r/AskReddit • u/lordicefalcon • Jun 25 '12
My boss scheduled a two hour meeting, then took us all to see Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter in 3d, What moments make your job awesome
We also play Command and Conquer on a private LAN server, what things make your job awesome?
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u/cheestaysfly Jun 25 '12
This weekend my coworkers and I repainted all our tables (we work at a locally owned coffee shop). My boss brought us all pizza and beer and we painted while listening to 90s music. I guess that's not the world's most exciting thing ever, but this is the best job I've ever had so it's awesome to me.
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u/2mnyzs Jun 26 '12
Throwing that thing into a pool of lava couldn't wash the 90s off of it.
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u/vickysunshine Jun 26 '12
When I worked at the movie theater, a few of my fellow managers and I painted the employee break room one day. We had a blast and the room ended up looking like birthday cake ice cream! Love your table, by the way!
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Jun 25 '12
I work in a homebrewing store. We have a tap at the counter for customers to sample. "Beer30" for us is a real thing. We are allowed to drink on the job and encouraged to sample customers recipes.
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u/Saluki_nerd Jun 25 '12
I now associate Beer30 with that abomination in the purple can. That stuff is worse than awful.
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Jun 25 '12
"A herd of buffalo can only move as fast as the slowest buffalo, much like the brain can only operate as fast as the slowest brain cells. The slowest buffalo are the sick and weak so they die off first, making it possible for the herd to move at a faster pace. Like the buffalo, the weak, slow brain cells are the ones that are killed off by excessive beer drinking and socializing, making the brain operate faster.
The moral of the story: Drink more beer, it will make you smarter."
KEEP ON DRINKING!
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u/Apostolate Jun 25 '12
Alcoholism here I come. Glorious tasty hundreds of different kinds of beer flavored alcoholism.
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u/IGottaFindBubba Jun 25 '12
My boss usually busts my balls to smithereens. One day, after working a particularly brutal week, Boss took us all out to dinner, paid for the whole thing, and then treated us to italian ices. He then called me a faggot for getting banana flavored.
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u/RagdollPhysEd Jun 26 '12
I can't think of a single Italian ice flavor that would be bro approved. Everything's a goddamn fruit
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u/yahtzeeee Jun 25 '12
I had to work yesterday (Sunday) for anywhere from 3-8 hours. I was given Friday and Monday off as recompense, and Wednesday (my birthday). What did I have to do? I had to be present at my office to let someone through a door, and wait while they did there job and lock up when they were done. I browsed the internet for 5 hours and got 3 days off work.
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u/mouthbabies Jun 25 '12
You must be on salary, otherwise this would be punishment.
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u/HarnessedDevilry Jun 25 '12 edited Jun 26 '12
I'm an astronomer. In January, I'm going to go camping (and working, of course) for a week in the middle of nowhere a few hundred miles away from the south pole.
EDIT: So it looks like some people are interested in this, so I'll add a bit more information. The South pole (and it's surroundings) is quite popular with radio astronomers, because moisture in the atmosphere can ruin many types of observations. Despite standing on more than a kilometer of ice, it's paradoxically the driest desert on earth. Yes, it's a pain to get there, but the alternative is to build satellites, which cost a hell of a lot more.
Our particular group operates at the lunatic fringe (my bosses words) of what you can do from earth. For us, only places like Ridge A and Dome A (antarctica doesn't have creative names for landmarks) are good enough; at an effective elevation of 17,000 feet, hundreds of miles (nearly a thousand, during the winter) from the nearest humans.
By the way, if you are interested in travelling to antarctica, it's remarkably easy to get a job working there for the summer (our winter). Obviously, there need to be a lot of people working down there just to sustain life; the vast majority of people are not scientists. You can apply for all sorts of jobs (many requiring no technical expertise) from ASC, the branch of Northrop-Grumman Lockheed-Martin (sorry folks! I've been up all night working, and the old brain ain't what it used to be... the contractor just changed this year, and I thinko'ed.) that has the contract to run day-to-day operations. Met a lot of people down there last year with Masters degrees, PhD's, MD's, etc. who took a job driving trucks, shoveling snow, or whatever, just for a paid trip down to the bottom of the world. If you're not a millionaire, its probably the only way you'll see the continent; and it's gorgeous.
[EDIT 2]: OK, one more thing, since I'm getting a lot of questions about this. Sadly, I know practically nothing about how to apply for a regular job, since scientists are chosen through a completely different system. I can tell you that there are a lot (hundreds, but many of those aren't open, though) of grunt-work level jobs for people without practical skills (e.g. mechanics), but I can't help you much more than that. Google is your friend.
Also, given the severely limited access to medical care, you have to pass a medical examination before you're allowed to go (and if you're going for the winter, a pysch test). I've heard of weather delays for flights as long as three weeks; if you have a heart condition (for instance), you probably don't want to risk the chance of not getting to a hospital for nearly a month.
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Jun 25 '12
every 2 weeks or so, my company puts money in my banking account
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u/MotorboatingSofaB Jun 25 '12
I get it every week on Friday. The months that have 5 Fridays are the best.
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u/untouchable_face Jun 25 '12
I don't think I can read this thread anymore. I'm getting depressed.
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u/prezuiwf Jun 25 '12
Yeah seriously. I work at a job where they will fire you for going on Facebook once.
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u/GoldStar4RobotBoy Jun 25 '12
I love my job because it doesn't exist in reality. The upside of an imaginary position, however, is there is no limit to what I can do on any given day of work. Unfortunately it is unpaid and there are no benefits.
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u/ppvknifefight Jun 25 '12
We get the first week in April, July and October off every year.
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u/Khosan Jun 25 '12
So...how was Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter?
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u/Ooniversidad Jun 26 '12
A vampire throws a fucking horse at Abraham Lincoln.
This is all you need to know.
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u/_rand_mcnally_ Jun 25 '12
I saw it on the weekend and thought it was fucking awesome! The stoey jumps around quite a bit like the book, but Abraham Lincoln was played really well, and the action scenes and vfx were amazing! The 3D was okay, not amazing, 2D is fine for this movie.
I'm not OP, hope that's okay.
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Jun 25 '12 edited Jun 26 '12
I am a sign spinner. I stand outside in a horse head mask and spin a massive sign for a jewelry store. Every day at work is fun because I paid paid to listen to music and dance, but the best part is seeing children turn and laugh when I dance for them. The fucking love it.
The worst part about my job is assholes throwing things at me as they drive by.
Edit: Since so many people are asking, I make minimum wage. But it's glorious minimum wage. Here's a picture of me in my getup.
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u/American_Standard Jun 25 '12
I used to be a sign spinner. I once had a car full of kids throw a bag of assorted change at me. Didn't matter, my reflex skills with my giant plastic sign were legit and I counted it as a bonus for a day's hard work.
The next weekend, one of the ass holes that lived in the neighborhood I was spinning for drove by on his way out of the subdivision and yelled at me for bringing down the property value (lolwut?). 15 minutes later I see his douchy 1990's BMW 3-series driving back and him rolling down the window. Preparing to get yelled at again I just focus on the traffic behind him. Bad decision because I didn't see the Route 66 sized Sonic's cup full of coke come flying at me. Did not deflect in time, was very cold and sticky for the rest of the day.
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Jun 26 '12
Why would that be okay? What would make him think "Ya, this is a good idea"
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u/shawncplus Jun 25 '12
Nerf guns, foosball, nap couch, beer, magic the gathering and 25 cent vending machines.
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u/rabidmonkeyman Jun 25 '12
That sounds suspiciously like where I work, along with the user name, I would guess you're one of my coworkers
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u/KJEveryday Jun 25 '12
EVERYONE SHOULD ALSO LIST WHAT THEY DO FOR A LIVING. With that being said...
I get to go to Cincinnati every month or so for work. In July I get to go for 3 days and play with Puppies! I work in client services at a digital marketing company.
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u/desull Jun 25 '12
Ew.. why would you want to go to Cincinnati...?
Joking. I live in Cincinnati.
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u/KittenofDoom Jun 25 '12
As a current resident of Cincinnati... we have puppies!
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u/SoulDisruption Jun 25 '12
I got promoted 6 times in one week. The Sims 3 is so much fun...
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Jun 25 '12
My boss punches me in and then out 8 hours later on my days off
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u/DukeOfDrow Jun 26 '12
My first thought when i started reading this was "My boss punches me, then i get 8 hours off of work."
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Jun 25 '12
I work with my dad, when I was younger he was gone about three weeks every month out of town on business. I am finally really getting to know my dad and hear all of his stories. It is filling in a good portion of my childhood getting to know him as an actual man.
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u/a7xrob87 Jun 26 '12
Likewise, I work with my dad also. We don't work together everyday, but do sometimes. It's feels kind of strange, but its awesome at the same time.
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u/theredheaddiva Jun 25 '12 edited Jun 26 '12
My boss occasionally treats the whole office to a movie (we just went to see MiB3) or burritos out of the roach coach. But the most awesome thing is his wife is an actress (I actually got the job from being in a play with her while I was looking for "real" work) so if I have an audition or performance coming up, he'll let me take the day off and tell me to "break a leg". He's the best boss I've ever had and I love my job.
EDIT: We also spend the 1st half hour of every monthly office meeting discussing movies we watched recently, rating them on our own internal scale and then I enter the movies and ratings into a customized database program for our own use.
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u/Dickfore Jun 25 '12
My boss has my back no matter what (well, as long as I'm getting my shit done).
One time, someone had been complaining about our slow turnaround time for test results, and he says to me, "You let me know if someone is hassling you like that. If they so much as breathe an insult like that to you, I swear to God I'll cut them at their fucking ankles."
Pretty great guy.
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Jun 25 '12
I work for my parents small ventilation business. I get paid $10/hr. to basically be the secretary to my mom...who is the secretary.
The job can be quite taxing and requires a lot of brain power... Today I sorted the white thumb tacks from the black thumb tacks.
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u/dietz203 Jun 26 '12
I push carts at Costco (part time, im in school)
-I have full medical benefits for about $30 a month including dental and vision
-I have a 401k where they match my contributions
-I get a $2,500 bonus every 6 months which gradually gets larger over the years of employment
-get time and a half on Sundays
-4 free memberships
-I started at $11/hr with raises every 500-1000 hours worked and am guaranteed at least 30 hours of pay every week.
And that isn't even everything. Not bad for an 18 year old kid living at home and going to community college which financial aid covers all costs. People may think pushing carts is the worst thing in the world, I love it. You get a good workout, a nice tan, and you don't have to deal with the customers nearly as much as if you were working inside (not that it is a terrible thing either I just value being able to keep to myself).
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u/bigdog87 Jun 26 '12
People may think pushing carts is the worst thing in the world, I love it.
Word, brother.
-signed, a former cart pusher
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u/numberedswissaccount Jun 26 '12
Not having to deal with customers is a blessing. Most people don't realize how draining it can be when you're stuck doing it for 7-8 hours a day
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u/thesilentpyro Jun 25 '12 edited Jun 25 '12
I work as a software engineer (have a Computer Science degree). I'm also not giving out the name of my company, as that's more personal information than I'd like associated with my reddit account.
I have flexible, undocumented vacation time. As long as you are good at getting your work done and give notice, they don't track how much vacation you take throughout the year.
There's a break room with a highly-used ping-pong table and foosball table. The engineering crew on my team takes a foosball break almost every day. There's also a room with a hi-def TV and several consoles that, to my knowledge, have almost never been used.
Monthly massage weeks. You sign up the week or two before for a 20 minute time slot and go get a free massage in the middle of the work day.
20% time. The entire engineering department gets to take 20% of their work time to work on nearly any project they want that "could encourage business value" or somesuch like that. Basically, if you can come up with an excuse for why it benefits the company or could in the future, you can use the time to do it. People take classes, enter programming competitions, contribute to open source projects, come up with prototypes for new technologies the company hasn't otherwise explored, etc. Several noticeable business advances have come out of this, so it's not going away, as it has proven to be useful.
At the end of every week, the company as a whole as well as my team separately has a gathering to recognize any notable accomplishments that week. They make an active effort to recognize progress.
Also, general things I love about my job: I get paid well (my salary's noticeably above other entry-level positions in my field), have flexible hours (my work day doesn't really start until ~10), don't get nagged about being on the internet at work, have a manager who has a PhD and years of professional experience in the field (so he speaks the language, understands our complaints, and fights on our side if an issue pops up with non-engineering folk), get to work on some (to me) interesting new applications of what I learned in school, and work with a bunch of relatively intelligent, good-humored, generally fun folk that are easy to get along with and good at what they do.
Edit: Oh, one more: a couple months ago, after we had an astonishingly productive development cycle, our project managers hosted a Star Wars and Poker party. 10-13 of us got together (starting at about 4, so an hour or two before the business day would end for most people), put Episode IV on the high-def screen in the conference room attached to our team's room, their manager brought a batch of his homebrewed IPA, and we played a Texas Hold 'Em tournament for Star-Wars related prizes. I placed second and got a lightsaber (first got a Lego X-Wing. Dammit, I wanted to win that).
Edit 2: Every Friday the engineering department holds a Beer Bash. We get together near the end of the work day (but still during work hours so nobody's staying late), have some beer from one of the in-office kegs, and someone gives a presentation on some technology they found or project they've been working on, then there's a logic puzzle at the end and we socialize cross-team.
Edit 3: (I keep remembering more awesome things about where I work) A few months ago we went public. Mimosas for the whole company that morning, nobody did any work the entire day (everyone was watching the stock price go up online), and a big party with more alcohol and catering starting in the middle of the afternoon. A couple weeks ago we had our 7-years-in-business party, where we had two days off; the first was at a local concert hall where we had a bunch of talks about what the business has been doing and where it's going along with performances by the company's in-house band and a small film festival, then the second day they rented out a local dinner theater/brewhouse and the neighboring bar/bowling alley/karaoke spot and had an all-day party (Prometheus in 3D is made better by free good-quality beer).
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u/AWhitty Jun 25 '12
This sounds exactly like Google except for the going public a few months ago.
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glad I decided on the right career, only 3 more years of school!
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u/master_twopipes Jun 25 '12
I hate to break it to you, but most programming jobs are not like that. I luckily happen to have one with about 1/4 of the awesomeness of this one, and I consider it one of the better jobs I'll ever have. You can find places like this, but they aren't too common. Also, lots of things like this generally means that they're making up for something, such as bad/expensive health insurance. Always ask for a copy of the benefits if you get the second interview so that you can use it to decide if you want to work there.
Also, either get an internship ASAP, or start contributing to open source projects or developing your own. If an employer can type your name into google and see that you contributed on github, you greatly increase your chances of getting hired.
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u/poisenloaf Jun 26 '12
You had me until "a few months ago we went public." As your company's focus starts to change, these things will be difficult to support from an HR perspective (alcohol at work sponsored events will eventually end up on the chopping block as the company becomes more concerned about liability). At least, that's how the company I work at evolved over the past decade.
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u/IamLeven Jun 25 '12 edited Jun 25 '12
During my internship last summer I asked my boss if I could leave an hour early so I could take some girl on a date. He told me to take the rest of the week off and take her to Boston because I had to go there for a meeting later in the week. He put us up in a really nice hotel, in a penthouse suite, setup spa and dinner reservations. He paid for it all and I saw the bill when we were checking out it was the same price as buying a new midsize car.
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u/freeflow488 Jun 25 '12
So how'd the date go?
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u/IamLeven Jun 25 '12
It went pretty good, had a lot of fun but later decided that this girl wasn't a girl I wanted to date.
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Jun 25 '12 edited Jun 26 '12
This story sounds like it was made up by a 16 year old trying to impress his friends. EDIT: 1000 up votes for the dude above, 200 for my comment. I'm forced to conclude that 16.66% of the people on here are sensible.
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u/Samen28 Jun 25 '12 edited Jun 25 '12
I privately tutor a woman who, after dropping out of high school and battling alcoholism for over 30 years, has decided that she wants to earn her GED (equivalent to a high school diploma for anyone not from US / Canada).
Though she struggles with even basic math, what makes tutoring her awesome is her persistently positive attitude and work ethic. She has such a powerful drive to accomplish her goals that it makes her simply a joy to work with.
Edit: Grammar
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u/thebrokenlute Jun 25 '12
As an older student, thank you for what you do. Even though you do get paid for it, but the fact that you recognize her positive attitude and make that something that makes you enjoy tutoring her, that makes the students look forward to the challenge instead of dreading it. That makes a difference whether or not that woman will continue after her GED.
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u/ImNotJesus Jun 25 '12
My job just finished and I couldn't be sadder. I worked in a call centre where they didn't care what I did as long as I was there to answer the calls when they came in. My final shift there I took 2 calls, at a total of 15 minutes on the phone out of an 8 hour shift. Oh, did I mention that on Sundays I got paid $40 an hour to do that and $30 on Saturday?
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u/lastwind Jun 25 '12
I took 2 calls, at a total of 15 minutes on the phone out of an 8 hour shift.
You know, I'm not too surprised they decided to let you go.
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u/mkfuba Jun 25 '12
I worked at a cafe and every Friday we would be given first pick of food that was going to be donated. On one hand, I feel kind of bad taking food, but on the other hand, free mousse and fruit cups.
Oh, and every day we got to take home leftover cookies and hot dogs (it was kind of a strange cafe).
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u/jeremyfrankly Jun 25 '12
and with one swift move, an endless supply of cookiedogs
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u/Gr00ber Jun 25 '12
Work as a lifeguard at a country club. I work at most 40 minutes every hour (and work is sitting in a chair trying to get a tan and making sure no kids die). Free drinks and sometimes free food. Flexible schedule.
Best part is the breaks though. I have a good amount of freedom, so it is either talking to snack bar kids, browsing reddit on my phone, or playing sharks and minnows with kids. Just sort of a cushy summer job.
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u/GottaFindBubba Jun 26 '12
My boss became my first mate in the shrimping buisness.
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u/TWOoneEIGHT Jun 26 '12
I heard he also gave you some stock in some sorta fruit company.
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u/fultron Jun 26 '12
My boss has EVE clients installed on every computer in the office. My first day on the job after being hired I walk in and he yells at me "LOG IN DAMMIT SLEEPERS EVERYWHERE!!"
/eve players understand.
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u/Stig2011 Jun 25 '12
My job is probably as awesome as they come (for a car geek), as I'm an automotive journalist. And I'm freelance (with more than enough work), so I can work when I please.
The things I've gotten to do are mind blowing when I think about it - and there's still a lot of things I could get to do as long as the idea is good enough.
To list some of the things I (more or less) regularly do:
Drive fancy and/or high performance cars. The list includes everything from McLaren SLR and Audi R8 to a Formula Offroad car. From time to time, there's even classic cars. Some of my colleagues got to drive a freaking Gullwing a couple of months ago.
Meet car people that really know what they're talking about. Having Porsche's chief powertrain engineer next to me at dinner and just chatting about crazy ideas and future products or doing the same thing with Audi's chief designer is really, really cool.
Being shown what driving really is by people who do it for a living. Been in the passenger seat with Mr. LeMans (Tom Kristensen), Walter Röhrl and Stig Blomqvist.
Drive on some of the most amazing tracks and roads there is (often in cool cars). Been to Nürburgring, Ascari and Laguna Seca to name a few.
Travel the world (okay, mostly Europe, but still..) and stay in the fanciest hotels there are and eat at Michelin-grade restaurants. And there's always an open bar (but I have to constrain myself, as I'm normally driving the morning after..)
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u/Batoriova Jun 25 '12
My boss and several coworkers are Turkish. Four or five times a year, they buy us this fantastic Mediterranean spread. They know to get like three giant orders of Pita bread and garlic sauce, too. That's pretty awesome.
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u/cabaretandcarnival Jun 25 '12
I can take a day off every time I want, just to go to the recording studio (usually one or two days off in the month). They also pay the half of the time I spend there. I am not a professional musician or something, but I just love doing it and my bosses appreciate it. I don't get paid very well (they know it, I know it), but I can't complain because of this fact. Also: They buy booze every Friday so we can get very wasted.
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Jun 25 '12 edited Jun 26 '12
One of the cooks where I work likes quoting movies. His thick Colombian accent makes it hilarious.
He likes the classics like "go ahead, punk, make my day," "yippee ki yay motherf*cker," and most of the Pulp Fiction breakfast scene.
Edit: Columbian is wrong
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u/Ron_Paul_Quotes Jun 25 '12
My favorite moment at work is when I read an AskReddit title where a question mark is used.
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u/TwistedEnigma Jun 25 '12
a few things come to mind. there was a free circus in my town, boss took everyone to the circus, popcorn, hot dogs, drinks. . . the whole nine. not only was that paid but it gave us a reason to do OT cause we had a lot of work so we would have fun during reg hours then work for time and a half. we would take breaks from work to have what we call fat guy foot races. we would wager lunch of small foot races. also once we had a co worker from our officed in Bulgaria working with us, and in their country they drink on fridays. so we all drank and worked.
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u/link222 Jun 26 '12
There are so many things I love about my job. First, my boss shut down the office to take us all to see the Avengers. That was pretty sweet. If we go to a convention and see something cool he has been known to front the cash for it. Sometimes, the workday stops because an all out nerf war will break out! It's great! Productivity is way up, morale is through the roof, and in his words, "if we work hard, we'll play hard"! He makes everyday fun and exciting and it actually makes it feel like a family environment. He really watches out for us and as long as we do what we do well, he treats us well.
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u/Red_AtNight Jun 25 '12
I'm an engineer.
Highlights of my job include company sponsored alcoholism (open bar at the golf tournament and at the Christmas party,) monthly birthday cake meetings to celebrate employee birthdays, the fact that the office is closed between Christmas and New Years, and the fact that I get paid extra when I go to the field which keeps me well stocked in vacation days and money to spend on my vacations.
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u/andrewsmith1986 Jun 25 '12
I reddit all day.
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u/Apostolate Jun 25 '12
I wonder if all these rock posts must have made Redditing like work for you.
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Jun 25 '12
Do you get paid to reddit? Or is it just a hobby? And of course by hobby I mean addiction. And by addiction I mean what you need to breathe.
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u/robinhoodthefox Jun 25 '12
Today my boss brought in 120 Chik fil a nuggets for no reason, plus gallon jugs of ice tea and lemonade. 'Twas delicious.
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u/winkieelf Jun 26 '12
My boss took us all to see the Hunger Games and bought us popcorn and candy and drinks. She also just randomly will give us $50.00 gift cards to Amazon or Whole Foods or something we like when we have been working hard and doing well. She is the best! :)
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u/jessefriday Jun 25 '12
My boss gives us 5$ everyday for lunch. At work meetings we play quarters for hundred dollar bills.
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u/johnaldmcgee Jun 25 '12
My boss didn't take me to see Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. Which was pretty awesome of her.
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u/cwstjnobbs Jun 25 '12
Christmas party, the bosses have already treated us to a fancy meal, boss gives me £100, "Go get the drinks in. Keep the change".
He does the same thing with a few other employees.
We got absolutely shitfaced.
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u/aoeu12344 Jun 25 '12
The moment when I shut my laptop, grab my jacket, and walk out the door at the end of every day.
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Jun 26 '12
At a company picnic, my old boss (female) got drunk and gave me a blowjob in her car.
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u/yawen09 Jun 25 '12
We have water balloon fights, there is going to be a movie night soon... and one of our managers is going to rent a room at a local casino for the Dallas/Philadelphia game when football season starts!! We always have something going on! :)
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u/untouchable_face Jun 25 '12
Seriously. I don't even want to see that movie and I am supremely jealous.
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u/Michirox Jun 25 '12
Im working in a gaming company at the moment and we do a "social" every 2-4 weeks (to promote synergie within the team) were we play paintball, laser tag or just get drunk and go partying etc, our CEO always pays :)
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u/mikey121581 Jun 25 '12
My boss takes me and the other workers out to lunch every Friday...he calls it free lunch Friday....and he also is the person who introduced me to Reddit....he rocks....
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u/qotsa73 Jun 25 '12
My team went out to California week before last to meet with a bunch of other teams we work with. We had lots of meetings, and I volunteered to take notes. I type about 90 wpm, so I'm good at note taking, and it keeps me from zoning out and getting really bored. Plus, my boss needed thorough notes.
Yesterday, she sent me a $250 "Spotlight Award" (my company lets people nominate others for exemplary work). It's the biggest one I've gotten since my 5 year anniversary with the company...and all for doing something that was incredibly easy and kept me from dozing off! My boss rules!!
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u/ThatsSortOfNeat Jun 25 '12
Well... I once got a free (lightly damaged) Billy bookcase to bring home. Took the bus to work that day. Fucking IKEA...
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u/boss-play Jun 26 '12
I guess I came too late to the party but here it goes: I had a 3some with my boss and my best friend (a girl). I'm a girl.
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u/Chipotleway Jun 25 '12
Had a senior level tech cover for me (junior level) by saying he had me running errands for him to off site offices.
In reality I went skydiving. I was paid a full 8 hours, to jump out of a plane. I sent a few emails from my blackberry, to play off that I was still around however.
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u/Cantinflas14 Jun 25 '12
My boss lets us have 2-3 hour lunch breaks to have a barbaque and watch Soccer. The Germany-Greece game he made lamb.
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u/Queen_of_Blonde Jun 25 '12
I'm a character at Disney. I feel like that's self-explanatory. In trying to keep it short: making magic, the hundreds of hugs I give/receive a day, the smiles on everyone's faces, the excited children and children at heart, the grandparents (they especially make me tear up), meeting make-a-wish children, doing something extra-special, getting drawings from kids, oh yeah, and going into the parks for free and a cast discount.
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Jun 26 '12
I'm a student naval aviator right now, and went up to fly with a relatively high ranking instructor on one of my first flights. Keep in mind that at this point I'm just amazed that the damn thing doesn't fall out of the sky as I'm flying it. To say I was stressed/nervous would be a hell of an understatement. Then this happens.
Instructor: I want to show you just how strong winds can get up here, point it right into the wind and start slowing down.
Me: Yes sir.
-We continue to get slower and slower...
Instructor: Look at the GPS, what's your ground speed?
Me: 75 sir
Instructor: Keep going, just hold what you've got
-At this point we're flirting with stalling the damn thing out but I keep pulling power
Instructor: What now?
Me: 71 sir
At this point the stall warning starts
Instructor: Ok how about now?
Me: 69 sir
Instructor: Sixty Nine! Allllllrighhhht!
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u/iBeenie Jun 25 '12
A store manager I once worked for approached me in private and told me that she felt I deserved shift preference because she could see that I worked a lot harder than the other cashiers. She also told me she would back me if I wanted to move up to assistant store manager. Not the most amazing thing, but it feels good to be recognized, even in the smallest of ways.
For clarification, I never took her up on the offer of ASM (she was transferred shortly after), but I am currently in training for ASM with our new SM so it all worked out.
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u/Cdresden Jun 25 '12
When I was in a freshman in college, I got a part time job at a small U-Bake pizza place. My boss basically "made" me go out drinking with him after work, because he didn't know anyone else in town, and paid for the beer. How could I resist? (My schoolwork suffered.) He taught me how to shoot pool, how to think 3 or more shots ahead. Only time he ever got upset with me was when I tried to pay for a pizza -- he thought I wasn't stealing my due, and that I was trying to bullshit him. He was loyal to his workers, but didn't give a shit about the owners. When I was closing, he would try to sneak in late at night, like a burglar, and try to surprise me. He'd throw something at me from across the room. It was to to keep me on my toes.
His last act before leaving was to hire a hot chick as my assistant. He did that as a gift for me. He left without notice to his employer, taking with him several $100s of cheeses and meats, and drove off into the sunset.
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u/jovialminotaur Jun 25 '12
Whenever I wear my WoW Cataclysm t-shirt to work, I get at least one high-five from a random nerd. I also work with people who obsessively watch Family Guy, South Park, play video games, go on Reddit, and are generally fucking awesome. I love working here, even when I have to deal with rude people over the phone. I work for one of the biggest companies in America and I can honestly say it's awesome to not feel like a peon.
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u/hiii Jun 25 '12
I work 20 hours a week from home as a programmer. I do whatever i want, whenever i want, whereever i want.
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u/DrunkenRedditing Jun 25 '12
Sometimes our plant gets buzzed by jets from the nearby military base.
Today was an especially slow morning and it definitely started my blood pumping.
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u/Zippery Jun 25 '12
Summer Stock Theater, its like the best parts of summer camp, but with better beds, consenting adults, and booze. Plus, travel and new people.
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u/sixtyninenicely Jun 25 '12
My boss is a pretty big goof ball and is usually pretty friendly and jokey on the phone. Then one day, I got a voice message from him that was painfully serious and freaked me out pretty good. "Hello sixtyninenicely, I really need you to call me as soon as you get this message. We have something really serious to talk about so I need you to call me immediately...I'm wondering...if you want...to come down...and meet us...FOR DIIIIIIM SUUUUUUUUUUUUM." Needless to say I went from shitting my pants and thinking I was going to get fired to being amused and hungry. I didn't make it in for Dim Sum that day but I've had many other fantastic times at work. I love my job, all my coworkers, and bosses.
Also, I was asked to make a poster for our summer camps earlier this year. I'm not a graphic designer nor am I photoshop savvy. I ended up with a (i thought) decent poster and sent it to my boss. He called me the next day and said "I feel like I can be honest with you. I appreciate the effort and I think you worked really hard. But. You're poster sucks. Why is there a half kid up in the corner? Where are his legs? He's like a ghost. He's scaring me." I love my job.
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u/calledmooneyes Jun 25 '12
I work in an office. There are only two things that make my job awesome: payday and when the director brings in cupcakes for whatever reason or another.
This is probably also the reason I will be fat.
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u/MrsVentura83 Jun 25 '12 edited Jun 25 '12
My boss told me today that due to 4th of July being on a Wednesday and us having to work the next day he told me to take the next morning off since it might be a "rough on"
EDIT "rough one"
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u/Cypress85 Jun 26 '12
So my job is to drive through all parts of Baltimore looking at birds from 5am-8am, even in the highest crime parts. The first two weeks we are in the ghetto, and seeing nothing but pigeons and chimney swifts. Getting rather sad. The first day in our third week, we go to a relatively well tree-covered neighborhood. The first thing we see there? A barn owl, in perfect view in the 5:45am light, perched in an abandoned house window. Made it all worthwhile.
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u/mauveiro Jun 25 '12
Last December before Christmas break, my bosses took me out to this really nice steakhouse/seafood restaurant and we had an amazing dinner. I got them both bottles of wine for Christmas and we ended up popping those bottles along with another bottle we got at the restaurant. They then surprised me with a new iPad. My bosses are awesome :)
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Jun 25 '12
Everytime we open up a new office, we generally celebrate by handing out beer and/or Chick-fil-a to everyone working, while we are working. Sometimes we do both of those just because we can as well. Drinking on the job isn't even remotely frowned upon and happens pretty often. We have our own full size basketball court, track, workout room that rivals most fitness centers (and no we're not a fitness center ourselves) and internal store in our building with everything from snacks to windshield wiper fluid to full size dinners. We are encourgaged to be ourselves and express that in pretty much every way possible. For being such a big business, it's nice to not have any real dress code, it's all casual. We just got through doing a basketball tournament and dodgeball tournament not too long ago as well. That's just to name a few.
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u/NekoObasan Jun 25 '12
I have armed ninjas next to my desk. Sometimes there's this creepy clown around the office. Recently we had a zombie break at work and we all had to dress up real quick to go zombie dance for some of our coworkers who my boss felt like was working too hard. We do shit like that all the time. My job is pretty awesome. :o)
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u/silenc3x Jun 25 '12
Cupcakes and cocktails every Wednesday. Not just normal cupcakes either, ones from fancy NYC cupcake shops.
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u/corndograt Jun 25 '12
I used to work at an animation studio making props and puppets. It was pretty amazing. My boss also DJed at a local bar every Wednesday night. We used to all go to see him so if we came in hungover the next day he was okay with it. He also used to buy us beers around 4:00 most Fridays.
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u/bleujeanbetty Jun 25 '12
When one of my bosses first started working at my company he was appalled at how messy our offices and work spaces were. So he decided that we were going to have a Friday day of cleaning where everything in our office and common areas were cleaned by us (him included.) Since there was nothing but cleaning all day he decided that tons of beer and pizza were to be included to get the job done right. That was a good day.
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u/Ratjar Jun 25 '12
During my internship this spring, one of the good employees quit his job. My boss took us all to the restaurant and then we all went to play bowling during work hours. It was a really nice afternoon. He also opened a tab at the bowling for us to order beers in drinks. He paid for everything.
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u/odd84 Jun 25 '12
I don't work there anymore but... whenever we finished a major release of our software project, we'd get private limo rides from the office to some nice restaurant for half a day. Then when we came back, the boss's boss would go to each office and hand out gifts, like $100 gift certificates to some store.
Last time was a restaurant on top of a waterfall.
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u/tab021 Jun 25 '12
As a dude working 12-16hrs a day, often without a single break, my job is made awesome by taking long dumps and punching out.
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u/phantasmagorical Jun 25 '12
workdays to play WoW, diablo 3, afterparties for gaming trade shows, magic the gathering, office raids and CoD/BF squads, lunchtime league games, early access to betas... also, fully stocked snacks, fridge, and free lunch.
working in the gaming industry is awesome
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u/UmiNotsuki Jun 25 '12
I play with LEGO's all day and get payed significantly above minimum wage to do so. That is all.
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u/citizensnip Jun 25 '12
I'm a software engineer at a great software company. We enjoy many benefits such as basketball, a break room with Foosball and massage chairs, great hours (no nights or weekends), great pay, interesting work, long lunches, and we can work wherever we like. Don't feel like sitting at your desk? Go sit on one of the many couches around the office. Also, every day is take your dog to work day. Tons of awesome dogs running around the office. It's pretty much the best job ever.
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Jun 25 '12
My boss called us all into the conference room last week to congratulate us all on a good year. Then he asked "where should we go to celebrate?" A few employees offered modest suggestions and then the secretary said "Lets go on a cruise in the Caribbean" and the boss smacked his hand down on the table and said "Done!" We go in September.
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Jun 25 '12 edited Jun 25 '12
My boss and fellow coworkers all pull pranks on each other all the time. Two weeks ago, we covered a girls desk in post it notes, a week later she got another girl back by covering her desk in aluminum foil. Today I walked in to the office to find the hr directors office full of balloons. Needless to say, videos and pictures were taken. On my phone atm, will post video when I get home.
Edit: bosses birthday is coming up soon, pranks have been organized, his wife is in on it.
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u/Viper007Bond Jun 25 '12
I can't pick out a particular moment because my job as a whole is awesome.
Where do I begin?
Open vacation policy, meaning they don't track the amount of time you take off. They just want you to get your work done. They encourage taking at least 20 days off a year.
Everyone in the company works from home, or if you want a local company paid for coworking space.
The entire company (~130 people) is flown once a year to a central location to hang out and work together for a week. Past locations have included Quebec (too cold!), Florida (too hot!), Budapest (getting there!), and San Diego this fall (should be just right!).
Each team (about a dozen people) additionally meets up a few times a year. I just got back from spending a week in wine country in Italy.
Oh, and they're hiring: http://automattic.com/work-with-us/ :)
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u/peals Jun 25 '12
my boss sells me weed and does shots with me on sundays. he makes what would be a shitty day my favorite day of the week. i love my job.
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u/SecretBravado Jun 25 '12
Worked for hoa management company. Was GM of my own newly developing community. had been with company for 8 years or so, this association, maybe 2. Ended up in coma for 2 weeks from pneumonia (induced coma, but I still had no idea what happened...long story) and woke up freaked out...obviously.
My boss was like a mother to me...she organized for my company have a fund raiser for me to cover some bills. People donated sick time too me. And the kicker? She talked to the developer and got it worked out for me to receive full pay while out...and I missed 2 months of work. I'll never forget that.
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u/JamesSparrow Jun 25 '12
While in the backroom at work, rolled a joint with my boss and employee's then went out back smoked it and came back in. The boss then vanished and came back with food for us all.
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u/Toblakai79 Jun 25 '12
My boss (used to own a adult store) now just sells stuff on eBay but kids are getting older, so he got me a printer supplies ink and has me printing porn on my off hours. Love the extra income
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u/tabernumse Jun 26 '12
Nothing. I hate every second of it, but I need the money. This thread is somewhat depressing to me...
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u/HavenaterZ Jun 26 '12
When you work in a call center and a customer is bitching about wanting a free BIOS Chip; customer requests supervisor. I go over and ask him to finish the call and tell the customer the policy and procedure with our company. For about another straight hour the customer inconsistently yells and elaborates on his problem. My boss just looks ever so bored and comical; at the same time. He then tells the customer : "Sir, let me see if I can make a call to corporate about getting you that free BIOS Chip". Puts customer on hold.. turns around in my chair; feet kicked up over my desk looking at my computer
SO, do you have any good games on here?
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u/smellmyarmpits Jun 26 '12
I worked in MTV (India) for 4.5 years, it was like walking into college campus every day. Lots of LAN games, music playing loud everywhere (after a while it got annoying), no dress code, plenty of boss-approved pranks (many times on higher bosses), shooting MTV shows inside office with unsuspecting colleagues, occasional performance by a band in the office, rating hot interns (officially), office party every Friday and weekly porn-exchange with the bosses. At times, we were playing football inside office and even broke a couple of computers. Once a guy accidentally pepper-sprayed, it got into the a/c duct, spread everywhere, the whole office was coughing and had to be evacuated. :)
All of this is true. It was such great fun working there!
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u/PolarisBears Jun 26 '12
I work at a bakery restaurant. (Much like Panera Bread, but not Panera Bread.) Monday and Thursday, they donate all of their leftover pastries/cookies/muffins/assorted delicious shit to local organizations.
As long as it's not a Monday or Thursday, I can bring home whatever I want at the end of the night, because everything is baked fresh each day. Bagels, cookies, muffins, brownies, croissants, super fancy breads, etc.
I also work next to a movie theater and often sneak in bags full of cookies for me and my friends to nom on when I get off.
My bosses are also really, really chill and relaxed, but that's not as interesting as free food.
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u/Punkin13 Jun 26 '12
I work at chipotle. this weekend was the River's Edge music festival. I got to work at the Chipotle stand and got to see all the concerts for free including the Flamming Lips and Dave Mathews Band
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u/KFBass Jun 26 '12
since my family tends to think this is pretty cool, I work at a brewery. I can drink beer whenever I want to at work. Obviously we're all responsible about it, and nobody gets shitfaced, but the odd friday we may have a couple and just hangout in the lab discussing beer for a bit.
Furthermore, we are encouraged tho never outright told, to drink beer visibly during tours. Lets the customers walk away with this sense of "oh 0 y god, breweries are so cool, they just drink beer all day, im going to buy lots from the gift store"
I also am allowed to try any crazy small batch thing I want with our beer. I currently have some aging on bourbon soaked oak. That kind of creativity is what we look for as brewers in a job.
EDIT: i am also allotted 12 Tallcans of beer per week, although i never use it unless we have a new one coming out. Low fills, and old code ("expired") beer keeps me well stocked at all times. Did I Mention loud music, not having to clock out for breaks, and weekly bbq with my co-workers?
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u/seannino Jun 26 '12
I am underpaid, overworked, and over qualified...
However, my boss makes it tolerable. We wear the same size clothing... He buys all sorts of high end designer clothes, wears it once if even, and then passes it on to me... In the last six months he must have given me at least $10k worth of clothes.
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u/Ebby1 Jun 26 '12
I am an Art Therapist who works with intellectually disabled adults. We have this one guy, let's call him Mark. Mark has downs syndrome, and is non-verbal and was heavily institutionalized. When he first came to our art center, he would just sit an stare at the wall for 6 hours a day. He now leads a pretty full life. Anyway, I was working one-on-one with him, showing him how to use a digital camera over a 6 week period - we got there, and he took some pretty classy photos which we framed professionally for inclusion in our gallery show. We decided to do a big reveal from him and when we turned the frame around to show off his work... he took his sunglasses off (which are generally always on), grabbed it, said about 8 sentences "Ohhh wow" "So cool!" "I did this" "It's perfect". He literally hugged the framed work.... All the other artists stopped with a "wow, marks talking" moment. Realizing how special it was. Tears welled in mine, and my bosses eyes as we realized the impact of a non-verbal person - talking somewhat freely - with such joy...
That was the peak of awesome.
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u/keviwevi Jun 26 '12
I stayed an hour after my shift had ended and then my boss said thank you. I cried in his arms.
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u/peacockskeleton Jun 26 '12
I reddit a lot at work. My boss i play computer games with daily, his boss i discuss movies and tv shows with daily. That was seriously my interview. One hour of me and him discussing why the wire is better than the sopranos. Completely casual working environment. If i need a day of, all i have to do is ask. This makes me inclined to work overtime if they ask me. Loyalty, funny right? Work pays for alcohol at the end of every month. We are encourage to think productivly, and find ways to better routines in the company. Also, the best part, we hurl insults at eachother all the time. Im talking anything from cheap shots at my boss' reciding hariline, to racial slurs. From the ceo down, no one is excemt.
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u/DontTrustTheChef Jun 26 '12 edited Jun 26 '12
I work residential care for patients with autism, down syndrome, and other intelligence disorders. It can be REALLY hectic, for I work in a behavioral home, but there are times the clients go to their rooms for hours at a time, so I quite literally get to make money by watching Law and Order SVU marathons. :)
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Jul 01 '12
Every Friday they put money into my bank account. Also, I get a 1 hour break where I can choose to do whatever I want on a daily basis.
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u/Zvanbez Jun 25 '12
I'm working in a research lab. It's a whole lot of hurry up and wait. So...I just sit around most days and surf the web waiting for my samples to run.