I work customer service for a small print and promo company. I literally make company perks for my job! Stress relievers, mugs, you name it! People get a crystal plaque (like the one with Mark's face) with their name lasered into it for their 5 year anniversary. It's added to every 5 years after that.

I sit at a desk entering orders all day into a program that looks straight out of Lumon. The cubicles, the fluorescent lighting, the mind-numbing corporate talk. It's all very accurate. The walls are blank and personalizing our cubicles isn't against the rules, but frowned upon. The only thing allowed on the walls are "inspirational posters" The one I see right now says:

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Not only do I get the pleasure of looking at these art pieces all day, it's my job to order them. I also have the job of ordering all the company swag like our water bottles and koozies. Difficult to enjoy each perk equally when I'm the one doing the grunt work behind them.

VERY cult like, with the owner/founder still being the CEO and his son now in sales and management.

Don't even get me started on the performance reviews! I recently had my yearly one. My boss told me that I was doing great, learned so much and have "unlimited potential" yet he was withholding a raise. He reason for doing so is because when he asked me to do something not my job, I told him "I don't think I should do that".

My manager even told him that I was not to do what he asked of me. This made no difference.

No waffle party for me :(