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Because misery loves company, I decided to share my dilemma with you
(asbestos underwear on...). Here's the problem: I've been offered a job
with a small but dynamic, highly creative communications design firm.
It's everything I could ask for in a job including a desk by the windows
;-), but this company, being small and new, offers next-to-nothing in
benefits. There are no sick or personal days, minimal health insurance,
and only one week of paid vacation after you've worked a full year. I
understand their reasons for this--everyone there is "on the clock"
doing outsourced work from some very big corporations, so taking time
off cuts into the revenue in a big way.
>>>>> Dianne, you didn't mention pay. Would you be making more at the new
job? If so, consider how it would offset the vacation difference.
My present job, on the other had, offers reasonably good benefits,
BUT--It's beome a chore to drag myself into the place every morning and
face the same old, same old. Not only has the work gotten boring, but
the place is under such chaotic management (or lack of management) that
I fear for its survival. It has been growing and seems to be doing well,
but the constant uproar and lack of direction have gotten on my nerves.
>>>>> I think I've worked there! Get out! A pleasant work environment is
worth a lot of benefits!
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Regards,
John Wilcox, Documentation Specialist
Timberlands Information Services
Weyerhaeuser, WWC 2E2
Tacoma, WA 98477-0001 USA
253-924-7972 wilcoxj -at- wdni -dot- com
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