Gifts in the Small Hours  

No, nothing is free where I work. Sometimes on a holiday they might have a barbecue for the employees or a ice cream social, but other than the discounts we receive off our purchase, nothing is given away to us. In fact, many of the retail stores go to great lengths to get rid of their damaged merchandise. Instead of donating it to those who could use it, I have actually seen them take knives and rip the offending merchandise to shreds or even spray paint it so that anyone finding it in the dumpster won't be interested after all. I think its awful, I mean after all, couldn't they get some kind of tax write off for donating this merchandise? Instead, of being bothered they have their employees stand in front of the dumpster and further ruin products that could have been used by someone.

Once I got a Landsend jacket from my job. It is a very nice jacket, wish I can get the logo off
My husband got 2 tickets worth $25.00 each for a hot air balloon show. Actually we just got back from it. We left home this morning at 6:00, the balloons started taking off at 7:30. It was interesting, some of the balloons were very original.
I liked the pepsi, and the darth vader and the united states flag balloons best. Other than that I can not think of any other gifts received from work.

Oh yummmmmm! I wish I did but I work in the transportation industry so the only things I've gotten are two hats, a jacket and a couple of pens from some of our customers. A long time ago my son worked for KFC and he used to have to close once in awhile. When he did he brought home a bunch of left over food, which we enjoyed but he didn't work there for very long.

No, but I think I'm going to go work where your daughter works. Are they hiring?

Unfortunately, no. I do get free copies of our products, though.

My hubby manages a taco bell so I can get free taco bell anytime. But the nice thing is the company that owns this taco bell owns many other places so we get a discount at many different places plus they do give out freebies ever so often. Like we just got 4 free tickets to valleyfair an amusement park nearby. Me being pregnant we decided to sell them and are gonna make $80.00 so that will be nice. He has gotten concert tickets and lots of others. They also do cash contests and last summer he won 6 weeks in a row each week was a $120 gift card that was a nice summer.

Am I dreaming or is this an oldie resurrected?..one r..2 s`s omg..well anyway,we did at one time,when our son worked at the cellar cafe Longleat we used o have some lovely goodies come our way!we would inspect his duffle bag every night when he came home for the illicit goodies!and there lurking in the depths of that tattered and smelly old duffle bag were bars of chocolate,that had accidentally `fallen` into it,and maybe a few pieces of lush cake,Oh those treats were awesome!!Ive never worked anywhere where you had perks as such,the only thing that may have come my way was the odd incontinence pad or two,and Mr Ruby worked with a pen,so he had npo perks either\!!but some jobs have excellent perks attached to them,but the trouble is you only get them if you can find a way of smuggling them out!

No I dont get nothing free from work except at Christmas they give us a big tin of Quality Street!!
I think the company I work for should give us a dinner allowance but hey, it doesnt matter what I think!!

Have you had any freebies form work??

How cool. Are you going to share???

I haven't worked for years because of my fibromyalgia. But when I did, I never got anything for free. I did, however, get some great things at the department store where I worked. When something was defective, we could send it back to the vendor and wait to see what credit the store would get. Or the department manager could call it defective (and the company get the tax benefit for a loss of merchandise), then sell it to associates for 75-80% off the retail price. Anyone good with a glue gun could get some awesome stuff at almost free prices.

Ohhhhh how nice!! I want a piece of pie! Since I work for mom I get all kinds of perks that come with the job, such as seeing her smile when I say something silly, Or her saying it tastes ok, when I've burned her salmon!! LOL mOm's are great as employers...Lori