I have a desk and private space, I work in a place that doesn’t mind too much if I have to leave early, I take breaks when I feel I need them. Internet access, a weight room in the basement, as many sick days as I want, sports are occasionally organized, and a great medical, dental and benefits package. This is working for da’ man.
What do you have? Is there some new concept? What make you happy about your job? Is it a pool table? Maybe there’s an arcade or choose your own hours? What’s so good about your job?
I work 185 days a year, indoors, with no heavy lifting. I’m home by 3:30 each afternoon. The work is challenging, and vital to society. I have the best medical insurance in the state, and a better retirement package than anybody outside of CEO ranks. My co-workers are professionals, and we all take pride in what we do. I have full internet access, and my work site has a fully-equipped gym, track, and basketball courts. I have a staff of IT professionals at my beck and call, and a complete auto repair department to do regular maintainence on my truck at cost. Pretty nice, if I do say so myself!
I have my own office. With a door. With a lock on it. My office furniture comprises a spacious desk and matching credenza and bookcase.
I can have as many computers as my KVM switch will support. My flat panel display, while a mere 17", is pretty damn sweet. I’ve got laptops and PDAs out the wazoo. My primary CD burner is wicked fast. The other two aren’t too shabby, either.
Any piece of technology or software I can even remotely justify, within reason, of course, I can get overnighted to me.
I push buttons and slide faders up and down, and talk into a microphone, and play with sound editing software on the computers in every room. We don’t have benefits or other goodies like you do at your job, but whenever it gets hectic and we think it’s all going to come crashing down, we remind each other that some folks actually work hard for a living. And after a second of comparing what we do to what we have done, or could be doing, we have a good laugh and go back to work.
I can and do sleep while on the job. Sometimes for up to three hours, depending on how much sleep I got the night before. And when I’m not napping, I’m generally watching TV.
Of course, this is offset by having no insurance and having my job security tied into someone else’s as well. If he loses his job, I lose mine.
Every Monday I get to fly, drive, or take a train to some other part of the country (or Europe) for three nights and four days. I carry a 30 lb laptop bag everywhere I go. I get to work until at least 7pm most nights but usually a lot longer. I usually work with people who have no concept of what I do or what I need to do it. That’s to be expected because most of them don’t know how to do their own jobs anyway. I live out of a suitcase…
oh wait…this isn’t the “Why do you want to drive a buldozer through your workplace?” thread?
I get to bring my dog. I also have my own office and no direct management in my state. I set my own hours (within reason). I get to work outside a lot.
Like you:
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[li]flexible schedule[/li][li]breaks whenever, and for however long you want/need[/li][li]sports, sometimes organized[/li][li]great medical, dental, and benefits (very competitive)[/li][/ul]
Also:
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[li]I share an office with one person, but it’s a real office with a door and a window and everything; we have plenty of space, personal and otherwise, including room for a small fridge (it’s the nicest space I’ve ever worked in!)[/li][li]all of the free soda, coffee, and hot chocolate that I can drink[/li][li]free beer and munchies on Fridays[/li][li]poker on Fridays[/li][li]casual dress[/li][li]graduate school for free (well, nearly: I only have to pay 10% up front, and as long as I earn an A or a B I don’t have to pay anything else and the 10% gets reimbursed)[/li][li]one big pool of leave, which means that people take off whatever holidays they want and work whatever days they want; plus, no one ever has to lie about being sick ;)[/li][li]costume contests every Halloween, and door-decorating contests every Christmas[/li][li]very cool corporate culture[/li][li]VPN access so it’s easy to work from home if necessary[/li][/ul]
Yep, I like my company and my job just fine!
Flexible hours. No boss breathing down my neck. Cool job load. Good benefits. Like to use my brains(programming). Feel great on successful debug of a broken piece of code - the more the preceding cussin the more the satisfaction! Have full internet access. And ah most important - On demand, mainlining of dope from SDMB to feed the addiction!
My own hours.
I decide how much I can pay myself.
Wear what I want.
Call whoever I want.
Go on the internet whenever I want.
Golf if I want.
Play music if I want.
Have “relations” with the wife (co-owner) in the adjacent conference room if we want.
I get a 20 minute break after each hour that I work.
If a customer starts jerking my chain, I am allowed to be mean to them until they go away.
I don’t have to pay for or bring my lunch.
My pit boss is a total nutjob.
So is the boxman.
On a good day, I get at least two major adrenaline rushes.
On a really, really good day, I get a wiseacre player who finds one of my psychological ticklish spots and whips me into hour-long giggling fits. Making raunchy comments is not considered “unprofessional” behavior.
'Cause I work at home and can wear my nightie and bunny slippers well into the afternoon if I like. Also, I can just not answer the phone and let the service pick it up and there’s nobody to look at me cross-eyed if I do. If things don’t go my way (like lots of people say NO!), I can just go into the bedroom, lie down on the bed and cover my head with the blankets until I feel good and ready to come out.
I can do my job sitting in a comfy chair. It requires no movement from the chair. I can read a book or play on the computer while working (no net access, though). I can snack while I work. My boss loves me. I think she actually might cry when I leave. I’m the most reliable one they have, and my boss praises me every day. Someone’s always bringing in some delicious food or other. I don’t have to dress up. I like all my co-workers except one. The gossip is prime.
I’m the boss of my discipline in an NYSE traded company. I have an office and my staff likes me (I think).
I’m not hard to work for, although I am a taskmaster. But we get it done without anybody getting their feelings hurt, too badly, in a highly political environment.
Income I won’t discuss, but I’m happy. MY young’uns should be happy with their compensation.
I’m paid to be curious, so a lot of the time I spend burning company money comes to naught. I do have to bring a score home from time to time, though.
I don’t know - I’m a scientist with a heavy business angle on what I do. I like being given the ground to go find out whatever I find out, but there is always that pressure to make it commercially viable.
