do work in a large organization now
um well i i work in a actually it's sort of an odd situation right now but uh
i have until recently been working in in a uh in a large organization
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and i currently maintain an office still at at the place even though i i officially quit there a few months ago
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but it's it's not really a large organization but uh nearly nearly five hundred people
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oh yeah that's pretty big
yeah how about yourself are you
i work in a hospital and i think probably there are about seven or eight hundred employees
that's
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i guess um the thing i was thinking about as i was pondering this question is um
besides salary it seems that people if it's a large enough place need to feel that their job's an important one you know that they have the respect of their fellow employees and their boss
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yeah not lost in the in the crowd huh
yeah yeah it's it's more probably an issue in a large organization than it would be in a small one
ooh yeah i i think it it's probably the thing is that it's always fairly obvious in a small one right because um yeah
right everyone's so integral
yeah everybody knows what everybody else is doing and and knows that it's
it's generally important
um-hum upward mobility or an opportunity to grow and learn different job tasks is probably an important one but it seemed to me that the respect of others is probably real important too
but
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what what about what about uh advantages of large organizations i mean benefits and things
well i definitely think that health care packages and that sort of thing are probably gonna be easier to coordinate you know in a larger
yeah
yeah when it when i've worked with a with i mean the the small things i've worked with really haven't had any uh any consistent
yeah or any any kind of quality package right i mean it just kind of leaves you on your own yeah i i've had my own little business and then i've worked for small businesses
really in health care uh-huh
and yeah the the the only ones that i've had large uh uh i mean i've had health care and and and other kinds of benefits with have been large organizations
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also i work for the university and that that's a is very large organization
and uh
and were those good um considering the the size of that kind of organization did you feel like that you had good benefits
i you you know relative to nothing of course you know i mean it it i think so um the question you know i mean it's it's it's handy to have them i just had gotten used to just not having insurance benefits and things um
uh-huh uh-huh did you pay for them on your own or did you just go without
um typically let's see uh typically the myself i i was covered myself but my family wasn't you know i had to chip in to for them to be covered but it was pretty economical
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um especially relative to just buying your own health care package
right that really gets prohibitive
yeah and so you know so that's that's handy uh you know i think that it i'm amazed that uh of the one place i was working uh what they calculate to be their overhead
uh because of benefits they figure uh i mean it's something like thirty five forty or fifty percent of of salary
yes i've heard that too
and which is which is pretty amazing
it is especially especially if you consider in some situations people might actually use that much hopefully they budget for that and it doesn't get used up entirely but
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it's it's a lot i think that those sorts of advantages are nice i know um
my benefits through the hospital cover my family since my husband works for himself out of our home and and and office that's elsewhere but he doesn't
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he didn't really ever pursue individual benefits and i think it makes a difference to be able to have the security of an organization's benefits
i i think so yeah it really does um do you get other benefits besides health do you have life insurance and things like that
it it actually it's interesting just this last week um they introduced what the nineteen ninety two package was gonna look like and while the life insurance that we have free from the hospital is limited to it's uh ten or fifteen thousand
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um they offered for the first time a life term that would be up to a hundred and fifty but you have to pay into it
right are
the rest of the package is pretty good it's vision and dental and you know all the full medical
oh well um-hum yeah that's good i I just had uh dental insurance for the first time uh from from an employer which i thought was was pretty handy really took advantage of it i think
yeah
um do are you finding that that uh the packages uh that your benefits packages are shrinking
you know i've seen that all over the bay area in San Francisco bay area at least and probably true in California i haven't yet at our hospital we've kind of been waiting with baited breath we're the only hospital that i know of that doesn't have uh
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a partial payment or i don't know if you call it copayment or premium by the the consumer
oh uh-huh copayment uh uh-huh
so as as of this date my husband and my kids are free because they're dependents but i know a lot of other place like you were mentioning you know you pay if
right
yeah i i mean i
typically you typically pay for dependents and and not for yourself but i i've the you know my company the company i was working with really has has been um
you know they don't wanna cut back benefits but on the other hand they're real concerned about the rising costs and and sort of scaling uh uh you know keeping
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