@@GalaxyStandard77 Gotta put at least one egg in numerous of other baskets. Because some of those baskets will break and you’ll lose your egg, but you’ll still have other baskets that will have a chance to be successful at not breaking.
That dance is 100% intended to be as undignified and humiliating as possible. There is no way the people who made this a thing in the company had good intentions.
There's definitely evil there, but some of these middle-management types are legitimately disconnected from reality to the extent that they could easily convince themselves that employees love doing it and customers love seeing it.
You just haven't met the right (wrong) people. I absolutely know people who would've come up with this, and think to themselves, genuinely, that this is a good idea.
If you look at it through the lense of them being psychos it makes sense. Parents who force their children to do humiliating things in front of family or friends because it's "awww so cute!!!" And people who make their cats and dogs uncomfortably waddle around in human clothes and do human things because "awwww so cute!!!" Seriously. Look at these managers and pretend they're these people's parents. It genuinely seems like some psycho mom forcing their kid to do weird and quirky shit before they leave for the first day of kindergarten
During my time at Walmart, I noticed that many associates were brainwashed into believing that their job is their life, but I didn’t fall for that shit. As a result I was ostracized by their little community for just wanting to do my job and go home. Quitting that job was the best day of my life.
Grow up you people are so freakin dramatic who cares there’s guys out here digging 10 foot trenches in 120 degree heat so you can flush your toilet and you’re crying about working at Walmart like you were in the Vietnam war
I've worked since I was 15 and it doesn't pay and I don't care about work, I do my time and leave cuz work is meaningless and I have better things to do
Best Buy was the same way when I worked there shortly, (2017). I swear, all the higher-ups had this weird adoration for the CEO at the time, Hubert Joly. To this day I only know the guy's name because of how often he was brought up in trainings or meetings. It was creepy looking back at it now. Don't get me wrong, there were some great people who worked there, but they were all the grunt workers or non management supervisors.
"Just to inform you the company has scrapped the christmas bonuses, we've downsized by 40% and you'll be picking up the extra work, no you won't be given any extra pay. Oh but we are running an office pizza party this weekend!"
I just handed in my notice at walmart lol. They expected me to work 20 hours a week in ogp for $3 less than ogp makes. When i took my concern to my Store manager she said i was being emotional and we should talk a different day. I started writing my noticed right there and told her i feel like im being taken advantage of. She also claimed we need to help out for the customer and that helping in ogp is part of the job. I told her 20 hours a week every week is NOT helping its working in that department.
I worked at walmart for longer than I'm proud to admit. Once at my store they tried this "Code Sunshine" policy. Basically they would announce over the intercom "Code Sunshine" and all the associates would have to drop everything they were doing so they could go force awkward smalltalk with customers. Yes, we were understaffed at the time. No, this policy didn't result in any workload leniency. It only stayed for a couple days before workers outright refused to participate in code sunshine, myself included.
i just refuse to believe this it's so absurd. i'd have to stop myself from cutting up in front of the manager if they pulled something like that. i stg if 'code sunshine' came over comms as a customer and the employee whose sweating and bearing tears asks me how i'm doing i'd walk out of the store, let alone working there and being told to do this.
Everybody in my department when I worked there didn't even try to do it when they first implemented it. Code sunshine on the overhead just became apart of the white noise the store already had
I get what theyre going after, but at least it's not like workingnfor Old navy, where you expect to be just sorting clothes and pointing people to what they want.......but end up being forced by management to harass any/all customers that "looked like they were over 60" with store credit cards. What got me to quit was when the manager called me into a store-wide meeting because I wasnt "making quota" with the CC's (10/week was the quota), and she wanted to rub it in by having every other employee tell me what they do, and when the "target older people" came up again, I pretty much snapped. "Oh great for you Sally, you sold 50 CC's to confused old people, do you feel better allowing corperate's hands in these peoples' pensions?" I made that woman cry and apparently most of the staff underperformed for a few weeks after I left It feels good to leave a shit job like that.
I still remember switching from a minimum wage job to my first unionized job. I could have my phone on me, didn’t have to wear a stupid name tag, didn’t have to repeat a welcome line, could wear my own business casual clothes, could sit whenever I wanted, could have a drink and even food between tasks, and wasn’t required to do unnecessary busy work. All that for almost triple the wage I was making before. That was when I realized how dehumanising most minimum wage jobs are. Edit since people thought this was a lie nov 5: I worked minimum wage at places like McDonald’s and Walmart, then applied to a job for the municipal government run landfill that i wasnt really qualified for. I started working at 14 and I was 21 at that time. I guess they were impressed at the amount of work/ volunteer experience I had (for my age) so they called me in for an interview. I had done many interviews over the years so I managed to give a good impression. They hired me. And no it’s not a hard or disgusting job. Im grateful for the opportunity they gave me and I have worked hard to give them a good impression because maybe they’ll give another person like me a chance.
Back when I used to work at Walmart, I made it a point to always avoid going to those "pep rallies" that the store would expect us full and part time employees to attend. I sometimes got shit for not going to it, but that was it. It's already bad enough that I had to deal with shit managers and shit customers, you know? I just wanted to get through the day and go home...
@@thingfish000 I remember working at Walmart, and we had to do the Walmart cheer in front of all the customers. I was just hired, and my manager kept telling me I should lead the cheer, but that I didn't feel comfortable enough doing it yet. Finally it got to the point where I had no way out of it: I had to do it. It wasn't enough that I was good at things actually related to my job, such as talking to customers or stocking the shelves. Walmart demanded I lead a humiliating chant expressing my loyalty . It's an act of dominance, they want to know that not only I can do my job but that I also know I am subservient to them and that I have no choice but to do whatever they say because my income that provides food and shelter depends on it.
@@bigswedenman29 Damn man, I get it but yours is more humiliating. Growing up I wasn't religious at all once I developed my frontal lobe. However since I was in a religious family, they would constantly hound me to do the prayer right before we eat. Since they were so admit to make me religious, I would do a quick bs prayer just so I can eat. "Bless this bunch as as we munch on our lunch." Then I would dig in.
"And why do you want to work at Publix?" " 'Cause I need a job." " 'Cause you need... a job." I didn't get the job, but I didn't lie, and honour beats money.
"Our workers are demotivated and depressed." "What do you think would solve that?" "Higher wages, better benefits, more job security, more rights, more time off." "What if...we made them dance around in a big group? Would that fix it?" "No, I think that would probably make things even wors..." "Tell them all to do a funny dance before they are allowed to work."
Not like anything but i think that the reasons why Amazon workers are depressed, is because of the things that happened in thier life as result of which they now have to work at walmart, they can quit thier job if they want to, but that wont make them less depressed because they still have a shitty life, undisciplined, filled with instant gratification, unhealthy, uncaring, just life of an average person in the 21st century filled with instant dopamine.
@@bloodth1rst Honestly, i talk about every job. Loyalty goes sadly only one way in most working sites, as soon as there is a chance to replace you and give the share holders 0,1% more profit, they gonna do it. I am not proposing dishonesty or doing a bad job. But you work to earn money.
@@peterlustig6888True, its good to have a work ethic in general. But loyalty is not as valued as it used to be pre-1980s. Buissnesses and especially corperations will always find others to fill your place for a cheaper wage unless your skillset is extremely valuable or necessary. Of course not everyone can fill these roles so its important to never grow too attatched to any one job unless there is security and a good wage to keep you there.
@@bilbobaggins9451 the only mistake is you thinking anything about this is human The people who allowed this to happen abandoned their humanity a long time ago
The comments praising Germany when their supermarkets "failed to uphold fundamental human rights for workers" are slightly more cringe. Lidl even keeps track of who you associate with outside of work. Praising one overlord over another is a slave mindset.
That's what happens when COL rises to where missing a single paycheck means you'll risk homelessness. Americans like to act like we're so free, but our jobs have us by the balls and the corporations know that. Unionization needs to be way more common place, but you'll get morons that drink the kool aid and think they themselves can stand up to Walmart all on their lonesome.
I worked as a janitor at a middle school in the next town over. Hated the job, but I absolutely busted my ass for it. Did everything I could to 110%, did exactly as I was told and then some, kissed so much ass to the point all I could smell was shit. Then after three months of doing everything exactly how they wanted, a parent confronts me as I was leaving work that night. She was blocking traffic, I went around her, and she accused me of trying to run her over. Also accused me of “speeding” when I was going maybe 10mph if even that. My brother in Christ, it is a parking lot. It was straight-up harassment, textbook Karen. I had clocked in extra time that night and was gonna get home damn near an hour late, and she kept getting in my face. Took my picture and sent it to the principal, who went it to administration. The next day, instead of calling me in to explain my side of the story, they fired me. After everything I did for them, they believe some lying inbred sow over one of their hardest workers. This is why workers aren’t happy, it’s because this is how you treat us. And I’m not going to have anything of it.
I worked my balls off at a part time Food Lion Quality Assurance job for a year and a half and still only made $9.50 an hour. At least I got like $3400 in coronavirus bonuses
I worked at Walmart for like 6 or 7 months and it was shit. Rude customers, overbearing bosses who have worked there for 25 more years than I and only made 2 dollars more, just awful. If you're under 30, Walmart should be a very temporary place to work; just something to pay the bills while you try to find something else. You'll notice the people who have worked there for longer, just sitting in the break room hanging over their steaming cup of coffee and a look on their face like they just did a tour in Nam.
@@icannon6611 have fun working in the picktower (where the robots and itemtowers drive around) at day, cooking 36 Celsius in there All day, no fresh air, and then on top do it in summer. I has some horrible jobs, but there I only lasted 3 weeks. 3 WEEKS. And yeah the empty sad Vietnam Faces are what I noticed aswell. Nobody there looked happy except the work-security guy and the level 3 people who ran the different sections
I sure as hell dont plan on working much when im older. Shit im gonna start clothing brands, do currency exchange, make youtube ad revenue and combine it with other money sources.
@@progmetalJorge Or the person who is disciplined enough to start their own business wins. It's not easy, it is easier to just get a job and get a paycheck right away than it is to build something. The average person is in a loving relationship with instant gratification. You choose to work for someone else to make them rich with the business they made.
Never let them know your next move. My workplace recently won our unionization vote and I can say with confidence that part of the reason we won was that they never knew why we were unionizing. That meant they couldn’t run a targeted anti unionization campaign and sway people who were less confident. I am also expecting the fact that they still don’t know to work in our advantage when we start our negotiations shortly. Stay strong, organize and never believe managers.
@@humanbean7884 I've never understood the Walmart greeter thing. What kind of person wants to shop in a store where a minimum wage worker is forced to say welcome at the door? Seems purposefully degrading just for the sake of it. Do americans like that? Sick fucks.
@@TheRenofox as the other guy said yes but I would give the caveat of sort of in several other cases they also usually sit at the exit and check to make sure that you payed for everything
Ah, and it’s such a wonder why so many people are depressed. Maybe depression isn’t a mental illness, but rather a natural and reasonable reaction to living in a severely ill world.
This is how I've always felt. People try to make it out that it's about the individual, but I've always felt it's the society we live in that causes such an outbreak of depression
My first wagie job was in a call center and they had this "treat" of giving workers free pizza once a month. Anyway I remember the whole morning till afternoon nobody would stop talking about the free pizza and how excited they were. It eventually came and it was the typical cheap Costco big pizza style with bland toppings. If you worked it out each worker probably got around $1.50 worth of pizza as they got 2 slices each. and this is what they were raving about the whole morning. I knew after that I had to leave.
Observations like yours are what separates us from the NPCs. The normies go into a sensory fit over some cheap pizza on Friday even though they have eaten fast food for lunch and dinner all week then wonder why they have no money left
The people: 😂 the people arent worth working with. 75% of americans cant even tell how many genders there is. Thus 15 an hour is about 1000x below my mandatory minimum pay grade now
@@illseeyaonthedarksideofthemoonWhat's funny is the jobs that actually keep America going are the ones that tend to be the worst. The actual producers almost always get 💩 on
He's the one that gossips and hides in his office on the phone like a COWARD. Most (not all!) store managers deserve to be strangled with those earpieces. Realest ones were the old janitor guys. They said what they meant and meant what they said.
I remember my old job called us all in early on a Saturday and only told us after that we were going to do a ‘group bonding activity’ which involved childish games and dances. Half of us, me included outright refused and glared at management the whole time, grumbling about missing time with family while the rest did so with little enthusiasm. Any attempts to get us to join in were met with looks that could wilt a sunflower and that was the last time our managers tried that. We did end up bonding a little over how stupid our managers were though, so mission accomplished I guess?
That's literally so stupid. If they really wanted to do a group bonding activity than they should have ordered pizzas/tacos and drinks for everyone. It would have worked out much better
what make this funnier is that they would likely be wasting their money on the mandatory medicine because antidepressants don’t even DO anything for half the people who take them! everybody loves to shit on and demonize psych medications but they don’t turn you into a zombie like how stereotypes would suggest. for some people they do what they’re supposed to and are a good helpful thing that alleviates the chemical imbalance in ur body which Maybe is why you feel horrible all the time (we don’t actually know that’s how depression works. it’s a scientific theory, but those are still just informed guesses) and for other people it turns out your depression is not caused by that specific chemical issue so there’s no easy fix, the meds just end up being a total waste of time. brain science is basically still a mystery and no one actually understands why medicines help some people and not other people. its really annoying actually, you’d think we’d have this figured out by now! i was on celexa/citalopram for like 3 years, we recently weaned me off of it cuz it may have been contributing to my chronic fatigue and mystery neurological issues. i’m half convinced that it is a fake medication because it did literally nothing except make my mouth a little more dry. i would forget to take it all the time and not even notice a difference in my mood lol. there just isn’t a drug that can make you into a perfectly happy mindless corporate slave unfortunately :( except for maybe good old fashioned psychological torture! and as someone who’s worked retail and food service since i was 14- half these jobs basically are that already tbh
Wagie, wagie! Get in cagie! Boss needs help now don't be lazy Zero breaks will make you crazy I'll tell the guards to get their tazie Need to get those new iPhones Got to pay those student loans Work your fingers to the bones Bosses need vacation homes Don't trust unions, vote in pairs Buy all of boss' consumer wares We'll stay seated in our chairs And make our bosses millionaires Love your work, love the pain Feel the life drain from your brain Think of all you have to gain As your dreams go down the drain Come on wagie, join the crew! Don't you want your wages too? And if the boss man makes you blue You deserve it, you're a screw! Weekend comes 'round after ages You can come collect your wages Throw your parties, have your rages Then get back into your cages
Former Walmart wage slave here. And i can confirm they do indeed make us chant the wAlMaRt!! Chant. And do the seal claps and bondaged screeching. There was also a secret command that they would announce over the store loud speaker called a "code Sam" and we were ordered that when we heard that command we were to stop what we were doing and immediately go out into the store, find the nearest customer and go up to them and thank them so much for being a valued Walmart customer.. the people that work there are slaves and they are dead inside.. (P.s, EVERY walmart has a cultic picture of sam walton in EVERY breakroom, ya know incase ya want to say a few hail Sammy's on ur breaks.)
@@potatocatstarI no longer work there. But if you want to see it for yourself just go in the morning around 7-8 they usually always do it in the middle of the store in produce or by the registers. They do it so all the customers can see. It's like some kind of humiliation ritual they put the employees through to break their spirits. If you talk to an associate that's been there for many years u can see they are pretty much dead inside. Their eyes have a very hollow glassy look to them and they speak to you with a sense of hopelessness and nihilism.
@@alexlepley2441 at the dc you get paid more and treated better, most of those older people you see come from the dc, they get paid way more than store employees since they keep there dc premuim pay
I worked at walmart for a week. I got let go because my medical issues caused me to miss a day during my training, and because I "didn't smile enough". Never had a bigger smile in my life than when I was told not to come back.
@@AbuHajarAlBugatti Wasn't aware sicknesses and medical reasons gave people a pass and didn't afflict them on their first week of work. Good to know. Luckily for both Walmart and I, I didn't want to work there anyway, so both of us benefitted. And shortly after, I got hired at an aerospace company making more money than I ever would at Walmart :) and am extremely productive there.
"Telling women to smile more is sexist. But us telling our miserable employees to smile more, well that's just code sunshine right there." -some faggot who's a corporate HR at Walmart.
Worked at a walmart d.c where they tried to make us do their dumbass chant, yelled fuck walmart every time. They needed people so bad they just looked disappointed and never did anything
Where I used to work we had an event with Elf in a Shelf where for the whole month of December we had to adopt “elf names” complete with name tags based off of your gender and the first and last letters of our names. Every single one of them was an embarrassment with the men being named raw cringe like Snowball Twinkleton and the women getting borderline stripper names such as Peppermint Valleys. As awful as my company was our managers were fantastic and immediately recognizing how utterly demeaning it was flat out refused to subject us to it, risking multiple write-ups in the process.
It’s genuinely sad to see people in their 30’s and 40’s, most often women, who have had their kind personalities taken advantage of by massive corporations. These people literally work for companies like these for decades because they believe it’s all their capable of because companies convince them that they’re a meaningful and necessary part of a team. My girlfriend had a coworker who was a medical assistant, worked 14 years for a massive medical conglomerate and never once got a raise despite literally training people like my girlfriend who got three raises in her first year. They break you down into little Wagie slaves that never get promoted because it would hurt the company to not have the people who actually work hard in the bottom of the pyramid.
In my country, we have a saying: "Por la banana baila el mono". Which roughly translates to "the monkey dances for the banana". Essentially means the monkey won't do anything unless he's getting the banana, and to get the banana, the monkey will even do things a monkey isn't known for doing, like dance. Never in my life have I seen a more literal visualization...
@@darth_hylian Dude's brain is so smooth that miniature idiots are skating on it. You would think that it would become less smooth because of the skating, but then this dude comments shit like this and it smooths over again.
Or alternatively, work one of the jobs where if they drag you away for bullshit, the store ceases to function. Cart pushing may be the only job in this godforsaken company that isn't soul sucking.
Oh, you mean the bathroom that's already filled to the brim with slackers who're pretending to be taking a dump for 2 hours straight? Riiiight. There's not even room for you in the bathroom at most big stores.
It's strange, almost as if they've been there and done it all before somewhere and don't want to be mocked or humiliated by being forced to do it all over again..
For those asking. Their model didn't work. Local players were protected by the government and customer base, they couldn't match the wages, and they had inept management. The model could not work in Germany.
Pro tips. NEVER move up in position at your wagie job. You will barely get paid more, have more responsibilities, be under stricter observation from management, and possibly have to attend off schedule meetings. Minimum wage means minimum effort. While you work at Walmart or whatever put all the effort you "should" be putting into your job and put it into research and training/schooling for a better job. Make the best out of a bad situation and learn responsibility, pacing, and self scheduling from your wagie job, so when you get a job that actually appreciates you, you can give it your all.
My current job is like this. Many people o it right refuse to accept promotions because a promotion would mean less pay because you don’t get overtime anymore and only have a $3 increase in pay.
@@hungrycrab3297 OP most likely has little to no real on the job experience. Just regurgitating reddit/4chan antiwork crap from the NEETS that inhabit said boards. We were all 16-18 Y/O idealists once.
Shit advice. Friend went from making 15 at canes to now 100k as a manager. Did few weeks of training and boom. Now has a house and nice audi s6. All at the age of 21 you just dont know anyone successful that doesn't involve school .
@@hungrycrab3297 I worked in food and retail for roughly 13 to 14 years? I left after going back to school and moving to the states from Canada for my job. When I left I was an assistant store manager at the time and in my opinion it's never worth the stress and headache in this industry to move up, I had the same logic as using it to benefit my resume. While it's good advice in that sense honestly you're better off just staying at clerk or fulltime ect until you get out, go to school or get a better job, the pay increase and the addition to your resume is not well worth it comparing to how much more you work for such a little increase if any at all. I was on salary making $80,000 a year, didn't include overtime, working on holidays and the extra hours needed to put in on average. I would work 5 days but was always expected to work 7 days a week when other management would go on holidays or working through holidays such as Christmas ect. so I'd say roughly I would do about 25 weeks out of the year which is what half? at 7 days a week. I was only paid for 48 hours of work but when I averaged it out it was probably closer to 60 hours a week. 60 hours a week compared to being paid for 48 so when you work out the math I would only make hourly 26 an hour. 26 an hour to be treated like shit, no matter how hard you worked how well you did they would always find something to bitch about. Anyways that's my 2cents.
Who would ever want to work in a place like this? Forcing employees to dance for meme videos to humiliate you online? I would much rather commit unspeakable things to the management instead.
Goes to show most people don't even have respect for themselves, kind of sad tbh a apex brought down to that level with only a little bit of brainwashing and conditioning.
Nobody wants to work at Walmart, they just end up doing so because they don't really have a choice. It's work at Walmart, or become homeless and starve.
Years ago, I worked for a warehouse as a janitor. Since I was a newer hire with experience, I was forced into doing everything else within a year. Loading trucks, lifting heavy boxes, telling the drivers where to park, training new employees and everything else, but still making janitor wages. Many times, co workers would slack off, and I would have to handle it all myself. While the managers hung out in the office and played games on their computers. My co workers all respected me, but I would frequently get wrote up for things I had nothing to do with. My bosses didn't like me, and made that clear. They just wanted me to handle everything. 14-16 hour days, 6 days a week. 3 years. My body couldn't take the strain and my back gave out one day. I couldn't walk for almost 3 weeks. My bosses just smiled and said I couldn't prove it, and told me to go find something else. Deal with it, they said. 3 years of busting ass, for nothing. All that work, all that time away from my family, for nothing. I broke down. I snapped at my family on my birthday, I drove them away when they just wanted to take me somewhere nice to eat. I said things I can NEVER take back. I have to live with that guilt forever. My back is permanently ruined. I gained a lot of weight from stress and my former athleticism is gone. 11 months, I had no job. I'd lost everything. I followed the rules, and lost. I was homeless for a long time. My diploma ment nothing. All the hell I went through in school ment nothing. Years later, I am my own boss, I do ok for myself, and my family eventually forgave me, but I can't forgive myself. I have more time with family than ever before. I heard many of my old co workers left after I did. My bosses got yelled at by upper management and dismissed. Justice? Maybe. My back hurts like hell every day. A reminder of how foolish I was. Learn from my story. Please find a job that if you don't love it, at least something you don't mind doing. If you are spending more time at work than with your family, you're doing it wrong. We all make sacrifices, don't make that one. You can replace money, you can't replace time or family. This life is all we get. Make. It. Count. I wish you well, friends.
Luckily I think I managed to find good enough job. I spent (wasted) many years trying to study for an engineer, but could never get into engineering job. About a year ago I started at a factory that builds diesel engines for agricultural machines as an assembly line worker. Prolly not the most meaningful job, but it pays quite well and honestly I feel like I actually like doing it. Drive to work, shut off my brain for 8 hours, build some engines, get paid every 2 weeks. Pretty much stress-free. Besides I'm very interested in engines, agricultural machines not so much though. At the moment I'm quite happy with it. I prolly don't want to spend the rest of my working years in the assembly line, but luckily there's good opportunities for different work tasks within the company, some of which sound very interesting to me. The shifts are also pretty much set in stone. 8 hour shifts, monday till friday, alternating between morning and evening shifts between every week. Sometimes there's extra weekend job offered. Those offer some awesome pay-bonuses (get like over a weeks worth of extra-pay from two days work), so unless I have something else planned for those weekends I usually like doing them. It's still gonna be only 56 hours of work for the week, and those arent done nearly every week, so its mostly 40 hours per week.
@@mywifesboyfriend5558 why did your bosses hate you? I will never understand the mindset some managers have in letting personal opinions have an impact on work
@@palmo34 I think it was because my co workers respected me and my opinion over theirs. Also, sometimes people don't need a reason to hate you. Even Superman has his Lex Luthor.
My first job when I was 17 was at a chicken place. The manager wanted me to put on the chicken outfit and promote the restaurant by standing outside holding a sign and attempt to interact with people in a “ charismatic way”. I refused but somehow didn’t get fired. Its a new type of low when managers want to demean their employees this way.
That seems to be one of the older corporate humiliation rituals out there. Every time I've seen someone in some stupid costume being a clown to 'promote' their company it just makes me sad. I don't think it's ever worked to garner business except maybe occasionally out of pity.
Most big companies like this will do nothing when you call their bluff about breaking rules. They use employee handbooks and customer service standards to create an illusion that you could easily be fired for a minor infraction.
But they do fire people because there are a lot of unskilled nobodies eager to fill in. The cost of losing you is simply losing somebody who already was invested in with a month or two of being taught the basics. That's why not learning anything of use is the reason for you having to suffer this humiliation, not your boss.
@@georgelincolnrockwell6248Villain Title: The Overlord Of Chickens Goals: Get revenge on boss, and employers who underpay their workers, and create a utopia for underpaid workers and chickens, create a chicken empire Crimes: Chicken riots, Conspiracy, World Domination Weaknesses: Electricity, Ice, Chaos.
@@justinarzola5782 i know right, seeing Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk get richer by the day while the working people struggle to get by is soooooo wholesome
It is a really underwhelming, boring, nihilistic and bland, grey dystopia, TBH. At least in some fictional dystopias you get some epic military marches and some sense of community.
@@TimtheEnchanter25 Wait until our militarized police is marching through your neighborhood when you and your neighbors start acting out over not having access to luxuries like food and water.
people complain about gen z but the real problem are the older gens giving us shit ass wages, healthcare, and really fucking anything having to do with money.
The issue is they were brainwashed to never complain and take it all which allowed everything to go downhill without anyone keeping things in check and now the younger gens are forced to clean up their messes and the older gens are still brainwashed into believing everyone should just be quiet and let it get worse.
Think about why management *FILMED* it. It's not to create a fun viral video but to be able to identify who is and who is not "on board" with their shenanigans. Obviously the employees can all see the camera filming them and are having to pretend to be having fun or risk future consequences. I feel bad for them.
my former employer gave us these childish looking backpacks and pencils on 9 eleven a couple of years ago. I was like so are we celebrating this now? surreal shit.
When things got bad during the recession and I had to work at Sam's Club, my check was always late from a group of managers that hid in their offices and gossiped. I nearly killed the skinny pencil neck store manager Tom. Got fired, took unemployment and now I'm a self-employed contractor making more than I ever have. Disgusting regime. Don't take their crap. I could still punch that dude in the face
You know that one person who slacks off, shows up late, gives 10% effort, calls in sick every week, and doesn't care at all about what the bosses want? They are doing exactly what the corporate employers are doing to people with a good work ethic; taking advantage. If your employer gives you an inch, take a mile. Rest assured that if you give them an inch, they'll take ten miles. Your employer is not your friend. Quite the opposite in fact. They only pay you because it's illegal not to.
I am by no means defending them, but the law is not the reason they pay you. If they didn't pay you then you wouldn't work there. Bad pay = angry/reluctant workers, no pay = no workers.
This is why my attitude to work now is literally do the bare minimum I can get away with. I don't work with a team so it doesn't burden anyone else so I literally take 10-15 minute ''toilet'' breaks every hour, along with my usual breaks. I arrive 10=15 minutes late and leave 15-30 minutes early when I can. Obviously that time-keeping ain't gonna cut it in a lot of jobs but I can just about get away with it. I sit on my phone and read books. I zone out completely the rest of the time. I still cover shifts if my colleagues need a swap, but I won't do anything extra anymore. I don't go to work "events", I avoid the Christmas party, I'm not on any of the Online social groups or anything. I'm not in any work cliques either, and I don't bitch about people, so I kinda go under the radar. Somehow I've got away with this for 6 years now -- I still get everything done that I need to and I act friendly and polite with everyone doing minor quick jobs for them to bank some brownie points when I think it's useful, so I suppose that helps, but I'm not about to stop anytime soon. I'll keep pushing it until that very first verbal warning and then I'll increase my effort by just enough
I was doing the same on my minimum wage job. And then there were cashiers asking where I live and bragging they live freaking far away and still make it on time. I didn't answer anything, but I thought “yeah, okay, if I wasn't fired for coming late, it means it isn't necessary to be on time, I don't mind if you will”.
Imagine its Thanksgiving midnight. Your corporate overlords demand u come in at night to do your mandatory wiggle before taking on the hoard. They remind you that you are lucky to be paid a dollar above minimum wage
imagine going through school and having to do those stupid ass assembly dances just to get a job where you have to do forced dances for your corporate overlords
Thats because school doesnt teach any production and as a result school grads only ability is to go to a retail store and help distribute other peoples products
@@broadclothjack Reason why u gotta teach urself a skill before it's too late outside of school, and try to get a job with it. I'm tryna develop software and currently got a little under 2 years before I get out of highschool to expand my skills.
I worked at walmart for a few months when i was 19. I thought these little rallies and chants were a joke until I was coming in one day and saw it. They tried to pull me over and get me in on it but I laughed at them and walked away. When they fired me a week or two later they legit told me I had been promoted to a customer.
I worked at Home Depot in my early 20s, and they fired a guy using the same phrase. The way people laugh about it "promoted to customer, promoted to guest" is fucking wild
I worked at a walmart as a cashier while in college for about 3 months just to get some cash for books. I never had to do anything really demeaning, I'm pretty sure the managers bullshitted a lot of things, but I do have a funny story. While working there one of the managers got fired, and his replacement learned I was a chemical engineering student. So he pulled me into his office and genuinely asked me how they make water. I thought he was joking but once I figured out he was being serious I tried to get him to elaborate to which he explained that he thought tap water came from the water factory. I kinda explained that water wasn't really made and it was filtered from a sewage treatment plant and he got pretty concerned. He asked if bottled water was safe and I just said sure to quell his worries and from that day on he was never seen drinking out of anything but bottled water. The day I quit he shook my hand and said thank you for explaining it to him. For all I know he's still out there sippin' a bottled water.
They still laugh to this day about how gullible most college kids are, and how he could convince you he didn't know something almost unbelievable by feeding into your image of being big brained. That, or you're lying.. which is somehow even more bland.
Ted made some good points, but over all he was kind of an idiot. His manifesto was politically incoherent and boiled down to ‘technology bad’. He successfully identified all the symptoms of consumer capitalism, but never actually identified it as the source.
Remember when "just get another job across the street" turned into "you should be thankful that you aren't fired from this one?" Always remember, this is a game of humiliation, where you have no individuality in an environment about "the individual". They'll tell you to kneel and expect you to ask "how low?"
@lethargy764 and could just walk somewhere and ask for a job. now your resume gets thrown out by an AI and if you're lucky enough to get invited to an interview, they won't bother calling back. LOL
I worked for the organization that manages the airport in Washington DC. I was in a position classified as 'Emergency Essential Personnel". In November of 2020, I tested positive for Covid which I most likely contracted at work, since the entire region was on lockdown and other than work, I stayed home. When I told my employer that I had tested positive, they claim that I failed to follow protocol and subsequently suspended me for three days without pay and put a letter of reprimand in my permanent file. So in a nutshell: 1.) I came to work (because I was an essential employee) 2.) I contracted the virus (Most likely at work) 3.) I was suspended from work because I contracted the virus 4.) The people who decided that I should be suspended were not essential and were allowed to work from home 5.) I began looking at my retirement options When I retired 2 years later at age 60, my employer was shocked and couldn't understand why I wanted to retire. Fortunately I was able to maintain my retirement benefits and have zero regrets.
@@nameynamename3758 The average manager is not keeping track of their employees more than the bare minimum. They're not prepared for anything at all. Something as normal as a sick day or retirement makes them start sweating bullets as they may actually have to do their job.
This is exactly what will lead to people keeping quiet about such medical information during a potential next pandemic (or epidemic) and have them simply showing up at the job while being a biohazard. Such corporate toxicity will backfire for sure...
I worked for a major company that wanted us to "shake it off" and dance to Taylor swift after the holiday season was over. It left a deep scar in my brain as cameras rolled. I knew it was time to LEAVE. I'm so happy at my new job!
I'm on the other side of that business now.. I had a good relationship with all the vendors and started a driver/merchandiser position with one of them who's business I liked a lot. That was about 6 years ago. 🙂
There is something so primordial and evil about the Walmart dance. I would rather be a serf with cancer under the worst feudalist regime than "live" like a wagie. At least you would have some land and you would serve only one lord.
Back when I was desperate for work during the 08 recession in my early 20s, I got an interview for Walmart. I figured how bad could it be? The manager I spoke to put me ahead to the final interview since I apparently sounded smart? After watching the bullshit videos in how great Walmart was, everyone got up and started doing the Walmart cheer. I had no idea this was a thing at the time, and I stood up with them since I assumed we were going on a tour of something. I stood there, a look of absolute horror on my face as I watched in bewilderment as everyone around me sang, clapped and danced. As I left I told them not to call me again.
Agreed, atleast their is honesty about Serfdom. While it sucked ass usually your feudal lord would want you to get married and have children, so they can labour when you die at age 40. With this you get the illusion of being free while your spirit erodes. And the paycheck is not even enough to sustain you alone.
@@volatilesky when I applied for chickfula and got the job, we had to use this pathway training app. One of the modules we had to watch was a 40 minute video on the starter of the company being one of the greatest man to ever live and why chickfula is the best fast food chain to ever exist. It honestly felt like a cult indoctrination video. I just left my phone on play and went to the other room after 2 minutes. Also chickfula was the worst job I ever worked. If your job isn't going to pay you more than 15 dollars don't do it
@@southpaw117 My roommate and I were both working at McDonald's, I skipped out on work with the plan to just say I overslept and come in later but the manager asked my roommate if he could drop by our house and try and wake me up and he said yes. The manager knocks on the locked front door for 10-15 minutes with me in my bed doing my best Anne Frank impersonation. Eventually the front door swings open, I guess the constant knocking did it in, but it's still kinda a mystery to us because the lock and everything was still fine. Manager finds my room and I "wake up" with him hunched over my bed.
For anyone wondering what the Walmart cheer is, I can tell you, I worked with them twice in the course of 2 years in their distribution centers. It goes like this while clapping your hands. Oh and also if you didn’t do it the managers did threaten you with a write up. GIVE ME A W W GIVE ME AN A A GIVE ME AN L L GIVE ME A SQUIGGLY ~ *here you were required to shimmy down* GIVE ME AN M M GIVE ME AN A A GIVE ME AN R R GIVE ME A T T WHATS THAT SPELL? WAL~MART WHOSE WALMART? OUR WALMART WHO’S NUMBER 1? THE CUSTOMER Yes every time I did that chant every morning before work I genuinely wanted to kill myself.
The amount of silicon valley oligarchs who saw things like Cyberpunk, Blade Runner etc and interpreted them as an instruction manual are really telling.
@@Cobalt96720 -sucks, yeah, I'm sure pear would agree. The native American reservations get universal income here in the states, and the majority of the residents don't work and as a result private companies won't open locations within them.
i think i remember when this new program(?) was implemented in kroger, it was a 'talk to your boss about what you're worried about' thing. anyways, i quickly found out it was because one of our workers had committed suicide. it was completely performative, because we were all still on pretty much my state's minimum wage. to this day i still work in retail, just a different company, and i'm starting to wonder if life it worth it myself if this is all that's left for me, especially given i need to pick up another job if i ever want to get out of my living situation
When I worked at Walmart we were supposed to do the stupid little pep rally chant thing every day but we straight up told corporate to get bent. They already busted our balls over taking 2+ hours to unload the truck (I’d like to see them get on that truck and throw all 3000+ pieces onto the line when the trailer is literally baking in the summer sun or a total ice box in the winter) so we told them either we waste time doing that or we do actual work. I never once in my entire nearly 7 month time there had to do their gay ass little chant. The job itself honestly wasn’t that bad but the managers were almost universally Peter principled assholes who took sadistic joy in crushing your spirit in the most passive aggressive ways possible.
I worked at Walmart for 12 years after highschool, 5 years cart pusher and the rest truck unloader. I went to unloading to spend less time with customers, Walmart eventually introduced the "one best way" policy where they laid off a 3rd of the staff, and unloaded their duties onto the remaining staff. Suddenly us unloaders were expected to now stock shelves of all the non perishable items from the same truck we unloaded because the people who used to do that were gone, or their job was literally "customer experience": not stocking shelves, just making customers have the best experience at the store, so they said. They also took away the people who cleared the area where the truck was unloaded everyday, so we had to take time to do that ourselves but were also expected to be done unloading the truck as if we didn't spend time clearing the area because we were expected to clear it the day before by stocking shelves. This resulted in stock not making it to the floor everyday because 8 hours is not enough to do everything they demanded and the backrooms became clogged with back stock. Gods forbid if you pointed any of this out to a manager.
One time, my old manager asked what happened to an employee he hadn’t seen back at our particular store for a while when he was visiting, while the store manager was beside him. “He got fired” I said plainly, “He was let go from the company”, said the manager back with a look of what I can only describe as corporate shame and shock for using an “outdated term”. Looked right back to the aforementioned manager - “yeah he got fired” They really choose not to realize that the only people who happily follow along are those that who have given up, stupid people who make poor choices, or young people who have had children too quickly and cannot afford to go back to school. You cannot force someone with a realistic mindset to just “be happy” at work when they know they’re making barely enough to save, and the boss (who probably inherited his company) has enough money where his occupation is literally “factory owner” or something, that being “I don’t work myself to make my own money”. These are people that value toys and cars more than family and life, people that value material over blood. One day I will pack up and leave, I know I can survive and would rather try my luck with the literal moose and wolves, over the wolves that pay you just enough to make them money
Man this comment hit home bro. Very well articulated. Regarding having kids too young, that was me. I was a carpentry apprentice who ended up stuck in civil construction for a major corporation for 8 years working with chemicals that I was allergic to that gave me burns and health issues but I had to because I had kids to feed. Was soul crushing and the worst kind of backstabbing, brown nosing corporate b.s you can imagine. I refused to kiss ass ir backstab the entire time I was there. It wasn't til the first c0vid lockdown in my country where I realised I could provide on a significantly lesser wage. So I took a redundancy and finally left. Felt like freedom. Just bought a house for my fam. Now I'm working in residential building but am leaving toward the end of the year to pursue a career In videography which is one of my passions. Life is TOO SHORT to waste away in a career you despise. We break our backs for crumbs while CEO's get the Loaf. Fxck that noise. Be your own boss!
Day by day as I see the homeless crisis rise I wonder if how many are just trying to escape this crap.... this flat out... rat race. "Pursuit of happiness" bah... humanity turned it into a race. Now people trip eachother over to get to a place that's big enough for everyone.
Inb4 op doesnt understand property laws, moves onto remote state or private land thinking he will be offgrid mountain guy, someone eventually notices and op either gets kicked out by feds or shot / arrested. curious where u might get the money to afford even the one time move, property acquisition, and basic necessities even in an ""off grid"" house. Gonna have no internet or electricity? No running water? Or what?
Having a stress free job with good hours or being a NEET and watching wagie humiliation rituals must be how a Medieval noble or an early American plantation owner must have felt. "Now, I say, boy, run and get the manager now. I have a complaint to make about your service here at the checkout line. Now run along!' *Sips mint julep*
Okay I disagree with this because I worked with Walmart until 2021. The anti mask people were way worse than the pro mask people. Some dude drew a gun on the employees over being asked if he wants a mask. And when the cop ran up to him he put the gun back in the hostel and it went off scraping his leg like he was barney in the andy Griffen show. And I have 3 other stories with anti mask people with guns and could write a book about the two anti mask parades, vandalism and just straight up immature and rude behavior. I was more anti mask until I met the real anti mask crowd. Now they are just a reminder of what kinda of people to look out for in the future.
@@aerystargaryenii2565 yeah. It's sad really. Like it's just a mask and Precaution. People were stupid. Acting like it was going to last forever. Look now.
@@tumultuousv yea. And what really grinds my gears is Trump said to get the vaccine anyways after months of getting people wild up over the idea of vaccines, masks and social distancing. I like Trump and supported him in 2020 but he handled that whole situation poorly i understanding not wanting to lock down the country after printing fresh new bills for the economy but he was more worried about the economy than the peasants. Now we out of the pandemic but stuck with now declining economy and got a half dead president in office who can't even stand up straight.
Walmart is the biggest cringe corporation out there. From this shit, to calling managers "coaches", it's like they wanna make you feel bad for working there!
Theyre in a herd like sheep. Ive seen walmarts they organize in circles this one likes to be hearded like.sheep. they want tp be given orders to dance and for how long. They want orders to jump and wonder how high?. All fof that glorious 15 bucks
They’re right where the employers want them. Honestly I kinda feel bad for the middle managers though. Some of them are downright evil, but some of them are under threat to do this crap (or else you’re fired.) Some will claim you should quit, and I agree with you, but you never know what the situation is like at home and if the manager has something else lined up.
Hunter gatherers can't produce small arms. This situation doesn't have to be the result. A little respect for human needs, known as the Evolved Nest, can go a long way to creating lifelong resilience and happiness.
@@Swedishmafia101MemeCorporation there is a difference between settled agricultural societies and emerging feudal societies employing serfdom. While sedentary agriculturalists were not as nutritiously fed as hunter gatherers, serfs were the only group leaving behind seriously stunted skeletons which died early.
@@chillycaty Yeah, there will always be "some people" some people are sold into slavery in Africa at the age of 3, some people are born with broken dick thats less than 1 inch long. Some people are born in France. Life can always fuck you up, and so im just talking about majority of average people.
@@AVI-lh6rm What causes wage cages in the first place is that people who refuse to learn new skills, adapt, overcome, improve, and instead prefer to fill themselves with easy instant gratification, dont posses anything meaningfull that they can provide for the economy, and so naturally they get the only type of job they can do.
@@Nobody-Nowhere NO IT'S NOT. It's what, WAGE SLAVERY is. And communism. Capitalism is about people WITH CAPITAL that gets INVESTED. But you blew all your money on iPhones and woke crap made by chinese factory workers in slave conditions.
I remember the time I was in the back of the store(Walmart) paralyzed from the shock of the worst food poisoning I've ever had. No one there to help me because they were all in the front doing this stupid dance meeting. When they found me crawling across the floor, they called the cops and told them I was having an overdose.
No idea why someone would see someone crawling on the ground and think “overdose”. I mean, I’d assume injury or profound sickness but Walmart workers are just different I guess.
I remembered working at Chick Fil A on a Saturday. We made over $300,000 in profits that day, a new PR. All my coworkers were so excited and happy about that and I was over here thinking, “Do we get a cut of that or something?”. Nope, just a pat on out backs and a good job from the management. That’s went I realized I had leave this wage slavery job.
You shouldnt have joined unless you can negotiate a cut of the profits. Thats why i dont work fast food. Its a slave scam. You make the mcdonalds 1 million profit you still get paid 15. If they dont allow fair negotiations for these things like profit sharing you need to quit.
@@TheAnnoyingBoss The natural issue though is not everyone can wait around for the ideal job. If you can't sponge off of friends and family, gotta work to live. Even if its being a wagie.
Because you didn't build the company. You made some sandwiches. Become a business owner and you can take as much or as little of the profits of your business as you want.
A warehouse was hiring I was told they had applicants wait in the lobby. They kept sending out people making them move to different chairs. This went on several times for 30 mins. Then they went in for the interview. They were trying to get a read on people like how they take instructions and get ordered around by random people. Id assume they were watching on a camera. If they are going to treat you like that and you aren't an employee, image the tactics if you get hired.
I remember the stories of those weird interview gimmicks. Telling you you didn't got the offer then leaving you in a room 'alone', putting random objects out of place to see who pick them up, the only people who ever did well on those random-ass tests are those who already knew the gimmick and knew what to do and what to say.
@@Vitorruy1 Those are actors to entice people who didn't know. I know that too!, it gets worse, they already have the people ready for the position, they just want to sound unbiased to hide the unlawful hiring away from labor agents!!!
As a retail employee of more than two years, I feel this pain. I’m so happy that I’m finally getting out of this hellpit and getting into marketing in a couple weeks. Can’t wait to see the smug/brainwashed grins of my coworkers and bosses completely disappear once they realize I just put in my last two weeks. We’re all gonna make it bros, God has your back.
