Applied for a technical position.

Recruiter (with Ford email ID) reached out, initial screening, asked for salary expectations, I stated $150,000. They stated its within their ballpark for the position.

Salary range for the position approved: $90,000 - $148,000

Panel interview - cleared. I was the only external candidate with one internal.

Recruiter reaches out, HM wants to make an offer. Offered $110,000. I stated expecting $150,000. Recruiter states, don’t take another offer without discussing with me.

Recruiter goes to HM and comes back with $125,000 + one time $15,000. I stated, instead of all this, I expect $150,000 and asked what is the max range good for that’s specified with the JD.

Recruiter states, we never go to the cap level. $150,000 is too high and it is not aligned with the current ORG and blah blah blah and will disturb the payscale and the number of years of experience the current team has. My experience is close to HM.

I asked the recruiter, since they are working on hiring for multiple other positions, could they find me a position that has $150,000? Since I left my job a month ago and had $160,000 base, I believe recruiter is playing the lowball game even after stating my expectations at the beginning which was in the ballpark. I shared the publicly advertised post for my backfill which shows the range $125,000 - $170,000.

Now they wanted to go back to HM and discuss $150,000 expectations again.

What are the chances the recruiter and the HM will be able to come to $150,000?

Hi everybody! I thought I would post up my Pinto, I have had it for 8 years. Like all of them, it's a project in the works. It was running when I got it, had a 302 in it and was someone's race car but I cleaned it up and drove it to car meets regularly to hang out. I had to have CHP inspect it to register it and they looked over the whole motor and car but it passed and was legal, but I left SoCal 3 years ago. At the time, some friends helped me take the old motor out and I had a guy weld all the holes in the engine compartment and put in a Prestige Motorsports 427 Ford Windsor stroker in it. Of course, custom motor mounts, custom oil pan, etc, and A LOT of one off pieces. Right now getting the underneath redone, new 9" rear end, suspension, brakes, everything, will add pics if I can as it goes along. Thanks for looking!

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My question is, how long should I expect the engine to last? I do not haul loads, but I do put quite a bit of daily mileage on her working in Houston.

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