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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] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I (with permission, but without oversight) take home all the broken computers, obsolete cables, and other junk from work and either:

build working PCs from parts of many and sell them
strip them and sell the parts individually
sell the cables (if you need a VGA cable for some old monitor at 730pm on sunday right away because your new monitor broke, Im youre guy)
scrap out computers and cables for ewaste, copper, and aluminium and sell these at the recycling center.

Nothing goes to waste/landfil on my watch. Everything I sell is exceptionally cheap. If someone needs a computer but has no money, I give it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Dude you're a fucking hero for preventing those things from going into landfill.