What's an unexpected/unusual perk of your job?

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Dh came home with another freebie tonight which prompted this post.

He's a taxi driver. We live near a 'naice' coastal touristy place with a large number of expensive restaurants and very high end wine/cocktail bars.

His random perk of the job is free glasses 🥂 😂

Not just any old pub glasses. Really beautiful, heavy, expensive wine/cocktail/gin/whisky/champagne glasses. Customers leave them in his cab or in the cab office he works out of. There's no way to give them back...they could be from any one of 100 or more walking distance establishments. So any that are left in his cab he brings home...any that are left in the cab office gets added to their collection and the drivers basically have a free glassware shop 😂

We've slowly been replacing our IKEA glassware with the ones he brings home which are far nicer...it was a very unexpected perk of being a cabbie.

Anyone have any more random job perks? Unfortunately my own job is utterly boring with no similar experience!

I am giving a keynote lecture for my job. It's in India. Traveling to India is amazing, of course. But what is more amazing is that my generous hosts have organized for us (I am taking my husband and child, to make it a holiday too, although of course we are paying for their flights) to go on TIGER SAFARI. Tiger safari?!?! I still can't believe it.

I don't know what would be considered unusual.

Maybe being able to drive a different car every day if I wanted to when my late husband and I owned a dealership.

One big company I worked at later had tea ladies that would come around to our desks and bring tea and biscuits.

You're a politician?

@RantyAnty oh you’ve just reminded me there was a tea lady at my first job (late 80s). What a fantastic perk that was. I’d love one now!

Breakfasts on Fridays if wanted. Snacks and drinks provided in kitchen. Work done on my car for free (not huge jobs or electrical stuff). Private healthcare and decent employer pension contributions even though my job is not high level.

I have cancer and my boss has kept me on full pay whether I work or not. That's not in my contract but we are a small company so it's at his discretion and he is very kind and generous.

And I get my own fancy advent calendar at Christmas 😁

It was lovely wasn't it.

I get a free funeral if I die in service, hope I don’t have to use that one!

One company gave free ice creams - freezer in the office kitchen, help yourself.

Working in the city of London in the mid 80s we used to get a free lunch in the staff restaurant. At 12.30 we would all troop off to tuck into things like grilled trout. To my 20 year old self this seemed very sophisticated.

One company offered free fruit and chair massages.

The same company gave an annual Christmas gift of company branded items. They normally had a particular theme. One year we were given a mussel pan and various cooking sauces. We still use the mussel pan 20 years later.

One company would give staff a Christmas turkey - actually a voucher for a chain of butchers which could be exchanged for a turkey. They then followed it up with a high pressure 'donate your voucher to charity' message so that everyone felt obliged to donate.

I get to attend Mass on Holy Days of Obligation and a weekday Mass around once a month, and am positively encouraged to do so!

Free dental treatment.

The best set of colleagues ever. We have such a laugh, I look forward to going to work and seeing them all and miss them on my day off.

DH also has a wellness account. We found out that B&Q counts so the last few years it's been spent on a shed, an awning, a new lawnmower and a load of power tools.

No perks as such but I have a good benefits package and a great boss 🤷‍♀️

My job allows me to write off trips to bookshops and fabric shops as business expenses.

I got to go gliding recently.

Me too!

Well, not kisses but hugs and germs definitely!

I get a half hour lunch break unpaid and free pens and post it notes when reps come in 🤣

My lovely “work children”.
I have three.

@CaramelMac

I also work in a funeral home, and was going to reply to this thread in a similar vein, but you beat me to it!
That aside, you get a very generous discount if a close family member passes away. My Dad’s cost just over two grand (the average is five grand in this area) - I know he’d have been pleased with that.
In my previous job, I worked for a major theatre company, and would get free tickets in our theatre, and also heavily discounted or occasionally also free tickets in the West End.

I occasionally get to go on amazing holidays I'd never get to do in my personal life. Balance is that I have to take anywhere between 25 and 40 OAPs with me and herd them round like cats for a week

Also we get free airport parking all the time.

I need wellies for work.
Last time I needed a new pair I got Muck Boots. Best boots I've ever had, for work and for play.

Nothing too exciting- travel to courses paid for, 2 staff events per year with posh meal all paid for. Plus all the stationary I could ever dream of 😆 We get a little personalised gift at Christmas.

It doesn’t sound like much but our team is great, the boss allows a lot of flexibility and the working environment is very relaxed and supportive.

I‘ve only ever had shit jobs with zero perks before, so if I‘m easily pleased then so be it!

We get a little personalised gift at Christmas

DBro used to work for someone who did that. He has the same initials as DM and always just used to pass it on - usually something like a leather diary, lambswool scarf, umbrella with initials on. Until the year they did the whole name :-)

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