[speaker001:] 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
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] um yeah same here
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] um
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] yeah yeah
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] another one I'd like to see would be in flexible scheduling of hours
[speaker002:] well a lot depends on the job though
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] what do you do
[speaker001:] well right now I'm still in school I'm still a student but the ability to
[speaker002:] oh okay
[speaker001:] 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
[speaker002:] right
[speaker001:] feel like taking a class at night and you just come in earlier for a while or something like that
[speaker002:] yeah that would be nice
[speaker001:] and
[speaker002:] I suppose that does depend on the type of job type of environment you're in
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] 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
[speaker002:] but
[speaker001:] 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
[speaker002:] how so
[speaker001:] 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
[speaker002:] well they do
[speaker001:] but um they get housing and stuff like that
[speaker002:] yeah yeah I have friends that are in the military and they do get quite a lot of perks
[speaker001:] and other considerations as well you know their the duty is a little bit different and stuff like that
[speaker002:] right right
[speaker001:] 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
[speaker002:] right
[speaker001:] if they're just gonna pork you in the end
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] yeah yeah
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] yeah it's a good consideration for families that's absolute necessity in today's world and price
[speaker002:] definitely and health insurance costs
[speaker001:] man they're getting so expensive right now I don't have any health insurance it's kind of disturbing unless you
[speaker002:] you you're not still covered under your parents
[speaker001:] no I'm gonna be thirty this year but
[speaker002:] oh wow when you said you were going to school full time
[speaker001:] and yeah I'm working on my PhD
[speaker002:] oh that's different
[speaker001:] 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
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] 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
[speaker002:] right what school is this
[speaker001:] Georgia Tech in Atlanta
[speaker002:] oh wow
[speaker001:] 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
[speaker002:] wow
[speaker001:] 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
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] hm
[speaker002:] and that's basic uh group health coverage
[speaker001:] is there any deductible with that or anything like
[speaker002:] no