Does your workplace offer any cool perks?

Does your workplace offer any cool perks?

  • Yes – we have awesome perks and benefits

    Votes: 29 16.0%

  • Some – a few nice extras here and there

    Votes: 37 20.4%

  • Not really – just the basics

    Votes: 43 23.8%

  • No – nothing beyond the salary

    Votes: 39 21.5%

  • I’m self-employed / freelance

    Votes: 29 16.0%

  • Other

    Votes: 4 2.2%
  • Total voters
    181
wow some people really worked for cool companies with Cool perks,

myself, I've had the full spectrum, from full on restaurant with chefs where you get a budget (R1500) a month to get either a Breakfast or a Lunch, as well as Cokes/chips snacks,
if your wondering this is companies in the Pharmaceutical or healthcare space, where money grows on trees, and in exchange for pumping you full of vaccines, they really big on Human performance/ vitality/ wellness. and since they pay for things in USD naturally things are ridiculously cheap for them in ZAR terms.

one step lower was the typical Saffer, have a boerie by the loading dock kind of deal, where they have a bar om Friday, where you buy tokens by signing an AOD and like a Drink is R5 or something funny, went a few times, but dont drink so pretty boring for me.
also pork, nope, nope, nope.

then you have the usual places that demand loyalty until death, barely pay you a salary, watch you all day via CCTV, and complain when you take too many breaks,

and every so often you find yourself in a nice limbo where you arent monitored like a lab mouse, and aren't showered with gifts (and vaccines) and forced to sit in 14 Ave traffic like a looney,
 
Many people I have met over the years often thought that being a Sasol employee, you got free fuel as a perk. Alas, that was not true. Many years ago, you could buy petrol at a petrol pump inside the company car park at a discount (a few cents less, nothing major) but that was stopped because of the government regulating the petrol price.

We had a flexi-time work hours arrangement in place. You could come in to work at any time up to 09:00 and leave at any time from 15:00, but you had to fit in your 8 hours into that timeframe. You could come in early, take an extended lunch break if you e.g. had business to do and then leave work a bit later, just keeping the 8 hours in mind. Any hours worked longer than 8 hours accumulated and could be taken off, dependent on workload, at your discretion. Every three months, any unused accumulated hours were forfeited, but 10 hours could be carried over to the next period. If you went into the "red" on your hours at the end of the month, you would then have to put in leave to make up for the hours you did not work to make up your required 40 hours per week (8 hours per day).

This was very useful when you planned to go on leave. You could work 9 hours per day from Monday to Thursday, and then only work 4 hours on the Friday, giving you the opportunity to leave early when you go on leave. Or before a long weekend, however you structured your hours.

The three months leading up to me leaving Sasol on early retirement, I unfortunately was so inundated with work requests to attend to before leaving, I accumulated 30 hours of overtime, which inevitably was forfeited when I left. We were not paid for overtime.
 
geezer said:
Many people I have met over the years often thought that being a Sasol employee, you got free fuel as a perk. Alas, that was not true. Many years ago, you could buy petrol at a petrol pump inside the company car park at a discount (a few cents less, nothing major) but that was stopped because of the government regulating the petrol price.

We had a flexi-time work hours arrangement in place. You could come in to work at any time up to 09:00 and leave at any time from 15:00, but you had to fit in your 8 hours into that timeframe. You could come in early, take an extended lunch break if you e.g. had business to do and then leave work a bit later, just keeping the 8 hours in mind. Any hours worked longer than 8 hours accumulated and could be taken off, dependent on workload, at your discretion. Every three months, any unused accumulated hours were forfeited, but 10 hours could be carried over to the next period. If you went into the "red" on your hours at the end of the month, you would then have to put in leave to make up for the hours you did not work to make up your required 40 hours per week (8 hours per day).

This was very useful when you planned to go on leave. You could work 9 hours per day from Monday to Thursday, and then only work 4 hours on the Friday, giving you the opportunity to leave early when you go on leave. Or before a long weekend, however you structured your hours.

The three months leading up to me leaving Sasol on early retirement, I unfortunately was so inundated with work requests to attend to before leaving, I accumulated 30 hours of overtime, which inevitably was forfeited when I left. We were not paid for overtime.
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Where did you go when you left ..... Seker nie vêr nie.
 
Sepeng said:
We've got a rather flirtatious company secretary that will often laugh at your jokes, touch your shoulder. For a married guy with two kids, that is a pretty big perk.
We also have an office you can come into. Again, for a married guy with two kids, that is a pretty big perk.
All the Ricoffy you can drink.
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You guys got any vacancies?
asking for a friend
 
AWS gives us socks for forgetting to shut down ec2 instances.
 
Written differently I guess in my case:

  1. A pay check, admittedly paid late every month because they’re cnts and pay via EFT so the HR bitch does the payments whenever she rocks up in the morning which is sometimes as late as 11AM. Some debit orders the banks refuse to change so every day on the 25th I have to see all the debit orders bounce and then do manual payments after to correct the mess.
  2. A complete p03s for a boss that not only micromanages me, but gaslights me at every turn.
  3. A very challenging working environment with a laptop locked down so hard because “cybersecurity” that it actively makes development of software very tedious and hard. They’re constantly under the impression I am going to steal their IP. They will typically remotely log in and do stuff, and cause Visual Studio to crash, and/or disrupt the USB causing my stuff to crash in sy moer in anyway.
  4. Tracked via MS Teams.. if my status says away (it does so automatically if I don’t move the mouse or do anything for 3 minutes my boss gets a notification of it,
  5. No WFH for me, while others WFH almost permanently. See #2
  6. The recent joyful experience lately of having to go through a skills matrix type thing, and being marked as “not yet competent” by my manager despite 10 fukking years of doing this job. I am not alone, the other persons he did it to, one of them took him to the CCMA yesterday.
 
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