An engineer friend of mine once hired me as a consultant for a company he had just started working for. When I got there, I noticed he had a company car, a gre

An engineer friend of mine once hired me as a consultant for a company he had just started working for. When I got there, I noticed he had a company car, a great office (this was 1990's) and a bunch of other perks. I asked him about it and he said throughout his 20 year career he had watched folks joining companies he was at ask for and get great perks. So he decided to try it this time and it worked. :-)