Two-Wheeled Terrorists

The bicycle is one of mankind’s greatest inventions. To build one requires so little. To operate one requires very few skills, and consumes few resources. So what is this guy’s problem?

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  4. Job’s great. The company is really good to its people and seems to bend over backwards to keep them happy. A list of benefits I’ve learned of so far (aside from the $25/hr. pay with lots of overtime):
    1.) $200 per year (can carry over) for work boots.
    2.) $75 in mall bucks for exercizing regularly.
    3.) If I come up with an idea to help the plant or make something safter or redesign something that gets used, management decides how much it is worth to the company and pays me for it.
    4.) Every time somebody wants to commend me for a job well done it’s another $50 gift certificate.
    5.) Yearly bonus based on how much money the refinery made that year and how few injuries there were plant wide (generally ranges from $500 to $2000).
    6.) Company pays all educational expenses for employees working towards a degree.
    7.) Free financial counselling, car-buying advice, home loan counselling, etc.
    8.) $2000 lifetime for financial planning or self-betterment (taking a kyaking class or something would count…)

    Aside from that, the company has been very straightforward with us about their business and environmental practices. Right now we’re in indoctrination which is just going to a bunch of meetings with various people around the plant to find out what their department does and what it means to us. The most interesting was “plant economics.” They told us all about how the company decides what crude to buy and how much of it to run and what factors determine that. Also what products in what quantities that crude is turned into at what price. Turns out our refinery alone makes $100 million per year. Not bad…

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