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The biggest "free to the company" perk a company could offer me is great package shipping/receiving during the day, and ideally, use of the company mailroom at

by rdl 13y ago

The biggest "free to the company" perk a company could offer me is great package shipping/receiving during the day, and ideally, use of the company mailroom at cost to ship personal packages. But receiving inbound Amazon packages so I can collect them at the end of the day when I go home would be more than enough. The other perk I care a lot about is parking. Even better, parking for 2+ cars, so I can leave a car at the office when I don't drive in (public transit or whatever), and stuff like leaving a car at the office if I'm out of town for a week. (company motor pool cars, even if it's just a couple old Suburbans or a Prius or something, would be fine for this too. Or a zipcar or bmwdrivenow site if they're close.) (the other thing I want is an office, rather than open-plan, and either a secured enough space that I could leave $5k on the desk in cash without worry, or physical security in the form of a serious locking door or office safe; but those are to be productive, so they're not really perks)

twic 13y ago
> But receiving inbound Amazon packages so I can collect them at the end of the day when I go home would be more than enough. I have never worked anywhere this was not possible. But then, i have never worked in a really big (big enough to have its own campus) company. Is this really not allowed in some places? > The other perk I care a lot about is parking. Me too - but in my case, bike parking. At the moment, i have to lock up to a stand in the alley outside my office; which is just tolerable (the stands are solid and the alley is fairly busy). A secure place to lock my bike up is not just a perk, it's actually a requirement for me to take a job.
- rdl 13y ago
  It's more an issue in a small to midsized company with badly run mail and no actual receptionist; it's inappropriate to receive a high volume of personal mail when it distracts someone who isn't officially a mail handling person every time fedex/ups/etc. comes to the door. Also sucks if packages go missing. I've been in both kinds of places. I really like the secure bike lockers as an option for this, unless people have private offices where they could also keep bikes.

by rdl 13y ago

twic 13y ago

> But receiving inbound Amazon packages so I can collect them at the end of the day when I go home would be more than enough. I have never worked anywhere this was not possible. But then, i have never worked in a really big (big enough to have its own campus) company. Is this really not allowed in some places? > The other perk I care a lot about is parking. Me too - but in my case, bike parking. At the moment, i have to lock up to a stand in the alley outside my office; which is just tolerable (the stands are solid and the alley is fairly busy). A secure place to lock my bike up is not just a perk, it's actually a requirement for me to take a job.

rdl 13y ago
It's more an issue in a small to midsized company with badly run mail and no actual receptionist; it's inappropriate to receive a high volume of personal mail when it distracts someone who isn't officially a mail handling person every time fedex/ups/etc. comes to the door. Also sucks if packages go missing. I've been in both kinds of places. I really like the secure bike lockers as an option for this, unless people have private offices where they could also keep bikes.