New employee receives warning after bragging about how company orders lunch for employees every day: 'You're not getting a lunch break'

Many workplace perks come with a hidden cost.First and foremost, the main benefit of a job is almost always its salary. This is what (hopefully) pays the bills and any fun stuff that has a price tag, as well as allows you to generally exist in a world where money is everything. While there are people who do what they do professionally because it is their passion, those kinds of employees are few and far between.At the same time, it is usually a nicer experience to work at a company that offers benefits other than the paycheck. Although attempts to cultivate a 'company culture' are easy to dismiss as a cynical ploy to distract employees from unethical business practices, it is also capable of placating the horrors a bit when it is done right.The real question is whether whatever special perks your workplace may offer are worth the payoff of what it is like to work there otherwise. For example, is that so-called unlimited PTO so great when you are expected to limit it to the extent that you actually get fewer vacation days? It takes some critical thinking to see past the marketing and understand what the company is trying to communicate without you realizing it. What seemed like a p…