I worked at a place that offered free lunches, free snacks, a free gym, and free power charging for electric cars.

Oh, and free cheap cell phones.

They didn’t pay great, but with these perks, they added enough to the compensation to make it worth staying.

When the pandemic hit, they didn’t offer a lunch stipend, sent out three small boxes of snacks over two years, and that’s it.

People who asked about the perks were made to feel like shit by management, so they left.

They tossed their free cheap cell phones into the gym.

And went to lunch.