Can you believe another week has already gone by! I'm Marty here with Warehouse and Operations as a Career and I'd like to thank you for Listening in with us again today. If you are a repeat listener, and I hope you are, shoot I hope everyone has Subscribed so you won't miss out on any of our weekly or special episodes. All you need to do is click that little subscribe button on iTunes if you're on a desk top or use the Apple Podcast app on your iPhone and for us Android users I'd recommend Google Play Music and of course there's a host of Podcatcher App's out there to use. And all these buttons can be found on our website Warehouse and Operations as a Career.com. And while I'm talking about the show I'll throw a quick plug out to our Twitter and Facebook Feeds, both can be found using @whseandops on both forms of media. We try and retweet as many job postings as we can each week to Twitter and all our episodes can be found on our Facebook Page too. Well, enough promotion stuff, what are we going to talk about today, let me see here.
\nOh, WAOC went mobile a couple of times lately, we really enjoyed the Job Fair we we're invited to a few weeks ago and meeting up with Joe last week on the road in Denver was really cool. If you have an event coming up or an idea for a mobile show shoot us an email, we enjoy hitting the road and talking with you!
\nI jotted down a few notes, a couple of things to look at, you know a couple of things that's came up recently, I guess more like questions regarding things brought up on the show, like our discussions on Pay Rates and piece pay, benefits and how we need to dig into and understand our orientations & wages. I know we talk a lot about getting our foot in the door and taking a job while we plan for that advancement & promotion to what we're really wanting to do. I think if we have figured out what our goal is & we've put together a plan to get there It's just easier to think of our yearly earnings or wages than to think about our hourly rate or Salary?
\nI think back in episode 9, we were working with Jeff Character, remember our virtual example employee, while he was struggling with needing to pay for parking. I think the company or the employer was offering a discounted rate when deducted from his check or he could pay the full amount by the day, which seemed much cheaper at $5 a day than the $62 taken out of his check on the first of each month? We would be saving about $40 each month or $480 a year if we\u2019d have went with that $62 dollar or monthly deduction! Recently a scenario came up about insurance, along the same lines so let's look at it for a minute.
\nTo keep it simple & just as examples, I'm not calculating anything or using the real formulas and we'll use U.S. dollars and information just because I\u2019m more familiar with them. So with Health Care here, we need to carry some sort of Health Insurance or we may be penalized a calculated amount. Let's say the penalty is $750.00 a year based on our income. And our employer offers a plan at a cost to us off 11.00 a week. Now this $11.00 a week is the bare minimum plan, doesn't offer much but it satisfies the requirements and prevents the possible penalty. So our penalty was $750/yr and our insurance is $11.00 a week, which is $572 a year, we're actually coming out ahead, for the year by taking the insurance and saving, or earning, depending how your wanting to look at it a $178! Even with a bit more comprehensive plan or one that offers a little more coverage like a few Dr. Visits and a little more than just preventative medicine, let\u2019s say its $23 a week or $1196 dollars a year, we're actually only out or it's costing us $446 a year if you factor in the penalty we could have to pay anyway if we carried no insurance. The point here of course is to Be sure we understand AND figure our income by the Yearly totals and not just a hourly wage. In the two examples,