Brian in Plano Texas how are you doing today
hi fine i'm Nancy how are you
great Nancy
i'm in Plano also yes we're not too long distance today
you're in Plano also uh
well good to hear i was just talking to someone the other day from Pennsylvania
oh that was good Utah i've had a couple of but that was it
really
yeah
all right well good to hear good to hear
learned about their basketball team
which one
uh Jazz
oh yeah the Utah Jazz
yeah yeah
yeah they're they're pretty good they got some
that's what i heard yeah
good good some good uh good players out there
yeah
well you ready for New Year's Eve
i am
good should we uh start this so we can what was your name again Nancy that's right and i'm Brian just a moment
okay
Nancy
right right
okay Nancy the i guess the today's subject is benefits in a job other than salary what uh what do you feel are important to you or other people as as crucial benefits
right
uh-huh
well i'm a little different than other people because i don't have benefits with my job
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i'm a nurse and i work i float
oh
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so that i have no benefits except higher pay for doing that
right uh-huh
so i find that it makes up for what i pay for insurance and i i make enough money by the hour to make up for that
to to compensate for some of the benefits oh
right uh-huh yeah it's cheaper for me to buy insurance by the month than to work staff someplace
yes
and then i have my freedom i can work seven days in a row and take a week off or whatever i want to do
well that's that's an excellent so actually that is a benefit uh
well it is to me most people prefer the security of nine to five and weekends off and
yeah
knowing that their insurance is paid and their retirement and i'm just
really not interested in all that
right right
well i guess that's a good point uh i do belong to a a large corporation or my that where i'm currently employed
uh-huh
and there's uh there's some different things uh one that you've already mentioned is is health insurance i think through our health insurance that i can get better rates as a through a group plan
right
as opposed to going out and getting health insurance on an individual basis because i had to do that at one time when i wasn't employed with a large corporation
and that got to be somewhat expensive and so i i think one of the benefits i i see is the uh is the group uh group discount
yeah
right and especially if you have a family then i think it makes a big difference
yeah
and yes and that's that's one thing i do have
yeah
if i didn't have a family i don't think i would have as as a male or as a as an individual of in this stage of my life i don't think i would have insurance uh other
right
i don't think i would go through that expense one other benefit that you mentioned is the flexible work hours and in my previous job i really enjoyed because they had what was called a flex schedule
where i could go and i could work uh nine hour days and have like Friday only work four hours or i could do uh work four days a week at ten hours a day and have a four you know three week day weekend
oh yeah
right
and make uh make my job flexible in that case
could you change that as you felt like it or did you have to do it the same every week
well basically yeah i had to do that uh the same uh for about every quarter of the year i mean
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uh because i was in a in a position of management i had responsibilities over people that uh i needed to make my schedule uh
so that if i was not there i would have coverage by some other management personnel so
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so i i think that uh that was a that was an excellent benefit that i really enjoyed and i don't currently have that in my current operation but uh
yeah
you mentioned uh flexible work schedule and that's that's good
yeah
and uh what other benefits do you think are important
oh well i guess retirement that kind of thing which i don't worry much about so
yeah yeah that's true
i just prefer to worry about today and probably not a practical attitude but that's who i am so
well and that's an individual thing
um-hum
yeah with uh with our current uh organization we do have a nice retirement package and also a a nice thing that that we have in our corporation is a uh is a profit sharing plan
where we can uh participate in the the profits of the company if we're you know if we've been there a while and we're vested uh which means that you know we have a an interest uh in the company that we can
right
uh get some of the benefits of the either the profit high times or or in a sense suffer during the low times
and uh also uh in one of my wife's uh companies where she worked they'd had a real nice profit sharing plan that that effectively they made a certain
