Eh you're not fooling anyone with that anymore. You need to use more buzzwords, ideally you should make up some, everyone in the meeting room will be too embarrassed to admit they have no idea what "AI-powered synergity" is so everyone will just nod like they know what you're talking about.
I love that Timmy has a specific, concise idea of what it is that they actually do but waits until they're halfway through the meeting to bother to mention it.
I'm guessing it's because you could be trusted to do a few important things, make important decisions, or ensure that your subordinates were doing what they needed to do.
@@ratinacage9306 Small business in the late 90's was the best gig I ever had. I knew a ton about computers at the time and did all the things the old dog's couldn't be bothered to figure out. I actually dropped out of college because it paid so well. In retrospect, that probably wasn't the best idea I ever had.
I work constantly and physically. A ton of people above me id casually say don’t do shit but two in particular. One is our matin encephalitis? Is auto correct stoned? Mate incessantly. I’m just laughing at this point. Mate encephalopathy. Mate everyone. These are just some of the auto corrects when trying to spell maintenance man. Fuck it, I don’t care about the point I was going to make originally. I’m still laughing, was autocorrect horny or something?
This hits close to home. I worked a job for about 7 years where my main duties were to go to meetings, write emails about meetings, sit in on meetings with other departments, and meetings about meetings. I signed an NDA not to discuss compensation, but it’s probably alright to say in my last year I made over 96,000 dollars because we went out of business. Corporate bureaucracy is lunacy.
it's actually illegal to prevent workers from discussing their compensation and benefits of course, companies don't care and will break the law if it lowers the chances of unionization happening
I used to work a tech job that had daily meetings to tell us that we weren't getting enough done. I SO badly wanted to point out the wasted hour and a half every day at the meetings.
@@Squidbush8563 Why didn't you? It's tech, one of the few jobs where you can afford to tell management to eat a D. I effectively booted management from my project, we're the only team that delivers on time.
I worked at a company where all I did was go to meetings. Our meetings had way more people in them than in this skit. It got to the point where when people asked me what I did for a living I'd say, "Go to meetings." The scary thing was the number of people that would laugh and say, "I think we work at the same place." Once, just to see if I could get away with it, I tried to go a month without saying one word in meetings. I finally gave up after successfully completing a week of silence just because I was so bored. I could have easily done a month without speaking if I hadn't gotten so bored. My next idea was to come up with incredibly ridiculous answers during meetings. That only lasted a day when a friend caught on. I too was actually able to slip away and go play golf a couple of times a month without being noticed. A group of us who were friends would cover. We'd say things like, "Oh, he/she isn't here because she's in ____________ meeting right now." Management at that place was so inept yet to this day the business continues to make piles of cash. (I left years ago.) The true insanity was when someone felt we needed to start a committee to do something, then to get that committee started, another exploratory committee would need to be started to explore feasibility of the first committee. It was that inane.
I've worked IT in offices like this before. It sounds far more fun than it is. Everyone is extremely bored and out of energy all the time. It is the closest you can get to being a shambling zombie or an NPC. Everything feels plastic and half hearted. People get exited about minor changes like new pens or a new printer. No one asks for a raise since management will flat out reject it. But few people leave since it is a job were you do nothing. If you've ever been depressed before it is like that but applied to everyone as a group instead. You get to experience stagnation in real time. It's bizarre and I wish I'd left it sooner.
Described it perfectly. This is why I keep leaving my jobs, even though I get an upper-management position at only 25 years old. I want to be fulfilled with my work, as though I'm doing something meaningful. My life has enough depression and sadness to start with. I don't need it from my employer as well.
I like to think that this is the pinnacle of achievement, and Trevor's character is the same business man you see from Sniper business, or the one with the hooker. And here he's hit his peak, and wondering what to do while he rests on his laurels of brutal business tactics.
This sketch is gold. I have a job like this-after climbing the corporate ladder and working your mind and body until you question whether or not you still have a soul, suddenly you find yourself in a position where you hold significant power, but nothing is really required from you. It’s a surreal experience, especially if you’re used to working very hard.
I was an Inventory Manager at a Harley dealership. Harley had stopped producing for a minute and we sold a ton of bikes and the economy is bad, so there was really no inventory to move and no one to sell to. I spent more time watching Unsolved Mysteries and writing a TV pilot I been working on than I did actual work.
@@bilbo_gamers6417 There are also meetings… mostly meetings about meetings, and much of the rest is sitting in on meetings you were scheduled for but really have no role in. Meetings are 4-5 hours of the workday. The rest of the productive time is crafting emails and proof reading the emails of your colleagues before firing them off… mostly emails about the stuff that didn’t get talked about in the meetings.
these are the jobs you get by being born rich where you get to sneer at people trying their hardest to get by for not working hard enough to have as much money as fell into your lap
Most new startups simply don't they burn money to get market share and then jack up the price once they've forced the competition out of business. It's called enshitification.
This sketch is one of their most underrated (they’re all underrated imo). There are numerous workplaces and jobs in America where people get paid good money to do virtually nothing. It’s hard to get rid of those jobs because that’s “where people go” and when those jobs are scrapped there’s always major backlash. It will become an even bigger problem as automation becomes a cheaper option. It’s exaggerated a bit here for comedic purposes, but conversations to this effect happen almost everyday.
Apply directly to a global firm large corporation not through indeed or ziprecruiter through their HR page directly on the company site you want to end up on their payroll directly not some contract worker which is why you go to their site directly wait a month do a followup by calling the company ask to be transferred to HR call ask to have a recruiter to reach out and voila wait three months for onboarding and you have one of "those" jobs now
That was me when I was a mid-level drone at a place like this. I used to go to a different floor to do my "business", cause you know, why foul things up on your own floor.
Actually we sold all manufacturing rights as well as advertising and the likeness if it's image to a holdings company in China. However we do own the registered trademark.
@@harrietpotter649 Well, it was the rest of the guys that revealed it was a self-inflicted, self-pleasure accident. I can't remember which episode it was. The balcony story was easier to talk about at the funeral though, I'm sure.
Darren's facial expression when Timmy brings out the dreamcatchers. 3:14 It gets me everytime. He says very very little but his acting is hilarious. That and when he's honest about doing absolutely nothing. 😂😂
I've met upper managers just like this.. except for the questioning their own worth to the company. The ones I've met always seem to have a sense of their importance... Typically, the less they do, the more important they feel they are.
I was one of them at some point in time, and started questioning the ethics of my position at one point when we had a meeting where we were supposed to decide on upping salary for staff... the meeting ended with a decision to increase yearly bonus payout to the management, no payrise for cashiers or other staff. I was the first one who quit from that position.
I like at the beginning this whole conversation is the 2nd order of business. What was the first thing, if Trevor didn't even know what they actually do?
Starting off with "Moving on to the second issue..." indicates that there was a first order of business more important than him declaring that he doesn't know what the company does, which I find to be absolutely hilarious.
this might be my favorite wkuk sketch of all time. the construction, it's delivery, the timing of it all... it's just top notch. thanks for uploading this separately.
I have in my head a copy of this sketch. Except instead of businessmen its US Generals discussing why we're still in the Middle East. We're here for the oil! -Actually we have massive reserves back home due to fracking. To kill terrorists! -We'll it seems that every time we kill one we tend to kill a few civilians and just create even more. But sir, this is where we fight! Alright, this is where we fight.
@@h.p.lovecraftscat3613 Philistines were racially cleansed out and they often sacrificed children to Baal or other bizarre god's. The area has been demonic so they birthed a con-man to spice it up.
This is essentially portraying upper management in holding and parent companeis. Holding companies don't really do anything. They just own outstanding stock in other companies.
Damn it Trevor is such a comedic genius. They are all so damned funny every one of them, but Trevor is just such a natural dominant part of the crew. I did not cry for the queen, but I did cry for Trevor.
@@frauleinhohenzollern8442 i'm broke, and don't want kids, and do my chores myself buf if you still want to be housewife i think we can manage something x)
Work for the government then. My ex had a meeting once, about how too many meetings keep the workers from doing actual work. They talked about it, made a new appointment for another meeting and went to lunch.
I used to have that, got paid for 6 months to do absolutely nothing. My boss brought his personal laptop in for me to just sit there watching movies all day. Good times.
My direct supervisor took a week vacation and I was left in charge of the lab I work at. We ran out of an important standard, so I called the big boss (which I was told to do) and was like “hey man, we ran out of X, can you get me in contact with who I need to call about getting more?” And he had no idea what I was talking about or what the standards we used even were. It was insane, dude is in charge of 5 different labs with multiple people who report to him. Has absolutely 0 idea how they operate, but has a PhD in chemical engineering
I had a great job years back, corner office and my own assistant. Worked there for a whole year and till this day I have no idea what my job actually was. Everyday I would come in have some coffee my boss would come in and talk to me about stuff that needed to be done and I just smiled and nod, I had no idea what she was talking about or how to actually do the stuff that needed to be done. My assistant would come in and hand me folders of stuff she would do and I would hand them to my boss who would smile and say excellent work. Then I would go back to my office and sit there and wait in fear everyday for someone to come in and yell at me about not doing anything she told me to do, and call me a fraud, that day never came. I quit after the company had and award dinner in my honor where they gave me an award because of how much the company had improved under my leadership. To that hard working assistant that kept me afloat thank you!!!
Here in 2022, I've been in meetings where it's clear that management are doing their utmost to prevent any decisions or conclusions from being made just so they can schedule another meeting to go over the same shit the next day. It's pretty disgusting. That aside, 2:49 I have GOT TO use this reaction from now on hahaha!
This sketch is really ahead of its time in terms of poking fun at big companies where upper management don’t really do anything but collect big paychecks.
David Graeber, Anthropologist and author of the book Bullshit Jobs: Hey man can I copy your homework? WKUK: Yeah just change it up a bit so it doesn't look obvious
*This is so true in the corporate world. It doesnt even really matter if your "work" (emails, spreadsheets, and reports) gets done or not. You barely do any real work. You're just clocking hours.*
In general, the more you know, the more you're paid. You gather more knowledge/schooling ame more experience, you keep rising in the ranks... until eventually, you don't really do anything
I came back to find this video because I watched this show in high school, and had news to share. I worked with one company for 6 years. About 4 years in and hard work into promotions- I wasn't scheduling, I wasn't tracking finances, nor was I responsible for the managers. I litteraly just drove around to different locations, pulling out my laptop to troll NBA reddit and put pressure on employees. For two years I'd written like 8 emails a week. About 5% of the time I'd need to actually help a location... coasted along for two years until a new regional manager came in and asked why I was making six figures... this is exactly how it went. Needless to say, I lost my job and stocks...
My current job is about an hour of paperwork and fielding emails, 40 minutes of inspections, and 6 hours of alternating between news, weather, and reading on my phone.
@underground videos I was just saying in response to another sketch that this is easily top 5. Someone should do a mix of all the office sketches like they’re one office.
Reminds me of a story Carl Icahn told of a company that he bought...they built railroad cars. The "headquarters" was a 10 story building with different departments occupying different floors. He said he spent several months hanging out, asking questions, talking to people...and still couldn't figure out what they all did. He said he fired almost the entire building...
This is pretty good satire haha. I think the joke is that they outsourced everything to the point where they literally have nothing to do. It’s sort of like an owner of a small business having employees that keep up daily operations, a desk worker to handle bills and other paperwork, and then a manager to keep tabs on everything and handle more important issues. At that point the owner has nothing to do besides the occasional instance where they need to sign off on something as the owner😂 just sit around and make money pretty much
Any of these would be appropriate: "I appropriately actualize action items to empower our cloud-centric solutions." "I efficiently architect applications for B2B that expand the business's mission statement." "I holistically engineer collaborative experiences." "I fabricate cross-platform ideas while utilizing optimal human capital to drive synergistic growth."
"I facilitate consistent delievery of value to the stakeholders" was one of the introduction I've encountered in the wild. Said with complete and utter seriousness.
I used to think this sketch was ridiculous… now I have a middle management job. I spend vastly more time trying to find ways to look busy so that nobody thinks I’m slacking off than I do actually doing any work. Mostly I just walk around in a purposeful manner hoping to encounter some sort of problem that I can solve.
I’ve had a job like that in a decent sized building, Idk the square footage but it was big enough you could walk from one end of offices to the other and it would take about 7-10 mins on a normal stroll. I would just linger around one area and bullshit with people, then eventually when I wanted to disengage say something vague as hell along the lines of “ah I gotta get back, I got someone waiting on something” and just walk across the building and do it again. The entire day. For months.
God damn Trevor was so ahead of his time. Fucking killed him for being too true. RIP MAN I miss you so much. I loved seeing anything you’d drop, it was like a distant cousin I truly connected with.
i want to believe the "dream catcher" joke must mean these higher-ups work at Quill Corporation, a real office supply chain which was acquired by Staples like 20 years ago, but still exists. dream catchers have feathers, so Timmy thinks Quill Corporation makes dream catchers lmao
Stg this is me at my job. I do NOT deserve to be paid even half of what I make lmao. I do maybe 2 things a day then look busy by doing _generic computer stuff_
I feel this way, too, yet things keep getting done. That mentality is like an inverse Peter Principle in which genuinely competent people never feel accomplished enough to take credit for their work.
@@capslockcapable1719 I press button on keyboard to make server go brrrrrrrrrr. Then I do that on another server to make it go brrrrr tooo. Then I take a break and maybe extend it all the way to lunch too. Then I check if any client had anything for "me" to do and assign it to someone who actually knows something about something. Later I mark down my extremely productive hours.
Criminally underrated comment. I’m just gonna have to uhh... go ahead and... like your comment. After you go ahead and uhhh add a cover sheet to your TPS reports.
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They should have said “We design and implement solutions.” Works every time.
Even though many times they get the ideas from their employees
@@demianschultz3749 That's just the system working.
@@tbobbobs7606 Nothin' to do pal
"Such as ...."
Eh you're not fooling anyone with that anymore. You need to use more buzzwords, ideally you should make up some, everyone in the meeting room will be too embarrassed to admit they have no idea what "AI-powered synergity" is so everyone will just nod like they know what you're talking about.
I love that Timmy has a specific, concise idea of what it is that they actually do but waits until they're halfway through the meeting to bother to mention it.
Halfway through the meeting, and seven years after he somehow settled on the concept.
Speaking like a true introvert.
This is so true. The more money I made at a job the less work I was actually expected to do, while the lowest paying jobs required the most effort.
Such is life.
I'm guessing it's because you could be trusted to do a few important things, make important decisions, or ensure that your subordinates were doing what they needed to do.
Sounds like a sweet gig to me. Where did you work?
@@ratinacage9306 Small business in the late 90's was the best gig I ever had. I knew a ton about computers at the time and did all the things the old dog's couldn't be bothered to figure out. I actually dropped out of college because it paid so well. In retrospect, that probably wasn't the best idea I ever had.
I work constantly and physically. A ton of people above me id casually say don’t do shit but two in particular. One is our matin encephalitis? Is auto correct stoned? Mate incessantly. I’m just laughing at this point. Mate encephalopathy. Mate everyone. These are just some of the auto corrects when trying to spell maintenance man. Fuck it, I don’t care about the point I was going to make originally. I’m still laughing, was autocorrect horny or something?
That chair swivel at 2:50 is dramatic and inspiring
...
Go on.
i was thinking the same thing. it killed me
It's perfect hahaha
it's the chair swivel and the minor pan to the left 👌🤌
yeah just went to post something like this too, so perfect
Reminds me of American Psycho and how we never see any of the business men characters do any work lol
he's in murders and executions
Them worrying about their business cards was the best.
That chair spin, lol. “Go on…”
40 hrs a week for 7 years… presents dream catcher that instantly sheds feathers
This hits close to home. I worked a job for about 7 years where my main duties were to go to meetings, write emails about meetings, sit in on meetings with other departments, and meetings about meetings. I signed an NDA not to discuss compensation, but it’s probably alright to say in my last year I made over 96,000 dollars because we went out of business. Corporate bureaucracy is lunacy.
it's actually illegal to prevent workers from discussing their compensation and benefits
of course, companies don't care and will break the law if it lowers the chances of unionization happening
I used to work a tech job that had daily meetings to tell us that we weren't getting enough done.
I SO badly wanted to point out the wasted hour and a half every day at the meetings.
@@Squidbush8563 Why didn't you? It's tech, one of the few jobs where you can afford to tell management to eat a D. I effectively booted management from my project, we're the only team that delivers on time.
@@rumble1925 Unfortunately I was 'least senior member' and expendable for layoffs so I had to keep my mouth shut to keep my job.
I worked at a company where all I did was go to meetings. Our meetings had way more people in them than in this skit. It got to the point where when people asked me what I did for a living I'd say, "Go to meetings." The scary thing was the number of people that would laugh and say, "I think we work at the same place." Once, just to see if I could get away with it, I tried to go a month without saying one word in meetings. I finally gave up after successfully completing a week of silence just because I was so bored. I could have easily done a month without speaking if I hadn't gotten so bored. My next idea was to come up with incredibly ridiculous answers during meetings. That only lasted a day when a friend caught on. I too was actually able to slip away and go play golf a couple of times a month without being noticed. A group of us who were friends would cover. We'd say things like, "Oh, he/she isn't here because she's in ____________ meeting right now." Management at that place was so inept yet to this day the business continues to make piles of cash. (I left years ago.) The true insanity was when someone felt we needed to start a committee to do something, then to get that committee started, another exploratory committee would need to be started to explore feasibility of the first committee. It was that inane.
This sketch is criminally underrated.
Agreed.
Your mom is criminally underrated.
@@mkultra2456 nice
@@luis4068 IKR? Ryan Barham's mom is awesome and nice.
@@mkultra2456 holy shit you fucking killed him dude
I love how the other characters are like "Johnson," "Matthews," "Wilson," and then there's just Timmy as "Timmy."
Trevor’s swivel at Timmy kills me everytime
Same ! It's perfect , from the stare and his pause before saying "..go on.." lol I fucking love it. I've said it exactly the same
2:45
I say that so much in a chair and they don't get the ref
I've worked IT in offices like this before. It sounds far more fun than it is. Everyone is extremely bored and out of energy all the time. It is the closest you can get to being a shambling zombie or an NPC. Everything feels plastic and half hearted. People get exited about minor changes like new pens or a new printer. No one asks for a raise since management will flat out reject it. But few people leave since it is a job were you do nothing. If you've ever been depressed before it is like that but applied to everyone as a group instead. You get to experience stagnation in real time. It's bizarre and I wish I'd left it sooner.
Jfc you just described my current tech job..
New pens are Dope!
Described it perfectly. This is why I keep leaving my jobs, even though I get an upper-management position at only 25 years old. I want to be fulfilled with my work, as though I'm doing something meaningful. My life has enough depression and sadness to start with. I don't need it from my employer as well.
I used to work in IT. Now I work with scaffolding. It sounds retarded but I prefer working with scaffolding...
@@SirNilzey Live happy, not smart. Only if the happy is at least marginally smart.
I like to think that this is the pinnacle of achievement, and Trevor's character is the same business man you see from Sniper business, or the one with the hooker. And here he's hit his peak, and wondering what to do while he rests on his laurels of brutal business tactics.
Guess his intern recovered from the sniper bullet to the eye. Good to see he's doing well and made it to upper management
@@domskillet5744 In my head, its the same intern that pooped himself in the very first meeting.
love this RIP
@@domskillet5744 he got promoted because of the ghosts
life was more excited as he clawed his way to the top of business.
This sketch is gold. I have a job like this-after climbing the corporate ladder and working your mind and body until you question whether or not you still have a soul, suddenly you find yourself in a position where you hold significant power, but nothing is really required from you. It’s a surreal experience, especially if you’re used to working very hard.
Was it worth it?
What is your company sector?
How does one get there?
@@sleepyagent Hard work and social fluency
"latter"
The fact that Timmy lost 3 Christmas' to fucking dream catchers by his own volition makes feel sick and euphoric at the same time
The man is very passionate about dream catchers, for some reason
That's all on my man Tim though. Mr. "I've been meaning to ask when we're pitching our ideas for 7 years now", lol.
There is a book called "bullsh*t jobs" that explains how prevalent this situation really is
Middle managers in the era of remote work trying to justify the existence of their positions be like:
I was an Inventory Manager at a Harley dealership. Harley had stopped producing for a minute and we sold a ton of bikes and the economy is bad, so there was really no inventory to move and no one to sell to. I spent more time watching Unsolved Mysteries and writing a TV pilot I been working on than I did actual work.
Did your pilot get picked up?
@@thedungeondelver have you heard of Sons of Anarchy?
@@dspsblyuthHAHAHAHAHA
This is my dream job.
I also hate working lol
this is most upper management jobs
@@bilbo_gamers6417 There are also meetings… mostly meetings about meetings, and much of the rest is sitting in on meetings you were scheduled for but really have no role in. Meetings are 4-5 hours of the workday. The rest of the productive time is crafting emails and proof reading the emails of your colleagues before firing them off… mostly emails about the stuff that didn’t get talked about in the meetings.
these are the jobs you get by being born rich where you get to sneer at people trying their hardest to get by for not working hard enough to have as much money as fell into your lap
I have actually had a meeting like this. I stood up and asked "how does this company make money"...nobody had any idea
Lemme guess, big tech lol.
@@destubae3271 Yup!
Thats what I asked when MoviePass came out.
Turns out they didn't.
Most new startups simply don't they burn money to get market share and then jack up the price once they've forced the competition out of business. It's called enshitification.
I legit think 80% of my job is being a tall white guy that dresses nicely and knows a lot of big technical words so that my boss can show me off
what is your official job title?
That’s exactly how I feel 😂
@@tomlxyz web developer
Timmy's office is probably full of dream catchers and no one ever questioned him on why.
This sketch is one of their most underrated (they’re all underrated imo). There are numerous workplaces and jobs in America where people get paid good money to do virtually nothing. It’s hard to get rid of those jobs because that’s “where people go” and when those jobs are scrapped there’s always major backlash. It will become an even bigger problem as automation becomes a cheaper option. It’s exaggerated a bit here for comedic purposes, but conversations to this effect happen almost everyday.
Please tell me how I can get such a job
@@cormacfinn6430 apply at your local government agencies
Apply directly to a global firm large corporation not through indeed or ziprecruiter through their HR page directly on the company site you want to end up on their payroll directly not some contract worker which is why you go to their site directly wait a month do a followup by calling the company ask to be transferred to HR call ask to have a recruiter to reach out and voila wait three months for onboarding and you have one of "those" jobs now
@@coscanoe your comment is criminaly underrated and the government is laughably inept.
Pandemic kinda changed that. Remote work is all the rage these days
I don’t know if I’m just drunk but “I tend to take a shit after lunch” is the funniest line on the planet to me right now
The follow-up "Mmm" in agreement is the best
This entire sketch is gold
Best line in the sketch, along with Wilson's going 👌*thbbbtt*
That was me when I was a mid-level drone at a place like this. I used to go to a different floor to do my "business", cause you know, why foul things up on your own floor.
Started as corporate satire, ended up as an existential crisis in a boardroom.
Oooft.
After the dreamcatchers line trevor turns to timmy so aggressively it made me laugh so damn hard
It made me realize that practicing dramatic swivels is a key part of positioning myself to become upper management material
You gotta admire Wilson's honesty and straightforwardness.
trevor carries this entire sketch. he acts this so perfectly and beautifully. hilarious. rip
I've been at jobs like this before, we used to call it "walking with a wrench", because you just need to look busy and no one will question you.
Sounds like they just own the rights to the stapler.
Sounds like hard work to me. Definetly deserves a couple million dollars a year
Actually we sold all manufacturing rights as well as advertising and the likeness if it's image to a holdings company in China. However we do own the registered trademark.
We leverage component synergies and maximize efficiency through lean sigma six implementation.
All black belts, yes
Jack Donaghy speak
"Well...let's go back to whatever". RIP Mr. Trevor Moore and thank you.
_"RIP Mr. Trevor Moore"_
WHAT??
@@harrietpotter649 Yeah, he died in a masturbatory accident months ago (it was talked about on their podcast).
@@godlyobject6509 lol Wikipedia says he fell off a balcony. One of you is lying...
@@harrietpotter649 Well, it was the rest of the guys that revealed it was a self-inflicted, self-pleasure accident. I can't remember which episode it was. The balcony story was easier to talk about at the funeral though, I'm sure.
@@godlyobject6509 Jesus. Are you serious?
Darren's facial expression when Timmy brings out the dreamcatchers. 3:14 It gets me everytime. He says very very little but his acting is hilarious. That and when he's honest about doing absolutely nothing. 😂😂
I've met upper managers just like this.. except for the questioning their own worth to the company. The ones I've met always seem to have a sense of their importance... Typically, the less they do, the more important they feel they are.
I was one of them at some point in time, and started questioning the ethics of my position at one point when we had a meeting where we were supposed to decide on upping salary for staff... the meeting ended with a decision to increase yearly bonus payout to the management, no payrise for cashiers or other staff.
I was the first one who quit from that position.
I love how he refers to them all by their last names except for Timmy.
I like at the beginning this whole conversation is the 2nd order of business. What was the first thing, if Trevor didn't even know what they actually do?
Roll call
Every week, I only do 15 minutes of actual solid work...
Starting off with "Moving on to the second issue..." indicates that there was a first order of business more important than him declaring that he doesn't know what the company does, which I find to be absolutely hilarious.
this might be my favorite wkuk sketch of all time. the construction, it's delivery, the timing of it all... it's just top notch. thanks for uploading this separately.
I have in my head a copy of this sketch. Except instead of businessmen its US Generals discussing why we're still in the Middle East.
We're here for the oil!
-Actually we have massive reserves back home due to fracking.
To kill terrorists!
-We'll it seems that every time we kill one we tend to kill a few civilians and just create even more.
But sir, this is where we fight!
Alright, this is where we fight.
That's unfortunatelly us humans, we search power because we don't trust each other
We're here for Israel, our greatest ally™
Israel.
@@h.p.lovecraftscat3613 god damn Israel
@@h.p.lovecraftscat3613 Philistines were racially cleansed out and they often sacrificed children to Baal or other bizarre god's. The area has been demonic so they birthed a con-man to spice it up.
I feel like this was could have been an outtake from American Psycho.
Are there actually people high up enough in a company where this is their day-to-day life?
Yes
This is essentially portraying upper management in holding and parent companeis. Holding companies don't really do anything. They just own outstanding stock in other companies.
@@rohancooray194 Now…how exactly does one get into these companies?
@@rohancooray194 yes I am also wondering how to get into said company
Have you tried being an algorithm?
They should have called someone in and asked them really nonsensical questions. That's what most offices do to kill time.
Just now realizing that everyone has fake business men names but timmy is just "timmy" lmfao
Damn it Trevor is such a comedic genius. They are all so damned funny every one of them, but Trevor is just such a natural dominant part of the crew. I did not cry for the queen, but I did cry for Trevor.
i love this skit because at this point, i fantasize over a job like this. it’s just the place that i go to, to shit and take smoke breaks 🙏
Can I be your housewife?! I've always wanted to be a housewife 😊
@@frauleinhohenzollern8442 Nice try bro
@@frauleinhohenzollern8442 i'm broke, and don't want kids, and do my chores myself buf if you still want to be housewife i think we can manage something x)
Work for the government then. My ex had a meeting once, about how too many meetings keep the workers from doing actual work. They talked about it, made a new appointment for another meeting and went to lunch.
I used to have that, got paid for 6 months to do absolutely nothing. My boss brought his personal laptop in for me to just sit there watching movies all day. Good times.
I work at an investment firm and this is what we are paid for.
"I want to have no job, or a job that looks from a distance like I do nothing" - Troy Barnes
This is essentially how every company is after about 10-15 mergers...
At this point that's literally every company in America.
My direct supervisor took a week vacation and I was left in charge of the lab I work at. We ran out of an important standard, so I called the big boss (which I was told to do) and was like “hey man, we ran out of X, can you get me in contact with who I need to call about getting more?” And he had no idea what I was talking about or what the standards we used even were. It was insane, dude is in charge of 5 different labs with multiple people who report to him. Has absolutely 0 idea how they operate, but has a PhD in chemical engineering
@@stealthyturtles Teddy Roosevelt would have a heart attack if he saw the state of things today...
I like that 7 years of effort has gotten Timmy to the point of presenting a poorly constructed dream catcher that falls apart when he moves it.
That's why he had to come in on Christmas 3 times. He needs more work.
I had a great job years back, corner office and my own assistant. Worked there for a whole year and till this day I have no idea what my job actually was. Everyday I would come in have some coffee my boss would come in and talk to me about stuff that needed to be done and I just smiled and nod, I had no idea what she was talking about or how to actually do the stuff that needed to be done. My assistant would come in and hand me folders of stuff she would do and I would hand them to my boss who would smile and say excellent work. Then I would go back to my office and sit there and wait in fear everyday for someone to come in and yell at me about not doing anything she told me to do, and call me a fraud, that day never came. I quit after the company had and award dinner in my honor where they gave me an award because of how much the company had improved under my leadership. To that hard working assistant that kept me afloat thank you!!!
Still can’t believe Zach made Barbarian. Comedy guys really are good at horror.
what?
Here in 2022, I've been in meetings where it's clear that management are doing their utmost to prevent any decisions or conclusions from being made just so they can schedule another meeting to go over the same shit the next day. It's pretty disgusting. That aside, 2:49 I have GOT TO use this reaction from now on hahaha!
Funnily enough that's what i also have witnessed and i don't work in upper Management
I feel like this skit played out in ppl's heads throughout the world when they started WFH
WEF?
@@manictiger work from home
@@LOgomon20
Ohhh, okay.
Perfect representation of ceo, cfo, and rest of board members.
Darren’s “ppptttt” gets me every time.
My career in project management for the last 12 years has felt exactly like this.
What exactly is it that you do here?
@@manhattannewyork-fr5pd 'holds up hand with a zero gesture' *PFFFFFFTH*
The Twitter Managers schedule.
something subtly hilarious is how this is the second topic of the meeting.
This sketch is really ahead of its time in terms of poking fun at big companies where upper management don’t really do anything but collect big paychecks.
David Graeber, Anthropologist and author of the book Bullshit Jobs: Hey man can I copy your homework?
WKUK: Yeah just change it up a bit so it doesn't look obvious
*This is so true in the corporate world. It doesnt even really matter if your "work" (emails, spreadsheets, and reports) gets done or not. You barely do any real work. You're just clocking hours.*
In general, the more you know, the more you're paid. You gather more knowledge/schooling ame more experience, you keep rising in the ranks... until eventually, you don't really do anything
RIP Trevor Moore
I came back to find this video because I watched this show in high school, and had news to share.
I worked with one company for 6 years. About 4 years in and hard work into promotions- I wasn't scheduling, I wasn't tracking finances, nor was I responsible for the managers. I litteraly just drove around to different locations, pulling out my laptop to troll NBA reddit and put pressure on employees. For two years I'd written like 8 emails a week. About 5% of the time I'd need to actually help a location... coasted along for two years until a new regional manager came in and asked why I was making six figures... this is exactly how it went.
Needless to say, I lost my job and stocks...
The irony is that this is the ideal business arrangement. They arrange things so that the machine runs itself.
I had a job like this for a while. I miss it every day. Somedays I do miss being a brain surgeon.
My current job is about an hour of paperwork and fielding emails, 40 minutes of inspections, and 6 hours of alternating between news, weather, and reading on my phone.
Nobody has anything to Say about this genius skit?
@underground videos I was just saying in response to another sketch that this is easily top 5. Someone should do a mix of all the office sketches like they’re one office.
Seriously though my friends and I all love WKUK and somehow this one never comes up. I def always remember it though, so hilarious 🔥
Did you read the previous comments?
Are you dense?
Reminds me of a story Carl Icahn told of a company that he bought...they built railroad cars. The "headquarters" was a 10 story building with different departments occupying different floors. He said he spent several months hanging out, asking questions, talking to people...and still couldn't figure out what they all did.
He said he fired almost the entire building...
Did this come out before or after Office Space with the "What exactly would you say...YA DO HERE?" scene.
This is pretty good satire haha. I think the joke is that they outsourced everything to the point where they literally have nothing to do. It’s sort of like an owner of a small business having employees that keep up daily operations, a desk worker to handle bills and other paperwork, and then a manager to keep tabs on everything and handle more important issues. At that point the owner has nothing to do besides the occasional instance where they need to sign off on something as the owner😂 just sit around and make money pretty much
seems like a rational basis for the economy
I worked for Office Depot headquarters for a while. Literally 90% of the "work" they did was just looking busy.
IMO looking busy is more work than just being busy. In fact, it's exhausting.
@@YFZriderdude15 Nah, just pick up a folder or a laptop and walk around the office.
2:34 kills me everytime. "read anything good while you were there?"
2:48 that swivel XD
If Trevor were here we'd get a part two to this sketch where they are all in a Zoom meeting from their homes.
Any of these would be appropriate:
"I appropriately actualize action items to empower our cloud-centric solutions."
"I efficiently architect applications for B2B that expand the business's mission statement."
"I holistically engineer collaborative experiences."
"I fabricate cross-platform ideas while utilizing optimal human capital to drive synergistic growth."
Lol.
"I facilitate consistent delievery of value to the stakeholders" was one of the introduction I've encountered in the wild. Said with complete and utter seriousness.
@@blackplaydoh3522 My response would have been, "go on..." 😄
That chair swivel at 02:49 cracked me up. 😂🤣
I used to think this sketch was ridiculous… now I have a middle management job.
I spend vastly more time trying to find ways to look busy so that nobody thinks I’m slacking off than I do actually doing any work.
Mostly I just walk around in a purposeful manner hoping to encounter some sort of problem that I can solve.
I’ve had a job like that in a decent sized building, Idk the square footage but it was big enough you could walk from one end of offices to the other and it would take about 7-10 mins on a normal stroll. I would just linger around one area and bullshit with people, then eventually when I wanted to disengage say something vague as hell along the lines of “ah I gotta get back, I got someone waiting on something” and just walk across the building and do it again. The entire day. For months.
"go on" 🤣
And right before that, the genius way he turns the chair to pay attention, Trevor was so talented
@@demianschultz3749 I am truly gonna miss that guy
@@perfectionbox We are many :(
“Everybody back to whatever”
“Imma have a cigarette”
Bruce misses me!
Being owner of that company is my dream.
Probably my favorite wkuk sketch
I like how Darren wasn't even paying attention lol.
Worst thing is this could be one of my meetings. Everybody knows it but nobody says it out loud.
God damn Trevor was so ahead of his time. Fucking killed him for being too true. RIP MAN I miss you so much. I loved seeing anything you’d drop, it was like a distant cousin I truly connected with.
i want to believe the "dream catcher" joke must mean these higher-ups work at Quill Corporation, a real office supply chain which was acquired by Staples like 20 years ago, but still exists. dream catchers have feathers, so Timmy thinks Quill Corporation makes dream catchers lmao
This is the perfect representation of Twitter in 2022.
Bro Darren's acting is so funny
Timmy is the only one who is called by his real name
God thanks I looked for this one on its own for so long I had given up.
Then I think you would have found it in your likes list
Every single time. *Swerve*..... Go on..... is just gold.. also 40 a week for 7 years. Kills me
"back to whatever" has become my ceremonies end to each cigarette break at work lol
"No, I don't really read anything. I just kind of... sit on the sofas..."
The quick swivel was well done.
Elon’s first day at Twitter.
Stg this is me at my job. I do NOT deserve to be paid even half of what I make lmao. I do maybe 2 things a day then look busy by doing _generic computer stuff_
I feel this way, too, yet things keep getting done. That mentality is like an inverse Peter Principle in which genuinely competent people never feel accomplished enough to take credit for their work.
@@capslockcapable1719 I press button on keyboard to make server go brrrrrrrrrr. Then I do that on another server to make it go brrrrr tooo. Then I take a break and maybe extend it all the way to lunch too. Then I check if any client had anything for "me" to do and assign it to someone who actually knows something about something. Later I mark down my extremely productive hours.
He worked on it for 7 years -
The dream catcher falls apart the second he picks it up
WKUK is agit prop and it was wayyyyy ahead of it’s time.
They probably designed the Swingline stapler that Bill Lumbergh keeps taking from Milton.
Criminally underrated comment. I’m just gonna have to uhh... go ahead and... like your comment. After you go ahead and uhhh add a cover sheet to your TPS reports.