People like this are so power hungry and disgustingly full of ego. There is no doubt in my mind that if allowed, they would chain their employees to their desks. I hope to see more people work from home, starting their own businesses and companies treating their employees like people and not slaves that have nothing else to live for
Hey Brad, thanks to your videos I am able to work remotely and enjoy the time that I would spend in traffic to learn (very likely from your videos) or do side hustle. With the skills that I learned from you was able to move around several countries and continents. Keep doing your great work, cause it's helping a lot of people around the world! Thank you!
Hi, Brad. I hope your recovery is going well. I completely agree with you. It looks like the Industrial Revolution. I don't live to work for others. I work (for others) to live (including working for myself). Right now I'm preparing to start freelancing. I'm perfecting the workflows so that I can make my development process faster. Like you and Josh I also hope that people in our industry start waking up to the reality. This life is too short to give it away to someone who doesn't care if you die tomorrow.
I am lazy and entitled. I work a 100% output based remote role. I like to work 4 days a week in my pajamas, and wake up without an alarm clock. I’m entitled to avoid being distracted by coworkers and “office parties”. Never going back to the office again.
Actually, you end up being more productive at home if you have an ounce of self discipline. The trick is that you may do less hours because of small breaks here and there, but you work way more during the time you are on the job. In an office, it's though to take such breaks without having a moron asking you why you are idle. Even worse, they don't even know about ego depletion. It's a myth that someone can do 8 hours straights (or 4+3, with lunch). So, only the 4 first hours are contributing and the after lunch is just wasted. When working at home, you can easily do 2h, small break 1h small break another hour, lunch, then repeat for afternoon. Letting you with 6 to 7 effective work hours. With a slight difference that you are doing 6 or 7 hour at full potential. In an office, the first two hours only, then it quickly drop to half and almost nothing in the afternoon. I have known only few exceptions. In one company we worked hard in the morning, with small breaks. Then the afternoon, we just let it go. It even happened that people were drunk. That team over shadowed other teams... When I was QA Manager, not many even knew what I was doing and weren't able to check my work besides seeing development went better. So I was able to manage breaks here and there too. Now, I am full remote. When I am in the flow, I can crunch 4 hours in a row and go really fast. When things aren't going right, well, I take breaks as long as they should be. If they are too long, I notify my boss that he can drop the hours as they were not worked. Alternatively, I just offset my workday. If I were in an office, I would be stuck at trying something I am not able to do and just waste everyone time. Office are actually the worse, because it imposes a fixed schedule. That's without counting various interruption.
Also, I would like to add that it's easy to control people working remotely: look at results! If the guy does the expected result in an hour, good, work is done.
@@programaths 100%. In this day and age of the 2020's, if your entire job is done completely on a computer there is literally no good reason to work in-office. Unfortunately I have to work in office even though I'm a web developer, but I have probably the best in-office situation with my own physical room, and I'm able to browse the internet and leave for my break whenever I want for as long as I want.
I find it funny how these CEO's complain about their employees entitlement while they're not in the office, on a private island or yacht or driving around in their supercar.
@@_baller This. Projecting big time: "You workers are so entitled!" They shout from the top of their super yacht angry that they had to get the "lesser" brand of Caviar
This is spot on. Most CEOs are spending mad cash and 99 percent unable to relate to normal person and then they talk about people living paycheck to paycheck as entitled.
@@romanmichaelhamilton8729 They belong there, but someone else will take that position and at the end, where will no one to close the prison cell. Let's just make their lives as hard as we can.
I love how these guys are hyping up working 80 hours in 1 week and 18 hours in one sitting and making it sound noble and heroic, it's a fucking nightmare. Cancer, heart attack, and brain aneurysm just waiting to happen
But that's the point, they're pitching people to work that hard for THEM, so they, the CEOs, have LESS to do....it's a form of brainwashing, like a cult....
@@_baller yes exactly like a cult!!! If you don’t sacrifice for the company then you’re not in their “super elite goody good sucking up to the boss Bc the boss makes us think that we’re special” club
They once said to my fellow employee: "We are a family here at the company" He just responded: "My family is not here. My family is in Lithuania" It was the best answer I've ever heard to this nonsense😁💪
The problem is that CEO's are often the hyper successful personality types who are able to put work above all else in life (and to each their own), the issue is when they want to cascade this personality type down to their employees who dont align with these kind of mentalities. CEOs with awareness of others are seemingly rare.
After about 20 years working, I'll tell young people you should not have any loyalty to any organization, they will turn on you in a second when its convenient and fire/replace you. Also to ensure no slavery, young people dont get married and dont get a girl pregnant, make sure she takes the birth control pill daily in front of you and both wear protection. You will just condemn your new child to increasing poverty and freedomless slavery and these control/money/job trends worsen. Promote this idea in videos and social media to help prevent more young people into this new slavery.
@@ashm4938 lol sure I mean hard work is needed for sure but often time it’s really the timing and the luck who also play a role eg no matter how good of a chef ur. If u happen to open restaurant right before Covid lockdown u just won’t likely succeed Also let’s be real often times especially in many big corporate companies it’s not about skills But connection and who you know also if you read the book by Michael galdwell he also talks about how western associate tall ppl with leadership and that’s why most ceo are taller by average He also shown research on how gender and race will affect the result of being picked compare to when it’s being chosen blindly Look I’m not saying ceo don’t work hard but we all know in 2021 capitalism often it isn’t all there is and just coz someone isn’t successful mean they don’t work hard And the ones who are ceo mean they work hard
It is not all about control. Okey then, let's hire a remote surgeon to perform operation in house. Is it feasible for every surgeon or every nurse or every janitor or every Starbucks barista, etc? The world is not all about you. This is life and be grateful if you have a work. Just a reminder: there are more than 800 million people in the world who are undernourished and do not have access to safe drinking water. Another topic is workers compensation but no need to discuss it yet.
Why do those executives need their own oversized offices with features that, unlike open offices, hinder collaboration like walls and locking doors? Are they doing it to watch porn when they should be working?
@Magic Man Team building to me felt like a hideous punishment, I used to think "what have I done to deserve this???" Well it must have been something very bad, and in a previous life too as I don't think I have done anything that bad in this one
Yep, I work in a lot of makeshift teams in my industry. There’s a lot of social pressure to do stuff outside of work and be friends and whatever. It’s so forced and unnatural.
It's horrible, I hate afterwork team events especially. You're forced to invent excuses not to hang out with random people you barely talk to and a few ones you already spend 8 hours with instead of going home to your family, friends and pets who you barely see. I just don't get it.
@@Chanelle208 Indeed. We take on jobs as a professional commitment, not as some sort of social, diplomatic, charitable action. This means we can work with people (assuming they to behave professionally) without any friction but they will never be friends, we choose them based on personal compatibility. The result is trying to force people to be "friends" outside of work inevitably leads to inner tensions, making small talk with people whom you have no interest in or anything in common and pretending that you are enjoying the experience for instance. Now you might end up being friends with some from work but you will choose that and how you spend time with them. That is entirely different from pretending to like or otherwise find someone interesting when you would really like to never see them again. It is false, it is demeaning, it is verging on abuse in my opinion, and now I am out of the corporate world I don't have to suffer, or worry about having to join in, with this kind of torture, and do I feel better for that.
I made a mistake. I get it, it's a daytime talk TV show in the UK. To the rest of the world, its a pretty derogatory innuendo. I wouldn't have ever thought a TV show would name themselves that, so I didn't think to research it. Again my bad. Regardless - the premise is the same. It doesn't matter what you do at home if your work is getting done. The CEOs in this video are still clowns.
To be honest I think either interpretation is probably true somewhere for someone. And if you don't know the show it seemed fairly plausible too. You can't know everything. It made sense. Don't beat yourself up :)
Indubitably, f-ck the damn highways, there is no worse needless and pointless misery than waiting in line to get home while sitting in a car that is costing you a small fortune to operate and maintain almost solely for the purpose of wasting your day in traffic.
I am LITERALLY working from home right now and am SO incredibly busy even on a Friday, that I am just now taking my lunch break at 3p in the afternoon! So...it's complete BS that people who work from home are "lazy".
I am an actual Boomer, how come James sounds more like a Boomer than anyone else? What does not feeding squirrels have to do with efficiency? Does a lack of empathy for animals make one a better employee?
These "boomers" should read Marcus Aurelius or Seneca. Despite being workaholic stoics who gave us quotes like "it's not that we have too little time, but that we waste much of it", they still recognised the benefits of leisure time for the mind.
Being a Boomer is like being a Youngster -- you can be one physically, but you can also be one mentally. That's how some of these younger companies are super boomers
In Mexico we have a saying that basically translates to "The lion believes that everyone shares his condition." So if the out-of-touch, entitled and spoiled CEO thinks everyone would do that, that might say something about himself.
I wouldn't do it for any less than a $400-500 bonus per session. Then again, I don't have student loan debt, which these startups are banking on and taking advantage of.
I hate team player speeches. I've been given that garbage crap by so many bosses that almost immediately cut me loose when it was convenient for them. Garbage wages, insane hours, picking up their slack and as soon as you make one mistake, dropped like a bag of kittens in the river.
Let's not call not wanting to do stupid goofy office games as being "introverted", it's more like a lot of people don't want to do stupid goofy office games...simple as that
@@JoshuaFluke1 yeah, by only allowing two boxes, that means all extroverts enjoy doing stupid goofy things, and I'm sure that's not true, calling people "introverted" is just a soft version of saying someone is a loser, and no, the losers are the ones doing stupid goofy games...kindergarten is over, which may be a surprise for HR, which is full of clueless c bags
@@franz3810 Right? It's really annoying. Almost half the population are introverts; it's not a mental disorder nor anything to feel guilty about. There's real discrimination towards introverts in western countries, it sucks.
There's people who have been asking for at-home access for decades before covid. I know I have. I kept getting denied and denied for decades, then suddenly, covid hits, and they finally let me get therapy from home.
and my production, my attendance, everything remotely associated with my work life has drastically improved since... go figure right? as long as the work gets done, who TF cares when or how? luckily i've worked with amazing and horrible CEO's. 9/10, the CEO's who are grinding there with you day in and day out, are the one's who understand the importance of work-life balance. (at least from a developer standpoint)
I was homeschooled growing up and I heard this every day. It’s not even worth giving attention to- people are just mad that they don’t have the same luxury of not having to deal with people they dislike
Any critique for someone who plans to homeschool their kids? We live in the country and will have them in sports and make sure they’re around other kids weekly But I’d love to know your thoughts since I wasn’t homeschooled myself
@@jbb8261 Sure- basically depends on your kid's individual temperament and the town you live in. My town had a lot of nice kids so I had a lot of friends. Adults really were the problem for me, believe it or not. I never got bullied by other kids, just adults. I think they thought I was rich. Also the whole "socializing" thing is completely overblown and I don't think has any merit at all. People that claim they send their kid to public school to "make friends" are full of it- they just can't afford private school. If you teach your kid manners he will find his own friend circle, he doesn't need to have friends if he does not want to. If he/she has a sibling that is enough. Also when it came to sports and skills (for me it was singing) it's a matter of investment and I always paid for personal teachers and coaches. The work you put in determines the results you get, and singing is a pretty uncommon talent so I was actually the best in the whole district of 20,000 kids because I paid for teachers and practiced a lot. With sports it's probably more competitive but the same principle applies- you get what you pay for and what you work for. If your son doesn't like sports I would not force him to play them either.
@@jbb8261 old comment so unsure if still needed, but I was homeschooled. definitely a mixed bag, I socialized pretty horribly and transitioned to private (then public) school for the last 4 years and it wasn't a great time. I was very much ahead of things academically, so if I were to guess, having a social element would be pretty useful, although I eventually caught up, so maybe it was negligible. Unsure if high school is just always a hellscape regardless, but i do sort of wonder if i had figured out how to have friends and knew social cues during that time/fit in better perhaps it wouldnt have been as bad.
I proved WFH actually works back in 1998 when I moved from NYC to San Diego and kept most of my clients from NY without a hitch. As for your second video, the closest I experienced that was when the company I was working for decided to have something called a "hyper-sprint" where they co-located everyone in the same office (i.e. flew everyone to Mumbai) I didn't see where it was necessary from a work standpoint, but it was kind of cool to meet everyone in person (2015 -- pre-zoom and pre-easy to desktop communicate)
WFH is amazing, I love in the Uk and the cost of commuting is stupidly expensive. I used to spend £22 ($30) a day traveling from my home to central London on a crowded train that was normally late who wants to do that when I can save £110 per week (£5,000 +)
The amount of sleep deprivation I had during 10 hour days drove me to a mental breakdown that kept me out of work for almost two months now. They’re acting like this is something to celebrate and not something nightmarish
"how dare wage slaves want to have work life balance, or reduce their suffering in any way, a terrible time wasting commute builds character! grinding for zero extra money or benefit is what we mean by family! you're LUCKY to get exploited like this, not everyone passes the mindless drone test to get in the door, you should be THANKING us for burning your candle @ both ends for our next yacht!"
Imagine if teachers told us how to do our homework and how much we are allowed to watch television in between getting it done, companies overstep this boundary, if the work is done, the work is done...that's all that needs to be judged upon
@@eeriened3525 Well, it's been a year and WFH is still here...if they can do their job from the Internet, why not anywhere else? What is the difference between driving to work to work in a cubicle, to working from home, doing the exact same work?
I am literally working from home right now, and even on a Friday I am so busy that I am just *NOW* taking my lunch at 3p. So much for his accusation that ppl who work from home are "lazy".
They need to start meeting their employees halfway and get more reasonable. Some people could easily work 3/5 days from home every week, every month, like forever. And they wouldnt even notice
I wish company founders understood that workers being all in on their job isn't the same as for a founder. Workers have no equity in the company that makes it worth it. I've had executives get up and talk about being all in, but it leaves me with nothing if and when I get laid off
It's interesting how no one challenges any of these anti-work from home CEOs by asking them to show their numbers to justify their opinion. In retail to justify keeping a location open you look at the profit and loss. Same thing with hiring more staff.
agree. he should at least present how many people in 2021 who wants to WFH compared to pre-pandemic era and then goes on with his argument. it will be nice seeing a post goes like this "the amount of WFH is increasing by 80% by the last 3 years, while some jobs are impossible to do from home, for example, x and y" and not something about loose women or squirrels which is inappropriate to mention in a professional setting.
My company had a similar thing where they get teams from different offices together for a week, get given a problem and then have to come up with an 'innovative solution.' It sounded like a week of hell working crazy hours with a load of corporate simps and suck ups. I just said I didn't want to do it and you can't make me 😂
That dude can't afford the rent for his office space... either that or he uses his company to pester the young women he hires for dates and now he can't troll for fresh meat. Disgusting git.
This just reinforces everything I observed with any corporate staff above the HOD level, they will burn through a companies budget and potential profits just to run their own little tinpot kingdom, this guy's rage is evidence that he sorely misses having people in the room with him to lord over
Imagine spending 80 to 100 hours of your free time working on junk for no reason. Time that could literally be spent better laying in bed and actually relaxing.
If I wanted to drink it wouldn’t be at work. It would be at home alone or with friends. The more I drink the more tired and less productive this would not be effective for me!
It's funny how they'll have the alcohol flowing at some of these "socials" at different conferences, to grease the wheels for the giant schmooze fest it inevitably becomes. Drunk idiots making fools of themselves in front of their coworkers, while the stoners who have to hide their stoniness or risk getting fired, look on in bemused bewilderment.
Lol we had a keg in our office at my last ever corporate job. Only rule was no drinking before 9:30 AM. Makes me wonder who did that so often that they needed to make a rule for it. And I agree. I don’t wanna drink with my coworkers. Seems silly. Only time I drank in the office was my last week of work 😂
Someone should respond with "If I get to crank one out on my lunchbreak instead of going to yet another meeting about whatever the fuck synergy is, then yes, I absolutely want to work from home.
I really like your expression when you said "Really Shut up" . Totally agree with you Joshua and can't wait to see your next video. As always thanks for your hard work and much appreciated
Hey company owners, you want us to grind? Give us a piece of the cake, make us become co-owners or shareholders then, MAYBE, we might be more motivated to grind
My husband, as a programmer and team lead, worked from home 2 or 3 days a week because his boss encouraged it as it would allow him to make tests at night and avoid traffic. Now it's always from home and the whole company is fine with everyone working from home all the time.
This Cox guy sounds like he just craves for the office atmosphere, he probably loves the sense of control being in it gives and really needs every employee to play into it for him
Oh my goodness, if my company forced me to go to some War Week facade, I'd use 6 of my sick leave days or just quit if I had an offer on the side. As an introvert with social anxiety, the 18 hours of work would not only be emotionally exhausting but I'd probably get a migraine from constantly grinding it out for that long. I've done my share of all-nighters in engineering at university. NO MORE! EDIT: What about parents who aren't able to do this because they have children and need to be there for them? Do they get War Week exemptions?
LOOOOL JOSH IM LAUGHING SO MUCH AT THE “loose women” thing! In the UK it’s a Ladies Daytime Talkshow like the one whoopie Goldberg is on in the US HAHAHAHHAHA !!
If you recut his video with a horror/psychological soundtrack and intensity audio bites when he says how many hours there are… I would watch that show.
I am laughing so hard right now, this showed me what to avoid when working..stay out of our personal business we do what we want on our time off for breaks, lunch and I'm going to have a fantastic weekend doing..none of your business company I work for because when I'm on the work clock, I'm WORKING-perfect timing on this story Joshua...
I'm an extrovert but i'm so against working at the office lol. there's a difference between extrovert and cringe. these companies are just cringe meant for cringy people.
It’s just crazy that these people want to claim workers are entitled when they’re the ones that have been entitled this whole time. People put into tough positions to just get into the office. Commuting isn’t cheap. It doesn’t matter if you’re driving in or taking public transportation. Where I am a city bus/train pass is at almost $100, commuter trains are starting at $250+. I work from home but i work 3rd shift. Considering how homelessness and crime has shot up in the financial district, it is safer for me to work from home than to be traveling late at night. Smh. I really can’t understand how WFH is such a problem for them. I’m really starting to think that it’s they simply don’t want worker bee’s to have any level of comfort in comparison to them. They’re trying to gate keep a certain level of lifestyle. They want to be the only ones clocking in from the beach.
All this screeching about "entitlement" really comes down to these people being terrified about the fact that employees now have more leverage, due to the full remote opportunities that exist now
I'm overly sensitive to noise, light and crowds but I do feel better when I work because it gives structure to my day. I like to DO things and accomplish things but I do very poorly in typical workplaces because it's hard to focus there and constant noise wears me off. That includes sounds that most people don't even notice. I think it's too loud to focus in Starbucks where people come to do some work or reading. x_x
Sadly in my country, where labor laws are ancient and literally non-existent, WFH had become a nightmare! Employers now have this mentality of "it's not like you have anything better to do or places to go since everyone is on lockdown" so the meetings go on till 9.00pm and work till 12.30-1.00am! Unbelievable?!?! Well, it's true. Gone are the days when you could say "Screw this sh*t I'm going home" and go home and just disconnect. Now it's just toxic. Sigh. Leave it to companies to find ways to exploit a pandemic!
He's made himself look like a total fool. Ridiculous post by him. He works in recruitment yet hasn't heard of WFH. Sounds like he can't fill posts because the woken up worker post covid won't accept full time office instead of hybrid or full work from home. I hope his staff join a union and get collective bargaining and show the fool who's boss.
In Poland we have a saying "głodnemu chleb na myśli" ("the hungry thinks about a bread"), so maybe we learnt what that James Cox dude does on his launch breaks? 🤔
You know what needs to go as well? Lunch n' Learns. Give up your lunch break for a presentation brought in for your company and the reward is that they buy lunch. The thing is that 'learn' is a stretch. Mostly they utilize this time to bring vendors in to present their product lines or have an internal meeting to give a new business plan/protocol. Apparently, an hour of YOUR time is worth a few finger sandwiches and chips. What's worse is that this same company ended up making it a 'brown bag' lunch n' learn. Give up your lunch break AND bring your own lunch. LAME. If there ever was a better time to blast some fish and broccoli in the microwave, this would be it.
I've worked remote and reduced my company's expenses by ~60% and got myself more compensation. I've done design work, collaboration with experts, customer research, interviews, coaching, reporting, customer and employee onboarding, vendor management, budgeting, training, planning, pre-sales meetings/product demos and a lot more than I usually do inside an office space. There are some house rules to follow just like you've office rules. I see remote effective in many job functions, if not all. There are exceptions though e.g. in some countries, there likely be an unsuitable environment such as electricity shedding, unstable internet, joint families living in shared places that makes online discussion/meeting nearly impossible. But if you don't have (or mitigate) such issues, look above what kind of work I've done. It is possible and *profitable* for the company as well as employees :) If your work nature supports it, do it! You're losing a lot of 💸.
I love the logic of the HR guy. People reject my job offers because they want WFH or other perks to switch from one job to another. I WANT THEM to stop having this requirement. Who is entitled now? Do your job, find right talent for your clients. Negotiatiate better terms of hiring or find more reasonable clients. Stop blaming job market and employees for not being able to find a suitable candidate.
I WORK in a corporate environment and only 4 days in office and the rest from home and NOBODY has been cosidering it as any problem. Companies with that vicious attitude as you described will have to tackle with workforce turnover. They will be considering it why it happens what shows only their stupidity.
The internet renders traditional middlemen useless. A recruiter is a traditional middleman. A non-traditional middleman is an automated middleman, or software-based "middleman". Uber is the perfect example. "Middlemanning" is easily automated in the vast majority of processes where human judgement is not required. This is why automation of the driving process, aka "self-driving" (on open roads), sucks and always will until it is capable of human judgement. There simply are far too many instances where human judgement needs to be employed within fractions of a second on open roads. The day AI can drive as well as a human because it can exercise human judgement, is the day AI becomes VERY dangerous...as it essentially becomes "human" without having the threat of its own mortality to keep its behavior in check....but I digress. Back to the original point, any middlemen who are simply too stupid to see this obvious fact of course are going to lash out. They have to make sense of it somehow, and nothing is more comforting than lobbing insults at those who do not prop you up in the face of your own extinction. The only laziness here is a CEO who is too intellectually lazy to understand that his company is not "entitled" to their clients. Rather, they must deliver VALUE to their clients. We used to call this "earning business". If his services were still delivering VALUE, he would not be losing clients, and he would not be lashing out. The internet makes traditional middlemen services increasingly worthless, and this CEO is too LAZY and ENTITLED to be bothered to discover a new value proposition for clients.
Funny thing this. They think its a battle they will win but we will outlive them. In essence winning because they'll pass from old age. They're stuck in they're ways. Eventually something has to give.
It's more acceptable to shame workers than to shame companies. Companies like this are just projecting. It's okay to lay off workers and destroy families but it's not okay to resign immediately without putting your two weeks in because it harms the company. CEOs are heavily entitled.
I work at an interior design firm that is basically an architecture firm really. We have 3 people who make all the drawings and one main architect who has been there for 15 years. Making the drawings is super time consuming and we work with clients in multi million dollar homes. One client had a $30k bunk room installed in her house was 70% finished being installed and then they decided they didn’t like it and threw it out. Now all the drawings and time spent on them was wasted. The owner who hops in and out of the office doesn’t know anything about how the program we use works and takes vacation time off constantly. When we have to deal with annoying clients who change things up every week which is very common in home design it doesn’t make anything harder for him. Just pushes the deadline of the project back. But the designers who just spent two weeks trying to get this done have to start over again from scratch. It’s so unfair I’m learning a lot under the Architect and enjoy what I do but CEOs who just sit around all the time and expect you to bust your ass for them are horrible and could make something you like doing feel horrible.
God, the few times I worked from home, I got SOOOOO much work done. If you get pestered, you can check your email intermittently to answer questions. At work, you have to deal with people interrupting you numerous times during the day asking questions...or its just because they're bored and feel like they reserve the right to use people that are working to keep them entertained. All you need is one fuck up to kill the work flow of the entire office.
One of largest enterprise software companies name of which you know and probably hate did internal poll to figure out how people want to work and results were - pre covid 1% was allowed to work from home, today - 45% want to work from home and about 46% want go to office couple days a week. They also noted no impact on quality of work over last year when everyone was working from home, in fact it even improved.
And 'Loose Women' is so terrible, I'd rather go to work in an office than watch it. Mind you, does he realise we just all put Netflix on in the background 😏
To be fair, I'd rather watch an elephant shit itself to death, but point taken. P.S. I'm jobless as of this week. Might see what's on the box tomorrow...
Working for Genel looks like a hideous experience, even the thought or working for them while watching this video made me feel awful. A desperately horrible place to end up at.
oh MY goodness Friday night codewar!? I would SO not go to that. like you said, go home! the only reason i went to office parties at all is good catering, but the last one i went to was so trash, and so miserably catered (everyone got exactly one plate except the greedy guy in overalls who would always load his plate sky high and tell people he didn't care) that i openly refused to attend the next. I also had to put out a giant ashtray pot that caught fire and was flooding the foyer with stinky clouds of every brand cigarette burning so i went home reeking with the window rolled down in the middle of winter. yeah no thanks
Love how Josh calls out these people. Add to my list of people I want nothing to do with. My current role isn't perfect, but I work for a large p & c company. We are mostly WFH. Expectation is we come to the office ~ 1x a month for team building/in office meetings.
I designed, developed & launched multiple versions of a software product last year for my own company...BTW, a colleague said it would take 6 months & cost 6-7 figures to outsource....& Ive never been a full-time developer (Ive taught coding courses though)...it took me 3 months of 3-4 hour days (mostly weekdays) to launch said product....the idea of requiring an office, 18 hour days, daily onsite standups/staff meetings to get anything done is completely ridiculous...
I used to work the morning shift at my old job. In order to catch the train, I had to wake up at 0430 to catch the 0518 train so I could get to work at 0630. By the end of my shift at 1500, I was struggling to stay awake. That is not mentioning traffic or cancelled trains.
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People like this are so power hungry and disgustingly full of ego. There is no doubt in my mind that if allowed, they would chain their employees to their desks. I hope to see more people work from home, starting their own businesses and companies treating their employees like people and not slaves that have nothing else to live for
hi, i love yr channel lol. nice seeing you out in the wild
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Hey Brad, thanks to your videos I am able to work remotely and enjoy the time that I would spend in traffic to learn (very likely from your videos) or do side hustle. With the skills that I learned from you was able to move around several countries and continents. Keep doing your great work, cause it's helping a lot of people around the world! Thank you!
Thank you
Hi, Brad. I hope your recovery is going well. I completely agree with you.
It looks like the Industrial Revolution. I don't live to work for others. I work (for others) to live (including working for myself). Right now I'm preparing to start freelancing. I'm perfecting the workflows so that I can make my development process faster.
Like you and Josh I also hope that people in our industry start waking up to the reality. This life is too short to give it away to someone who doesn't care if you die tomorrow.
I am lazy and entitled. I work a 100% output based remote role. I like to work 4 days a week in my pajamas, and wake up without an alarm clock. I’m entitled to avoid being distracted by coworkers and “office parties”.
Never going back to the office again.
Shoutout to the FBI
Nothing wrong with that. :3
Actually, you end up being more productive at home if you have an ounce of self discipline. The trick is that you may do less hours because of small breaks here and there, but you work way more during the time you are on the job. In an office, it's though to take such breaks without having a moron asking you why you are idle. Even worse, they don't even know about ego depletion. It's a myth that someone can do 8 hours straights (or 4+3, with lunch).
So, only the 4 first hours are contributing and the after lunch is just wasted.
When working at home, you can easily do 2h, small break 1h small break another hour, lunch, then repeat for afternoon. Letting you with 6 to 7 effective work hours. With a slight difference that you are doing 6 or 7 hour at full potential. In an office, the first two hours only, then it quickly drop to half and almost nothing in the afternoon.
I have known only few exceptions. In one company we worked hard in the morning, with small breaks. Then the afternoon, we just let it go. It even happened that people were drunk. That team over shadowed other teams...
When I was QA Manager, not many even knew what I was doing and weren't able to check my work besides seeing development went better. So I was able to manage breaks here and there too.
Now, I am full remote. When I am in the flow, I can crunch 4 hours in a row and go really fast. When things aren't going right, well, I take breaks as long as they should be. If they are too long, I notify my boss that he can drop the hours as they were not worked. Alternatively, I just offset my workday.
If I were in an office, I would be stuck at trying something I am not able to do and just waste everyone time.
Office are actually the worse, because it imposes a fixed schedule. That's without counting various interruption.
Also, I would like to add that it's easy to control people working remotely: look at results! If the guy does the expected result in an hour, good, work is done.
@@programaths 100%. In this day and age of the 2020's, if your entire job is done completely on a computer there is literally no good reason to work in-office. Unfortunately I have to work in office even though I'm a web developer, but I have probably the best in-office situation with my own physical room, and I'm able to browse the internet and leave for my break whenever I want for as long as I want.
I find it funny how these CEO's complain about their employees entitlement while they're not in the office, on a private island or yacht or driving around in their supercar.
Isn't it obvious, it's a form of projection and distraction
@@_baller This. Projecting big time: "You workers are so entitled!" They shout from the top of their super yacht angry that they had to get the "lesser" brand of Caviar
This is spot on. Most CEOs are spending mad cash and 99 percent unable to relate to normal person and then they talk about people living paycheck to paycheck as entitled.
CEO: You (employee) work 80 hours a week so I can buy myself an other supercar.
@@atlfun08 and worst is most of them are where they are coz of connection. Family and stuff
Let’s all of us apply to a position in his company just to say that we want to work from home.
I like seeing CEO’s rage.
Best idea of the day lol. I live in Sweden, will apply and say I want to work from home over here lol
I like and prefer CEOs to be put in jail where the bastards all belong.
Good One
@@romanmichaelhamilton8729 They belong there, but someone else will take that position and at the end, where will no one to close the prison cell.
Let's just make their lives as hard as we can.
@@patcoleman8606 Agreed!
I love how these guys are hyping up working 80 hours in 1 week and 18 hours in one sitting and making it sound noble and heroic, it's a fucking nightmare. Cancer, heart attack, and brain aneurysm just waiting to happen
I have done 12 hours and even 18 hours once. Never do that again.
80 hours of sitting at a desk? *Laughs in HVAC tech*
But that's the point, they're pitching people to work that hard for THEM, so they, the CEOs, have LESS to do....it's a form of brainwashing, like a cult....
Even worse are the workers who will support that stance like it’s normal, ugh it makes me sick.
@@_baller yes exactly like a cult!!! If you don’t sacrifice for the company then you’re not in their “super elite goody good sucking up to the boss Bc the boss makes us think that we’re special” club
They once said to my fellow employee: "We are a family here at the company"
He just responded: "My family is not here. My family is in Lithuania"
It was the best answer I've ever heard to this nonsense😁💪
Like him already.
Eastern Europeans have very little tolerance for b.s.
The fact these CEOs exist, gives me assurance that even in a high position as that one. They're still airheads
The problem is that CEO's are often the hyper successful personality types who are able to put work above all else in life (and to each their own), the issue is when they want to cascade this personality type down to their employees who dont align with these kind of mentalities. CEOs with awareness of others are seemingly rare.
After about 20 years working, I'll tell young people you should not have any loyalty to any organization, they will turn on you in a second when its convenient and fire/replace you. Also to ensure no slavery, young people dont get married and dont get a girl pregnant, make sure she takes the birth control pill daily in front of you and both wear protection. You will just condemn your new child to increasing poverty and freedomless slavery and these control/money/job trends worsen. Promote this idea in videos and social media to help prevent more young people into this new slavery.
They get there by connections, nothing to do with hard work or results
@@ashm4938 bro its who you blow not what you know.
@@ashm4938 lol sure
I mean hard work is needed for sure but often time it’s really the timing and the luck who also play a role
eg no matter how good of a chef ur. If u happen to open restaurant right before Covid lockdown u just won’t likely succeed
Also let’s be real often times especially in many big corporate companies it’s not about skills
But connection and who you know
also if you read the book by Michael galdwell he also talks about how western associate tall ppl with leadership and that’s why most ceo are taller by average
He also shown research on how gender and race will affect the result of being picked compare to when it’s being chosen blindly
Look I’m not saying ceo don’t work hard but we all know in 2021 capitalism often it isn’t all there is and just coz someone isn’t successful mean they don’t work hard
And the ones who are ceo mean they work hard
After a while, you realize that it's not about the work...it's about the control.
It is not all about control. Okey then, let's hire a remote surgeon to perform operation in house. Is it feasible for every surgeon or every nurse or every janitor or every Starbucks barista, etc? The world is not all about you. This is life and be grateful if you have a work. Just a reminder: there are more than 800 million people in the world who are undernourished and do not have access to safe drinking water. Another topic is workers compensation but no need to discuss it yet.
Humiliation ritual and cre values are the two reasons
I actually watch loose men on my lunch break. And Josh.
Why do those executives need their own oversized offices with features that, unlike open offices, hinder collaboration like walls and locking doors? Are they doing it to watch porn when they should be working?
Forced friendships at work are the worst!!!!
Especially when the managers are women. It's a very special sort of hell.
@Magic Man Team building to me felt like a hideous punishment, I used to think "what have I done to deserve this???" Well it must have been something very bad, and in a previous life too as I don't think I have done anything that bad in this one
Yep, I work in a lot of makeshift teams in my industry. There’s a lot of social pressure to do stuff outside of work and be friends and whatever. It’s so forced and unnatural.
It's horrible, I hate afterwork team events especially. You're forced to invent excuses not to hang out with random people you barely talk to and a few ones you already spend 8 hours with instead of going home to your family, friends and pets who you barely see. I just don't get it.
@@Chanelle208 Indeed. We take on jobs as a professional commitment, not as some sort of social, diplomatic, charitable action. This means we can work with people (assuming they to behave professionally) without any friction but they will never be friends, we choose them based on personal compatibility. The result is trying to force people to be "friends" outside of work inevitably leads to inner tensions, making small talk with people whom you have no interest in or anything in common and pretending that you are enjoying the experience for instance.
Now you might end up being friends with some from work but you will choose that and how you spend time with them. That is entirely different from pretending to like or otherwise find someone interesting when you would really like to never see them again.
It is false, it is demeaning, it is verging on abuse in my opinion, and now I am out of the corporate world I don't have to suffer, or worry about having to join in, with this kind of torture, and do I feel better for that.
I made a mistake. I get it, it's a daytime talk TV show in the UK. To the rest of the world, its a pretty derogatory innuendo. I wouldn't have ever thought a TV show would name themselves that, so I didn't think to research it. Again my bad. Regardless - the premise is the same. It doesn't matter what you do at home if your work is getting done. The CEOs in this video are still clowns.
Yep - Loose Women has run for many years in UK daily at lunchtime on mainstream TV
To be honest I think either interpretation is probably true somewhere for someone. And if you don't know the show it seemed fairly plausible too. You can't know everything. It made sense. Don't beat yourself up :)
This made me actually laugh out loud 😂😂
For US readers please replace with 'The View' or 'The Real'
@@OperationDecoded totally agree🙂
Working at home is better for people's lives, they have more free time, and less time spent sitting on the highway
Indubitably, f-ck the damn highways, there is no worse needless and pointless misery than waiting in line to get home while sitting in a car that is costing you a small fortune to operate and maintain almost solely for the purpose of wasting your day in traffic.
I am LITERALLY working from home right now and am SO incredibly busy even on a Friday, that I am just now taking my lunch break at 3p in the afternoon! So...it's complete BS that people who work from home are "lazy".
@@enmodelife sounds like you might be overworking yourself as well, tone it back, corporate world loves slackers
Facts
Also you are not in a environment where you have to deal with many annoying workers in person that could stress you out.
I am an actual Boomer, how come James sounds more like a Boomer than anyone else? What does not feeding squirrels have to do with efficiency? Does a lack of empathy for animals make one a better employee?
These "boomers" should read Marcus Aurelius or Seneca. Despite being workaholic stoics who gave us quotes like "it's not that we have too little time, but that we waste much of it", they still recognised the benefits of leisure time for the mind.
@@aphroditesaphrodisiac3272 EXACTLY!!! This CEO is acting more like Dinkus Aurelius!!!
Being a Boomer is like being a Youngster -- you can be one physically, but you can also be one mentally. That's how some of these younger companies are super boomers
In Mexico we have a saying that basically translates to "The lion believes that everyone shares his condition." So if the out-of-touch, entitled and spoiled CEO thinks everyone would do that, that might say something about himself.
I love this😅
Laughs in latino lazyness 😄🍺
Of course he's out-of-touch with everyone else; he's too busy touching himself instead.
Keyed. You're on to something.
This channel is why I now work from home!.
Same, it helped me feel like it's not career suicide
Can you sit down and grind for 18 hours straight?
Me: *walks off the job*
I wouldn't do it for any less than a $400-500 bonus per session. Then again, I don't have student loan debt, which these startups are banking on and taking advantage of.
Seriously, what the hell are they trying to accomplish by running their programmers into the ground like this?
Me: watches loose women and searches for other jobs and uses their computer to send resumes the full 18 hours.
I hate team player speeches.
I've been given that garbage crap by so many bosses that almost immediately cut me loose when it was convenient for them.
Garbage wages, insane hours, picking up their slack and as soon as you make one mistake, dropped like a bag of kittens in the river.
Let's not call not wanting to do stupid goofy office games as being "introverted", it's more like a lot of people don't want to do stupid goofy office games...simple as that
I did that once and everyone said 'NO YOURE JUST INTROVERTED'
@@JoshuaFluke1 as an introverted, I don't know what to think xD
being introverted is not a disease, people should stop saying it as it something bad
@@JoshuaFluke1 yeah, by only allowing two boxes, that means all extroverts enjoy doing stupid goofy things, and I'm sure that's not true, calling people "introverted" is just a soft version of saying someone is a loser, and no, the losers are the ones doing stupid goofy games...kindergarten is over, which may be a surprise for HR, which is full of clueless c bags
@@franz3810 Right? It's really annoying. Almost half the population are introverts; it's not a mental disorder nor anything to feel guilty about. There's real discrimination towards introverts in western countries, it sucks.
There's people who have been asking for at-home access for decades before covid.
I know I have. I kept getting denied and denied for decades, then suddenly,
covid hits, and they finally let me get therapy from home.
and my production, my attendance, everything remotely associated with my work life has drastically improved since... go figure right? as long as the work gets done, who TF cares when or how?
luckily i've worked with amazing and horrible CEO's. 9/10, the CEO's who are grinding there with you day in and day out, are the one's who understand the importance of work-life balance. (at least from a developer standpoint)
I was homeschooled growing up and I heard this every day. It’s not even worth giving attention to- people are just mad that they don’t have the same luxury of not having to deal with people they dislike
Any critique for someone who plans to homeschool their kids? We live in the country and will have them in sports and make sure they’re around other kids weekly
But I’d love to know your thoughts since I wasn’t homeschooled myself
@@jbb8261 Sure- basically depends on your kid's individual temperament and the town you live in. My town had a lot of nice kids so I had a lot of friends. Adults really were the problem for me, believe it or not. I never got bullied by other kids, just adults. I think they thought I was rich. Also the whole "socializing" thing is completely overblown and I don't think has any merit at all. People that claim they send their kid to public school to "make friends" are full of it- they just can't afford private school. If you teach your kid manners he will find his own friend circle, he doesn't need to have friends if he does not want to. If he/she has a sibling that is enough.
Also when it came to sports and skills (for me it was singing) it's a matter of investment and I always paid for personal teachers and coaches. The work you put in determines the results you get, and singing is a pretty uncommon talent so I was actually the best in the whole district of 20,000 kids because I paid for teachers and practiced a lot. With sports it's probably more competitive but the same principle applies- you get what you pay for and what you work for. If your son doesn't like sports I would not force him to play them either.
@@jbb8261 are you looking for general critique or something specific? My 12 yo is currently homeschooled
@@jbb8261 old comment so unsure if still needed, but I was homeschooled. definitely a mixed bag, I socialized pretty horribly and transitioned to private (then public) school for the last 4 years and it wasn't a great time. I was very much ahead of things academically, so if I were to guess, having a social element would be pretty useful, although I eventually caught up, so maybe it was negligible.
Unsure if high school is just always a hellscape regardless, but i do sort of wonder if i had figured out how to have friends and knew social cues during that time/fit in better perhaps it wouldnt have been as bad.
@@bluevillsplash anything from anyone
I proved WFH actually works back in 1998 when I moved from NYC to San Diego and kept most of my clients from NY without a hitch. As for your second video, the closest I experienced that was when the company I was working for decided to have something called a "hyper-sprint" where they co-located everyone in the same office (i.e. flew everyone to Mumbai) I didn't see where it was necessary from a work standpoint, but it was kind of cool to meet everyone in person (2015 -- pre-zoom and pre-easy to desktop communicate)
Your business sounds pretty nice, compared to how the average business seems to run.
WFH is amazing, I love in the Uk and the cost of commuting is stupidly expensive. I used to spend £22 ($30) a day traveling from my home to central London on a crowded train that was normally late who wants to do that when I can save £110 per week (£5,000 +)
And if you move to central London expect to pay over £2k a month for a tiny over pressed dump. Rates there have actually increased lmao.
Maybe employers should pay you for the commute as well, if they had to do that then EVERYONE would be working from home!
Ain't this the f'n truth.
Yeah, it's funny how CEOs change their tune once THEY incur the cost and inconvenience.
Decentralized unionization. Let’s all establish workers’ rights. We’re in a labor shortage. The ball is in our court.
Don't forget the pay for the time spent in commute as well... I ain't fucking driving for fun...
The amount of sleep deprivation I had during 10 hour days drove me to a mental breakdown that kept me out of work for almost two months now. They’re acting like this is something to celebrate and not something nightmarish
"how dare wage slaves want to have work life balance, or reduce their suffering in any way,
a terrible time wasting commute builds character!
grinding for zero extra money or benefit is what we mean by family!
you're LUCKY to get exploited like this, not everyone passes the mindless drone test to get in the door, you should be THANKING us for burning your candle @ both ends for our next yacht!"
You PERFECTLY verbalized the true thoughts of James Cox, worthless CEO of a worthless company, in a worthless industry.
Imagine if teachers told us how to do our homework and how much we are allowed to watch television in between getting it done, companies overstep this boundary, if the work is done, the work is done...that's all that needs to be judged upon
like fr, why do they care about someone watching porn? to each their own
Exactly. So many control freaks out there. Give some people the tiniest pinhole of authority, and they go hog wild with it.
@@franz3810 They seem to want to treat workers as children.
@@eeriened3525 Well, it's been a year and WFH is still here...if they can do their job from the Internet, why not anywhere else? What is the difference between driving to work to work in a cubicle, to working from home, doing the exact same work?
That CEO is right on one thing; I *am* entitled to my time.
I am literally working from home right now, and even on a Friday I am so busy that I am just *NOW* taking my lunch at 3p. So much for his accusation that ppl who work from home are "lazy".
They need to start meeting their employees halfway and get more reasonable. Some people could easily work 3/5 days from home every week, every month, like forever. And they wouldnt even notice
"working from home so you can feed the squirrels from the garden"
Yes James. I like beautiful gardens and squirrels are adorable.
You have no control what I do at lunch.
Nor do they ever
Lol loose women isn't p*rn is a day time TV show in the UK and I work from home and I love it thanks to working in IT
TIL but you can see how this looks to the rest of the world lmao. I'm not even mad. The title stays.
LOL what a misunderstanding
Nice linux pfp btw
Is that a book from no starch press ?
LMAOOOOO
I wish company founders understood that workers being all in on their job isn't the same as for a founder. Workers have no equity in the company that makes it worth it. I've had executives get up and talk about being all in, but it leaves me with nothing if and when I get laid off
It's interesting how no one challenges any of these anti-work from home CEOs by asking them to show their numbers to justify their opinion. In retail to justify keeping a location open you look at the profit and loss. Same thing with hiring more staff.
agree. he should at least present how many people in 2021 who wants to WFH compared to pre-pandemic era and then goes on with his argument. it will be nice seeing a post goes like this "the amount of WFH is increasing by 80% by the last 3 years, while some jobs are impossible to do from home, for example, x and y" and not something about loose women or squirrels which is inappropriate to mention in a professional setting.
If I'm an employer, I would love that
I don't want employees coming to work harassing coworkers
Exactly! No fights, nothing getting stolen from the workplace…
Previous was 'digital prostitutes', now 'porn', these analogies lol
these people are just projecting
I'm afraid that other CEO's and companies are gonna try to copy this idea of having a war week.
My company had a similar thing where they get teams from different offices together for a week, get given a problem and then have to come up with an 'innovative solution.' It sounded like a week of hell working crazy hours with a load of corporate simps and suck ups. I just said I didn't want to do it and you can't make me 😂
That dude can't afford the rent for his office space... either that or he uses his company to pester the young women he hires for dates and now he can't troll for fresh meat. Disgusting git.
This just reinforces everything I observed with any corporate staff above the HOD level, they will burn through a companies budget and potential profits just to run their own little tinpot kingdom, this guy's rage is evidence that he sorely misses having people in the room with him to lord over
Imagine spending 80 to 100 hours of your free time working on junk for no reason. Time that could literally be spent better laying in bed and actually relaxing.
If I wanted to drink it wouldn’t be at work. It would be at home alone or with friends. The more I drink the more tired and less productive this would not be effective for me!
Then go to the office.
It's funny how they'll have the alcohol flowing at some of these "socials" at different conferences, to grease the wheels for the giant schmooze fest it inevitably becomes. Drunk idiots making fools of themselves in front of their coworkers, while the stoners who have to hide their stoniness or risk getting fired, look on in bemused bewilderment.
Lol we had a keg in our office at my last ever corporate job. Only rule was no drinking before 9:30 AM. Makes me wonder who did that so often that they needed to make a rule for it.
And I agree. I don’t wanna drink with my coworkers. Seems silly. Only time I drank in the office was my last week of work 😂
its funny then CEO crying that employees save money
while the CEO has very deep pockets
And when CEO's main way of saving money is kicking employees out.
Someone should respond with "If I get to crank one out on my lunchbreak instead of going to yet another meeting about whatever the fuck synergy is, then yes, I absolutely want to work from home.
Oddly specific topic of the meeting 🤔
I really like your expression when you said "Really Shut up" . Totally agree with you Joshua and can't wait to see your next video. As always thanks for your hard work and much appreciated
"Loose Women" is a TV show in Britain, he should have capitalized it.
he talks like it's the 1820's
Hey company owners, you want us to grind? Give us a piece of the cake, make us become co-owners or shareholders then, MAYBE, we might be more motivated to grind
My husband, as a programmer and team lead, worked from home 2 or 3 days a week because his boss encouraged it as it would allow him to make tests at night and avoid traffic. Now it's always from home and the whole company is fine with everyone working from home all the time.
Everything the CEO is saying is projection. He’s the one acting entitled.
This Cox guy sounds like he just craves for the office atmosphere, he probably loves the sense of control being in it gives and really needs every employee to play into it for him
Oh my goodness, if my company forced me to go to some War Week facade, I'd use 6 of my sick leave days or just quit if I had an offer on the side. As an introvert with social anxiety, the 18 hours of work would not only be emotionally exhausting but I'd probably get a migraine from constantly grinding it out for that long. I've done my share of all-nighters in engineering at university. NO MORE!
EDIT:
What about parents who aren't able to do this because they have children and need to be there for them? Do they get War Week exemptions?
"You work at home because you're lazy and entitled!"
yeah, it's a pretty sweet gig.
LOOOOL JOSH IM LAUGHING SO MUCH AT THE “loose women” thing! In the UK it’s a Ladies Daytime Talkshow like the one whoopie Goldberg is on in the US HAHAHAHHAHA !!
You're a hero Josh brah... Keep up the crusade of exposing greedy corporate shenanigans.
This is just insanity
Can we please get a skit of a company culture where 1 week of 12+ hour days is mandatory?
Wearing the clown suit!
If you recut his video with a horror/psychological soundtrack and intensity audio bites when he says how many hours there are… I would watch that show.
I was just kicked off of LinkedIn for arguing with CEO’s about this crap. Is there a way to make another account?
I am laughing so hard right now, this showed me what to avoid when working..stay out of our personal business we do what we want on our time off for breaks, lunch and I'm going to have a fantastic weekend doing..none of your business company I work for because when I'm on the work clock, I'm WORKING-perfect timing on this story Joshua...
I'm an extrovert but i'm so against working at the office lol.
there's a difference between extrovert and cringe.
these companies are just cringe meant for cringy people.
It’s just crazy that these people want to claim workers are entitled when they’re the ones that have been entitled this whole time. People put into tough positions to just get into the office. Commuting isn’t cheap. It doesn’t matter if you’re driving in or taking public transportation. Where I am a city bus/train pass is at almost $100, commuter trains are starting at $250+.
I work from home but i work 3rd shift. Considering how homelessness and crime has shot up in the financial district, it is safer for me to work from home than to be traveling late at night.
Smh. I really can’t understand how WFH is such a problem for them. I’m really starting to think that it’s they simply don’t want worker bee’s to have any level of comfort in comparison to them. They’re trying to gate keep a certain level of lifestyle. They want to be the only ones clocking in from the beach.
hmm, i am worried that China wants to bring the 996 idea to the west
25/8
Why does he assume that just because you're at home you're not doing anything important?
Beats me. The office is where I go to do things that aren't important.
All this screeching about "entitlement" really comes down to these people being terrified about the fact that employees now have more leverage, due to the full remote opportunities that exist now
I'm overly sensitive to noise, light and crowds but I do feel better when I work because it gives structure to my day. I like to DO things and accomplish things but I do very poorly in typical workplaces because it's hard to focus there and constant noise wears me off. That includes sounds that most people don't even notice. I think it's too loud to focus in Starbucks where people come to do some work or reading. x_x
Sadly in my country, where labor laws are ancient and literally non-existent, WFH had become a nightmare!
Employers now have this mentality of "it's not like you have anything better to do or places to go since everyone is on lockdown" so the meetings go on till 9.00pm and work till 12.30-1.00am! Unbelievable?!?! Well, it's true. Gone are the days when you could say "Screw this sh*t I'm going home" and go home and just disconnect. Now it's just toxic. Sigh.
Leave it to companies to find ways to exploit a pandemic!
He's made himself look like a total fool. Ridiculous post by him. He works in recruitment yet hasn't heard of WFH. Sounds like he can't fill posts because the woken up worker post covid won't accept full time office instead of hybrid or full work from home. I hope his staff join a union and get collective bargaining and show the fool who's boss.
Man your channel is the BEST on YT. I love it SO MUCH!!!!
In Poland we have a saying "głodnemu chleb na myśli" ("the hungry thinks about a bread"), so maybe we learnt what that James Cox dude does on his launch breaks? 🤔
I was thinking the same...these moffos seem obsessed with s*x way too much
Josh, Thank you so much for exposing these companies. Your changing the world for the better
You know what needs to go as well? Lunch n' Learns. Give up your lunch break for a presentation brought in for your company and the reward is that they buy lunch. The thing is that 'learn' is a stretch. Mostly they utilize this time to bring vendors in to present their product lines or have an internal meeting to give a new business plan/protocol. Apparently, an hour of YOUR time is worth a few finger sandwiches and chips.
What's worse is that this same company ended up making it a 'brown bag' lunch n' learn. Give up your lunch break AND bring your own lunch. LAME. If there ever was a better time to blast some fish and broccoli in the microwave, this would be it.
By having their employees working from home they feel less important, less powerful and no one to show off to.
I've worked remote and reduced my company's expenses by ~60% and got myself more compensation. I've done design work, collaboration with experts, customer research, interviews, coaching, reporting, customer and employee onboarding, vendor management, budgeting, training, planning, pre-sales meetings/product demos and a lot more than I usually do inside an office space. There are some house rules to follow just like you've office rules. I see remote effective in many job functions, if not all. There are exceptions though e.g. in some countries, there likely be an unsuitable environment such as electricity shedding, unstable internet, joint families living in shared places that makes online discussion/meeting nearly impossible. But if you don't have (or mitigate) such issues, look above what kind of work I've done. It is possible and *profitable* for the company as well as employees :) If your work nature supports it, do it! You're losing a lot of 💸.
Yea joshh..miss this ....WE NEED MOARRRR
I love the logic of the HR guy.
People reject my job offers because they want WFH or other perks to switch from one job to another.
I WANT THEM to stop having this requirement.
Who is entitled now? Do your job, find right talent for your clients. Negotiatiate better terms of hiring or find more reasonable clients. Stop blaming job market and employees for not being able to find a suitable candidate.
Job recruiters are trash they have as much merit as a best buy worker
Loved how he shouts "LONGER HARDER FASTER"
' I get it if you're disabled and can't walk' *stares in migraine disorder*
The “ it never happen before so it must can’t happen now “
Ok why doesn’t he give up LinkedIn and smartphone
Now that's a good suggestion.
It depends, Joshua
If they are paying overtime, they should (I would).
But I highly doubt that they even know the meaning of that word.
I WORK in a corporate environment and only 4 days in office and the rest from home and NOBODY has been cosidering it as any problem. Companies with that vicious attitude as you described will have to tackle with workforce turnover. They will be considering it why it happens what shows only their stupidity.
The internet renders traditional middlemen useless. A recruiter is a traditional middleman.
A non-traditional middleman is an automated middleman, or software-based "middleman". Uber is the perfect example.
"Middlemanning" is easily automated in the vast majority of processes where human judgement is not required. This is why automation of the driving process, aka "self-driving" (on open roads), sucks and always will until it is capable of human judgement. There simply are far too many instances where human judgement needs to be employed within fractions of a second on open roads. The day AI can drive as well as a human because it can exercise human judgement, is the day AI becomes VERY dangerous...as it essentially becomes "human" without having the threat of its own mortality to keep its behavior in check....but I digress.
Back to the original point, any middlemen who are simply too stupid to see this obvious fact of course are going to lash out. They have to make sense of it somehow, and nothing is more comforting than lobbing insults at those who do not prop you up in the face of your own extinction.
The only laziness here is a CEO who is too intellectually lazy to understand that his company is not "entitled" to their clients. Rather, they must deliver VALUE to their clients. We used to call this "earning business". If his services were still delivering VALUE, he would not be losing clients, and he would not be lashing out.
The internet makes traditional middlemen services increasingly worthless, and this CEO is too LAZY and ENTITLED to be bothered to discover a new value proposition for clients.
I hope this "ceo" gets no more work for his agency!
8:42 Yes, it's called being at home gaming.
Thriving at its finest! XD
Couldn't agree w/ you more JF!
Funny thing this. They think its a battle they will win but we will outlive them. In essence winning because they'll pass from old age. They're stuck in they're ways. Eventually something has to give.
I was looking forward to you covering this Josh! Well done!
Most recruiters are slime. Many of them will figure out how to knock you out of your gig just to get a commission.
It's more acceptable to shame workers than to shame companies. Companies like this are just projecting. It's okay to lay off workers and destroy families but it's not okay to resign immediately without putting your two weeks in because it harms the company. CEOs are heavily entitled.
I work at an interior design firm that is basically an architecture firm really. We have 3 people who make all the drawings and one main architect who has been there for 15 years. Making the drawings is super time consuming and we work with clients in multi million dollar homes. One client had a $30k bunk room installed in her house was 70% finished being installed and then they decided they didn’t like it and threw it out. Now all the drawings and time spent on them was wasted. The owner who hops in and out of the office doesn’t know anything about how the program we use works and takes vacation time off constantly. When we have to deal with annoying clients who change things up every week which is very common in home design it doesn’t make anything harder for him. Just pushes the deadline of the project back. But the designers who just spent two weeks trying to get this done have to start over again from scratch. It’s so unfair I’m learning a lot under the Architect and enjoy what I do but CEOs who just sit around all the time and expect you to bust your ass for them are horrible and could make something you like doing feel horrible.
God, the few times I worked from home, I got SOOOOO much work done. If you get pestered, you can check your email intermittently to answer questions. At work, you have to deal with people interrupting you numerous times during the day asking questions...or its just because they're bored and feel like they reserve the right to use people that are working to keep them entertained. All you need is one fuck up to kill the work flow of the entire office.
One of largest enterprise software companies name of which you know and probably hate did internal poll to figure out how people want to work and results were - pre covid 1% was allowed to work from home, today - 45% want to work from home and about 46% want go to office couple days a week. They also noted no impact on quality of work over last year when everyone was working from home, in fact it even improved.
"Hey boss, I can't do war week, my friend I was hanging out with yesterday just tested positive for Covid"
Loose women is a UK daytime TV talk show.
TIL
'loose women' is just a chat show on daytime TV in the UK..but yes he probably thinks people watch all sorts rather than work🙄
Thanks again for showing us companies to avoid! Your doing great work 🙂
And 'Loose Women' is so terrible, I'd rather go to work in an office than watch it.
Mind you, does he realise we just all put Netflix on in the background 😏
To be fair, I'd rather watch an elephant shit itself to death, but point taken.
P.S. I'm jobless as of this week. Might see what's on the box tomorrow...
Working for Genel looks like a hideous experience, even the thought or working for them while watching this video made me feel awful. A desperately horrible place to end up at.
oh MY goodness Friday night codewar!? I would SO not go to that. like you said, go home! the only reason i went to office parties at all is good catering, but the last one i went to was so trash, and so miserably catered (everyone got exactly one plate except the greedy guy in overalls who would always load his plate sky high and tell people he didn't care) that i openly refused to attend the next. I also had to put out a giant ashtray pot that caught fire and was flooding the foyer with stinky clouds of every brand cigarette burning so i went home reeking with the window rolled down in the middle of winter. yeah no thanks
Love how Josh calls out these people. Add to my list of people I want nothing to do with.
My current role isn't perfect, but I work for a large p & c company. We are mostly WFH. Expectation is we come to the office ~ 1x a month for team building/in office meetings.
I designed, developed & launched multiple versions of a software product last year for my own company...BTW, a colleague said it would take 6 months & cost 6-7 figures to outsource....& Ive never been a full-time developer (Ive taught coding courses though)...it took me 3 months of 3-4 hour days (mostly weekdays) to launch said product....the idea of requiring an office, 18 hour days, daily onsite standups/staff meetings to get anything done is completely ridiculous...
I used to work the morning shift at my old job. In order to catch the train, I had to wake up at 0430 to catch the 0518 train so I could get to work at 0630. By the end of my shift at 1500, I was struggling to stay awake.
That is not mentioning traffic or cancelled trains.
What's your opinion on Toptal? I keep getting recruiters from them saying my skills are in demand.
This is so outrageous for a moment I felt like quitting that job, but I don't work there 😆