ddavidv wrote: Company car, gas card, work out of my house. Regularly visit auto repair businesses and see the stuff in the back of the shop. No time card. My boss calls me once or twice a month to make sure I'm still alive. When customers call, 90% of the time I can tell them to call someone else.All this almost makes the 10 grand pay cut I took to come here worth it.
How do I do what you do?
Currently one job gets me really cheap parts for some stuff (Chevy truck batteries at $32, etc...) and the other one has allowed me to convince the wife that motorcycles aren't the spawn of satan and that I might be able to ride one (still mostly offroad according to her) without dying immediately.
Kickass laptop (HP mobile workstation) and free Verizon phone, all the tools a man could ever use for heavy gauge fabrication (mill, lathe, plasma, welders, vertical and horizontal bandsaws, layout tables, clamps, etc), get the shop guys to do some of the harder stuff during the day, consumables, all the free steel I can carry from the scrap dumpsters, company cube truck with lift gate (very helpful when I moved), lifting and rigging equipment, free donuts on Friday, free lunches at least once a week, no time sheets, no progress reports, get your work done and have a good time!
Lancer007 wrote: In reply to Ranger50: Pirate hooker in Somalia or a nurse/emt?
Right now, nurse extern in a very busy, mostly cardiac/respiratory, ER... but they all come in....
I get to sedate and restrain people. I get to be the one saying "this might be a little unpleasant" right before I do something you really won't like. I get to shock people back to life.
I get paid to look at and and touch all manner of genitalia and breasts on a daily basis. Most days that's not much of a benefit.
Despite all of this, I am given gift baskets from the people I torture quite frequently.
I get 3 years of pay freeze and an awful schedule.
93gsxturbo wrote: Kickass laptop (HP mobile workstation) and free Verizon phone, all the tools a man could ever use for heavy gauge fabrication (mill, lathe, plasma, welders, vertical and horizontal bandsaws, layout tables, clamps, etc), get the shop guys to do some of the harder stuff during the day, consumables, all the free steel I can carry from the scrap dumpsters, company cube truck with lift gate (very helpful when I moved), lifting and rigging equipment, free donuts on Friday, free lunches at least once a week, no time sheets, no progress reports, get your work done and have a good time!
Dang, what do you do, and can I get in on it?
I've been watching this thread all day. Some of you have pretty awesome fringe benefits, some of you are just like me.
My employer gives me money for services rendered. I get first pick on things out of the scrap metal bins and I take some time to work on "brackets" in their facility, whether they know it or not.
Eventually (1 more year) I will get my EL07 and that is a massive benefit to my marketability outside of this company. That's the biggest benefit in the world for me right now.
Perk: I get to work from home. Con: I work lots of late nights and weekends on software releases from home.
free coffee and slurpies anywhere in town
half price or free meals almost anywhere in town
Sometimes I wait months to get paid...
But I'm writing this from a 5 star hotel in Germany, enjoyed a terrific dinner and spent the day driving yet another lovely piece of German engineering on the autobahn... none of which I had to pay for.
Coffee and health insurance. Sometimes we get to go on some cool trips but that's really rare. Sometimes the trips are really lame (Phoenix in August once, what?).
I get to actually do my job. Today I built a 750 Abarth motor for a 59 Allemano spider. Tomorrow I will be rebuilding the overdrive for a 62 Ferrari 250GTE. The next day.... Who knows. Perhaps I will get back to building the MGA coupe SCCA vintage racer, maybe I will weld up the floors in a Volvo 544.
My boss is super awesome. I show up. Perform tasks to a level I could never achieve at home with my own tools and time on cars I could never possibly afford.
I don't get paid much, but at this point I don't care. My mortgage is covered, I have no car payment and anything else?????? That is what bankruptcy is for right?
I work from home, get to pretty much set my own hours, company pays for my computer, printers, cell phone, office phone line and internet.
I do have to travel a bit and that is about the only downside.
bastomatic wrote: I get to sedate and restrain people. I get to be the one saying "this might be a little unpleasant" right before I do something you really won't like. I get to shock people back to life. I get paid to look at and and touch all manner of genitalia and breasts on a daily basis. Most days that's not much of a benefit. Despite all of this, I am given gift baskets from the people I torture quite frequently.
What the heck job is this? I'm an ER doc which is what I thought you were describing until the gift basket part. Unless by gift baskets you mean "I shat myself, surprise!" or "I'm going to spit at your eyes!
If I am tired, I can have a nap. Damn near any time I need a nap and for as long as I see fit.
As long as the privilege is not abused.
Well..
I spent today cataloging and evaluating a customer's car collection.
I crawled in, out and around over 50 cars ranging from 1897 to 1975.
Packards, Pierce Arrows, Auburns, Stutz, Cadillacs, Duesenbergs, etc.
I can't say I've actually had a bad day at work in a long time.
The perk would be, I got to sit in a 1937 Horch 853 Cabriolet and make vroom noises for a bit.
^^^ I want to live your life when I grow up
JoeyM wrote: ^^^ I want to live your life when I grow up
Get in line, I haven't grown up yet. 
turtl631 wrote: What the heck job is this? I'm an ER doc which is what I thought you were describing until the gift basket part. Unless by gift baskets you mean "I shat myself, surprise!" or "I'm going to spit at your eyes!
Heh, I bundled my two jobs together. Some days I work in the ER as a nurse. No gift baskets there. Some days I administer chemo. Another form of torture, but the people there are awesome.
i get to work 50-60 hour weeks from june until november. other than that i get mostly free tv if i wanted it. this winter i'll be lucky to get 40 hours.
Perks?
Hmm...
My job requires traveling, but I get to make the schedule for the most part. That means if we have two weeks worth of work up north, but I have something important planned in advance, they'll fly me up for a couple days, fly me back, and fly me back up to finish up.
I am basically the go to guy for traveling work, but I get to yay/nay it. Great benefits, great defined benefits pension (not defined contribution), 5 weeks and two days of vacation for the first 8 years. Ability to bank overtime (which is double time, so 2 hours of double time means 4 hours of paid time off) or get it paid out at said double time (earned almost 6 figures this year! most of it went to debt 
).
A large part of why I still work where I do is that I get paid hourly, and I am paid during travel. If somebody was salaried in a role like mine, that would suck.
Probably the best part is very safe employment, if my position is abolished, they need to find me a similiar position at my current pay or else I get severance (currently up to 30 weeks of pay right now if that were to happen). And flexible work (start anywhere from 7 to 9am in the morning, I could also go on 4 days @ 10 hours if I wanted).
I see now that it is hard to complain. If I stay in this city, I can see being a lifer.
In reply to Lesley:
We all have seen the fun stuff that you get to do and I would gladly wait months for payment if I had half as interesting a job as you do. You go girl!!
What are these "perks"and "employer-taking-care-of-you" things you folks are on about?
The perks of my job are no raises for the last 3 years, getting furloughed this year, and working above my paygrade for the past 4 years and getting told "tough E36 M3" when I asked for the promotion I deserve. 
A-C in the bullet-proof office. I think that's it...
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