Name one cool thing about your place of employment

[matcom]

Ok. Day 2 of my new job. Have NO idea how i'll feel about it in a year but THIS is totally cool:

Kitchen in the office. FULLY stocked.

100% FREE

Coffee (about 10 different kinds).
Candy (about 20 different kinds).
Free sodas in the fridge.
Free cold cuts for sammies (condiments all included).
Free bread (toast/bagles/english muffins/etc....)
Pop Tarts
Cookies
Crackers
Milk & OJ
Toaster/Microwave/Oven
Veggie Trays daily

And no, no indication that anyone works much past 5:00 pm.

I've never seen anything like it.

I don't even have to pack a lunch anymore.

Yours?

[trof]

1. You-Topia

Sounds like you lucked out.
You got totin' privileges?
Can ya brang some home?
;-)

[philosophie_en_rose]

2. air conditioning.

:woohoo:

[Ikonoklast]

3. I own it. n/t

[PeaceNikki]

4. The people.

I work with some amazing people that make all the pricks SLIGHTLY bearable. Pricks are everywhere, amazing people are not.

[WindRavenX]

5. all the Starbucks I can drink

The downside? Customers :D

[A HERETIC I AM]

53. Ever seen customerssuck.com?

www.customerssuck.com

Some of the stories are hilarious.
Perfect site for ANYONE that has ever had to deal with the public in their work.

[Aristus]

6. It's a not-for-profit company providing medical care for underinsured and underserved

patients. So there are lots of liberals in my workplace! :bounce:

The CEO is a very liberal guy who always sends us e-mails updating us on the medical situation in the state and local governments. When there are ballot issues that can affect our patients, he "suggests" (nudge, nudge, wink, wink) how we might vote to impliment the best possible policy for our patients.

Going to work there was a breath of fresh air after working in a private clinic for a VERY right-wing doctor. He was pretty nice, and an excellent physician, but MAN! his politics sucked!

[bigwillq]

7. Not so much the place

but my job:

Locker Rooms! :evilgrin: :P

(as in the ones I get to go inside sometimes after I cover a game)

[NewWaveChick1981]

8. Summer hours...

:) Our regular hours are 8 AM to 5 PM M-F. The Monday after graduation in May, our hours are 9 AM to 4 PM with full pay. :D A week before classes start in the fall, we go back to 8 to 5. During breaks (fall break, spring break, Christmas) we get to come in at 9 AM.

Other perks: free access to all campus facilities, including the fitness center. :bounce: :D :woohoo: Free parking, $2.00 all-you-can-eat meals in the dining hall (although the food is questionable most of the time:P), and a nice group of people to work with. :)

[begin_within]

9. I can work naked

I work at home.

[greatauntoftriplets]

10. It's air conditioned...

When it works that is. Did I mention that my company owns the building? And that we are the property managers for the building?

:shrug:

[ncrainbowgrrl]

11. no dress code.

-it's 3 miles form my house
- i can wear fuzzy slippers all day and no one cares.
-educational discounts, baby.

[unsavedtrash]

12. it's a library.

Ok, maybe it's just cool to me but I love going to work everyday.

[RockaFowler]

13. I work at a TV station

I think that is the coolest thing.
Plus, we have the greatest coffee. :bounce:

[seemunkee]

14. Small office, nice people

Since my boss has been out on medical leave since last October I basically haven't had a supervisor for the last 9 months. I show up do my job and go home.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

15. The toys.

I get to work in flight simulators.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

16. I have two wonderful bosses.

They make sure I have what I need to do my job, and if they can't get it, they help me improvise. It's the first time I've felt respected and appreciated. It's fantastic.
Duckie

[SecularMotion]

17. My crew would love that kitchen

They :smoke: all day and the boss doesn't mind.

[SeattleGirl]

18. Best thing for me: My office in in my home.

This is the third company I've worked for where I can work from home; in total, I've worked from home for six years, and love it.

[Lars39]

19. My husband and co-workers took off half the day to play disc golf.

They regularly grill out, play fooz(?)ball when they're bored or need to get the creative streak going again. You're sick, you stay home. You need a day off, you take off. Four weeks off per year. The day starts about 9 and ends about 5 or 4:30. He wears shorts a tee shirt most days.
Takes him 10 minutes to get to work. He loves his job. :D

[LaraMN]

20. Lots of kisses and I'm the boss.

Similar to my plans after college, but I think my then-coworkers might balk...

:P

[FarLeftRage]

21. I work with 13 women

All are very nice and they feed me both breakfast and lunch.
Snacks at any time... everything that you have listed and then some.
Plus four paid half days off in the summer months.

[kwassa]

22. paid paternity leave

and we just adopted

[SPKrazy]

23. sounds terrible

but it isn't home

:shrug:

[leeroysphitz]

24. HA hahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!

My place of employment is about as cool as Richard Nixon in a televised debate.

[QMPMom]

25. The employee discount. Regularly 30%, sometimes up to 80%.

I've done extended family Christmas shopping for under $150.00 before - including shipping.

[QMPMom]

35. Adding: It's also only 5 minutes from my house.

[Lady President]

26. Blood donations = time off

I don't have the amazing perks some people have mentioned, but we do receive up to 3 paid days off a year for giving blood or volunteering in the community. Conveniently we have an on-site Red Cross donation center-- go to the basement, give some blood, grab a snack, and you're back to work.

pint of blood = half-day off
25 hrs. volunteering = day off

[pagerbear]

50. What must it be like to be allowed to donate blood!

[Skittles]

27. you want TV screens?

try seven 20 foot by 20 feet foot screens (yes, that is FEET), plus fourteen 5 by 5 foot screens - yup, all within my line of vision

[DS1]

28. where do I sign?

:bounce:

[GOPisEvil]

29. 38.75 hour work weeks.

That's about it. :shrug:

[nickgutierrez]

30. It's loud enough for me to say terrible things about people under my breath

"Hey stupid, where are you g... Hi sir, how can I help you?"

It's therapy that I not only don't have to pay for, but pays me.

[aePrime]

31. My department went whitewater rafting this weekend

It was really fun; there were hints that we'll do it again.

[BluePatriot]

32. Free insurance including spouse and dependents.

That's right -- no premiums.
Liberal Internet policy.
You can earn up to 5 weeks vacation.


Uhhh that's basically it. There are a lot of downsides I'm not listing.

[lizziegrace]

38. Same here on the insurance

It's worth $4k a year to me. :)

[Seashell Eyes]

33. it's in walking distance of

a lot of great restaurants.

[Zywiec]

34. I work from home and make my own hours n/t

[ghostsofgiants]

36. Free candy and soda and Pop Tarts?!

Can I come work for you?

[MassLiberal]

37. my coworkers

Great people--funny, smart, caring, loving even. I couldn't be luckier. I like my boss, too!

[TransitJohn]

39. Travel

So far this year:
Nicaragua (twice)
UK (3 times)
Trinidad
Saudi Arabia
In the near future:
Siberia
Alaska

[Adsos Letter]

40. After 30+ years...

...I don't have to go there anymore.

:woohoo:

[RedCappedBandit]

41. It went out of business.

:evilgrin:


Okay okay.. *Before* that happened.. I got all the free food I could ever want.. seeing as how I worked in a ' pizza cafe '

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

42. My own private easy chair is six feet away from my work area.

AND I can take a break any time I want and browse DU without being monitored or censored.

I work at home. :evilgrin:

[ruiner4u]

43. What company do you work for and where do I apply?

My work just updated their new attendance policy where I get a 'point' if I am over 7 minutes late, leave 7 minutes early, or need to call in for any reason <health be dammed!> And after 10 I get fired!..

I do realize the importance of staffing needs to run a successful business, however, I also do realize things like traffic, acts of god, and little flying microbes do like to rear their ugly little heads from time to time.. What I dont like is being treated like im in friggin middle school...

Im not late, I dont call in for the hell of it.. I just get pissed with the looming "you have a point" threat if I run into screwed up interstate traffic..

Sorry, didnt mean to rant.. I just dislike my company sometimes...:) <oh theres lots of other reasons I dislike my employer, this one is just the latest reason>

[mitchum]

44. Health care, assistants, lots of time off, I laugh all day

[Initech]

45. I get to spend lots of time on the road

Yesterday I spent all 8 hours going places... and I got paid for it! Sweet!

[redwitch]

46. Oh Fuck you AND your little happy heiny.

I got fired today. But as I work for myself and still have 9 other vendors, I can deal with it. I'm just a little touchy at the moment.

:-)

[dropkickpa]

47. I get paid to poop

Seriously, I make sure I'm always on the clock when nature calls.

[Digit]

48. I can wear pajamas at work, and no, I don't work at home

My job is to get other people on the beds....

I work at a sleep number store....

We have FUN!

[Nikia]

49. It is less than a 5 minute drive

Although I sort of planned it that way when we moved to be near my new job.
I think that it is cool that Mr. Owner is living his dream and doing well for someone who wasn't deemed promotable at the prominent company that he started with after college.
It is also sort of cool that they employ a number of buff men. They got so buff from the heavy lifting they do as part of their job.

[pagerbear]

51. The health care and time off benefits are good by American standards

And I've just gotten hooked up with the ability to work from home sometimes, and discovered how much more I get done when I do. (Unfortunately, my company is run by neanderthals who likely would frown on how much I take advantage of the ability to do so if they knew. And I can count on there being at least one asshole who would narc on me.)

[mopinko]

52. there are no childen there. not mine, not anyones.

course, i don't get paid very often, and have to pay the rent on it. but it is my studio, and i love it.

[trackfan]

54. There is nothing cool about it.

There is a good bar very close to it though.