4 ms·

One thing about these “perks” is that they are supposed to automatically turn into good reasons to work somewhere. Like “hey your salary is shit but at least th

One thing about these “perks” is that they are supposed to automatically turn into good reasons to work somewhere. Like “hey your salary is shit but at least there is a nintendo switch in the common room”. I want to play games at home after work. Plus, if I sit down for more than 15 minutes in the common room playing Super Mario Odyssey people will invariably start to look at me weird. In the end it’s just another bullshit way to attract naive, young employees.

gs17 4y ago
> Plus, if I sit down for more than 15 minutes in the common room playing Super Mario Odyssey people will invariably start to look at me weird. Yeah, the "game room" style perks always felt like a trap to me.
908B64B197 4y ago
> Like “hey your salary is shit but at least there is a nintendo switch in the common room”. Even better, "we're like Google" except they give you a blank stare where you ask about the 20% time, free food, compensation or where they hire from. Turns out it's all bootcamp/local wages no stock, no 20% time. But hey, they have beanbag chairs! On the flip side, they make it almost too easy to poach talent...
kevin_thibedeau 4y ago
I had an employer burn piles of money on an "employee appreciation" day with carnival games and inflatable slides.
- MisterBastahrd 4y ago
  My dad worked for Shell. Every year, the plant he worked at would rent out an entire carnival for two days so that the families of plant workers could play the games.
  - kevin_thibedeau 4y ago
    Mine wasn't a family day. Just the adult employees.
bobthechef 4y ago
lamontcg 4y ago
I was actually almost better working at Amazon (2001-2006) where you got a door desk and they penny pinched everything and there was no enforced fun bullshit. Amazon of course took it way too far and did things where they couldn't figure out how to find the money to get Apple laptops for devs (circa 2003) because they'd cost $100 more a seat and if 5,000 devs want them, that'd be half a million dollars! (to make $750M of dev salary at the time happy).

gs17 4y ago

> Plus, if I sit down for more than 15 minutes in the common room playing Super Mario Odyssey people will invariably start to look at me weird. Yeah, the "game room" style perks always felt like a trap to me.

908B64B197 4y ago

> Like “hey your salary is shit but at least there is a nintendo switch in the common room”. Even better, "we're like Google" except they give you a blank stare where you ask about the 20% time, free food, compensation or where they hire from. Turns out it's all bootcamp/local wages no stock, no 20% time. But hey, they have beanbag chairs! On the flip side, they make it almost too easy to poach talent...

kevin_thibedeau 4y ago

I had an employer burn piles of money on an "employee appreciation" day with carnival games and inflatable slides.

MisterBastahrd 4y ago
My dad worked for Shell. Every year, the plant he worked at would rent out an entire carnival for two days so that the families of plant workers could play the games.
- kevin_thibedeau 4y ago
  Mine wasn't a family day. Just the adult employees.

bobthechef 4y ago

lamontcg 4y ago

I was actually almost better working at Amazon (2001-2006) where you got a door desk and they penny pinched everything and there was no enforced fun bullshit. Amazon of course took it way too far and did things where they couldn't figure out how to find the money to get Apple laptops for devs (circa 2003) because they'd cost $100 more a seat and if 5,000 devs want them, that'd be half a million dollars! (to make $750M of dev salary at the time happy).