What’s The Most INSULTING “BENEFIT” A Job Has Offered You?

[@Sheepy19801]

Friday ice cream, free coffee and layoffs

[@garrethutchington1663]

You're spoiled, if you're complaining about free ice-cream

[@jinx7501]

Don't get me started, but here's the latest. 10% off ambulance service. I'm a paramedic.

[@CaribouKai]

I'm deeply sorry for how loud I laughed

[@metal.gendalf]

I LOL'ed at that.

[@jinx7501]

@@metal.gendalf Same, they didn't like it 😅

[@KellyandKelly]

It's not really a benefit per se but I have to include this: I have worked in healthcare for 22 years. At this point I am 25 and I am doing in-home care. I have been taking care of this same guy for almost a year at this point. He's in his early '70s but he's a quadriplegic and has like zero kidney function and goes to dialysis three times a week. For those who don't know much about dialysis, basically you go in and they filter your blood to remove all the waste products your kidneys are supposed to. How they do this? Is they implant something called a fistula. Basically it's a tube that goes usually in your arm but these tubes can become clogged. My client that day was talking about how he's having difficulty breathing and his wife is kind of downplaying his concern. I am trying to be his advocate but the wife has the ultimate say in everything with it being in the home. Well it's about 15 minutes before I have to leave and I had a gut feeling I needed to be in his room with him so I go and I sit down next to him and I just put my arm on his arm and we're watching TV. He tells me. Thank you for everything you do for me and I told him that there's nowhere else I'd rather be because this man is hilarious. He's so funny. He's truly like one of my best friends. I can tell him anything. Well. He ends up dying right in front of me. I end up doing CPR on him and I brought him back. I was a hot ass. After this. I was only 25. Anxiety was crazy. He was in the hospital. The head nurse of my company came out to the hospital to be there with me and she gave me a hug which is the only thing that I needed. Honestly her hug and telling me I did a good job was all I needed. Besides My client being okay which he was. He lived another couple of years after this. And this is where the answer to the question comes (I'm sorry for the long backstory it was necessary for context) but a couple days later in the mail I received a card from my work again telling me what a good job I did and the office staff signed it and there was a little note in there from the owner. It was really sweet. This is where it gets a little f***** up.... Inside that card there is a $10 gift card to Old Navy. A $10 gift card for Old Navy. For successfully completing CPR on a patient. A $10 gift card. That cheapened the card with a nice note in it and the hug that the nurse gave me. It was so infuriating for some reason. It's like them saying "Save-A-Life and you get a $10 gift card to Old Navy". It it really felt like a slap in the face. Don't buy me something. The card was enough them acknowledging it was more than enough. I can't help but think you know maybe they saw it. It wouldn't be enough but it was. The fact that somebody said thank you to me when while working as a nurse aide is so unbelievably rare that when I do get them it's all that I need. I do my job out of love. My job wasn't a choice. It was never a choice for me. It was something deep inside of me I had to do so. Somebody giving me a $10 gift card for saving somebody's life felt a little off lol

[@metal.gendalf]

Telling security to "come back with more people, you'll need it" Is a badass line 😂👍

[@phlushphish793]

At the end of the year, our supervisor of 4 took us out to lunch to award us our year end bonuses. Along with him, 4-5 other higher ups I've never met came, as it turns out, just for the free lunch! At the end, he passes out our bonuses: $5 gift cards to Blockbuster, explaining, "You can rent a free movie!" This is Southern California, where traffic is a nightmare! I exclaim, "This isn't even enough to make it worth my time to cash in!" And gave mine to a coworker, in front of everybody!

[@ericb3157]

a quote i heard somewhere, "there are no bad companies, only bad managers." i think that's a takeoff of an old military saying: "there are no bad divisions, only bad officers." I think was Napoleon who said that...

[@wclark3196]

No, there are plenty of bad companies.

[@nicholasbell894]

Free parking. So many jobs offer free parking like I'm not paying my employer to work there

[@princessmarlena1359]

“Casual Dress Fridays”. I showed up in casual dress all the time anyway. If I even showed up long enough to be noticed, as all I did was check my messages, do twenty minutes of actual work, and goof off for the rest of the day (often at the local bars).

[@heypatk]

Not a benefit but a simple human courtesy. I worked for the largest nursing homecare in Atlanta as a nurse I had skills in high demand (wound vacs, infusion therapy etc). My mother passed, my husband's department of defense office sent flowers, one of my daughters was a cashier at Chik fil an and chik fil a brass sent an arrangement, my oldest daughter was a pizza delivery driver for a local pizzeria and her boss sent flowers. My office WHO KNEW why I was taking off sent zip zilch nada. I'm still salty about it 25 years later and every time they asked me for anything after my mother's funeral...I screwed them blue. (Think 300 for overnight on call or after hours wound care) because of admin staff over promised and under delivered. One night one of the schedulers bearded the big boss in his office because she had 21 uncovered high tech and routine nursing admissions for staffing on the weekend. She was an immigrant from Russia...trust me it sounds a lot more exciting in Russian!!!

[@vickiesmith3021]

Thank you so much for your video.

[@Bunker278]

I remember a company giving a breakdown of things like the half of SS and Medicare tax they pay, their portion of health/eye/dental/disability/life/unemployment insurance, and the retirement plan contribution match as if those things weren't something every company worth a damn "just does", and break their arms patting themselves on the back for it like it was just as good as higher wages so people wouldn't look for better jobs. It was laughable.

[@epepo]

In my country we have the (translated) saying "I work for money, not for candy". So it was extremely weird to me hearing that story of that company actually offering candy

[@seandilligaf1532]

A discount membership to their rec center

[@tyvulpintaur2732]

I remember when Beanie Babies were all the rage. I was working at McD's at the time, and the store manager promised some would be set aside for the staff after the lunch rush, and we could each have one. We never got it. The ones promised for the staff ended up being sold to customers.

[@RyeRye9254]

The Ping Pong table. We couldn't use it during lunch break because games took too long. So we could only play after hours. But we had to take our shoes off because the soles scuffed the floor. But hey, we had a Ping Pong Table!😅

[@DaxCyro]

2 decades ago I had a temp job where the cafeteria had two pool tables. Even to this day I'm still unable to spend more than 15 minutes on 30 minute lunches thanks to those pool tables. I got really good at finishing lunch in under 15 minutes, and a round of my own "1 man pool" in under 15 minutes.

[@rodrickrichard9121]

What's the game in the background!?🤔

[@hivemind706]

Sifu

[@rodrickrichard9121]

@hivemind706 thx

[@ericb3157]

oh, now i remember, it's called "Sifu". it has a weird gimmick where your character becomes OLDER every time you lose a fight. this makes your attacks stronger, but also reduces your max health. and if you get TOO old, you have to start ALL over! but it's possible to unlock shortcuts to skip early areas, and i think you get permanent bonuses when you "rebirth".

[@wildfyah]

@@ericb3157interesting.

[@wildfyah]

50c to a staff party???

[@jenniferhart559]

Worked at a nonprofit religious hospital. They gave everyone a frozen (prob 10 lb) turkey for xmas. Nice thought, but I'm vegetarian. If people didn't want the turkey for whatever reason, they could donate it to the food bank; which is what I did every year. It would've been nice to have a grocery gift card; not just for vegetarians, but maybe some omnivores would like to buy things for side dishes because someone else in their family is hosting / providing the meat. I was there almost 5 years, and always sent in my suggestion, but nothing ever came from it. So I and other vegetarians never got our xmas bonus.

[@phlushphish793]

They get a discount for buying turkeys in bulk.

[@DavidRichardson153]

Not quite sure if this counts, but it was pitched as a new "benefit." This was my first full-time job (yes, it is the same job if you've read my any of my comments on other videos). Our big boss held a little staff meeting for us and informed us of a new company health insurance policy. He claimed that the change was due to the ACA - I don't remember all that he said about it - but one thing stood out, which I saw in the paper that explained their new policy that they had passed out to everyone. It was full of your stereotypical legalese, the kind that obstructs how they're gonna rip you off from your view. I was in my mid-20s then and dumber than I want to admit (having a degree, one in microbiology for my case, does not mean that you are smart, just that you are not as dumb in one specific field - big difference). Even so, I managed to read through it, and one thing leapt out to me. Coincidentally, by the time I read and understood the part that caught my eye, the boss said something that should have been an even bigger red flag than I gave it credit for. The boss had stated that if we got the insurance outside of the company (same insurer, just not tied directly to the company), we would have to pay $40 out of our paycheck, which was said in the paper. He also said that if we went got the insurance through the company, then it would only be $20 per paycheck. Sounds better, right? Well, I did kinda spoil it, but I'll spell it out: the paper said that the $20 would be shown as a deduction from your paycheck, but it also said that $20 were not going to be included, let alone marked for anything, in your pay. So what do you get with a $20 deduction and $20 not being counted at all? Yup, $40. Did you think that it would be just $20 that anyone who went the company route would pay? Nope, which was later confirmed by me and my best friend (the same friend who took the boss and the company down in a massive lawsuit) when we compared paychecks between us and coworkers we got along with well-enough. The two of us did not bother with the insurance, but these coworkers did and went with the company route. Sure enough, $40 gone from their paychecks - and now you know why I described it as "your stereotypical legalese, the kind that obstructs how they're gonna rip you off from your view." I didn't fully realize it at the time, but that was the beginning of the end of my trust in the boss or the company.

[@jacklansdale77]

Imagine buying pto (you can just take an unpaid day)

[@metal.gendalf]

Just pay the employer and never go to work. Stonks 😂

[@ayminAlhumd]

He is talking about the Fremont plant

[@metal.gendalf]

Unpaid "opportunities" to grow withing the company 😂

[@ReaIHuman]

Unpaid overtime.

[@autigaming1376]

10% off store products. tax is 9.7% so we get .3% off

[@skitz9703]

First

[@wclark3196]

Matching pension contributions. There was a base pension contribution at a place I worked. You could contribute more and the company would match what you contributed up to a certain amount. But if you were a low wage peon, you were living paycheque to paycheque and had no extra money to contribute. But it was great for the higher ups who had lots of extra mkney to put in.