1. What should be starting salary for the person promoted to coordinating all shipping/receiving for a multi-million dollar company, and what should s/he ask for if s/he won't do it for less than 32K/yr?
2. This Photo Friday is evidently Trees, but followed next week by Femme Fatales (and hommes)?
3. How about some Photo Friday themes inspired by JPG Mag's simple themes, like maybe "Reflections" and "Geometry" and "Hot or Cold"?

1. $35K / ask $37.5K?
2. Yes?
3. Okay, but we need more suggestions?!?

1. Do you like these photos?
2. Is your bellybutton really there to hold the salt in which you dip celery you eat while lying in bed? 'Cuz that's what Mom told me when I was a kid.
3. Is this post just too damn complex/I'm too impatient to make three posts?

1) Here's the USDL BLS site for "Shipping, recieving, and traffic clerks".

"Median annual earnings of shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks in May 2004 were $24,400. The middle 50 percent earned between $19,600 and $30,720. The lowest 10 percent earned less than $16,290, and the highest 10 percent earned more than $37,610."

2) I've got a tree in mind for Friday.
3) I suggest Cars as a future Photo Friday theme. After that, Motorcycles, Boats, Airplanes, and Little Red Wagons.

1) Here's the USDL BLS site for "Shipping, recieving, and traffic clerks".

"Median annual earnings of shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks in May 2004 were $24,400. The middle 50 percent earned between $19,600 and $30,720. The lowest 10 percent earned less than $16,290, and the highest 10 percent earned more than $37,610."

2) I've got a tree in mind for Friday.
3) I suggest Cars as a future Photo Friday theme. After that, Motorcycles, Boats, Airplanes, and Little Red Wagons.

1. Naw, I'd, like, BE the shipping and receiving dept. Not a clerk. $24DamnK? I make signif more than that now and still live paycheck to paycheck. Say it ain't so! BLS = liars!
2. Do you mind if I cheat and post answers and questions in the same comment, asking how many of you hate my self-indulgent posts lately?
3. I can't believe you didn't refer to Planes, Trains and Automobiles. Little red wagons rock. Did you know Radio Flyer makes PLASTIC ones now, though? Bastards. America truly has gone to hell. It was a short trip since the non-natives arrived. Sorry, that was neither question nor answer, except maybe in a Confucian ramble sorta way.

The answer to 1 is somewhat to dependent on the number of pieces shipped. For example, a financial institution versus an assembly plant, as well as whether Shipping handles packaging and palletizing and whether Receiving performs inventory and quality control beyond inspecting the outside of the container.

1) Meant to include the BLS page link. Some additional links there, to other resources. Maybe, try upscaling yourself to Traffic Manager? Although, usually, you have to have some staff, or some outsourced services, or something to, you know, manage to get a Manager title. But, hey, work it, if you don't mind being non-exempt.
2) Post anything you like, shane. It's not my Web site.
3) I got caught once in a huge freakin' ice storm, tryin' to get home to Atlanta, after my plane was diverted to Memphis. Since the rental car places were running out of cars, I took pity on a couple of guys in the same boat. We weren't 10 minutes out of the Memphis airport when those assholes started making PT&A references. They continued doing it for the next day and a half it took us to drive to Atlanta, around the closed roads, and ice. I hate that damned movie.

1. I have no clue, although I'm an assistant traffic manager.
2. I live in Chicago. We don't really have trees. The ones that we do have are mostly ugly, especially now because they don't have leaves yet.
3. I liked Airplane! better.

1. I have never seen P, T & A.
2. ?
3. ! + ? = ‽

Since the rental car places were running out of cars, I took pity on a couple of guys in the same boat.

Nicely worded!

This thread needs Capn.

- I really like photo #one, #two doesn't do anything for me.

- I think you're correct in asking for and settling for the figures you stated. Maybe even bump the asking for to 40k.

- I'm game for whatever on Photo Friday's, but that doesn't mean I can participate.