Sometimes helped the folks who ran a rodent ranch that supplied feeder mice and rats etc to much of Chicago. they necessarily had a relaxed attitude towards inventory shrinkage and and explicit employee discount of 100%.
No restocking fees either.
I think i actually gave them more than I took, all told.
everybody working there seemed to have a "you have a problem" grade pet habit. I didn't even have hardly any snakes or anything then.
No other post-work Friday office drinks experience comes close!
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BTW having a pinball machine sounds great, until your office is located right next to it for months.
At another job, I worked at a museum and got free reciprocal/courtesy entry to many museums across the world. That was sweet, being able to visit all the big ones that normally cost a hefty chunk of change.
These days, just being able to work remotely and set my own part-time schedule. My partner's job is stationary, or we'd be traveling the world constantly and doing the whole digital nomad thing.
Went into computers instead - fell back on architecture+tech...
Worked on big project and had to fly to a meeting in LA to meet with the Architect... Frank Gehry.
(I used to be on the same pee schedule as Andy Grove (we never spoke))
Sometimes after work the mechanics would get me high, and we'd sit out back and watch the ocean.
It was nice.
I brought my wife and then 4 year old daughter to what was basically a two month, all expenses paid road trip throughout half the country. We got some of the best food from each state, and the teachers I trained made sure we didn't end up in tourist traps. My wife and I probably gained about 10 kg by the end of those two months.