Are Job Perks Coming into Vogue Again? 481
Pharmboy asks: "The Register is reporting on a company that was awarded 'Best Small Company to Work for in America' by the Detroit Free Press, in part, for providing Free beer to their employees. They offer free breakfast, lunch AND dinner, gym and snacks. This sounds similar to the late 90s, where companies were offering extreme benefits to attract extreme talent, before the bubble burst and most workers were just glad to have a job. As the job market gains strength, what are companies willing to do in order to attract the best talent? Are we about to enter another era where employers are willing to make work fun again, in order to attract and keep talent? Will this have any effect on other employers, forcing them to again offer benefits to keep pace and talent? How important are these kinds of perks to the average employee anyway? What kind of perks would you have to have to switch to a job that pay the same?"
You Insensitive Clods! (Score:5, Funny)
Redundancies in the article summary (Score:5, Funny)
Once you say "free beer", saying "breakfast", "lunch", etc. are redundant.
"Beer" pretty well covers everything.
mmm... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Would you want these employees? (Score:4, Funny)
HR dude(tte) #1 "Want kind of employess do we want to attract?"
HR dude(tte) #2 "How about the kind who want free beer?"
HR dude(tte) #1 "Yeah! Let's offer a perk that would only attract people who drink a lot!"
I like to start (Score:3, Funny)
It must be said I am not having the greatest of success with this approach at the moment. I guess I have to hope either Catwoman bombs or the market picks up a tad more and in the meantime be happy if they offer me free parking.
How about this (Score:5, Funny)
Language classes would be good too.
ummm.... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Would you want these employees? (Score:2, Funny)
Just kidding about IBM...
Re:You Insensitive Clods! (Score:3, Funny)
Pervert.
Self Employeed (Score:5, Funny)
Rus
Re:mmm... (Score:5, Funny)
Sure, but the retirement plan sucks.
Re:Would want these employees? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Self Employeed (Score:2, Funny)
Dogs (Score:3, Funny)
Unfortunately, it comes with a cost: She has to watch "Animal Planet," as output by one of the digital set top boxes we are testing, and has been trained to whine whenever she sees macroblocking or other artifacts.
Stefan
After I showed this article to my boss... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Are jobs coming into vogue again? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I like to start (Score:3, Funny)
I saw the trailer. i think you've got a actress in your future.
well it depends... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Perks? (Score:3, Funny)
Dude! Your whole job is to FSCK disks? Wow, either you've got a few thousand servers your work with (google, perhaps? I can see a FSCK engineer working their cluster...) or really bad hardware/bad setup/bad administrators.
Quite frankly, I don't know if that would be a stressful job or not...
-Adam
Sample code of free beer motivated code (Score:3, Funny)
printFFFFFFFFFF("Hello there buddy, I loveee you *hick* *snore*\n");
}))) hehe
Perks I get at work. (Score:3, Funny)
Free ADSL!(I work at an ISP)
Computer upgrades every 5 years! (for my workstation, not at home)
Air conditioning! (We just replaced the old clunker at work)
And, um, an occasional day where the tech support calls aren't so frequent and I can actually get real work done! W00t!
Re:mmm... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:But SW Engineering jobs dropped 15% last quarte (Score:3, Funny)
Stop It! You're scaring DeVry.
Re:Are jobs coming into vogue again? (Score:5, Funny)
gene@teaCOFFEEmtri.com minus caffeine
you have tea and coffee in there... which caffeine do I remove
What were the odds that your address would get split there and that the de-obfuscating recipe would call for the removal of it
Sorry, I just found that amusing.