[speaker001:] well um preferred benefits um I worked for a large corporation in the past and I think large corporations can give better benefits than small corporations because right now I'm working for a very small corporation where the owner is right there and uh there's a lot of profit that's coming in but when it comes to uh small corporations they seem to pocket it a little bit quick quickly or whatever or however you wanna say it and uh the benefits aren't as great as when I worked for a big corporation because the big corporations seem to look at its employees and say okay we've got this amount of money let's put into this plan this plan you got Four O One K plans you have uh better vacation plans uh you have just in general maternity leave plans that that kind of thing big corporations are able to do that versus
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] small corporations uh you know they just don't have the money or just uh feel that there isn't a need for it so I've worked for both big and small so I've had a chance to kind of take a look at uh the pros and cons of both
[speaker002:] right well I've worked for uh well I worked for H and R Block here in Massachusetts for awhile and the only they even hate to give out unemployment
[speaker001:] sure um-hum sure um-hum
[speaker002:] at the end of tax season because they you know they're fairly even though they're a large scale company they're very the offices individual offices are very small
[speaker001:] sure uh-huh
[speaker002:] and now I work for the Framingham school teacher uh school system because I'm a teacher and uh we have much better benefits
[speaker001:] uh-huh sure
[speaker002:] you know in the system we have a good pension plan um let me see we have a profit sharing plan to a degree
[speaker001:] uh-huh that's pretty good for you know being a a school district type program
[speaker002:] right and we have the eye glasses the health care and the whole kit and caboodle because what they did is they threw the all the town employees in together
[speaker001:] um-hum wow that's extremely good
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] because like like the small corporation that I work for there's no pension plan there's no type of uh savings of any sort that the company will reimburse you for
[speaker002:] really
[speaker001:] there's really I think you're allowed so many times uh I think two or three days a week a year it's not accumulative type of sick leave
[speaker002:] oh
[speaker001:] um you know things like that so I've been looking at big corporations and saying the big corporation that I've worked for in the past had the pension plans had the big health health care uh you had your insurance and you didn't have to pay in as much as if you go to a a very small place um they don't have as good as insurance packages as big corporations
[speaker002:] right the only trouble we've had here in Massachusetts is the town and state employees have run into problem especially the retired ones my father's retired from the town of Framingham
[speaker001:] and um-hum sure
[speaker002:] and he said that they haven't gotten a a cost of living raise in over five years
[speaker001:] no yeah yeah
[speaker002:] and he said that's the only thing that really stinks as far as being retired and but I hear that bill is in the Senate right now and it's
[speaker001:] uh-huh sure sure
[speaker002:] hopefully will go through
[speaker001:] yeah yeah
[speaker002:] but um you know I think the schools are at where the schools isn't just the school system and not just the teachers they took in the whole town plus all you know
[speaker001:] um-hum is it a union
[speaker002:] uh we have the teachers union which helps out a lot but the town of Framingham pays the benefits and
[speaker001:] um-hum oh that's pretty good
[speaker002:] that's all the town workers water and sewer and where it's a very large town it's actually should be a city but they kept it a town
[speaker001:] um-hum sure
[speaker002:] um where it's extremely large they were able to offer a little bit more which was really great because we don't have to pay a mayor
[speaker001:] yeah uh-huh yeah yeah I know what you mean and that's true I mean yeah it it does end up being quite a bit when you have to hire somebody for that position sure
[speaker002:] right because most of our you know the town employees as far as uh electoral positions are part time
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] so it works out good because we reap the benefits of it and um
[speaker001:] sure uh-huh
[speaker002:] but as far as shopping for a job I'd rather shop for the benefits than the salary
[speaker001:] well that's it you know and and I've kind of looked around uh at that uh too because uh salary wise I don't think I'm making as much with a big corporation because I think when you look at big corps or large I'm talking like huge companies like Three M um I'm Honeywell uh uh Texas Instruments I know people that are that have vacation times and benefits benefits that
[speaker002:] right
[speaker001:] I wouldn't even dream of in this small corporation you bring it up to the owner and it's like come on you know partly it's because the owner wants to keep getting richer and richer
[speaker002:] right
[speaker001:] and and of course when it's a small corporation it also wants to expand so that money's spent in a