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

In 2021, it was the tech start-ups and big tech companies who walked circles around other companies in terms of employee benefits. Fruit bars every day, a Starbucks stipend, in-office nannies to take care of the little ones while you sold your soul away to the corporate overlords. These company benefits are benefits—until they're not. Speaking from experience, a lot of "perks" companies offer, as some commenters will mention in this Reddit thread, are designed to keep you there and allow companies to take advantage of your hard work. No, it's not normal to have a "nap pod" in the workplace. I don't want an arcade down the hall; I want to be able to leave at 5 PM sharp and hit up the arcade near my house.

Below, employees recount the worst company "perks" that they realized were actually not perks at all, or at least sad excuses for them. Scroll below to LOL.

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