A good boss story for Xmas.

Yep, I do the same with my people.
Can't always pay them top dollar, but I can do little things for them.
Make sure they get time off for family stuff.
Work at home some days.
Some times you get employees that just want to take, but most appreciate the gesture and willing to give a bit back too.
Being a small business helps to be flexible too with out some feeling they are missing out, or getting done.
Some of my best friends are the people I work with.

Hi Footy

A good boss will want to see his good workers come back.
A great boss will see that his workers are going to have a safe holiday.

Lets say 3000k in 3 wks, he'll see so many things he wished he had taken more time to see. No doubt you gave him the thumbs up and more :))

Andy

Footy

You are right - bosses like that are great.

I used to be able to sneak a bit of that sort of flexibility for my staff, but in a Big Australian company there was a limit, but don't think anyone ever let me down when I could help them somehow.

Off thread a bit, the naivety of people from overseas who don't do their research, reminds me of a couple of stories:

1. A Japanese bloke, on his own, in a rental that he had hired in Sydney, waved us down just east of the SA/WA border on the Nullabor. "How far is it to Perth? When can I get petrol next?" He had driven the rental west, asked at Port Augusta which road to Perth, and kept expecting it to appear over the horizon. Was a bit fazed when we suggested he had a day or three yet. We advised him to get the Nullabor booklet they hand out at the road houses so he had an idea.

2. At Mt Ive Station in the Gawler Ranges, the owner talked of many cyclists with almost no English riding push bikes up into the Gawler Ranges, miles from anywhere. When asked what they would do for water, they would point to the huge lakes on the map - salt pans all.


Max