Can you afford your employer's products?

stickyfiddle

Tax advice and audit for multinationals? Transaction services for M&A deals? That's a no then!

thermionic

Sporky said:

thermionic said:

My employers now don't make anything

I am happy to include services as well as products.

In that case, yes - filing a patent is relatively inexpensive. I'd have to do it off my own back though, I couldn't afford to pay an attorney!

stonevibe

Yup, Apple and its all within my budget.

ICBM

Yes. Aside from my repair work - which I can afford to pay myself for doing if I need to - I also work for a small musical instrument accessories mail-order business, selling inexpensive Chinese products.

Bucket

Yep, I get 20% staff discount which brings the prices down to only mildly ridiculous.

slacker

I can't afford a double decker bus nor have the space for it. Going to the shops would be good. I could slow down at the bus stops then roar off shouting expletives.

holnrew

No, my pimp has me on the high class pricing.

JDE

I'm an ironmonger. I can afford about 80% of our range, but we do some expensive gate and sliding door kits which would be out of my range. I am one of the owners of the firm, so that means i would realistically just take the stuff rather than paying anyway

Sassafras

I work in a pound shop and I struggle to afford anything in there.

Sassafras

ICBM said:

Yes. Aside from my repair work - which I can afford to pay myself for doing if I need to - I also work for a small musical instrument accessories mail-order business, selling inexpensive Chinese products.

Chibsons?
  

thermionic

ChICBM as he will be known from now on.

Lodious

Jesus....imagine trying to answer this question if you worked at Gibson? 49 weeks of the year, the answer would be 'No, Henry doesn't pay me shit', but then for the 3 sales a year when Amazon are flogging off the Janie Hendrix Flying V-oscater and Henry's other disasters you'd be in with a fighting chance.

LoFi

Yes, but a single-user BPM system would possibly be the most pointless piece of software ever.

Headphones

Nope.  But then the product is a Navy...

tone1

Yep...Who doesn't love a Big Mac and Fries? 

ICBM

Sassafras said:

ICBM said:

I also work for a small musical instrument accessories mail-order business, selling inexpensive Chinese products.

Chibsons?
  

Sadly not - the only guitars they do are school-quality classicals. (I've got one .) It's mostly picks, capos, slides, string winders and strings etc.

DLM

No. I work for the parent company, which is strictly B2B, and I couldn't afford to go into that line of business unless I teamed up with Dr Evil. Many of my employer's subsidiaries have very affordable products.

paulnb57

I work for the Prison Service, you can't buy a Prison Sentence, not sure it would be in my best interest anyway......

maltingsaudio

Self employed PA hire and sound engineering so everything I've got I bought myself 

nick79

I work part time as a motorbike mechanic and part time in a guitar store. The bikes i can't afford, or at least most of them, and that goes for the guitars too mostly. But i can stretch to the odd pack of strings.