well i think that there's uh a few things i would like to see um in the work environment that could improve things and number one is um
health benefits things like uh insurance for number one but another would be like um facilities or the ease some easy way to go out and exercise or something like that if you felt like it in the middle the day
i i definitely agree on that um i'm working for a law firm right now the benefits are not bad the only thing i think that they're desperately missing is we have no dental plan whatsoever
um yeah same here
um
but as far as what i'd really like to see is i live close enough to the city that i would be able to bicycle in if i could
um
if there was some sort of provided provided facility for that um maybe a locker area a shower area to change to take a shower before work
yeah
yeah
and some place to lock the bicycles up
and i've heard of a lot of other companies providing that
that would be something to look forward to
um
let's see
another one i'd like to see would be in flexible scheduling of hours
well a lot depends on the job though
yeah
what do you do
well right now i'm still in school i'm still a student but the ability to
oh okay
you know kind of have a little bit of freedom over that to schedule your work from day to day from week to week so every once in a while you can slip in a three day weekend without having to use a day vacation or or just something like that
right
feel like taking a class at night and you just come in earlier for a while or something like that
yeah that would be nice
and
i suppose that does depend on the type of job type of environment you're in
yeah
um i'm right now also a full time student
and uh but i work in the evenings for the law firm
so it's a rather yeah it's a rather interesting uh
rather interesting interesting set up work full time go to school full time
yeah that can be rough
yeah i did that for about a year and had my fill of that
swore to never do it again
but
i think another thing um would be nice i guess this is more of an overall really nebulous kind of thing would be consideration of
um like the family in some in somebody's in the way that somebody relates to the work place
how so
um well an example would be in the military they give a whole lot of allowances for family people they even get paid more
they get um allowances for
um you know have being married or having children i don't really think that that is fair i think uh equal work equal pay for equal work ought to be applied in that case
well they do
but um they get housing and stuff like that
yeah
yeah i have friends that are in the military and they do get quite a lot of perks
and other considerations as well you know their the duty is a little bit different and stuff like that
right right
but that you know recently there was some kind of documentary on some station i don't know what and some guy was on there he was a middle level manager and he was talking about how
you know here he'd spent all these years putting in fifty hour weeks um you know for these various places he'd worked at now you know here he was totally unemployed and been unemployed for nine months and it got him absolutely nothing
some kind of consideration there would be nice as well
i don't know what would be the solution i suppose uh
not foolishly giving an extra ten hours a week to some place
right
if they're just gonna pork you in the end
um what a lot what a lot of companies do is far as far as their health benefits are concerned the insurance provides um coverage for the spouse and or family
in a lot of cases i know that's the case in my office at least
yeah
yeah
they'll provide minimum benefits for your spouse and dependent codependent children not like the case applies to me but um
it is nice that they offer it
yeah it's a good consideration for families
that's absolute necessity in today's world and price
definitely and health insurance costs
man they're getting so expensive
right now i don't have any health insurance it's kind of disturbing unless you
you you're not still covered under your parents
no i'm gonna be thirty this year but
oh wow when you said you were going to school full time
and yeah i'm working on my PhD
oh that's different
it's a long road but the insurance they have at school is kind of uh they've got a really minimum plan and it'll cover you you know and as a student you don't need a whole lot if
um-hum
if you lose a leg or something like that you just need the skin folded over you know you know just something to keep you alive till you graduate and make some money and i suppose can go out and get it fixed then
right
what school is this
Georgia Tech in Atlanta
oh wow
but man it is just uh really expensive two years ago it was two hundred dollars for the basic uh major medical and the next year it was four hundred you know it doubled in a year like that
wow
and so this this is that year that was four hundred i just wasn't prepared to pay for it i'm not too sure what i'm gonna do about that right now there's still another six months to go and it's not a pleasant feeling worrying about that
right now
right now the company that my company that picks up the insurance they pay i think it's thirty dollars a month
so that'll be at three sixty a year
hm
and that's basic uh group health coverage
is there any deductible with that or anything like
no
