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That don't deal with Pay or Benifits...

Do you have spectactular shitters? A on site gym? Places to eat? Great scenery ;)? What, other than pay and other compensation parts of your job, do you love about where you work?

And what do you hate?

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I work for Uncle Sam and we do not have CHIT for extras like that :(

the best thing

break rooms with vending machines
WOOO

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BEST PERK...

dealing with dsm style memebers :)

cc

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Best perk for me would be having the ability to go anywhere (to eat or shop) by skyway so I never have to go outside if I don't want to. I can just run out and grab a coffee at any point during the day, and it's like 5 mins from me. Or I can run to DQ and have some ice cream, and that is like 10 min. There is absolutely everything you need at your fingertips downtown. At least for me there is. :D I don't think I would like working back in the 'burbs anymore.

Thing I hate least.... I still have the commute, but at least it's on a bus. :)

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Heh skyway is full of eye candy, i'm sure Janna knows!!!

-E

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Beer Friday, High-Quality Foosball Table,

Last week my boss goes 'scheides, come check this out!' I walk over to his desk and he's sitting with an open box in front of him with two $125 bottles of Absynth in it...

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Explain Beer Friday!! :D


Absynth? Isn't that the shit that we aren't suppose to have?




As for me...

On site gym with everything including tv w/ good sound system.

This is a Coffee drinkers paradise! All free and LOTS of it.

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Who else works downtown... and where are you located?

I'm at 501 Marquette Ave (5th & Marquette, Old Soo Line Bldg), in December we move to the Northstar Bldg (so 7th & Marquette).

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Perks:I have access to full gym...I have yet to use it though. I get to use company cars at will, so thats cool.

Cons: I work between two buildings/offices. Office A has cool people but the office is a complete hole. Office B has a great space but all the people are douche bags. The other bad thing is the IT dept couldn't even fill out their own request forms to save their lives. So in the mean time I don't have access to files/programs I need to properly do my job. The other con is I don't even know who my direct boss is, I counted and I might have up to 13 of them, I honestly don't know.

I'll stop my self there cause I could go on forever. Once I pay my student loans off I am soooo gone.

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OMG, that sounded like a line out of Office Space (the part with having up to 13 direct managers). :D

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Beer friday is...Beer Friday! We hang out and drink beer on Friday afternoons. Work a little, but only if really necessary. Answer phones, act professional while everyone else is having fun. I get screwed about half the time out of beer friday; I've been on-site for clients the past few fridays.

My office is downtown, but on the East side of the river, near Whitey's. I guess that's another perk right there!

Here's another perk for me right now. My boss is out in Vegas right now for a conference, and we feel obliged to have some extra fun while he's gone, so we're making a 9-course breakfast tomorrow. Pancakes, waffles, fruit topping, eggs, and breakfast burritos. It will be sweet!

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1)I get to drive pretty much any car I want within reason.
2)I have no boss or employees.
3)I can work on my car at work.
4)Everyday is beer day.

Life is good. :rolleyes:

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I work in downtown.. sort of. 800 Washington Ave. N., same building the restaurant Babalou is in (forget the name of the building) used to be an old john deer factory apparently. Also, a couple blocks down from Elite and on the border of the warehouse district and downtown.

Perks: I get to make my own hours :cool: .. but even then I try to be a responsible person and get my work done.

Cons: I live in lakeville and the drive downtown and/or back home can be torture sometimes.

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I get free coffee all day long. The good stuff, right. When I am bored I could just get up and walk around. I am never in the same place twice and I have high speed access to the internet. I get discounts in various places. I get free pizza at least once a month. The best is I work in a well lit climate control building so there is no tempature change from day to day.

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There is on average 5000 people that come in and out of Treasure Island daily. There are 1800 employees. So I would have to say the best part of my job is that there is never and I mean never a shortage of HOT GIRLS to look at.

Besides that, we have free pop, juice, milk, coffee, hot chocolate, and tea for all the emloyess as well as customers.

My job in particular is pretty laid back I guess since I am the boss. I pretty much do what I want when I want.

There are four restaurants in the Casino as well so it isn't hard to find something good to eat. And if you know the cooks thats always a plus too.

I like my job in particular because there is never a dull moment, if you get bored just go and watch people lose all there money and get super super pissed over it. I used to get bothered by people. But now I just think its funny how many people lose there houses, car, and jobs because of gambling. Is it really that addicting?

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Well since I only work part time, I get no real benefits yet... while Im going to school full time...

But the benefits I get from working where Im at right now are: My boss is really cool and lets me come in whenever I want, and lets me take time off whenever I want. On slow days all I do is surf the net and get paid for it. I basically fix computer problems and whatnot, so if nothing is happening then its pretty boring. The people are nice, its a small company, but I know in less than 1.5 years Ill be getting a full time job and I really hope its downtown- I love downtown alot!

The worst thing is driving but its not too bad- Bloomington to south minneapolis close to downtown, but not close enough!

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My job is only part-time since I'm still in school, but, it involves a lot of driving in a company car and free beer :)

I just interviewed for a position downtown on Nicollet Ave so we'll see what comes of that.

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I get to work on my car after 6pm, everyday if I want!
Oh, parts at cost is cool, the people I work with are great, the customers rule, and I don't have to answer to a boss, as I am one of them.

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I used to work at a car dealership, so I would occasionally get to drive some cool cars.

My boss at the time was a guy in his early 20's and was really cool with me and the other lot guys, so he let me take a 911 from the porsche dealership a couple miles away back to our dealership, and he told me to "make sure it was running at 100% ;) "

That was a pretty fun ride.

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Free car wash is the only peark I get.

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i work 901 3rd ave, and like someone said before, it's really cool to work downtown, specially on winter time, you can go on the skyway and buy food or whatever you want withouth freezing, lol, the only thing that sucks is that parking is really expensive,

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I install gutters in the St. Cloud area. Our shop is on the outside of town so when most people are comming into town I'm on my way out which, is nice. I've been at the job long enough to know how to get every job done. I consider this a perk due to my boss not having to yell at me to get things done or worry that it was done wrong. Another "perk" is that we are at up to 5 different houses per day so it is always somthing new and not the "desk job".

The downside to this is that I work outside everyday. During the summer it is usually pretty nice however, our work truck (not my responsability) has a hole in the floor and a heater which barely functions. This leads to a misserable time through the winter. Anyone hiring?

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Lunch breaks with the girlfriend are a "perk". I also get out of the office a lot and during the summer I don't do hardly anything.

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I guess my only really big perk is that I am head of the repair dept. The repair dept consists of ME. So I have a very unstructured schedule. I get done what needs to get done and then look for ways to improve the process. I still have a direct boss, but he is really cool and usually let's me go about my business without too much interference. I've got a desk and a workbench. So I don't have to spend all my time at one or the other.

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I work with a bunch of hot chicks. GIGGADY GIGGADY GIG-GA-DY

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^^^ LOL... Family Guy is the greatest.

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Getting to travel all over the world, and getting to keep all the flyer miles for myself to use whenever i want. Free Gatorade. Random free tools. And great coworkers (except for 1).

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well I am currently taking a sabatical for school (lol I only work in the buisy season for yachting) my job is alot of work but it does have perks.
I work at a yacht pleny of hot chicks in bikini's (gold diggers and members daughters who are my age). I get to work with Million plus dollar yachts and occationaly go on them. Hot chicks in bikini's. its only 5 miles by car and about half a mile by water from my house. my boss is pretty cool. hot chicks in bikini's. I get alot of connections with the richest people in town.
and yeah did I mention that I get to watch Hot girls sunbathing or while filling up their jet ski's :) lol though I can't get caught watching or even sitting down.

cons: can't sit down at all. constant work, no brakes. haft to work weekends. I do all of the bitch work for the rich people. and it can get really fucking hot weeding gardens outside all day in direct sunlight w/o a break. some members can be dick's. but overall it is pretty good.

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Is that like a Conjugal visit?

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I can do waht I want when I want
I'm the boss

also
I get payed 225.00 a week to play paintball

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I can more or less define my job where I work and make of it what I want. Company truck is nice. And the company buying beer and playing CoD all friday afternoon are also good.

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My perks are probably access to my dealership's resources, such as the lifts, tire mounting/balancing machines, air compressors, brake lathes, etc etc. Good, cheap way to get some of the more 'advanced' stuff done fairly easily.

Cons is I'm stuck changing oil most of the time during the day. I fucking hate changing oil...and every new guy is a goddam moron. You'd think after 3 months you wouldn't have to babysit people a few years younger than you, but that doesn't seem to be the case. I also get screwed into working about 3 saturdays a month.

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Pros: Well I like what I do. I solve engineering/fabrication/construction problems and give contractors a hard time when I feel so inclined.

Cons: I froze my ass off today because the contractor works slower than slow and I had to oversee a heavy lift. A twenty minute job took two hours. I'm spending a grand at Gander Mountain tonight if I have to. I'm not freezing again.

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Just wait, this ain't nothin'!! Wait 'til the days when we get a high of zero! I remember a week straight we had lows in the negative high 20's about 8 years ago. Now THAT was cold!!

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I work at Brach Candy company. Pro's are I sit on my ass and get paid $18.85 an hr to watch a machine package gummi bears or fruit snacks. I also get all the free candy I want and they gave me a laptop with wireless internet. I never get bored at work.

I also work for a underwater welding company that works on barges on the river. Thats cool cause I get to use all the scuba gear and welding equipment whenever I want and dont have to pay for anything. Its also a very good experiance in my opinion. Its fun wearing a suit that is 70 degrees and jumping into water that is in the 40-50 degree range. Gotta love heated diving suits.

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That underwater welding thing would be a neat job. Not so typical! And where can I sign up to work for $19/hr to do little?

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Most mindless "plant jobs" are $15+/hr, especially if you work 2nd or 3rd shift.
Its just the luck of the draw/experience that gets you the easy and mindless jobs.

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Underwater welding, now that pays some heavy coin if you find the right employer. I wish I would've gone into the SEAL program, that's probably what I'd be doing right now. Hopefully in a warmer climate though.

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My boss which happens to be my uncle, charges $175 an hr for underwater welding. If its a non local contract there is an 8hr minimum and it is $950 for an 8hr block of time. I see all $46.19/hr of it because I havent gone to school for it and I didnt have any experiance when I started. The guys that have degrees and experiance are making close to $90/hr. Makes me want to go to school for it although I couldnt see making a career out of it. Its a good hobby job. But owning your own business is insane with the amount of money you make. You also need to be on call 24hrs a day but its worth the pay. I like the 3-4am jobs where everything is pitch black and there are huge lights all over. Also for those of you who didnt know it, diving in the mississippi sucks balls. The water is so dirty that you cant see your hand 5 inches in front of your face. If you get lost underwater you usually have to dive deeper (because of the weights that you wear) to the bottom and basically get your helmet down in the sand to see which way the water is moving then go north, south, east, west, from that point. Its pretty freaky the first couple of times but once you get use to it then everything is good. Its definately an experiance I would suggest!

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Under water welding is crazy, I would like to try it some time. But for my job working on my car after 6pm is a big one.

~John