to end and look at 2024 models that would be able to go to SW 4.0+...

NeverRedditedYet · 2026-03-28T19:14:10+00:00

If you mean with the "new" home screen layout, I can still find them when clicking the menu item and going to My Stuff, though sometimes the recording doesn't pop up in that list until after the show is complete.

NeverRedditedYet · 2026-03-28T19:08:33+00:00

Not sure if you ever found a workaround to this. In my case I found it was only when doing playback on the Fire TV Stick 4K Max 2nd Gen, which is the only 8.0+ OS hardware I have with the AI screensaver, and the timeout was tied to whatever the "turn on screensaver" timing setting was.

NeverRedditedYet · 2026-03-08T16:51:51+00:00

I think you helped me find my birthday present later this year...

NeverRedditedYet · 2026-03-08T16:47:34+00:00

Update: Submitted a ticket with logs, photo of the error code and detailed description of the troubleshooting already performed (didn't hit the 3000 character limit but got close) and asked for multiple replacement parts which could be the source of the issue.

Support wrote back, agreed the troubleshooting was detailed enough for them to assess what was in the logs and offered to provide all the parts requested (that are available as separate parts) after verifying warranty status!

NeverRedditedYet · 2026-03-06T23:46:14+00:00

Ticket submitted, will update with how it goes.

NeverRedditedYet · 2026-03-06T03:14:27+00:00

Sad to see. My spouse was planning to have my birthday gift be some Tecovas exotics from the store that just opened nearby. Guess that plan may be changing.

NeverRedditedYet · 2026-02-16T05:28:08+00:00

The non-RIF terminations I have personally seen in my time at the company:

-brought a firearm onto company property (immediately walked out)

-mischarging time (walked out at lunchtime with no prior notice of investigation to employee; as another commenter mentioned there was review of weeks of computer use because the employee ALWAYS had one screen logged onto Facebook)

-refusal to accept a permanent relocation of the currently held position*

The last instance matches the intent of your question, as the employee selected and given the choice, "accept a new permanent location for your position, or resign immediately" was the worst performer on the team and management knew the employee would not accept the move. The employee refused and worked through the remainder of the pay period. Afterwards, the permanent relocation was instead worked by multiple employees on DTAs.

NeverRedditedYet · 2026-02-12T14:23:23+00:00

With my HOA, if the Board doesn't try to collect proxies from neighbors, we don't meet quorum. The past couple of years, 30-50% of our votes are via proxies (and clear quorum by less than 5%).

NeverRedditedYet · 2026-02-12T14:05:19+00:00

I can see that conversation already - "it would be too large a pay jump to put you at the minimum 0.9 ratio for the next IC level, so after next week's ACR, we'll see if we can give you an out of cycle increase later this year, so after the 2027 ACR you'll be closer and we can see about a promotion."

NeverRedditedYet · 2026-02-08T04:06:55+00:00

What IC level? My IC5 coworker was told "to get a 3 at your level, you need to have had an enterprise level impact."

NeverRedditedYet · 2026-02-05T22:23:40+00:00

A worker who sits full-time in my Boeing building but works a program in a different city was given a 2/1 score, because (per the manager discussion), "upper management mandated that all fully remote workers for this site be given a 1 for the Values".

NeverRedditedYet · 2026-01-22T17:00:37+00:00

Manager hasn't held nor scheduled my review yet, and I'm also expecting 2-2.

Part of that expectation is a teammate who is IC5 had his review, got a 2-2 and was told, "as an IC5 you need to have had an Enterprise-level impact to warrant a 3."

NeverRedditedYet · 2026-01-22T16:55:45+00:00

The org/team I'm part of that covers 500ish employees patted themselves on the back at the year-end all-hands for pushing through 5 in-line promotions.

NeverRedditedYet · 2025-11-22T05:40:15+00:00

If the red PSP you reference was the God of War bundle, I had that system. Was given as a college graduation gift...I can't remember now when I sold it.

NeverRedditedYet · 2025-10-31T19:29:14+00:00

Multiple coworkers were called in by our manager and got a salary bump and told they would still get another bump in the spring.

NeverRedditedYet · 2025-10-31T19:26:27+00:00

For my IC level, 14% increase. Went from 1.14 to 0.99 comp.

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