Whats Your Industry Secret/ Loophole That Gets You Perks?

CI on 26/07/2017 - 16:23
Last edited 26/07/2017 - 17:20 by 1 other user

Hi guys

I am in the aviation industry and I travel a lot
I know a really good trick/secret/loophole which gets me priority boarding, immigration express lane and bunch of other things usually devoted for first class and business class passengers only or people with silver/gold memberships with their relevant airline.

I am too scared to share the secret as it will mean airlines/airport staff will find out eventually since everyone will try to use it and then it wont be there for me anymore.

However, as a sweetener I can share my other secret.
So 4 years ago Subway email me an offer which was buy any 600ml drink and get any 6 inch sub for free - it was a mobile offer, but the loophole is it has no expiry date.
So I can confirm I have been eating $3.80 6-inch Sub and Drink for past few years. And it tastes amazing after a good sat night out.

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Comments

  • cwongtech on 26/07/2017 - 16:37
    +3

    Banks usually waive credit card fees for their employees.
    Apart from that not much.
    Lower fixed rate for home loans and half the rate for cash advance.

    • ChillBro on 26/07/2017 - 16:40

      Is the lower interest rate for the life of the loan or your employment?

      • activ8newbs on 26/07/2017 - 16:58
        +1

        It's for credit cards, for the life of your employment

        • conan2000 on 30/07/2017 - 20:31
          +1

          I left ANZ as an employee almost 4 years ago and still getting the employee benefits on the credit card. The home loan discounts were rubbish anyway so moved that.

          I know people who left NAB closer to 7 years ago and are still getting all of their employee benefits.

      • cwongtech on 26/07/2017 - 17:02
        +5

        Once the rate is fixed it stays that way regardless of your employment. This is for home loans.
        Some banks will cut your credit card annual fee waiver immediately as soon as you stop working for them, some will let you keep it fee free as long as you don't close it

        • idonotknowwhy on 28/07/2017 - 09:16
          +2

          Each time I go to cancel a credit card-card (ozbargain, points), the bank/company has offered me no fee for life. Is this the norm? Just threaten to leave and they waive the fee?

        • cwongtech on 28/07/2017 - 10:53

          @idonotknowwhy:
          They have a retention team. I guess it depends on your spending habits too

        • Seraphin7 on 28/07/2017 - 11:07
          +2

          Really depends on how well the employment data is matched to the product data. I know people still getting discounted arrangements close on 10 years after leaving employment.

    • [Deactivated] on 26/07/2017 - 20:37

      Lower fixed rate for home loans and half the rate for cash advance.

      Is the rate actually lower than what retail customers can negotiate themselves? I've worked for a big 4 bank and always found the staff rates to be more than the promotional rates/loss leaders offered to new customers

      • serpserpserp on 29/07/2017 - 14:31

        I believe the best bit about staff home loans is being exempt from having to pay mortgage insurance on a 90% LVR. Just threaten to leave to get a better rate. But be prepared to move. You can always come back to the bank you work for later (and get the new customer offer).

    • psy on 28/07/2017 - 12:58

      Free bank cheques too.

      Source: worked in banking.

    • JimB on 28/07/2017 - 15:32
      +4

      Biggest perks for bank employees (can't say they are all the same) in terms of loans is they don't pay LMI when borrowing more than 80%.

      Wished I worked at a bank for this reason.

      • John Kimble on 28/07/2017 - 15:37

        The bank I used to work for didn't have that! I think the only one I saw for staff was a .25 or .50 (can't remember) per cent off the interest rate.

        • JimB on 28/07/2017 - 15:44
          +1

          0.50% is an insult!

          Many bank employees have loans not from their bank when LVR isn't an issue.

      • mtfranklin on 01/08/2017 - 07:38
        +1

        can confirm that, we didn't have to pay LMI while borrowing 90%. 0.7 is the discount on SVR and annual fees, loan application etc are waived

    • JimmyF on 28/07/2017 - 17:14
      +4

      buy enough NAB shares and they waive you're yearly credit card fee too ;)

      • [Deactivated] on 28/07/2017 - 19:47
        +1
        • Your
      • Blahness on 29/07/2017 - 01:05

        How much is enough?

        I have some bank shares but didn't know this!

      • marquise on 29/07/2017 - 17:09

        Or I could just ask them to waive it =)

        • JimmyF on 29/07/2017 - 17:18
          +1

          You could, some banks will, some banks won't. It comes down to how much you spend on the card. Plus you have to do that every year.

          This way, you get it done automagically each year, plus you get a dividend, for NAB that was a 99c dividend fully franked each year.

    • Ten on 30/07/2017 - 17:58

      Also depending on the bank, the offer is extended to family and friends (ie. everyone they know).

  • ihbh on 26/07/2017 - 17:03
    +43

    So 4 years ago Subway email me an offer

    Care to share the email? ;-)

    • subywagon on 26/07/2017 - 19:17
      +2

      Please?

    • [Deactivated] on 26/07/2017 - 20:47
      +3

      There's several references to the deal on ozb going back to 2012. Seems like the coupon was suppose to expire after 24 hours of clicking on the link. I guess the OP just took a screenshot. There seems to be several images on google images, but I don't like the chances of a store honoring it.

      • macrocephalic on 31/07/2017 - 09:45
        +2

        At this point, why not just take an existing coupon and edit it?

        • [Deactivated] on 31/07/2017 - 09:59

          My sentiments exactly…

    • Rogaor on 27/07/2017 - 09:50

      Can't find it… anyone can pls pm it to me?

      • r0k on 28/07/2017 - 08:45

        Would like a pm too thanks.

    • HarmonicMelody on 28/07/2017 - 18:37

      I think they mean job offer

  • D C on 26/07/2017 - 17:12
    +88

    Free food in the dumpsters behind supermarkets after closing time.

    • Nikovegna on 27/07/2017 - 08:11
      +15

      Got me through uni back in the day.

    • Gunther on 27/07/2017 - 09:22
      +8

      And that's why major supermarkets have to lock their bins are closing.

      • Meconium on 28/07/2017 - 15:18
        +35

        And that's why lockpicking kits show up on OzB occasionally ;)

      • AncientWisdom on 28/07/2017 - 19:52
        +10

        And that's why our world is currently in a terrible mess!

      • mranderson978 on 29/07/2017 - 11:21

        Nothing a good pair of bolt cutters can't get through.

        • serpserpserp on 29/07/2017 - 14:33
          +1

          Better use those on the CCTV that is overlooking the bins as well…

      • jacross on 01/08/2017 - 11:56

        Have to?

    • DarwinBoy on 28/07/2017 - 09:15

      Heard the same applies to dominos

      • miicah on 28/07/2017 - 15:21
        +5

        I used to take them home after my shift, boss got mad when she found out and thought I was making 'mistake' pizzas on purpose. Shift manager was cool about it though.

        • [Deactivated] on 28/07/2017 - 17:19
          +70

          Aren't all Dominos pizzas 'mistake' pizzas?

        • syousef on 28/07/2017 - 19:19
          +7

          My first job was a pizza delivery driver for a chain that no longer exists. They didn't pay you for the shift, only per delivery and drivers with seniority had dibs. I often went and got to make no deliveries. Best days I'd get 3 or 4 so I quit that job after only 2-3 weeks. (It didn't get better for those who had been there for longer, unless it was a lot longer). I don't think my time there paid for the crappy uniform plus wear and tear on the car.

          Anyway the manager was a real piece of work. Fancied himself a business man and a playboy. Use to try to convince us to buy a "volcano pizza". Basically he'd have his staff pile on all the leftover ingredients on a pizza and sell it for about 2-3x as much as a normal pizza.

          First and last pizza delivery job.

        • bobbified on 28/07/2017 - 20:14
          +4

          @syousef:

          …leftover ingredients on a pizza and sell it for about 2-3x as much as a normal pizza.

          That's not a perk - that's getting exploited by your boss! haha

        • syousef on 29/07/2017 - 06:57
          +2

          @bobbified:

          I don't know why you were downvoted. It certainly wasn't by me. That's exactly what he was trying to do. I will point out he didn't ever sell me one because I recognized it for what it was. A couple of my friends on the other hand…

        • Skinnerr on 30/07/2017 - 08:43
          +4

          @syousef: 'buy a "volcano pizza".'
          '
          KrapaTOA!

        • montorola on 30/07/2017 - 12:15
          +1

          @bobbified:

          That's not a perk - that's getting a s s-raped by your boss! haha

          Guess that's where the playboy bit comes in lol

        • syousef on 30/07/2017 - 20:29
          +2

          @thedude23:

          Salmonella instead of lava.

        • syousef on 30/07/2017 - 20:30
          +1

          @montorola:

          He leased a very new sports car that was way above his pay grade. He probably had to run every scam he could just to meet repayments.

        • Wampus on 31/07/2017 - 09:13

          @syousef: I used to deliver for Pizza Hut back in the '90s. We'd get to take pizzas home as well occasionally. Used to get $6 an hour plus a per-delivery amount, something like $2. What they used to do is send the pizza makers home and get the delivery drivers to make the pizzas, for $6 an hour.

        • syousef on 31/07/2017 - 09:32

          @Wampus:

          I think at the time Pizza Hut required you to be 19 and i was 18, or was it 18 and I was 17. The company I'm talking about didn't have that restriction but only paid per delivery - no hourly rate at all. There was a reason I didn't stick with that job. I've been in my current job 13 years, and the one before that 5 years.

        • Pootie Tang on 31/07/2017 - 10:31

          What were the type of pizzas that she deemed mistake pizzas?

    • ankor on 28/07/2017 - 19:25
      +1

      I can now afford smashed avo at the cafe AND a house yay.

      • greatlamp on 30/07/2017 - 10:16
        +3

        If you own a house, you can plant an avocado tree

        The rich get richer…

        • macrocephalic on 31/07/2017 - 09:47

          Sure, if you want to wait 5+ years for it to fruit.

        • greatlamp on 31/07/2017 - 13:11
          +2

          @macrocephalic: Buy a grafted tree, you will get fruit in 2 years

      • D C on 30/07/2017 - 17:00
        +4

        Bloody millennials.

        No wonder you don't have a house.

        You get your avocado (possibly pre-smashed) and day-old bread out of the dumpster so you don't have to buy it at the cafe.

        Because you got them out of the dumpster in the wild they are free range, so with that hipster cred you can go to to the cafe where they will proudly toast your bread (save on your power bill) and serve it to you for doing your bit in being a tightarse saving the planet.

        If you have the correct beard and glasses you might get a gratis organic fair trade caffeine free no fat ground up chalk in water soy milk latte in a jam jar (that inexplicably has a handle attached to it) as well.

        What do they teach in schools these days?

        Why back in my day we wore the almond skin as shoes when walking uphill to the cafe in the snow…

  • kanad on 26/07/2017 - 17:18
    +8

    I work in a service that gives me 50% discount on the service. Comes out over $4000 in annual value.

    • John Kimble on 26/07/2017 - 17:46
      +94

      Escort?

    • mskeggs on 26/07/2017 - 17:47
      +9

      Trying to think of a service I spend $8k p.a. on.

      • John Kimble on 26/07/2017 - 17:49
        +70

        Escorts?

        • mskeggs on 26/07/2017 - 17:57
          +8

          You deal in a fairly high class of companionship, I see.
          Or, I suppose, under $25 a day is pretty low rent if you go for quantity.

        • John Kimble on 26/07/2017 - 18:16
          +5

          @mskeggs: No, not for everyday, just for special occasions, silly!

        • Kangal on 26/07/2017 - 18:26
          +3

          @John Kimble:
          Devil's special?

          $666 per month visit. Working there as a cleaner and you get 50% kinda deal.
          It's cheaper if you go for the Bikie's monthly, nothing beats the solitude of a man and the puttering exhaust of his Betty his Harley Davidson, and there will be blood ; )

      • kanad on 26/07/2017 - 18:36

        Service is a generic word. Insurance premium for family in my case.

        • John Kimble on 26/07/2017 - 18:54
          +8

          Haha, I'm just playing. I don't have the money for escorts, fortunately/unfortunately.

      • serpserpserp on 29/07/2017 - 14:34

        Bikies.

    • JimB on 28/07/2017 - 14:24
      +53

      When I was single, I use to serve myself. 100% free.

      Then I got a girlfriend. Woohoo 100% free.

      Then I got married. I'm now paying for it but get nothing in return.

      • sydney.jj on 29/07/2017 - 13:03
        +1

        guess you are paying back now

        • JimB on 30/07/2017 - 11:09
          +5

          It's like one of those 'take home now and pay nothing for 3 years' items.

          After 3 years you start making repayments, the item is now worn, obsolete and you can't give it away.

        • BuyoTheCat on 01/08/2017 - 12:55

          @JB1:

          There are clubs where you can go to swap

  • josepet on 26/07/2017 - 18:26
    +12

    Go to any Pig 'n' Whistle and say you work in hospitality, name a random restaurant and enjoy their hospo fare.

    • AlienC on 28/07/2017 - 16:57
      +4

      What is a pig n whistle

      • tee123 on 28/07/2017 - 18:01
        +3

        Seems to be a resturant

        • AlienC on 28/07/2017 - 18:12
          +1

          Huh TIL

    • johnno07 on 29/07/2017 - 13:47
      +1

      Reeeeallly. This will work in any of the Brisbane CBD ones? Food and drinks? What's the discount? This could be a game-changer if I can get my social engineering act together.

  • PJC on 26/07/2017 - 18:31
    +19

    After a modelling assignment in Milan or Paris or somebody's yacht my PA packs the garments into my suitcase.

    • serpserpserp on 29/07/2017 - 14:35
      +4

      It is the greatest perk for us models…

      • PJC on 29/07/2017 - 14:43
        +2

        It makes up for Donatella Versace stalking me.

        • Seraphin7 on 31/07/2017 - 08:42
          +1

          Urgh.

        • PJC on 31/07/2017 - 10:09
          +1

          @Seraphin7: That one could suck the colour off a marble.

  • onetwothreefour on 26/07/2017 - 18:41
    +28

    I get to choose what the winning lotto numbers are.

  • jaybo on 26/07/2017 - 18:49
    +52

    i work in IT and pretend to be interested in various supplier's goods and they take me out to the footy, tennis, etc in corporate boxes.

    it's excellent fun :D

    • CI on 26/07/2017 - 18:56
      +3

      Likewise and ethically challenging.

      • jaybo on 26/07/2017 - 18:58
        +3

        i find being upfront about things helps - eg: i really like your product but i honestly have no budget to spend on it.
        a certain firewall vendor keeps inviting me to things and i feel guilty going, but i've been pretty straight with them that i do like their product and i would like to buy it, but i just simply don't have the budget or project requirement for it at this stage.

        • John Kimble on 26/07/2017 - 19:08
          +13

          Don't feel guilty. If they couldn't afford to wine and dine you, they wouldn't. They have an entertainment budget and corporate boxes etc already, so may as well enjoy it if invited. You could always decline if that concerned…

        • jaybo on 26/07/2017 - 19:21
          +11

          @John Kimble: totally. i don't feel bad enough to bail completely :P

          i actually feel horrible when i say i'll be at a function and have to cancel last minute though. got a P1 call last week 20 minutes before i had to go for free breakfast. shattered.

        • davidmwilliams on 26/07/2017 - 22:19
          +2

          Tell us what the product is. This will ease your conscience. Sure, you may not have the budget to buy it, but if you like it and tell others about it and why you like it, that's giving the vendor value.

        • acoma on 27/07/2017 - 08:19
          +4

          @davidmwilliams: Palo Alto is my guess. Or Check Point.

        • jaybo on 27/07/2017 - 12:26
          +6

          @acoma: bingo, first try! :D

        • desert eagle on 01/08/2017 - 10:43

          It's still an effective form of promotion for them. Imagine how much you would talk amongst your peers about this supplier?

    • [Deactivated] on 26/07/2017 - 22:42
      +4

      Can confirm.

      I work in IT and have been treated to, courtesy of various vendors everything from (alcohol soaked) dinners at fine dinning restaurants to alcohol fuelled poker games. Along with plain old bottles of alcohol.

    • drprox on 28/07/2017 - 14:56
      +3

      you sir, are a whore of the highest order!

      • jaybo on 28/07/2017 - 16:17
        +1

        <3 you lachie

    • serpserpserp on 29/07/2017 - 14:37
      +2

      I hate being taken out anywhere that people try and sell me things.

    • Changskies on 30/07/2017 - 02:26
      +2

      Do not feel guilty. Vendors dont need you to opt in right now (hope in the future though). Those who are inviting you need to make connections and also, vendors need names and number of attendees to justify to the business because they want to attend it themselves for free. bet u never received an invite for a cricket match… yeah.

      apologise upfront; tired, tipsy myself making grammar/spelling mistakes.

    • Wampus on 31/07/2017 - 09:18

      I used to be Purchasing Manager for a range of IT stores in Perth. Went to trade shows and two times out of three I 'won a prize'. I never win prizes. I'm pretty sure everyone who won a prize had some sort of 'decision maker' job title and it was OK to take a prize like a weekend away than a direct sweetener…

    • PVA on 31/07/2017 - 22:05

      how much do you state on your taxes for this?

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