Author Topic: Job perks (Read 1303 times)

Curval · « **Reply #30 on:** April 13, 2006, 08:10:10 PM »

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Originally posted by Dago
Besides the usual benefits, working at an airline I am in position that I can schedule and go use one of the company simulators whenever I want.

I have been around the world a bunch, always in first class. Domestic trips normally coach now, but international I have always gotten first.

A pilot for one of our code-share partners in Austria took me for an aerobatic glider ride in the Alps, above Innsbruck.

In the last year I have taken my wife with me on company trips to Phoenix in the winter, to Amsterdam last may, and Rome last summer. (my son came to Rome too).

This job has had some cool benefits.

Winner! So far....

BlueJ1 · « **Reply #31 on:** April 13, 2006, 08:10:57 PM »

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Originally posted by GtoRA2
Well they got rid of all their good planes... You know the F-14 and A-6, whats left?

Mmm F-22. *Drool*

DiabloTX · « **Reply #32 on:** April 13, 2006, 08:12:35 PM »

Yeah, true. I was watching a show a while back and it showed where the F-14's go to die. They strip them down, tear em apart, and truck em off to be melted down into aluminum cans. It kinda freaks me out that the soda can in front of me could have been going mach 1.5 at one time and now its just holding a collection of chemicals for my enjoyment.

One the jobs perks I had active duty in the navy was working the flight deck of the ship that I was on. When I say flight deck I mean the little area that our 2 CH-46's operated from. Once when I was working back there on a brilliantly clear day an F-14 came screaming over us going faster than sound. Fortunately I was astute enough to see it before it got to my ship and I just sat back an watched as the sonic BOOOOOM!!! made everyone else on the flight deck jump about 5 feet.

Meatwad · « **Reply #33 on:** April 13, 2006, 08:54:27 PM »

I get 10 perks for every customer I help. I can put them in any category I want to

capt. apathy · « **Reply #34 on:** April 13, 2006, 09:37:24 PM »

I just returned to work for the first time since my injury.

I'm working at the hardware store down the street.

the money isn't anywhere close to what I used to make, but...

I sleep at home every night, enjoy the work and the people I work with, I'm indoors when it rains, haven't caught fire once(couldn't say that in my previous career), and I get a significant discount at the hardware store (which is where a good chunk of my money has always gone anyway).

all very good perks in my book.

they discount may even end up being worth more than the paycheck.

FiLtH · « **Reply #35 on:** April 13, 2006, 11:06:43 PM »

Im a plumber.

Free tampons for wife
Free condoms for me
All you can eat buffet

doobs · « **Reply #36 on:** April 13, 2006, 11:16:42 PM »

I get a new car every four weeks to drive.

and all the washer fluid I could ever use?

and free internet.

I also get to fire people the best perk.

mora · « **Reply #37 on:** April 14, 2006, 03:42:32 AM »

I used to be able to use company cars and fuel as much as I liked for free. That's a pretty damn good perk here.

At the current job it's just free boozing a couple of times a year. I don't need a car though as I can pedal to work. Oh yeah, I can also get a free roadworthines check for my car once a year for free($ 67)...

straffo · « **Reply #38 on:** April 14, 2006, 05:22:50 AM »

I have users for my software.

Some gem I got in the past :

user : Are you sure your software cannot read the black marking on this black background ?

straffo : uh ??? (thinking wtf , the camera can't even see it dumb***** !)

user : how come you're system canno't differenciate light yellow from white with a black and white camera ?

straffo : bis repetita ...

user : how comes your system canno't give me the distance between those 2 points ?

straffo : look like your 2 point are 50 mm apart and your restricted my camera field of view to 25mm (help me I'm surrounded by cretins !)

user : the camera felt from only 1 meter and you say it's broke ?
What the hell it cost 2000€ and it canno't resist ?
straffo : ...

user : I was cleaning the CCD when this part felt (the CCD !) and now my camera canno't acquire any image.
straffo : ...

Nilsen · « **Reply #39 on:** April 14, 2006, 06:53:16 AM »

I "work" from home and have a pretty nice budget for buying "office supplies"

Dinger · « **Reply #40 on:** April 14, 2006, 07:11:34 AM »

>No fixed hours. Nice if I come down to the office, but not absolutely necessary. If I want to phone in a week of work from a thousand miles away, I can (and do). I set up a revision-control repository to make that easier.

>Access to the VIP lounge of every major and most minor library and archive across Europe and North America. They bring me crap from the 13th and 14th century, and I try not to set it on fire.

>Workplace mostly filled with European women in their early twenties.

>In the past year, I've had two all-expenses paid weeklong trips to Italy, and one to Cyprus. Workload during those trips was at most 6 hours/day.

>I can drink coffee, scratch my chin a lot, tell people I'm "working", and they believe me.

>Workplace is French/German bilingual. Tell the Germans I speak French, the French I speak German, and go about speaking English anyway.

>No sense even trying to get a loan, since the bank has my profession listed as "Philosopher"

Nilsen · « **Reply #41 on:** April 14, 2006, 07:20:37 AM »

What do you _really_ do Dinger, and what are you supposed to do?

Are you the guy that is always around the office, but nobody really knows what you do and they forgot to stop your salary payments?

Dinger · « **Reply #42 on:** April 14, 2006, 07:44:55 AM »

Pretty much what I said I do. Here's a screen grab from work last year:

http://static.flickr.com/14/17211389_ff35380070_b.jpg

straffo · « **Reply #43 on:** April 14, 2006, 07:55:08 AM »

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Originally posted by Dinger
>No fixed hours. Nice if I come down to the office, but not absolutely necessary. If I want to phone in a week of work from a thousand miles away, I can (and do). I set up a revision-control repository to make that easier.

>Access to the VIP lounge of every major and most minor library and archive across Europe and North America. They bring me crap from the 13th and 14th century, and I try not to set it on fire.

If you happen to come by the BnF ,I'll be happy to drink a beer with you ,I'm working currently right at the BnF

Dinger · « **Reply #44 on:** April 14, 2006, 08:09:44 AM »

I usually go to the Rue Richelieu one, but I assume you're talking about Tolbiac. Tentatively scheduled to be in Paris in the fall, but I may swing out before then. In any case, sure, I'm up for a cold one.