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I don't even have words. Just sad. 50 years for a cake. Also, if you want the guide - grindreel.com/product/frontend-guide/
The guy getting the cake looks like he'd rather be dead... Damn dude.
The sad thing is that a lot of these employees are convinced they got a great deal.
You see it in 90% of people and it’s sad af dude. But we all have choices to make. Life circumstance may keep you cornered but only for so long. At some point someone has to say enough is enough. I refuse to fall into this “corporate” world bs
50 years of dedicated work and you get a cake.... damn that's harsh - At least I hope he got something better that we don't see, although from the looks of it, I don't think so.
The guy getting the cake is definitely like: "50 years of hard work and you got me a goddamn cake?"
The guy with the "40" cutout? "I'm gonna murder the CEO in his sleep"
My old colleague's husband had his 50th anniversary last year - he got a big medal, a huge party and a fat paycheck for his dedication... Hell, i've seen 5 and 10-year anniversaries better than this.
@@MK_ULTRA420 If they feel like they got a good deal, then its up to us to educate them, I envy that they dont question working in a supermarket for 50 years.......Some days I literally wish I could go back into the powerplant and make all my questions go away.
Worked at a Nuclear plant for a few months. One of the engineers was an employee for well over 20 years. They gave him a solid gold rolex with the papers as a reward/token of appreciation. It was valued around 30k dollars. Thats the kind of company we should all want to work for.
A solid gold Rolex???? Wow. I thought that went out of style decades ago. I bet that guy's name wasn't Homer Simpson.
I'd prefer the money
If you love watches..(a lot of men do).
My MIL worked at a bowling alley for over 30 years. The owner (who owned the company far fewer years than she worked there) had a primo stainless steel refrigerator/freezer to her house. That's not bad, considering!!
I work in the public sector, and we're supposed to have an annual Employee Appreciation Day. Management is given a budget to spend on each employee, to spend as they see fit. Some offices had group outings at a state park, at a ballgame, etc. My office usually had a luncheon with greasy fried chicken and pre-made side dishes. One year, management really hit the IDGAF button by purchasing boxed lunches and telling us to eat quietly at our desks.
The worst of it was my current management who was forced to acknowledge an employee retiring after 35 years of state service. Fair disclosure: The manager and employee couldn't stand each other. We held a staff meeting one Friday, at the very end of which the manager gave a Ho Hum mention of, "Hey, she's retiring. Here's your plaque. Oh, and only if y'all are interested, we're going to go out to lunch now." Yikes. Regardless of your personal feelings, 35 years is a long time and deserves better recognition than that. One of the team leaders in the office we worked out of got wind of this and decided to give our employee a proper send-off. She was so excited, she even brought her wife, which is huge because she was very old-school about keeping that a secret. It was shaping up to be a great day. Until.... Our manager found out and insisting of making the drive down to include herself. She insisted on using that day, A RETIREMENT PARTY, to collect all of our employee's computer and law enforcement equipment. There were a few items missing that could have been left with the office manager and mailed back the next day. BUT NO!!! She insisted on driving down again the next day, and when she didn't see what she wanted, actually insisted on following our employee to her home to collect said items. You read that correctly, folks.
@@ADAPTATION7 lol
In one of the biggest company in europe i worked for, they had a trainer who trained new technicians for 12 years and after 12 years this billion dollar company gave him a 5 dollar gift card. He got pissed (he preferred no gift instead of this because its complete disrespect) and the next day he quit his job and started his own business.
Give him 1-2 years he will come back to reality. XD use to have really idealistic thoughts then i started my own business and understood what reality is and what imagination.
You can never understand and awlays blame employer until you start your own business and find how complicated things are. every company can't spend like google.
@@EL12111 Well a 5 dollar gift card is way too good to be not pissed. If talking about spending, better just not give anything, he would've probably not left the company and no dollars would've been spent on him. A win-win situation.
@@BorsaMANIAC it would be better to give him a badge or something, my brother in law told me that someone fired the janitor where he was working, that janitor was working there for 40 years, the owner fired the guy that fired the janitor, and brought him back, that is when you know the boss respect the employee
Why not fire him and sue the employee afterwards to get back the paid salary
@Sentient being We all play our roles. There can be only one CEO of a company, CFO, CTO , etc. Just like not everyone can play pro football. Know your role and do it well. Everyone benefits.
Wow, I have never seen people look more in pain about getting 'rewarded.' Like every single one of those 40-50 yr workers in those photos looks like they're in the depths of despair over how they got to that point. This was such a depressing corporate cringe ep but super good on shedding light on that bs
Abaratarat those 40 yr employees are the opioid users we keep hearing about. They looked beat down and depressed from trying to make it through each day.
Use it as motivation to no end up in that position
@Jared Kamel some admiration but some stupidity for not recognizing your plight, saving money and no major exit move, become like animals not using higher brain function.
And they actually felt they had to have their picture taken
The first one was really sad. 50+ years at a company. That's essentially your whole life. I hope he made that decision at his own will and wasn't stuck there for reasons not in his control.
I mean, the cake can be a nice thought, in addition to like a month of paid vacation and a plate, or naming an isle after you, or something for heaven's sake! 50 years!!
@@mrknarf4438 There is no amount of compensation for 50 years of loyalty to a company. Give him a cake, give him $50,000 a year wage. It really doesn't matter because he sold his life to that company and a life is priceless.
You guys do remember that people also have lives outside of work?
@@Fif0l Not blue collar America where you're expected to work 60+ hour weeks. It's not a life.
@@griffin955 Why do I keep getting surprised with US labor -laws- lawlessness?
Booing and generalising that IT guy was the most disgusting thing I've seen all day.
Gamers 4 Life the worst part is... the corporate values promote having a great culture and completely go against it with this Booing....
Let that sink in.
It's sad really.
I agree, if they treated me like that i would quit
Would have left on the spot to write my resignation letter.
I think it would have been (from the sounds of it) one person who likely thought they were being funny. An inside joke with the IT guy. Someone you give a little smack and expect it in return as part of their friendship. It didn't sound malicious
True employee appreciation is giving a raise. Fuck a cake
We appreciate how much money you make us, here’s a sticker!
Lol 😂
😂😂😂
Gold star or bust
Step 1: Always on time. Never misses a day. Pretends to never get sick.
Step 2: Gives 50 years of labor
Step 3: Receives gift card to box chain store. Not even enough to cover a whole purchase.
Step 4: Finally pays off mortgage, car and student loans. Retires in old age and failing health.
Dies.
thats life if your not born rich yup
Receives engraved fountain pen and 3 small pastries at a 2 hour lunch in their holiday time.
40 years.
E.R.O
That’s good ol MURICA!!!!!
@SeasonedGamer and still getting trashtalked by everyone above him, cuz u know fuck the poor
Me personally, if I have to endure a job for 50 years not by my own choice but because "shits needs to be done" and "thats all i know and have", I will go down in flames with a big fucking ceremony, I might do some borderline immoral shit on my there, but hell, I will go out my OWN way.
“The IT guy” that dude was more masculine than anyone else there 😂
Exactly!
I was waiting to see the IT guy and when I saw him...😍💜
B itches be jealous. 🤣
and the only one in the place smart enough to figure out how to convert a PDF
It's all fun and jokes until the IT guy buys some cheap ass ammo with his $25 gift card
Lmmaaooo🤣🤣🤣🤣
This is why you can't buy ammo on Amazon. But where there's a will there's a way...
@@tnix80it was a Cabelas gift card
ammo? whats ammo?
In my parents' company (butcher's shop) around every Easter or Christmas our employees, who earn above minimum wage, enough for a decent life, get a bonus equivalent to 1/3-1/2 of their wage depending on sales. Once my dad forgot to give them the bonus and he drove around the city the next day visiting them and giving the bonus.
THAT'S what employees appreciation looks like.
Can i go work for your dad lmao
even corporate jobs have gambling microtransactions now.
That is so horrible. The fact that you can now advance your paycheck or take southland at many companies.
hey hey hey, its DLC. Expansion packs ? no ? xd
Hey, I work at a casino game developer, so that comes with the territory. Too bad good money doesn't come with that.
EA enters the chat
@@Juppie902 9 - 5: digital deluxe gold diamond sapphire legacy anniversary edition
Started my Career in IT last year and tbh there have definitely been moments where our team has felt underappreciated and devalued. A'lot of people don't realize that their jobs are dependent on our maintaining of infrastructure. If the IT guy left for a week and didn't respond to any calls or emergencies, the company would be SoL. Boo us all you want but when your printers don't communicate or the Ethernet is down, the IT people are the last type of people you want to piss off and undervalue.
Love Thy Neighbor it feels like a company that just went against their corporate values...
Let that sink in.
I know a company where they forced their all IT employees to move furniture for conferences everyday!
ex sakiko: I've been in the same spot - not exactly booed at, but really underappreciated and sometimes mocked for my work.
Generally the aura was that IT didn't do shit when in fact we had to bust our ass to get the company up to spec - the IT dept was basically in shambles when I arrived... but that's what you get when you put 70% of the IT-boss' time on other work and let apprentices basically run the department...
Without IT, you're better off trying to sail a ship with no sails or without an engine...
@@TomBabula Thats their own fault. I've worked in a place where the owner asked the two IT guys (me+1) to help him move apartments, admittedly it was during work time, I thought he was kidding, when I refused, it was me who was the one with an attitude problem.
Amen to that! But if an IT is treated like shit, the IT needs to know his\her worth and leave. And if they have certifications, seriously don't settle!
My last day as an engineer at a large corporation is tomorrow! These videos were a major reason for me leaving the corporate world, I'm amazed how many people have told me I have no loyalty and I'm 'abandoning ship.' I feel for them.
Same for me, quitting that corporate cringe shit in 2 months
Congratulations. I hope you are doing well now
Here's what really grinds my gears:
Company events that happen on weekends.
I already spend 1/3 of my waking time at MINIMUM around you people, and that's not even counting overtime or commute time or unpaid mandatory lunches or the time it takes me to get ready in the morning because it's socially unacceptable for me not to smell bad around others, and you want me to spend even MORE of that time FOR FREE????? FOH
This. There was an event at a park about an hour away. Very few people went. Upper management couldn't understand why nobody wanted to drive an hour to eat a hotdog in 100* heat. Just lol.
Comapany's events on weekends should be called "crimes against humanity".
I don‘t know how it‘s in your country, but in mine you can be completely honest about it because they can‘t fire you if you don‘t want to come to such events. I always just said that I don‘t want to come because I have better things to do. After 3-4 months they just stopped asking me.
@@CedarMountainsnow Maybe, but it has never happend to me. I was never fired because I got my work done, but I always made it pretty clear that I'll never come to such events. I see all of you 40 hours every week, I don't need to see you on the weekend. Of course, I didn't say it that way, but I always told them that I won't be coming. And like I already said, after a few months they just stop you asking. The only problem is that if you switch companies, which I have done 3 times, everything resets and you have to explain yourself again. And it takes them a few months to get the message.
Yeah, my current place was spamming us for months to buy tickets for the Christmas party.
Dude, I hate being around you people when YOU pay ME.
What makes you think I'M going to pay YOU to be around you?
"Team player". I hear that a lot too.
I remember a few years back we had one of these 'celebrations' where we were all going to have a BBQ etc. My supervisor and I had a falling out in regards to unpaid overtime that was due to me. He told me that I wasn't invited to that 'team play' nonsense anymore, because nobody likes me anyway...That if I'm so upset and willing to argue over money not being paid to me then why don't I just quit my job, "like I said, nobody likes you anyway".
I told him that I don't give a shit who likes me there or not. I get paid to come and do my job, not to socialize with assholes. If they want to socialize and be friends they can do it outside of work hours, I'm here to do my job, not play around. On my way out, I stopped, turned and finished off with a, "I expect my overtime to be paid end of this week". That's it.
I didn't get to join the BBQ of course, but it didn't bother me at all. People are so weird about this shit.
But the whole "team player thing" or "we're a family". It's funny, they only talk that way when they need something, when they don't then they don't give a shit. Especially when the company goes through a rough patch. For years they privatize the profits and then they want to socialize the losses, suddenly we must all "work together" and take "less wages to help the company, we're all family" shit like that.
Bunch of clowns 🤡
Team player = be my slave and don't complain
Tbh I feel that your supervisor was a cunt. It most probably had nothing to do with coworkers. People like him put you in a position where you feel something's wrong with you by saying "everyone thinks of you a certain way" which may not at all be true.
i used to have groups at a job where the group would buy everyone a coffee. they refused to ask me. one time one of the guys got me one, but never asked me money. i was like if asked me for the money i would pay.
what employees want: respect, autonomy, and the ability to do something meaningful and part of the reward of their hard work.
and the tools to do that proper job.
Not like most companies I've worked for, where you get given tools that are so bad you just buy your own because otherwise the work won't get done.
Squidward has never been more relatable.
If you're still doing videos in 10 years I'll buy you frozen patties and a $25 gift card.
BWAHAHAHAHAHA "thank you for your 10 years of service."
I'll chip in $3 cake and mock coworker talk.
lmfao i'll get the cupcake at safeway (from the soon to be expired rack)
The $25 gift card will have $14.25 left on it.
I'll be sure to send the wooden 1 and 0 for his 10 years!
You nailed it. People want to feel fulfilled, get good pay, and have autonomy. That’s all I focus on providing when I hire people, ping pong and rock climbing is for companies who have no idea wtf they’re doing.
I work at a major bank and I can relate to the story. Employee appreciation day usually consists of a budget and the manager uses it to buy a bunch of sh~t like pizza candy chips. It is the corporations way of appreciating our slave work by giving us junk that make us unhealthier.
Wow! We had an employee lose his wife and no managers offered condolences. Not one and there are 5. No card or anything. We employees had to take matters into our own hands and management did not want us to do it.. We got cards and started a fundraiser for him so his kids would have a good Christmas. Times were tough for him and he was really depressed 😔. He continued to work very next day.He didn't even know that their were free resources from the company for him and his kids. He would have never known if it wasn't for one girl who brought it up to him. Management did not even bring it up because he's just a number. Pretty sad.
My then-supervisor lost her husband during COVID, leaving her a single mom in a job that sees her constantly brow-beaten and feeling unappreciated. She does what she does because she loves the job she now supervises and gets a lot out of her interactions with the staff. So, in her moment of grief, her boss didn't show up. In a way, that was a good thing, because she's one of those divas who gets upset at a funeral that she's not the corpse because no one is focused on her. But still, it would have been an appropriate gesture. Her boss didn't even want any of US to go to the memorial because it was a work day. . I took it upon myself to get donations from our team to give her a donation for the family and for a portion of the Grief Buffet (forgive the expression), which I personally delivered to her front door. Yeah, what she got from us far made up for the faux pas from management.
I can feel the pain in these peoples eyes
Reminds me of Milton from Office Space.
Yes.
Watching videos like these kinda make me want to be a CEO myself and hire people to work for me and treat them the right way and push out all these garbage businesses out of the market on purpose. That's a long stretch tho. That lady at the end is a living example of major disconnect between upper management and employees. If you're hiring a random ass person outside your company to tell what YOUR workers want from you the employer, then this is absolutely abysmal. They would rather pay money for someone else to sweet talk them, than use that money and increase salary for their own employees and communicate with them. Is like there is a jar in the back of HR office somewhere with a label "Filfthy casual fund" and everyone drops cents and a few bucks here and there and withdraws that money to buy cookies and cakes for everyone. That booing at IT guy is just complete dogshit. I think I heared female booing for the most part. God forbid you get in her face for that. What a dumpster fire.
Worst thing's the so called expert doesn't even seem human. "Let me, tiny android, tell you what I've learned from observing humans" kinda vibe. She isn't talking about work itself or holidays but fucking ping pong? And then HR gets confused why technicians just go get another job.
oh its so sad, upper management are always fucked in the head, no compassion no care at all, the only thing that matters is the money, I let them know on a weekly basis that its important to say thank you and apreciate your staff because without them no one would have a job.
Did the same and understood Things are not as easy as they seem. XD
When I started my own company, i use to think how we ill reward our employees. and now after 2 years I know why other companies don't do. Now these videos make me cringe. Because i know how stupid these all business cringe videos are and what the reality is.
@So Who's the Dummy Now? I would ask where is the blackjack and hookers?
Never be the "star" employee. Just do what your job states, get paid, get laid, get out.
Get laid 😂😂
Imagine hiring someone to tell you what your employees want because you are incapable of treating them as normal humans (and therefore can't relate to them at all) and paying them a decent wage.
"Get laid" - That's what "star" employee gets from his boss :D
I got to learn that. Became the star employee at my workplace. Only thing I got was more work. Kinda letting the ball drop on pourpose now so I can be at peace again. Problem is I know I'm watched now.
@@shrihara Yeah, in the ass
"They didn't even give them two cakes each". That's such a kick in the teeth for those two oh my god
And! That cake was bought last minute on somebody's lunch break!
“Happy Anniversary Mark and Dave,” on a single cake, like they’re married or something. Sheesh!
Cringe af mate. I`d rather not getting any reward than getting those stuff.
Exactly
I'm watching corporate cringe of your channel for the first time, but wow this is meaningful content.
I really recommend to watch others episode.
a cheap cake and a photo for 50 years of service 😩
"Thank you for your service."
Welcome to wage slavery.
SeasonedGamer You say that like it’s so easy to start a business. Did you know most new businesses fail? Do you think he’s had the opportunity to take on that kind of risk?
@@Laroc1982 You can tell he still lives with mommy and cant even pay his own bills yet so let him live his basement fantasy
Should have smacked that cake 9nnthe bosses face.
Lol you kept it so REAL! Especially the part about not participating in picnics or company events that companies say are "optional", but that is definitely a company culture strike against you.
If there was free food or it shortened my day, I was okay with it. But if I had stuff to do, it annoyed me.
@Cyber Simba 6 Lol true! Firing (or setting up to fire) someone because they have a life. smh
that first guy looks so sad
We asked the department what they wanted as incentives. Top 3 choices:
1. Paid time off
2. Cash
3. Early leave
-pay is not to be here, pay us more, or heck dont even pay us, just let us leave when we want to.
"pay is not to be here, pay us more, or heck dont even pay us, just let us leave when we want to."
I think you mean
"Allow us the financial freedom to not have to go to work sick/injured, value us more instead of awarding the value of our work to yourself, give us more of our time (The most valuable resource of all) in this relationship where we trade time for money"
If you joke about requests like these you'll soon find yourself with a terrible workplace.
@@krisjohnston5569 he doesnt care. he'll replace those selfish employees with H1B visas.
Instead you'll get:
1. Dress down day.
2. Sports team day (you're lying, we know you're into sports, how could you not be into sports?).
3. $5 coffee shop gift card
4. Picture on wall.
4. Work from home (if possible)
Lol all the people in the pictures didn't not look happy. But the CEO or president looked excited lol.
there like hahah look at this fool making me millions the past 40 years... ofcourse there smiling
i think some bosses are high as kites and have lines memorised. my last company's VP had lines he would parrot as he saw you in the hall. the hey how you doing. if you asked more, he would get caught in a loop.
The CEO must be that out of touch to where they think that they're actually doing something nice when their puny display of thankfulness is anything but.
You know, now that I'm in my thirties, and I look back at my jobs...
Working remote and/or work far away from people sounds more like something I would love to do, than to keep faking a smile at a job I hate. Thanks for the eye opener!
I got a $10 Target gift card for my birthday at my company and my salary was 70k /year, on my 1 year anniversary I got a "thanks for being with us". I resigned the same day. Late night deployments, tons over time without extra pay, and absolutely no mobility.
Oh well they’ll easily replace you.
@@Ewang2727 oh I left. Wasn't worth the trouble. Feel sorry for the poor soul who's next in the meat grinder.
@@Ewang2727lol I think that’s the point
The job is also replaceable, hence people leaving and getting different jobs 😂
The IT guy was the buffest guy there
This one is a shocker actually, the guy spent 50 years working for them, and they only told him thank you! I would give this guy couple months salary and send him and his family on a nice vacation!
I would pay to fly him and his family anywhere he wanted Jesus Christ.
I can't get enough of this series Josh! Keep em' rolling!
About 10 years ago I worked for a smaller company (50ish people total). They would always do "Cakes" for peoples birthdays. We had small IT team of 3 developers and one CIO. He flat out told use he wasn't buying us a cake. The company still bought the cake on their dime. Our CIO would buy us $100 amazon card or something out of his OWN pocket cause he thought the cake stuff was stupid and the company wouldn't approve him buying the gift cards. He made it known the gift was from him and not the company.
Honestly I've never come across someone who talks so much sense and addresses real key job/work issues that no one else addresses. Joshua Fluke, my hat's off to you. Plz keep doing what you're doing, do more of these videos and don't stop. Respect.
My favorites are ice cream and “Have breakfast or lunch with the CEO!”
I’d rather go by by myself
Imagine working your ass off and getting rewarded with a *$25 gift card*
I dont need all those things, i just need an environment to do my work and know that when i get home i dont have to touch work until tomorrow. Why dont employers understand this, we dont want pointless gestures, spend the money on a raise and a guarantee that my time is my time off hours. Who am i kidding they do know this, its just cheaper to pull off this performance.
You know it might be that they really don't know this. Remember these are people with MBAs and just how useless are people with MBAs? Only other MBAs hire them that's how useless they are. So it's very well possible they don't know these simple things.
that's why I don't sell my time for money anymore. I sell services, being a human drone is a terrible offer.
it's like buying a gift for a friend your not really that close to you don't really know them that well or at all so
I am thankful for videos like these. It is finally getting exposed.
@@monad_tcp Which services do you sell? What skills?
Amazing to think that my grandfather's blue collar job at a lumber mill gave him better employee appreciation than these folks. (A little solid gold pin with a diamond in the center. Every big anniversary, the number of diamonds would increase. For 1940, that was some good stuff.)
Still better than 99% of appreciation awards today. Most just give you a certificate of some sort.
Yeah my grandfather got a Rolex for 30 years working as a pilot 40 years ago. Would be lucky to get a drink these days
Even the Italian mafia gave better appreciation to its members than these corporate hacks. Italian mafia even had a name for their appreciation, "getting made" or "becoming a made member" which actually came with real, but nasty, perks.
@@mitpoker7319 Yeah but most people wouldn't want to go through a mafia initiation process.
@@MK_ULTRA420
You've been watching too many movies. Initiation process is only if you're poor and disposable. Most actual mafia members are middle to high class.
And if you're talking about hitmen, mafia have learned to outsource that a long time ago through Ms13 and black gangs.
I saw up on the call center floor a spin-a-wheel thing to win 15 minute breaks. corporate leadership dont see employees as people. that's the problem.
Every company I’ve worked at, employee appreciation was really just given to the insiders or people “in the clique” if you were new or only there a few years, forget about it. Should be called “best ass kisser award”
This. 100%. The people who suck up the hardest and eat whatever force-fed bullshit their managers throw at them get a nice little pat on the head for basically being corporate slaves. It's so shitty and wrong.
At my work it was always a coincidence that the bosses friends or favorites got the trip to Disney every year cause they were hard workers. 40 hours a week sitting at a desk doing paperwork.. Never mind they were a part of the leadership team and were exempt from working 10-12 hours a day on their feet lifting heavy workloads with weekly forced mandatory overtime year after year.
Come to finally find out later that those free trips were not for the leadership team. They were to go to the floor employees. Talk about low....
@@brendaechols5929 yes of course and when you want to take a week or two off you banked over time…it’s an issue
Working for a company once used to be the norm. If things keep going this way, it is soon going to become that horrific compromise you have to make until you can get your hands on other sources of income. Thank you Josh for exposing this crap!
"We know we only get 1 ticket Karen" ahahahahaha. Thanks for the Office Space 2k19 edition Josh! Good warning to heed.
That last woman, is there to tell your CEO what else besides money he can offer their employees, so they lose the courage to ask for more money. I know this first hand.
Hey man your videos help me out a lot. Everyone at my company tells me "it's so great to be here, if you're unhappy just transfer departments in 6 months". You're videos and guidance from my mentor made me realize I owe my company nothing and if im unhappy imma just head out because I can just get another job
"Booing the IT guy." How you know he's in a shitty burnout hellhole that doesn't appreciate him.
I dont regret I discovered this channel by mistake...
same bro
The algorithm is getting pretty good, I've been accidentally finding a lot of awesome channels lately
hate these corperate events so much. basically what they are saying is ""in your freetime you want to spend it at work don''t you?" no i don't pay me fairly and leave me alone.
The previous company I worked it gave their Head of Production a sedan after 5 years of work. These guys are just giving a cake? :D
Rock climbing walls and kegs? Wtf?
I just want to be able to do my job in peace and not be forced into overtime. Instead you have open offices and ping pong tables so you end up being less productive and spending more of your miserable life in the office.
If all the appreciation I get is a social media post and no bonus or vacation time, then I'd delete myself.
You have been deleted!!! *que megaman death sound and r2d2 scream*
Nooo just ask for. Blackjack and hookers...watch as everyone starts to just imagine how that's better than a rock wall....da fuck do you do with a rockwall at a job? Go on your day off?
I wish we had a ping-pong table at work, do some exercice during lunch time. But our office is way too crammed because the bosses are too cheap/stupid to actually find another office with reasonable space for each employee.
This reminds me of when I worked in retail back in college. My first year I told my manager to NOT mention or announce my birthday. Luckily he listened.
I told my manager the same. But it was because I was embarrassed for all the years working there.
I appreciate this. I lost job in the past after not showing up to an “optional” thanksgiving giveaway dinner. It was a sales job where they paid weekly, minimum wage rate (a draw check that I would eventually have to pay back when my sales came in). I wasn’t making much money yet and I saved up as much as I could to provide my wife and I with a really comfortable dinner. Still, if I didn’t show up, I was required to constantly interact in the group chat. I didn’t respond “gobble gobble Thursday’s” when the CEO said for us to because I was too busy spending time with my wife to see it in time. I was removed from the chat and informed via email that I was being fired. Pretty sure he was gonna fire me anyway for not coming in. He used to make us do these corny chants in the morning while he would run in a fucking circle yelling about how he’s dead serious, we aren’t, we won’t move forward in life if we don’t follow him. He would hire these young impressionable guys who, in private conversations I would overhear, talk about how they feel themselves becoming more like him. He would get close to my face sometimes during this “speeches” saying how “some people don’t believe him” lol because I openly refused to see him as better than me. It’s this weird “marketing” company. There are so many of them. I’ve seen copies of it. But really you just wear a suit, sell deals on products like internet, phone, etc.... in stores like Walmart, Best Buy, etc... those people at individual stands. That culture was like a cult, no one talked to me after. Your videos show me this is fucking normal. I thought it was some twilight zone shit. The people actually played into it.
Josh corporate cringe. It's the best psychological analysis about working places since I graduated. It's a great inventory of bs happening in the last 20 years of fake hr and mediocre applied psychology
I can't get over how this is real life. And it's EVERYWHERE
Please keep doing these, they're funny as well as a great way of pointing out why a corporate work life is fundamentally hollow.
Shit like this is a warning to those stuck in the same place and wasting their life away for the sake of comfort. This makes me even more driven to complete my CS Degree. Awesome videos man, came across your channel and I love your content!
“He prob baked this cake himself and they took it from the shelf and gave it to him” exactly
I didn't show up for my 10 year anniversary. I was told that they called out my name, and I was nowhere to be found.
Omg a $2 cake for 50 years???! A VACATION, MONEY, anything is better than a cake!
Thanks, I'm going to have nightmares because of this
People really underestimate the effect of working a job you don't like. I worked a job I didn't like for a year and it messed me up pretty bad. I could actually see it reflecting on me physically and feel it mentally when I came home. Felt like shit every day, no interest in anything sucked the life out of me. My family could see this as well.
I currently work at one of the places in this video, this is the exact reason I am working on getting out.
My company took all of the delivery drivers to Dave & Busters after hours for a Drivers Appreciation event. But before that, they made sure to tell us that we're the most important part of the company and the face of the company, since we interact with customers more than anyone else. They made sure to let us know that we have the most dangerous job and the hardest job in the company.
If I'm really the damn face of the company, Dave & Busters doesn't seem like appreciation. I'd appreciate a raise lol nigga tf. I don't want some damn chicken wings.
Damn, I wish I could get paid to remind CEOs how being a human works.
This is soul crushing to watch
Being responsible for where you are in life and being blamed for it are very different things. I don't go in for reincarnation, Karma, and all that justice of the universe garbage. We're all skittering around briefly across the void into which we will return forever. A little kindness might be, in the end, the only true thing that happens in this life.
Amen .
Thank you man, you've just strengthened my resolve.
Yeah.... Employee appreciation bothers me. I don't want to be part of something I'm not interested in, and I don't want to be ostracized for not being part of it. It's not that I'm not a team player.... I just like my space and privacy. Just write me a check and call it good.
When I lived in America and worked for a big corporation, they all had the same bullshit "values" that the employees had to follow. I worked at a bank where we had to call people by their first name and shake their hand (first time meeting a person..). Most customers see through that bullshit and dislike the fake smiles and small talk. Same with employees, who wants to sit at a meeting with your manager to discuss your "personal development plan" and share my personal goals and thoughts with a person I dont even like. Hate, hate, hate corporate crap.
These videos you do, Joshua, hit close to home and I really appreciate them.
31 years at my mom's job. She had a big party celebration! They decorated the whole lounge area, had catered food, super big cake, drinks, a band, tickets to Vegas , nice good luck gifts, lifetime discounts, monthly fancy luncheons for retirees, etc..the whole works. This company she worked for is a successful grocery chain that takes care of its employees very well. I get jealous cause their company treats the employees so well. My billion dollar company does not cause they got caught in a national scandal for fraud.
Just to let you know that I watch all ads that pop up in your video, all of them all the way to the end. That's how much I appreciate your videos. Cheers!
7:07 the company has 666 followers. Can't make this stuff up.
I work as a vendor at this giant IT company and helped save 1.5mil in Q1 a year ago. My PM got a fat bonus, a plaque and other goodies, all I got was a thanks. Sucks the vendor/contract culture but hopefully this will lead me to FTE one day. I am grateful to have this job honestly, but a raise would have been nice.
Command it
Oh, we're taking this out of your paycheck.
*My company prints out appreciation cards rather than buying them from Hallmark lol. They use the fancy card stock to make it feel real. XD*
"Youre responsible where youre at in life" is what people who got lucky in life say to justify why they are doing better than others
I sold $3000 in room sales at my hotel a few years ago . It was part of a contest for a “prize”
... I won a $20 bonus
Your content is great man! It really gives me hope. I've worked in software industry in Mexico and it's really full of cringe, I've got to admit I've spent a lot of time thinking if I'm the only person who actually hate all of that kool-aid, I mean I've asked myself tons of times why can't we just accept that this business is because of money? And avoid that colorful childish stuff. Man I'd really like to help by adding subs in Spanish to your videos, if that's possible, I'd be glad to help
Can't even imagine working 5 years on the same thing not to mention 50.
A kick in the balls would have been a nice gestured compared to stupid cake plus some forced smiles for a foto
I hate when employers “reward” employees with being “entered in a drawing for a chance to win...”
They give the impression that winners are drawn at random. No, the winners are pre selected.
that cake was probably on manager's special at smiths for $5.99
Gods this makes me want to die even more on top of my already fragile mental state, like I just have to feel bad for these people, but I would genuinely rather die than be the recipient of one of these anniversaries, especially with it being publicised on social media
felt bad for the "IT guy" smh
Just had an employee appreciation day recently and it was a barbecue in 100 degree heat. Between the heat and social awkwardness, I would’ve just rather worked the day.
I got a 15 dollar gift card for another store my company owned once. That store closed two weeks later and was refurbished into a bar. I keep that gift card in my wallet to remind myself to not be so inattentive and to make sure I'm always looking at the intentions and implications, not just the acts people do themselves.
After I saved the company I use to work for close to half a million dollars by taking initiatives, I received a Tim Hortons gift card and slow claps from my coworkers, the worst part was that my manager was psyching me up for something big all that month, I was proud and really excited about it, told my wife, parents. It was ages ago but for some unknown reason it still bothers me.
mackjeez Because you felt played and felt like a fool. The fact that it still bothers you implies you learned from it.
@So Who's the Dummy Now?
I definitely didn't quit at the time, though I did leave several years later since I was offered a job somewhere else. I live in Montreal Canada, finding a job here with my background with a decent wage is like going through torture, so there was a lot of discretion on my part, I had mouths to feed.
Unfortunately this company had people in administration that have ego's the size of a planetary system, I could have been more aggressive/assertive but with the risk of making a lot of people mad, I would have just put a target at my back. I also never received a raise, instead relied on overtime hours, sometimes working 60 hours to make due.
When a company hire an external "expert" to tell them what the employees want, the so called
expert is used as a scapegoat. Big corporations are full of nepotism, especially in the management
department.
"Booooo the IT guy" says a room full of people who can't restart their printers.
Mandatory fun is always fun!
This video is sad as fuck, I find it hard to even go through it because it hurts seeing these employees treated like shit :(
That lady at the end gets paid to snitch.
Corporations will twist reality into a pretzel to avoid acknowledging the realistic answer to what employees want. Better treatment, better work/life balance, and more compensation. That's it. Just dip into your profit margins a bit and compensate your employees more. You don't need to invest money into ways to pay your employees less.
That last lady is totally how HR sees themselves. If you want to know what your employees want beyond ping-pong, pilates and cakes in the kitchen, WHY DON'T YOU GO ASK THEM? It's not that hard, but just about every workplace I've seen seems to be totally inable to use really basic kindergarten logic (or at least their HR departments do). It's sad, really.
Yup. Exactly. Thank you so much my man. Perfectly illustrated. Just became a big fan.
I think this is the Availability Heuristic.
Only those who feel the need to prove they care about their employees don't care for their employees.
Meanwhile those who do care call these people into their office and give them a pay raise or permanent additional vacation days with a genuine thank you.