What have been you best Perks from work?

[Dr Who?]

Just wondering who does well out of their jobs with things that you get for free or very very cheap.

 

In my chef/catering days I used to get a free Pizza every day of the week, if I went in to the place working or not.

 

I now get free clothes for me, the wife and the kids, as I work in fashion wholesale.

 

No others that I can think of that I can mention on here!!

[Weston Super Saint]

I get sloppy seconds from the pole dancers when we clear up at night.

[Dr Who?]

I get sloppy seconds from the pole dancers when we clear up at night.

 

Blimey mate, I do not think that is a pole dacing place mate!!! Do not think they do firsts let alone seconds!

[Weston Super Saint]

Blimey mate, I do not think that is a pole dacing place mate!!! Do not think they do firsts let alone seconds!

 

So Naïve.

[bridge too far]

I've never had a perk in my working life beause I've always worked in the public sector (apart from a few years when I was self-employed).

[Dog]

I get the take home the handcuffs, truncheon, helmet & pepper spray at weekends.

[Hatch]

As many staples as I can carry

[Verbal]

Earning more in tax-free expenses than my salary. (In the good/bad old days when ITV was king.)

 

I remember, shortly after starting, being marched into Personnel by my union rep who yelled: 'This employee MUST be paid his mileage allowance! The fact that he doesn't have a car has nothing to do with it!'

 

Bliss.

[Turkish]

in one year i won an ipod, a DVD player, a weekend in Barcelona, £5k to spend on a holiday, which i used to go on safari in Tanzania and Kenya for 2 weeks and 5 days in Mauritius, not a bad year that.

[benjii]

I've never had a perk in my working life beause I've always worked in the public sector (apart from a few years when I was self-employed).

 

I would consider an easy ride from management, no pressure to perform, a job for life, masses of paid sick leave and a gargantuan pension as quite big perks

[benjii]

in one year i won an ipod, a DVD player, a weekend in Barcelona, £5k to spend on a holiday, which i used to go on safari in Tanzania and Kenya for 2 weeks and 5 days in Mauritius, not a bad year that.

 

Maccy D's Employee of The Month has obviously raised its game a notch or two!

[Turkish]

Maccy D's Employee of The Month has obviously raised its game a notch or two!

 

they had too, all the top burger flippers were leaving for the extra 5p an hour Burger king offer.

[bridge too far]

I would consider an easy ride from management, no pressure to perform, a job for life, masses of paid sick leave and a gargantuan pension as quite big perks

 

You would think so, wouldn't you. However, I WAS management but certainly didn't get an easy ride from my directors, unimaginable pressure to perform (to deliver 2 hospitals on time and on budget), no job for life (once the projects had finished), I took very little sick leave and my pension is about £4K a year.

 

But hey ho - you carry on with your misconceptions

[saint lard]

I get to take home an Autistic savant at the weekends....we go to the casino mostly.

Edited 26 September, 2010 by saint lard

[Colinjb]

The fuel expenses on some prior jobs have felt like wonderful perks. (40p a mile at one company, after a few trips a month it ended up like a second pay day.)

 

Getting to visit many different parts of the country for work at the moment at the moment is fun. Some of the hotels i've stayed in on expenses have been outstanding.

[EastleighSoulBoy]

You would think so, wouldn't you. However, I WAS management but certainly didn't get an easy ride from my directors, unimaginable pressure to perform (to deliver 2 hospitals on time and on budget), no job for life (once the projects had finished), I took very little sick leave and my pension is about £4K a year.

 

But hey ho - you carry on with your misconceptions

 

It might be good to see the full AFC pay scales then many on here would realise their ideas of NHS pay are badly flawed!

[Saint-scooby]

I got a **** one night from a female customer, not bad, but had an itch for a few days after..

[Big John]

I get to put my penis into the bacon slicer.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The bacon slicer's name is Dave.

 

tada

[saintscottofthenortham]

Scrap Metal...

[latter day saint]

wotever i can stuff in my bag & pockets.

used to work in a clothes shop & i walked out wearing something new everyday

[Special K]

You would think so, wouldn't you. However, I WAS management but certainly didn't get an easy ride from my directors, unimaginable pressure to perform (to deliver 2 hospitals on time and on budget), no job for life (once the projects had finished), I took very little sick leave and my pension is about £4K a year.

 

But hey ho - you carry on with your misconceptions

 

You mean just doing the job you were employed to do?

[bridge too far]

You mean just doing the job you were employed to do?

 

Yes that's true. But, as anyone who has ever worked on a multi-million pound construction contract will tell you, it's exceptionally hard work getting it in on time / budget. Even more so on a bloody PFI contract

[benjii]

I put a winky thing!

[Jeff Le Taxi]

I get to jump the queue during petrol blockades, woopy bloody doo!

[benjii]

The fuel expenses on some prior jobs have felt like wonderful perks. (40p a mile at one company, after a few trips a month it ended up like a second pay day.)

 

Getting to visit many different parts of the country for work at the moment at the moment is fun. Some of the hotels i've stayed in on expenses have been outstanding.

 

40p per mile certainly is a great deal. I did a 6 month secondment once that I could get away with driving to every day. Cashback!

[FloridaMarlin]

Had some amazing press junkets. When companies like Universal Studios open new rides at theme parks they push out a huge boat. Club class flights, five-star hotels, all so you say nice things about them.

 

Went ski-ing in Megeve in France courtesy of one travel company, stayed in a lodge owned by the Saudi royal family.

 

Gastronomic tour of Belgium, where eventually you got fed up (literally) of eating in Michelin-starred restaurants and longed for Moules and Frites.

 

Mexico, California, Kuala Lumpur, Oz - it really is quite obscene what trips travel companies will offer. It doesn't cost them much and unless they foul up incredibly, they're going to get lots of 'free' positive publicity.

 

Never been one myself, but the real junket-monkeys are motoring journos. They get taken to the most exotic locations in the world to test-drive some of the best cars on the road.

[bridge too far]

Doctors don't do so badly either.

 

You'd find it really difficult to get any sort of planned procedure done in January because a huge number of (particularly orthopaedic) surgeons go to 'conferences' run by drug companies that are handily located in skiing resorts.

[GenevaSaint]

Used to get free cruises when working @ Cunard.

 

Now......I get paid..... that's it.

[Doctoroncall]

In my old job many many years ago which was auditing at events I would be able to gain entry. I remember seeing the British Grand Prix, many golf tournaments including the Ryder Cup, Glastonbury, Oasis gig etc. Only thing was I never got to see the whole show but at least I got to see stuff/do that joe public couldn't!

[Seaford Saint]

Currently, I get £1000 a year not to drive to work I also have a buy one get one free share deal, worth around £2000 a year, I was in a final salary scheme....now closed and I am still working but also drawing a pension based on my 13 years contributions. I also get a bonus of around £4000 annually

 

At Hewlett Packard I was in a non contributory final salary scheme which is projected pay me £6000 a year at the age of 60.

 

All in all I have been pretty lucky

[SNSUN]

Currently, Free London travel, free uniform and as many Oyster wallets as I want.

 

I used to work, for a passenger boat company, who had a licensed bar but no stock system in place, so we used to help ourselves to booze, an unofficial perk if you will. Plus, doing night parties on the boats, you used to get a lot of drunken slappers willing to stick their tongues down our throats. I didn't mind that at all...

[buctootim]

Spent the whole of a 13 hour night shift at Kiplings eating handfuls of cooking chocolate out of a 56kg sack. Not good for the digestion for days afterwards apparently.

[Dr Who?]

Spent the whole of a 13 hour night shift at Kiplings eating handfuls of cooking chocolate out of a 56kg sack. Not good for the digestion for days afterwards apparently.

 

not that good for your teeth or the waistline either!! But yummy!!!

[Michelle]

5* hol to Cyprus for me, last year.

[saint_stevo]

65p a mile

[Saints11]

All my employment has been is restaurants and bars, so the perks are not as good as some of the above, but all help.

 

My first job was in an oriental retauraunt which meant free chinese/japanese food at the end of the night, and on buffet sundays as much of food you could eat

 

Next places have all been bars where staff drinks are handed out at the end of each shift, cant complain

[Hatch]

The UK Owner of Segway, gets a free segway for his own personal use.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-11416654

 

But maybe, thats a perk he could have done without.

 

( i apologize to anyway offended by my laughing to myself while reading the attached news article, its just the image of someone riding a segway over a cliff that gets me)

[knellster]

For about 4 years I used to work in Manchester while living on the South coast, so I flew up and back every week, stayed in the Holiday Inn and hired a car all at my employer's expense. It gave me enough air miles for a first class return to San Francisco for my wife and me, business class returns to Tokyo and free nights in the Holiday Inn at Tokyo Airport for the duration of the 2002 world cup.

 

It was great while it lasted, but I now have a job that just pays me every month, with the huge added perk of being home every night and having a family life.

[Gemmel]

Many moons ago i worked for Yellow Pages. It would take too long to explain, but they had a system, that effectively meant you got paid double for taking holiday or going off sick.

 

It was of course throughly abused by most, but i must have been a bit square or stupid, as i didn't.!!

Edited 27 September, 2010 by Gemmel

[The Cat]

I used to get offered free tickets to see Saints most weeks through one company I worked for. They weren't of much use as I had a season ticket.

 

Got taken to some away games in corporate though. Charlton a few times, Birmingham, Spurs and Fulham. Turned some down though as I didn't like dressing up to go to football and then having to sit with the home fans while all my mates were hammered in the away end and seemingly having a much better time than me.

[Special K]

Yes that's true. But, as anyone who has ever worked on a multi-million pound construction contract will tell you, it's exceptionally hard work getting it in on time / budget. Even more so on a bloody PFI contract

 

I've worked on a few I always find the time/cost problems stem from both of them being set by people or parties who have little experience in (or responsibility for) the delivery of either.

[Special K]

I've been or corporate days like Goodwood, Ascot, Twickenham (for international matches), golf, saints games. The occasional drink up abroad for a couple of days (broken up by a visit to a factory). Not like it used to be though, in these times of austerity.

[bridge too far]

I've worked on a few I always find the time/cost problems stem from both of them being set by people or parties who have little experience in (or responsibility for) the delivery of either.

 

Or by cute construction companies engineering RFIs, Compensation Events etc. etc.

[bridge too far]

I'm amazed by all these perks

 

I should have worked in the private sector!

[RedAndWhite91]

The perk of my job is 10% off everything at Tesco. Other than that, there's no perks to working for a massive faceless corporation that tries monopolise the retail industry and puts pressure on small business.

[buctootim]

The perk of my job is 10% off everything at Tesco. Other than that, there's no perks to working for a massive faceless corporation that tries monopolise the retail industry and puts pressure on small business.

 

I hate Tesco and all it stands for. I also shop there on a regular basis because its convenient, close and cheap. We get the society we deserve.

[Chin Strain]

I've never had a perk in my working life beause I've always worked in the public sector (apart from a few years when I was self-employed).

 

Inference being that nobody in the public sector gets perks? MP....? 'Conferences' abroad for medical staff? Plenty of public sector workers get perks, just maybe not where you've worked

[bridge too far]

Inference being that nobody in the public sector gets perks? MP....? 'Conferences' abroad for medical staff? Plenty of public sector workers get perks, just maybe not where you've worked

 

For Consultants - who are self-employed FYI

 

Public sector workers aren't allowed to receive perks - they can be construed as bribery. When I was in Procurement for the NHS I couldn't even accept a 'complimentary' pen!

 

An audit colleague of mine was instrumental in securing the dismissal of a capital projects manager who received golf days and bottles of whisky in return for awarding contracts to a construction company.

[Chin Strain]

For Consultants - who are self-employed FYI

 

Public sector workers aren't allowed to receive perks - they can be construed as bribery. When I was in Procurement for the NHS I couldn't even accept a 'complimentary' pen!

 

An audit colleague of mine was instrumental in securing the dismissal of a capital projects manager who received golf days and bottles of whisky in return for awarding contracts to a construction company.

 

Dismissal? He / she should have been locked up for that. Misuse of public funds - criminal offence.

 

Consultants? No....and I know of that for an absolute fact.

[SparkySaint]

£600 in copper