CORPORATE CRINGE - Employees are BRAGGING about returning to the office?!?
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"The people excited about returning to the office are the reason why the rest of us want to keep working from home."
BINGO!!!! PREACHHHHHH
🤩😂 Goddamn.
Exactly.
Spot on
So very much this...
I wonder if they even realize it?
Our boss asked us in chat if we ever wanted to return to the office and 95% of people said no lol
That's awesome!
Okay, gotta ask: What are you guys planning to do to the 5%?
🤣🤣🤣🤣. That's some real talk.
@@peterson88keyz Gotta get rid of them, of course.
This I believe is exactly why these companies are in such desperate mode to get people back, I think hope this nonsense brainwashing tactics are losing the game and narrative. but the machine men with machine minds are relentless, it's all about control of their perfect mindless salves.
"I don't want a game room and a slide.... I want more money!" - Felt that!
They treat you like children to save money. Don't buy their bullcrap state your worth and find a new job if they aren't willing to pay up.
Facts.. won't say never, just in case, but I don't plan on working from someone else's playpen for a LONNNNG time..
Game room but they don't allow you to play any games because it "Distracts you from work", then what's the point of having a game room?
To buy me free for good.
Or go home 1 hour earlier for the same money, so you can play video games at home.
I actually get fatter being back in the office. Junk food and the commute back and forth tires me at times from working out. Without the commute I have those 2 hours back and energy to work out at my home
The lady who made that comment is fat either way, she just uses office life as an excuse because she's too busy not to eat starbucks every day. When she's at home she has no one but herself to blame for binging in the pantry.
@@codmott286 She has no sense of self control which explains why she needs some one to control her at the office
Likewise man.
My thoughts exactly!
In my previous job I was working from home every day. Didn't realize just how good I had it until I got a new job where I have to waste several hours each day getting to the office and home again.
When I was at home I could prepare a good healthy meal, straight from the fridge. Now I'm so wasted when I get home that I end up eating junkfood or freezer-to-oven meals most days. And where I used to have energy to take a good long walk after work, now I find myself in an almost catatonic state on the couch. And where I could control what sweets I ate before, now I have to really force myself to stay away from all the cake and junkfood eaten by my co-workers.
@@BrickworksDK Yep. I am currently stuck in a hybrid environment. At the office? Trip a subway for lunch. At home? I make a fresh homemade egg sandwich and eat like half the volume of anything deli prepared. I wont even eat until lunch when I'm at home, whereas at the office i'm microwaving a burrito as soon as I sit down at my desk.
Its funny that these people are excited to have human interaction at work, yet non of these people will hang out with any of their coworkers after work.
well to be fair, how much can you trust your co-workers to not air your secret at work.
Infact most of them hate each other...
I don't get it. No human interaction is far better than human interaction with humans who will take any opportunity to screw you over.
@@eitkoml It's just phony, manipulation. Who wants to be a workaholic for a company that is not yours. Let me do what I am paid to do. It does not mean that I won't be professional or happy some days, but don't tell to smile when I am not happy, it's coercion.
Most people are fake.
As Josh points out in vids “ Boomer” isn’t about age, it’s about mindset. Some “old geezers” are the most innovative coolest folks
As a near geezer myself, I find my mindset all along is much more aligned with what I am seeing now and how 'young people' approach their jobs today vs. 20 years ago. I never fit in with that bullshit, I am much more aligned with what is going on now. Finally, my peeps have arrived. They see the bs for what it is and probably saw their parents screwed over in a job so they distrust the entire false premise that working like a slave for a corporation that has no loyalty to you is how you succeed in life. No. How you succeed in life is not being beholden to any job, any situation and to keep your options open at all times. Don't get hung up on fancy cars, fancy gadgets or job titles so you can bounce at a moment's notice. That is the ultimate freedom. You are only on this planet for a short time. Don't spend it indoors under harsh florescent lights.
@@vooo1314 Agree w/ you- all good points... Key word is to be FLUID... to pivot well, to manage changes in technologies, not to get too awe-struck by corp benefits and the bs that accompanies it. Doing that while enjoying and thriving on the mental challenges = a good life [well, there needs to be some good relationships, sleep, running quality nutrition, and calm time too LOL]
True
Baby boomer is a particular generation and boomers are their kids
@@philcooper9225 I suppose it is the first generation after WW2. So technically it should be people born between around 1950 and maybe late 1970s.
Most employees are sheep who have no lives outside of work. Sad existence. Live for yourself. Live with passion.
Exactly. I work to live, but my true career and passion is showbiz. I’ve left jobs to pursue my performances if there’s a schedule conflict.
@shah lmaoooo good comment
That's definitely not true but most people don't think about this stuff so much.
Our company said we are keeping remote forever. We have been more productive and they have saved a shitload on not having the office open.
As an introvert, these people are a nightmare. Not everyone wants to have interactions with coworkers or having to drive everyday, wasting time on the way to work, time you could have had an extra hour of sleep for or time to get a breakfast.
They complained about being distracted by laundry, the dishes or the fridge, but don’t mind doing the same having “casual conversation” (i.e. gossip and palace intrigue).
It's a sad person who dislikes their weekends, wants to go back to the office on Mondays, and wants to drag others into the office on Mondays because the power over others is the best thing they have in their life.
I think it has a lot to do with people identifying too much with their work and feeling a weekend emptyness. Since they are no longer preoccupied with work they can lack a type of meaning driving them through the week. Thank god I left workaholism behind me and know how to use my time, and got purpose outside of work.
But yeah don't drag others into it, not for everyone work is their life and they should realise that.
@asdrubale bisanzio Corporate simps who do this stuff yet have no power are even more pathetic.
Wish i could like your comment more than once. My office is working remotely but a few of the older members of staff are saying they want to go back to the office. How s**t must your life be if you have no other human interaction but your work colleagues. I would rather have the comfort of my own house, no commute and no travel costs. If you want to go to the office, you f**ked up your life.
It is very sad, I know multiple people who hate their married family life and would rather spend as much time as they can away from home.
Power is given by consent.
As English is not my first language, I didn't know what "Cringe" meant. Thanks to your video I now fully understand.
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That feeling you get when someone cuts down a tree and it lands on their car. 10% Schadenfreude 90% “I can’t watch anymore.”
😂😂
Some people don't have a life and all they have is going to the office. Screw that 😒
Sadly is not some... is most.
I have a rather tame life and still don't want to go to an office lol.
jup, at least at the boomer level
"Some people" don't have the luxury of risking their jobs being lost to automation.
Shit, I don't have a life and I'd still rather sit at home.
On my HR message boards, people are trying to source ideas on how to make returning to the office 'fun' and it's so cringe. One person said they are decorating with streamers and balloons and calling it 'homecoming'. I call it sad.
@Boy George Yep. That and they hate their families and/or like the power they have at work knowing that they are irrelevant everywhere else on the planet
"How to make returning to the office fun!"
Step#1 Don't make me return to the office.
Step#2 If I put one foot in that office again, I will viciously look for a different job that will allow me to work from home!
"FUN"!
It’s just people sucking as much ass as they can to “climb” and too scared to venture out of their own box. Depending on someone else to notice their potential. Shame shame.
It’s mostly mid-level managers who realize how irrelevant their role is.
If you tell HR you think it's sad they will take that extremely personally and try their hardest to rip your contract up
Let's be honest, the reason these people want to go back to work is because they lack social lives and don't have any friends.
And the reason they don't have a social life of friends is because they've consented to have been voluntarily imprisoned by their employment working longer hours than they probably should have.
I on the other hand don't have a social life because I choose to spend my time being productive in other ways.
I'm neither productive nor do I have a social life.
RIP
They just want to look good for their company. Called corporate simps.
I have no friends or social but I still rather be home
My employer is planning on bringing us back in October. I'm hoping I can find a new job before then. I have no desire to commute ever again.
Same here, working on upping my AWS to be remote DevOps. 3 hour commute is a no go.
Exactly the same, supposedly we were returning in September, but since the CDC doesn't give a sh*t, now it may be sooner. on July It'll be 1 year since I joined the current company I work for. So after that I am absolutely looking for something else. Honestly the quality of life when commuting is garbage, wasting time that I could have spent getting more rest, or calmly eating breakfast, the chances of deadly accidents increase unnecessarily, I'd be polluting by driving, I may get my kid sick if I catch this stupid virus. So honestly I do myself, my family and the earth a favor by not going into the office.
I told my boss I was feeling burnt out. He said a lot of people are and the answer is heading back to the office. He said he's ready. I didn't really say a lot but I have now found a new job that I start soon.
@@sarahpoindexter5718 Oh wow. Congratulations! 🥳🎉✨ Dang, you’re smooth with yours. 😉😁 He’s probably gonna feel so betrayed when he finds out. 😂😁 Congrats again!
L😂L
The commute is honestly the main reason I'm not interested in going back to work. I have a few reasons but that's the main one, Boston traffic is no joke so I'm also keeping an eye out for closer or remote jobs.
I mean I can get why people can enjoy being in the office sometimes. It's a different environment and it makes a better differentiation between work and being home. I wouldn't have anything against going 1-2 days a week in the office and staying the rest at home, given that the office I work at has separate rooms for each team, instead of this open office bs. But I agree... linkedin is a clownsfest. They're pretending to be so excited just to look good for their employers.
Ps: that clipping yourself in the beanbag was hilarious. That office is a joke.
Sometimes you need that difference but only if you can focus properly in that environment and are paid good
@@englishgate638 Yes if your office does not promote productivity but rather just promote looking busy, then it's bs.
Covid-19 was the greatest thing to ever happen to introverts, traffic, parking, nature, and the work/life balance. I miss 2020 already.
I appreciate that you keep moving yourself from screen to screen as you're talking about the different offices.
Its hilarious
josh isn't real. he's been a 3D rendered AI this entire time.
*surprise pikachu face*
Imagine your at work and josh suddenly appears talking to you on the tv or monitor
A+ editing
Yes my home office sucks compared to our office building, I don't care. Eliminating the commute, the frustration of traffic and stupid people is well worth it. Working from home has always been great and I'm not going back to a stupid office.
Plus the gasoline savings, a LOT less wear and tear on my car, ...
My company permanently closed down most of its offices. But they've been really flexible about work-from-home for years. I wouldn't consider a position that wasn't work-from-home at this point.
"Where's Josh?"
"Oh, he's going down the slide again"
🤣🤣🤣🤣 FFS that killed me.
I can't understand why people love the office environment? I guess people just want to feel important and better than others because they work at a corporate office. smh
Sad people.
I can only speak from my own perspective, but being able to go to the office meant time away from the abusive and toxic environment I was living in with my old roommates. At times, I’m surprised by Josh not thinking of that, considering his own past.
Like the one guy who said his only alone time is on the commute. “Sounds like you have a lack of boundaries.” What if your boundaries aren’t respected? What if that person is non-confrontational?
I’m not big on working from the office and some people have very cringe reasons, but some people need to escape home and it feels cruel at times to mock them
Ah sweet, the gridlock and packed subway trains we were all waiting for
How I've missed the enchanting choir of coughs that accompanies such an environment 🤦🏻♂️
I have been working at home for over a year and have no desire to return to the office setting.
you green-screening yourself onto the monitors made me LOL
That... opening 😂😭
High quality editing
Lol savage
Reminded me of Resident Evil 3 (movie) Joshua Wesker
I freaked out 😂😸
ikr 😂😂 the corporate simps will be so triggered if they saw it
"Casual conversation in the office". yeah right. Every time I start a casual conversation at work, I got told to go back to work
😂😂😂😂
Damn! Are they nickle and diming you now? Sheesh! lol
If it's a salary position, you won't tell me that. And if it's hourly, you better be paying me top dollar 'cause if not I'll tell you off. You ain't sonning me. lol
I've had jobs like that, never again.
If you were a middle manager then talking bollocks would be your job
Yup
The frame at the start is perfect lol
Deadass was not expecting that. I'm loving it
It really was though
Regarding "pandemic pounds", I lost weight during the pandemic because catered office lunches and snacks put on the pounds.
They usually buy the most carb loaded stuff too
I maintained my weight until early this month when I got chicken pox and dropped 5lb, now I'm the same weight I was in 2012.
Weight management is freaking easy.
@@deanchur weight management is easy with education. I can control my weight by controlling carbs and insulin spikes bc I’m insulin resistant. The office foods are carb heavy and cheap which is a no for my body.
I took lots of walks around our quiet neighborhood.
@@kepstein8888 same here
They are conditioned to love their own bondage
If you don’t, you are not a hard enough worker according to them
@@paprika8d9 Facts! I was called lazy for not breaking my neck on a project without extra pay
"Grow 1% every day" I have no problem with that but i expect to be paid adequately, so ill have a 1% pay rise everyday to coincide with my growth.
Oooooh, compounding! I'll be a billionaire in no time
I feel deeply sorry for the people who are impressed by a game room, a slide, and some food. How much are they paid to not be able to have all that at home? Simping so much and still being paid a misery is pathetic.
Imagine if your company still had a more formal dress code and then added the slide. I think going down a plastic pieced-together slide in a suit is probably a good way to lose the suit lol
You have to equip a propeller hat to protect the suit. Wearing it 24/7 and going bald is a sign of experience & wisdom
also a good way to get 1000 static shocks.
Sooo, they're ditching human beings at home because they want human interaction at work?! The ones at their homes presumably love them while their coworkers could give to craps about them. Loved ones give you kisses and hugs while coworkers give you sharpies and potluck food made by the secret hoarder--cat lady. Total weirdos.
That's because they have no one at home.
@@visancosmin8991 Yeah that's so sad. But having no one is better than being around toxic someones. But to some people that's not the case. I say, just let those folks go into the office and let the introverts stay home.
These insertions are really funny 😄 , although on an article's white background I think it'd look better at the bottom.
Hey Josh I hope everything is ok since you took the last video down. Just wanted to say that your content really helps me in my transition out of the corporate world! Thank you for what you are doing.
Yeah what happened to the wheelen video?
These people really simp for the system that exploits them🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
These people are low value and their mindset is that of a sheep
yeah, sums it up perfectly. Sad
and then they go home to their wives and the simping continues
The sharpie must be for sniffing. It's the only way to enjoy yourself at the office.
Fuck yea dood.
@@PVCFloobos For that hood kindergarten experience lmao
The sharpie is not nearly strong enough to offset this shit 🤣
Dude that last one... Had my ass cracking up. When your entire identity is your job, you are literally the most boring person in the room.
- where's Josh?
- he's going down the slide again
jees man :) :) :)
He's getting his money's worth!
im fucking dying laughing
Talks about distractions, what about those loud bells they have at work that say "CONGRATULATIONS WE MADE 1 MILLION DOLLARS, YOU AREN'T GETTING A DIME AND YOU ARE GETTING FIRED NEXT WEEK BY EMAIL"
😩🤣🤣
I like how the beautiful view at the office is a path to nowhere. Seems reminiscent of what corporate life is like.
Imagine having such a miserable life that your commute to work is a positive. Wtf lol
glad when I started my new job, the company already recognized how the tech dept was more productive at home and will likely keep it. Perks? I can visit family whenever and stay for more than a weekend while working with a laptop. And I got approved that I could move to Michigan without any problems since my bf got an engineering job there (he'll have to go to the office occasionally to test machinery), no more having to choose between your own career or following your partner.
My company has a games room with a few PS5's but it's pretty pointless. The vast majority of the time they are empty then then there's a crowd at lunch all trying to get a game in. They could all be working from home and with a tiny bit of co-ordination play online together whenever was most convenient. 95% of the people that play in the office have their own console at home. Company should save the money and GIVE EVERYONE A BIT MORE OF A PAY RISE! When will they fkin learn that the vast majority of people work because they have to so if they do a good job the company should pay them a bit more to retain them longer. So many companies have really high staff churn rates because they waste time and money on dumb social projects and silly gifts nobody wants.
Thank god I do commercial cleaning and there are no cringe meetings XD
In the meantime why not record some live streams to showcase how you neutralise filth , mate ? 😅😃
Bruh... all of your videos tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
This gives me cringe chills. I hope my work remains remote
you have 0 obligations to stay there. If they make you come - switch. Don't play their games.
Literally lol-ing each time you crop yourself into the frame 😆 nice touch
the only nice thing about the view is that it leads away from the office
I normally listen to your videos as podcasts but kept stopping to watch this one with the moving face, loved it
Big oofs for these sad sad people
I never had the option to work from home, I've been in the office since the beginning. In fact I had only two days and we my other coworker had to beg for those days.
What company is that so we can avoid it?
"Well the government pays me to stay home, but did you see the view from that office?!?"
Hahahaha
These people scare me that want to go back to the office full time. No thanks, I will clutch on to WFH as long as I can.
maybe they want people back in the buildings as a tax incentive like they can write it off , the power bill and other utilities, etc. ....maybe that's part of the reason they want people back in the office, not saying I agree, i don't, if you can do the job at home what's the problem.
"It's my birthday! Can't wait to clock in"
20 years in IT. If my company ask me to return to the office I am quitting… I’ll rather drive truck that go back…
All to compensate for their leadership's inability to interact with employees without becoming toxic.
I love how josh shows the misuse of back to office, I know from my finance roles being at work in sometime required or much easier to perfrom all or some tasks but this is a great example of why not to attend the office if you could do it at home. love your work josh.
Josh putting his face on their monitor is SENDING MEEEEE
I hope they see it too 😂😂 knowing the corporate ego they will get extremely butthurt and try and cancel him
These people are genuinely happy because in most cases they work in middle management, no core skill... thus nothing to actually do at home. They miss there lunch buddies. Meanwhile designers and developers continue to beg to work from home.
2:16 i laughed when i saw the beanbag. thought that beanbag room looks like the time-out space one of my teachers had set up in the classroom where everyone can walk by and judge you. unless you're going in with a friend, it kind of feels embarrassing. should adults really be ok with being treated like this?
Absolutely not
Ironically I made it to the second (out of third round) of interviews for click up and yea basically a nightmare. The guy that interviewed me had basically said no one works under 60 hours there and the pay was only 60k in LA.
"I don't want a game room. I want more money." Yup, that's pretty much it. And to be left alone to do my job I'd add (which I have an easier time doing when I work from home). You give me the money and I choose the entertainment that I enjoy.
"I don't want a game room and a slide.... I want more money!" dude if the fr just DIDN'T PAY FOR AN OFFICE and used that budget to pay their workers more EVERYONE would be x100 happier with that company.
Well, those "distractions" at home really add up. If you take 5-10 minutes to do a quick load of laundry, by end day you are free to be a coach potato because you already finished your chores :D
These green screen puns are amazing, I love you man.
I love the conference room intro! A great reminder of where I never want to be again!
Was about to commute to work but Josh uploaded
The sheep are heading back as directed by their corporate herders.
Thanks Josh! Took the words right out of my mouth!
Office culture exists whether or not you're working remotely. Work is work, and remote work is less personal.
Have you deleted your last videos? What’s happened? :(
I was absolutely heart broken having to go back to work.
"Grow 1% everyday," that's asking a lot." Josh, I was in stitches man. SO damn funny, I spat my coffee out when you said that. Haha.
I am glad that the Wheelen crime family, did not put the hit on you. I would still like to know what happened to those videos.
And what is realy sad is that there are many people who are believing and accepting those corporate lies. Happy to see another popular video like this. Keep up the good work!
Bruh why did you delete that last vid?
both of them
Crowded public transport is "cool" now? Fuck right off with that, bugman. I felt like an absolute king when I had the bus all to myself on my 30 minute ride home after a gruelling night shift once. Seriously, NO ONE ELSE boarded it until my home station, and it was GLORIOUS.
Man I love your Corporate cringe series haha
Josh you really need to do this more 🤣🤣 seeing your face on their screens flaming them is genius!
Keep them coming, my man!
Love how you put yourself in the pictures. Very clever. I like this new style 😄
Joshua, The purpose of these games and arcades at the office is that you can use them after working hours to make you stay longer for some unpaid overtime :)
As much as I hate retail, especially since I never had the luxury of remote work, this sounds so much worse in ways. Glad I am trying to find ways to pursue my own interests now
the sharpie almost made me cry on behalf of the recipient, oh my lord.
The office is just a place for me to work at and I don't like distractions. There's a reason why I keep my office door shut and locked. But I need to have physical space from work and home to be able to work and WFH was very stressful for me. I had no way to transition from work to home during that time, and it was awful. The separation helps me compartmentalize the two, and that's how it works for me. But, all this stuff is just awful. IDGAF about perks or what the office has to offer. Just give me a quiet place to work and I will get stuff down.
They forgot to install an hamster wheel in these offices.
Should be the pinned comment
Bro, if you're looking for corporate cringe, you have to see the video "roll call cringe" (secretly recorded by Jay Nova). It's a Big 4 accounting firm campus recruiting team trying to convince these poor kids that they want to work there.
If companies stopped pandering to idiot staff with lots of cheap gifts then we could all get 1% extra pay rise each year. Might not seem like a lot but it would compound and make retirement nice instead of just average. In 1 year at my company in Central London I got 6 company branded coffee cups given to me, a mouse mat, coaster, hat, shirt, socks, backpack and phone case. None of which I needed or wanted.
The best part of the video is Josh talking about the slide! I worked for the top medical facility. Each year they gave us a nice gift (with hospital logo of course!)....an umbrella one year, then a fleece blanket....then a plastic sticker for the car window, and then a little cloth with which to clean our sunglasses! What an insult! Meanwhile we cranked out the work as they compared our monthly goals each year to the previous years’ goals. It was never enough!!!!
That view just reminds me when i used to work at cumberland farms and they had a similar view and all i could think about was being out there lol....dreadful
Fake positivity is plague in corporate world. Today my mailbox and our team chat was spammed with "happy fri-yay" ...
I wonder how many lonely people get a job to just be around other people. I'm always stunned when I hear about reasons to be at some company or another, and the answer is almost always the food they serve you. Not having to think about what to order and having it brought to you is apparently more valuable than having your free time I guess.
A lot of people are sheep who do not think for themselves and it’s sad. Robot brains
Back in my day, we hated Mondays specifically because we had to go back to work or school after a fun weekend off.
what happened to the cooperate simp video?
Definitely love wfh no traffic to deal with no cringy company stuff, no cringy co workers, no dealing with traffic on the way back, and more benefits.
What happened to the Whelen videos? I hope you didn’t cave to them.
Yeah dude I was trying to go back and read the comments and noticed he took them down.
I was thinking the same thing, what happened to those videos?
Totally, when down as I was watching the second one. I thought he’d stand up against their shit
Ngl, some people have nothing going on in their lives. Why we see all the claims about Remote Work causing people to be "lonely." Yeah... extroverts will probably miss socializing. But they can do that on their own. If they don't have people in their lives they can socialize with... probably not the best people person in general.