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Have you ever created your own job perks? (lemmy.nz)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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When I was working minimum wage at a gas station many eons ago, we would have '2 for $x' specials where x is less than 2 times the individual price of whatever item.

People would often not want to buy 2, but I would ring up 2 in the till for the special price and charge them for the single. Then when the next person did the same, I would charge them for the other single.

So over the day, I would sell 10 energy drinks at say $4, but ring them up as 5 '2 for $6' specials. This would put the till up by $10, and then I would use that $10 to have a free meal.

Anyone else do anything like that?

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

absolutely. I work at a phone/computer repair shop.

I have a policy called the "front desk fix policy". pretty much, if I can fix it at the front desk in under a few minutes, I'm not charging you for it. common culprits are simple software fixes and charging port cleanings.

I give free screen protectors with every repair instead of charging customers for it. the screen is the expensive part not the screen protector.

I also tend to give a 10$ discount if people are just cool to talk with. if we genuinely enjoy talking to each other, they've made my day better, so I might as well do the same for them.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think this is kind of the opposite of what OP was asking about.

What "perks" did people create for themselves?

[–] Agent641 2 points 1 year ago

Good karma generator?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

hm. yeah I def read that wrong. more on point I can get any part I need for my own repairs very cheap through our wholesalers so that's a good perk I guess