Everyone loves perks at their jobs because it keeps them happy at work. These are some of the coolest job perks around.
That Sounds Like Heaven
“I worked at a mom and pop pet store. When no customers were around I could lie on the floor of the kitten room and be covered in a dozen fluffy kittens.” Source
Great Thinking
“I work in a 4 story building. The top floor was vacated by some company a few years ago, but all the offices and bathrooms are still there. I happen to have the key to the floor door into the office from the emergency stairs. I go up there to go the the bathroom. Whoever was the head honcho there had a really nice bathroom. I setup shop up there with my own TP, magazines, soap, ect for my own use. No one ever comes up there, and I have been using this bathroom for well over two years now.” Source
Invisible Security
“I got paid to play video games. I was a ‘Invisible Security’ at an Adult Arcade/Bar. I would come in at 8, get a pocket full of tokens and hang out until 2. No posts to maintain. No trash duty. Simply be another customer playing video games until a bartender hollered at me to throw someone out.” Source
Movie Theater Perks
“When I worked at a movie theatre in high school we got to watch free movies, eat free popcorn and soda our entire shift, and we would get the movie posters and banners after the movies were out. But probably the best thing was before we went all digital, we had to watch the 35mm film before it could release to ensure the timing was right and the audio matched up, and usually that meant you and 2 or 3 other people in a huge auditorium alone watching a brand new movie. What a fucking great experience. It makes scary movies so much more intense too. I miss it…” Source
Free Tuition
“College professor: All my kids get free tuition. (I have three kids, so far.)” Source
Well That’s Good
“My dad used to work for the city health department, and part of his job was testing dairy products for pesticides. Every so often he’d bring home cartons of ice cream that had been tested. He works at the wastewater treatment plant now. He doesn’t bring home samples anymore.” Source
Nice Job
“Hmmm..Free car, with a gas card, with free ‘in town’ use, We get our birthday (or any other day of that week of our choice) off with pay, 1 hour paid lunch hour, making the day a 7 hour work day, Free phone, which we are welcome to port our personal number to (and have it ported back if we leave), and Work from home one day / week. I love my job. Source
Wifi Hotspot
“Company cellphone plan with unlimited internet. I use it as a wifi hotspot and haven’t paid for internet in 3 years.” Source
Work Study
“I had a work-study job in college. I worked in the office for the department of my major. The woman I worked for said she believed more in the study part of the work study program. Basically, if I showed up on time for my shift, and there was nothing she needed me to do, I was free to go and still was paid for the entire scheduled time. Especially the last 2 years of school when I was in the building all day, I would walk down there, say hello, and 75% of the time would go back to my area. Once when she was sick, she had me go to the campus center to get her soup for lunch. That was my job for the day. She was awesome!” Source
Paid To Stay Fit
“In the military and we get an hour of our shift to work out. Literally, get paid to do any form of physical fitness you’d like. Powerlifting, walking, yoga, stretching, swimming, biking, basketball, etc.” Source
Food Journalist
“Got to talk to Anthony Bourdain for 20 minutes about whiskey, Drank wine and learned how to make pasta for 5 days in Italy on my company’s dime, Free Oreos anytime they come out with a new flavor. Ditto on Godiva and Ben & Jerry’s, and a portrait of myself made out of Cheez-Its. I am a food journalist.” Source
Pro And Con
“Pro: I get to sit in a recliner and watch tv, read, workout or whatever I want really as long as the station shores are done and we respond to calls when they come in. Con: Last week I got paid 8 dollars for spending an hour scraping a body off of a train and into a body bag and consoling the family.” Source
Free Lunch
“Free lunch, just order it and have it billed to our account. If you stayed late you would get free dinner as well from whatever restaurant you wanted (this was midtown Manhattan). They would also give you a town car ride home if you stayed past 8.” Source
Not Jewish
“I get all Jewish holidays off even though I am not Jewish. Pretty much the entire month of October I only work three days out of week and get paid for all five.” Source
3D Party
“I have free access to a ‘makerspace’ with a dozen 3D-printers, a laser cutter, most of the basic power tools, sewing machines, and laptops with fairly powerful 3D modeling software….I spend way too much of my time in there.” Source