Every time Woolie talks about this kind of thing it is literally the headline: "Local hopeless man loses additional fragment of hope he didn't realize he still had."
Your boss wouldn't slit your throat and dance in the blood for a nickel. They'd kill you for the nickel then sell your body parts. That's too much money being left on the table.
“Hey man, water is costing this company a pretty penny. No more running water and toilets. Everyone just poop and pee in the corner like what animals do. Sincerely, -Management”
The satisfaction I feel in Woolie/others coming to same realization that we are almost certainly going into a world-wide financial crisis is sandbagged by the fact that we’re almost certainly going into a world-wide financial crisis.
He skipped the best part of the story this time, unfortunately, when large amounts of the staff and testers eventually got sick and management *very quietly* brought back the wetnaps after realizing that paying for EVERYONE'S simultaneous sick leave outweighed the cost of $14.99 😷
oh yeah, there was a janitor who would clean the stations and untangle the controllers in the closest. then management fired him because he "costed to much".
What if you stole so much from the company, you nearly made the boss have to fire everyone, do you still get a free pass for doing one good thing to the boss?
@@UltimaKeyMaster Honestly a part of me wants to keep up with jokes about what terrible thing X person might do that could get them fired despite saving a life, but the joke got old before I wrote most of it. Sorry man.
Professor I worked for basically told me it was my fault for witnessing a shooting, Said professor also gave me an “unsatisfactory” for not giving a presentation that she gave me less than a week’s notice for; I was not there to give the presentation because I had to go to a friend’s funeral
"How dare you continue to exist and experience the spectrum of good to horrible things that the world randomly provides outside of the various assignments that I want you to complete" And I thought I'd already heard some of the worst bullshit from the visually impared kids. That fucking sucks.
Wetnaps: the revengening I frequently listen to the old podcast episode “work sucks” and oh man, when I saw this clip’s title, I was hyped. I love how Woolies old employer comes back from the past with another story, just to ignite the rage of the Woolie. Great job guys, stay safe.
I don't know if woolie has ever worked retail, but if he did, he would instantly understand how scummy companies can get when it comes to your safety. Like I used to work retail at home depot, and the amount of shit they had going o there was so dumb. I had a conversation similar to Pat about steel toe boots(these things should be provided by major corporation that hire you), getting training to use certain machines was impossible but they insisted I use them anyway to complete orders, but the worst was the chainsaw. During winter home depot gets a bunch of trees to sell for the holidays, since I worked seasonal, I handled them. If you've ever shopped for a tree, you know that you can have pieces of the tree shaved down to make it fit into the holder or your house easier. For that we used a chainsaw, which was supposed to come with gloves, a sturdier apron, and a face mask, y'know, to protect the delicate bits from getting ripped to pieces by the flying wood or any mishaps with the chain. What I got was goggles, an apron that had a broken strap so it fell a lot, and the thick gloves. I complained about it everyday, they just said their working on it. Moral of the story, companies will always find a way to hit a new low for being shitty to employees for money.
The sheer ability of companies to maximise profits whilst minimising worker satisfaction would make a min-maxing Pathfinder player die of jealously. No corner is uncuttable.
I worked in a christian based, hobby/home decor store chain; known for multiple shenanigans brought about from our CEO. Our particular store for what ever reason decided that furniture was taking too much floor space. Rather than get rid of it entirely, the district manager decided that we should put the furniture on display up high on the walls in the store, which required us to use 12ft ladders to put them on flimsy shelves that could barely hold some pieces of furniture. And im talking tall ass cabinets, cast iron swivel chairs, bulky storage chests; anything way too big be moving up and down on a 12ft ladder.If that wasn't bad enough, rather than have some kind of book down on the floor for people to look at and have us order it. If a customer wanted the item, we have to get the ladder, bring the item down, have the customer inspect the item to see if they wanted it. And either bring it to the cash registers or haul it back up on the shelf. Here's the kicker, part time employees made up the majority of the stock people in the store, and part-timers aren't eligible for the companies health benefits. Im honestly surprised no one has fallen of the ladder given the amount of times we had to do this. FUnny enough, not to long ago, said CEO claimed that its store would still be open amid this covid pandemic because his wife had, i shit you not, A VISION FROM GOD, that everything will be okay. Im glad i got out of that store.
@@maskedbugman I know what store your talking about, I saw a post about that bs on Twitter. I'm not the biggest Christian, but I get livid whenever someone tries to hide their greed behind Christianity. It just leaves a sour taste in my mouth. Also I feel you on that 12ft ladder thing, one of the devices I used was an electric ladder, and for some reason some departments would pull me to grab things like tubs, lawnmowers, and sometimes grills from way to high with that thing. Needless to say, if I had gotten my forklift license like I had asked to be trained for, it would have been way safer and far less pants darkening at times.
Real patriot Yesh, remember how dark humor is a thing and people make light of dark shit to not feel dead inside for the powerlessness of their existence?
I think Pat is just completely numb to the point that he actively sees it as entertaining how scummy and evil people could be, so long as it doesn’t affect him personally. It’s apathy that has been allowed to spiral into nihilism, and while it’s unhealthy he admits here it’s purely to cope. He’s powerless to stop it, and after so many stories and realizing that scum is the norm, he just tunes it out to focus on his sphere of control.
Woolie's right that this is just an exaggerated version of his wetnaps situation, but is still lacking the connection Pat made in his bagging job. As soon as his boss made clear that 1. Pat was going to get hurt and 2. He was going to be punished for getting hurt, Pat understood immediately that his boss was going to put him in physical danger for profit. Pat made the connection that his boas was being malicious on purpose, whereas Woolie thought the missing wetnaps were a mistake. They weren't, Woolie. Your bosses were being malicious, not stupid.
Business in America exists to make money. Money is power, money is luxury and money is as essential as air and water for a lot of people in their mind. Workers not showing up reduces revenue which reduces the amount of influence and power you have in the marketplace. And for failing businesses workers not showing up can mean the death of your income and stability. That's how management in America sees these issues, they dont look at it through the point of humanity. Because the humanitarian angle can actively hurt their life. So they tell their workers to fall on the sword so they dont have to
This is a realistic interpretation of things. I can't say i blame the businesses trying to avoid taking a hit. It's shitty and can be inhumane, but ultimately there's no better way of doing things. Ultimately, it's because the average western person is used to the privilege of not having to suffer for their paycheck that we can even consider being upset about having to work during a pandemic.
@@werewolf873 "ultimately there's no better way of doing things" Kings and nobles have all the wealth and power and they treat peasants as if they exist only to sustain them, but ultimately there's no better way of doing things. Sure it's bad that we have to sacrifice someone every dawn to make the sun come up, but ultimately there's no better way of doing things. Dictators force poverty on the masses so they can have a larger collection of cars and yachts and they throw anyone who complains into labor camps, but ultimately there's no better way of doing things. No matter how much of the koolaid you drink, reality will not conform to such bullshit. btw the koolaid you are drinking is just diarrhea. From a bull's ass.
Two months ago I got the flu and it was pretty severe. I still only missed 3 days of work despite being sick for 3 weeks. Boss threatened to fire me if I didn't come in and my absence was only excused after I VOMITED BLOOD in the bathroom
I remember one time my manager started guilt tripping me because our car broke down on a trip back from out of state and i couldn't make it. Even tried to send someone to get me. Ah, America.
“Go to his house and get him!” “Turns out He is not home” “Drat! He’s playing a hard game, but we’ll get him!” “Ma’am, isn’t it possible that he is actually out of the state and his car is actually broken down on the side of the road? You know, like he said he was?” “That would be silly”
I'm a software dev. I had to leave my last job cause i couldn't even take PTO without getting evicerated. My lead dev turned in his two weeks on a monday and on that friday had to go to the ER for 8 hours because my piece of shit manager put so much stress on him. I called my ex coworkers last week to see how they are. My manager got overruled by execs so everyone could work from home. Now all he does is text people every 5 minutes to tell them what terrible people they are and about how great he is.
All fully deserved malice towards the scumfuck manager aside, I really hope that lead dev gets better. I can't even imagine what stress could do to a person to cause them to go to the emergency room.
It really feels like whenever you get a new job, there's a gacha system going in the background to decide who's your new boss and good bosses being a 0.001% chance drop. I recently lost my Job due to the virus, my Boss called me and said that it's only temporary, that every one of the employees, including myself, does an exemplary job, and they are only closing temporary to evade taxes during the pandemic.
Funny thing. The company I work for has QA studios. I briefly talked about wetnaps and hand sanitizers to a higher up while they were visiting....Turns out now that office has GALLONS of hand sanitizers because they bought it in bulk months ago!
I've commented this before, but I want to make one full comment because it is relevant. I work nights at an adolescent behavioral rehab center in SoCal. Kids range from 13 - 17 and usually range from suicidal to rebellious, and everything in between. My company has not only decided to double our client base (despite the fact that we don't have the beds or the bathrooms), they have decided to have them go on three outings a week (surf therapy and equine therapy) and label them as "essential for client mental health", and they refuse to run therapy sessions through Telehealth. All this because they are classified as a medical facility. Yet as a medical facility, they fail to provide staff and children alike with masks and gloves. They do the bare minimum to screen new clients and they essentially told my supervisor that he had no say in any of this. Companies are fucking scumbags. They do not care about their people or their clientele. They just care about their bottom line and would rather see you die, than ever see a ding in their profits. If anyone is on a similar situation, I hope this post lets you know that you're not alone. Fuck capitalism.
Companies not caring about people isn't a facet of capitalism. It's a facet of companies. You are misattributing this to capitalism when such exploitation would be present in any system.
Hobo Frodo No country has ever managed to implement true [Capitalism]. All those bastards keep perverting the true nature of [Capitalism]. In a perfect world, [Capitalism] would be the perfect system.
I'm glad he still feels that way when he hears stories like this. If you let yourself get hardened and you run out of outrage, they can get away with doing anything to you. If you get stung by a scorpion, don't just go "yeah duh, that's what they do". Kill that fucking scorpion.
"I don't want you to make this out to be some 'oh poor sweet summer child, naive to the world' but..." You're not supposed to follow that sentence with some sweet summer child, naive to the world shit. Did you think people were joking when they said that their bosses would literally work them to death? The response to hearing that some fucked up shit happens isn't "wow I didn't think this could actually happen, who would evict a doctor during a pandemic". The response is "so they killed that guy, right?"
Jokes aside? Shortsightedness. The problem is that a CEO could WANT to be nice, but if that means the stock price goes down, the CEO gets fired. Hell, the CEO may get fired if it just doesn't grow enough. The ultra wealth people who just make their money on dividends nowadays? They aren't happy with getting a dividend. They want that stock to grow year after year in perpetuity. Eventually, the incentive is to be cutthroat. Now an argument could be made that a corporation that treated people very well would get the best talent, and would have better service and products due to having top tier employees at every level. But that's way too tough for the analysts to measure...
I have worked full traditional retail for 5 years straight, and 1 year in "gas station" retail. My first 4 years of retail was Toys R Us. I had the same general manager the whole time and one really long serving assistant manager. They took care of us, they treated us like family. Because they knew if we didn't show up, they'd get stuck working more hours for LESS pay, because they were all salary and got 50 hours of pay every week, regardless, if they worked 80 actual hours, fuck you, 30 hours no pay. But our managers were also long standing retail managers who knew what coworker and subordinate was worth treating like family and what ones weren't. When I got my progressive promotions, I realized that too, but I always tried to be kind to my coworkers and subordinates. My hatred for customers increased as I got paid more lmao. Pat's speaking of the one manager everyone hates, that sounds like every single fucking district manager, and especially our asset protection managers. Not just at Toys R Us, but at the other places I've worked, all big companies, but like, holy shit, those people barely even call us by our names and we have fucking name tags on. But, the "wetnaps" thing, I went out of my way over the 4 years at Toys R Us to buy the front end hand sanitizer and my electronics area santizer, and I always had a reserve hidden in my booth. I didn't want anyone getting sick because if I got sick, what if I bring it home? My mom is on oxygen, I can't bring diseases home without risking her life. She's old. For context, Pat is literally like 2 weeks older than me, so same generation, I was a late-in-life baby, so my parents are old. On a good note, my managers often compensated me with something. Either a 5 dollar bill from their wallet or "go get some ice cream or order a pizza, I got it covered." They cared. There were so few of us that stayed and maintained the stores that we had to love one another or war would never fucking end! Though, I know Toys R Us and Babies R Us, if they were alive, would still be active in the US, cuz we sold diapers and formula, but I know, FUCKING KNOW, corporate would have told me "hey, if someone comes in from their diapers and they want the new Animal Crossing, despite it not being an essential, make the sale, electronics supervisor." Fuck.
If there is no management staff, then they're relying on the testers self-reporting their working hours? So can't they go, punch in, go home, come back in the evening, punch out, done?
I was literally fired 3 years ago a day before my sick days reset because i took sick days off for an injury because nobody taught me how to fill out a Leave Of Absence form. I can 100% guarantee nobody above base pay in the corporate ladder gives a fuck about the people below them
Little fact check on Woolz story about the kidney lady, she wasn't laid off for giving her boss a kidney and "taking too long to recover", she was fired when she came back to work and hired an attorney to sue her boss for alleged harrassment when she returned to work.
Yes it is a bad and I feel disgusted and angry, and I am shouting about it, but I am also tired. I understand Woolie's point of 'this is not okay, dont sandbag it' we have to acknowledge that it is not okay. But I never feel disappointed, which is how Woolie kind of describes feeling here. It's more 'angry' than 'melancholy'.
This shit makes me thankful for the managers I have that are legitimately good people. Not a week ago I was going through some serious shit and when I nearly couldn’t take it anymore and broke down in front of my manager, they offered me all the help they could and stood by me when I was at what was probably the lowest point of my life. The corporate world needs to understand that a human life is worth more than all the money in the world. We aren’t drones, we’re real people with feelings and aspirations.
Pat's not wrong, your retail boss with kill you for money. I used to work in a grocery store, and every moment I was there I wanted to kill myself to escape the dystopia of soulless, broken, robotic managers and customers who think they are correct when they are in fact very wrong constantly. And all that for minimum wage is literally hell on earth.
Ah dude I have a million stories from working in supported living/secure units where people are sectioned of equipment not being provided and people getting hurt because of it, fire blankets/extinguishers not being provided or maintained when people self harm by setting themselves on fire, no arm guards when people bite, no locks on doors staff doors when people try to stab/sexually assault people (we just leaned a bunch of shit over it and held it shut until they tired themselves out), pin and pagers (alarms pins on your body to call for help) being faulty and not paying to repair them etc etc, I remember when mine didn't work and i grabbed the arms of a much stronger dude who was slamming me around for like half an hour, had to direct him into slamming me into a cupboard to break it, spilling a bunch of a shit on the floor so he'd slip over so I could escape.
The one perk about living in a right-to-work state, where an employer can fire you at any time for any reason with no prior notice, is that you can also tell them "fuck you, I quit" and leave work with no notice and no repercussions beyond probably not getting a glowing reference in the future. The main disadvantage is that when you go to give your boss a notice out of courtesy that you'll be quitting in a few months to start school he can say "I can't pay you to work here if you're not going to stay" and fire you on the spot, which is how I left my first real job.
You might want to consider telling your boss that if you where to come in and get sick, it would be bad for where ever you work, and they could also be in legal trouble depending where you live.
@@GearGearRingLeader Ah, a good point. And you are entirely right. This brings us to the main reason so many companies are like this: most managers think all employees are deadbeat slackers who will avoid work at every opportunity. It's like the movie Office Space, they'd rather use fear of being fired as the sole motivator instead of, you know, offering incentives for doing well. Trust me, I'm in nowhere near as bad of shape as many people. I just like laughing at out of date workplace mentality like "I need to know you're working."
@@6packproductions710 The amount of managers out there with little to no understanding of what it takes to be a good manager is ridiculous, and has actually helped a coworker of mine realize he wants to go back to school to learn to be a better manager just because our supervisors are so bad, that he wants to save people from having to deal with a bad manager in the future.
Most retail companies will bleed their employees dry and then wonder why none of their employees have any enthusiasm or energy, regardless of whether they're currently in a pandemic or not, all this pandemic has done is make it ever more apparent.
Pat its not shocking thats the reaction, its just disgust. Clearly its not shocking anymore that these sorts of things happen, but most moral humans like to think theres an ounce of hope in humanity and then get disgusted when they realize there isn't. And thats as someone who has never had a bad boss (yet).
it boggles my mind that Pat honestly thinks the world works the way it does in his head, poor Woolie is in a endlessly losing battle trying to be the sensible one, but in the end Pat is Goblin Brain, Woolies gonna sigh, and we're gonna laugh at the funny
Ohshit Babel fucking up! I never tire of that one. Remember when they screwed themselves over hard with the Nokia lab? Or the kerfuffle with the paid lunches?
Probably because it’s basically a conference call they are doing and recording. Previously they were in the same room, so they could record everything right then and there. Now their conversation is happening from a couple miles away
"I don't think anyone's out there thinking 'yeah i love it when people lose their jobs'" yeah but that's what people have been programmed to expect, or at least that's the take that always rushes out the moment you cheer for any shitty company getting it
I have had managers accuse sick coworkers of faking it, then be surprised when thoose coworkers quit same day. (one literally was vomiting sick, and his girlfriend came in, handed in his nametag and shirts and told them the news ). Even if most of the time they wont force them to come in, (depending on the worker) they will still mock the person who called in sick and tell the rest of the staff they were faking it. I also have coworkers who have already decided that they a) hope they get it now before it mutates to being worse and B) their still going to come in if they get it, cuz they aren't going to get paid to be sick at home....
I'm on Pat's side here. I used to have a boss that would literally say I would not get paid the next day if I took a day off the prior day because I had a fucking gross flu every season.
I dont get how so many bussinesses fail to realize preventitive measures on employees getting sick or injured is worth the 30 dollar loss. Espically in the food and retail industries.
Meanwhile, I work at a grocery store who provide steel toe boots for free or let you buy a pair yourself and reimburse the price up to 100$. My manager never shame anybody who call sick and for the remaining of the corvid problem everyone at my work get a temporary 2$ raise. Oh and they pay a security guard to sit at the entrance to force people to use hand sanitizer before entering the store. I live in a different world I guess.
8:45 YOU DO ACTUALLY, surprisingly enough when people get injured by some horrible disease they caught at work, to riff on one of Pat's own lines, Insurance premiums go up... This sort of information coming out will ruin the company one way or another.
I am American Boy and I too know the Tierney Of lowers middle management. It’s unbelievable the lvl of turnover in business now, you where barley respected as a worker much less a human life.......it’s not even funny the fact of how uncaring businesses are right now.
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Every time Woolie talks about this kind of thing it is literally the headline: "Local hopeless man loses additional fragment of hope he didn't realize he still had."
Your boss wouldn't slit your throat and dance in the blood for a nickel. They'd kill you for the nickel then sell your body parts. That's too much money being left on the table.
What was that number for black market value of blood, bone marrow, and organs?
$5 million?
Seize them means people and fuck management
And then your boss will sell your dependents into slavery because orphans are just a missed profit opportunity tbh fam.
Clearly Woolie needs a fighting game analogy to be abld to fully understand this 😂
Not to mention the cleaning costs for dancing in blood.
“Hey man, water is costing this company a pretty penny. No more running water and toilets. Everyone just poop and pee in the corner like what animals do.
Sincerely,
-Management”
Employees proceed to pee on the managers.
@@randominternetsurfersurfin7595 Then someone finds out one of the managers likes it and starts making more money doing overtime “wetwork”
the CORNER! why didn't i think of that?
That's how testers live.
In other words, "I never thought management was GOOD, but I did think that there would be a line they wouldn't cross."
The satisfaction I feel in Woolie/others coming to same realization that we are almost certainly going into a world-wide financial crisis is sandbagged by the fact that we’re almost certainly going into a world-wide financial crisis.
We doing the wetnaps story again?
The one where management was trying to save on "unnecessary expenses" again?
I love that one, do the voices, Woolz!
SAY THE LINE WOOLIE
"...wetnaps, bro."
YAAAAAAYYYY
He skipped the best part of the story this time, unfortunately, when large amounts of the staff and testers eventually got sick and management *very quietly* brought back the wetnaps after realizing that paying for EVERYONE'S simultaneous sick leave outweighed the cost of $14.99 😷
oh yeah, there was a janitor who would clean the stations and untangle the controllers in the closest. then management fired him because he "costed to much".
If you give your boss your kidney to save their life and they fire you, you're morally entitled to take the kidney back.
Sounds fair to me.
What if you stole so much from the company, you nearly made the boss have to fire everyone, do you still get a free pass for doing one good thing to the boss?
@@GearGearRingLeader Considering that probably saved their life? Yeah, I'd give the pass.
@@UltimaKeyMaster Honestly a part of me wants to keep up with jokes about what terrible thing X person might do that could get them fired despite saving a life, but the joke got old before I wrote most of it. Sorry man.
Don't forget interest...scrape off some liver for your troubles bro
Professor I worked for basically told me it was my fault for witnessing a shooting,
Said professor also gave me an “unsatisfactory” for not giving a presentation that she gave me less than a week’s notice for; I was not there to give the presentation because I had to go to a friend’s funeral
In the words of the greatest soldier in the world, "Shouldn't have looked."
I'm...what...I...
"How dare you continue to exist and experience the spectrum of good to horrible things that the world randomly provides outside of the various assignments that I want you to complete"
And I thought I'd already heard some of the worst bullshit from the visually impared kids. That fucking sucks.
That's so fucked it almost seem fake, except i know people who would say that.
Yo fuck that bitch, I'd have told her off right to her face.
*murders my boss*
"Hey man, Wet Naps."
Sugewin “thanks, I’ve always liked you”. *dies ass up*
Wetnaps: the revengening
I frequently listen to the old podcast episode “work sucks” and oh man, when I saw this clip’s title, I was hyped. I love how Woolies old employer comes back from the past with another story, just to ignite the rage of the Woolie. Great job guys, stay safe.
Wetnaps Requiem: Ballad of the Cutthroat Costs
I don't know if woolie has ever worked retail, but if he did, he would instantly understand how scummy companies can get when it comes to your safety. Like I used to work retail at home depot, and the amount of shit they had going o there was so dumb. I had a conversation similar to Pat about steel toe boots(these things should be provided by major corporation that hire you), getting training to use certain machines was impossible but they insisted I use them anyway to complete orders, but the worst was the chainsaw. During winter home depot gets a bunch of trees to sell for the holidays, since I worked seasonal, I handled them. If you've ever shopped for a tree, you know that you can have pieces of the tree shaved down to make it fit into the holder or your house easier. For that we used a chainsaw, which was supposed to come with gloves, a sturdier apron, and a face mask, y'know, to protect the delicate bits from getting ripped to pieces by the flying wood or any mishaps with the chain. What I got was goggles, an apron that had a broken strap so it fell a lot, and the thick gloves. I complained about it everyday, they just said their working on it. Moral of the story, companies will always find a way to hit a new low for being shitty to employees for money.
The sheer ability of companies to maximise profits whilst minimising worker satisfaction would make a min-maxing Pathfinder player die of jealously. No corner is uncuttable.
I worked in a christian based, hobby/home decor store chain; known for multiple shenanigans brought about from our CEO. Our particular store for what ever reason decided that furniture was taking too much floor space. Rather than get rid of it entirely, the district manager decided that we should put the furniture on display up high on the walls in the store, which required us to use 12ft ladders to put them on flimsy shelves that could barely hold some pieces of furniture. And im talking tall ass cabinets, cast iron swivel chairs, bulky storage chests; anything way too big be moving up and down on a 12ft ladder.If that wasn't bad enough, rather than have some kind of book down on the floor for people to look at and have us order it. If a customer wanted the item, we have to get the ladder, bring the item down, have the customer inspect the item to see if they wanted it. And either bring it to the cash registers or haul it back up on the shelf. Here's the kicker, part time employees made up the majority of the stock people in the store, and part-timers aren't eligible for the companies health benefits. Im honestly surprised no one has fallen of the ladder given the amount of times we had to do this.
FUnny enough, not to long ago, said CEO claimed that its store would still be open amid this covid pandemic because his wife had, i shit you not, A VISION FROM GOD, that everything will be okay. Im glad i got out of that store.
@@maskedbugman I know what store your talking about, I saw a post about that bs on Twitter. I'm not the biggest Christian, but I get livid whenever someone tries to hide their greed behind Christianity. It just leaves a sour taste in my mouth. Also I feel you on that 12ft ladder thing, one of the devices I used was an electric ladder, and for some reason some departments would pull me to grab things like tubs, lawnmowers, and sometimes grills from way to high with that thing. Needless to say, if I had gotten my forklift license like I had asked to be trained for, it would have been way safer and far less pants darkening at times.
Remember when Mr Krabs sold Spongebob's soul for 62 cents, and that was a joke?
Was it? It seems eerily realistic the longer i live.
Real patriot
Yesh, remember how dark humor is a thing and people make light of dark shit to not feel dead inside for the powerlessness of their existence?
"You think I've could've gotten more?" Mr. Krabs
Real patriot It was funny when we were young and not actively living through it
Anyone else notice that Woolie's face has that movie poster Orange and Blue colouring thing going on.
I'm with Woolly on this one, we should be angry at this stuff. Even if it is just to remind people that it's not cool to be a scumbag.
Yeah I don't understand what's wrong with Pat. He's willfully ignoring what Woolie's point is so he can sound aloof.
We should have been blisteringly mad the entire time.
I think Pat is just completely numb to the point that he actively sees it as entertaining how scummy and evil people could be, so long as it doesn’t affect him personally. It’s apathy that has been allowed to spiral into nihilism, and while it’s unhealthy he admits here it’s purely to cope. He’s powerless to stop it, and after so many stories and realizing that scum is the norm, he just tunes it out to focus on his sphere of control.
@@Tyhoon01 omg, I'm that way a lot too. And someone has finally put it into words.
@@PredatoryQQmber not a great idea to inject alt right RUclipsrs into a discussion like this.
Woolie's right that this is just an exaggerated version of his wetnaps situation, but is still lacking the connection Pat made in his bagging job.
As soon as his boss made clear that 1. Pat was going to get hurt and 2. He was going to be punished for getting hurt, Pat understood immediately that his boss was going to put him in physical danger for profit. Pat made the connection that his boas was being malicious on purpose, whereas Woolie thought the missing wetnaps were a mistake.
They weren't, Woolie. Your bosses were being malicious, not stupid.
So anything that isnt surpising deserves no attention?
@@Rawyr that's the thing, it's had the attention of billions of people for hundreds of years: people will hurt you for money.
Business in America exists to make money. Money is power, money is luxury and money is as essential as air and water for a lot of people in their mind.
Workers not showing up reduces revenue which reduces the amount of influence and power you have in the marketplace. And for failing businesses workers not showing up can mean the death of your income and stability.
That's how management in America sees these issues, they dont look at it through the point of humanity. Because the humanitarian angle can actively hurt their life. So they tell their workers to fall on the sword so they dont have to
Socialism for the rich, capitalism for the poor.
This is a realistic interpretation of things. I can't say i blame the businesses trying to avoid taking a hit. It's shitty and can be inhumane, but ultimately there's no better way of doing things. Ultimately, it's because the average western person is used to the privilege of not having to suffer for their paycheck that we can even consider being upset about having to work during a pandemic.
The company is Canadian though?
@@werewolf873 "ultimately there's no better way of doing things"
Kings and nobles have all the wealth and power and they treat peasants as if they exist only to sustain them, but ultimately there's no better way of doing things.
Sure it's bad that we have to sacrifice someone every dawn to make the sun come up, but ultimately there's no better way of doing things.
Dictators force poverty on the masses so they can have a larger collection of cars and yachts and they throw anyone who complains into labor camps, but ultimately there's no better way of doing things.
No matter how much of the koolaid you drink, reality will not conform to such bullshit. btw the koolaid you are drinking is just diarrhea. From a bull's ass.
@@Reaverbot7 Alright brainiac, so which system would you switch us over to?
Two months ago I got the flu and it was pretty severe. I still only missed 3 days of work despite being sick for 3 weeks. Boss threatened to fire me if I didn't come in and my absence was only excused after I VOMITED BLOOD in the bathroom
It's good to have modern examples to motivate us to put the screws to those in charge. The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire was getting passe.
Going to your boss's house and coughing on them honestly sounds like the perfect revenge scheme nowadays.
I remember one time my manager started guilt tripping me because our car broke down on a trip back from out of state and i couldn't make it. Even tried to send someone to get me. Ah, America.
“Go to his house and get him!”
“Turns out He is not home”
“Drat! He’s playing a hard game, but we’ll get him!”
“Ma’am, isn’t it possible that he is actually out of the state and his car is actually broken down on the side of the road? You know, like he said he was?”
“That would be silly”
@Simple Barghest I kinda have an idea…
GET you? Like... a hitman? :o
I'm a software dev. I had to leave my last job cause i couldn't even take PTO without getting evicerated. My lead dev turned in his two weeks on a monday and on that friday had to go to the ER for 8 hours because my piece of shit manager put so much stress on him.
I called my ex coworkers last week to see how they are. My manager got overruled by execs so everyone could work from home. Now all he does is text people every 5 minutes to tell them what terrible people they are and about how great he is.
That kind of manager is the type of person that think they made it in life just because they can boss people around.
@@rahjeel he's probably doing worse then most of his employees LOL
There are some people who you just want to take a hammer to. Fuck that manager and I hope said manager loses their eyes and ears.
@@UltimaOmega777 I doubt a hammer would make them any better
All fully deserved malice towards the scumfuck manager aside, I really hope that lead dev gets better. I can't even imagine what stress could do to a person to cause them to go to the emergency room.
11:30
We gotta burn it all down
*Comrade Boivin has emerged*
Metaphorically
Sad Revolution noises
It really feels like whenever you get a new job, there's a gacha system going in the background to decide who's your new boss and good bosses being a 0.001% chance drop. I recently lost my Job due to the virus, my Boss called me and said that it's only temporary, that every one of the employees, including myself, does an exemplary job, and they are only closing temporary to evade taxes during the pandemic.
so.... did you get your job back?
@@unyieldingsarcasm2505 No
@@luba5636 Sorry to here that mate.
I would like this and the GameStop segments in one video, to stand forever as a reason to piss on GameStops grave
Make a private playlist for yourself, easy. ;P
Watching Woolie get radicalized real time is fantastic. Embrace it Woolie, let the anger and injustice of it drive you.
The last time he shared this story , the gang was still together and it was on a different podcast , special good buddies cast i think.
Tbh, last time they shared the Wetnaps story was ON CSB. I think the first time was when Liam was still on, though
The fun never ends, not when Wetnaps are absent!
Funny thing. The company I work for has QA studios. I briefly talked about wetnaps and hand sanitizers to a higher up while they were visiting....Turns out now that office has GALLONS of hand sanitizers because they bought it in bulk months ago!
I am glad your higher ups made sure to be prepared.
@@GearGearRingLeader oh they didn't. Buying in bulk was just cheaper and they bought it before COVID was declared a pandemic.
I love this story every time it’s told
I've commented this before, but I want to make one full comment because it is relevant. I work nights at an adolescent behavioral rehab center in SoCal. Kids range from 13 - 17 and usually range from suicidal to rebellious, and everything in between. My company has not only decided to double our client base (despite the fact that we don't have the beds or the bathrooms), they have decided to have them go on three outings a week (surf therapy and equine therapy) and label them as "essential for client mental health", and they refuse to run therapy sessions through Telehealth.
All this because they are classified as a medical facility. Yet as a medical facility, they fail to provide staff and children alike with masks and gloves. They do the bare minimum to screen new clients and they essentially told my supervisor that he had no say in any of this.
Companies are fucking scumbags. They do not care about their people or their clientele. They just care about their bottom line and would rather see you die, than ever see a ding in their profits. If anyone is on a similar situation, I hope this post lets you know that you're not alone.
Fuck capitalism.
Companies not caring about people isn't a facet of capitalism. It's a facet of companies. You are misattributing this to capitalism when such exploitation would be present in any system.
Hobo Frodo No country has ever managed to implement true [Capitalism]. All those bastards keep perverting the true nature of [Capitalism]. In a perfect world, [Capitalism] would be the perfect system.
The story Woolie brought up about the Kidney donor is nuts. I’d *take it back*
YUP. "If I can't have my job anymore, you can't have my organ anymore. Have you ever watched Repo the Genetic Opera?"
woolz being disturbed by corporate politics is a like watching someone who is shocked that scorpion stings its prey to eat and survive.😊
I'm glad he still feels that way when he hears stories like this.
If you let yourself get hardened and you run out of outrage, they can get away with doing anything to you.
If you get stung by a scorpion, don't just go "yeah duh, that's what they do". Kill that fucking scorpion.
"I don't want you to make this out to be some 'oh poor sweet summer child, naive to the world' but..."
You're not supposed to follow that sentence with some sweet summer child, naive to the world shit. Did you think people were joking when they said that their bosses would literally work them to death? The response to hearing that some fucked up shit happens isn't "wow I didn't think this could actually happen, who would evict a doctor during a pandemic". The response is "so they killed that guy, right?"
Be wary Paterson! Believing that your anecdotal experience represents all of reality will make you in to a one dimensional comic book villain
I hope that he believes in it so much that one day 「Crazy Talk」 will make it not true.
Then everyone will have wonderful work lives
@@Abdega [ T A L K I N G I N Y O U R S L E E P ]
What the word for a company being so concerned about making more money that they actually sabotage themselves?
Bethesda
Capitalism
Jokes aside? Shortsightedness. The problem is that a CEO could WANT to be nice, but if that means the stock price goes down, the CEO gets fired. Hell, the CEO may get fired if it just doesn't grow enough. The ultra wealth people who just make their money on dividends nowadays? They aren't happy with getting a dividend. They want that stock to grow year after year in perpetuity. Eventually, the incentive is to be cutthroat. Now an argument could be made that a corporation that treated people very well would get the best talent, and would have better service and products due to having top tier employees at every level. But that's way too tough for the analysts to measure...
Natural selection
Standard.
The wetnaps were only the beginning.
I have worked full traditional retail for 5 years straight, and 1 year in "gas station" retail. My first 4 years of retail was Toys R Us. I had the same general manager the whole time and one really long serving assistant manager. They took care of us, they treated us like family. Because they knew if we didn't show up, they'd get stuck working more hours for LESS pay, because they were all salary and got 50 hours of pay every week, regardless, if they worked 80 actual hours, fuck you, 30 hours no pay. But our managers were also long standing retail managers who knew what coworker and subordinate was worth treating like family and what ones weren't. When I got my progressive promotions, I realized that too, but I always tried to be kind to my coworkers and subordinates. My hatred for customers increased as I got paid more lmao.
Pat's speaking of the one manager everyone hates, that sounds like every single fucking district manager, and especially our asset protection managers. Not just at Toys R Us, but at the other places I've worked, all big companies, but like, holy shit, those people barely even call us by our names and we have fucking name tags on. But, the "wetnaps" thing, I went out of my way over the 4 years at Toys R Us to buy the front end hand sanitizer and my electronics area santizer, and I always had a reserve hidden in my booth. I didn't want anyone getting sick because if I got sick, what if I bring it home? My mom is on oxygen, I can't bring diseases home without risking her life. She's old. For context, Pat is literally like 2 weeks older than me, so same generation, I was a late-in-life baby, so my parents are old.
On a good note, my managers often compensated me with something. Either a 5 dollar bill from their wallet or "go get some ice cream or order a pizza, I got it covered." They cared. There were so few of us that stayed and maintained the stores that we had to love one another or war would never fucking end! Though, I know Toys R Us and Babies R Us, if they were alive, would still be active in the US, cuz we sold diapers and formula, but I know, FUCKING KNOW, corporate would have told me "hey, if someone comes in from their diapers and they want the new Animal Crossing, despite it not being an essential, make the sale, electronics supervisor." Fuck.
pat is factualy correct about the nickel thing worked retail and fast food for 10 years they'll run you over if it means saving their own ass.
If there is no management staff, then they're relying on the testers self-reporting their working hours? So can't they go, punch in, go home, come back in the evening, punch out, done?
I was literally fired 3 years ago a day before my sick days reset because i took sick days off for an injury because nobody taught me how to fill out a Leave Of Absence form. I can 100% guarantee nobody above base pay in the corporate ladder gives a fuck about the people below them
Little fact check on Woolz story about the kidney lady, she wasn't laid off for giving her boss a kidney and "taking too long to recover", she was fired when she came back to work and hired an attorney to sue her boss for alleged harrassment when she returned to work.
They pulled the ole' "how dare you defend yourself employee" eh? Yeah companies like to pull that
@@manticorephoenix I don't think it's as straightforward as that but that's certainly a possibility
Yes it is a bad and I feel disgusted and angry, and I am shouting about it, but I am also tired. I understand Woolie's point of 'this is not okay, dont sandbag it' we have to acknowledge that it is not okay. But I never feel disappointed, which is how Woolie kind of describes feeling here.
It's more 'angry' than 'melancholy'.
This shit makes me thankful for the managers I have that are legitimately good people. Not a week ago I was going through some serious shit and when I nearly couldn’t take it anymore and broke down in front of my manager, they offered me all the help they could and stood by me when I was at what was probably the lowest point of my life. The corporate world needs to understand that a human life is worth more than all the money in the world. We aren’t drones, we’re real people with feelings and aspirations.
All of my bosses that I've had were pretty decent people so It's weird to hear about to this
Pray it doesn’t change
You lucky chap.
I hate how lucky you are.
@@NekoKujo6785 too rub in a little I've worked at five jobs 3 of which were in fast-food restaurants and all of my bosses were at least decent people.
God bless. I'm envious
This is the Wetnap Redemption Arc of Woolie's manga
Pat's not wrong, your retail boss with kill you for money. I used to work in a grocery store, and every moment I was there I wanted to kill myself to escape the dystopia of soulless, broken, robotic managers and customers who think they are correct when they are in fact very wrong constantly. And all that for minimum wage is literally hell on earth.
Ah dude I have a million stories from working in supported living/secure units where people are sectioned of equipment not being provided and people getting hurt because of it, fire blankets/extinguishers not being provided or maintained when people self harm by setting themselves on fire, no arm guards when people bite, no locks on doors staff doors when people try to stab/sexually assault people (we just leaned a bunch of shit over it and held it shut until they tired themselves out), pin and pagers (alarms pins on your body to call for help) being faulty and not paying to repair them etc etc, I remember when mine didn't work and i grabbed the arms of a much stronger dude who was slamming me around for like half an hour, had to direct him into slamming me into a cupboard to break it, spilling a bunch of a shit on the floor so he'd slip over so I could escape.
The perfect lag when Woolie says screenshot
Friendly reminder that Mr. Krabs sold Spongebob's soul for 62 cents.
Having worked retail, nothing here shocked me and Pat made perfect sense the entire time.
Management really would slit your throat for a nickel.
The one perk about living in a right-to-work state, where an employer can fire you at any time for any reason with no prior notice, is that you can also tell them "fuck you, I quit" and leave work with no notice and no repercussions beyond probably not getting a glowing reference in the future. The main disadvantage is that when you go to give your boss a notice out of courtesy that you'll be quitting in a few months to start school he can say "I can't pay you to work here if you're not going to stay" and fire you on the spot, which is how I left my first real job.
My boss is still mad that I have been working at home due to COVID, despite being able to do everything at home.
You might want to consider telling your boss that if you where to come in and get sick, it would be bad for where ever you work, and they could also be in legal trouble depending where you live.
@@GearGearRingLeader Ah, a good point. And you are entirely right. This brings us to the main reason so many companies are like this: most managers think all employees are deadbeat slackers who will avoid work at every opportunity. It's like the movie Office Space, they'd rather use fear of being fired as the sole motivator instead of, you know, offering incentives for doing well. Trust me, I'm in nowhere near as bad of shape as many people. I just like laughing at out of date workplace mentality like "I need to know you're working."
@@6packproductions710 The amount of managers out there with little to no understanding of what it takes to be a good manager is ridiculous, and has actually helped a coworker of mine realize he wants to go back to school to learn to be a better manager just because our supervisors are so bad, that he wants to save people from having to deal with a bad manager in the future.
reset the clock
Pat's sneeze was justified.
Spent half the video trying to work out what wetnaps were, until I realised that they were Canadian wet wipes/baby wipes/wet ones.
Every time Pat opened his mouth in this clip, it was almost like INVERTED CRAZY TALK
Most retail companies will bleed their employees dry and then wonder why none of their employees have any enthusiasm or energy, regardless of whether they're currently in a pandemic or not, all this pandemic has done is make it ever more apparent.
Pat its not shocking thats the reaction, its just disgust. Clearly its not shocking anymore that these sorts of things happen, but most moral humans like to think theres an ounce of hope in humanity and then get disgusted when they realize there isn't. And thats as someone who has never had a bad boss (yet).
I'm so fortunate to work in retail and have cool bosses
say the line woolie!
Wetnaps 2: electric boogaloo
Did somebody say
*B O O G A L O O ?*
Yo I love the wet naps saga
Pat in the Skyrim intro: First time, Woolie?
Dueling is essential to keeping scumbags in check.
11:55 literally me
im not surprised
16:11
I thought Woolie's sighs at Pat's sneezing story were wind blowing balloons in my acnh game they were so exasperated
Pat’s gut is hypnotising. It sucks you in.
Last time we had a global depression WW2 happened as a result so...This will be fun.
"Retail managers will slit your throat for five cents" is most certainly not just a pat-take. that's common knowledge lmao
it boggles my mind that Pat honestly thinks the world works the way it does in his head, poor Woolie is in a endlessly losing battle trying to be the sensible one, but in the end Pat is Goblin Brain, Woolies gonna sigh, and we're gonna laugh at the funny
I kind of wish hell existed just so the kidney woman's boss can go to it
Pat is super right. God, he's so right.
I wonder if managers will ever learn that positive reinforcement works 10x better 9/10 times and you won't be known as a piece of shit then.
Every clip from this podcast so far as involved the virus as the kick off. Corona Cast hype
I was just saying about this yesterday. Neat!
Ohshit Babel fucking up! I never tire of that one.
Remember when they screwed themselves over hard with the Nokia lab? Or the kerfuffle with the paid lunches?
Work Sucks and Jobs Are Stupid - The Finale
pats audio is fucking up again
What is up with pat's Audio these days? It seems to cut out or turn robotic constantly.
Probably because it’s basically a conference call they are doing and recording.
Previously they were in the same room, so they could record everything right then and there.
Now their conversation is happening from a couple miles away
Patron has taken over, the robot uprising is real
Internet usage is way up for some reason. A bunch of idiots are refusing to work, and are straining the bandwidth.
@@Szriko Refusing to work? You do know that like half the world is running on essential business only now right?
@@Szriko I mean, a lot of work is happening from home which would also use internet, plus working public facing jobs during an epidemic is dangerous.
Pat is starting to resemble a Mancubus.
Holy shit! Half of Italy is wiped out! How did it get this bad?!
Hey man, wetnaps
17:23
Crazy talk actually not triggering
19:01 I have to wonder, what’s the difference between a moment, and temporary moment and the suggested permanent moment
"I don't think anyone's out there thinking 'yeah i love it when people lose their jobs'"
yeah but that's what people have been programmed to expect, or at least that's the take that always rushes out the moment you cheer for any shitty company getting it
I have had managers accuse sick coworkers of faking it, then be surprised when thoose coworkers quit same day. (one literally was vomiting sick, and his girlfriend came in, handed in his nametag and shirts and told them the news ). Even if most of the time they wont force them to come in, (depending on the worker) they will still mock the person who called in sick and tell the rest of the staff they were faking it.
I also have coworkers who have already decided that they a) hope they get it now before it mutates to being worse and B) their still going to come in if they get it, cuz they aren't going to get paid to be sick at home....
2020 sneezing on someone is a crime
Full Circle moment for Woolie!
Everyone welcome woolie to the world :)
I'm on Pat's side here. I used to have a boss that would literally say I would not get paid the next day if I took a day off the prior day because I had a fucking gross flu every season.
I dont get how so many bussinesses fail to realize preventitive measures on employees getting sick or injured is worth the 30 dollar loss. Espically in the food and retail industries.
Woolz Returns to WetNaps
We really gotta get Woolie off that Neoliberal capitalism juice. It's messing with his brain.
i god i almost applied to babel but i heard these horror stories and held off.
Meanwhile, I work at a grocery store who provide steel toe boots for free or let you buy a pair yourself and reimburse the price up to 100$. My manager never shame anybody who call sick and for the remaining of the corvid problem everyone at my work get a temporary 2$ raise. Oh and they pay a security guard to sit at the entrance to force people to use hand sanitizer before entering the store. I live in a different world I guess.
8:45 YOU DO ACTUALLY, surprisingly enough when people get injured by some horrible disease they caught at work, to riff on one of Pat's own lines, Insurance premiums go up... This sort of information coming out will ruin the company one way or another.
EA absolutely doesn't wipe down work spaces after everything's said and done.
Is there a clip of the last time woolz told this story? Feels like this one was abridged but I’m not sure.
The Wetnaps Man from Wetnap Land
I am American Boy and I too know the Tierney Of lowers middle management.
It’s unbelievable the lvl of turnover in business now, you where barley respected as a worker much less a human life.......it’s not even funny the fact of how uncaring businesses are right now.