Discounts/free stuff from your work

[Becks]

Oh yeah. And cost on Hostess products, right?

Something like that, I believe.

[Ringtail Z28]

There always seems to be free junk food available in my office. But I'll never take any. Not unless I feel like gaining a couple hundred pounds for free also.

[Monica]

We used to get free rentals on whatever we wanted. Now we only get free pre-street date movies.

[katie kaboom]

When i worked at Target we would get free Krispy Kreme donuts because the vendor brought a new shipment in every morning. Whatever didn't sell that day would get split up among the employees. I ate so many of those donuts back then, i've not had the desire to eat any since i quit working there.

[purplecat41877]

Where I work, employees can get 5% off each item that isn't a store brand and 10% off for each item that is a store brand. The employee needs to use their savings card to get the discount.

[Lehk]

Best job ever for free stuff was the wine store:

6 free bottles of premium wine a month.

Christmas bonus was one full CASE of wine, plus a $100 grocery store gift card.

And that was just for the part time clerks. I have no idea what the managers got, but it must have been pretty sweet.

best. job. ever.

[justZu]

Well, if I can't have Boozy's job at the wine store, I guess I'll have to settle for my work discount - free food while working. The spervisors are pretty cool about it, too. As long as you aren't a greedy piglet, you can eat whatever you want. Now if I can only convince them to include free beer while working, I'll be a happy camper!

[Ree]

We get a 15% staff discount except on sale items, or large ticket items, which was nice until our sales tax hit 15%. (It's now at 14%)

At our furniture store, it's 25%.

[draftermatt]

job #1 I got tuition reimbursment, and my insurance is paid for. I'm sure if I wanted to build a house they would give me a price break.

Job #2 i can buy anything for cost +10%.

[XXDarrienX]

Free Digital Cable, all premium channels free, 50% off all ppvs, Premium Internet,free rental up to 2 DVR boxes, including HD boxes if employee has a HD tv and finally half off the monthly charge for the Digital Phone service. Not to mention Free Installation of all the above services. Estimated collection fee thats free is over 600 bucks, monthly fee is about 300 bucks that is free for us.

The Catch: Gotta live where my company provides service, at the moment of becoming an employee still stuck 6months in a lease.

[AirHostess]

Discounted flights-for you and 3 other people.
Free hotels and meals when on trips (obviously lol)
Discounted hotels when travelling on leisure.

The airport offers a host of discount to airport staff: bus travel, train travel, 10% off most food and drink outlets including Starbucks.

[protege]

Let's see, I get any and all of the older 'retired' computer equipment. Right now, I have a pair of HP laser printers (a 4100 and a 2100), our old server, an HP fax machine, a Compaq workstation, at least 2 monitors, a pile of network cards....and anything else deemed to be "surplus." Most of the stuff is in pretty good shape and can be given away or reused. The rest, well, meets its fate with the hammer Trust me, after fixing junk all day, it felt sooooo good to come home and smash a scrap Gateway to bits

[Estil]

We get 10%, but only on store brand stuff. Previously we got 10% everything, but only on the third Thursday of every month. Sheesh, Wal-Mart and all the other retailers around here give 10% (sometimes 15%) discounts across the board, why shouldn't we? :P

[Rapscallion]

We get 20% off wholesale price, which makes it pretty much producer price to us as a wholesaler. Rice really is dirt cheap to me. Organic cashews, however...

Rapscallion

[Andara Bledin]

I've got an office job, so I get all the regular paid holidays, paid vacation, paid sick leave, benefits, etc. We also have a 401K that is matched 100% up to 5%. At the moment, I'm getting more out of my 3-year-old 401K than nearly 20 years of social security.

Also, we get grocery gift cards at Easter, and Thanksgiving, and sometimes Christmas as well. Plus, we get a nice Christmas bonus. We get pizza parties or root beer float parties or ice cream parties from the profits on the internal sale of junk food and sodas.

As for other stuff, what we sell runs the gamut from shoes from Ireland (worn by most of the Americas Cup team when they sank their boat), EV motors, cosmetics, electronics, above ground swimming pools, kangaroo meat, spa mud from South America, and anything and everything else we think we can make a profit on.

For most of the stuff that is purchased to be resold, we can usually get one for personal use at what it cost us or very slightly higher.

The boss also buys a lot of things expressly to give out to the troops. Those have included telescoping umbrellas, LED flashlights, kinetic energy flashlights, magnetic blinky light pins, microwaveable food storage containers, graduated wrench sets, kitchen scrubbing sponges, and a whole host of odds and ends.

Also, if we're in dire straits, they will sometimes extend loans to employees who have been with them for a decent amount of time. I had to do that when I "inherited" the electric bill from my mother, who hadn't paid it for the two months prior. That set me back nearly $1000 that I was completely unprepared to pay. The bossman gave me cash so I could get my power turned back on that day. Oh, and he let me borrow his car so I could get to the payment center on my lunch break.

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