Anyone have weird work perks?

[Nitemare]

Originally posted by: 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.

well he did say give instead of pitch

 

[Gothgar]

Originally posted by: Nitemare

Originally posted by: 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.

well he did say give instead of pitch

 

[queenrobot]

Originally posted by: Nitemare

Originally posted by: 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.

well *she* did say give instead of pitch

fixed

 

[CptObvious]

I had a 8-month stint teaching English in South Korea. Mostly kids, but a couple classes of adults and one class of mostly female college students. :thumbsup:

 

[PlasmaBomb]

Originally posted by: Joemonkey
I bought new wedding bands for my wife and myself 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 take it they used EDS?

Thats fine as long as you aren't allergic to nickel...

Liquid nitrogen is always fun

Pro tip-
1) don't drink it
2) don't throw it on the floor when a lab tech from another lab is in. This happened to a mate (after I had told him about "disposing" of excess - its safer than leaving it around for noob students to spill on themselves). The tech went a bit mental

 

[silverpig]

Originally posted by: PlasmaBomb

Originally posted by: Joemonkey
I bought new wedding bands for my wife and myself 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 take it they used EDS?

Thats fine as long as you aren't allergic to nickel...

Liquid nitrogen is always fun

Pro tip-
1) don't drink it
2) don't throw it on the floor when a lab tech from another lab is in. This happened to a mate (after I had told him about "disposing" of excess - its safer than leaving it around for noob students to spill on themselves). The tech went a bit mental

Spilling it on the floor is a great idea! Go into a hallway with a bucket of the stuff, and spill/throw it down the hall. The nitrogen will flow all the way to the end of the hall picking up ALL the dirt and dust and carrying it with it. You could spend an hour sweeping and not do as good a job as the LN2 does in 10 seconds.

 

[maddogchen]

blood drawn and labwork done

 

[PlasmaBomb]

Originally posted by: silverpig

Spilling it on the floor is a great idea! Go into a hallway with a bucket of the stuff, and spill/throw it down the hall. The nitrogen will flow all the way to the end of the hall picking up ALL the dirt and dust and carrying it with it. You could spend an hour sweeping and not do as good a job as the LN2 does in 10 seconds.

It has loads of uses
That is a wee bit more expensive than brushing the floor.

 

[Joemonkey]

Originally posted by: 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

Yeah, I'm an IT guy so his explanation was a little over my head, something to do with zapping it with 20k volts in a vaccum and measuring K and L and some other kind of electron blowoff (i wasn't listening THAT hard)

 

[Joemonkey]

Originally posted by: 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.

I worked IT for a law firm, got to declare bankruptcy for just the cost of filing. Also some "free" subrogation when I had a car accident. Also got the scavenging benefit

 

[SacrosanctFiend]

I get a free boat with free gas during the summer...that's about as "weird" as the perks get.

 

[Joemonkey]

Originally posted by: 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.

ah, thats a perk of my wife's work too. Not so much free EKGs and such, but any services of the hospital not covered by insurance are knocked down like 30-50%

 

[Joemonkey]

Originally posted by: 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.

Thanks! If I cared about grammar I would have posted it that way!

 

[timswim78]

I can ride public transportation for free.

 

[ChaosDivine]

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

Goldmember, is that you?

 

[Cold Steel]

Originally posted by: 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

Extended in that the SEM must include them, yeah.

I've used thermeonic, Lab6 and field emmission SEMs from Cambridge Instruments, Amray, Hitachi and Leo. Lots of fun, actually. I have pictures of a mosquito's eyeball up to 30KX. Also have pictures of semiconductors up to 80KX taken on a field emmission.

 

[oogabooga]

I don't have any weird perks.

My work has a paid suicide hot line that we can call in and immediately speak with someone apparently if we needed to. That was sort of ominous to see on my first day here.

I have a lot of credit card processing documentation? Most of it is publicaly available for merchants, but I'm not a merchant. I have a VISA/MC acceptance sticker or two lying around here somewhere I guess getting 'swag' like that is alright?

 

[jpeyton]

Perks? Like a horny secretary?

 

[meltdown75]

yes.

 

[irishScott]

I get free membership at an awesome local University gym.

 

[RKS]

A lot of personal info (Names, Addys, SSNs, DOBs, etc.) via Accurint.

Also free access to law, news, and financial sources that would cost a typical company or law firm thousands of dollars a month.