Outside is Hiring Lab Test Editors
We'll save the details for the official announcements down the road, but we are hiring for our first Test Editors for the new Outside Lab at CU Denver.
There are Lab Test Editor and Associate Lab Editor positions available. Both roles have varying levels of journalism and engineering/materials/hard science experience required. Responsibilities will include everything from machine calibration, dialling workflows with the lab manager, designing and running new tests, and collaborating with students from CU Denver. The roles will work in a hybrid model, on site at the Lab in Denver at least 3 days per week.
The roles extend beyond bikes, but empirical bike gear testing is a huge part of the lab's goals. There are some insanely talented folks in this community that we'd love to see throw their hats into the ring.
Apply here:
• Lab Test Editor job posting
• Associate Lab Editor job posting
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Way to go Outside. Keep that train of “underpaying people in the outdoor industry with the excuse of lots of ‘fringe’ benefits”train rolling strong.
Dont worry, theyll tell you....theyll tell you
I prefer to stand in the park with a megaphone, explaining everything to the plebeian masses who haven't passed calc 2.
But the whining about people in the industry not getting paid enough is ignorant and tiresome. On a micro level and under our current economic paradigm, supply and demand work.
Why do homes in mountain and coastal communities cost more than comparable houses in other locations? Because people are willing to pay more to be there. And why do jobs in the industry pay less? Because people want to be in the industry.
Don't want to overpay for a house or get underpaid at your job? Move somewhere else or work in another industry. If not, for God's sake stop asking everyone else to feel sorry for you.
If they want to create a new position located in an area with high cost of living, why don’t they have a responsibility to pay what is commensurate with living expenses there? If they can’t afford it, they shouldn’t make the position.
a) want to use their degree & have a little bit of experience from college internships or labs. For the lead position they're probably 2-3 years into their career and want do something more "fun" for similar $$.
b) don't want to leave Denver & have a good rental situation
c) are obsessed with bikes & are bored from their non-industry job
d) are looking for a springboard to get a better job within the bike industry.
The lead position is going to be hard to fill at that salary. They're going to get a lot of applicants from underqualified people. Maybe one will stick.
And that's why you should apply to the positions you want even if you don't match the description; maybe no applicant does
1. I go Outside and do stuff
2. I think Outside the box and can develop torture test for gear that will blow peoples' minds
3. Outside of a few incidents that have been expunged I have a perfectly clean criminal record and will be a model employee
4. I have no clue how to use a semicolon; although it doesn't seem that Henry does either as he has not used one since making the claim in the last podcast
5. Outside of the odd tangent I am laser focused on the task at hand
I look forward to hearing from HR.
When does Outside admit that this is where they are keeping Levy, like some poorly tattooed, older, sadder version of Eleven from Stranger Things?!?
@Levy, if you are reading this, ROBIN IS NOT YOUR PAPA!!!!
The trail is probably better than their water.
Does this mean bikes will be tested and reviewed by objective lab measures on top of testers field experience? Example:
- weld penetration
- paint durability
- frame alignment
- dimensional tolerance adherence
- mating surface finish
- general design choice evaluation.
You know.. stuff that makes for a pain, brakage, creak free ownership and ensures long component life.
Seriously though, anyone with technical skills that's interested should put themselves out there, even if they don't officially meet all the requirements.
Case on point; earlier this week while riding Whistler Creekside my wife had a very mild tumble on Earth Circus at very slow to moderate speeds and one of her 7idp Sam Hill knee pads ripped exposing her knee to trail rash and serious bruising, and her compression jacket full upper body pads from 661 did the same on her elbow. Bad trail rash, and literally no significant protection.
And yet you read the reviews and these products both seem stellar. Not from a crash tested perspective, but from a 'seems like good levels of protection based on the comfort' idea. But where is the empirical testing of these types of gear? @brianpark?
Was that a sick burn, because it looks a lot like Blister...
I work with some dudes that spent 5 years getting multiple toilet paper pieces and have big debt, they do the job OK but man as soon as something is different or theres a change they are so lost, No common sense with those guys at all.