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Have you ever created your own job perks?

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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  • When I worked at a motel, I got first pick of a bunch of leftover shit by taking the initiative to sort out and organize and purge of trash several months of backlogged lost crap. I don't think anybody else actually wanted all the tarot and oracle cards, but the ring light would have been wanted.

    • Creepy.. did anything wierd happen after you got the cards?

      • No? They're hardly the first tarot cards we've owned. We have several sets. They were bizarrely left with some lingerie (which I declined) the aforementioned ring light, and the absolute motherlode of gel pens. There were enough gel pens for multiple employees to take home a set and to leave some around the motel office and lobby. I still have some more than six months after I left that job.

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