Odd job perks

Siddow · Sep 20, 2007

My husband is a car salesman. He sells high-end vehicles, and we're used to receiving perks from his customers: dinners out, tickets to shows or ballgames, bottles of wine...

He's been working with a guy who ended up buying two vehicles. In appreciation, the customer said he'd like to take my husband out and "Buy him a new tie and a pair of shoes."

:roll:

Now, this guy is foreign, so we're trying to think that perhaps buying ties and shoes is a customary appreciation gift in his home country, but we still have to consider that perhaps the guy just thinks my husband has bad taste in ties. And shoes.

Have you ever recieved an odd perk as a result of your job?

Bravo · Sep 20, 2007

she really is weird.

Bravo · Sep 20, 2007

wait.

what's going on in this thread?

JLCwrites · Sep 20, 2007

Hubby gets shirts and fleece pullovers with his company logo on it.

I'm a SAHM, so my perk is nap time.

TrainofThought · Sep 20, 2007

A 2 lb. bag of pistachios followed by a night of bad gas to the extent of asphyxiation. Was that TMI?

Seriously, the only perks I get are yearly cash bonuses. And don't even try to bribe me with a new pair of shoes.

The_Grand_Duchess · Sep 20, 2007

Siddow said:
Now, this guy is foreign, so we're trying to think that perhaps buying ties and shoes is a customary appreciation gift in his home country, but we still have to consider that perhaps the guy just thinks my husband has bad taste in ties. And shoes.

Have you ever recieved an odd perk as a result of your job?

No but bad taste is international, baby.

Don Allen · Sep 20, 2007

As long as he dosen't ask to meet your husband in a minneapolis airport toliet, things should be fine, (not that there's anything wrong with that)

MidnightMuse · Sep 20, 2007

Perhaps he just finds your husband attractive?

I've been given food items, and the occasional puppy.

Siddow · Sep 20, 2007

I used to get bags of Jamiacan Blue Mountain coffee from one of my regulars at the bar, and once I got a pair of XXL pink panties...

which I guess is weirder than shoes.

wyntermoon · Sep 20, 2007

I once worked for a state historical society doing their special events. They didn't pay crap so after the huge parties I'd take home leftovers enough to feed my husband and I for a week!

jst5150 · Sep 20, 2007

Free trips to the Middle East. Wardrobe included.

ETA: Interviews with people like Henry Rollins and astronauts; attendance at pro football, baseball and basketball games; and the enormous opportunity to network and befriend some intelligent and influential people.

jst5150 · Sep 20, 2007

Siddow said:
... and once I got a pair of XXL pink panties...

Hey, so did Bravo.

Kate Thornton · Sep 20, 2007

Odd perks I have recieved:

Camouflage undies
A shoulder holster
Daffodils
Tickets to several pre-opening night rehearsals of a major opera company (I saw "Ariadne Auf Naxos" and the "Tristan und Isolde" with the Hockney sets)
Free meals in an old-fashioned tea room with live models wearing day suits and evening wear (when I worked at Bullock's Pasadena)
And right now there are at least five mens golf shirts in my closet with super cool defense contractor logos on them. I don't want to ditch them as they are very high quality shirts.

MidnightMuse · Sep 20, 2007

Once our boss sprang for a series of rabies vaccinations for all of us - but we had to administer them ourselves.

Siddow · Sep 20, 2007

MidnightMuse said:
Once our boss sprang for a series of rabies vaccinations for all of us - but we had to administer them ourselves.

You win!

WendyNYC · Sep 20, 2007

A whole poached salmon, delivered packed in steaming dry ice. It kind of freaked me out.

maestrowork · Sep 20, 2007

When I was waiting tables customers always wanted to buy me dinner. I must either have been really cute or looked like I was starving to death.

sunna · Sep 20, 2007

Well, at my first job I got offered a baggie full of Valium and bottle of pentobarbital by a research chemist...I have friends and former classmates that definitely would have thought of that as a job perk.

He didn't last long, needless to say.

MidnightMuse · Sep 20, 2007

I'll trade you 3 intradermal injections for one bag of valium

sunna · Sep 20, 2007

MidnightMuse said:
I'll trade you 3 intradermal injections for one bag of valium

Hmmm, I think I'd be getting the short end of the stick in that bargain. How about some sterile WFI instead? I have plenty of that...

A. Hamilton · Sep 20, 2007

Free tampons.
My last employer kept feminine products well-stocked in the ladies' rooms.

A. Hamilton · Sep 20, 2007

sunna7kore said:
Well, at my first job I got offered a baggie full of Valium and bottle of pentobarbital by a research chemist...I have friends and former classmates that definitely would have thought of that as a job perk.

He didn't last long, needless to say.

haha!
My first public job was a popular pizza joint, so busy that the lines would run outside and around the block. On my first night working, the manager handed everyone a hit of speed, told us to work our butts off and have fun, and then locked himself in the office for the next two hours.
He didn't last long either.

Southern_girl29 · Sep 20, 2007

Let's see. I do a lot of feature stories at the newspaper where I work, so when I do one that someone particularly appreciates, I usually am rewarded for it. I get thank you notes all the time. I've gotten flowers three times. I got a hand-carved wooden feather duster and a hand-tooled leather portfolio with my initials on it that I absolutely treasure. One woman who is president of the Christian Women's Club in town brings me cake all the time. I share it with the rest of the newsroom.

Kate Thornton · Sep 20, 2007

Hand carved wooden feather duster?

Maryn · Sep 20, 2007

It's perfect with her French maid's outfit, I bet!

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