Lilly Faye's Guide to Business: Benefits Are Key to Employee Retention (Part 4 of 4)

Lilly Faye: Are you all refreshed after your beach vacation, Diz?

Dizzie: Yes, Boss!

Lilly Faye: Are you motivated to get back to work?

Dizzie: Yes, Boss!

Lilly Faye: Say it with me, then. "Go team, A Poodle Looks at Life! Bark!"

Dizzie: "Go team, A Poodle Looks at Life! Bark!"

Lilly Faye: Good. Now let's review a movie.

Dizzie: (Snoring)

Alfie: I could have told her, vacations are exhausting.

Lilly Faye's Guide to Business: Benefits Are Key to Employee Retention (Part 3 of 4)

Lilly Faye has promised Dizzie a beach vacation in lieu of a salary. Will a vacation benefit be enough to satisfy her unpaid blog intern and earn his loyalty? Let's find out...

 

Tune in Monday to find out if their trip to the beach did the trick!

Lilly Faye's Guide to Business: Benefits Are Key to Employee Retention (Part 2 of 4)

Lilly Faye: Hi Cali.

Cali: Hey, how you doin' Lilly Faye?

Lilly Faye: Being a boss is turning out to be more of a headache than I expected. If Dizzie doesn't get his act together soon, I may have an opening for a new unpaid blog intern. Are you interested?

Cali: I'd love to be neighborly and help you out Lilly Faye, but I'm on guard duty pretty much 24/7. I really don't have time to take on another job. Thanks for thinking of me, though.

Lilly Faye: Well, do me a favor and don't mention this to Dizzie.

Cali: Don't worry about that. Dizzie and I aren't exactly water bowl buddies. 

Later...

Lilly Faye: Dizzie, I've been thinking. I still can't offer you a salary, but I do want to give you an incentive to keep working for me. How would you feel about an all-expenses-paid beach vacation, courtesy of the blog?

Dizzie: Seriously, Boss? Oh wow, I'd love that! Can we go to Tahiti? I've always wanted to go somewhere exotic.

Alfie: You should ask her how she can afford to take you on a trip, when she doesn't have any money to pay you.

Dizzie: Who cares? It's a beach vacation! Woo, hoo!

Lilly Faye: We're not going to Tahiti, Diz. It's too far away.

Dizzie: Hawaii, then?

Lilly Faye: Hawaii is almost as far away as Tahiti.

Dizzie: The Caribbean?

Lilly Faye: Somewhere closer.

Dizzie: Hmmmm. I know! Cape Cod! There's a huge Portuguese population in Cape Cod. I could immerse myself in my native culture...the people...the language...the food. I can't wait to taste salt cod and sweet bread. I can almost smell the fish stew already!

Alfie: Something about this does smell fishy.

Lilly Faye: Closer, Diz.

Dizzie: Closer than Cape Cod? How close, exactly, Boss?

Lilly Faye: We'll walk!

To be continued...

Lilly Faye's Guide to Business: Benefits Are Key to Employee Retention (Part 1 of 4)

Lilly Faye: Dizzie, where have you been? Other than filling out the questionnaire for your new "Meet Dizzie" page, you haven't done any work for an entire week!

Dizzie: I think I have that chronic malaise exhaustion syndrome, Boss. I might need a pill.

Alfie: He's been staying up all night watching English Premier League Soccer. It comes on at midnight.

Lilly Faye: Dizzie! Why don't you record the soccer matches and watch them at a more convenient time?

Dizzie: I'm not allowed anywhere near the remote. If I even look at the remote, THE MASTER jumps up and hides it so fast, even David Copperfield would be impressed.

Lilly Faye: Well, staying up all night and missing work the next day is no way to make money or get ahead in your job.

Dizzie: You don't pay me anyway, Boss. In fact, I'm starting to wonder why I even bother coming in at all.

Lilly Faye: You're supposed to be working to pay me back for all those Beefy Bones and Oinkies you charged to my blog account while I was off having my hair and nails done, Diz!

You'd better snap out of this "malaise" of yours, pronto. We have movie reviews stacking up, and I don't want to keep my readers waiting.

Dizzie: (snoring)

Lilly Faye: Hmm, I need to think of a way to motivate my employee, but it has to be something that won't cost me any money.

To be continued...