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by laurent123456 1870 days ago
In China I worked at a company which year after year was getting awards as a great place to work. But the perks meant staying after work for various events I couldn't care less about. For me the best perk I could have is to take a break from office stuff, not prolonging it after hours.

Meanwhile, the whole IT department had to be moved at some point in a tiny office with no windows. They were also putting a lot of pressure on employees to come work on weekend to fix bugs and get releases ready - and of course at no extra pay. But yeah, you had cake on your birthday and free pizza once a month. Such a great place to work for!

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I went through a stage of detesting pizza.

"To thank you for your hard work, I've ordered pizza for everyone!"

'What time is it arriving?'

"7pm"

'Right so you're stealing 2 hours of my time, which you're valuing as a couple of pizza slices - and imagined I'd be grateful?'

"To thank _me_ for my hard work, I'm leaving at 5 to go get Chinese takeout"