Fun fact: "Company stores" and "money" that could only be used in *those* stores was exactly how mining towns kept people in poverty, and unable to move away to find better opportunities, during the 1800s.
@@prixprixprixCame here to say this. I love that song, but I hate how it is so descriptive of the current year. At least the company stores part isn't back. Yet. Edit: Wrote that before watching the whole video, like an idiot.
I was just thinking about that part of history. I'm constantly seeing real life returns to the practices of the industrial revolution, and I feel so hopeless
i love that if you look up the no-quit sign thing, its like "oh this was just one location not the franchise as a whole" but when i quit my first job at a Mcdonalds back in 2018, the manager legitimately told me No, that i had to get permission from a general manager to do that. yeeeaaah im sure they accepted my resignation after the 2nd or 3rd week of not showing up.
Restaurants have to give water for free (at least up here in Illinois, no idea if same in Texas), but lock people up so they depend on you to supply them water, and then you can charge them. Fuck the American penal system.
@@darrenrobinson9041 But he's not using these images and posts for a completely selfish reason, nor is he acting like this content is his. Imagine you get a voice acting job, then quit or retire, and without your consent your voice is recreated for profit without you seeing a penny of said profit from that point onwards. Hence *"My voice is MINE"**
It's a nice thought, but Robin has said in a past video that he prefers the ones that made him mad. Though probably not this one considering what he stated in the beginning of the video
Robin refusing to read the doom-text is oddly wholesome. I saw the post and was like: "Uch, that's gonna give me my nightly dose of anxiety" so I wanted to skip.. until I heard Robin say "I am not gonna read this" and I wholeheartedly want to thank Robin for that. Our world is already filled with bad news that only want you to feel bad. We don't need more "doom" to feel even worse. I hope humanity finds back to positivity and optimism one day!
Is it bad that as soon as he said "I'm not going to read that" I immediately paused and read it? Idk why, i figured it might be a _bit_ interesting but, nah, it was (as the name implies) boring
@@idkcba And that's ok. If you can mantain yourself informed and avoid taking that to a personal level, this can be constructive. What Robin meant in refusing to read the article is that subreddits like r/Aboringdystopia don't share such articles with informative intentions, but rather use them to leave you feeling hopeless. Places like these essentially serve to self-validate cynicism and scorn, often labeling the act of feeling hope as futile.
@@mayconlcruz I feel hope through rage, personally. I like to think of these as fuel for the fire that we'll eventually throw the idiots in charge onto
No, the private park in NYC is not in Central Park, but it is close. It’s called Gramercy Park and was built, thankfully, with their OWN MONEY for once.
18:35 "Weird they don't have the equivalent in hot areas" *They do,* in an awful lot of them. In fact, shortly after this woman's death became a big deal in Arizona, the state regulators enacted a statewide ban on turning off residential power during summer months, for exactly this reason.
Indeed. I know moping around won't do anything but let a company hold more power over you. We are in a corner, we should repeat what the majority of animals in nature do when they are backed in a corner, fight back.
You guys know that it is already too late, yes? We now just have to wait for the climate to kill us all except for the rich people that would probably go to space before that happens, you just gotta wait for the impending doom, everyone will perish, there is no way to stop it now, and I do believe that there is nor hell nor heaven, there is just darkness, and we all shall imbrace it, or perhaps there IS something, perhaps we still can do something, but regardless we will all end up dead, although after death there might be something, there might be a sort of limbo, where you can just walk around in a place of darkness, that seems more like it. I hope I gave someone a little bit of anxiety for their impending doom
If anyone bothered to read the whole sign it says you can't quit until you talk to the manager or another listed person and gives the contact information for both.
Unfortunately, a lot of places limit or refuse E.I. or other supports if you're 'Fired' as opposed to 'quitting due to legitimate reason'. And a manager of any level could just say no, and then you either get fired (No call no show, reason of the week, w/e) or keep working (and punished, bc anyone who tells you they wont retaliate bc it's 'illegal' is high). When I left mine, they tried to make a scene, but i had it on record that they'd 'replace me before the sun went down, they get 100s of applications a day'. I was working 6 days a week, and on call the 7th, for almost 6 months bc they couldn't find someone to clean their deep friers/grill, and man the entire kitchen, and turn over the store for breakfast, and help the front person with drive-thru all at the same time. They had 2 people on a 3-5 person shift, and managers that were the owner's bestie/sister-in-law/nephew. Went back recently just for a drink, told me it took 20 minutes to change over a soda box.
About the water gun backpack thing... yeah. When I was a kid, My brother had this toy gun. It was completely golden yellow with a red light and was obviously a toy, but airport security still took it. For it so much as being in his backpack.
I think an incident in Sweden happened some time ago, where a boy with down syndrome had a fake gun in public. Police shot him, leading to his passing, and he didn't really do anything to deserve being fatally injured.
Before the pandemic, I worked a job at a corporate call center. Place was really nice with accommodating policies and really great facility resources. An arcade, a nap room, a gym, two kitchens, and several break rooms. But the thing they did to reward us was hand us fake money like in the LM segment of the video. To be redeemed for snacks and stuff. Very often, whenever I just couldn't afford lunch, I'd spend my saved up company cash. If I didn't have company cash, my lunch was going to be a microwaved potato I purchased, in bulk, from the discount grocer that sells nearly expired or damaged goods. Back then I recognized the idea of the company store as appealing. But whenever I'd call attention to it, people would tell me I was over-reacting.
I'm fine with my job giving me, say, a company shirt (I don't wear T-shirts, and dye my own fabrics, but it's not like I'd hate the gift). And in your case, it makes sense. But it would make more sense to give you, rather than $2 Kompany Bux, $2 actual dollars and let you go buy something in the cafeteria that takes real money and not bother with the middle-man, who was almost certainly overcharging (possibly not, but I doubt the economy was Free And Fair and all that; it never has been when I've experienced it). Ours gives out actual gift cards in decent steps--usually about a day's pay for a white-collar person or more--for work well-done, and they're not shy about them. This month, my department received, if I remember, 9 or 10. We're not a huge department. I got 1. One person received three. Use it wherever you want. I have a pile sitting by my computer because I never can figure out what to buy with them.
Yep, understand that. From experience, working 'back of house' does your body in, working 'front of house' does your head in. It makes me wonder why our ancestors bothered to crawl out of the sea sometimes. Playing around all day like dolphins turns out to be much more intelligent.
Join a communist party and help build a world where service workers don't need to torture themselves for minimum wage. Everything you have learned about communism from school or the media is as real as the WMDs in Iraq.
@@jimb9063early human societies were communist in nature, and things only changed after agriculture allowed some people to produce and hoard an excess.
LOL @ no quit McDonalds. what is the manager gonna do? risk a kidnapping charge by holding a quitting employee against their will? yes legally speaking that could be considered kidnapping.
They do it so they can avoid all the benefits you'd get from quitting instead of being fired, as being fired is worse, which would incentivize workers to keep working out of fear of getting fired. Legally they can't stop you from leaving, or force you to work, but they can revoke any and all benefits you may get for quitting.
There's bound to be a list somewhere on the internet of objects American cops have mistaken - or, perhaps, "mistaken" - for live guns. Sandwiches, chair legs, toy guns...
In September 2022 i spent 30 days in jail. Only gave us water with meals. No AC, no outdoor rec, just constant lockdown. I went in at 280lbs. I came out 220lbs dehydrated and taken directly to hospital. I live in Georgia, USA. Summers here are known to be brutally hot and humid.
@kittykittybangbang9367 yes indeedy. This summer was mild up until 3 weeks ago, then hell mode kicked in. The people in my neighborhood have begun gardening, mowing laws, and trimming hedges at night because its just too hot to be out in the heat of the day. Love the name btw. Lol
60lbs in one month is insane, I couldn't lose that much in that time if I tried, and you were just sitting in a room the whole time? Insane, criminally dangerous.
@@NotA-Lizard Can I ask why you were in there? Not trying to find a reason for what they did, even murderers deserve better, but I just have to know what they could have potentially killed somebody over.
who else could tackle such harsh topics and stupid ideas the way Robin does? Without "Grandmaster Rant" i wouldn´t have made it through this video full of disgusting stuff. but nonetheless i feel tired and slightly depressed and have to look up funny stuff to balance it out. working for EmKay is a really tough job for all people involved - just to bring us new content every day. thank you all for that.
5:04 this was a real problem. In the 1980s, toy guns were made to be realistic, with accurate sculpting, colors, features like ejecting casings, electronic sounds, and so on. Then attention was drawn to police shooting kids, because the toys appeared to be real firearms. As a result, companies started making the guns in florescent orange and green colors with a red tip to look more like toys (my friends and I would spray-paint them back to realistic colors, because it's hard to sneak up on someone with a day-glo water gun) Later on, toy companies abandoned the realistic molds altogether and ended up in more fanciful, toy like designs like Super Soakers, so that the shape was obvious as a toy. The company here is simply covering their bases, because someone is going to modify a toy gun to look realistic, get shot, then the family will sue the toy company.
Not only that, people are making real guns look like toy guns, so if you are waving around anything that looks remotely like a firearm, police have to assume that it is a firearm.
This was not intended to be a rant, but here: My last few days at mcdonalds were fucking hell. The people I worked with were lovely, and I would have quit MUCH sooner if it hadn't been for that. I remember my last few days I was working headset (Drive-through orders), making coffee orders, assembling drive-through orders, getting sauce for others, working on the fries, and taking out held orders all at once. meaning that other than one girl at the register, I was the ONLY person working on nonstop orders. (Tasks that would be normally divided between 4-5 people.) the only thing I wasn't doing was cooking. it wasn't always like this but the problem only worsened with time. I stayed because I wanted to help the store. we were very short on staff, and I had put in my two weeks because I was anticipating changing jobs. They asked me to stay, and we talked. They agreed to put my full time and I accepted. I never received full time, and my pay was never increased like promised. or if it was I didn't notice because my pay went from 9 to 10 dollars... These were the ingredients used to cause a complete mental breakdown, and it took me a long time to feel ok again after quitting. I still feel guilty, but I couldn't continue to kill myself for that amount of money. Not to mention the foot pain is just now beginning to subside and it's been at least 2 months since I quit (I'm 18).... My only regret is not sticking around for the no-quit bullshit so I could quit then. Tl-DR: Overworked with little pay, and they're so shocked that we're leaving.
Was one of the cooks....used to have a customer pop in the drive thru...that we all called "Diabetty" She always ordered a Double quarter with 2 extra patties. 4 shots of seasoning over each patty 4 slices of cheese on each patty. (So 16 slices) Triple pickle Triple onion She was never a overly pleasant person to deal with. I would always think to myself.. "What happened to you, that you gave up?" That was always soul sucking when I saw her pull up... Hell I knew the order so well I didnt even need to see her, to know when she ordered.
They know people stay because they feel guilty about leaving coworkers. If you are ever working a service job for low pay, take your sweet goddamned time and give them an amount of labor that is equal to your pay. Don't break your neck for minimum wage; those parasites need you more than you need them.
I've seen that "it's too expensive to hire sufficient staff- wait, why are the overworked, stressed, and still underpaid staff leaving?" before. I eve saw it at the gas station near my house. Corporate aholes never f*ing learn.
I used to be a CO at a private prison. The inmates earned a monthly stipend as set by CDOC, and any restitution they owed as required by their sentence was the only thing that was ever deducted from that. The facility itself never charged anybody for utilities, "housing" I guess you could call it, for medical care, nor for the three meals served every day. The idea that a DOC facility would charge their inmates rent hurts and confuses me on a personal level, and worries me on a professional level.
5:30 "no way to mistake this as a real gun" there were police who mistook a waking stick a partially blind person was carrying for a firearm and arrested him under charges if brandishing a firearm and resisting arrest
Looks like someone used the wrong thumbnail :3 I mean, it doesn't make too much of a difference... I watch both EmKay and EzPz. I should comment on EzPz more often to give them some more engagement...
If I worked at a place that didn't let me quit, I'd have a good ol' time trying to get fired. Come in not showered, telling customers to f-off, "forgetting" to wipe, throwing up in the fryers, etc. Man, that would be fun!
If your gun is holstered it's fine, if you're waving it around and pointing it like an idiot that's called brandishing and it's a felony. And they tell kids not to wave toy guns around because cops are dumb as hell and have killed for less.
yep, its a crime because a cop could "accidentally" shoot you and get mildly inconvenienced for it (I would have said, might get in trouble, but that never actually happens). that is LITERALLY the only reason its illegal.
No, but nice strawman. Pointing something that can be mistaken for a gun can get you shot. Google real guns that look like toys and you’ll understand why police not only have to assume that everything that looks like a gun is a gun, they also have to assume that, even if it looks like a toy gun, it’s a gun
I gotta agree with Robin here. Even though these subreddits do bring temporary comfort knowing that struggling to live as a young adult trying to become independent today isn't entirely my fault, it's not good for overall mental health to see these doom spirals of content. I hope Robin gets happier subreddits as I wish to view those more.
@@justinwatson1510 I'm not saying to ignore the problem entirely. Yes, fight against these issues, but also I don't want it to be the only thing I surround myself with. There's still good stuff in life that I want to enjoy.
I worked for a company during covid that had monitoring software on my pc. At one point half of my job role was just cut so I had way less work to do. The financial directors who had never had any contact or interaction with me then saw my role as a drain on their profits and let me go and used the monitoring software as proof to only pay me 60% of my wages for the final month due to me "only being productive 60% of the time", despite me already discussing this before with my actual boss about that I was struggling to find work to do as by job role had been cut in half.
if you are in the US you should file an unpaid wage claim for the missing 40%, that's illegal. You do not need a lawyer, the state will investigate on your behalf, if they are found to have retroactively changed your pay they could be liable for up to triple the difference as well as fines, and you would get paid your full salary plus any statutory damages up to triple what they owed you.
@@dangerszewski9816 I'm in the UK and while I know I could have disputed it, was kinda glad in hindsight to be out of that company and thought it wasn't worth the hassle. My dad is trying to sue a company for something else and it's been 2 years and it's taking so long as solicitors tend to not care too much about small amounts of money and only want to deal with the big cases so they get a higher cut.
Also I really hope that this is continued, It helps to keep me informed (enraged) AND I get to hear Robin’s voice, but at the same time, I can fully understand why Robin would want to stop.
Prisons charge prisoners for everything. Rent, utilities, using the phone, using the library, all of it. When/if you get out, they send you a bill, and not paying it can get you sent right back. SSDD in the land of the free.
@@mred8002 (replying to you specifically but it should be read by all) As a reminder, the 13th "forbids chattel slavery across the United States and in every territory under its control, except as a criminal punishment."
I live in AZ. They did actually change that law. It was during 2020, if I remember correctly. All of the electric companies can't turn your electricity off during the summer. The electric company where I live will work with people too to get them paid up. Not sure what all of the options are, but they will "help" (using that term loosely) people get straightened up when payments resume.
Most companies are willing to help you work out a way to repay them. They'd rather you pay your bill late than have to send collections. You can just talk to them and say you can't pay right now and see what options there are.
For the van life guy... There is a chance that he could afford to live in a home. There are some people who just prefer living in vans and do it voluntarily, partially because it does work out cheaper, and/or they want their home to be on the move. I've even considered it before.
My dog was settled on my bed, I started playing this video on my phone, and as soon as Robin started talking, she jumped up and stood on the top of the stairs, staring at the front door. She thought Robin was here outside lol
I like these kinds of videos. I want people to see this and be enraged. It's really important to frame this right to get rage rather than sadness, but if this helps amassing a crowd of people fighting for the cause, I'm all for it.
As much as some people find it obnoxious, the Parisiens and the CGT trade union are doing more than most any other group around the world. Non-obstructive protests are useless. In fact the more obstructive they are, the better. It's just a shame Macron's too much of a fucking moron to realise disregarding democracy isn't gonna make your democracy-loving population happy. Tldr: Fight like a damn Parisien
Can the van detecting people using their phones tell if the people are using GPS or it this just a 'hey, that's a phone signal, write them a ticket' type of situation?
It is a visual device, from what I understand, and, in our state, it doesn’t matter what you are using it for, if you pick it up it’s a ticket. Their helpful advice? Pull over to check the GPS.
@@mred8002 Not trying to be facetious, so if their phone is connected to their car to use GPS (some newer cars have a screen), they'll still get a ticket because of the screen that's in the car? I'm genuinely trying to figure out how that would work, or from what it sounds like not work. And that is crappy advice from them to pull over to check your GPS, especially if you're like on the Highway or something. Edited for spelling.
@@jennyb9065 In Michigan it must be hands-free, so voice control is OK, but reaching and poking screens likely not. They seem to be targeting trucks first, hence the height to peer into the tractor cabins. And, isn’t pulling onto the shoulder of freeways and stopping illegal, too, unles it an ‘emergency’? The whole thing looks like a free pass for more pretext stops for cops.
@@neruwu What I’ve read of the new law is that ANY handling of a phone is illegal. I doubt they will exclude handling a dash mounted touch screen, either. A revenue grab.
"those who donate 1$ to his campaign is given a 20$ gift card in return" This is actually extremely useful information to have. It lays out exactly how much money(or at the very least, product) they will prioritize to buy senator votes. Its a gamble on the company in that they believe how many people are on the verge of homelessness or food insecurity is greater than the democratic majority.
2:36 He did that to participate in a primary debate, because he need at least 40k donors. So basically paid people to became his donor and get access to the debate.
5:45 well, those shops have existed in the UK for ages, they're called Argos and you basically order stuff online and pick it up or fill out a form in store/via some tablet computer and then they bring your order from the warehouse in the back
My mom aspires to travel the country in a van someday, and from what she's shown me of "van life" people, I think calling them homeless misses the point. The nicely kept small RVs that you generally see on social media cost around $100,000 USD. Depending on where you want to live, you could potentially buy a house instead. The dystopian aspect I see in my mom's case is that the van thing would be an alternative to "traveling in her retirement". Because she won't get to retire. The closest thing she could hope for is to get a job that she can do from anywhere and the ability to take her desk with her, so that she might still have a chance to see the world while she works until she dies.
I went to find out how to apply for section 8 in my area the other day and learned the waitlist for my area hasnt been opened in 13 years. 13 F'ING YEARS.
Actually for that stairwell it would be an excellent purchase. If I lived near London I'd have bought it outright Take out the stairs, clad the building and then build new flooring/platforms. Realistically you've got 4-5 storeys and each one is about the size of a medium bedroom. Realistically you're looking at 70k for a 4-5 story house in London. Good deal if you're creative enough.
1:38 I love that. We all love a bit of doom humour now and then, but some people seem to really revel in the doom. There is hope, and if more of us try and do good things despite all the bad in the world, more people will hopefully feel it. Nice one, Robin! 💜💜
9:35 this reminds me of the little mermaid. Ariel sold her voice and Ursula used it to put Ariel out of a job so she had to find a sugar daddy. So deep
My blood boils at the thought of scarring the moon for the gain of five wealthy people maximum. I do not wish to state what i would do, were the magnificence of the night to be defiled so.
If they won't let me quit, I'll litterly be the worst employe they ever had (while staying in legal boundaries) until they have no other choice than to fire me😈
@@zackmatulis4094 No, but you can throw-up in the fryers as long as you don't get caught doing it voluntarily on camera, just tell management you did it and won't be cleaning it up, and make sure none of that gets served to the customers Rinse and repeat until you're fired.
Look, if you’re going to mine the moon, do it on the half that we don’t see every night. Luckily the moon is tidally locked so one side always faces the Earth, so as long as we avoid that side and instead mine on the “dark side of the moon” (which can become bright because it does face the sun quite often).
There's this worldbuilding project called Orion's Arm. In it, the far side of the moon is covered in large domes, but the close side is completely pristine. If we want to inhabit the Moon, that's how we should do it.
@@ericgolightly8450 Sick. I’m all for industrializing the moon, as long as we don’t ruin the side Earth constantly sees. Not to mention the moon would be a great place to launch shuttles and satellites once it does become industrialized
2:20 This is... actually literally what Walmart does, though? You're actually signing a literal enslavement contract when you work for them, it's how they can legally defy minimum wage laws. You're not an employee, you're _store equipment._ I'm actually surprised they don't just literally tattoo an asset tag on new hires... yet.
I worked at Wal-Mart and several of my relatives do. While there are things Wal-Mart does to its employees that need to be improved, I've never ever heard of anything like this comment is talking about. Not saying it doesn't exist I just need a citation here.
4:00 here in Iowa and many other states, someone who stays 10 years in prison, only pays 300ish dollars when released, all states do some form of this and its called pay for stay. The video doesn't cover how much they get charged. YW
I think it's important to point out that the no quit sign was just poorly designed. It says no quit but it tells you how to quit, it just basically says that if you walk out you didn't quit, you were fired.
I feel like AI could be SO much better if the world just had nicer humans. I have seen a few good cases of AI usage that are genuinely interesting and doing completely new things. but they're all overshadowed by text bots and people just trying to replace middle/lower class living humans
0:25 fun fact: those new EVs that Amazon has are stuffed with cameras in the cab AND in the cargo area. Absolutely no privacy in one of those. They're insane.
17:16 for the subway thing if it's only 50000 bucks and the sandwich cost around 12 or 13 bucks, you'll be able to eat subway everyday for the next 10 and a half years, if it costs 13 bucks or less ofc
Way back when i went to jail (about 10 years ago in Michigan) there was a so called lottery and every so often a group of names would get picked out of all the prisoners and if your name got picked, then you would be charged room and board and it was literally called "room and board" on all the paperwork you'd get. My name got picked and it eventually added up to around $8,000 😂 obviously i didnt have the money to pay for it. So what the jail did was if someone put money on your books, for the weekly commissary (its technically a store for overpriced items such as food or hygiene products. The jail would automatically take that money.
How is the lottery even legal??? None of the rest of it should be either ofc but that's standard fare for this country. But the lottery? That's new to me
@@awaredeshmukh3202 hell if I know. It honestly put so many people in debt and then they couldn't even buy normal hygiene products off the commissary. It shouldn't be legal. And this is regular county jail, not even prison. There are people in there waiting to be sentenced who haven't even been proven guilty but can't bond themselves out because of a high cash bond set.
@@darrenrobinson9041 Actually that's what it's called room and board and it's not a scam. When you get served/sued for the room and board for being in jail. You get this big packet of paperwork. And it basically states on the top of it like an actual legal summons or whatever you call it. I'm not a lawyer lol but it says whatever your name is as the defendant verses the name of the jail as the plaintiff. Lol I know I'm making this more confusing but I'm no lawyer and don't know any inner workings of being sued.
I had to do a double-take on the first one, at first I was like "Alright, weird layout, but if they want to waste their space that's fine" Then I realized all of those were individual backyards, not one collective backyard.
I guess I can see how this would seem like a doom subreddit. But imo it's more of an angry subreddit. Every time I see these videos, it makes me wanna burn down some mansions 😊 I would also like to say it's the only reliable place I can get information about how slimy rich people truly are
I think the no quit sign more means no walking out mid shift or randomly saying you quit. You have to sign a form anyway when you quit so talking to the restaraunt manager could be good with discussing the next step after you leave. Like receiving any benefits or handing in your uniform.
1:43 I do think it's a good thing to have a place to vent, so without doomscrolling it and reading through it, I believe this subreddit has a purpose for venting
7:33 some people renovate vans to live in especially in this day and age seeing as they're much cheaper than a house and you can go wherever you want. It doesn't mean they can't afford houses they're just living in a different way than what you're used to
The problem I have with that police van is, I have a playlist on youtube of different videos (Usually podcasts, songs or just things where you don't really need to watch it and just listen like people talking about history or something), I put that on play before I leave in a car. That police van would detect that as phone usage as those are being viewed via the signal and not downloaded and as such they would pull me over for quite literally wanting to listen to something other than crappy radio.
ok i actually love the all-digital Wawa store though. I have pretty severe social anxiety and can't afford to doordash regularly. This would be great for if I need groceries during a high-stress day.
I think, if not Robin, Lexi would be a great fit for some of these angry subreddits too. Probably not this specific one though, this is just depressing more than anything.
so... last year around this time, i called to an employment center of sorts and talked about working in some sort of market chain (details are not important, i am not even from english speaking country, so think about any grocery market you want). they told me through phone that i need to go through some "training days" that would take less than a week before i started to work. i would not be paid during training though, fair enough. after i arrived, i specified that i wanted part time job so that i don't get too tired while attending to university, and it was supposed to be "training day" as well. you know what happened? after arriving at morning, they immediately threw me into thick of it, making me lift shit in and from the storage, attending to machines that measure weight of the food people bought, etc. this "training" lasted until fucking 4 pm. this was supposed to be part time job too. not only i got lied to and worked full day worth of it, about 6 or 7 hours, but i was supposed to come back few more days and NOT GET PAID BECAUSE 7 HOURS OF CONSTANT WORK COUNTED AS "TRAINING". i did not get any food breaks and i did not even get to fucking drink water ALL THAT TIME. also, you know how much they would pay me? a motherfucking 300-500 dollars worth of salary in a month (again, i am not from USA, but think of its monetary worth to be as valuable as dollar is in USA). not like in a week or anything, in a FUCKING MONTH. so, they would break me physically and mentally for like 4 or 5 days a week, not let me eat or drink properly, and then pay me fuck all. i might as well burn that money because of how worthless that paycheck is because of inflation. i fucked off immedeately, i was terrified. fuck me man, i hate this world. and to think that people of my age worked there as FULL TIME JOB which lasts i believe 12 to 16 hours because "part time job" was 6 or 7, i can not imagine the pain those guys are going through. i am not joking that i might as well put bullet in my head instead of working there and get paid like 300 dollars worth of shit. that shit is insult to humanity as a whole.
@@nightglide_ no fuck off *MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM* (this is a reference to that one clip where someone says that line in response to that combine quote and the poor combine just gets fucking atomized)
I love to see a lawyer get ahold of a case where the company refuses to let you quit.
If my workplace ever became a "no-quit" zone, I will *make* them fire me.
@@chromegaman I'd recommend suing. A constitutional lawyer would take one look and call it a 13th amendment violation
@@chromegamanI would just quit anyway lmao.
Yeah I want to see how that holds up in court
@@roflBeckexactly! what are you gonna do? Fire me? And if they physically bar you from leaving, that is abduction and slavery straight up.
Fun fact: "Company stores" and "money" that could only be used in *those* stores was exactly how mining towns kept people in poverty, and unable to move away to find better opportunities, during the 1800s.
When St. Peter comes calling, tell him I can't go; I owe my soul to the company store
@@prixprixprixCame here to say this. I love that song, but I hate how it is so descriptive of the current year. At least the company stores part isn't back. Yet. Edit: Wrote that before watching the whole video, like an idiot.
Roblox moment
@@thomaswang2223how in the fuck is this a Roblox moment
I was just thinking about that part of history. I'm constantly seeing real life returns to the practices of the industrial revolution, and I feel so hopeless
All "No-Quit" McDonalds locations need to be sued into oblivion
The suing would be better cus people who deserve money will get the money
i love that if you look up the no-quit sign thing, its like "oh this was just one location not the franchise as a whole"
but when i quit my first job at a Mcdonalds back in 2018, the manager legitimately told me No, that i had to get permission from a general manager to do that.
yeeeaaah im sure they accepted my resignation after the 2nd or 3rd week of not showing up.
how are they gonna say "you can not quit"? just dont go in lmao
How can it be “No-Quit”? What are they gonna do.. fire me?
@@waffler-yz3gwexactly..
Finding out Texas charges prisoners for water killed some fundamental part of me.
Restaurants have to give water for free (at least up here in Illinois, no idea if same in Texas), but lock people up so they depend on you to supply them water, and then you can charge them. Fuck the American penal system.
They give children debt if they can't afford to eat school meals.. Somehow I'm not shocked that they make prisoners pay to not die horribly.
@@moon-moth1pardon, they did fucking *what*
@@avidclown Everything is private there!
@@lefishe5845 I LIVE HERE AND I DIDN'T KNOW THAT.
A "no quit" business is just a shorter way of saying "stop showing up to work till they fire you" business
It's almost terrifying that "My voice is mine" is something that has to be stated these days
I'm truly afraid of deepfake Technology
Um...yes..ok... but this video is chock full of images that don't belong to this guy. Pot kettle black & all that....
@@darrenrobinson9041 But he's not using these images and posts for a completely selfish reason, nor is he acting like this content is his.
Imagine you get a voice acting job, then quit or retire, and without your consent your voice is recreated for profit without you seeing a penny of said profit from that point onwards.
Hence *"My voice is MINE"**
And verbally stating it gets you closer to losing it. Thanks "open source" training models.... Run entirely by corporations.
Can we please give Robin more nice subreddits to read? I do genuinely worry about his mental health reading so many rage and despair ones.
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I would recommend chaotic good if anything
It's a nice thought, but Robin has said in a past video that he prefers the ones that made him mad. Though probably not this one considering what he stated in the beginning of the video
@@lurch789r/eyebleach?
No. We are here to watch him suffer.
Robin refusing to read the doom-text is oddly wholesome. I saw the post and was like: "Uch, that's gonna give me my nightly dose of anxiety" so I wanted to skip.. until I heard Robin say "I am not gonna read this" and I wholeheartedly want to thank Robin for that. Our world is already filled with bad news that only want you to feel bad. We don't need more "doom" to feel even worse. I hope humanity finds back to positivity and optimism one day!
Is it bad that as soon as he said "I'm not going to read that" I immediately paused and read it? Idk why, i figured it might be a _bit_ interesting but, nah, it was (as the name implies) boring
doomposting is one of my least favorite internet things
@@idkcba And that's ok. If you can mantain yourself informed and avoid taking that to a personal level, this can be constructive. What Robin meant in refusing to read the article is that subreddits like r/Aboringdystopia don't share such articles with informative intentions, but rather use them to leave you feeling hopeless. Places like these essentially serve to self-validate cynicism and scorn, often labeling the act of feeling hope as futile.
@@mayconlcruz I feel hope through rage, personally. I like to think of these as fuel for the fire that we'll eventually throw the idiots in charge onto
All it was was algae calm down
No, the private park in NYC is not in Central Park, but it is close. It’s called Gramercy Park and was built, thankfully, with their OWN MONEY for once.
Better than the former option I guess
I hope someone seed bombs it
2:16 Fun fact: It is illegal to disallow staff to quit their jobs.
You think they care?
@@youtubeuniversity3638Yes?
@@SinfullyHera These are massive corporations we are talking about.
They don't have the ability.
18:35 "Weird they don't have the equivalent in hot areas" *They do,* in an awful lot of them. In fact, shortly after this woman's death became a big deal in Arizona, the state regulators enacted a statewide ban on turning off residential power during summer months, for exactly this reason.
My brain misread the subreddit name as “a boring dysphoria” and then proceeded to confuse dysphoria with dyslexia. My brain is double dumb
dysloria
Dysphexia
dys nuts
I read the same thing. I was like huh, well, I guess dystopia can be boring.
I originally read it as aborigin dystopia and was very confused
Don't let the Injustice of this world depress you. Let it radicalize you!
Indeed. I know moping around won't do anything but let a company hold more power over you. We are in a corner, we should repeat what the majority of animals in nature do when they are backed in a corner, fight back.
We can all imagine a much more just and equitable world. So let's unite and work to make it a reality!
You guys know that it is already too late, yes? We now just have to wait for the climate to kill us all except for the rich people that would probably go to space before that happens, you just gotta wait for the impending doom, everyone will perish, there is no way to stop it now, and I do believe that there is nor hell nor heaven, there is just darkness, and we all shall imbrace it, or perhaps there IS something, perhaps we still can do something, but regardless we will all end up dead, although after death there might be something, there might be a sort of limbo, where you can just walk around in a place of darkness, that seems more like it.
I hope I gave someone a little bit of anxiety for their impending doom
The two are not mutually exclusive
Cant wait for people to burn down corporate buildings in the future 😂
Company: *This is a no quit zone!*
Beluga: Get fired from company speedrun (9.69 seconds)
Everyone is gonna do that then insult their social media
The McDonalds thing is a good way for a company to get laughed at and have there staff quit out of spite
"No-quit" basically means "You're gonna slave here till you die or WE throw you out, slave".
they cant just grab you and force you to come in, if you don't go in then its you quitting
If anyone bothered to read the whole sign it says you can't quit until you talk to the manager or another listed person and gives the contact information for both.
@@elaexplorer Doesn't make it any better.
Or you can simply get fired
Unfortunately, a lot of places limit or refuse E.I. or other supports if you're 'Fired' as opposed to 'quitting due to legitimate reason'. And a manager of any level could just say no, and then you either get fired (No call no show, reason of the week, w/e) or keep working (and punished, bc anyone who tells you they wont retaliate bc it's 'illegal' is high).
When I left mine, they tried to make a scene, but i had it on record that they'd 'replace me before the sun went down, they get 100s of applications a day'. I was working 6 days a week, and on call the 7th, for almost 6 months bc they couldn't find someone to clean their deep friers/grill, and man the entire kitchen, and turn over the store for breakfast, and help the front person with drive-thru all at the same time. They had 2 people on a 3-5 person shift, and managers that were the owner's bestie/sister-in-law/nephew. Went back recently just for a drink, told me it took 20 minutes to change over a soda box.
About the water gun backpack thing... yeah. When I was a kid, My brother had this toy gun. It was completely golden yellow with a red light and was obviously a toy, but airport security still took it. For it so much as being in his backpack.
I think an incident in Sweden happened some time ago, where a boy with down syndrome had a fake gun in public. Police shot him, leading to his passing, and he didn't really do anything to deserve being fatally injured.
Was this before or after 9/11? If you don't mind me asking.
@@cairox1509fuck'em either way.
Well, you see one could put acid or something and the "gun" could squirt it at people.
@@jackalenterprisesofohio the acid would melt the plastic. Also, lemonade is literally citric acid and water.
Before the pandemic, I worked a job at a corporate call center. Place was really nice with accommodating policies and really great facility resources. An arcade, a nap room, a gym, two kitchens, and several break rooms.
But the thing they did to reward us was hand us fake money like in the LM segment of the video.
To be redeemed for snacks and stuff. Very often, whenever I just couldn't afford lunch, I'd spend my saved up company cash.
If I didn't have company cash, my lunch was going to be a microwaved potato I purchased, in bulk, from the discount grocer that sells nearly expired or damaged goods.
Back then I recognized the idea of the company store as appealing. But whenever I'd call attention to it, people would tell me I was over-reacting.
I'm fine with my job giving me, say, a company shirt (I don't wear T-shirts, and dye my own fabrics, but it's not like I'd hate the gift). And in your case, it makes sense. But it would make more sense to give you, rather than $2 Kompany Bux, $2 actual dollars and let you go buy something in the cafeteria that takes real money and not bother with the middle-man, who was almost certainly overcharging (possibly not, but I doubt the economy was Free And Fair and all that; it never has been when I've experienced it).
Ours gives out actual gift cards in decent steps--usually about a day's pay for a white-collar person or more--for work well-done, and they're not shy about them. This month, my department received, if I remember, 9 or 10. We're not a huge department. I got 1. One person received three. Use it wherever you want.
I have a pile sitting by my computer because I never can figure out what to buy with them.
Saint Peter, don't you call me, 'cause I can't go!
*I OWE MY SOUL TO THE COMPANY STORE!*
Appealing or appalling?
@@CIoudStriker Now the song is in my head!
Thankfully it's the Geoff Castellucci version.
Fake money as reward? Find out if there is a black market going on in the company and sell it there for actual profit
“You’re not allowed to quit.”
“This is an employee rights violation! I quit!”
“Nuh-uh”
To be fair, if I worked in a place where I never ever have to take an order from a customer again while still doing my job ... I would be very happy.
Yep, understand that.
From experience, working 'back of house' does your body in, working 'front of house' does your head in.
It makes me wonder why our ancestors bothered to crawl out of the sea sometimes. Playing around all day like dolphins turns out to be much more intelligent.
Join a communist party and help build a world where service workers don't need to torture themselves for minimum wage. Everything you have learned about communism from school or the media is as real as the WMDs in Iraq.
@@jimb9063early human societies were communist in nature, and things only changed after agriculture allowed some people to produce and hoard an excess.
LOL @ no quit McDonalds. what is the manager gonna do? risk a kidnapping charge by holding a quitting employee against their will? yes legally speaking that could be considered kidnapping.
They can't stop you from leaving, just from resigning. So you just walk out and stop showing up.
They do it so they can avoid all the benefits you'd get from quitting instead of being fired, as being fired is worse, which would incentivize workers to keep working out of fear of getting fired.
Legally they can't stop you from leaving, or force you to work, but they can revoke any and all benefits you may get for quitting.
13:07 this is literally the plot of "Don't Look Up", and everyone ends up dying because of it.
If a cop can confuse a sub sandwich for a gun, they WILL confuse a toy gun for a gun.
There's bound to be a list somewhere on the internet of objects American cops have mistaken - or, perhaps, "mistaken" - for live guns. Sandwiches, chair legs, toy guns...
Then we should stop hiring drooling morons as cops.
@@OriginAtrocityempty hands
@@OriginAtrocitythey sometimes mistake minorities for guns too , the police have very bad eyesight sometimes
one time they mistook a man's parts for a gun
We should get a video with all the narrators together.
I approve of this idea
New gen Soothouse
Could be fun if they write it well
@@jhoughjr1"0 seconds ago"
time zones:
In September 2022 i spent 30 days in jail. Only gave us water with meals. No AC, no outdoor rec, just constant lockdown. I went in at 280lbs. I came out 220lbs dehydrated and taken directly to hospital. I live in Georgia, USA. Summers here are known to be brutally hot and humid.
And it's worse this year (and will continue to get worse) all because of climate change
@kittykittybangbang9367 yes indeedy. This summer was mild up until 3 weeks ago, then hell mode kicked in. The people in my neighborhood have begun gardening, mowing laws, and trimming hedges at night because its just too hot to be out in the heat of the day.
Love the name btw. Lol
60lbs in one month is insane, I couldn't lose that much in that time if I tried, and you were just sitting in a room the whole time? Insane, criminally dangerous.
@@WestGarbage6 yep. Except to shower, oce a week.
@@NotA-Lizard Can I ask why you were in there? Not trying to find a reason for what they did, even murderers deserve better, but I just have to know what they could have potentially killed somebody over.
"because we feel that many situations can be resolved" unless it involves paying their workers more, giving them more benefits etc.
who else could tackle such harsh topics and stupid ideas the way Robin does? Without "Grandmaster Rant" i wouldn´t have made it through this video full of disgusting stuff. but nonetheless i feel tired and slightly depressed and have to look up funny stuff to balance it out. working for EmKay is a really tough job for all people involved - just to bring us new content every day. thank you all for that.
5:04 this was a real problem. In the 1980s, toy guns were made to be realistic, with accurate sculpting, colors, features like ejecting casings, electronic sounds, and so on. Then attention was drawn to police shooting kids, because the toys appeared to be real firearms. As a result, companies started making the guns in florescent orange and green colors with a red tip to look more like toys (my friends and I would spray-paint them back to realistic colors, because it's hard to sneak up on someone with a day-glo water gun) Later on, toy companies abandoned the realistic molds altogether and ended up in more fanciful, toy like designs like Super Soakers, so that the shape was obvious as a toy.
The company here is simply covering their bases, because someone is going to modify a toy gun to look realistic, get shot, then the family will sue the toy company.
Not only that, people are making real guns look like toy guns, so if you are waving around anything that looks remotely like a firearm, police have to assume that it is a firearm.
@@valerierodger or maybe they could try not shooting children?
This was not intended to be a rant, but here:
My last few days at mcdonalds were fucking hell. The people I worked with were lovely, and I would have quit MUCH sooner if it hadn't been for that. I remember my last few days I was working headset (Drive-through orders), making coffee orders, assembling drive-through orders, getting sauce for others, working on the fries, and taking out held orders all at once. meaning that other than one girl at the register, I was the ONLY person working on nonstop orders. (Tasks that would be normally divided between 4-5 people.) the only thing I wasn't doing was cooking. it wasn't always like this but the problem only worsened with time. I stayed because I wanted to help the store. we were very short on staff, and I had put in my two weeks because I was anticipating changing jobs. They asked me to stay, and we talked. They agreed to put my full time and I accepted. I never received full time, and my pay was never increased like promised. or if it was I didn't notice because my pay went from 9 to 10 dollars... These were the ingredients used to cause a complete mental breakdown, and it took me a long time to feel ok again after quitting. I still feel guilty, but I couldn't continue to kill myself for that amount of money. Not to mention the foot pain is just now beginning to subside and it's been at least 2 months since I quit (I'm 18).... My only regret is not sticking around for the no-quit bullshit so I could quit then.
Tl-DR: Overworked with little pay, and they're so shocked that we're leaving.
Was one of the cooks....used to have a customer pop in the drive thru...that we all called "Diabetty" She always ordered a
Double quarter with 2 extra patties.
4 shots of seasoning over each patty
4 slices of cheese on each patty. (So 16 slices)
Triple pickle
Triple onion
She was never a overly pleasant person to deal with.
I would always think to myself.. "What happened to you, that you gave up?"
That was always soul sucking when I saw her pull up... Hell I knew the order so well I didnt even need to see her, to know when she ordered.
They know people stay because they feel guilty about leaving coworkers. If you are ever working a service job for low pay, take your sweet goddamned time and give them an amount of labor that is equal to your pay. Don't break your neck for minimum wage; those parasites need you more than you need them.
I've seen that "it's too expensive to hire sufficient staff- wait, why are the overworked, stressed, and still underpaid staff leaving?" before. I eve saw it at the gas station near my house. Corporate aholes never f*ing learn.
I used to be a CO at a private prison. The inmates earned a monthly stipend as set by CDOC, and any restitution they owed as required by their sentence was the only thing that was ever deducted from that. The facility itself never charged anybody for utilities, "housing" I guess you could call it, for medical care, nor for the three meals served every day. The idea that a DOC facility would charge their inmates rent hurts and confuses me on a personal level, and worries me on a professional level.
i wonder what would happen if the inmate for whatever reason cant afford rent.
are they going to evict them?
5:30 "no way to mistake this as a real gun" there were police who mistook a waking stick a partially blind person was carrying for a firearm and arrested him under charges if brandishing a firearm and resisting arrest
Everything looks like a real gun if the hand holding it has dark enough skin.
wait if you can't quit, what is stopping you not showing up anymore and get fired that way?
Looks like someone used the wrong thumbnail :3 I mean, it doesn't make too much of a difference... I watch both EmKay and EzPz.
I should comment on EzPz more often to give them some more engagement...
Word
Not the first time
I was slightly confused when I saw that, does that mean EzPz is run by the same people?
@@JinBlades Yeah
😮
Mcdonald's: You can't quit.
Employee: Ok... I just won't show up anymore then. Guess you'll still have to pay me.
i love this subreddit, it makes me feel infinitely grateful for everything i have and reminds me to make the most of it
18:56 They also don't insulate homes properly in hot areas because of the weird idea that insulation is only to keep heat in.
The older generations want us to raise ourselves up by the bootstraps whilst they have us by the throat and wallet.
If I worked at a place that didn't let me quit, I'd have a good ol' time trying to get fired. Come in not showered, telling customers to f-off, "forgetting" to wipe, throwing up in the fryers, etc. Man, that would be fun!
You know. With that stairwell, you can play _into_ the dystopia and charge people like 20 bucks each time they enter
5:30 So if you have a loaded gun it's open carry but if you have a fake gun it's a crime?
If your gun is holstered it's fine, if you're waving it around and pointing it like an idiot that's called brandishing and it's a felony.
And they tell kids not to wave toy guns around because cops are dumb as hell and have killed for less.
yep, its a crime because a cop could "accidentally" shoot you and get mildly inconvenienced for it (I would have said, might get in trouble, but that never actually happens). that is LITERALLY the only reason its illegal.
@RaptorNX01 it honestly feels like 40% of police become police with the hopes to have an excuse to kill someone
No, but nice strawman.
Pointing something that can be mistaken for a gun can get you shot.
Google real guns that look like toys and you’ll understand why police not only have to assume that everything that looks like a gun is a gun, they also have to assume that, even if it looks like a toy gun, it’s a gun
@@valerierodger So is it illegal to carry or point a toy gun? Also if I can get shot for it it sounds like a self-fixing problem.
2:20 the workers should write "I quit" on that sign.
Vandalize the sign
The military base running low on food thing is 100% a Bureaucratic* issue. The labrynth of paperwork on a base is insane. Source: I work on one.
If this stuff is common I'm bases, I'm suprised there hasn't been mutinies
*Bureaucratic.
I gotta agree with Robin here. Even though these subreddits do bring temporary comfort knowing that struggling to live as a young adult trying to become independent today isn't entirely my fault, it's not good for overall mental health to see these doom spirals of content. I hope Robin gets happier subreddits as I wish to view those more.
Ignoring the problem will not make it go away. If you want a better life, we have to fight for it.
@@justinwatson1510 I'm not saying to ignore the problem entirely. Yes, fight against these issues, but also I don't want it to be the only thing I surround myself with. There's still good stuff in life that I want to enjoy.
UwU
I worked for a company during covid that had monitoring software on my pc. At one point half of my job role was just cut so I had way less work to do. The financial directors who had never had any contact or interaction with me then saw my role as a drain on their profits and let me go and used the monitoring software as proof to only pay me 60% of my wages for the final month due to me "only being productive 60% of the time", despite me already discussing this before with my actual boss about that I was struggling to find work to do as by job role had been cut in half.
if you are in the US you should file an unpaid wage claim for the missing 40%, that's illegal. You do not need a lawyer, the state will investigate on your behalf, if they are found to have retroactively changed your pay they could be liable for up to triple the difference as well as fines, and you would get paid your full salary plus any statutory damages up to triple what they owed you.
@@dangerszewski9816 I'm in the UK and while I know I could have disputed it, was kinda glad in hindsight to be out of that company and thought it wasn't worth the hassle. My dad is trying to sue a company for something else and it's been 2 years and it's taking so long as solicitors tend to not care too much about small amounts of money and only want to deal with the big cases so they get a higher cut.
Ah yes. The subreddit that shows reality, finally
i wish it was fake
fellow bbtag player?
Also I really hope that this is continued, It helps to keep me informed (enraged) AND I get to hear Robin’s voice, but at the same time, I can fully understand why Robin would want to stop.
Prisons charge prisoners for everything. Rent, utilities, using the phone, using the library, all of it. When/if you get out, they send you a bill, and not paying it can get you sent right back. SSDD in the land of the free.
If I was in prison, I'd refuse to pay for anything and would refuse to do labor, like I'm already in prison, what are going to do?
@@gavinisdie. They withhold all privileges until you comply, and bill you a daily rate. Doesn’t matter if you agree or not: you are a slave.
@@gavinisdie keep you longer
@@mred8002 (replying to you specifically but it should be read by all) As a reminder, the 13th "forbids chattel slavery across the United States and in every territory under its control, except as a criminal punishment."
@@Green24152 I know. I was reminding all of the reality of defacto slavery in prisons.
I live in AZ. They did actually change that law. It was during 2020, if I remember correctly. All of the electric companies can't turn your electricity off during the summer. The electric company where I live will work with people too to get them paid up. Not sure what all of the options are, but they will "help" (using that term loosely) people get straightened up when payments resume.
Most companies are willing to help you work out a way to repay them. They'd rather you pay your bill late than have to send collections. You can just talk to them and say you can't pay right now and see what options there are.
For the van life guy... There is a chance that he could afford to live in a home. There are some people who just prefer living in vans and do it voluntarily, partially because it does work out cheaper, and/or they want their home to be on the move. I've even considered it before.
My dog was settled on my bed, I started playing this video on my phone, and as soon as Robin started talking, she jumped up and stood on the top of the stairs, staring at the front door. She thought Robin was here outside lol
I like these kinds of videos. I want people to see this and be enraged. It's really important to frame this right to get rage rather than sadness, but if this helps amassing a crowd of people fighting for the cause, I'm all for it.
As much as some people find it obnoxious, the Parisiens and the CGT trade union are doing more than most any other group around the world. Non-obstructive protests are useless. In fact the more obstructive they are, the better. It's just a shame Macron's too much of a fucking moron to realise disregarding democracy isn't gonna make your democracy-loving population happy.
Tldr: Fight like a damn Parisien
Can the van detecting people using their phones tell if the people are using GPS or it this just a 'hey, that's a phone signal, write them a ticket' type of situation?
It is a visual device, from what I understand, and, in our state, it doesn’t matter what you are using it for, if you pick it up it’s a ticket. Their helpful advice? Pull over to check the GPS.
@@mred8002 Not trying to be facetious, so if their phone is connected to their car to use GPS (some newer cars have a screen), they'll still get a ticket because of the screen that's in the car? I'm genuinely trying to figure out how that would work, or from what it sounds like not work. And that is crappy advice from them to pull over to check your GPS, especially if you're like on the Highway or something.
Edited for spelling.
@@jennyb9065 In Michigan it must be hands-free, so voice control is OK, but reaching and poking screens likely not. They seem to be targeting trucks first, hence the height to peer into the tractor cabins. And, isn’t pulling onto the shoulder of freeways and stopping illegal, too, unles it an ‘emergency’? The whole thing looks like a free pass for more pretext stops for cops.
So using your phone's screen is illegal but navigating through the clunky and unresponsive touch screen menus build into modern cars is a ok?
@@neruwu What I’ve read of the new law is that ANY handling of a phone is illegal. I doubt they will exclude handling a dash mounted touch screen, either. A revenue grab.
"those who donate 1$ to his campaign is given a 20$ gift card in return"
This is actually extremely useful information to have. It lays out exactly how much money(or at the very least, product) they will prioritize to buy senator votes. Its a gamble on the company in that they believe how many people are on the verge of homelessness or food insecurity is greater than the democratic majority.
Instead of building that dome in Las Vegas.... they could've given every homeless person in the USA $3500.
Petition to give Robin more happy subs. Give the man a break from the doom and gloom.
I’m cool with the “no quit” policy, I’ll just stay home, and still get my paycheck, cause I “haven’t quit”
2:10 Nothing is more attractive to the super-rich than slavery...
2:36 He did that to participate in a primary debate, because he need at least 40k donors. So basically paid people to became his donor and get access to the debate.
My "boring dystopia" moment was realizing that my state insurance is better than the insurance my parents get from my dad's job of 20+ years.
5:45 well, those shops have existed in the UK for ages, they're called Argos and you basically order stuff online and pick it up or fill out a form in store/via some tablet computer and then they bring your order from the warehouse in the back
my local argos has in store ordering for most items, never knew some were fully order at home
8:09 because the taliban doesn’t permit growing poppies
1:49 its a doom subreddit and not the fun kind that involves shooting demons with big guns
Ok. Let’s change that.
@@MatthewConnellan-xc3oj * heavy rock music intifises*
@@danielyoung7534f in the chat for that one imp who decided to kill that specific bunny
My mom aspires to travel the country in a van someday, and from what she's shown me of "van life" people, I think calling them homeless misses the point. The nicely kept small RVs that you generally see on social media cost around $100,000 USD. Depending on where you want to live, you could potentially buy a house instead. The dystopian aspect I see in my mom's case is that the van thing would be an alternative to "traveling in her retirement". Because she won't get to retire. The closest thing she could hope for is to get a job that she can do from anywhere and the ability to take her desk with her, so that she might still have a chance to see the world while she works until she dies.
"Use only clean tap water" dang, cant use the jet-fuel tainted military tap water then
I went to find out how to apply for section 8 in my area the other day and learned the waitlist for my area hasnt been opened in 13 years. 13 F'ING YEARS.
Actually for that stairwell it would be an excellent purchase. If I lived near London I'd have bought it outright
Take out the stairs, clad the building and then build new flooring/platforms. Realistically you've got 4-5 storeys and each one is about the size of a medium bedroom.
Realistically you're looking at 70k for a 4-5 story house in London.
Good deal if you're creative enough.
1:38 I love that. We all love a bit of doom humour now and then, but some people seem to really revel in the doom. There is hope, and if more of us try and do good things despite all the bad in the world, more people will hopefully feel it. Nice one, Robin! 💜💜
9:35 this reminds me of the little mermaid. Ariel sold her voice and Ursula used it to put Ariel out of a job so she had to find a sugar daddy. So deep
My blood boils at the thought of scarring the moon for the gain of five wealthy people maximum. I do not wish to state what i would do, were the magnificence of the night to be defiled so.
If they won't let me quit, I'll litterly be the worst employe they ever had (while staying in legal boundaries) until they have no other choice than to fire me😈
No need for that. Just walk off the job and go home. How can they stop you?
Is stealing from my employer within my "legal boundaries"?
@@zackmatulis4094 No, but you can throw-up in the fryers as long as you don't get caught doing it voluntarily on camera, just tell management you did it and won't be cleaning it up, and make sure none of that gets served to the customers
Rinse and repeat until you're fired.
Look, if you’re going to mine the moon, do it on the half that we don’t see every night. Luckily the moon is tidally locked so one side always faces the Earth, so as long as we avoid that side and instead mine on the “dark side of the moon” (which can become bright because it does face the sun quite often).
There's this worldbuilding project called Orion's Arm. In it, the far side of the moon is covered in large domes, but the close side is completely pristine. If we want to inhabit the Moon, that's how we should do it.
@@ericgolightly8450 Sick. I’m all for industrializing the moon, as long as we don’t ruin the side Earth constantly sees. Not to mention the moon would be a great place to launch shuttles and satellites once it does become industrialized
2:09 Oh, I can’t quit? Well guess who’s getting fired for taking a dump on the flattop then 🤣
2:20 This is... actually literally what Walmart does, though? You're actually signing a literal enslavement contract when you work for them, it's how they can legally defy minimum wage laws. You're not an employee, you're _store equipment._ I'm actually surprised they don't just literally tattoo an asset tag on new hires... yet.
I worked at Wal-Mart and several of my relatives do. While there are things Wal-Mart does to its employees that need to be improved, I've never ever heard of anything like this comment is talking about. Not saying it doesn't exist I just need a citation here.
Give the Waltons some time, and a few more Senators to purchase; they'll be lojacking their 'corporate assets' in no time.
yeah, i used to work for them as well, and while they are horrible employers, they weren't as bad as what the video talked about.
4:00 here in Iowa and many other states, someone who stays 10 years in prison, only pays 300ish dollars when released, all states do some form of this and its called pay for stay. The video doesn't cover how much they get charged. YW
I had no idea Robin had been so prolific in the industry, kudos to you good sir
I think it's important to point out that the no quit sign was just poorly designed. It says no quit but it tells you how to quit, it just basically says that if you walk out you didn't quit, you were fired.
I feel like AI could be SO much better if the world just had nicer humans. I have seen a few good cases of AI usage that are genuinely interesting and doing completely new things. but they're all overshadowed by text bots and people just trying to replace middle/lower class living humans
Im all for space mining. Less child labor, lower pollution, easier hauling in zero g, etc. It'd be way better than strip mining on earth.
0:25 fun fact: those new EVs that Amazon has are stuffed with cameras in the cab AND in the cargo area. Absolutely no privacy in one of those. They're insane.
17:16 for the subway thing if it's only 50000 bucks and the sandwich cost around 12 or 13 bucks, you'll be able to eat subway everyday for the next 10 and a half years, if it costs 13 bucks or less ofc
Way back when i went to jail (about 10 years ago in Michigan) there was a so called lottery and every so often a group of names would get picked out of all the prisoners and if your name got picked, then you would be charged room and board and it was literally called "room and board" on all the paperwork you'd get. My name got picked and it eventually added up to around $8,000 😂 obviously i didnt have the money to pay for it. So what the jail did was if someone put money on your books, for the weekly commissary (its technically a store for overpriced items such as food or hygiene products. The jail would automatically take that money.
How is the lottery even legal??? None of the rest of it should be either ofc but that's standard fare for this country. But the lottery? That's new to me
@@awaredeshmukh3202 hell if I know. It honestly put so many people in debt and then they couldn't even buy normal hygiene products off the commissary. It shouldn't be legal. And this is regular county jail, not even prison. There are people in there waiting to be sentenced who haven't even been proven guilty but can't bond themselves out because of a high cash bond set.
yikes, sounds like a scam, i'd like to see the paperwork trail for "room and board"
@@darrenrobinson9041 Actually that's what it's called room and board and it's not a scam. When you get served/sued for the room and board for being in jail. You get this big packet of paperwork. And it basically states on the top of it like an actual legal summons or whatever you call it. I'm not a lawyer lol but it says whatever your name is as the defendant verses the name of the jail as the plaintiff.
Lol I know I'm making this more confusing but I'm no lawyer and don't know any inner workings of being sued.
I had to do a double-take on the first one, at first I was like "Alright, weird layout, but if they want to waste their space that's fine"
Then I realized all of those were individual backyards, not one collective backyard.
I guess I can see how this would seem like a doom subreddit. But imo it's more of an angry subreddit. Every time I see these videos, it makes me wanna burn down some mansions 😊
I would also like to say it's the only reliable place I can get information about how slimy rich people truly are
Imagine not giving the people who have decided to die for their country sufficient food.
14:44 If you get rid of to much of the moons mass it might be pulled to earth more. Witch may or may not ram into the earth at some point
I think the no quit sign more means no walking out mid shift or randomly saying you quit. You have to sign a form anyway when you quit so talking to the restaraunt manager could be good with discussing the next step after you leave. Like receiving any benefits or handing in your uniform.
1:43 I do think it's a good thing to have a place to vent, so without doomscrolling it and reading through it, I believe this subreddit has a purpose for venting
7:33 some people renovate vans to live in especially in this day and age seeing as they're much cheaper than a house and you can go wherever you want. It doesn't mean they can't afford houses they're just living in a different way than what you're used to
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**looks at channel**
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r/hmmm
The problem I have with that police van is, I have a playlist on youtube of different videos (Usually podcasts, songs or just things where you don't really need to watch it and just listen like people talking about history or something), I put that on play before I leave in a car. That police van would detect that as phone usage as those are being viewed via the signal and not downloaded and as such they would pull me over for quite literally wanting to listen to something other than crappy radio.
As a gen z I went through hell just to get a 6 week summer job at a school for $15.50 an hour and my job ended up being automated in the end
On the lack of food headline, we spend nearly a TRILLION on military alone in the US. Think about that...
the thumbnail with "ez pz" in the thumbnail💀
ok i actually love the all-digital Wawa store though. I have pretty severe social anxiety and can't afford to doordash regularly. This would be great for if I need groceries during a high-stress day.
Much as I agree with Robin, I enjoy this sub. Can we get Jack on this next time?
I think, if not Robin, Lexi would be a great fit for some of these angry subreddits too.
Probably not this specific one though, this is just depressing more than anything.
“I can rent you my voice”
Sounds like a Little Mermaid vs Ursula deal
12:38 *look at those children! Don't you see that they yearn for the mines?!*
so... last year around this time, i called to an employment center of sorts and talked about working in some sort of market chain (details are not important, i am not even from english speaking country, so think about any grocery market you want). they told me through phone that i need to go through some "training days" that would take less than a week before i started to work. i would not be paid during training though, fair enough. after i arrived, i specified that i wanted part time job so that i don't get too tired while attending to university, and it was supposed to be "training day" as well. you know what happened? after arriving at morning, they immediately threw me into thick of it, making me lift shit in and from the storage, attending to machines that measure weight of the food people bought, etc. this "training" lasted until fucking 4 pm. this was supposed to be part time job too. not only i got lied to and worked full day worth of it, about 6 or 7 hours, but i was supposed to come back few more days and NOT GET PAID BECAUSE 7 HOURS OF CONSTANT WORK COUNTED AS "TRAINING". i did not get any food breaks and i did not even get to fucking drink water ALL THAT TIME. also, you know how much they would pay me? a motherfucking 300-500 dollars worth of salary in a month (again, i am not from USA, but think of its monetary worth to be as valuable as dollar is in USA). not like in a week or anything, in a FUCKING MONTH. so, they would break me physically and mentally for like 4 or 5 days a week, not let me eat or drink properly, and then pay me fuck all. i might as well burn that money because of how worthless that paycheck is because of inflation. i fucked off immedeately, i was terrified.
fuck me man, i hate this world. and to think that people of my age worked there as FULL TIME JOB which lasts i believe 12 to 16 hours because "part time job" was 6 or 7, i can not imagine the pain those guys are going through. i am not joking that i might as well put bullet in my head instead of working there and get paid like 300 dollars worth of shit. that shit is insult to humanity as a whole.
We don’t need the Combine to make places like City 17 anymore
Honestly, them arriving wouldn't really change much about our quality of life.
@@Green24152 Pick up that can
@@nightglide_ no fuck off
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(this is a reference to that one clip where someone says that line in response to that combine quote and the poor combine just gets fucking atomized)
@@Green24152 lmao
13:00 is basically the whole movie "don't look up" and i expect humanity to react the same way if not worse.