Apartment complex gives employees the 'benefit' of taking their rent directly out of their paycheck: 'That's not a benefit, that's just paying rent.'

That's a pretty paltry benefit, all things considered.

What kind of benefits do you want for your job? For most workers, having health insurance is the most important benefit they can have. It protects you from the most insane bills. Some people who are financially well-off enough to refrain from working still work just because employer-sponsored health insurance is so much easier to obtain.

Other benefits are pretty standard with a full-time job. Getting the opportunity to contribute some of your paycheck to a 401(k) really helps you set yourself up for financial stability in the future. You're literally getting free money if your employer has a good match. Heck, you're even getting free money if the match is kind of paltry!

If your company really wants to set itself apart, it will offer its employees more unique benefits, whether or not they are actually in the employees' best interests. A job that caters breakfast and lunch for all of their employees every day of the working week might sound luxurious, until you realize that they do that to keep you in the office for as long as humanly possible. An employer might offer unlimited PTO, but in practice, employees with unlimited PTO take less time off than those with a set amount because they feel more guilty about asking for time off.

Speaking of non-benefits disguised as benefits, the job seeker in this story saw right through the "benefit" of having rent deducted from his paycheck.

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_{The superintendent hands you the keys to your new apartment, which you have to pay for, even though you work for the apartment complex.}
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I'm so tired of "benefits" that I laughed at my interviewer today.

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_{An apartment complex that allows employees to live there, if they apply after 6 months and pay in full.}
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_{An eviction notice, which might come if you quit your job at the apartment complex where you live.}
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