The Bert Show.

We are in a, we're an economy now in which companies are just cutting back left and right.

You could certainly understand why.

I mean, it sucks for everybody right now.

I would really like to hear, or we would really like to hear, from some of you guys that are still working for companies that have decided to sort of like

see it through and haven't changed company policy and are still offering the same perks now

that they were a couple of years ago like so many companies are cutting back now like in some

ways benefits are gone cutting back on vacation

time and stuff like that, but there are very...

Are expenses, things that you would be able to turn in on your expense report before, I know

now are not admissible for a lot of my friends.

I want you guys to make us jealous of some of the perks that you still have.

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My friend Aaron works up in Washington, D.C. for Motley Fool, which is a website

that gives you financial advice. Okay. And the last time she was down here, she was telling me

some of the stuff that Motley Fool still provides for their employees, and I went online to

take a look at it. And the stories of this place and the benefits that they still give their employees are crazy. Take as much vacation time as you want. It's paid.

Wow. Take as much. What do you want? Three weeks? You want five weeks? It's all paid vacation.

So long as you are contributing to the bottom line and doing it in a successful way, they don't care how much

vacation time you take. Now, does that mean nobody's keeping tabs on it? Nobody, you have to tell

them. You have to say, look, I'm taking this week off so they know you're alive. Right. But they

won't say no. They'll take a look at how much you're bringing into the company. And if you are meeting their financial goals, yeah. Yeah, that's cool. Sure. Go ahead. Wow. You want six weeks off, we'll pay for it. That's awesome. There's way more than that. It would make you want to work harder. That's their, that's their philosophy on it. And you probably take less vacation. want to get i have a friend who I don't want to get him in trouble because I, but I'm almost sure he told me for his senior managers, he owns his own company here in town. He does the same thing. And he finds that people actually will, you know, for the first couple of years, we'll take less vacation. And then once they get into the groove, he's like people are taking six, seven, eight years, eight weeks of vacation a year and it improves their, because they're doing it right in Europe. You know, what is it August that they shut down or September? Just for the whole month. We're on vacation. We're on holiday. He goes, it makes such a big difference because people will bust their ass for two or three months and then disappear for a week or two and recharge and come back and do it again.

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