Clientco Perks?

[Doggy Styles]

Current clientco canteen is staffed mostly by attractive east european girls who are quite chatty and friendly.
Perk enough for me

Same here. And at the last place I worked.

[dang65]

Most places have some kind of unique facility available to "people working on site" ()

Got free newspapers at last client. You end up kind of forcing yourself to read them every day so you don't miss out on the freebie.

Current client has a very enthusiastic chocoholic as one of the managers, and they keep a big cupboard and fridge stocked up with fizzy drinks and cakes and sweeties for general free use. Takes a lot of self-discipline to keep away from that lot, and I'm not doing too well so far.

On site canteens vary. Some are better than most restaurants I've been to, and very reasonably priced. Others are little better than fast-food outlets. And then there's the places where permies get a special discount card and everyone else has to pay full price. Always go off-site to eat at places like that, of course.

[doodab]

Ooh, I forgot to mention our fridge full of beer.

[Sysman]

Current client has a very enthusiastic chocoholic as one of the managers, and they keep a big cupboard and fridge stocked up with fizzy drinks and cakes and sweeties for general free use. Takes a lot of self-discipline to keep away from that lot, and I'm not doing too well so far.

Current department head has a wife who works in the chocolate industry, so there are always free samples available.

On site canteens vary. Some are better than most restaurants I've been to, and very reasonably priced. Others are little better than fast-food outlets. And then there's the places where permies get a special discount card and everyone else has to pay full price. Always go off-site to eat at places like that, of course.

Of the canteens I've used that charged external staff extra, it was usually too much hassle or too time consuming to go off site.

[dang65]

One place I worked at had things like a dentist, a hairdressers, a cash point, a general newsagent/grocer shop, physiotherapy and nurse... I'm sure there was plenty more, but that lot was just on one corridor which I used to walk along.

Not sure I'd really want to work at a place which basically left you with no options for sneaking a couple of hours off "to go to the bank" or whatever. From a permie point of view, I mean. You need all the perks you can get when you're a permie.

[norrahe]

Crappily made crap starbucks (not that they are any good anyway) and a canteen that serves dull food bar the breakfast (bacon, egg and sausage sarnie for less than a quid).

[doodab]

Crappily made crap starbucks (not that they are any good anyway) and a canteen that serves dull food bar the breakfast (bacon, egg and sausage sarnie for less than a quid).

One place I worked used to do a full breakfast in the canteen of a morning, the leftovers would turn up as "german salad" (i.e. the sausages chopped up and mixed with some potatoes" ) or "breakfast salad" at lunchtime.

[Pondlife]

Current department head has a wife who works in the chocolate industry, so there are always free samples of past its sell by date or quality rejected product available.

FTFY.

My fav was a certain producer of those little Easter eggs with a chicken on the label. The chicken had to be the correct way up or it failed inspection and the whole run went to the staff shop. :weightgainsmilie