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Perks of the job.

Our Safety Gloves, ear plugs, lens cleaner/ wipes, marker pens and notebooks were expensive if you had to buy them. These days it is all mobile phones ,computers and company credit cards.

Arkrite ambles off whistling, looking innocent but his halo is slipping badly.
 
I once had to sack one of my employees i caught him loading my light fittings for a job into his car when i asked him what he was doing he claimed it was" One of the perks of the job"Dek
 
Presumably Dek, that is why the Rover Company (when it WAS Rover) used to have printed on the lightbulbs in the store "stolen from the Rover Company". That was around the 1940's to 50's, but whether it continued until the company disappeared, I do not know.

Shortie
 
Richard you naughty copper you. Well this was a reel perk of the job for Pete and totally legit. When he first worked for Ansells he was on the brewing side and had the awful job of sampling the produce. Maybe it is like chocolate you can have too much of it working there that it puts you off. Pete drinks when we are out but never at home only on special occasions. Another perk that I was able to participate in was he had an awful job going round to pub openings the night before and giving the staff a trial run. There was always a three course meal and drinks free. All you had to do was fill out a questionair asking what you thought of the food service decor etc. Of course the other perk was the beer tickets or allowance that Pete would collect in the garage towards Xmas birthdays etc. He could also exchange them for drinks at the social club. What an awful job he had? 9I don't think?.
 
Brewers in Canada allow the employees 4 or more free bottles a day at least I know of one place that did. On a hot summer day the temptation is serious so why be cruel. Legitimising the obvious saves situational friction. Kind of hard to say no more than two light fittings a shift though so why not have a policy of paying cost for employees.
 
Its not only Canada, most of the breweries give their workers "Allowence" as they call it. My brother Arthur worked for Ind Coope in Burton for many years and always took home his two quarts, they eventually became Allied Brewery,He developed oral cancer, having been a pipe smoker for many years, and was taken into the QE in
Birmingham , as his wife didnt drive the firm sent a staff car every single day to pick her up from and take her to the hospital and back, until he passed away.It wouldnt
happen very often nowadays I bet.
Bernard
 
The perks in my job were different to all those mentioned. In my full-time job as a driver, I saw every City, most towns and quite a few villages in England Scotland and Wales. I have seen amost every holiday beach and seen all the mountain ranges. Llanberris Pass, A6 over Shap, all over The Peak District, in fact too many places to mention. In my part-time job I met and accompanied quite a few famous people to restaurants and the like and I got paid for all that. In my view, my occupation was a perk of my life.
 
Whilst as a student, I worked on the 'bins' during most of my holidays. Our 'perk' was to receive a free pint of beer at each pub we collected rubbish from ... there were twenty-odd pubs in the small town we cleared on a Friday! Other than that, I can't remember much about the job at all!
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