Christie Live-Cool Work Perks

Christie talks to the listeners about some awesome perks they had/have from their jobs!

Episode Transcript

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The Morning Drive with Christie Live ondemand. Yeah, Culture Club on eighties
plus at one or three point sevenin your Morning Drive with Christie Live.
And it's Wednesday. It's Wednesday around. Yeah, that is good stuff because
every Wednesday, the sales department comesinto work. They only have to come

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in one day a week, butthat means they order lunch for everybody.
So it's free lunch Wednesdays at theradio station. You know, you get
super excited when they bring in freework, like free work food. It
could be the most smallest thing likedonuts, and we still get super excited.
Like all the DJ's run out togo get the food like little roaches.
Yeah, all those people drop theheadphones and run to the kitchen to

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get the free food. You know, I was just reading. I don't
know if you've heard this. TheGoogle CEO's salary just was released. How
much do you think the ceo ofGoogle made last year? Producer Krena,
I'm gonna say five million. Ifyou're in your car, take a wild
guess. Okay, Producer Krana saysfive million. Wrong by a long shot.

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Oh so am I too high?Two hundred and twenty six million dollars
Oh that is crazy. That isa lot of money. And they took
away the free food and the freelaundry at Ball. Meanwhile, your CEO's
out here making two hundred and twentysix million dollars. Brock, can you
put five on my sandwich, giveme a free vending machine or something.

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That's crazy a lot of money.I'm not saying that he didn't earn it.
I don't know what you do toearn two hundred and twenty six million
dollars, but that is crazy,especially if your employees aren't getting the free
food like they used to at Google. The free laundry. Yeah, I
mean that's crazy. But there aresome work perks like the Wednesday lunch all

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here that you get excited about.What does your job offer you? Maybe
if you work for Google, maybeyou're like, hey, no, but
they do offer us something one eightsix six nine hundred one O three seven
or tap the red microphone on ouriHeartRadio app and let us know what is
the perk that you get from yourjob. People think like we get like

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free concert tickets and every No,no, we don't get that, definitely,
not nope, nope, but weget free lunch on Wednesdays, Melissa,
what about you. We did getice cream yesterday, which was nice,
but really, what was the occasion? Our store number is the date
that it was yesterday. Really,we just wanted to celebrate them. Hey,
you gotta take the winds where youcan get them. Like I said,

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we're super excited about our free Wednesdaylunch. What work perk are you
excited about? One eight six sixnine hundred, one h three seven call
get you on next on eighties Plus. CHRISTI eight fifty one on eighties Plus
at one h three point seven.I'm Chris Steve, producer. Karina's here
and thank you so much for beinghere. We're talking work perks because if

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you come to iHeartMedia San Francisco onWednesdays, everybody has an extra pep in
their step because the sales team comesin and they order free lunch for everybody.
Radio people love free food. Sothat's how we got on the subject
of work perks thanks to our Facebookfriends. At eighties plus Radio, Paul
Richard said, a perk is I'mself employed, so I'll never get fired.

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That is nice. Linda Quail Massiassaid babies are allowed in the workplace
until they're six months old, andthen you get a three week sabbatical after
you work there for five years.And Joanne Bilidou said, I work at
a community college, so when thestudents are off, I'm off with pay.
Best perk ever for sure. Gota talk back from our iHeart radio

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app. Hey Christy. I workfor a small dental office in Heyward,
and about once a month we geta free day off that's paid for.
It could be any day during aweek, as long as we requested ahead
of time. So I usually takemy day when my kids have a minute
a day of school. This isCraig. Hey, Craig. That is
awesome. A paid day off?Yeah, just anytime. Oh that would

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be lovely. Thanks for the talkback. Good morning Annie, Thanks for
callie. How are you doing?I am awesome and I'm so excited to
tell you what my job offers isthe best perk ever? Okay, where
do you work and what is that? I'm a nurse practitioner at the VA.
Yay. Thank you for helping usout and for your service to the
veterans community. You know, I'ma Navy veteran, so I am definitely

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saying thank you on behalf of myfellow vEDS. So what's your work perk?
It is that I get to servemy veterans. It is the best
perk I could ever have. Annieper the wind just came up and dropped
the mic on everybody. She's like, I see your free lunch, and
I raise you helping America's heroes.All right, you guys have a great

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day, you too, Annie,Thank you so much for the call,
and thank you for your service tothe community. We appreciate you. Right
back at y'all. Bye bye.Then Drive with Christie Live on demand.