School forces teachers to pay $30 for soda machine, birthday parties, and greeting cards: 'I don't drink soda and they forgot my birthday the first week of school.'

Companies often offer small perks as incentives to keep their employees engaged. I have friends who've worked in offices that serve them breakfast, lunch, and dinner every day as an incentive for coming into the office. I also have friends whose office doesn't even have free snacks or drinks, let alone three meals a day. It all really depends on how much money a company has and how much of that money they're willing to put into employee perks. 

Some perks feel insulting. If you made your company millions of dollars in revenue and they gave you a $5 Starbucks gift card as a "Thank You," you probably wouldn't see that as a reward or a perk, but as a slap in the face. 

If you work for a state institution, your perks might not be as cushy as the perks of a startup employee. Teachers often have to finance the decoration of their own classrooms and school supplies, and are paid peanuts compared to comparably demanding professions. The biggest perk that teachers get is having summers off, which, to many schools, is more than enough.

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