Don’t mess with experienced engineers, they deal with uncooperative problems for a living, how well do you think they will deal with an uncooperative boss
If you want loyalty get a dog. The whole cheering thing for adults in an office setting is beyond ridiculous. Unless you can end the cheer with a swear word
The Old Lady With The Cane: "My husband insists I use it just in case." Smart man, your husband, I wouldn't loose you on the poor unsuspecting world with a sword, either...
Smart people do it. I covered my ass by saving copies of board minutes when I called them out on illegal actions. They backpedaled. Then when they ordered me to alter the minutes to cover things up, I saved the originals. Later on they tried again, and I resigned in protest. I hinted about those copies, and they stopped f-ing with me over my cashing out my vacation time, back pay and other stuff. Always keep records. Always have copies.
@Thomas I'll take your word for it...I have never done either. My only experience engineering-wise was my grandfather, who was a self-taught electronics engineer. With a high school diploma and a correspondence course in drafting, he got a job as a draftsman for IBM. Worked his way up and ended his career as an engineer and one of the designers of the U.S. Navy's first surface to surface missiles.
Honestly, after working with some of the people that my workplace hires as engineers, I'm surprised to read about engineers that can think their way out of a paper bag. You try to talk to them, and either they snub you or they just regurgitate their textbooks at you.
@@TheAttacker732 your talking to the wrong people. There are engineers out there that are pretty sharp, they just dont always say a lot that's not actually about work (unless you hit one of their hobby interests, then you cant get them to stop, lol). Fil was one, XB70, cruse missile, B1. He could tell you how the boxes worked and what to do to fix them when they didnt. Electronics engineer, hardware guy. More good people in his area, but the idiots are there too. They usually windup going behind the idiots and cleaning up the mistakes. There are lots of 40%ers out there in any field and not many 90%ers like him.
@@Xenon0009 I had to spell out to the engineer for my line that we needed a route to evacuate the line in case of a fire/tornado/mass shooting/etc., and that the layout she had created was not legal. She didn't understand, and ended up arguing with our OSHA rep. It was a mess that drug on for more than a week, and par for the course for our engineers. The actually intelligent people in my workplace want nothing to do with our engineers.
The problem with the last story is that this is a KAREN, she isn't going to care if people glare at her because she DESERVES that seat and having people upset with her is her normal life.
I'm retired, my hair is gray and white (but still there!) and I walk with a cane due to work related injuries. My wife and I got on a crowded train. She spotted 2 seats together and successfully dashed for them, with me trailing behind at my own top speed. Sadly, my top speed was no match for the 20something gal that sped past me and plopped down next to my amused wife. I finally got to the seats and stood next to my wife holding the bar for support. "Took me a bit, but I made it!" At this moment, the young lady realized that not only was this disabled old man with the lady next to her, but that she had snatched the seat intended for me! Face reddening slightly she started to apologize and surrender the seat, but I told her to stay put, my dad raised me right and I would have given my seat to the lady anyway. We argued back and forth for a moment until my wife leaned over and stage-whispered to her "give up honey. I don't know you, but I can tell you that he's a LOT stubborner than you are." At that, a young Hispanic man seated behind my wife started laughing and stood up. "Sorry for waiting so long, I wanted to see how this played out. Take my seat jefe." I tried to tell him I'm fine, thanks anyway, but he wasn't having it. "I was raised right too, and if my mama found out that I sat while an older gentleman stood, she'd pound me with her slipper. You may be stubborn, but mama can hit a running target at 20 paces with that slipper!" Slapped me on the shoulder and walked off. No Karen, no entitlement, just an oops with a fun ending for all!
@channelofstuff Let me get this straight. You think that the President of the United States (the most powerful person in the world), took time out of his busy schedule, and took special interest in your workplace just so he could weaken your union? Do you understand how totally stupid this sounds?
It's the Engineer Story for me! As a middle aged "employee" that lost his "job and position" in 2019 due to "acquisition" with no advanced notice I LOVE how he handled that shituation!...And Yes, I spelled that exactly correctly!
The engineer is my hero. Loved it. I love it when management gets screwed. After I was forced to early retire the company called me wanting me to work on their printers. None of the other tech ever wanted to learn how to repair them. I said sorry that ship has sailed. To "fix" the problem, the company now buys new printers when they have the printers have problems. lol Cost when I was fixing them,
I absolutely love it when the "Big Bosses" are put fairly and squarely in their place by a mere Underlings. Also at one point in my career with BRITISH RAIL and whilst working as a train guard came to my train to find over a dozen people crammed into my brake van and i could not open the inward opening doors to get in ( this was on ancient 1951 slam door stock ). I went and saw my driver informing him there would be a delay as i could not get in. We were the last passenger service to leave the station before it closed for the night. I then rang the train crew supervisor to ask for back up and police presence. Eventually after several "Rows" about shortage of seats, the removal of about eight people, so i had access to doors on both sides, my bell equipment and voice-com system to the driver we we left. I had one little old lady sitting in my chair. An elderly man plus his dog and a young woman with double pushchair. These people had all spoken nicely, were no problem at all. The problem swearing, shouting trouble makers got removed by Police and that was that.
That old engineer story reminds me of a story my dad told he is a teacher at this skill school that teaches kids in multiple school districts with different jobs(police, health, pet care, auto, personal fitnesses and cooking) my dad is one of two people in our half of the state that can do certain jobs. My dad was also the person that set up internships for multiple students and advised for multiple schools on certain actions, he was even the union rep one year and fucked the school over with it. My dad is a hard working nice teacher he’s the teacher you never forget for his helpfulness. He even coaches hockey teams for years. The school got some new bosses and the one really hated my dad. He hated my dad so much he got rid of the whole department my dad was in to get rid of him. My dad being so senior in the school just got moved over to a different spot. This guy did everything he could to get rid of my dad and failed. Years ago the boss and others that hated my dad for some reason all got busted for drinking on the job and all fired. The funniest thing is my dad when he retires it would take nearly three teachers to even fill the gap he would leave.
The old lady with the cane on the train was the real MVP of this set. Reminds me of the stories of my Great Grandmother. One ornery, cantankerous lady if you annoyed her without good reason.
A blind friend of mine offered his dark glasses to a Karen who was making constant comments about others clothes, or hair, or the car they drove. It shut her up which is what he wanted. All he said was, “ here is the cure to all that is bothering you today.”
I went down to London to see a surfboards, in my wheelchair. The train ride home was so full, I was told to fold my chair up, but not 1 person would give me a seat, I stood there, gripping the door bars so hard, in so much pain, that I was quietly crying to myself. People really can be oblivious, or just plain rude, at times. Not sure which. When I did eventually get a seat, 2 stations later, it turned out I was in a carriage that was being uncoupled, and had to get off that 1 and move further up the remainder of the train! NOT a good day for me!
I (M) have already needed to use something similar to the old lady. I have 2 dislocated shoulders and one time I was taking a bus from my college classes. I was making sure that I didn’t look like I needed to sit or anything but suddenly the bus jerked and instead of just falling I grabbed one of the bars. I felt my shoulder pop out of socket. Several people made sure that I was okay and offered me their seat including the one who had their bags on it. While I put my sling on and relocated my shoulder.
When I was much younger. I worked for a large potato chip manufacturer. They brought in a new plant manager, who fired one of the long term maintenance guys. Turned out he was one of three guys in the world who knew how to fix their specialized machines. That manager was fired by week end. The fired maintenance worker started his own business fixing those machines. Making 10 times the money.
The engineer dude. Sticking to the man! 😂😂😂😂 How glorious was that story. He had them by the short hairs the moment they walked in the door and they had no clue. Brilliant!
Having small family party for sweet 16. Sadly not what I wanted to do, but pandemic got in way. My new phones notifications sends RUclips's strait to my text message notifications, which is driving me nuts. Imagine talking with family, my phone is on table, and Redwheel's post shows up as a partial notification which said "Director fired you" so now I got to show rest of family some of Redwheel's most funny posts, and explain to them I wasn't fired lol.
It didn't end well for me today with the above. Aunt asked me which ones are Redwheel's posts? What I should have said was just look for the Red cat with googly eyes, but noooooo. I had to say just look for colorful banner signs with the cute girls (That did not sit well with the wife), and of all luck, the one I was showing turned out to be a kid, not adult, which my kids had a field day on that. Going to hide under the covers now.....
For the first story, THAT’S WHY nobody wants to be a hostess in a restaurant! If you want to please an entitled customer, you might have to face unhappy waiters/waitresses having not a «good» section that day. Every single day, there will be a «displeased with your work» attitude from the staff or the customers.😫😤 The worst part though is, during a busy lunch time or supper time, a couple insists to have a table for four when you have free tables for two and, when you explain to them those tables are for three and more people, it is a busy time and everybody wants a table soon so they can go out soon, the couple responds to you that it is none of their concerns and, if they cannot have a big table, they will go somewhere else. If you have a spineless floor manager on top of that, it’s a very frustrating not well payed job.
It's second story represents why engineers are my favorite kind of people. I've worked with doctors, teachers, lawyers, and some former Wall Street folks, engineers have the best attitude, the best responses and are the most pleasant to work with. As long as you don't mess with them 🤣
If there is one thing I've learned from playing D&D it's that, when the DM says, "Are you sure you want to do this?" It's a really bad idea. Also the story proves just how important unions are. so get on it people, Unionize your workplace.
Good day RW from mid Tn. I hope you're having a great day. Thanks for another great video. Brother you have such a way of story telling that it is a joy to listen to you. Absolutely love how you tell these with such expression.
I saw an old guy with a cane get on the train. Train was completely full except for one seat (in a 3-seater in the middle). The girls wanted to wait for a 3rd girl (on a later stop and refused to move over). He started to sit in her lap... and with a lot of screeching and crying... she moved over. Everyone else applauded.
I wish we could all work like grumpy old engineer. I changed employers until I found a place I could do this. I don't want to play stupid little office politics games or team building bs, I just want to do my job and in general I get along with everyone I work with anyway. All that rubbish just wastes time!
Precisely office politics are bullshit, those who like office politics shouldnt roped in others who does not want anything to do with it...and team building is the most bullshit thing higher ups do to "improve" teamworking but in reality it is just some highschool/first year diploma or college student activity and usually us working adult find these kind of activities cringy as fuck. Luckily, i am right now working in small manufacturing company where the politics is almost non-existant and boss doesnt care about team building bs
9:35... nice story but whomever made it up doesn't understand budgeting or misunderstood what they were relaying. Budgeting is designed to forecast your actual position to ensure costs don't go over budget. Nobody would deliberately under budget a division like that, as it would hurt alot more than just the bonus of the management.
Try standing for 8 hours with knee athritis. I did that for 2 years working in retail until the pain got so bad i needed surgery to replace my knees. Before that, I was popping Advil and Vicodin like an addict
2:22 Came here for story #2. No one trains managers? Didn't their parents ever read them the fable about the goose that laid gold eggs? There was no redundancy for his tasks? I hope that whatever it is that they do has nothing to do with nuclear energy!! He could have left the company at any time due to illness, injury or death. There was no plan B. Or C. Or D.
As a general rule, if you're firing somebody and they asked you more than once if you're sure that you want to do this. You might want to take a second and figure out why they're asking you that.
Second story, that is not how IP works. The company would have a license agreement in place and pay royalties for use of them if he brought the patents with him when he joined the company. That kind of stuff is not done on a handshake. If he got the patents while working for the company then the company would own them anyway since assigning IP rights to the employer for any relevant inventions is standard in tech employment contracts, and since they are unionized there would definitely be an employment contract. If he subsequently left the company those agreements would still be in place, so it would no impact on their operations. If someone is presenting themselves as irreplaceable and holding that over a company in a dysfunctional way, then you HAVE to get rid of them. Getting rid of this guy was the correct decision if the post is to be believed.
You guys don’t understand how patents work. In essence, I AM that engineer, a product design engineer with over 45 years experience & over 60 patents that have made the companies I’ve worked for hundreds of millions of dollars. There is “the inventor” (me) & there is “he assignee” (the company, which has the rights to produce & profit from the inventions). Part of my job, at every company, is “inventing things”, for which they pay me really well, usually with stock bonuses for each invention, and lots of “liberties” (such as a very relaxed dress code (sneakers, dungarees & tee-shirts (as long as I don’t have professional meetings with outside-the-company folks (“you don’t pay me to look pretty, you pay me to think.”) at the company that most employees don’t enjoy (& extended, unpaid vacations. I try hard to NOT to take advantage. So the company being “the assignee” (with all the rights to my inventions is standard operating procedure. I give that up for the high pay & other job perks & mangement understands that they can’t bully me like they can some other employees. It’s been that way for my whole career. It all comes down to “how replaceable are you?” Almost nobody is “totally irreplaceable”, but if you’re “extremely difficult, or costly, to replace”, (by being really talented) you can basically (within reason), write your own rules. HR wil tell you, “no, you can’t, because they we’d have to do that for everyone,, but I learned early about true leverage. You tell them, “nope, I’m doing it (eg., taking 3 months unpaid vacation for a climbing or “decompression” trip) and they _ALWAYS_ fold & agree to it. One of the main perks to getting a good education & being a productive employee: you can basically write your own rules. (Again ... within reason, you push things too far & it can cost you your job, but if you can demonstrate high productivity, there are always other jobs out there).
If you live in the U.S. and invent something while working at a company as part of your job, what you invented is the employers. Did you you think you were being paid to keep a chair warm?
I Joined the Army reserves in 1994 and engineering company I had sergeants that where Vietnam vets. My new comander forced them out they where old and couldn’t pass a physical. We went to do a project building school and well in Central America. My comander realize quickly that the only people that new construction were the old sergeants. That’s why no previous comander mess with them. My comander was relieved new comander had to call them back!! Lol
10:52 Had a cast on my leg with jeans covering it and sitting in handicapped seat on the train and visually it looked like I had no issue but under my cast my bone from the xray showed my bone was 98% cracked. I just looked back at them with the same look.
I'm probably dating myself with this comment but the old lady on the train sounds a lot like "The Little Old Lady from Pasadena". Thank you Beach Boys.
It's what people THINK is american culture. Same as people always think brits "make a cup of tea" in any situation. I mean, a cup of tea is good, but sometimes certain situations call for a gin and tonic to be needed over a cup of rosy. Such assumptions😆😆
I understand that it is/was big in Japan, and I believe you're right that they "invented" it. I do remember interviewing around Y2K at a California IT recruiting agency, and watched for a while at their antics. A memorable moment came when one of the reps clinched a new prospect. She did a meerkat from her cubicle; the floor manager walked over and rang a brass bell, this set all the others to meerkating as they cheered and clapped.
ok i had to stop it after this fairytale went on for over 2 minutes! insignificant patents but they couldnt complete projects without them was the best part pmsl
My brother ran an oilfield services company that was bought by some New Yorkers. Instead of letting him do his thing they micromanaged and eventually fired him. He was hired to start another service company from scratch by another company. Needless to say two years later his old company was out of business and his new one is a top player in the field.
The second story must be from England. In the US, I’ve never heard of having a contract with your employer and be in the union. The union negotiates everyone’s contract in the union; that’s the whole point. Also a few other discrepancies.
The old engineer would not say cringe in that form because it is meaningless the term is "cringeworthy" cringe is what you do, cringeworthy is what you feel.
That old lady on the train deserves an AWESOME AWARD for her performance in making the "Karen" look more like an entitled fool than she already was. I'm 71, but don't need a cane yet, however, I will remember this wonderful old lady's actions whenever I'm out in public and happen to meet an entitled jerk who needs a lesson in humility.
I regret to inform you but unpaid overtime is not an american corporate concept for anyone who works hourly.. salaried positions yes.. but for the most part unpaid overtime us actually a asian concept specifically japanese
When I worked at Boeing there was the SPEEA union, among others. The Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace. I chose to work third shift so I wouldn't have to put up with most of their bullcrap rules that actually interfered with doing the engineering.
2:00 Happens when "customer is always right" + a random "bad review" by some unknown Karen will ruin our business = we will do everything incl bend over with our backs exposed to the customer saying "HAVE YOUR WAY, DEAR!" I live in India where there is equal weight given to wait staff and customers and consequently, see very few Karens. Rude customers are not tolerated, told to f off and rarely come back.
The last story. 1 it's illegal to put your feet on seats on trains (you don't know what you have stood in). 2 if her feet were so sore somebody should have offered her a massage
I remember being a healthy looking 23 year old. I had just rolled my ankle and was on my way to the doctor. It hurt so bad but it was bearable enough to walk. I didn't have anyone to take me to the doctor and had no money for a taxi, so I was on a train and sitting in a handicap seat. Which was fully justified if anyone had simply asked. Along comes these two elderly people with a girl who was in her twenties, maybe. She looked at me and said to the elderly people, "Oh, you can sit here!" And points at me. I looked at her as though she was a fucking idiot. Then I very carefully started to stand up, just because I really wanted the two people who did nothing wrong to have a seat. I then hobbled over to the side of the train, supporting myself with a handrail. The older lady said "oh, no, he's hurt...we should let him have the seat" and I replied to her "No, it's perfectly fine," then I looked at the younger one and said, "I understand that I look perfectly healthy but I've just had a bad ankle injury and I'm on the way to the doctor. But it's only a few stops away, I'm sure I'll be able to make it." Another person who saw the whole thing obviously got up and let me sit down....but I just had to make that girl feel stupid for assuming I'm healthy just because I was young. The lesson here is that you should ASK people to get up, if they can, never just order them to. You don't know why people are doing what they're doing, even if you think you do.
Don’t mess with experienced engineers, they deal with uncooperative problems for a living, how well do you think they will deal with an uncooperative boss
If you want loyalty get a dog. The whole cheering thing for adults in an office setting is beyond ridiculous. Unless you can end the cheer with a swear word
Heh. The company I work for just so happened to end the cheer with a swear word. 😆
I mean where did they learn this? Who came up with this BS culture?
@@nulnoh219 I bet the managers were with their kids and watched like Dora or something
The Old Lady With The Cane: "My husband insists I use it just in case."
Smart man, your husband, I wouldn't loose you on the poor unsuspecting world with a sword, either...
It's amazing how often Management is shocked that an engineer can write and keep detailed records.
Smart people do it. I covered my ass by saving copies of board minutes when I called them out on illegal actions. They backpedaled. Then when they ordered me to alter the minutes to cover things up, I saved the originals. Later on they tried again, and I resigned in protest. I hinted about those copies, and they stopped f-ing with me over my cashing out my vacation time, back pay and other stuff. Always keep records. Always have copies.
@Thomas I'll take your word for it...I have never done either. My only experience engineering-wise was my grandfather, who was a self-taught electronics engineer. With a high school diploma and a correspondence course in drafting, he got a job as a draftsman for IBM. Worked his way up and ended his career as an engineer and one of the designers of the U.S. Navy's first surface to surface missiles.
Honestly, after working with some of the people that my workplace hires as engineers, I'm surprised to read about engineers that can think their way out of a paper bag.
You try to talk to them, and either they snub you or they just regurgitate their textbooks at you.
@@TheAttacker732 your talking to the wrong people. There are engineers out there that are pretty sharp, they just dont always say a lot that's not actually about work (unless you hit one of their hobby interests, then you cant get them to stop, lol). Fil was one, XB70, cruse missile, B1. He could tell you how the boxes worked and what to do to fix them when they didnt. Electronics engineer, hardware guy. More good people in his area, but the idiots are there too. They usually windup going behind the idiots and cleaning up the mistakes. There are lots of 40%ers out there in any field and not many 90%ers like him.
@@Xenon0009 I had to spell out to the engineer for my line that we needed a route to evacuate the line in case of a fire/tornado/mass shooting/etc., and that the layout she had created was not legal. She didn't understand, and ended up arguing with our OSHA rep. It was a mess that drug on for more than a week, and par for the course for our engineers.
The actually intelligent people in my workplace want nothing to do with our engineers.
The problem with the last story is that this is a KAREN, she isn't going to care if people glare at her because she DESERVES that seat and having people upset with her is her normal life.
Karen: “Will no one offer a lady a seat?”
Me: “Well, when one shows up, I will be more than happy to offer her mine...”
Wow! That is a sick burn!
@@ShadowMoon878 It comes from experience.
How old is the average Karen? Somewhere between menopause and divorce.
If she was elderly sure. If she wasn't elderly the no, sexual equality.
I'm retired, my hair is gray and white (but still there!) and I walk with a cane due to work related injuries.
My wife and I got on a crowded train. She spotted 2 seats together and successfully dashed for them, with me trailing behind at my own top speed. Sadly, my top speed was no match for the 20something gal that sped past me and plopped down next to my amused wife.
I finally got to the seats and stood next to my wife holding the bar for support. "Took me a bit, but I made it!"
At this moment, the young lady realized that not only was this disabled old man with the lady next to her, but that she had snatched the seat intended for me! Face reddening slightly she started to apologize and surrender the seat, but I told her to stay put, my dad raised me right and I would have given my seat to the lady anyway. We argued back and forth for a moment until my wife leaned over and stage-whispered to her "give up honey. I don't know you, but I can tell you that he's a LOT stubborner than you are."
At that, a young Hispanic man seated behind my wife started laughing and stood up. "Sorry for waiting so long, I wanted to see how this played out. Take my seat jefe." I tried to tell him I'm fine, thanks anyway, but he wasn't having it. "I was raised right too, and if my mama found out that I sat while an older gentleman stood, she'd pound me with her slipper. You may be stubborn, but mama can hit a running target at 20 paces with that slipper!" Slapped me on the shoulder and walked off.
No Karen, no entitlement, just an oops with a fun ending for all!
Hmmm good labor laws, strong union, there's no way that engineer works in America.
He might work at NASA. Public unions have way too much power.
I have seen that post before and the OP mentioned they live in sweden.
@channelofstuff The hell are you on about?
@channelofstuff Let me get this straight.
You think that the President of the United States (the most powerful person in the world), took time out of his busy schedule, and took special interest in your workplace just so he could weaken your union?
Do you understand how totally stupid this sounds?
Unions are killing towns and cities, unions lost their relevance in the 60s
I do not know which story I like better: The Engineer or the Woman On The Train. 😊
Agreed both were awesome
Both Awesome and Hilarious
It's the Engineer Story for me! As a middle aged "employee" that lost his "job and position" in 2019 due to "acquisition" with no advanced notice I LOVE how he handled that shituation!...And Yes, I spelled that exactly correctly!
The engineer is my hero. Loved it. I love it when management gets screwed. After I was forced to early retire the company called me wanting me to work on their printers. None of the other tech ever wanted to learn how to repair them. I said sorry that ship has sailed.
To "fix" the problem, the company now buys new printers when they have the printers have problems. lol Cost when I was fixing them,
"A-Hole Tax! I love it. Serves those bean counters right. They were justifying the existence of their non-existent jobs.
I absolutely love it when the "Big Bosses" are put fairly and squarely in their place by a mere Underlings. Also at one point in my career with BRITISH RAIL and whilst working as a train guard came to my train to find over a dozen people crammed into my brake van and i could not open the inward opening doors to get in ( this was on ancient 1951 slam door stock ). I went and saw my driver informing him there would be a delay as i could not get in. We were the last passenger service to leave the station before it closed for the night. I then rang the train crew supervisor to ask for back up and police presence. Eventually after several "Rows" about shortage of seats, the removal of about eight people, so i had access to doors on both sides, my bell equipment and voice-com system to the driver we we left. I had one little old lady sitting in my chair. An elderly man plus his dog and a young woman with double pushchair. These people had all spoken nicely, were no problem at all. The problem swearing, shouting trouble makers got removed by Police and that was that.
I’ll bet those “management” guys were a lot younger than the engineer. Great story.
That old engineer story reminds me of a story my dad told he is a teacher at this skill school that teaches kids in multiple school districts with different jobs(police, health, pet care, auto, personal fitnesses and cooking) my dad is one of two people in our half of the state that can do certain jobs. My dad was also the person that set up internships for multiple students and advised for multiple schools on certain actions, he was even the union rep one year and fucked the school over with it. My dad is a hard working nice teacher he’s the teacher you never forget for his helpfulness. He even coaches hockey teams for years. The school got some new bosses and the one really hated my dad. He hated my dad so much he got rid of the whole department my dad was in to get rid of him. My dad being so senior in the school just got moved over to a different spot. This guy did everything he could to get rid of my dad and failed. Years ago the boss and others that hated my dad for some reason all got busted for drinking on the job and all fired. The funniest thing is my dad when he retires it would take nearly three teachers to even fill the gap he would leave.
The old lady with the cane on the train was the real MVP of this set. Reminds me of the stories of my Great Grandmother. One ornery, cantankerous lady if you annoyed her without good reason.
Karen: Will nobody offer a lady their seat?
Me: All the ladies in this car are already sitting...
All the more funny with the SpongeBob background music.
Karen: Will nobody offer a lady their seat?
me: just because you are female dont make you a lady
Lol
Hi RedWheel hope you are well. Thanks for sharing. Have a great day and Please stay safe all who reads this and watches this video.🏴😷😁👍.
A blind friend of mine offered his dark glasses to a Karen who was making constant comments about others clothes, or hair, or the car they drove. It shut her up which is what he wanted. All he said was, “ here is the cure to all that is bothering you today.”
The last story - once I look old enough, I'll have to remember to carry a cane with me, just in case.
I could use this tactic even now. I just have to remember it in time.
I went down to London to see a surfboards, in my wheelchair. The train ride home was so full, I was told to fold my chair up, but not 1 person would give me a seat, I stood there, gripping the door bars so hard, in so much pain, that I was quietly crying to myself. People really can be oblivious, or just plain rude, at times. Not sure which. When I did eventually get a seat, 2 stations later, it turned out I was in a carriage that was being uncoupled, and had to get off that 1 and move further up the remainder of the train! NOT a good day for me!
I (M) have already needed to use something similar to the old lady. I have 2 dislocated shoulders and one time I was taking a bus from my college classes. I was making sure that I didn’t look like I needed to sit or anything but suddenly the bus jerked and instead of just falling I grabbed one of the bars. I felt my shoulder pop out of socket. Several people made sure that I was okay and offered me their seat including the one who had their bags on it. While I put my sling on and relocated my shoulder.
A cane is also handy for someone wanting to create some social distance.
@@mewethey4045
I mostly call my cane a reach-extension. :-)
I hope when I get old I’ll have a sense of humour like that old lady
Dude i love how you tell these stories....it gets me through my work days
Good afternoon RedWheel! Good afternoon everyone!
When I was much younger. I worked for a large potato chip manufacturer. They brought in a new plant manager, who fired one of the long term maintenance guys. Turned out he was one of three guys in the world who knew how to fix their specialized machines. That manager was fired by week end. The fired maintenance worker started his own business fixing those machines. Making 10 times the money.
The engineer dude. Sticking to the man! 😂😂😂😂 How glorious was that story. He had them by the short hairs the moment they walked in the door and they had no clue. Brilliant!
Having small family party for sweet 16. Sadly not what I wanted to do, but pandemic got in way. My new phones notifications sends RUclips's strait to my text message notifications, which is driving me nuts. Imagine talking with family, my phone is on table, and Redwheel's post shows up as a partial notification which said "Director fired you" so now I got to show rest of family some of Redwheel's most funny posts, and explain to them I wasn't fired lol.
It didn't end well for me today with the above. Aunt asked me which ones are Redwheel's posts? What I should have said was just look for the Red cat with googly eyes, but noooooo. I had to say just look for colorful banner signs with the cute girls (That did not sit well with the wife), and of all luck, the one I was showing turned out to be a kid, not adult, which my kids had a field day on that. Going to hide under the covers now.....
@@sirxanthor
When Petty sarcasm explodes in your face! Oops 😬
I love awesome little old people.
For the first story, THAT’S WHY nobody wants to be a hostess in a restaurant! If you want to please an entitled customer, you might have to face unhappy waiters/waitresses having not a «good» section that day. Every single day, there will be a «displeased with your work» attitude from the staff or the customers.😫😤 The worst part though is, during a busy lunch time or supper time, a couple insists to have a table for four when you have free tables for two and, when you explain to them those tables are for three and more people, it is a busy time and everybody wants a table soon so they can go out soon, the couple responds to you that it is none of their concerns and, if they cannot have a big table, they will go somewhere else. If you have a spineless floor manager on top of that, it’s a very frustrating not well payed job.
Awesome! Best part was the managers not getting their bonuses!
That engineer is my HERO!!!!!
Tyvm RedWheel you are one of the few that can tell a great story! Stay safe please. Peace ☮️
LOVE the last story 💕💕
It's second story represents why engineers are my favorite kind of people. I've worked with doctors, teachers, lawyers, and some former Wall Street folks, engineers have the best attitude, the best responses and are the most pleasant to work with. As long as you don't mess with them 🤣
If there is one thing I've learned from playing D&D it's that, when the DM says, "Are you sure you want to do this?" It's a really bad idea.
Also the story proves just how important unions are. so get on it people, Unionize your workplace.
I use it for completely innocuous things too. It's always good to keep players on their toes.
I forgot I had been volcano watching at half speed....
I thought you had a stroke until I remembered...
Lol, now that is fricken funny. I bet it was a shock when he started story telling.
Lmao
HI I loved the last story
What a lovely old lady in the last one XD
Good day RW from mid Tn. I hope you're having a great day. Thanks for another great video. Brother you have such a way of story telling that it is a joy to listen to you. Absolutely love how you tell these with such expression.
I saw an old guy with a cane get on the train. Train was completely full except for one seat (in a 3-seater in the middle). The girls wanted to wait for a 3rd girl (on a later stop and refused to move over). He started to sit in her lap... and with a lot of screeching and crying... she moved over. Everyone else applauded.
Girls looked college age... but definitely Karens.
I wish we could all work like grumpy old engineer. I changed employers until I found a place I could do this. I don't want to play stupid little office politics games or team building bs, I just want to do my job and in general I get along with everyone I work with anyway. All that rubbish just wastes time!
Precisely office politics are bullshit, those who like office politics shouldnt roped in others who does not want anything to do with it...and team building is the most bullshit thing higher ups do to "improve" teamworking but in reality it is just some highschool/first year diploma or college student activity and usually us working adult find these kind of activities cringy as fuck. Luckily, i am right now working in small manufacturing company where the politics is almost non-existant and boss doesnt care about team building bs
9:35... nice story but whomever made it up doesn't understand budgeting or misunderstood what they were relaying. Budgeting is designed to forecast your actual position to ensure costs don't go over budget. Nobody would deliberately under budget a division like that, as it would hurt alot more than just the bonus of the management.
Second story was gold. So I guess that makes the last one platinum?
"I've been standing for over an hour!"
"Oh the horror, try working retail" - LMAO
Try standing for 8 hours with knee athritis. I did that for 2 years working in retail until the pain got so bad i needed surgery to replace my knees. Before that, I was popping Advil and Vicodin like an addict
Working in a machine shop sucks to. Can be walking working on machines for upwards 8-9 hours.
Even celebrities get booted out if disruptive of staff in a posh restaurant in Britain ❤🏴
Karens seriously think retail associates and waiters/waitresses/hosts are supposed be psychic!
Olde lady on the train is MY hero, too, always question “Authority”
Second story was no mere pro revenge not even nuclear revenge. Nay we're talking a full orbital strike revenge here. And it. was. GLORIOUS!
That elderly lady in the last story is my hero
2:22 Came here for story #2.
No one trains managers? Didn't their parents ever read them the fable about the goose that laid gold eggs?
There was no redundancy for his tasks? I hope that whatever it is that they do has nothing to do
with nuclear energy!! He could have left the company at any time due to illness, injury or death.
There was no plan B. Or C. Or D.
So nice to listen to a real voice.
“The hair. The clothes. The attitude.”
This reminds me of
“The man. The myth. The legend.”
On the second story, I am reminded of the old aphorism "Don't try to fix what isn't broken".
As a general rule, if you're firing somebody and they asked you more than once if you're sure that you want to do this. You might want to take a second and figure out why they're asking you that.
Love the old lady
Second story, that is not how IP works. The company would have a license agreement in place and pay royalties for use of them if he brought the patents with him when he joined the company. That kind of stuff is not done on a handshake. If he got the patents while working for the company then the company would own them anyway since assigning IP rights to the employer for any relevant inventions is standard in tech employment contracts, and since they are unionized there would definitely be an employment contract.
If he subsequently left the company those agreements would still be in place, so it would no impact on their operations.
If someone is presenting themselves as irreplaceable and holding that over a company in a dysfunctional way, then you HAVE to get rid of them. Getting rid of this guy was the correct decision if the post is to be believed.
Only a fool messes with an old, super-experienced engineer - and these managers learned the hard way.
Loved the little old lady in the last story
The saying don't rock the boat comes to mind and if it ain't broke don't fix it
That Old Man is a badass!
You guys don’t understand how patents work. In essence, I AM that engineer, a product design engineer with over 45 years experience & over 60 patents that have made the companies I’ve worked for hundreds of millions of dollars. There is “the inventor” (me) & there is “he assignee” (the company, which has the rights to produce & profit from the inventions). Part of my job, at every company, is “inventing things”, for which they pay me really well, usually with stock bonuses for each invention, and lots of “liberties” (such as a very relaxed dress code (sneakers, dungarees & tee-shirts (as long as I don’t have professional meetings with outside-the-company folks (“you don’t pay me to look pretty, you pay me to think.”) at the company that most employees don’t enjoy (& extended, unpaid vacations. I try hard to NOT to take advantage. So the company being “the assignee” (with all the rights to my inventions is standard operating procedure. I give that up for the high pay & other job perks & mangement understands that they can’t bully me like they can some other employees. It’s been that way for my whole career. It all comes down to “how replaceable are you?” Almost nobody is “totally irreplaceable”, but if you’re “extremely difficult, or costly, to replace”, (by being really talented) you can basically (within reason), write your own rules. HR wil tell you, “no, you can’t, because they we’d have to do that for everyone,, but I learned early about true leverage. You tell them, “nope, I’m doing it (eg., taking 3 months unpaid vacation for a climbing or “decompression” trip) and they _ALWAYS_ fold & agree to it. One of the main perks to getting a good education & being a productive employee: you can basically write your own rules. (Again ... within reason, you push things too far & it can cost you your job, but if you can demonstrate high productivity, there are always other jobs out there).
Loved that last story 😉
Waving hello to all manager who listen to this video
Having adults cheer and clap at work is cringe, I wouldn't participate either.
Theres never any budget to do things right.
But theres always money to do things over. Especially when it because of a decision by upper management
If you live in the U.S. and invent something while working at a company as part of your job, what you invented is the employers. Did you you think you were being paid to keep a chair warm?
May your chains rest lightly upon your shoulders, slave
@@stevenkunkle3857- slaves don't get paid. You can work for yourself and own anything you invent.
Second story had me rolling, Why?, My father exactly!
I think the old lady on the train is my new hero too
that old lady should get an oscar!
I Joined the Army reserves in 1994 and engineering company I had sergeants that where Vietnam vets. My new comander forced them out they where old and couldn’t pass a physical. We went to do a project building school and well in Central America. My comander realize quickly that the only people that new construction were the old sergeants. That’s why no previous comander mess with them. My comander was relieved new comander had to call them back!! Lol
Good for him
10:52 Had a cast on my leg with jeans covering it and sitting in handicapped seat on the train and visually it looked like I had no issue but under my cast my bone from the xray showed my bone was 98% cracked. I just looked back at them with the same look.
Too all good looking in shape women on the Train my lap is always available. and yes I am just happy to see you.
1st one, I think they looking to get free meals.
I'm probably dating myself with this comment but the old lady on the train sounds a lot like "The Little Old Lady from Pasadena". Thank you Beach Boys.
Yeah, I'm probably proving my age by agreeing with you! That's an awesome song! Lol
Jan and Dean
Cheering and clapping isn't American corporate culture - that's Japanese.
It's what people THINK is american culture. Same as people always think brits "make a cup of tea" in any situation. I mean, a cup of tea is good, but sometimes certain situations call for a gin and tonic to be needed over a cup of rosy. Such assumptions😆😆
I understand that it is/was big in Japan, and I believe you're right that they "invented" it. I do remember interviewing around Y2K at a California IT recruiting agency, and watched for a while at their antics. A memorable moment came when one of the reps clinched a new prospect. She did a meerkat from her cubicle; the floor manager walked over and rang a brass bell, this set all the others to meerkating as they cheered and clapped.
*ahem* Walmart
@@vulpespannonicus Imitation of Japanese culture.
ok i had to stop it after this fairytale went on for over 2 minutes! insignificant patents but they couldnt complete projects without them was the best part pmsl
My brother ran an oilfield services company that was bought by some New Yorkers. Instead of letting him do his thing they micromanaged and eventually fired him. He was hired to start another service company from scratch by another company. Needless to say two years later his old company was out of business and his new one is a top player in the field.
If op finds the old lady op should buy either a pot of tea and a cake or a beer and a hot meal
That story deserves a sub
The second story must be from England. In the US, I’ve never heard of having a contract with your employer and be in the union. The union negotiates everyone’s contract in the union; that’s the whole point. Also a few other discrepancies.
The old engineer would not say cringe in that form because it is meaningless the term is "cringeworthy" cringe is what you do, cringeworthy is what you feel.
Clapping and cheering for your job… is entirely BS! What do employers do it for? It means nothing.
That old lady on the train deserves an AWESOME AWARD for her performance in making the "Karen" look more like an entitled fool than she already was. I'm 71, but don't need a cane yet, however, I will remember this wonderful old lady's actions whenever I'm out in public and happen to meet an entitled jerk who needs a lesson in humility.
I regret to inform you but unpaid overtime is not an american corporate concept for anyone who works hourly.. salaried positions yes.. but for the most part unpaid overtime us actually a asian concept specifically japanese
An engineer in a union? I never heard of such a thing.
When I worked at Boeing there was the SPEEA union, among others. The Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace. I chose to work third shift so I wouldn't have to put up with most of their bullcrap rules that actually interfered with doing the engineering.
It would have been cooler if awesome old lady had beaten Karen with the cane but she's still a hero
2:00 Happens when "customer is always right" + a random "bad review" by some unknown Karen will ruin our business = we will do everything incl bend over with our backs exposed to the customer saying "HAVE YOUR WAY, DEAR!"
I live in India where there is equal weight given to wait staff and customers and consequently, see very few Karens. Rude customers are not tolerated, told to f off and rarely come back.
Can you come and teach that to the karens and wait staff in my country? You could earn a fortune in freelancing fees 🤣🤣🤣
Don't know where your from but Americans do not cheer and clap at work that's japanese...... soooooo I call this read bull.... Thanks
The last story.
1 it's illegal to put your feet on seats on trains (you don't know what you have stood in).
2 if her feet were so sore somebody should have offered her a massage
Instead, they sent her a "message", not a "massage".
As an American, I hate the "American" corporate culture depicted here.
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That last one is hilarious
4th time i have heard that god damn engineer story. I should make my own reddit channel
That old lady is my new hero!
Just found your channel. The stories were entertaining and it was a relief that you censored them. Thanks!
See why do people make life hard on themselves. Why make your business take a loss of an competent employee and just make him management.
I remember being a healthy looking 23 year old. I had just rolled my ankle and was on my way to the doctor. It hurt so bad but it was bearable enough to walk.
I didn't have anyone to take me to the doctor and had no money for a taxi, so I was on a train and sitting in a handicap seat. Which was fully justified if anyone had simply asked.
Along comes these two elderly people with a girl who was in her twenties, maybe. She looked at me and said to the elderly people, "Oh, you can sit here!" And points at me. I looked at her as though she was a fucking idiot. Then I very carefully started to stand up, just because I really wanted the two people who did nothing wrong to have a seat. I then hobbled over to the side of the train, supporting myself with a handrail.
The older lady said "oh, no, he's hurt...we should let him have the seat" and I replied to her "No, it's perfectly fine," then I looked at the younger one and said, "I understand that I look perfectly healthy but I've just had a bad ankle injury and I'm on the way to the doctor. But it's only a few stops away, I'm sure I'll be able to make it."
Another person who saw the whole thing obviously got up and let me sit down....but I just had to make that girl feel stupid for assuming I'm healthy just because I was young.
The lesson here is that you should ASK people to get up, if they can, never just order them to. You don't know why people are doing what they're doing, even if you think you do.
Before editing it, my phone wrote "I looked at her ass..." My phone knows me so well 😂😂😂😂
How does that first story even deserve to be here? “Gee, shitty people at a restaurant! Like, OMG?!”
Great video! Also, this is the first video of yours I watched and I swear you sound like the actor Jeff Garlin.
Never be rude to a server. Unless their shitty servers. You never know what your eating.
I want to see the Karens and old ladies' face if they ever stumble across this story.
LMFAO, love the engineer dad story...