okay so we're supposed to discuss job benefits and such
right
uh what do you consider
that you're lacking in benefits that you have
that i'm lacking in benefits um the fact that they're not all paid for
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um i wish they were all paid benefits uh i share in our health insurance uh half and half
um i'm also covered under my wife's so but uh i wish i wish they were all paid for i don't have a a a dental benefit
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and uh i guess the benefits that i have i wish i had more of an HMO a health maintenance as opposed to kind of fix it after it's broken kind of maintenance
well that's i've uh worked for companies that have had HMO before and it really is nice particularly if you aren't you know really set on any one specific doctor if if you're flexible
yeah
well i mean you get you get yearly physicals
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um and i mean they just seems to make sense to do it that way
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i guess in a perfect world in a perfect world uh but we aren't in a perfect world so i don't know
uh other than that i don't really have any benefits per se how about yourself
well i'm fortunate in that i have uh dental and i also have vision care the thing that i have had in the past that i wish that my company provided was uh a prescription a paid prescription plan
prescription drugs
because
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oh okay gotcha
you know that they'll cover uh
like for five dollars or something like that that you can get anything that you want
right
but um
how about other other benefits of of the job i mean do you have uh what kind of uh time off do you have what type what type of work do you do
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i'm an administrative assistant for a software company
huh okay
and what about you
i'm a broker i work with a uh brokerage house and we work with businesses in brokering their services or goods to other businesses
how large is your company
oh not too large that's part of the problem with the uh the health care program it's probably maybe uh twelve people
oh you're right well the company i work for now in my office we have about eight people but it's like two thousand people overall
gotcha
and uh uh our benefits i guess are pretty good you know we well i guess actually we have quite a few offered to us we have 401K and i get two weeks vacation the first year and
huh
about uh ten holidays i guess one of which is a floating holiday that i can use at my discretion the
now when you say a floating holiday what do you mean by that
well it's just a day that you can use i guess you'd really consider it a personal day
oh okay yeah
so you have personal days you day uh i should say multiple or single
just single
okay but you can use um your holidays your holiday or uh vacation times split up into personal days
i'm sorry
can you split your holiday or vacation time into personal days or do you have to take them in bulk
uh the vacation i think i can split you know i don't have to take it two or a week at a time or anything like that the holiday uh
yeah
the the one day i think i can just put it anywhere that i want to
huh
now does
so that's nice
does oh yeah uh does does your company do picnics or you know like uh tomorrow our company as a whole and i guess i would call this a benefit is uh we're going to the Red Sox home opener in uh Boston
that's a benefit no we don't do anything like that
yeah
yeah you don't do you have any like company picnics or uh or get-togethers or things along those lines
i don't think so as a matter of fact i've only been with the company a month and a half and uh i i asked my boss i think we do have a Christmas party although he indicated the budget is kind of low
oh
it always it usually is
but then with just uh ten of us in the office you know as far as a company picnic or anything i don't think that there's enough of us you know to to get together and do something like that
huh
but uh
uh the office is pretty free you know as far as if i decide that i want to go out to lunch with someone and i'm late coming back
no one complains or says anything about it and if i need some time off to go to a doctor they wouldn't penalize me for that
that's good i was yeah oh absolutely i mean the environment you work in is is uh crucial to the job
and that counts
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uh we have somewhat we're somewhat in the same situation um i mean i feel i feel odd about taking any personal time anyway unless you know they knew about it or whatever but um
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but being a sales organization we you know our time is our own i mean we're kind of independent contractors under a common goal type of thing
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so it's kind of the same situation although it sounds like your office structure is more structured as an office time
um but you it's not so rigid that you know you punch a clock that type of thing
well a lot of it depends on your position too you know other people that are in sales in the office they come and go
