Anyone have weird work perks?

[Joemonkey]

I bought new wedding bands for my wife and I off of ebay that are tungsten carbide. They were something like $25 each. Did some research on Wikipedia and saw this:

Many manufacturers of this emerging jewelry state that the use of a cobalt binder may cause unwanted reactions between the cobalt and the natural oils on human skin. Skin oils cause the cobalt to leach from the material. This is said to cause possible irritation of the skin and permanent staining of the jewelry itself. Many manufacturers now advertise that their jewelry is "cobalt free". This is achieved by replacing the cobalt with nickel as a binder

Naturally I was worried I had this colbat infested crap, so luckily in our reliability lab we have a SEM. Had the guy measure it for me, and it shows up as 86% W, 14% Ni

Woot!

 

[Baked]

Prepare to have your fingers cut off when you get into a minor accident.

 

[Canai]

Umm they let me off early if I want to go play disc golf. I can print whatever I want for free. I get paid to surf the internet.

 

[ElFenix]

Knights of Ni: Ni! Ni! Ni! Ni! Ni! Ni!
Arthur: Who are you?
Knight of Ni: We are the Knights who say..... "Ni"!
Arthur: (horrified) No! Not the Knights who say "Ni"!
Knight of Ni: The same.
Other Knight of Ni: Who are we?
Knight of Ni: We are the keepers of the sacred words: Ni, Ping, and Nee-womm!
Other Knight of Ni: Nee-womm!
Arthur: (to Bedevere) Those who hear them seldom live to tell the tale!
Knight of Ni: The knights who say "Ni" demand..... a sacrifice!
Arthur: Knights of Ni, we are but simple travelers who seek the enchanter who
lives beyond these woods.
Knights of Ni: Ni! Ni! Ni! Ni! Ni! Ni! Ni! Ni! Ni!
Bedevere: No! Noooo! Aaaugh! No!
Knight of Ni: We shall say "Ni" to you... if you do not appease us.
Arthur: Well what is it you want?
Knight of Ni: We want.....

(pregnant pause)

A SHRUBBERY!!!!

(minor music)

Arthur: A WHAT?
Knights of Ni: Ni! Ni!! Ni! Ni!
Arthur; No! No! Please, please, no more! We will find you a shrubbery.
Knight of Ni: You must return here with a shrubbery... or else you will never
pass through this wood... alive.
Arthur: O Knights of Ni, you are just and fair, and we will return with a
shrubbery.
Knight of Ni: One that looks nice.
Arthur: Of course!
Knight of Ni: And not too expensive.
Arthur; Yes!
Knight of Ni: Noowwwww.... GO!

 

[Injury]

The perks kinda left the building when we had some layoffs a couple months ago.

Up until then, I was able to get free printing from the HP Indigos... we have a guy that comes like... every other Thursday to do chair massages... I never go because i don't care and I think it's bullshit that people had to lose their jobs yet we still have a masseuse come in for no particular reason.

 

[Joemonkey]

Originally posted by: Baked
Prepare to have your fingers cut off when you get into a minor accident.

OK mister Urban Legend

 

[silverpig]

Originally posted by: Joemonkey
I bought new wedding bands for my wife and I off of ebay that are tungsten carbide. They were something like $25 each. Did some research on Wikipedia and saw this:

Many manufacturers of this emerging jewelry state that the use of a cobalt binder may cause unwanted reactions between the cobalt and the natural oils on human skin. Skin oils cause the cobalt to leach from the material. This is said to cause possible irritation of the skin and permanent staining of the jewelry itself. Many manufacturers now advertise that their jewelry is "cobalt free". This is achieved by replacing the cobalt with nickel as a binder

Naturally I was worried I had this colbat infested crap, so luckily in our reliability lab we have a SEM. Had the guy measure it for me, and it shows up as 86% W, 14% Ni

Woot!

I can gold plate pretty much whatever I want.

We have an SEM in the lab, and access to a really nice cryo SEM, TEM and a few STMs as well... We don't have a spectrometer on any of them though.

Liquid nitrogen is fun too.

 

[Gothgar]

Free golf with the owner if I wanted to... just had a company paid fishing trip to just outside Mammoth (Owens River) which was awesome.

Gas card, guess that ain't weird, but its awesome.

Free entry into Home Shows and Fairs in the area (we set up vendor displays at them)

 

[Nitemare]

WTF has the title got to do with the post?

 

[Gothgar]

Originally posted by: Nitemare
WTF has the title got to do with the post?

I thought the same thing, read the rest of his post...

 

[Nitemare]

Originally posted by: Gothgar

Originally posted by: Nitemare
WTF has the title got to do with the post?

I thought the same thing, read the rest of his post...

guess I should stop skimming and read every sentence.


Hmmm, have first looks at alot of hardware before it is released to the public?

 

[Gibson486]

Originally posted by: Nitemare

Originally posted by: Gothgar

Originally posted by: Nitemare
WTF has the title got to do with the post?

I thought the same thing, read the rest of his post...

guess I should stop skimming and read every sentence.

you are not alone. I did the same thing.

 

[Perknose]

As a PI, I cultivated the (necessary) relationship with the clerks at the Philly and all the local county courthouses. As a result, I can still get personal info on peeps I'm just not supposed to have access to . . . if I so wanted.

Plus, I still have my (now outdated) volumes of Cole's Directory, which linked people by name, address, & phone number -- and, once you had an addy, showed the info for everyone on the street and beyond, including how long they'd lived there and more.

They're hideously expensive, though. You can buy the info now on a case-by-case basis on-line. As a professional tool, it beats all those other on-line look-ups by a country mile.

 

[Throckmorton]

Originally posted by: Perknose
As a PI, I cultivated the (necessary) relationship with the clerks at the Philly and all the local county courthouses. As a result, I can still get personal info on peeps I'm just not supposed to have access to . . . if I so wanted.

Plus, I still have my (now outdated) volumes of Cole's Directory, which linked people by name, address, & phone number -- and, once you had an addy, showed the info for everyone on the street and beyond, including how long they'd lived there and more.

They're hideously expensive, though. You can buy the info now on a case-by-case basis on-line. As a professional tool, it beats all those other on-line look-ups by a country mile.

Are you really a PI are you making stuff up? Is your life anything like Magnum and Rockford's?

 

[nageov3t]

after I first moved into my apartment and before I had internet setup (because cable sucks and it took them almost a month to hook me up), I lugged my desktop to the office to play World of Warcraft at night so that I didn't miss any raids (the fact that my boss's wife is the raid leader helps)

 

[vi edit]

Free EKG's, Echo's, and Sono's if I want them.



My wife can buy drugs at hospital costs...actually a pretty nice perk for some things. We compound our own diaper cream by buying the ingredients individually. You can make half a gallon for around $15. Compare that to like $5 or more for a little couple ounce tube that doesn't work half as well.

 

[1sikbITCH]

I can retain the services of our firm (I work for lawyers) for free up to a point. That point would be when it starts costing the firm more than just time or too much time. If we had to litigate I imagine they would want at least part of the going fee.

Last year this netted me approximately $3000 extra when someone slammed into my vehicle and totaled it with me in it.

Of course if I was the defendant in a criminal case beyond a fist fight or something really minor there is a high probability I would be terminated

Other than that I get to raid whatever computers die or just get too old.

 

[Perknose]

Originally posted by: Throckmorton

Originally posted by: Perknose
As a PI, I cultivated the (necessary) relationship with the clerks at the Philly and all the local county courthouses. As a result, I can still get personal info on peeps I'm just not supposed to have access to . . . if I so wanted.

Plus, I still have my (now outdated) volumes of Cole's Directory, which linked people by name, address, & phone number -- and, once you had an addy, showed the info for everyone on the street and beyond, including how long they'd lived there and more.

They're hideously expensive, though. You can buy the info now on a case-by-case basis on-line. As a professional tool, it beats all those other on-line look-ups by a country mile.

Are you really a PI are you making stuff up? Is your life anything like Magnum and Rockford's?

I was a PI for 14 years, yes. And the work was much more like Rockford and nothing like Magnum.

And, reminded by 1's post, there are still a number of lawyers who would gladly represent me pro bono in any civil or criminal case.

 

[SlowSpyder]

Right behind the building I work in we have a pretty large pond on the company grounds. My coworkers and I used to go fishing there during lunch. Because no one fishes it and it's pretty good size, we would catch the biggest blue gills I've ever seen and occasionally we'd get a nice 3-4lb catfish. Unfortuantely they told us that we have to stop fishing for now as they are selling the campus and fishing is a 'liability'... I guess they are worried about someone falling into the water or getting hurt possibly hurting the sale. So, no, I have no special benefits anymore.

Oh yea, I also have a tungsten ring and love it. I'm looking for a nice womans band with a gold inlay (to match what I have) to get the wife as a gift.

 

[queenrobot]

My maintenance man will do pretty much anything for me. That includes getting me lunch, fixing my car and giving me a tent.

 

[Perknose]

Originally posted by: queenrobot
My maintenance man will do pretty much anything for me. That includes getting me lunch, fixing my car and giving me a tent.

I see what you did there.

 

[xanis]

I get 6 free tickets to any Anheuser-Busch theme park, I get discounts on Chick-Fil-A and whatnot, and I get 30% of Anheuser-Busch merchandise. Oh and I also get into pretty much any theme park in PA/NJ, including Six Flags.

 

[Schfifty Five]

Originally posted by: Joemonkey
I bought new wedding bands for my wife and myself (or me and my wife) off of ebay that are tungsten carbide. They were something like $25 each. Did some research on Wikipedia and saw this:

Many manufacturers of this emerging jewelry state that the use of a cobalt binder may cause unwanted reactions between the cobalt and the natural oils on human skin. Skin oils cause the cobalt to leach from the material. This is said to cause possible irritation of the skin and permanent staining of the jewelry itself. Many manufacturers now advertise that their jewelry is "cobalt free". This is achieved by replacing the cobalt with nickel as a binder

Naturally I was worried I had this colbat infested crap, so luckily in our reliability lab we have a SEM. Had the guy measure it for me, and it shows up as 86% W, 14% Ni

Woot!

Fixed.

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: silverpig
I can gold plate pretty much whatever I want.

You could be ATOT's King of Bling, yo!

 

[Fenixgoon]

if your ring is a W-Ni alloy, then it's not tungsten carbide (WC and W2C)

and actually, your ring was most likely measured using EDS or WDS (energy and wave dispersive spectroscopy), which are extended functions of an SEM