New Company, New Policies | Ramblings of an e-trader

Saturday 10 October 2009

New Company, New Policies

Jason told me that he is in a quandary right now, which surprised me. Jason was out of job for many months and I thought that he should be happy now that he finally has a job, albeit a lower paying one. Well, at his age and in this economic condition, I don't think he should wait for a better offer, giving this one up, even though he is in a lower position that previously.

According to Jason, he is not assigned a company car and has to use his own car. I can understand that he may think that's a little unfair seeing that Jason has been using a company car for close to twenty years already in the various companies that he had worked in so much so that he never had the need to purchase his own car.

Now, working in a new company brings new policies, obviously, and Jason has no choice but to abide by them. Jason may be using his own car now for work purposes but his company has a good Auto Allowance program in place that calculates Jason's car expenses for work. Previously, Jason could even use the company car for his family but this is no longer the case and personally, I think that this new arrangement is fairer on the company, although Jason doesn't agree.

I told Jason that many companies have adopted such programs so there’s no reason to think that he could gain better car benefits elsewhere.

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