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My mom worked as an accountant for a big meat-processing factory and she was partially paid in their products: meats and sausages :) Also, coal mine workers in
by Detrytus 3y ago
My mom worked as an accountant for a big meat-processing factory and she was partially paid in their products: meats and sausages :)
Also, coal mine workers in my country used to get few tons of coal once a year (useful for heating their homes in winter).
Unfortunately, for tax purposes your employer is supposed to calculate a cash value of those bonuses, so you don't actually pay your tax in sausage.
- toyg 3y agoEx-wife worked in a brewery and had a weekly beer allowance. She didn't drink, so she'd pick it up once every 4 months and give it to her ecstatic flatmates.
- hef19898 3y agoStill part of union negotiated salaries for brewery workers in Germany. Since almost all breweries also have non-alcoholics, that part of the payment is aparebtly more often taken in the form sparkling water and the likes. I can vividly imagine your wife's flatmates joy once a quarter so!
- Turing_Machine 3y agoI think it's also common in candy factories. New employees tend to eat a lot, but after the first week or so consumption declines considerably.
- nradov 3y agoIn the former USSR, jobs in meat processing and sausage making plants were desirable because even though wages weren't very high the workers could steal a lot. This was so normalized that they didn't even think of it as stealing, it was just "carrying out".
- SXX 3y agoCarry from the factory every nail. You are the owner here not a guest. (c) Rough translation of USSR joke.