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- 10 days
Mine lists “there is a lake nearby that you can walk around in your lunch break” as a benefit.
- 10 days
No - they compete with all the others to see who can get away with paying the least.
- 11 days
I like it when they put in perks things that are legally mandated. Oh wow this job comes with a pension, what a progressive company.
- 11 days
My current job (school bus driver) has a pension, which is the first of any job I’ve ever had in my life (and I’m almost 60). It’s another 5 years before I’m vested and get the pension, and I’m not sure I would bet on the job not having been replaced by AI before then. Hopefully not, since the pension would allow me to afford the brand-name dog food.
- 10 days
I generally try not to make hard and fast predictions like this because really who knows? But I’m pretty confident that school bus drivers aren’t going to be replaced by AI within five years.
- 10 days
Same in flat listings. Why they list shower and toilet but never running water?
- NABDad@lemmy.worldEnglish11 days
I asked for a water cooler for our office. We had about 10 people working at the site, one suffered from kidney stones and I had gout. The nearest water cooler was two floors above us.
I asked my manager for a water cooler and he said no. He said if we got a water cooler, the people at the other sites would want one too.
The other two sites had only two people each, so it was different, but also, why the hell wouldn’t you want them to have water too?
He got passed over for promotion and left when a prior subordinate became his supervisor. After he left the new manager asked me if we needed something, and I said we’d like to have a water cooler. She was both shocked that we were previously denied and surprised that water was what we needed to be happy. We’ve had the water cooler ever since.
10 daysReminds me of an episode of Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law which lists the benefits of the workplace. I couldn’t find the clip, but from memory:
- Toilet paper allowance
- Chairs (for earners)
- Subsidized pens
- Air (for earners)
- Unrestricted internal phone calls
- Remnants of meeting muffins
- Stairs
- A mostly pest-free environment
- Complimentary tickets to already free events
- Bikram Filing
- Take your mistress to work day
- Emergency Exits (senior staff only)
- ulterno@programming.devEnglish10 days
Air (for earners)
And all the other get what smokers exhale in the room?
Oh right, that’s the definition of “Air” now. - 10 days
Thank you so much for reminding me that this existed, as a reward I found the video for you. https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x440810
- one_old_coder@piefed.socialEnglish11 days
In France we have a meme where “public transport funding” or “health insurance” are listed as benefits, except they are mandatory according to the laws. Haha :(
It’s like saying “paying our taxes” or “getting a salary” is listed as a benefit.
- im_fine_sandy@nord.pubEnglish11 days
This happens in Australia with the mandatory pension contributions.
“Our amazing competitive salary package will meet mandatory minimum requirements”
- 10 days
To quote the immortal Chris Rock, “minimum wage is like your boss saying ‘I would pay you less, but it’s illegal’.”
- 11 days
Do you mean “funding” like they pay for the transit pass or funding like they pay taxes?
- 11 days
Damn that’s an amazing deal compared to having to find 100% of my own transit costs
- 11 days
Well, it’s part of your gross salary, so you end up paying it yourself indirectly.
Not to mention it’s also cumbersome and bureaucratic. Though subsidizing public transport is a good idea, I wasn’t a big fan of this implementation when I worked in France. It would be much more efficient to just subsidize local transport tickets directly, or just make it free of charge and save even more unnecessary costs in handling tickets, hiring ticket inspectors, etc.
- Masamune@piefed.socialEnglish11 days
Sometimes the restrooms at my office are stocked with two ply toilet paper, instead of the one ply sandpaper stuff.
I challenge anyone to top that benefit.
- 11 days
Funny story, our company made a lot of money off of covid and they decided it was a great idea to purchase a floor at another building across the street just for VPs and execs. Cool. Once they left our bathrooms had the worst 1 ply toilet paper imaginable. Like you had to grab it gently and slowly pull otherwise it just ripped. Even doing this was still 50/50. Well bad decisions led to that floor being shutdown after only 2 years and they had to move back in with us. Immediately the toilet paper went back to the good stuff again. The fact that they treated TP as a luxery item and can’t seem to afford the nicer stuff for everyone always made me wanna flick them off so bad. Jokes on all of us though since that fuckup was so bad we just found out the entire company was purchased and almost without a doubt we will all lose our jobs next year once finalized. Thanks a lot execs, you did an amazing job like usual.
- 11 days
My company just got rid of the water cooler… it was apparently a subscription service costing the business $75 USD a week.
Last year our company attempted a merger the CEO and shareholders wanted but was pretty derided by industry experts and would challenge nearly century old Federal anti-trust regulations. We were almost immediately sued to stop the merger and its now been paused for more than a year, costing the company interest payments on the loans we took out to pay for it.
So far this year they downsized a whole department eliminating seven jobs including a middle manager type role, told us in not so many words that we were entering a period of deferred maintenance, and that corporate would be reevaluating cost of living adjustments for next year… the board is still planning stock buy backs and shareholder dividend payouts.
Management told us we have to cut back on “little luxuries” to which someone asked how the fuck water was a luxury. The economy is doing great!
- 11 days
I used to work as a contractor at the Comcast Center in Philadelphia. One day my boss (at my contracting company) came by and said we were going to a meeting with Time Warner Cable execs. I reached for my coat but he stopped me; we rode the elevator up to the 16th floor where Time Warner Cable had a suite of offices … in the Comcast Center. A year or two later they announced plans for a merger of the two companies, which was somehow and mystifyingly stopped by the FCC. Like, they’d already merged essentially.
- mrgoosmoos@lemmy.caEnglish11 days
I don’t understand why you would have a water cooler in the first place.
just put a fountain in?
edit: my regionality is showing. I assumed it wasn’t plumbed in.
- 11 days
It pulled water from the tap instead of a bottle and had a filter, plus it had hot and cold options. It was a nice water cooler, but I wouldn’t have called it a luxury and never thought it could cost $75 a week.
- Mike D@piefed.socialEnglish11 days
that costs about $125 if bought new. but the rental company should be cleaning it regularly for that price.
- mrgoosmoos@lemmy.caEnglish11 days
ah okay, so it was plumbed in. carry on
around here I’ve only ever referred to “cooler” as something that uses a tank.
now, even a water dispenser that doesn’t have a fountain is still called a fountain… unless it actually has a chiller and no fountain mouth piece, in which case it’s back to a cooler, sometimes
- 10 days
The economy is doing great!
It is doing great. Just not for us little people.
- 11 days
You do not want to know the situation in these airport ready rooms. Black mold has been sighted in the fridge/freezer, the ceilings are gross, the chairs are crumbling, and the water cooler hasn’t been checked in at least 10 years.
The pay sucks too.
- 11 days
They don’t even bother with great anymore. It’s all “competitive salary and competitive benefits”. The highest they’re aiming is matching the average.
That’s why I really hate the “competitive” buzzword. It’s like, alright… let’s say it’s a competition. Are you winning it? Because I can certainly compete against Michael Phelps at swimming, but that doesn’t mean I’m any good.
- 11 days
What they don’t wanna tell you is that they’re all competing for “as low as they can get away with.”
“HmMmMmm quite competitive! Yyyyeeess!!”
- 11 days
I recently became a corporate sellout after a lengthy stint in science. I do get a bit higher salary, but what struck me most is how much less competitive this environment is.
- 10 days
Yeah academia can be pretty cutthroat. It’s weird. I loved lots of parts of being in school, but when my advisor started trying to weaponize my personal relationships with other professors so that he could be the new department chair I was like “hahaha just kidding! I’m going to become a carpenter, have a good one forever.”
- 10 days
A hard hitter is, ribs or wings or brisket. Really tramples moral. I had a solid lockable lunch box when I worked in retail after someone broke my jar(soup or rice mixes) in the soft one lol
But if you really want to get payback, microwave lentils. Smells like baby shit.
Don’t forget the free “coffee” from a coffee blend you’ve never heard of in your life that exclusively comes in 1lb commercial tins, and does unquestionable internal damage for every cup you drink.
- kboos1@lemmy.worldEnglish10 days
I’m in the south, about 6 years ago, my boss “got a really good deal” on that stuff. It grew mold before we even got to 3/4 of the first can. I bet the other 2 are still there.
- 11 days
I’m lucky in that my corpo superauto coffee machine is stocked with a local midsize specialty roaster’s espresso blend. It would be decent if the machine was (and was cleaned), but I still end up drinking about 10 espressos (mostly decaf). Come to think of it, that’s another good reason not to buy an espresso machine for at home.
- 11 days
God, if you gave me a couple hours to deep clean that machine, it would make my fucking day.
If only companies would pay for that, I would love to visit two or three corporate parks a day and have that be my job.
- 10 days
We need an app that hooks up people who like deep cleaning random things with folks who have those things. This is what the gig economy should be like, tbh
- 11 days
I worked at an American multinational company. When discussing the benefits they told me they had a parking garage. I didn’t even have a car.
