Quote Originally Posted by Britishbane View Post
It was the culture of the workplace and more specifically the people he worked with (i.e. other engineers). For all intents and purposes my friend is Germanic, no idea whether or not that played a role.

He did say that there were track days in which they could go drive Porsche's as hard and fast as they wanted.....now THAT sounds awesome.
That does sounds awesome. My wife used to work for BMW Financial (as a contracted employee though). The full-timers get awesome car benefits. You get a 2 year lease on a 3 series for the mid $150's/mo if I remember correctly. The higher position you have, the better deal. Knew a guy with a free X5 and free gas. They even had seasonal motorcycle leases for $100/mo.

The kicker - they paid extremely low wages and the people dealt with it and never left because they were too locked into their car benefits. The only other good part was they'd close the office at the faintest hint of snow because they didn't want all those BMWs sliding around the interstate (the xi's were a bit more costly and rare at the time).