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July 6, 2025 10 mins

As job-hopping becomes increasingly common, we thought we’d lend a hand by highlighting some of the best workplace perks—plus, we’re sharing a few of those hilarious office nicknames we all love!

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Is the City with Katee podcast.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Talk about the top ossie companies for work perks and
if you get some, what's your little work perk that
they give you at work? Because nearly one in ten
ossies switched jobs in the past year alone, so this
is some of the biggest companies around Australia have had
to ramp up employee perks in an effort to retain
their workers.

Speaker 3 (00:25):
We need you to stay.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
So I'm going to go through a few of them here,
which is pretty interesting. I mean holidays is a big
one for a lot of people. Okay, so people want
to go on holidays. I think real estate, the real
estate group, Aria Group, they offer twenty weeks leave at
full pay, do they That's not bad? That that's I mean,

(00:48):
that's your five weeks right there. We know that Quanus employees,
well they get access to heavily discounted standby flight so
that's the big one for them.

Speaker 1 (00:57):
Plus year. I didn't know this. You get twenty five
percent off firmed Quantus flights.

Speaker 3 (01:01):
Oh wow. Okay.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
The standby flights are the.

Speaker 2 (01:03):
Tough one because you're always going, ah, are we going
to get on the stand by flight?

Speaker 1 (01:09):
But you also get twenty five percent off there.

Speaker 3 (01:11):
That's an awesome deal.

Speaker 2 (01:12):
Common Wealth Bank employees get five days of life leave
a year as an incentive.

Speaker 4 (01:19):
Is that the same as Nova's douna day where if
things just aren't working for you today and you need
to take an emotional one by all means stay under
the DOUNA on your don day.

Speaker 2 (01:30):
Santos employees they have a nine day fortnightly roster. That
might get me over the line. You know that you're
going to have a long weekend every second week.

Speaker 1 (01:39):
That's not bad. What else do we have you?

Speaker 2 (01:42):
White Haven Coal employees receive an impressive referral bonus of
up to four thousand dollars. So if you refer someone
who is a technical operational employee and they go, oh,
he's pretty good, they'll give you four grand.

Speaker 4 (01:57):
Banks have a bit of an incentive here on level three,
I can announce we have the my Muscle chef vending
machine for your healthy meals, well planned and pro Still
you've got to pay for them, yeah you do, but
you've got access to them.

Speaker 3 (02:16):
See. I think more deals should be done like Temmy.

Speaker 4 (02:18):
If the beautiful people at McDonald's are spending money on
the show, right and they come into commercial radio with
a spend. Then let's do a deal where every Friday
nov employees get free McDonald's.

Speaker 1 (02:33):
Just an example. That's ridiculous.

Speaker 4 (02:35):
Turn up, but your local macas, show your novercard and
ladies and gentlemen keep the burgers coming to the big
guy in the corner.

Speaker 2 (02:42):
All Amazon corporate offices around Australia are dog friendly, right
so they so this one employee said, I have a
four month old puppy and he can join the many
dogs that come to our office on a regular basis.
We're on the tenth floor of Sydney's Amazon headquarters on
Market Straight.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
We've got a dog park on the tenth floor. You
can leave them in a dog park.

Speaker 3 (03:07):
So it's just they're just pooing on mod grass or
sand or something, are they?

Speaker 5 (03:12):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (03:12):
Has this one?

Speaker 3 (03:13):
It's windy up here? I speak on behalf of the poodles.

Speaker 2 (03:16):
The Australian Sock Exchange ASX limited is an accredited breast
feeding friendly workplace with up to one hour of paid
leave a day for lactation brains.

Speaker 3 (03:27):
But you have to be a mum tom with a child, so.

Speaker 6 (03:30):
We can't put you in there with.

Speaker 2 (03:33):
Nikki's given us a call from a lamby. Hi, it's
tell us about your workplace, Nick.

Speaker 5 (03:38):
Oh, well, listen, I don't have a boss, I don't
have employees. I work from home. But I want to
make a steak at lunch, I can in the kitchen.
If I want to go out for a cheeky coffee
with the friends, I can do you want to have
a nice lunch. I just work for myself. I support
families on the NDA. So yeah, so I just small business,

(03:58):
certainly not a big corporate business. I won't mind the
vending machine in the kitchen.

Speaker 2 (04:02):
All right, my muscleshef Yeah, great idea. We will sort
that out. Nikki, stay on the line. Bill in Bankstown.
What's your work perck?

Speaker 7 (04:12):
So, I've worked on a lot of places before, but honestly,
the way I'm working, well, we get obviously a weekly barbecue, yep.
We get every month, we get bonuses, and so every
three months bonuses which is like three hundred dollars, which
is three much year, one hundred dollars a month, And honestly,
that's one of the best. What do you do, bell

(04:33):
I tru skips the loast.

Speaker 3 (04:36):
Good work, that's awesome.

Speaker 4 (04:39):
That's I mean, I think it's bonding two fits. If
you do the I mean we have the bar here
at over two. But if you do sort of the
team barbecue on a Friday, that brings everybody together and
we all go, you know what we love, We bloody love,
we love skips and we love sausages, you know.

Speaker 5 (04:54):
What I mean?

Speaker 3 (04:55):
So bringing invoye.

Speaker 2 (04:56):
We've got an old Snacks standing right behind me at
the moment as well, which.

Speaker 1 (05:02):
Tom's been getting into the scrugen quite a bit this week.

Speaker 8 (05:05):
Wi's just been good.

Speaker 2 (05:05):
And would you know I've still got my mitsubishy gig chair.

Speaker 1 (05:11):
From see what I the late nineties?

Speaker 3 (05:14):
Thank you three diamonds. Benny and Cronelly. You've got a perk?

Speaker 8 (05:18):
What is it?

Speaker 7 (05:18):
Ben?

Speaker 8 (05:21):
It's actually my son's ab in the car. I work
a McDonald's and I've got a fifty percent discount every
time I go in.

Speaker 1 (05:28):
You who hey, Benny, Who in the family uses it
the most?

Speaker 8 (05:35):
I'm the one that always picks him up from work?

Speaker 3 (05:37):
So you'd be pretty popular with your mates. I would have.

Speaker 8 (05:42):
Thought, yeah, yeah, we've actually got one of my.

Speaker 3 (05:45):
Other mates work there with one hundred percent off them.

Speaker 1 (05:49):
It's just that you you come home and spend a
night pickle juice.

Speaker 3 (05:52):
Though, don't you?

Speaker 1 (05:53):
Don't you many?

Speaker 7 (05:56):
Unfortunately?

Speaker 4 (05:57):
I love all right, great call, Well, we'll come and
join macas very soon. Get half priced.

Speaker 3 (06:01):
This is the Fits and Whip with Cake Richie podcast, Tommy,
if we look at the merch, we needed a bit
of an update on our merch at the moment.

Speaker 4 (06:09):
How many rolls of trade's nickname toilet paper do we
have left?

Speaker 3 (06:14):
Well?

Speaker 6 (06:14):
This was unique to this show and very excited. It's
been on there for a while now. One hundred and
nineteen rolls that fitsy and whipper toilet paper roll with
trading nicknames.

Speaker 1 (06:23):
I think with the position that novas in it. At
the moment they handed them out to every employee as
a Christmas bonus. But for some reason they made their
way back to our office, tom didn't they Yeah?

Speaker 6 (06:34):
Yeah, I think they were handed back by a lot
of stuff.

Speaker 4 (06:37):
Unfortunately, it's quite a thick toilet paper it is.

Speaker 6 (06:41):
It's quite rough.

Speaker 3 (06:42):
Yeah, it is rough for sensitive areas. I find it
quite aggressive.

Speaker 2 (06:48):
Also see that we've got one hundred and sixty six
fitz in whip of fly swatters that haven't really taken
off an.

Speaker 6 (06:54):
Yeah, we had less fliers that expected in Sydney over
the last twelve months.

Speaker 8 (06:58):
No.

Speaker 4 (06:58):
Well, the idea was that if you and out of
the toilet paper, then you were going to get the flies,
so they were expected to give away after the rolls.
Can I what I wanted to do, Tommy, Just to
update the merch for our trade's nickname toilet paper.

Speaker 3 (07:11):
I'd like to put in some new roles because I've
got some new nickname.

Speaker 6 (07:14):
So you want to submit some more for me to
send to the printing workshop.

Speaker 4 (07:17):
The center of the workshop? Okay, all right, So these
are a few workmates here we go. Seaweed floats around
all day and does sweet fa paper straw, works for
two minutes and then breaks down.

Speaker 6 (07:31):
Oh that's not bad, thanks very much.

Speaker 4 (07:33):
What about the school bus always leaves early to pick
up the kids. Number four they've got Tesla works for
one day and then needs to recharge.

Speaker 3 (07:43):
Okay, that's good. What about this the elf short blow
happy to work over Christmas el for olf elf elf Ela?

Speaker 1 (07:55):
Okay, gotcha right, gotcha?

Speaker 3 (07:56):
Here is aren't it always in the office?

Speaker 4 (08:00):
Oh that's good, and you've got Kim John only got
the job because of his dad.

Speaker 1 (08:08):
A lot of Scotch college kids. I suppose, isn't.

Speaker 3 (08:10):
I don't know what you're talking about.

Speaker 4 (08:12):
Shaniah is another nickname for around the office, and don't
impress me much, not bad and MasterCard takes credit for
other people's work.

Speaker 3 (08:23):
So Tommy, wrattle them out, hit print. We've got a
brand new.

Speaker 4 (08:28):
Toilet, do you know what thirteen twenty four to ten.
If you need toilet paper, we can flick some of
these roles too.

Speaker 3 (08:34):
What did you say?

Speaker 6 (08:35):
One hundred and nine, one hundred and nineteen roles? A
very rough dunny roll.

Speaker 3 (08:40):
Save your money right now and call the show.

Speaker 2 (08:43):
Yeah, if you would like a dunny because there could
be another pandemic just around the corner.

Speaker 3 (08:49):
Just having a look at the phones right now.

Speaker 4 (08:52):
Oh Hanky Spanky, Hanky spanky from Norellin Vale.

Speaker 3 (08:56):
Hello, Hi guy, how are you? But is your nickname
hanky spank?

Speaker 8 (09:00):
No?

Speaker 3 (09:01):
Well yeah it is.

Speaker 8 (09:02):
I just planing up just to thank you for the
TV I got last week from last week the week before.

Speaker 3 (09:08):
Oh right, good work, hanky. What did it made everything? Okay?

Speaker 8 (09:12):
It made everything okay? But the nickname of God is
a spree hump? What's that slows everybody down? So what
I've gotcha? I didn't tell you was talking about my name?
Why didn't you tell you my mum's name? And you're
not going to believe this? What is it? Her name
was Bicky Lou, Bip Lou, Dickie b c K Why

(09:35):
Dicky whu?

Speaker 7 (09:36):
No?

Speaker 1 (09:37):
What was her actual name? What was her birth name?

Speaker 3 (09:40):
Hanky?

Speaker 8 (09:40):
Her birth name was Bircher Agnes Bleeker. So as a
result of that, that's why when she got married she
didn't want a long name for it for the boys,
Hank and Jack, so she just made short names. She
changed the name by de Paulton Dickie. And she always
used to say people didn't get the name over the thing.
She said, you know, Dicky Lou like a broken toilet.

Speaker 3 (10:01):
Pretty good, hanky Spanky. I love going through your family history.

Speaker 4 (10:04):
And for that, hanky Spanky, we are going to give
you some trainers nickname.

Speaker 6 (10:10):
I've only got one hundred and eighteen roles.

Speaker 3 (10:12):
I'm very connounced.

Speaker 7 (10:13):
Do you know what?

Speaker 2 (10:14):
Just just to go through that whole story every time
to get to the ending, it must be a nightmare.

Speaker 1 (10:21):
Dicky Lou, Oh my gosh.

Speaker 4 (10:23):
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