Job perks

retalivity · 18-08-2012 05:18AM

stock options,
pension payments,
cheaper car insurance,
no bank fees
$2000/yr towards 'wellness', meaning gym membership, sports programs, clothes, anything that can be attributed to making me 'well',

pragmatic1 · 18-08-2012 05:38AM

No perks at all. Just a wage in exchange for hard work.

Galwayguy35 · 18-08-2012 06:03AM

pragmatic1 wrote: »

No perks at all. Just a wage in exchange for hard work.

Same as that, no perks but it's a full time job and work is hard to get these days.

flash1080 · 18-08-2012 06:35AM

Because I'm salaried I get to work as many hours as I want over the standard 40, I can even come in and work on weekends too if I want.

Lando Griffin · 18-08-2012 08:02AM

I take requests from higher management and order people to do them. Nothing like making people do things.

Palytoxin · 18-08-2012 08:11AM

Free meals, at 8,11,2,5,9, working on our farm for the summer, only problem is the lack in money.

mikemac1 · 18-08-2012 09:12AM

Beer in the canteen fridge, no lie

Longnecks of Bud, Heineken, Bulmers, all the main brands

Staying late? Have a beer at your desk.
Thursday evening and ye're heading out with the staff, have 2-3. Everyone did it

Common in many German companies

New HR manager put an end to it, booooooooooooo

Unlimited minerals though, I'd often be taking a few cans of lucozade home
Stopped with the waistline expanded though, that stuff is liquid sugar

18-08-2012 09:25AM

Shield wrote: »

Free donuts @ Dunkin' Donuts!

H2UMrsRobinson · 18-08-2012 09:35AM

Galwayguy35 wrote: »

Same as that, no perks but it's a full time job and work is hard to get these days.

pragmatic1 wrote: »

No perks at all. Just a wage in exchange for hard work.

This ^ count myself lucky to be employed and permanent. Slightly above average wage for my position, Plus all the free 'posh' coffee I can drink and one of the ladies hand bakes a cake for you to share out on your birthday which is a lovely touch.

Sappa · 18-08-2012 09:40AM

My old company paid for my apartment when I was overseas,threw in a cleaner 5 days a week.
Philipino girl who was sound and good fun,she used to iron my shirts,organise my clothes,shop for clothes for me when I asked her and leave cooked meals for me before she left each day,I have always been overly tidy so the place was never untidy and i felt guilty if she had to tidy up after me.I told her not to worry just watch tv,I was only 26 at the time ohh the joys.

livinginkorea · 18-08-2012 09:41AM

mikemac1 wrote: »

Beer in the canteen fridge, no lie

Longnecks of Bud, Heineken, Bulmers, all the main brands

Staying late? Have a beer at your desk.
Thursday evening and ye're heading out with the staff, have 2-3. Everyone did it

Common in many German companies

New HR manager put an end to it, booooooooooooo

Unlimited minerals though, I'd often be taking a few cans of lucozade home
Stopped with the waistline expanded though, that stuff is liquid sugar

I feel your pain man...all coffee, water, apple juice and soft drinks now. Have to say that the Germans do like their coffee so the company coffee machines are really decent.

I travel a lot in my job around Frankfurt so my place pays for a monthly travel ticket.

Vinta81 · 18-08-2012 09:45AM

Free Tea.
Subsidized Meals.
Supervisor is out every Friday in another office so that's my casual, casual Friday.

Finished this internship in 3 weeks and can safely say only thing I'll miss is the free tea and being to get a cup whenever I want.

Grayson · 18-08-2012 10:11AM

VHI and gym. that's it. We're supposed to get college paid for but in reality they limit it so much and make you jump through so many hoops that it's next to impossible to get.

Elessar · 18-08-2012 10:28AM

Nothing. Absolutely nothing. I work for a semi state body which is awash with cash, still making tens of millions in profit even in this recession. No perks, terrible hours (80 hours over 9 days sometimes) and a terrible salary with no allowances (despite the face we work shift, incl. nights and 4am/5am starts). Zero work life balance, I work most weekends and even my holidays are rostered, so it's impossible to take a day off.

Mr. CooL ICE · 18-08-2012 10:41AM

Before my company went into financial trouble, I had:

€850 work life balance scheme (college, gym, whatever)
Free breakfast
Free snacks, tea/coffee, minerals
3 course meal prepared by a gourmet chef (sometimes including many exotic meats; ostrich, kangaroo, kobe beef) for 10c
Health care
Free gym
Travel pass

I can't name or give clues to what this company was, but strangely enough, the above wasn't the actual reason why it got into financial trouble

mikemac1 · 18-08-2012 10:42AM

Elessar wrote: »

Nothing. Absolutely nothing. I work for a semi state body which is awash with cash, still making tens of millions in profit even in this recession. No perks, terrible hours (80 hours over 9 days sometimes) and a terrible salary with no allowances (despite the face we work shift, incl. nights and 4am/5am starts). Zero work life balance, I work most weekends and even my holidays are rostered, so it's impossible to take a day off.

Sounds like the ESB?

Elessar · 18-08-2012 11:07AM

mikemac1 wrote: »

Sounds like the ESB?

Worse. The DAA. At least in ESB I might have a decent salary for the hours and type of work involved!

FutureGuy · 18-08-2012 12:01PM

Almost 6 weeks hols, pension, skills training, free coffee/tea, VHI healthcare and eye care. I also have flexitime which means I can feck off (almost) whenever I want once I do my 39 hours for the week. Fridays are a joy.

I know there are more but can't think of them (or use them tbh). We used to have allowances for clothing but lost that.

Pretty lucky now that I read it.

Non-direct perk (which is critically important to me) is that it's a 10 min drive to work in the mornings. Commuting hours every day does not appeal to me at all.

Clareman · 18-08-2012 12:22PM

Old company I worked for, VHI, pension and up to 15k a year for "personal developlment", that could have been for anything, a lot of people used it for education but I used to use it to pay for holidays and stuff to historic sites. There was a highly subsidised canteen, I'm talking 1c for each item at breakfast, €1 for a massive lunch, free tea/coffee/minerals, free salad bar. There was a great sports and scoial club as well, regular nights out with buses laid on and free drink all night.

In my job I was the only person in Ireland doing it and my manager was based in the US, she was a VP over a massive department and didn't care what I did, I worked whatever hours I wanted, worked from home whenever I wanted, rarely had to produce anything, I also got a new system every 3 months and I got to spec it out myself, I also got to keep the old system

Finally, senior managers got car allowances and leased top of the range cars, once the lease was up they had the option to buy the car for whatever was left on the HP agreement (never more than 5 grand) or allow another member of staff to buy it, there was a waiting list for people to get the cars, people were getting 3 year old top of the range BMWs, Lexus or Audis for 5 grand.

Maximus Alexander · 18-08-2012 12:29PM

I get a season pass for Perisher so I can go snowboarding to my hearts content on my breaks and days off. Pretty awesome perk.

Elessar · 18-08-2012 01:07PM

Clareman wrote: »

Old company I worked for, VHI, pension and up to 15k a year for "personal developlment", that could have been for anything, a lot of people used it for education but I used to use it to pay for holidays and stuff to historic sites. There was a highly subsidised canteen, I'm talking 1c for each item at breakfast, €1 for a massive lunch, free tea/coffee/minerals, free salad bar. There was a great sports and scoial club as well, regular nights out with buses laid on and free drink all night.

In my job I was the only person in Ireland doing it and my manager was based in the US, she was a VP over a massive department and didn't care what I did, I worked whatever hours I wanted, worked from home whenever I wanted, rarely had to produce anything, I also got a new system every 3 months and I got to spec it out myself, I also got to keep the old system

Finally, senior managers got car allowances and leased top of the range cars, once the lease was up they had the option to buy the car for whatever was left on the HP agreement (never more than 5 grand) or allow another member of staff to buy it, there was a waiting list for people to get the cars, people were getting 3 year old top of the range BMWs, Lexus or Audis for 5 grand.

I have to ask - what company was this??

markpb · 18-08-2012 01:07PM

I did a J1 in Citywalk outside Universal Studios in LA. Great place to work, decent wages, free food (officially when on lunch and unofficially from the cafe managers), unlimited tickets for me for the park, some free park tickets for friends, head of the line passes (unofficially), free advance film screenings in the studios, massively discounted public transport tickets, discounts at all the Citywalk shops, options to work at the premiers and a load more. Not sure why I came home really.

CrazyRabbit · 18-08-2012 01:29PM

I get a 5% discount on servers.
It's a shame they cost €20,000 to several million.

I'm also the creator/admin for our vacation request & tracking tool. So...I can accidentally give myself more vacation days.

loalae · 18-08-2012 01:40PM

I tell them what hours I want to work

I can cancel shifts the day before

I have 1 "no-show" a month where I can just not turn up if I have something I need to do.

helimachoptor · 18-08-2012 01:43PM

A good few perks, but the best is the salary I could live without the rest tbh

Clareman · 18-08-2012 03:00PM

Elessar wrote: »

I have to ask - what company was this??

A financial services company in Shannon

Duggy747 · 18-08-2012 03:07PM

If I'm good, my masters let me use the actual toilet instead of the bucket.

Well, that's a bit of a lie. It's more like a cup than it is a bucket.

MaxSteele · 18-08-2012 03:25PM

IrishAm wrote: »

I was 22 and a Duty Manager. When the recession hit, I was the one whom had to give "excess staff" the heave ho.

The hotel in question had the Head Office lads coming in at least twice a week for "signed off lunches." Some for "signed off beer meetings." And even some signed off "stays with room service."

Some c*nts, man. I spoke me mind, after, and was let go myself. Which was probably the best thing that ever happened to me.

I only told three people they were let go, but I cried after it. Especially when it was so unnecessary. Never again.

Hated working in a hotel. Would be called in for a 10 hour shift and be forgotten about by the bar supervisor, who actually effed off home without ending my shift 6 hours before. He was a bully too. Hospitality industry has some of the most narky pricks I've ever come across. I found the managers to be the only sound ones.

Around Xmas a couple of years ago too, the main pipes to the toilets froze and I was forced to stand in a 3 foot wide space behind the actual cubicles fetching buckets upon buckets of water for the flushing tanks behind the walls, having to hear f***ers pissing and ****ting all day and night. This went on for a solid three days. Humiliating. 12 hour shifts of ****ing standing.

woodoo · 18-08-2012 07:39PM

Flexi time is about the only one i can think of.

Varied · 18-08-2012 07:58PM

Katgurl wrote: »

Not too bad when I'm on long haul travel which is most of the time. Transport, all meals, accommodation, business flights and the daily rate is double what I make at home. It gets lonely though.

I'm a contractor which is why the rate and expenses are good. It means however I miss out on health, pension, commuter-ticket, bike scheme, bonus.

No complaints though.

Are you a prostitute?

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