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bylromarha

marisco wrote: »

Free tea and coffee. Free parking. Working in a place with over 200 people there are regularly free cakes in the staffroom celebrating the latest birthday. All good.

We all pay for our parking at school. £168 per year.

And we pay for our coffee, £5 per term.

Work with 30ish people, so far less cake kicking about.

Yet another way secondary teachers have a better deal than their primary colleagues.

onlyroz

ringo_24601 wrote: »

The only perk of my job is the laptop... I honestly can't think of another perks. I work from home yet my company won't pay for my Internet/heating/electricity costs.

Thankfully I get to take advantage of all my wife's NHS discounts!

Do you not get medical/dental cover or something towards your pension?

Spendless

Free parking on a closed site with security, so no worrying that my car will be broken into or stolen whilst I'm at work.

I work in a rail connected industry, so on days when I'm without a car, I can catch the train from where I live to the main station and then work through a restricted access short-cut, saving me either a long walk or a bus fayre.

I do get free healthcare to a certain amount, but I already was with a different company paying myself but in the last few years I've had medical issues which will be covered by my old policy but not by my new and I believe I can't claim on both.

We had a free buffet last week but that was the first time in the 3 years I've been there.

Mr S doesn't have to pay for petrol in the U.K and gets a laptop and a mobile phone with all calls paid for.

Spendless

bylromarha wrote: »

We all pay for our parking at school. £168 per year.

And we pay for our coffee, £5 per term.

Work with 30ish people, so far less cake kicking about.

Yet another way secondary teachers have a better deal than their primary colleagues.

Don't you just park in the school premises? If so, I really didn't know that this was charged for.

pickledonionspaceraider

I have never considered parking to be a perk, but I don't have to pay for it

Free eye tests and voucher for glasses

bylromarha

Spendless wrote: »

Don't you just park in the school premises? If so, I really didn't know that this was charged for.

Town centre school car park only holds about 10 cars, so we all spill out into the council run car park next to the school and have yearly permits from the council to do so.

To make it fair on everyone we all get charged the same rather than have a race to a space in the school car park each morning. As a teacher, it's okay for me, but feel the cost impacts the TAs unfairly as their wages are lower.

Or we could park a 20 minute walk away in a free space and not pay at all. But no one does that.

Jagraf

A perk or a theft? I work for myself an I have a very tight budget. Someone nicking my stationery would make me very miserable. It's like me being their cleaner and stealing their food / money.

Spendless

bylromarha wrote: »

Town centre school car park only holds about 10 cars, so we all spill out into the council run car park next to the school and have yearly permits from the council to do so.

Ahhhh ok, where I live only has one town centre school and that is an upper school Secondary (yr10-13) that is 100s of years old and a former Grammar with enough grounds that a car park could be established. Every other school is in the suburbs or slightly out of the town centre, so I hadn't thought about anywhere having town centre based schools.

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onlyroz wrote: »

Do you not get medical/dental cover or something towards your pension?

I get a contribution towards my pension (I think,.. I'm not actually sure!). No health care cover sadly, but I can get NHS A* treatment through wife's senior position at the local hospital (to the point it makes private care look pointless). Our firm was bought recently and they are starting to introduce stuff like stock purchase schemes.

I never have to pay any travel costs, which I guess is a perk. All my taxis and trains are paid for.

I don't even get to steal stationary or print stuff for free :-(

Edit- I guess I do get a free night out (dinner and drinks paid) every month..that is my favourite perk!

Caroline_a

Free private health, free eye tests,pension contribution, cheaper heating at home, free printing (allowed by management), free parking, a few marketing freebie give-always...