The Trench Reynolds Report

North Carolina is what’s known as an ‘at will’ state. That means any employer can fire you at will for just about any reason. They can fire you because they don’t like the way you look but they’ll be sure to make it look like a performance issue. So who is looking out for the…

Now I’m at my current job. Technically I’m working through a temp agency so to talk about benefits at this time would be pointless. I like the company I’m contracted to but some of the guidelines are a little peculiar. For example, they want us to be here before our start time to get set up so…

I was unemployed for 9 months in 2009. Employers with positions I was qualified for didn’t want to hire me because I was too experienced and they didn’t want to pay me a rate that was comparable with someone of my level of experience. So I had to start from the bottom rung of the…

The first thing about my new job was that it was no cost to cover myself however to cover my family it would have been more than half of my paycheck. I would have been basically working for the benefits. I ended up covering only myself and my stepdaughter. My wife, who happens to have…

Now that I was married, I had a wife and two (step)children to cover. I went to work for a local hospital and was able to cover my family without too much of a chunk being taken out of my paycheck. My next job was working for a primary care doctor’s office. I hated the job…

I then went to work for another major insurance company. Medical benefits were great, not free but great. It was then I was introduced to a concept known as ‘accrued time’. That means that you earn your paid vacation time throughout the year. I thought “Ok, that’s understandable.” Not only does it keep people like…

Whatever happened to workers’ benefits? We used to have these things called benefits. You know, things like health and dental benefits, vacation days, sick days, etc. Somewhere along the line these incentives to work for companies slowly started to disappear. It didn’t just happen overnight either so you can’t put the full blame on the economy or…