‘Anything that keeps you there’: Employees discuss the nonsensical so-called benefits that were disguised as company ‘perks’

• You'll find the common “unlimited PTO” complaints and the pizza parties for meeting Q1 goals everywhere you look, but some of these company perks walk circles around some of the most nonsensical things you've ever heard. These “perks” convince you that your job is perfect on paper, but in reality, your company just wants to pull fast ones on you and use these “benefits” to prove they aren't the worst.

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• "What’s a company ‘perk’ that turned out to be absolute bull****?"

  
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