• Justdaveisfine@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I once worked at a place with a ping pong table. I got a lot of ugly stares from managers if I actually tried to use it, so it was mostly left alone.

    Now whenever I see jobs that list something like that as a perk, I usually see it as a negative.

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      1 year ago

      I interviewed once for a part-time job at a potential startup, and the two people running it spent 75% of the time talking about how they had a pingpong table and how that meant it was a fun company…

      The job wouldn’t be in the office tho, so for my position (and pretty much every employee) would only be able to use it off the clock.

      They were very excited about the ping pong table tho, because their job was in office and they played a lot.

      I didn’t take the job.

      And the startup never opened.

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        1 year ago

        I’ve worked in at a smaller startup with a ping pong table and my anecdote is we were all obsessed with ping pong. So their excitement could really be genuine. It’s not always a ruse.