The one thing I miss about that IT gig in Boulder is perks similar to fluiddruid… Put on 10 pounds at that place with all the free food. I’d bring my lunch maybe once a week, and that would usually sit in the fridge for a couple days. There was bagels, bread, peanut butter or that chocolate-hazelnut stuff (Nutella?), assorted cereals with regular or soy milk, cereal bars, a wide selection of snack stuff, cup of noodles, fresh fruit, catered food or pizza showed up frequently.
They bought a couple bicycles for anyone that wanted to go for a ride over lunch. The remote data center was stocked with Red Bull, jerky, and packets of cookies for those 2:00AM visits. I can’t even remember all the gym memberships & pet health insurance type things they offered.
Obviously a private company, seems to be the first thing to go in public companies.
Current place buys donuts on Friday and cheap beer once a month
Cook outs every other Friday, often free pizza/ice cream sandwhiches. I work full time with a ridiculous hourly wage for my experience/age. Get to fix/play with all the multi-million dollar clean room machines. If I wanted to, I could wander around all day and do nothing, but I prefer to do whatever strikes my fancy. I have bosses, but they don’t care, because Georgia Tech has infinite money for the cleanroom.
Yep, mine’s a private company. Funnily enough, the dozen employees we have now do more work and have more responsibilities than double the employees at my last job; those perks bring in the good people. Funny how corporations don’t understand that you get what you pay for.
Free admission to any HS sporting event in roughly a 20 mile radius.
I have a total of 49 paid days a year I can take off, 19 of which I HAVE to take or lose. 5 of which each year, I can cash in in June, and Sick days roll over forever, so in theory, when I get 19 years in, I can take a year at sick pay, and have a retirement date a year in the future, then collect on my fairly generous pension.
This laptop, which is my work computer and I use personally. So long as anything I install that screws with it, I pay to get fixed, it’s mine. And when I need it upgraded, they do that too.
Watched my current company go public, it’s painful to reflect on how cool this place used to be. An encouraged question at any and all team meetings when the president announced Q&A was “where’s the beer”. This signaled it was time for him to shut up and start drinking. It was good beer, too. The cheapest was Flat Tire, and since he was Irish there was alway Guinness to be had. We once had a Dodge Viper as the company car - do good and you got to take it for a week. After it got destroyed, they got all cheap on us and downgraded to a Corvette.
Company car with (effectively) unlimited personal use and a gas card that picks up the full cost. I haven’t paid for gas in the past two years.
Team meetings/parties out about once or twice per month at various restaurants in the DC area. Usually all food and drink is covered.
$100 monthly telecommunications reimbursement. Between a landline phone, cellphone, and high speed internet, I always spend more than $100, but it’s a nice subsidy.
Full DC Metro fare and parking reimbursement. In fact, full parking reimbursement for all business use.
I just discovered that in MD, State Worker’s Compensation will pay 66% of your average salary on anything more than three days off, but my company will pay 75% from the very first day off. (Still have to file with the state, and get their 66%, but then my company will get the last 9%).
That’s the bulk of it. The gas card is really the big one.
My company started a conference division not too long ago, so I get free CLE courses. It’s a pretty good deal when you consider that an 8-hour course typically costs at least $135.
This line dedicated to the Doper who thought plush dolls at work were unprofessional
I get… what do I get? Ah, yes, free water, your choice of “gas”, “half gas” or “flat.” WCs with no grafitti (and in one stall, with no lid as well). A large desk. Three drawers (apparently I’m the only person here who can turn that key, too, so in theory I could even leave it in the hole). A large company calendar which I took from another empty desk. Stairs which some coworkers complain are too hard, so either said coworkers are in lousy shape or the stairs count as exercise.
Right now my badge isn’t working, so I get two badges (the one with my pic and the one that says visitor) plus instead of being greeted by a blue light on a gizmo on the wall, which goes off so fast you barely have time to grab a bottle of water and open the door, I’ve been greeted by coworkers a lot (until I got the visitor badge).
-a private office with a door that closes;
-a wall of windows with a view of the lake;
-several incompetent co-workers who make me look great by comparison;
-a boss who appreciates that I handle my caseload on my own with no supervision (as well as cleaning up messes created by the aforementioned co-workers) and therefore pretty much leaves me alone.
I work at the corporate HQ for a large arts & crafts chain. We get a lot of stuff, buyer’s samples and such, that would be more work that it is worth to try to sell at a store. So every few weeks, an employee volunteer group throws all of the stuff into one of our warehouses and sells it for ten bucks a bag. A very large bag.
The money goes to charity, and we get some really good stuff for really cheap.
