Whats the coolest perk you've gotten from work?

We've all heard the war stories of private jets, booked clubs and models and bottles. It seems like the 'good-old-days' may have come to an end but I was curious of any recent cool experience you guys have had?

Ex. Closing dinners, relationship management etc

 

Not me, but my bestfriend's mom worked at a large corporation in one of the highest positions possible without being C-suite. She would always get season tickets to whatever sports team she wanted, including box seats/glass/floor seats to playoff games. Gas cards, business class every flight, nice cars as her rental dropped off at her hotel if she wanted. Lots of random client/company merchandise.

Probably not nearly as good as some people get here but I thought it was really cool.

Don't beat yourself up on this, Eric. Some people like taking the long way home. Who the fuck knows?
 

President/MD type position for NA and EU for a large data analytics company. I don't know the full specifics.

Don't beat yourself up on this, Eric. Some people like taking the long way home. Who the fuck knows?
 
Jake Paul:
Probably not nearly as good as some people get here but I thought it was really cool.

Companies like that really stick with you though. My fiancée's company has free breakfast and lunch, a free massive gym, a free nutritionist, free childcare, free rental cars, a pension, profit share among all employees, free healthcare for life for the whole immediate family after 20 years in, etc.

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They always had good salads and comfort foods there it seemed. Like a really nice roast beef with the dude that - his only job all day - is to slice beef there. Or brisket or something to get with some mashed potatoes.

My routine was to typically go into the office on that block (57th/Madison) about 1x month and have lunch at the Trump Cafe for 15% off. Just living the dream - right?

Also - there used to be a mini Starbucks in that room too on the second floor - what more do you need???

Thanks Don - I loved you from the start.

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"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 

CEO level and the coolest thing they gave you was 15% off at Trump Cafe? Lmk what type of company you work for so I know where not to apply. As long as the comp is worth it I guess it doesn't matter. But i'd expect corporate jets, bentleys etc.

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2and20:
CEO level and the coolest thing they gave you was 15% off at Trump Cafe? Lmk what type of company you work for so I know where not to apply. As long as the comp is worth it I guess it doesn't matter. But i'd expect corporate jets, bentleys etc.

Yeah, I am the CEO of Exxon or something, lol. That's all they gave me. rofl.

There is no option for 'Entrepreneur'. I used to have Corporate Finance on there as it is much of my background and am in CF type roles from time to time, but doesn't really embrace my current state now.

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What do you do now? Generally?

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"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 

Friends parent is in the country managent for a German carmaker in Asia. Basically they pay flights back to Germany (business class), a high rise apartment in the city plus a chauffeur coming with whichever car desired from this brand (literally every one, think M/RS/AMG type cars).
Another friends sister works in sales for a software firm in the UK. After surpassing her targets by a vast amount in the first year they were flying her to Paris and reserving the entire Tiffany store for her, and of course allowed her to spend some bucks there. Underperformed her target in the second year and nearly got fired.

 

I asked one of my old bosses about perks and he said "would you rather the company buy a bunch of stuff you don't need, or would you like the money so you can buy what you want?".

That said, buddy moved with his company, negotiated an intercontinental business class flight home for him and his wife every quarter, think he actually managed to use some of them.

I've heard of closing dinners in some pretty cool places, think helicopter to an offshore platform for an oil deal and in an underground mine for a mining deal.

 

I agree with this. The perks or deal toys or whatever offer an intangible aspect to it though, whether it's in the form of appreciation/recognition from the firm, or 'prestige' or whatever. Stuff you can't buy with some marginal theoretical extra money.

 

Door-to-door black car, usually a stretch limo, was my best perk ever. Employer was the WSJ. Wasn't because I was anybody special: black car service was automatic for anyone required to be in before 7 am. I got in at 5:45 to open up the TV operation. That early, I usually got the stretch cars, plus a free wake up call. Zooming down the FDR at 80 mph, while it was still dark, no traffic, sure beat taking the subway.

 

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