Best job I've ever had: janitor. No politics, no pretending to be "important," just get it done, go home, and figure out how to play another song on a guitar. Life is good!
@@lisemartin7224 I have no idea what this has to do with Tony being a janitor. Being a janitor is a respectable and necessary job, as many are. Unfortunately, many aren't.
I have heard this from several people about janitorial work, they love it. And the fact that it is "viewed" insignificant by others helps you escape the "EGO TRAP" that we are somehow important at work... names like specialist, experts, architects, and stuff like that.
@@carlgauss1702 I understood her Carl. But I don't see how it was relevant to commending a man for doing a job which isn't glorified by the media. And in so doing, surely I am breaking the narrative you and she were talking about? If I were to have said it's a crappy job, I would have seen the need for her interjection. It isn't a crappy job though, and so I did not say that. I said it is a necessary job, which it is. And I said it might not be 'glorious', because the media do not celebrate janitorial work. Therefore, I would suggest you and Lise take that up with the media, not me.
So true, and it's like this shit is all over the world, how is this even possible? Would be interesting to know if it's the same in behind-iron-curtains like North Korea, and if so, that is hilarious (and extremely sad)
Corporate solution for every problem: hire a manager. Employees: Great! So one of us has an opportunity to advance and become a supervisor!? Corporate: LOL! No silly! We will hire someone from outside who has no idea about the process or anything we do here. We will also hire two more managers and create new positions with fancy titles. You will report to all 3 of them.
Easier to control clueless managers. In case that doesn't pan out, pay a consultancy firm to create yet again another useless report that will never be implemented. Repeat cycle.
performers shouldn't be leaders. and drill sergeant types certainly shouldn't be leaders, they should be the hands of a proper thinker. But that is not the way of humanity. If we were like an insect hive then we would be in better role allocation. Wanting results but hoping it would come from ideals lol
The management where i used to work hired an hr manager who doesn't have any ideas how an architectural firm works. She basically just kiss ass the upper management. Now we have covid, things got worse. They wouldnt implement work from home setup so you know exodus of resignation and the employees dpesnt have any moral at all. Super toxic
My job did this a year ago but with an analyst whos primary job is to monitor the other employees instead of a manager. They wanted to know why we were having a hard time keeping up with the increased workflow. So instead of hiring someone to relieve some of that workload they hired someone to help micromanage.
The principle of capitalism is whether the market think you are more valuable, not what you think you are more valuable. The factors of measuring value by your bosses or bosses' bosses are not the same as you.
I work for a municipality and im one of those guys standing there watching that single construction guy work. But that is not my primary focus. I do that only once a month on average just to perform a visual inspection of progress. The rest of the time im writing emails and reading and writing technical documents. If we are performing a function test of some type, there can be 10+ guys standing around watching 2 people perform the test with the other 10 as witnesses/stakeholders for the results of that test.
@snowangeliquexx It's pretty simple: in a government job there is no motivation for accountability like there is in the private world. As was said above, in the corporate world, inept as it may be, there is a profit motive that at least tries to elicit competency from its employees. Government jobs don't necessarily have that same motivation. They see money as a tax-funded entitlement more than a goal to be worked for, and as a result, many times there is far less of a sense of accountability. On the other hand, oftentimes there is a sense that some in these jobs feel "untouchable" in their positions, thanks to the bloated bureaucracies that employ them, and the cushy, sometimes unearned remunerations they receive. I can give you some examples. In the education system, I know people who were hired by school systems to basically sit in an office and do far less work than their salaries indicated. Their work could have been easily filled by a part time employee, but they received some benefits that even full time teachers didn't get. I can tell you stories of employees in public service buildings who are woefully inept at their jobs, yet somehow hang onto them. Just recently, I had to report to a city building for a license registration. I had to go to FOUR different sources, three of whom directly contradicted each other, before I could get straight what procedure I was supposed to do. And if I hadn't have done it right, I would have been seriously penalized, regardless of how unprofessionally the government workers were in their lack of knowledge as to what to do. I know of public transit workers who have received eight hours pay for what has amounted to MAYBE three hours' time spent working. And these are just a few. I don't disagree that corporations can be as idiotic as they can be portrayed in shows such as The Office. But again, if you think government offices and organizations are any better, you're dreaming.
You're right. It's the whole system and some the jobs we have that paid employees could be from "the unions" doing. If there's no jobs, then there's no income. So no work means no car, no food, and etc etc.
Before going to corporate know 3 things: 1. It's packed with a bunch of tools who have no personality and sense of self outside of their credentials. Who they are is what they do and that's all they are. 2. The people who confuse having a stick up their butt with being professional are just pretenders. These are the people who will never answer your questions because they don't actually know anything. 3. The people who do know things are the ones who are actually humble and friendly.
I'm honestly skeptical of a lot of so called "careers". Chances are, it's not even necessarily what you wanted to do in the first place (but we all like what the money buys us). And, like she said in the video, jobs and careers are not the same in the first place. One of the best solutions is to at least find work that doesn't suck and where you don't work too many hours. This way, you can at least still have time left over to just enjoy your life.
I used to love being a waiter because it left me with so much time to do other things. Of course that restaurant jobs were wiped away by the pandemic. Hoping to find a job where I have as much freedom and fun as that job, which I doubt I will ever have again.
Meanwhile, nurses in the hospital lose their sanity to just be making ~60-70K. 12 long and stressful hours, no time to eat drink or pee, getting verbally and physically abuse and working through a pandemic or Inclement weather. 😪
@@mistermarch533 Doegecoin is a joke. It's purely a fork of bitcoin. The bitcoin mining power can easily switched to Dodge to create double spending, breaking the dodgecoin's blockchain in minutes. Stay away from dodgecoin. Keep yourself in Bitcoin, even just 1 satoshi.
Yeah, the desk clerks who actually helped people were fired with digitization. The overpaid big shots who only want to steal your money are still there.
I left my first job, not knowing why I was even there... I really feel big corps are not for me. Indifferent & ignorant culture is something that I hate the most.
I was a bit lucky. My first company was ok. But I have friends who were not as lucky and they had to deal with all kinds of toxic colleagues and corporate politics. Some people I know opt for start-ups even though it’s more unstable.
I worked for small companies, and those were even worse.. always oversteping your boundaries and not understanding your job is just a "job" to you, and not your lifework
He he he...............ha ha ha ha........never thought that one day, i will see Vietnamese who also disagree about the obvious facts like me. Ignorant culture is everywhere
I had a friend that admitted that he got paid 80K for just sitting in his office and just filling out and signing off paperwork. He was supposedly a "hospital software analyst" .....
What he was getting paid for is to be a scapegoat. That salary, office, and seemingly pointless tasking is just a retainer. The problem is that many people misunderstand the value they bring to the ones are paying them.
I started working as a security guard recently and it seems that 90% of the jobs i get could either be preformed by an alarm system or a surveillance camera. The other 10% is essentially customer service. I literally do nothing most of the time. I don't even need to write reports. I'm paid to exist.
Sounds like an opportunity man. Use your spare time to learn how to install alarm systems and cameras and then pitch to the companies hiring you how much money they would save. Then sell them the cameras and alarms and do the installations for a fee.
Yeah I used to work security at a office building downtown and it was mainly just saying hello to all the employees that came in. And the overnight shifts were just sitting and going for an occasional stroll. It was kind of a joke.
My company outsources some services for Walmart...we have 3 team leads, supervising me and my colleague (2 of us), during day shift, which is busiest.The night shift has more people in it and are less under supervision, which means they can get away with some mistakes, or just avoid doing some things without getting caught, while earning more.I feel so much pressure right now, and we are just entering busiest season of year, and while my TLs were drilling me about some mistakes, they announced there would be days when I'll have to do an entire shift alone.I dread this, and I think it's really not fair since the customer is such a big company...I won't get any increase in pay or benefits for all this.. I'm sending out CV, to find anything else, before everything implodes, and I have a sinking feeling it will
My career as a software developer: constantly slapping band-aids on the various systems and processes the company can't be bothered to really fix or rethink, getting burnt out and frustrated, jumping over to a new company, rinse, repeat.
And if a younger worker with or without a college degree comes and tries to prove himself by changing something to better, she or he only gets permission to do so when he is the nephew of a higher up otherwise the youngster is grinded and spit out. Where is the digference to medieval times?
@@GeneralChangFromDanang lol so my office did that in like 2013 and they cut the paper towels in half. But that did seem to be localised after director came in one day and got shamed out of the room. It got fixed the next day. But the point stands they always nickle and dime the cheap stuff but then drop half a mill on something that sits on the floor and collects dust.
To me the whole "pretentious-and-unnecessarily-long-job-titles"-thing sort of reminds me of noble titles in countries like Great Britain and Germany by the end of the 19th/beginning of the 20th century. You could not just be Sir Robert. No, to show how rich and influential you really were you would have to call yourself something like "Lord Robert, Chancellor of the Duchy of Gloucestershire-upon the Thames, 1st Earl of Bournemouth." Seems to me that somewhere in the centuries before there must have been a wave of "title inflation". Anyway, it's very funny to me how we switched over from inflated nobility titles to inflated corporate job titles. At least more people get them now, so... progress, I guess??
why do you have to use acient examples when you can use current ones in government like minster of bullshit, comissoner, chief exective, senator, mayor or whatever other bullshit they come up with to order ranking of monkeys.
“Answering BS emails, being interrupted, defending yourself for something u didn’t do or something u did do, chasing other people, and SNACKING snacking is the best part” 🤣😭😭 me everyday 😇😇
The problem I had when I was in a BS job was that steadily I was being deskilled by not doing any real work. Then I had to struggle a lot when I left because I had to relearn a lot of what I had forgotten.
This is one of my fears right now. I am working from home at the moment. I have anxiety about how I'm not really learning any transferable skills at this job. I am learning coding but this job at the moment isn't anything more than a paycheck
I’m watching this video and reading your comment while working at my job that does the same exact thing. I’m currently in grad school so I don’t have to worry about not having any future skills, but if I weren’t in school, I’d be terrified of how little I have to offer if I were to leave this job.
I was hanging out with an IT colleague. And this is what I overheard his phone call when somebody called to fix the problems with their work laptop: - You log off then log on again. If it doesn’t work, take the battery out and put it in. If it again doesn’t work, then call J.(my IT colleague’s boss) I almost choke on my coffee for laughing.
I agree with 1 of the comments here regarding how B-R-0-A-D the tech industry is. Specialties like Cloud, DevOps, Data Science, Business Intelligence , UX, Automation/RPA , etc are really needed. But being a former helpdesk myself, I truly get what you're saying. :)
Yeah... my buddy got into an IT position for health care and makes 2x my salary(almost 6 figures), gets to work from home, does 8x less work than me (almost does nothing but play video games on the side) full benefits ... while I work almost the full 8 hours a day and get paid half as him lol life just be like that sometimes
Vietnamese here. Currently working in a corporate after graduating from Monash. 1000% attest to this video: the obsession with prestige and status is just insane. Toxic culture of self-promoting and gaslighting just makes me sick 😭. Planning to quit soon enough
This shit is even in nonprofits. My org hired an officer 2 years ago and to this day I have no idea what she did during her time there and I can generally tell you what everyone does. She forced us into these 2-hour bi-weekly meetings where we would break into small groups and talk about things that weren't relevant to the majority of people there. I really believe she forced these meetings to justify her job.
I expect much more from non-profits. All the tax incentives they get, but they have useless managers?? Would hate to have my life fall apart and reach out to your nonprofit😬
This is why with remote work in my tech field I get most of my work done in the first hour. I can't imagine sitting at a desk and doing nothing all day.
A big deal of bosses are narcissistic. Our world really needs a spiritual transformation embracing empathy and present moment attention to destroy so much egotism, fear, ambition just for the sake of hide the global illness: human unhappiness. That's what I like Eckart Tolle mindset.
Human happiness is relative and thus a moving target. Humans will always be unhappy. I don't even think it's a goal that should be sought out. Survival is much more important.
Those same narcissists are undeniably productive for human society. There will always be different kinds of people who look for something different that leads to the experience of "happiness".
Competition is the only law of nature. Nothing human created can ever change that fact. Modern society has done a good job of shielding people of this reality for the sake of stability and thus control.
I was dealing with one. Normally I like my work. When I run into such people, it just puts me off. However I continued to work, talking only minimum with the narcissist boss. He was mad I wasn't talking much. Tomorrow, he will tell me whether we continue or part ways. I have started applying for jobs anyway.
We had a decent one, it was called Christianity. Very rare now to "Treat others as you would like to be treated". It was replaced with "Greed is good!".
You just said out loud what I'm thinking every day, so thank you for this video 😊. I have 4 "superiors," all with different agendas and no industry knowledge. As a result, my work is all over the place, and when it doesn't function properly, or I didn't meet the deadline, then I'm the guilty one. Don't feel sorry; I'm just curious to hear similar stories.
@@Maria-gd4vf I think it's because Asians are the most stereotyped to be pursuing those rigid, corporate positions...? (btw I'm Asian myself, just saying so this doesn't turn into a whole unnecessary debate on race)
Several weeks before lay-off, I was scheduled for a meeting to discuss how to decrease numbers of meetings. I didn’t go, too much schitt to do! (btw, my bs job title was Associate Manager)
people should watch office space. I worked at motorola late 90s a true dilbert environment with so much fraudulent work. Three years was enough. I have never went back to the corporate plantation,
I have been working in the service industry for 7 years but currently switched to an entry level corporate job, I usually can finish work around 4 to 5 hours but I always panicked that I had to maximize my 8 hours of work, feeling like I am not doing enough. But yeah, it just feels better to get the job done faster and more chill time for me. Haha
Could you explain why executives has very high salaries and bonuses while their salary could hire 10-30 specialist who could create much more better buissnes models and better strategies for the company. Look, if I was company owner I would hire only specialists to manage the company with managers learning how to be a group leader/mentor, not being a boss by bossing around and shifting around responsibilities. Managers should be strong group leaders who could work together with their employees and understand their hardships and able to think like a group to solve the problems. I worked mostly in manufacture and I know that real value to society mostly brought by people who create things.
Good point! i think the main purpose of having executives with very high salaries is to have a central point of responsibility (aka know who to blame). Plus, 10 smart specialists still need to be a middle man to negotiate and plan out things in a more coherent picture. When the size of the company grows, the hierarchy tends to add more layers of management. I totally agree with you about the value of competent managers/leaders. I understand the burden of their responbility and I think their high salary totally justify their values. Having said that, I've also seen many more people who climb corporate ladders by being good at 'talking' not necessarily doing anything.
@@confusedavocado5787 Could you explain me does company CEO-s get paid in bonuses and company stoks? Or like every manager paycheck with company stocks as bonuses.
@@Gaga682 I'm not so much of an expert but among other things, stock performance is indicative of the company's performance. So getting paycheck with stocks is a way to give CEOs incentives to make the company perform well. CEOs would also want to maximize the stock price so they have more money. Paying with only salary/bonuses would not solve the conflict of interest between CEOs (want to receive as much salary as possible - salary is expenses) and shareholders (want to minimise expenses).
Specialists aren't enough: 50 uncoordinated specialists don't produce as much as 20 well-coordinated ones. You also can't expect a technical specialist to be a good group leader: those are very different skills, and among the reasons why so many leaders end up being incompetent. For example, perhaps I'm the best floor cleaner in the planet, so I get promoted... And I stop cleaning floors, having instead to manage people who clean floors. That's a very different jobs, and it requires different skills. We have this idea that you 'level up' in a job by becoming a manager, when an increase in salary or a new role that's still in your skillset would be better for everyone. People get promoted until they find a place where stop being good at what they do. Not to say there aren't too many managers who know nothing about their stuff and don't know how to manage either.
@@confusedavocado5787 Actually stock payments for CEOs are used to dodge taxes. They take loopholes that were intentionally put there by corrupt politicians to avoid paying the normal income tax rate and instead pay a capital gains rate which is much lower.
Agreed! And as an engineer I am always disturbed with management’s wtf requests that’s very frustrating. I’m slowly losing my mind at my current job, mental health dropping 😔
HR handles more of Mental labour and is likely the better position to get hated. Since they don't do any physical stuff just settling interpersonal issues and hunt for potential candidate to promote or hire. The worst one IMO is the consultant contractors. They don't know shit about your company and yet you pay them for getting shitty advice and not really know the name of the JANITOR. A good JANITOR gives comfortable bathroom and if your poop ain't comfortable your day isn't going to be much so.
Oh god, I knew a guy who was a scrum consultant. I was only 12 at the time, and I already could tell that his career was pointless. But he was so passionate about it for some reason.
Sometimes, you just feel it is better to leave your work unfinished and not giving 100%. Just wait til your boss ask you to finish up the remaining 20%, to give your boss a participation feeling. Else, you work so fast, they will just assume you can take more jobs and dont care that you actually sacrifice some of your health and time to reach 100%
@@rayjones9819 sure, HR is there to ultimately protect the company, not the employee. Now do they have policies & procedures to protect the employee? Sure! So does OSHA - but please don’t get me started on OSHA. I’d have to start my own channel - & I hate cameras 😁. Anywhoo, say an employee comes in w an HR issue - any issue - & they file a report. At the same time it’s being investigated on behalf of the employee- it’s also being investigated from the EMPLOYER’S legal liability position, which, when you think about it, is reasonable. They want to protect themselves. too. However, in right to work states (I’m in one) if the employer decides the investigation, for any reason, isn’t “worthy” (even if it is - examples: verbal or sexual harassment, other types of bullying, etc) - They’ll then fire said employee for another, usually extremely insignificant, reason. In most right to work states the employee has no recourse at that point but to sue- bc the Labor Boards in said states are a JOKE. You’ll be lucky to ever get an investigation out of them - or it’ll take years. Meanwhile, said employee, usually a “worker bee” - has no time for that, in a nutshell. They need a job, like yesterday. And the employer- and I suspect the state too bc of previous personal and professional experiences as well as fellow colleagues experiences in said field (anectotal, I know, sigh) not only LET it happen this way - they WANT it this way - for the “workers bees” ONLY, of course. Bc if they didn’t - they’d change the laws/policies and enforce the new laws/policies. Hope that helped!
I lost my first "grown up" job last july during the pandemic as a junior projectmanager and I am very glad it happened. The title was indeed more impressive then the job itself. After I was let go I asked myself :ok, from where I stand now, what are options that I have and what seems most like me? Most fun? I had put so much pressure on myself in the past to perform, to up hold an image. I went to work at an outdoorshop and I am very happy I took that job. I love my coworkers and am surrounded with products I love and it's a beautiful shop. And I'm active and standing which I also prefer. But I think most importantly I get to look lots of people in the eye every day and I love that. I love to make the customers smile. I generally like, or don't mind going to work. I'm not sure for how long I will do this job and the pay isn't as good so I might have to figure that part out but I do know that I will let myself lead from now on by curiousity and fun rather then prestige and social pressure
May I ask, how did you find your junior project manager role? I’ve been looking into it as a potential job but I’m curious why you might have not enjoyed it as much.
@@livk1569 It was in telemarketing and I started out as a caller and then became project manager. It just wasn't for me. It was so much office work, making rapports, and the industry wasn't for me. Maybe in a different industry or company I would have liked it better, who knows, but I didn't like this job
they can but its really not that simple. The actual work being done is deeply tied into the BS work thats being invented. Decoupling the two things is a massive endeavor. So in the end, we're all essentially duct tapers since we're all at least partially responsible for perpetuating the BS side of our work.
The need for elevated social status is so deeply engrained in us that we happily play a game of pretend as long as it suits our needs and serves us a purpose. In this way we are all potentially corruptible. No matter if you are pro or con UBI, this is a problem that it actually does address to a certain extent, even if it brings up many new questions in different areas.
I was literally in a position where people liked me and liked my work, but I felt as if what I was doing was meaningless. I left 4 months ago and am still looking for something that is meaningful to me.
My last job: 6 people in team, and I did half of the work of the whole team. And it took me 3-5 hours per day. I started at 10 am and finished at 3 pm/ 4 pm. And had many breaks... And I wanted to make it more efficient and wanted to improve processes and was not allowed. Finally I quit as it was so pointless and team members were so simple and slow to learn or finish anything.... and team lead was happy to get rid of me so they can happily continue their BS team with 0% productivity.
This is my case. I think jobs are bullshit since I ever started. I try find the meaming many where. And i always stuck same problem ...just like yoy have described. Now it is 4th time i have this same situation myself in.
After being a corporate employee for many years and a couple of redundancies, I turned to being a contractor. It's like having the perks of corporate but not having to care about the bullshit politics much and the fear of being stuck. If you're not scared of the lack of security, it's an option to consider.
Now I’m still working in a big corporate & my department has many toxic colleagues especially the management that has a mindset of holding wasteful meetings/discussions. I am bombarded with many un-urgent requests even out of my working hours. Hence I’m slowly tapping into growing my other life path that offers me back my own life with my family 😔
a colleague who was behind on one of his term papers for his MSc. wrote the introduction and conclusion and padded the middle with some technical documentation on a system we were developing - totally unrelated to the paper. he passed 😂😂😂
@@GenerationX1984 in many cases I would completely agree. I have never gone after a degree without checking the R.O.I. I don’t think people should pick a degree just for the money, but you shouldn’t remove yourself from reality either lol
The fancy title is something I noticed right away when I started working many years ago. Now I have a bachelors in healthcare admin only to find I can’t get any leadership jobs or even ones for training because I lack experience. Plus, a lot of titles like “executive assistant” is just a glorified receptionist.
This oddly reminds me of an episode in SpongeBob where Patrick had a "job" but all he does is go back to his home and watch TV ,complete with briefcase full of snacks.
I had an internship a few months back where my role was to create videos. One day I was assigned to make a video and I finished it on time. The boss asked me to edit some parts of the video and I did it. This boss, however, kept adding what I had to edit after finishing one cycle of editing (instead of telling me all the things I have to edit at once). I ended up having three editing cycles that could've been done in just one cycle. I was thinking a way of how I would not be assigned any more task to edit the video. I ended up submitting the third edited video on the last day of my internship. And guess what? The boss still had the audacity to ask me for some editing after my internship contract expired. I straight away ignored them. Workplace is a weird place. It really is. 🤔
ah! so true about automation, knowing how to do coding is the key. they have no clue how tf i could be so super efficient (and they look down on me at the beggining too. so funny). quit that job, join PhD. still automate everything with codings, even the supervisor and peers were surprised. (most of them never worked in the industry and dont have much job experience) this is my guess. some people are made to do bullshit job and some arent. getting job experience is the most important factor for this, it helps out in gaining EQ.
Well said ! Nowadays it's like jobs are created for the sake of creating jobs. So the statistics of unemployment is low and looks good for the political party.
I feel like jobs in big corporate companies are like "gang members" as if like I need to always prove them that I know my job and that I deserve to be there and sacrifice things in name of the operation and most people are in search of approval from their leaders and colleagues... it´s crazy.
What my company does is have bs positions for people just to keep them as backups incase the people who do the important stuff quit. Then the bs job employee can more easily switch to the position since they'll at least have gained the necessary knowledge.
I genuienly dont know what i am doing at work. I just collect my Paycheck, have a few meeting with my boss, write like 10lines of Code a week and the rest of the time i spend doing stuff i actually care about ;) Life is good :)
This was in my recommended... now I want to read the book... seems incredible, but seems that there are many jobs that are not adding value more than ego.
I've always thought the company I entered (well, two of 'em in the past) would have been the company I would stay on for long, coz I was hoping for an interesting learning experience and team vibe collaboration...oh, how naive I was and little did I know that the experience only hurt me...I felt like I was eventually left isolated by the manager because I was thought that I did not fit their culture, despite my honest efforts to adapt...:'( I felt like I was purposely discouraged as if I was encouraged to take the initiative to exit the company...it felt like every man for himself...if felt less we, more I...
When I was a graduate, my reporting manager requested a sales report every month. I would send it to my my manager, who was the contracts manager, who he sent to his manager, the Sales Manager, who sent it to his manager, the Regional Manager, who then sent it to his manager, the GM who then sent it to his manager, the CEO. The CEO will need two figures of information on the report to do his monthly update (email) to the business. It was such a BS report. I questioned why I needed to do the full report and just provide the figures the CEO used, but my manager was adamant that other "stakeholders" of the business looked at the report, which of course no one didnt. It just getting forwarded on, to make themselves look like their were "doing" their jobs.
Then, CEO of hedge fund looks at the report and sends "press the buy button" to the VP. VP sends "press the buy button" to the director. Director sends "press the buy button" to the manager. Manager sends "press the buy button" to the lead investor. Lead investor sends "press the buy button" to the senior investor. Senor investor sends "press the buy button to the investor. Investor sends the "press the buy button" to the intern. Intern presses the buy button. Buys the tip.
I love how 'stakeholders' is thrown around like steak holders 😂. Companies love to think the more tedious and complicated something is the better. The idea is moronic, esp since management isn't doing said work. My bad...that's the definition of corporate.
I am a "Business Solutions Architect" which is a very fancy title for a senior level business analyst. A lot of people think business analysis is a bullshit job, although I do feel I add value to the company and take on a lot of tasks that nobody else knows how to do. I agree too much time is spent in meetings discussing how much progress people did or didn't make and why instead of actually getting things done. .
As someone trying to break the glass ceiling, there's little I can do other than accept the corporate bs until I have the authority to change my job content. I'm optimistic about the progression though!
You should reach out to Joshua Fluke for a collab. I'm all about helping people transition to truly gainful employment or freelancing (which is what I do after having been an executive).
What skill do you have for free lancing? I feel like many online freelancing is outbid by low cost of living countries. Looking at this for myself also. Industrial maintenance/automation technician right now.
@@FushigiMigi web design and development. The thing about what to charge takes a shift in thinking because most people equate money with time. The truth is that what you're paid is dictated by perceived value of solving a problem which is not completely based on logic. Let me give you an example in your realm because I was around it as a SCM / purchasing director for manufacturing. Say a company needs a PLC programmer to fix the cycle time on a given machine. The company needs to do this or they are going to lose out big to competitors. They estimate if the problem were solved they would net $1M per year. Just to toss a number out there, you could charge $20,000 + materials and they wouldn't bat an eye. Another company needs to solve the same problem but they just need it done because their machine is "broken" and they won't gain anything from it, just prevent the loss of $10,000 per year. You will have the same amount of work and material cost, but the perceived value has reduced dramatically. If you were to charge the same amount, it would be a "no way". Combine that with overseas labor. The global talent pool always has supply, but it doesn't have perceived value. The sales funnel is finding those who do value your services by targeting the right companies and problems to solve. In fact, when I charge a contract rate of 500% of what people overseas would charge, it HELPS me stand out and show value (and I deliver!). This mental shift about money, once it fully sets in, makes it difficult to ever be a W2 employee ever again.
It seems that with advancing tech and A.I., the clash and contrast between sociopolitical class and utilitarian pragmatism will cause people to rethink what is a "good" job or perhaps what the concept of "getting a job" is. What will never happen is respect and genuine regard for service people: Cleaners, child care workers, nursing home staff, landscape workers, field workers, truckers etc. Just because you help maintain modern life doesn't mean upon consideration you're welfare will cause momentous societal changes. Why do "upper class" high income earners not hire English nannies from the best training programs in the U.K?...Cz required salaries will be on par with theirs. These are ever persistent "FIRST-WORLD PROBLEMS".
Just more levels of drama. Still drama at the team level but you also get entire departments beefing with each other. Even different branches. Iss lit.
In my experience, a job that combines the words "management" and "consultant" somewhere in the title is very likely an unnecessary and parasitic position.
Very intresting, i am an MBA that worked in audit for 6 years and changed career as i felt my job did not add value. Working in IT now and sure theres some meaningless stuff still but much less then previous.
I am glad youtube recommended me this. Your video format was quite chill but it was also direct and filled with enough info to be interesting. I think it is great that someone decided to share their thoughts like this. In terms of bs time management in jobs, I think that if the company structure was made so as to reward automating they might be able to break free of this trap and actually make works try to make it more efficient.
Haha I’m glad I’m not the only one find ‘time management talk’ bs. From my experience, many of my colleagues are afraid of experiment new things. They just stick to whatever they are told to do and however the people before them do it. Let’s take Excel as an example, they perceive being good at Excel is something extremely hard, which is not the case at all. I learn how to automate stuff from googling. When I first got the job, I didn’t even know how to filter shit lol.
It's an ego thing. Corporate execs make their rounds to divisions and stores to see what's going on? They can look at the numbers on the computer at the touch of a button.
The whole afterpay thing - I was (am) in a situation where I had to move out suddenly, and thus needed to get a desk and chair for work, mattress, kitchen stuff, etc., and those are all not-cheap, individually or added up. I also didn’t want to buy cheap stuff I knew I would be throwing out straight away. So the three-month interest free came in very handy.
This video speaks to me on so many levels. Spent three years in Beijing doing a bullshit job 8 hours a day when it could be easily be done in 2 hours max. Add toxic overwork culture on top of that, when people don't actually do any work they just browse online shopping and play games on the phone while present, and you get a truly terrifying experience. That's why I work freelance now, 10000000% more efficient money wise and I actually feel like I'm building something. Would never go back to a corporate job even for 100k
@Giovanni Picariello - Learning and Other Stuff I was doing international business development for a private K-12 school. Nowadays I'm a freelance translator
@@dingleberry4234 There's so much to unpack here I don't even know where to start. You are probably more familiar with Japanese work culture, if that's the case I would say these are very similar although I still think the Chinese version is even worse. For starters, the rule of law in China is basically the will of the government/rich people and there are no unions whatsoever, which means your contract is basically a guideline paper and not a legally binding agreement between two parties, especially if you are a foreigner. This leads to all kinds of problems, mainly HR or the big boss arbitrarily changing your contract or adding enforcement policies. The worse of which would be the "tardiness policy" which means, if you are late 5 minutes they would deduct 1 dollar from your payroll, 10 minutes 5 dollars, 30 minutes, 20 dollars, more than 1 hour would slash off a whole day's work (mind you I never agreed to this, they just added this later), however, there was no overtime pay at all, so you could arrive 30 minutes late but if you overworked 3 hours, you would still lose money. Overwork is absolutely ridiculous since you are expected to overwork or you would otherwise be labeled as the selfish guy who doesn't think about his coworkers. The thing is, people do fuck all day and are extremely inefficient. People work for 10-20 minutes and then just buzz off to wherever/play 斗地主 on their phones/browse 淘宝 (Chinese amazon) or straight up just sleep. And the boss is generally okay with that you know? It doesn't matter what you do, you just need to be there a show your face and this applies to overwork as well, you don't need to be doing anything but as long as you are there you are contributing to the face of the company. This absolutely sucks because I'm a strong believer in efficient work but eventually devolved to doing things as slow as possible because there was no point in doing them fast. Last but not least, the boss-employee gap is ABSOLUTELY MASSIVE in China. I don't know about the US, but in Europe, although bosses/CEO's are obviously in a higher position, there is a degree of mutual respect between the boss and worker since both have a degree of power over the other. In China? Just forget about it, if the boss says anything that is the maximum true and no one dares to challenge it even though it's the stupidest idea ever. There is no bottom-top incentive nor innovation, bosses are too busy protecting their 面子 (face, reputation) because they are control freaks and power-hungry people with superiority-complexes. I just want to add that I loved Beijing and the people I met there, and not every job is as bleak as the ones I had, but this is definitely the norm and not the exception. If anyone is working there just be aware of these things.
Biggest BS job? Pharmaceutical Quality Control. As a former Manager of a lab, there was massive pressure to 'test into compliance' so that everything would be sold, even product that should have been discarded.
Companies don’t care about employee productivity, they are only interested in working you like a slave. I’ve had this happen and this is why some people just do the bare minimum because when you point out a way to be more productive in less time or can achieve the same productivity in less time instead of rewarding you they break your back with more work for the same or less pay. Like how dare you figure out how NOT to slave! Like let people leave early or pay them more for more work. Wtf. And those jobs where they tell you that you’re responsibilities can change at any moment. WHAT THE FUUUUCCKKKK.
Most people can't focus for 8 hours. Not even 4 hours. If companies gave people tasks and told them "this week, you do these tasks and then you're done", most people would work monday and be done with all their work. The rest of the time is spent on facebook, snacking and other things. It's sad, but it's the reality, and if you decide "no, I won't fall on this trap, I MUST do my job as quickly as possible and not engage in this nonsense", then some coworkers won't enjoy your company, and the company starts giving you more responsibilities for the same pay. Corporate world is a mess, but there is no other viable substitution that's been shown to work. It's like with the school system. We may complain all we want, but there is no other viable replacement
Best job I've ever had: janitor. No politics, no pretending to be "important," just get it done, go home, and figure out how to play another song on a guitar. Life is good!
Haha, I'm glad you enjoy it mate. It might not be glorious, but it definitely isn't bullshit :)
@@lisemartin7224 I have no idea what this has to do with Tony being a janitor. Being a janitor is a respectable and necessary job, as many are. Unfortunately, many aren't.
I have heard this from several people about janitorial work, they love it. And the fact that it is "viewed" insignificant by others helps you escape the "EGO TRAP" that we are somehow important at work... names like specialist, experts, architects, and stuff like that.
@@carlgauss1702 I understood her Carl. But I don't see how it was relevant to commending a man for doing a job which isn't glorified by the media. And in so doing, surely I am breaking the narrative you and she were talking about? If I were to have said it's a crappy job, I would have seen the need for her interjection. It isn't a crappy job though, and so I did not say that. I said it is a necessary job, which it is. And I said it might not be 'glorious', because the media do not celebrate janitorial work. Therefore, I would suggest you and Lise take that up with the media, not me.
Sanitation jobs are honestly under appreciated
HR is the most useless department. I legit went to a ton of interviews and I felt like I was there just to justify their salary.
Agree
So true, and it's like this shit is all over the world, how is this even possible?
Would be interesting to know if it's the same in behind-iron-curtains like North Korea, and if so, that is hilarious (and extremely sad)
And also: most stuff you do in your job is learnable in just one week, but you have to study 15 years to be able to get it
hahaha true!
15 years is to doctrinated our mind to be more obedient and have mindset that goverment want it.
@@sulaimanabdullah4151 ?
@@blyaticon8190 ???
@@blyaticon8190 i dont think those 15yrs can even be called education at this point just blatant slave programing
Corporate solution for every problem: hire a manager.
Employees: Great! So one of us has an opportunity to advance and become a supervisor!?
Corporate: LOL! No silly! We will hire someone from outside who has no idea about the process or anything we do here. We will also hire two more managers and create new positions with fancy titles. You will report to all 3 of them.
Easier to control clueless managers. In case that doesn't pan out, pay a consultancy firm to create yet again another useless report that will never be implemented.
Repeat cycle.
performers shouldn't be leaders. and drill sergeant types certainly shouldn't be leaders, they should be the hands of a proper thinker. But that is not the way of humanity. If we were like an insect hive then we would be in better role allocation. Wanting results but hoping it would come from ideals lol
The management where i used to work hired an hr manager who doesn't have any ideas how an architectural firm works. She basically just kiss ass the upper management. Now we have covid, things got worse. They wouldnt implement work from home setup so you know exodus of resignation and the employees dpesnt have any moral at all. Super toxic
My job did this a year ago but with an analyst whos primary job is to monitor the other employees instead of a manager. They wanted to know why we were having a hard time keeping up with the increased workflow. So instead of hiring someone to relieve some of that workload they hired someone to help micromanage.
@@jnsnj1 classic corporate response. Instead of planting more trees just squeeze harder
And those who actually produce, gets paid the least
The principle of capitalism is whether the market think you are more valuable, not what you think you are more valuable. The factors of measuring value by your bosses or bosses' bosses are not the same as you.
@@oaasal the principle of capitalism lol
production does not equate pay. it's popularity, as always. so be cool, be nice, be popular. that gets you far.
@@oaasal Markets are inneficient. But you can always leave or start your own business.
Who ? The robots ?
I have seen construction jobs where literally 3 people stand to see one laborer work.
I see that too when I drive around work sites lol
I was that laborer that did the work while the other laborers stood in the shade and did nothing.
many of this unions has " connectios"@@jkeegan154
I work for a municipality and im one of those guys standing there watching that single construction guy work. But that is not my primary focus. I do that only once a month on average just to perform a visual inspection of progress. The rest of the time im writing emails and reading and writing technical documents. If we are performing a function test of some type, there can be 10+ guys standing around watching 2 people perform the test with the other 10 as witnesses/stakeholders for the results of that test.
Huh, I thought it was for safety reasons.
This isn't just a corporate thing. Government/public sector jobs can be just as bad, if not more so.
That's the corporate trend right now in offices lol, government jobs in ways kinda work the same
Have had both types of jobs and government jobs are much much worse. In the private sector, there was a profit motive at least.
@snowangeliquexx It's pretty simple: in a government job there is no motivation for accountability like there is in the private world.
As was said above, in the corporate world, inept as it may be, there is a profit motive that at least tries to elicit competency from its employees. Government jobs don't necessarily have that same motivation. They see money as a tax-funded entitlement more than a goal to be worked for, and as a result, many times there is far less of a sense of accountability. On the other hand, oftentimes there is a sense that some in these jobs feel "untouchable" in their positions, thanks to the bloated bureaucracies that employ them, and the cushy, sometimes unearned remunerations they receive.
I can give you some examples. In the education system, I know people who were hired by school systems to basically sit in an office and do far less work than their salaries indicated. Their work could have been easily filled by a part time employee, but they received some benefits that even full time teachers didn't get.
I can tell you stories of employees in public service buildings who are woefully inept at their jobs, yet somehow hang onto them. Just recently, I had to report to a city building for a license registration. I had to go to FOUR different sources, three of whom directly contradicted each other, before I could get straight what procedure I was supposed to do. And if I hadn't have done it right, I would have been seriously penalized, regardless of how unprofessionally the government workers were in their lack of knowledge as to what to do.
I know of public transit workers who have received eight hours pay for what has amounted to MAYBE three hours' time spent working.
And these are just a few.
I don't disagree that corporations can be as idiotic as they can be portrayed in shows such as The Office. But again, if you think government offices and organizations are any better, you're dreaming.
You're right. It's the whole system and some the jobs we have that paid employees could be from "the unions" doing. If there's no jobs, then there's no income. So no work means no car, no food, and etc etc.
@@Outrider74 hence why communism doesn't work. They just make up a whole bunch of useless jobs so society goes backwards and nobody is productive
Before going to corporate know 3 things:
1. It's packed with a bunch of tools who have no personality and sense of self outside of their credentials. Who they are is what they do and that's all they are.
2. The people who confuse having a stick up their butt with being professional are just pretenders. These are the people who will never answer your questions because they don't actually know anything.
3. The people who do know things are the ones who are actually humble and friendly.
Agreed, the 3rd type seems so scarce :(
Wow, I'm laughing at how accurate this is 😭😅 you really hit the nail on top!!!
Lmao this is so true. Irdk why some ppl act like this, it’s never that serious.
@@CarlosTapiaMan it's sad that people see their worth by their jobs only...cmon it's just a tool for making money.
no.1 is so true
I'm honestly skeptical of a lot of so called "careers". Chances are, it's not even necessarily what you wanted to do in the first place (but we all like what the money buys us). And, like she said in the video, jobs and careers are not the same in the first place. One of the best solutions is to at least find work that doesn't suck and where you don't work too many hours. This way, you can at least still have time left over to just enjoy your life.
I used to love being a waiter because it left me with so much time to do other things. Of course that restaurant jobs were wiped away by the pandemic. Hoping to find a job where I have as much freedom and fun as that job, which I doubt I will ever have again.
@@ignazs.5816 don’t say that. You will.
Agreed, or if you do decide to work long hours, make sure it's work that feels like play to you.
Meanwhile, nurses in the hospital lose their sanity to just be making ~60-70K. 12 long and stressful hours, no time to eat drink or pee, getting verbally and physically abuse and working through a pandemic or Inclement weather. 😪
😔
Really i have several cousins that are nurses they yearn between $90,000-$120,000. Their hours also varied from time to time
I have no idea how they do it. Kudos to them, seriously. We all need to treat healthcare peeps way better 🙌🏼
Working in banks, this is so accurate lol guys don't let these people handle your money, half of them don't know what they are doing 😂
Put all money in dogecoin instead
@@mistermarch533 Doegecoin is a joke. It's purely a fork of bitcoin. The bitcoin mining power can easily switched to Dodge to create double spending, breaking the dodgecoin's blockchain in minutes. Stay away from dodgecoin. Keep yourself in Bitcoin, even just 1 satoshi.
Yeah, the desk clerks who actually helped people were fired with digitization. The overpaid big shots who only want to steal your money are still there.
these days you pay banks for their service that you have to do yourself.
My old boss put it so simply: "Be lazy." Find those shortcuts. Discovering functions You never knew about can be a complete game changer~
He sounds like not a douchebag.
@@TheRealVivia So far he was the best boss I ever had :)
My boss is the same, but he's so childish, and has undiagnosed ADHD.
I left my first job, not knowing why I was even there... I really feel big corps are not for me. Indifferent & ignorant culture is something that I hate the most.
I was a bit lucky. My first company was ok. But I have friends who were not as lucky and they had to deal with all kinds of toxic colleagues and corporate politics. Some people I know opt for start-ups even though it’s more unstable.
I worked for small companies, and those were even worse.. always oversteping your boundaries and not understanding your job is just a "job" to you, and not your lifework
not joking but every single job i've worked in, i've always felt like i was less than even a number.
He he he...............ha ha ha ha........never thought that one day, i will see Vietnamese who also disagree about the obvious facts like me.
Ignorant culture is everywhere
the same here bro, I got that feeling
The LinkedIn intellectuals with their buzzwords and hashtags is something that I find really annoying.
Testify 🙌
Dude! I watched many of your videos. How the hell you end up here?! 😱 😱
@@confusedavocado5787 it was in my recommendations!
you are omnipresent Josh.
Sup champ 😁😁👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🤜🏻🤜🏻🤜🏻🤜🏻🤜🏻🤜🏻🤜🏻
Josh is a hero!
I had a friend that admitted that he got paid 80K for just sitting in his office and just filling out and signing off paperwork. He was supposedly a "hospital software analyst" .....
Dude, most of IT jobs are text processing. Good analyst is treasure for poject and company, though there' arent' many of these....
Nice!
What he was getting paid for is to be a scapegoat. That salary, office, and seemingly pointless tasking is just a retainer.
The problem is that many people misunderstand the value they bring to the ones are paying them.
Sounds pretty much like what Barney Stinson does lmao
@@piotrd.4850 Would you be soo kind as to define what makes a good analyst plz?!!
I started working as a security guard recently and it seems that 90% of the jobs i get could either be preformed by an alarm system or a surveillance camera. The other 10% is essentially customer service. I literally do nothing most of the time. I don't even need to write reports. I'm paid to exist.
i saw old asian small female work as mall security.
sure
Sounds like an opportunity man. Use your spare time to learn how to install alarm systems and cameras and then pitch to the companies hiring you how much money they would save. Then sell them the cameras and alarms and do the installations for a fee.
Yeah I used to work security at a office building downtown and it was mainly just saying hello to all the employees that came in. And the overnight shifts were just sitting and going for an occasional stroll. It was kind of a joke.
You are there because having security guards is cheaper than the alternative of paying the full premium in insurance policies.
read books on martial arts then.
I always ask: if everyone's a manager, who's being managed?
On a related note;...If every one is a social media influencer, who's being influenced?
I have always had a similar thought too: If any one is a leader, who will be the follower?
My company outsources some services for Walmart...we have 3 team leads, supervising me and my colleague (2 of us), during day shift, which is busiest.The night shift has more people in it and are less under supervision, which means they can get away with some mistakes, or just avoid doing some things without getting caught, while earning more.I feel so much pressure right now, and we are just entering busiest season of year, and while my TLs were drilling me about some mistakes, they announced there would be days when I'll have to do an entire shift alone.I dread this, and I think it's really not fair since the customer is such a big company...I won't get any increase in pay or benefits for all this.. I'm sending out CV, to find anything else, before everything implodes, and I have a sinking feeling it will
@@smithgorrilugum4574 they just want us distracted
Ex-child. Everyone is just gonna glaze over that? Okay. Stay awesome.
It is all one huge illusion.
Im 25. But i can't put ex-child in my resume yet, cause im not. I wish the day would soon come tho
Haha I noticed that too so brilliant 😂
i thought ex-child was an acronym? like SHIN-RA or NAVY SEAL?
My career as a software developer: constantly slapping band-aids on the various systems and processes the company can't be bothered to really fix or rethink, getting burnt out and frustrated, jumping over to a new company, rinse, repeat.
US
Yeah 😅
Barely any time and the work is never ending
That's death row in a different form
This sounds very familiar...
So? What you gonna do about that?
And if a younger worker with or without a college degree comes and tries to prove himself by changing something to better, she or he only gets permission to do so when he is the nephew of a higher up otherwise the youngster is grinded and spit out.
Where is the digference to medieval times?
I love how much attention is given to the most important part of any job, the S N A C K S
It's my life support
I mean at my work they took away coffee and snacks to save like a grand a year, multi billion dollar company takes away coffee
@@husher5142 My work has stopped refilling the soap in the bathrooms. Seems like a good place to save money during a pandemic.
@@GeneralChangFromDanang lol so my office did that in like 2013 and they cut the paper towels in half. But that did seem to be localised after director came in one day and got shamed out of the room. It got fixed the next day. But the point stands they always nickle and dime the cheap stuff but then drop half a mill on something that sits on the floor and collects dust.
To me the whole "pretentious-and-unnecessarily-long-job-titles"-thing sort of reminds me of noble titles in countries like Great Britain and Germany by the end of the 19th/beginning of the 20th century. You could not just be Sir Robert. No, to show how rich and influential you really were you would have to call yourself something like "Lord Robert, Chancellor of the Duchy of Gloucestershire-upon the Thames, 1st Earl of Bournemouth." Seems to me that somewhere in the centuries before there must have been a wave of "title inflation".
Anyway, it's very funny to me how we switched over from inflated nobility titles to inflated corporate job titles. At least more people get them now, so... progress, I guess??
why do you have to use acient examples when you can use current ones in government like minster of bullshit, comissoner, chief exective, senator, mayor or whatever other bullshit they come up with to order ranking of monkeys.
“Answering BS emails, being interrupted, defending yourself for something u didn’t do or something u did do, chasing other people, and SNACKING snacking is the best part” 🤣😭😭 me everyday 😇😇
Saaaame😂😂😂
The problem I had when I was in a BS job was that steadily I was being deskilled by not doing any real work. Then I had to struggle a lot when I left because I had to relearn a lot of what I had forgotten.
This is one of my fears right now. I am working from home at the moment. I have anxiety about how I'm not really learning any transferable skills at this job. I am learning coding but this job at the moment isn't anything more than a paycheck
I’m watching this video and reading your comment while working at my job that does the same exact thing. I’m currently in grad school so I don’t have to worry about not having any future skills, but if I weren’t in school, I’d be terrified of how little I have to offer if I were to leave this job.
Great point. The company also knows this and will find their own workers second class.
A lot of IT jobs in corporate are not really needed. It's like making free money, but you have to make it look important and needed.
I was hanging out with an IT colleague. And this is what I overheard his phone call when somebody called to fix the problems with their work laptop:
- You log off then log on again. If it doesn’t work, take the battery out and put it in. If it again doesn’t work, then call J.(my IT colleague’s boss)
I almost choke on my coffee for laughing.
@@confusedavocado5787 Not all people are tech savvy IT support is still needed and fixing equipment is not the only thing they do
"It's like making free money" Sounds pretty sweet actually. What's the problem? Lol.
I agree with 1 of the comments here regarding how B-R-0-A-D the tech industry is. Specialties like Cloud, DevOps, Data Science, Business Intelligence , UX, Automation/RPA , etc are really needed. But being a former helpdesk myself, I truly get what you're saying. :)
Yeah... my buddy got into an IT position for health care and makes 2x my salary(almost 6 figures), gets to work from home, does 8x less work than me (almost does nothing but play video games on the side) full benefits ... while I work almost the full 8 hours a day and get paid half as him lol life just be like that sometimes
Vietnamese here. Currently working in a corporate after graduating from Monash. 1000% attest to this video: the obsession with prestige and status is just insane. Toxic culture of self-promoting and gaslighting just makes me sick 😭. Planning to quit soon enough
Never been happier being an artist than after hearing this. Everyone should have fulfilling and meaningful work.
You’re lucky if you can pay the bills as an artist.
@@icecreamforcrowhurst I am very lucky. Thank you.
Freelancers pay way more money in taxes than employees in my country so my dreams of art are slowly withering :(
@@mary5203 tax payment? what's that?
I disagree, your job doesn't need to be the thing that fulfils or gives meaning to your life, but it also shouldn't be a soul crushing grind
I like this woman, straight to the point. The whole reason I left banking👍🏿.
@just another human hmm uwu
@just another human it’s just capitalism
This shit is even in nonprofits. My org hired an officer 2 years ago and to this day I have no idea what she did during her time there and I can generally tell you what everyone does. She forced us into these 2-hour bi-weekly meetings where we would break into small groups and talk about things that weren't relevant to the majority of people there. I really believe she forced these meetings to justify her job.
Weekly or even daily pointless meetings are straight out of the corporate handbook.
Non profit are just as bad, agree.
I expect much more from non-profits. All the tax incentives they get, but they have useless managers?? Would hate to have my life fall apart and reach out to your nonprofit😬
This is why with remote work in my tech field I get most of my work done in the first hour. I can't imagine sitting at a desk and doing nothing all day.
Then they want you to work overtime if you work in person for no reason
Hi Alexander. Do you mind if I ask what you do for work? and how to get into it?
@@shaned7990 I work in SIEM, But I have certifications and a degree in DFIR
A big deal of bosses are narcissistic. Our world really needs a spiritual transformation embracing empathy and present moment attention to destroy so much egotism, fear, ambition just for the sake of hide the global illness: human unhappiness. That's what I like Eckart Tolle mindset.
Human happiness is relative and thus a moving target. Humans will always be unhappy. I don't even think it's a goal that should be sought out. Survival is much more important.
Those same narcissists are undeniably productive for human society. There will always be different kinds of people who look for something different that leads to the experience of "happiness".
Competition is the only law of nature. Nothing human created can ever change that fact. Modern society has done a good job of shielding people of this reality for the sake of stability and thus control.
I was dealing with one. Normally I like my work. When I run into such people, it just puts me off. However I continued to work, talking only minimum with the narcissist boss. He was mad I wasn't talking much. Tomorrow, he will tell me whether we continue or part ways. I have started applying for jobs anyway.
We had a decent one, it was called Christianity. Very rare now to "Treat others as you would like to be treated". It was replaced with "Greed is good!".
You just said out loud what I'm thinking every day, so thank you for this video 😊. I have 4 "superiors," all with different agendas and no industry knowledge. As a result, my work is all over the place, and when it doesn't function properly, or I didn't meet the deadline, then I'm the guilty one. Don't feel sorry; I'm just curious to hear similar stories.
This is what we all need . A straight forward Asians telling you real shit in the world.
why specify 'Asians'?
@@Maria-gd4vf I think it's because Asians are the most stereotyped to be pursuing those rigid, corporate positions...? (btw I'm Asian myself, just saying so this doesn't turn into a whole unnecessary debate on race)
@@Maria-gd4vf Why not? when she is…
@@MadofaA I felt like he was saying that only Asians could do that or that we only needed Asians to do it.
My god I do hate overly extended meaningless meetings, but it's become the norm now.
Several weeks before lay-off, I was scheduled for a meeting to discuss how to decrease numbers of meetings. I didn’t go, too much schitt to do!
(btw, my bs job title was Associate Manager)
people should watch office space. I worked at motorola late 90s a true dilbert environment with so much fraudulent work. Three years was enough. I have never went back to the corporate plantation,
I’ll definitely check it out. Thanks for your recommendation:)
TPS reports, 😉
Office Space is a classic.
Yeah, I’m gonna have to ask you to go ahead and come in on Saturday...
TPS reports with a Swingline Stapler. Fellow Motorolan here--though early 90's not late.
I have been working in the service industry for 7 years but currently switched to an entry level corporate job, I usually can finish work around 4 to 5 hours but I always panicked that I had to maximize my 8 hours of work, feeling like I am not doing enough. But yeah, it just feels better to get the job done faster and more chill time for me. Haha
Could you explain why executives has very high salaries and bonuses while their salary could hire 10-30 specialist who could create much more better buissnes models and better strategies for the company. Look, if I was company owner I would hire only specialists to manage the company with managers learning how to be a group leader/mentor, not being a boss by bossing around and shifting around responsibilities. Managers should be strong group leaders who could work together with their employees and understand their hardships and able to think like a group to solve the problems. I worked mostly in manufacture and I know that real value to society mostly brought by people who create things.
Good point! i think the main purpose of having executives with very high salaries is to have a central point of responsibility (aka know who to blame). Plus, 10 smart specialists still need to be a middle man to negotiate and plan out things in a more coherent picture. When the size of the company grows, the hierarchy tends to add more layers of management. I totally agree with you about the value of competent managers/leaders. I understand the burden of their responbility and I think their high salary totally justify their values. Having said that, I've also seen many more people who climb corporate ladders by being good at 'talking' not necessarily doing anything.
@@confusedavocado5787 Could you explain me does company CEO-s get paid in bonuses and company stoks? Or like every manager paycheck with company stocks as bonuses.
@@Gaga682 I'm not so much of an expert but among other things, stock performance is indicative of the company's performance. So getting paycheck with stocks is a way to give CEOs incentives to make the company perform well. CEOs would also want to maximize the stock price so they have more money. Paying with only salary/bonuses would not solve the conflict of interest between CEOs (want to receive as much salary as possible - salary is expenses) and shareholders (want to minimise expenses).
Specialists aren't enough: 50 uncoordinated specialists don't produce as much as 20 well-coordinated ones.
You also can't expect a technical specialist to be a good group leader: those are very different skills, and among the reasons why so many leaders end up being incompetent.
For example, perhaps I'm the best floor cleaner in the planet, so I get promoted... And I stop cleaning floors, having instead to manage people who clean floors. That's a very different jobs, and it requires different skills. We have this idea that you 'level up' in a job by becoming a manager, when an increase in salary or a new role that's still in your skillset would be better for everyone. People get promoted until they find a place where stop being good at what they do.
Not to say there aren't too many managers who know nothing about their stuff and don't know how to manage either.
@@confusedavocado5787 Actually stock payments for CEOs are used to dodge taxes. They take loopholes that were intentionally put there by corrupt politicians to avoid paying the normal income tax rate and instead pay a capital gains rate which is much lower.
*Many of these are in HR. Meanwhile, engineers and laborers get to do the real, important stuff and with lesser pay.*
Agreed! And as an engineer I am always disturbed with management’s wtf requests that’s very frustrating. I’m slowly losing my mind at my current job, mental health dropping 😔
HR handles more of Mental labour and is likely the better position to get hated. Since they don't do any physical stuff just settling interpersonal issues and hunt for potential candidate to promote or hire. The worst one IMO is the consultant contractors. They don't know shit about your company and yet you pay them for getting shitty advice and not really know the name of the JANITOR. A good JANITOR gives comfortable bathroom and if your poop ain't comfortable your day isn't going to be much so.
@@terragaia7092 I see
HR does not make more than engineers. At least not in 90% or more of jobs. People have an impression that HR is well paid. It really really isn't.
Where I live hr is most likely to be the only management position where people make less than blue collar workers sometimes.
I'd add "agile coach", "scrum master", and all that overpaid, parasitic priesthood.
Oh god, I knew a guy who was a scrum consultant. I was only 12 at the time, and I already could tell that his career was pointless. But he was so passionate about it for some reason.
Scrum is a religion now. With Scrummasters as the high priests. Soon there would be a call to prayer "Scrumalah ho akbar!"
@@abcdabcdoops not funny
I truly hate those words
@@Omar-rz3mq it was hilarious
Sometimes, you just feel it is better to leave your work unfinished and not giving 100%.
Just wait til your boss ask you to finish up the remaining 20%, to give your boss a participation feeling.
Else, you work so fast, they will just assume you can take more jobs and dont care that you actually sacrifice some of your health and time to reach 100%
As a logistics specialist, she is 100% correct.
As ex-HR, I concur. And 1 tip - HR isn’t there to protect the employees so be careful w that dept too.
@@VvpandoravV please explain because my major is in hr
@@rayjones9819 sure, HR is there to ultimately protect the company, not the employee. Now do they have policies & procedures to protect the employee? Sure! So does OSHA - but please don’t get me started on OSHA. I’d have to start my own channel - & I hate cameras 😁. Anywhoo, say an employee comes in w an HR issue - any issue - & they file a report. At the same time it’s being investigated on behalf of the employee- it’s also being investigated from the EMPLOYER’S legal liability position, which, when you think about it, is reasonable. They want to protect themselves. too. However, in right to work states (I’m in one) if the employer decides the investigation, for any reason, isn’t “worthy” (even if it is - examples: verbal or sexual harassment, other types of bullying, etc) - They’ll then fire said employee for another, usually extremely insignificant, reason. In most right to work states the employee has no recourse at that point but to sue- bc the Labor Boards in said states are a JOKE. You’ll be lucky to ever get an investigation out of them - or it’ll take years. Meanwhile, said employee, usually a “worker bee” - has no time for that, in a nutshell. They need a job, like yesterday. And the employer- and I suspect the state too bc of previous personal and professional experiences as well as fellow colleagues experiences in said field (anectotal, I know, sigh) not only LET it happen this way - they WANT it this way - for the “workers bees” ONLY, of course. Bc if they didn’t - they’d change the laws/policies and enforce the new laws/policies. Hope that helped!
@@VvpandoravV I appreciate the info. Thanks
You're not a logistics specialist bro.
I lost my first "grown up" job last july during the pandemic as a junior projectmanager and I am very glad it happened. The title was indeed more impressive then the job itself. After I was let go I asked myself :ok, from where I stand now, what are options that I have and what seems most like me? Most fun? I had put so much pressure on myself in the past to perform, to up hold an image. I went to work at an outdoorshop and I am very happy I took that job. I love my coworkers and am surrounded with products I love and it's a beautiful shop. And I'm active and standing which I also prefer. But I think most importantly I get to look lots of people in the eye every day and I love that. I love to make the customers smile. I generally like, or don't mind going to work. I'm not sure for how long I will do this job and the pay isn't as good so I might have to figure that part out but I do know that I will let myself lead from now on by curiousity and fun rather then prestige and social pressure
Happy for you
Sounds great mate 👏
May I ask, how did you find your junior project manager role? I’ve been looking into it as a potential job but I’m curious why you might have not enjoyed it as much.
@@livk1569 It was in telemarketing and I started out as a caller and then became project manager. It just wasn't for me. It was so much office work, making rapports, and the industry wasn't for me. Maybe in a different industry or company I would have liked it better, who knows, but I didn't like this job
Most white collar jobs can be replaced with software today.
please elaborate, link me for articles videos anything im so curious cuz i never had corporate jobs and im so intrigued by this
Shhhhh, don't be that guy
they can but its really not that simple. The actual work being done is deeply tied into the BS work thats being invented. Decoupling the two things is a massive endeavor. So in the end, we're all essentially duct tapers since we're all at least partially responsible for perpetuating the BS side of our work.
*ChatGPT joins the game
IMHO if the first things you think about when asked to describe your job is mails and meetings - then it’s mostly BS
Project managers, HR, scrum Master and micro managers are some real bs Jobs!
Scrum Master LMAO 🖐😂 One of the worst, and I have been one. 👀...😂
Um, maybe a dysfunctional HR team, HR is there to protect the company not the employee.
@@GGWP-nx3kn What does that even mean?
Yes
Not necessary - these ARE important roles - sadly, often filled by ....... well strange people.
The need for elevated social status is so deeply engrained in us that we happily play a game of pretend as long as it suits our needs and serves us a purpose.
In this way we are all potentially corruptible.
No matter if you are pro or con UBI, this is a problem that it actually does address to a certain extent, even if it brings up many new questions in different areas.
I've understood your point, but you seriously gotta work on your grammar, mate.. no offense.
@@nikoladoctorov553 thx
I was literally in a position where people liked me and liked my work, but I felt as if what I was doing was meaningless.
I left 4 months ago and am still looking for something that is meaningful to me.
The gig stuff has helped me. Maybe it’ll help you too
How are you getting on? I'm in a similar position. I try to deflect the reality but it eventually catches up to me.
My last job: 6 people in team, and I did half of the work of the whole team. And it took me 3-5 hours per day. I started at 10 am and finished at 3 pm/ 4 pm. And had many breaks... And I wanted to make it more efficient and wanted to improve processes and was not allowed. Finally I quit as it was so pointless and team members were so simple and slow to learn or finish anything.... and team lead was happy to get rid of me so they can happily continue their BS team with 0% productivity.
Wow
This is my case. I think jobs are bullshit since I ever started. I try find the meaming many where. And i always stuck same problem ...just like yoy have described. Now it is 4th time i have this same situation myself in.
Lmao keep going on girl. I love ur honesty.
After being a corporate employee for many years and a couple of redundancies, I turned to being a contractor. It's like having the perks of corporate but not having to care about the bullshit politics much and the fear of being stuck. If you're not scared of the lack of security, it's an option to consider.
Now I’m still working in a big corporate & my department has many toxic colleagues especially the management that has a mindset of holding wasteful meetings/discussions. I am bombarded with many un-urgent requests even out of my working hours. Hence I’m slowly tapping into growing my other life path that offers me back my own life with my family 😔
100% agree 👌🏼
Lol, much of the writing I’ve had to do in the first semester of my doctorate has been bullshit also
In this economy you're almost better off without a college degree.
I feel like that’s different, writing a dissertation is a process soo it makes sense that a first draft would be bad
a colleague who was behind on one of his term papers for his MSc.
wrote the introduction and conclusion and padded the middle with some technical documentation on a system we were developing - totally unrelated to the paper. he passed 😂😂😂
@@GenerationX1984 in many cases I would completely agree. I have never gone after a degree without checking the R.O.I. I don’t think people should pick a degree just for the money, but you shouldn’t remove yourself from reality either lol
The fancy title is something I noticed right away when I started working many years ago. Now I have a bachelors in healthcare admin only to find I can’t get any leadership jobs or even ones for training because I lack experience. Plus, a lot of titles like “executive assistant” is just a glorified receptionist.
Right everyone wants experience but where am I supposed to get it??
I know they want ppl to accept unpaid internship but that’s messed up
@@eypu999 The whole chicken (job) before the egg (experience) situation as I’ve called it, don’t get me started.
Yuuup, the degree thing happens Everytime.
This oddly reminds me of an episode in SpongeBob where Patrick had a "job" but all he does is go back to his home and watch TV ,complete with briefcase full of snacks.
LOL
😂😂😂😂😭😭
Corporate jobs are a waste of life
I had an internship a few months back where my role was to create videos.
One day I was assigned to make a video and I finished it on time. The boss asked me to edit some parts of the video and I did it. This boss, however, kept adding what I had to edit after finishing one cycle of editing (instead of telling me all the things I have to edit at once). I ended up having three editing cycles that could've been done in just one cycle.
I was thinking a way of how I would not be assigned any more task to edit the video. I ended up submitting the third edited video on the last day of my internship. And guess what? The boss still had the audacity to ask me for some editing after my internship contract expired. I straight away ignored them.
Workplace is a weird place. It really is. 🤔
ah! so true about automation, knowing how to do coding is the key. they have no clue how tf i could be so super efficient (and they look down on me at the beggining too. so funny).
quit that job, join PhD. still automate everything with codings, even the supervisor and peers were surprised. (most of them never worked in the industry and dont have much job experience)
this is my guess. some people are made to do bullshit job and some arent. getting job experience is the most important factor for this, it helps out in gaining EQ.
"Doing more tasks" does not equate to the company giving a shit, necessarily.
There's a concept in software engineering that 10% of engineers write 90% of the code. I found that to be true.
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Well said ! Nowadays it's like jobs are created for the sake of creating jobs. So the statistics of unemployment is low and looks good for the political party.
I hope companies automate boring repetitive jobs so less people can suffer.
I feel like jobs in big corporate companies are like "gang members" as if like I need to always prove them that I know my job and that I deserve to be there and sacrifice things in name of the operation and most people are in search of approval from their leaders and colleagues... it´s crazy.
Exactly like a gang. So true
or like a cult, with “we’re a family here” rhetoric
What my company does is have bs positions for people just to keep them as backups incase the people who do the important stuff quit. Then the bs job employee can more easily switch to the position since they'll at least have gained the necessary knowledge.
Knowledge drain can be devastating
Haha I've never encountered this before. Your company seems to have a high turnover rate
@Michael Murray I'm not in tech obviously
@Michael Murray wait till they hire a backup freelancer who can code but hasn't got a degree
Yup went through this, the BS position got so boring so I went back. Then I got fed up and quit
We respect you for revealing this.
I genuienly dont know what i am doing at work. I just collect my Paycheck, have a few meeting with my boss, write like 10lines of Code a week and the rest of the time i spend doing stuff i actually care about ;)
Life is good :)
@Yasmine Jay
I think they call it universal basic income nowadays :)
George Carlin's "soft language" comes to mind.
My favourite is the Logistics and Supplies Manager, aka orders stationery.
This was in my recommended... now I want to read the book... seems incredible, but seems that there are many jobs that are not adding value more than ego.
So what's the fancy term for "Online English Language Teacher"? ... Internet Lingua Franca Enhancement Operator? Something like that? :D
Im a welder, i Build Airports, bridges and buildings. Love my job
I've always thought the company I entered (well, two of 'em in the past) would have been the company I would stay on for long, coz I was hoping for an interesting learning experience and team vibe collaboration...oh, how naive I was and little did I know that the experience only hurt me...I felt like I was eventually left isolated by the manager because I was thought that I did not fit their culture, despite my honest efforts to adapt...:'( I felt like I was purposely discouraged as if I was encouraged to take the initiative to exit the company...it felt like every man for himself...if felt less we, more I...
When I was a graduate, my reporting manager requested a sales report every month. I would send it to my my manager, who was the contracts manager, who he sent to his manager, the Sales Manager, who sent it to his manager, the Regional Manager, who then sent it to his manager, the GM who then sent it to his manager, the CEO. The CEO will need two figures of information on the report to do his monthly update (email) to the business. It was such a BS report. I questioned why I needed to do the full report and just provide the figures the CEO used, but my manager was adamant that other "stakeholders" of the business looked at the report, which of course no one didnt. It just getting forwarded on, to make themselves look like their were "doing" their jobs.
the illusion
Then, CEO of hedge fund looks at the report and sends "press the buy button" to the VP. VP sends "press the buy button" to the director. Director sends "press the buy button" to the manager. Manager sends "press the buy button" to the lead investor. Lead investor sends "press the buy button" to the senior investor. Senor investor sends "press the buy button to the investor. Investor sends the "press the buy button" to the intern. Intern presses the buy button. Buys the tip.
@@sprytnychomik domino?
I always convince myself that they use the whole thing for analysis just to make myself feel better. Lol
I love how 'stakeholders' is thrown around like steak holders 😂. Companies love to think the more tedious and complicated something is the better. The idea is moronic, esp since management isn't doing said work. My bad...that's the definition of corporate.
CEO = high-paid employee (except if they are business owners)
This doesn’t only apply to Vietnam but globally. I can’t even express how many bs meetings I have to go to.
people need jobs as long as the money is not bullshit im in! we just need the means to do the things we really need right
everyone dreams to get into the corporate world until you see it's all superficial glam and facing black mirrors for most of your life
I am a "Business Solutions Architect" which is a very fancy title for a senior level business analyst. A lot of people think business analysis is a bullshit job, although I do feel I add value to the company and take on a lot of tasks that nobody else knows how to do. I agree too much time is spent in meetings discussing how much progress people did or didn't make and why instead of actually getting things done. .
i feel the reason people use meetings is to fill their diaries up ,to make themselves look like they are actually doing something.
As someone trying to break the glass ceiling, there's little I can do other than accept the corporate bs until I have the authority to change my job content. I'm optimistic about the progression though!
There is no glass ceiling, that is imaginary. You actually want to get away from it.
You should reach out to Joshua Fluke for a collab. I'm all about helping people transition to truly gainful employment or freelancing (which is what I do after having been an executive).
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What skill do you have for free lancing? I feel like many online freelancing is outbid by low cost of living countries. Looking at this for myself also. Industrial maintenance/automation technician right now.
Sounds good to me
@@FushigiMigi
web design and development. The thing about what to charge takes a shift in thinking because most people equate money with time. The truth is that what you're paid is dictated by perceived value of solving a problem which is not completely based on logic. Let me give you an example in your realm because I was around it as a SCM / purchasing director for manufacturing. Say a company needs a PLC programmer to fix the cycle time on a given machine. The company needs to do this or they are going to lose out big to competitors. They estimate if the problem were solved they would net $1M per year. Just to toss a number out there, you could charge $20,000 + materials and they wouldn't bat an eye. Another company needs to solve the same problem but they just need it done because their machine is "broken" and they won't gain anything from it, just prevent the loss of $10,000 per year. You will have the same amount of work and material cost, but the perceived value has reduced dramatically. If you were to charge the same amount, it would be a "no way". Combine that with overseas labor. The global talent pool always has supply, but it doesn't have perceived value. The sales funnel is finding those who do value your services by targeting the right companies and problems to solve. In fact, when I charge a contract rate of 500% of what people overseas would charge, it HELPS me stand out and show value (and I deliver!). This mental shift about money, once it fully sets in, makes it difficult to ever be a W2 employee ever again.
@@JoshuaFluke1 hahha how did you find this video
It seems that with advancing tech and A.I., the clash and contrast between sociopolitical class and utilitarian pragmatism will cause people to rethink what is a "good" job or perhaps what the concept of "getting a job" is. What will never happen is respect and genuine regard for service people: Cleaners, child care workers, nursing home staff, landscape workers, field workers, truckers etc. Just because you help maintain modern life doesn't mean upon consideration you're welfare will cause momentous societal changes. Why do "upper class" high income earners not hire English nannies from the best training programs in the U.K?...Cz required salaries will be on par with theirs. These are ever persistent "FIRST-WORLD PROBLEMS".
Even mid-company has many drama in it 😂 can't imagine how many big drama in big company are...
Just more levels of drama. Still drama at the team level but you also get entire departments beefing with each other. Even different branches. Iss lit.
@@zhin13 doesnt sound very lit
@@dingleberry4234 when you're just chilling on the sidelines and watching it all unfold, it's quite amusing.
@@zhin13 I guess
@@zhin13 allah that sounds fun 😭
In my experience, a job that combines the words "management" and "consultant" somewhere in the title is very likely an unnecessary and parasitic position.
Very intresting, i am an MBA that worked in audit for 6 years and changed career as i felt my job did not add value. Working in IT now and sure theres some meaningless stuff still but much less then previous.
I've known most of this forever, but it's validating to hear someone else dive so deep into the issue. Excellent video
That's Keynesian economics. The jobs don't matter, what is important is the SPENDING. This is how the central banks have set it up..
OH&S in it's current incarnation along with entire modern HR departments need not exist.
I am glad youtube recommended me this. Your video format was quite chill but it was also direct and filled with enough info to be interesting. I think it is great that someone decided to share their thoughts like this. In terms of bs time management in jobs, I think that if the company structure was made so as to reward automating they might be able to break free of this trap and actually make works try to make it more efficient.
Haha I’m glad I’m not the only one find ‘time management talk’ bs. From my experience, many of my colleagues are afraid of experiment new things. They just stick to whatever they are told to do and however the people before them do it. Let’s take Excel as an example, they perceive being good at Excel is something extremely hard, which is not the case at all. I learn how to automate stuff from googling. When I first got the job, I didn’t even know how to filter shit lol.
Farmer is the no bs job.
It's an ego thing. Corporate execs make their rounds to divisions and stores to see what's going on? They can look at the numbers on the computer at the touch of a button.
The law requires them to physically visit as required by compliance laws ex. Banks, financial institutions, other regulated industries.
Anything outdated and/or corrupt is going extinct. True Intelligence/Smart work is becoming reality now, slowly but surely.
@@organicwins91 it hasn't in thousands of years. I appreciate your hope though. 👍
@@organicwins91 eh idk about that
Shhhhh, I watch youtube all day and get paid 80,000 a year. Stop telling the world that they work harder than me at McDonald's.
So true chi oi. Every time I go on LinkedIn, I compare myself a lot with others job tittle.
This is toxic, really toxic!
The whole afterpay thing - I was (am) in a situation where I had to move out suddenly, and thus needed to get a desk and chair for work, mattress, kitchen stuff, etc., and those are all not-cheap, individually or added up. I also didn’t want to buy cheap stuff I knew I would be throwing out straight away. So the three-month interest free came in very handy.
This video speaks to me on so many levels. Spent three years in Beijing doing a bullshit job 8 hours a day when it could be easily be done in 2 hours max. Add toxic overwork culture on top of that, when people don't actually do any work they just browse online shopping and play games on the phone while present, and you get a truly terrifying experience. That's why I work freelance now, 10000000% more efficient money wise and I actually feel like I'm building something. Would never go back to a corporate job even for 100k
Dead on
Toxic overwork culture but they also browse online and play games? could you elaborate please genuinely interested about your experience
@Giovanni Picariello - Learning and Other Stuff I was doing international business development for a private K-12 school. Nowadays I'm a freelance translator
@@dingleberry4234 There's so much to unpack here I don't even know where to start. You are probably more familiar with Japanese work culture, if that's the case I would say these are very similar although I still think the Chinese version is even worse. For starters, the rule of law in China is basically the will of the government/rich people and there are no unions whatsoever, which means your contract is basically a guideline paper and not a legally binding agreement between two parties, especially if you are a foreigner. This leads to all kinds of problems, mainly HR or the big boss arbitrarily changing your contract or adding enforcement policies.
The worse of which would be the "tardiness policy" which means, if you are late 5 minutes they would deduct 1 dollar from your payroll, 10 minutes 5 dollars, 30 minutes, 20 dollars, more than 1 hour would slash off a whole day's work (mind you I never agreed to this, they just added this later), however, there was no overtime pay at all, so you could arrive 30 minutes late but if you overworked 3 hours, you would still lose money.
Overwork is absolutely ridiculous since you are expected to overwork or you would otherwise be labeled as the selfish guy who doesn't think about his coworkers. The thing is, people do fuck all day and are extremely inefficient. People work for 10-20 minutes and then just buzz off to wherever/play 斗地主 on their phones/browse 淘宝 (Chinese amazon) or straight up just sleep. And the boss is generally okay with that you know? It doesn't matter what you do, you just need to be there a show your face and this applies to overwork as well, you don't need to be doing anything but as long as you are there you are contributing to the face of the company. This absolutely sucks because I'm a strong believer in efficient work but eventually devolved to doing things as slow as possible because there was no point in doing them fast.
Last but not least, the boss-employee gap is ABSOLUTELY MASSIVE in China. I don't know about the US, but in Europe, although bosses/CEO's are obviously in a higher position, there is a degree of mutual respect between the boss and worker since both have a degree of power over the other. In China? Just forget about it, if the boss says anything that is the maximum true and no one dares to challenge it even though it's the stupidest idea ever. There is no bottom-top incentive nor innovation, bosses are too busy protecting their 面子 (face, reputation) because they are control freaks and power-hungry people with superiority-complexes.
I just want to add that I loved Beijing and the people I met there, and not every job is as bleak as the ones I had, but this is definitely the norm and not the exception. If anyone is working there just be aware of these things.
@@bdrferreira ah ok I see now thanks for the lengthy response
Biggest BS job? Pharmaceutical Quality Control. As a former Manager of a lab, there was massive pressure to 'test into compliance' so that everything would be sold, even product that should have been discarded.
Engineering have a lot of duct tapers and task masters. Haha
Companies don’t care about employee productivity, they are only interested in working you like a slave. I’ve had this happen and this is why some people just do the bare minimum because when you point out a way to be more productive in less time or can achieve the same productivity in less time instead of rewarding you they break your back with more work for the same or less pay. Like how dare you figure out how NOT to slave! Like let people leave early or pay them more for more work. Wtf. And those jobs where they tell you that you’re responsibilities can change at any moment. WHAT THE FUUUUCCKKKK.
i want a bs job, cant find one, or a real job
watch videos on how to get (whatever type of job u are after)
and keep trying.
ask people u know to hook u up with jobs
Uber eats is hiring, as well as other gig economy work. It’s impossible not to have a job, unless you don’t live in a city
@@rocketsmall4547 thanks for your helps, but i dont have the right attitude to work for anyone. im going out on my bicycle allday so...
I’m a doctor but after watching this video I became a professional drug seller
Haha, it's very funny
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Afterpay: "We fund your fuckery". Lol! 😂😂
"We fund your fuckery" could be a general slogan for franchisees with respect to their corporations.
“We grant your grabazzery”
Most people can't focus for 8 hours. Not even 4 hours. If companies gave people tasks and told them "this week, you do these tasks and then you're done", most people would work monday and be done with all their work. The rest of the time is spent on facebook, snacking and other things. It's sad, but it's the reality, and if you decide "no, I won't fall on this trap, I MUST do my job as quickly as possible and not engage in this nonsense", then some coworkers won't enjoy your company, and the company starts giving you more responsibilities for the same pay.
Corporate world is a mess, but there is no other viable substitution that's been shown to work. It's like with the school system. We may complain all we want, but there is no other viable replacement