re: Little things that make you appreciate your job...What say you?

Telecommuting. No doubt

The fact that I don't have a strict schedule, and as long as I do my damn job, no one will bother me. Can basically take Friday afternoon off so long as I get my calls in.

Also not paying rent is nice.

Teaching the children of former students is pretty neat, especially if they're the kids of my former players.

1. A happy and appreciative customer. When they pick up their car and can't believe that we fixed that wrecked hunk of metal, plastic and rubber that they thought would never be the same, it makes it all worth it.

2. When an insurance company pays what they owe for a repair without a fight. It rarely happens but when it does, it truly makes a day seem that much better.

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Not having a micromanaging boss.

If I get my shite done, it doesn't matter if I take a 2 hour lunch or leave after lunch of Friday.

I had a micromanaging boss before that was a stickler about in-office hours. Worst thing ever.

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Same here...I've been hitting good to great CPR and margin numbers for 15 plus years. They don't hover over my travel/call reports, expense reports and only in office for meetings or mornings before golf with the company guys. Great bonus structure, all insurance premiums paid, 5 weeks vacation. But....I produce and work/travel hard.

I fricking love my job. I appreciate it for the money, my awesome boss, and the nature of our litigation.

The look on the face of a drug rep after they try to use the employee bathroom after I have wrecked it with the remnants of burrito night.

Telecommuting ..

-Our company's owner box at the Carolina Hurricane's arena
-comped meals
-3 weeks PTO per year
-free health insurance (as long as you do a blood test and physical)
-comped events when we wine &dine clients
-our internal server that has a "request ticket" page for all of the free tickets the company gets. Got these back in December....


I fricking love advertising.

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eally wish, in your profession, you would take more of a help and mentor attitude about the knuckleheads and thugs. You can make a real difference. The others, that give you pleasure, don't really need you. It's not about you, it's about them.

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You obviously never learned the lessons that I try to teach my kids. You completely judged someone by one statement with no actual basis of context to support your reasoning. You, sir, have no idea what I do and how much mentoring actually happens in my class. I open myself up to each and every one of them. They know my story of how my father shot and killed my mother. They know my story of how my grandfather lost his mind due to strokes and cancer and thought I was my father, blaming me for his daughter's death. They know my story of growth and learning in the USMC. They are all mentored. I share; they share. We discuss mistakes and consequences.. and alternative decisions that could have been made and will be made. Their parents are called (my phone logs are normally 10+ pages each year). They are conferenced with and referred to Icare when things go too far. They receive clean slates and encouragemt daily. I never give up on any of them.

I also, unfortunately, watch 10-15 of them arrested on campus each year for bringing loaded guns to school, pulling 4 inch blades on students, beating kids senseless in the restroom, causing kids to pass out or have seizures, selling drugs on campus, and attacking female teachers. I cannot mentor those thugs because they chose prison over education. I then refer back to my knuckleheads and other students to show them how they can overcome their own mistakes and not end up where the thugs are.

So, keep making generalizations and jumping to conclusions about things you don't understand.