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by JSDevOps 690 days ago
a certain “big corp” (I won’t name names) staff enjoy incredible perks, including completely free dental care with no questions asked. In the UK, they have an exceptional corporate rate for David Lloyd gym, far surpassing typical discounts, likely due to sharing the same office campus. Employees can order virtually anything through a breakout store, delivered anywhere in the world—even a 3D printer in Brazil. This, however, became a slight issue during the pandemic when someone asked on an 8,000-strong Slack channel about ordering office furniture for home, leading to a surge in worldwide requests. They had to send a message out saying speak to your line manager and local office and if you want anything from the offices go and help yourself since they were shut anyway. Also if you work on certain parts of the cloud team you get to create and spin up whatever you want for “testing”.