"CAREER CUSHIONING" - THE LATEST DUMB "NEW" JOB TREND 

Amen.

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spot on!

So long as they maintain their good looks, their job is secure. Their looks bring in viewers, and that's all their bosses care about.

no, it is not. they have plans and schemes from a to z but they don't want that for you. the perfect employee is a hard-working highly skilled person that thinks they can't do better or who folds easily to pressure from authority figures.

They look at it from a workers perspective when it is something that can gain them ratings, views and web site clicks.

because the corporate owned media is serving its own interests, not anyone else's. it would be against their interests to represent the other side's view. Thomas Jefferson wrote that if we ever lose our free and independent press, Democracy will fail.

They don't know how anymore. They only do news from the corporate gaze, and are AMAZED when us plebes do anything that bucks their hand fed narratives.

I wonder why

That’s a feature, not a bug.

Corporate: masters of the art of saying "You're our slave" without saying "You're our slave".

lol

It’s psychopathic behavior. Are these people even human or do they have plaque in their brain?

Toxic relationship exposed

Corporations: I don't understand why you're not loyal to me when I will throw you away without remorse or care in a few seconds.

Omg is that THE Jason Larsen? Pioneer of work place trends?

@@icebite9888 Apparently. I was the last to find out. 🤣

The quiet quitting is my favorite, I worked for 40 years and I did not know that I was a quiet quitter the whole time. Phew, I made it to retirement!

Neither are fun. It’s just one allows u to be comfortable, if just for a while. I’ll let u be the judge which one. 😐

Eloquently stated.

We're just serfs to them, neo-feudalism type shit

They really just wanna bring back slavery, don't they?

@Andre Jarboe Yeah after years of 3% "inflation raises" you should consider leaving asap. Giving a top performer inflation non-raises is a form of quiet firing. I was there years ago. They only care when you submit your notice.

Yea, they only care when u submit your notice. I was at a job that treated me like garbage. When I submitted my notice, my supervisor became the nicest person in my life trying to convince me to change my mind. Riiiiiight…. That happened twice. I’m sure it’ll happen again, as usually what happens twice will happen a third time.

I've heard things to that effect before.

I think, in the false analogies to relationships, they essentially did say that.

@@Seattle-2017 mark my words, before the end of next year, poor Josh is going to have to do a "career cheating" vid lol

I don't know that sounds like some sort of socialism.

@@GTA_500 yes, we slip ever closer down that slippery slope every year. Be careful who you vote for.

Exactly!

They are using NLP techniques.

@@JulioLopez-xz5kx tell me more.

I agree!

We need a term for when these terms a coined with the motivation to gaslight and demoralise. Um coinlighting??

Just caveat that it took me to a mental health breakdown. Employers will use every way to gaslight or subjective tricks to say you're not doing enough on your work load. They think you're a robot however you have to think of yourself as a business and put yourself first. Always have options.

I really love freelancing, it’s an awesome way of earning a living while dealing with your own schedule in your own way (almost perfect for people with mental health issues). Yet I am, honestly speaking, afraid of fully switching to freelance since I am a foreigner living an EU country where being employed before getting your permanent residence permit means less issues with your visa. But I’ve already promised myself that I’ll be a happy freelancer after becoming a permanent resident of my new home, which is going to happen in less than two years, fortunately.

Doing a bit of 'Job Hopping' is good for your morale as well. It builds confidence and it means that when you lose a job, it isn't the end of your life. It's just another page in your "How do I make money to support myself" book. See it as being a freelancer for different companies...

I’ve started doing doing temp work as I can pick and choose and my employer has no control over me beyond what they have hired me to do for a week

Yes, the whole live to work doesn't work at end of day. Loyalty from company is thing of the past.

Anyone still using that gap nonsense this far into the 21st century is a relic to be avoided. Unless you actually like that constant thumb holding you down that was so popular among employers of the 80s and 90s. What if you're a contractor who scored 3 times his usually yearly salary by taking a project in a very nasty place, and decided to spend the other 6 months in Thailand instead of rushing back to work? I have many gaps over the last 2 decades because I really like taking as much time off as possible NOW. Why wait until I'm old and feeble? Makes no sense. Sometimes I suspect it's the protracted jealousy one might expect from a petty interviewer who spends life chained to a desk and makes half as much. Usually I laugh off the issue, knowing the interview is over the moment they said Gap (goes for the clothing outlet as well). If I deliver the goods, who should be making my schedule?

Which is why your last job is always listed as current on your resume or you lie about because they're lying to you about a few things about the job anyway.

There are people whose job it is to come up with this stupid shit to see if they can essentially advertise any worker power out of existence. All we can do is notice when it is happening and laugh in its face.

@@armamentarmedarm1699 Which sucks, I'm usually such a good slave.

Never be loyal to any employer. Use them and get the cash, then leave

that sounds lazy! don't you know the we need that water for nestle water bottles??!!! drink less water obey

Hydrating? What about the bottom line and productivity? I disagree with it because more productivity= more money, fellow worker. People don't need water, people need to work hard to support the company.

Ingesting fluid with Newtonian physics called Dyhydrogen Monoxide.

Whoa - Hydrating? Cool idea! Do a LinkedIn post about that. Maybe one of those TV shows will pick up your new innovation.

How dare you only drink when you need to! Lol you need to consume more product!! Or else we can’t buy our third home!

Fr I've had bosses refer to employees as "assets" and "resources." Gotta love the dehumanizing as we are just a means to an end.

HR, human resources.... I mean it's in the fucking name

Well naturally. They have all the money so that makes them better people than us.

I quit my job right after Christmas Merry Christmas to me 🤣

Yup! They want compliant workers. Turns out that's women.

Congratulations! I hope you’re doing well now.

@@JJDK485 I am extremely well, thank you. I am now retired now and that was many years ago and I just do contract work on a personal subcontractor level. I was raised not to take or give shit. I took no shit from any employer nor in the ARMY, Active nor State Guard. The State tried to screw me out of my 20 years by letting me go at 18, as was the States right to do, to get my retirement as doing 7 years in the active service during the war with 20 years total service would get me Full active retirement and not reserve retirement that was close to 1/2. So I enlisted/transferred to the ARMY Reserves active service for another 4 years and received my retirement. Screw the State! They pay 25% of my retirement! The rules on service retirement change and get complicated with mixed active, reserve e, and guard service. Serving in wartime and in combat as many reservists and guards personnel have. It can get really screwed up to figure and a lot of states try to not let their guard personnel get their 20 years so they do not have to pay out retirement. So I wonder where companies learn how to screw over employees. :) Who better to learn from than the government! My point is, read and understand your contract of employment and know your rights under State and Federal Law. And if you are contracted out to work in a foreign country, know the labor laws for guest workers in that country and be aware as a non-citizen you have no rights under their labor laws! Be sure you have a valid and current passport and visa in your name and not under the company that you are contracted to work for. If shit goes south, you can use your personal visa as a tourist visa for at most 30 days and apply for an extension and usually get it. In most decent and friendly countries anyways. I have been offered work in Middle Eastern countries and former Eastern block Countries and India and China, F that crap! Especially hostile countries. The money is not with you losing your life or liberty and not getting any payout or compensation! People need to understand what they are getting into. I just now work to stay up on the tech of my field, no more. And I know I can walk at any time and be OK. I am retired and have no debt and own my home and property outright. Debt is the most common weapon a company will use to keep and screw employees. Your employer knows what debt you have and will use it against you. Goddess Bless and be and do well.

Betraying the betraying stakeholders.

cultural values... hmmm. seems their culture values profit over anything and anyone. as for betraying shareholders, i don't see mgmt or The Shareholders giving a flying fist-frig over what happens to me. I give just as much of a rat's ass about them.

Why would you give a turd about the shareholders? Thats the CEOs job.

@clot shots facts

Sounds like an abusive corporate culture. And sending out such a message is fear based because he or she knows it’s a place you’re all wanting to leave. Plus yeah make me feel bad for the “poor shareholders” lol

Young people please do NOT start a family or get pregnant at this time. Companies/Government/organizations have no loyalty to employees they will turn on you in a second when its convenient and fire/replace you. Governments are also increasing authoritarianism while helping the Globalist elites to consolidate all wealth/power. To ensure no slavery like life, girls should remember to take the birth control pill daily and both guy/girl should use protection and consider Tubal Ligation which is a quick procedure. You will just condemn your new child to increasing poverty and freedomless slavery and these control/money/job trends worsen. The system in all countries ks getting worse now and children born now will suffer. Imagine your child living in a technically advanced meaning more brutal total surveillance Communist or dictatorship style society as that is the planned future if you choose to have kids. So by having children you are purposely causing them to be born to a life of suffering for your own selfishness in a way.

I thought corporations ARE their employees, according to most real socialists.

yeah but they are teaching their workers smthg. until workers learn what that is and how not to get stepped on, they will continue to get the lesson

Mine treats me ok. I'm sure we get shit talked behind our back but to our face they are nice give us raises some free food and stuff and let us leave work on time guilt free. I've turned down higher offers because I go home and don't feel like shit

@@Doors067 Weak

Based and redpilled

that's called hypergamy and it's how women operate.

@@xenxander It’s not just woman dawg, side chicks exist

@@xenxander Tell me you are a POS without telling me.

@@xenxander bitter much

Companies have two potential corporate personalities. If the founder is still in charge, the company is usually just an extension of the founder's personality. If the founder had left the company, the company acts as a pure sociopath. With some founders, there is no appreciable difference, granted. There is no corporate culture other than that.

@@richardkenan2891 Yep, pretty much agree. That is why if you are lucky to get a good manager you go harder to support them, not the company. I have finally lucked out and gotten a good manager and I will go the extra mile for her. She is honest and has fought hard to get our team raises and treats us like adult human beings when it comes to our time off needs. Our small team in turn will strive to make sure she looks shiney to upper management and our corporate overlords.

I cant tell if you're being sarcastic or not and that worries me 😂

It’s unfortunately how most people live scarily enough

😂

yup. you said everything i need to know.

Unironically, the Rules of Acquisition are probably the most straightforward way to understand the economy. ESPECIALLY with companies trying obfuscation and saying "oh we do ESG"-watch out for those companies especially. When a company starts to focus there, chances are their fundamentals are getting shakey and they're looking for reasons to ignore workers. What better way than to virtue signal while laying off people and cutting pay?

I'd add... desperation in an uncertain market is a death sentence, corporations know that... they want people fearful to keep them controlled, tamed.

@@hippocleides7105 Do this goes along with a cultish work environment.

@@TheGrmany69 there's a show called "Bar Rescue". the prick that it features as some sorta wheeler-dealer super fixer-upper tycoon type was on fox a few months ago (a year?) with a tuh-wat congratulating him on his glowing contribution to the species. how d'you keep staff in uncertain times? he was asked. a homey anecdote about his mudder never feeding strays and they just "go away"... he concluded with her gushing and chuckling with him "A hungry dog is an obedient dog" referring to how to remunerate employees.

No you're supposed to be a loyal slave forever or at least until I decide you're of no use to me anymore 😂

Loyalty is something that powerful people use to take advantage of people. Duly noted.

If they want loyalty , they should hire a dog

Worked at a company that had experienced employees of 16-22 years. Then every quarter they started firing people (orders came from about 7 levels higher for budget). Best advice from the local deptartment manager is "loyalty is dead" don't feel loyal to this company. Some of the best and transparent (as they could be) managers at that company.

Business loyalty isn't a real thing

Good for you..

Good for you..

But the thing is, these trends were always a thing from God knows how long. Why does it matter to corporate now... because of the pandemic. They realized how much power the mass have and got nervous about it

@@jfyne03 yeah pretty much

Gods forbid you have a family or something to take care of. How dare you make sure your family or love ones have financial security. Gamble on that one job! Especially during a recession. And it's been proven when budget cuts come you can go as well. Silly. 😂

this is all things responsible adults do every single day. If you aren't getting new jobs every two or three years you aren't moving up or getting raises.

Because we are in the last of days. Also back then they didnt have social media to track you and expose people.​@xodro4260

Exactly. Then come the corporate speaking gigs, followed by the book, etc, etc.

Or media dumbshits chasing the buzz and engagement dragon.

It's all about Likes and Follows and subsequent income. Must be a nice life though!

Absolutely 🙄

@@hahamasala So basically like a youtube or twitch channel, but far less interesting content

Reminds me of another video on this channel - where a LinkedIn'er posts about the new "Just Eat Power Hour" guilt free time away from meetings etc. - she invented the lunch break.

@@Seattle-2017 fucking unreal lmao

My parents always told me: "Don't quit your job unless you have another lined up". Are they the original "career cushioners"?

I think it goes further back than that, probably back to our Great times 100 grandfather. "What? Our chief is going to fight the Vikings with only 5 guys? Time to move, I hope Ireland is hiring a new baker".

@@trutrek913 😂

Work culture can tip the scales, too. I'm not doing satanic rituals and orgies to keep my job 🤣

Yes

Igniting the midnight petroleum

Having 2 jobs in case I lose one 😅😅😅 Salaried employees: career cushioner!!!!!🗡️🤺

Well it's true that Americans stopped thinking long ago

Yeah, we call it "critical thinking," and Corporates hate it. 😂

@@Ghost101 Except Americans haven't had that skill for decades.

People have been doing this for decades. It is not some new trend.

The yellow news outlet in the video is Indian.

Yes! But people get lazy and settle in, it has to stop .

they feel like they are entitled to you by default and they feel like it's cheating that you aren't a loyal mindless slave to manipulate. they want you to not have any job security and work you to the bone for less as much as possible so you'll be to scared to respect yourself or push back and it makes them more money

How dare you spend any energy on anything not involving our company! Lol you must go home completely drained of your soul each day. That’s how we know we good little sla… I mean, employee.

But then they subtly mock you when they lay you off. One particularly two-faced boss of mine asked, after telling me he was letting me go (zero severance pay), "So what do you plan to do now?" He had the nerve to call me at my new job a few months later, asking me for help in finding a critical password. Needless to say, I said "sure" and ghosted him.

@@Seattle-2017 You should have charged a large consultation fee to help find the password, with no guarantee of results.

@@genxx2724 True, I could have called him back with a $1,000 per hour consultant fee with retainer. I would have enjoyed hearing his response. But the ghosting was more satisfying; the idea if him checking his emails and phone messages in anticipation of a password that would never come. Which is what he had done with my commissions/bonuses when I had worked there.

I honestly think people should stop brushing their teeth because it will increase productivity and remove the need for wasting time looking into the mirror and instead making the companies more money my fellow average man.

@@horaceau9544 Agreed, and all the people whining about their commute should just move into the office! Frankly, having a family is kind of cheating on your job, after all, we are all a family here at work.

@@execration_texts Move over creepy, toxic, "We're like a family here," employers. Now we have the, "We're like a needy, insecure partner," employer. What's that, you have options?!?! Well now I know you're leaving me. How do I know this? Because if I could get better or cheaper, I know I would have fired your ass a long time ago.

These companies just want to vilify employees now because they’re finally realize that employees have options and don’t have to be a slaves to their job. It’s the same as forcing people to rearrange their lives to work remotely for a couple years, then making them seem like lazy bums for not wanting to return to the office when they’ve been working at home just fine.

Because they are corporate shills. Bought and paid for just like most of our politicians.

it used to call job hopping

Why do all Italians always have to tell everyone their Italian?

​@@Nobody-dc8dp having a decent job in Italy, especially in something like IT. Isn't exactly the norm to say the least. He's probably unconsciously proud of it

@@Nobody-dc8dp Because I know that the audience of this channel is mostly American, so I wanted to underline that, even in a country like mine, there is the practice of "career cushoning". My post had no nationalistic intent.

That happened to me.A person quit to start their own business and when the business didn't pan out asked for their old job back.I was told about it literally the day before her return.My employer told me "We have to take her back because she has seniority"(!)First,she had been gone for a year,the only "seniority"she had was she was there before I was hired to replace her.Second,I was under the impression that you forfeit seniority if you quit a job.Bottom line is she was a friend of the manager and nobody had the guts to admit it.

This happened to me. I was a part employer at merril lynch when I overheard a senior v.p talk about hiring someome full time for my position. He didnt know Id heqrd him and I immediately started looking for another job. A few days later he asked me if I wanted the position and I said NO thank you.

In their eyes, that is just good business.

Alliteration like this is only acceptable when its a marvel superhero name like Peter Parker, Matt Murdoch or Steven Strange 🤣

What do you do?

@@Clear_Spectre My title is HVAC Estimator and Draftsman. But I wear many many hats for the company.

@@darkdudironaji I am also HVAC engineer and modeling I would like to find a job like yours.

@@GP-dz1yi No you don't. One of the reasons he can't find anybody else is he is one of the hardest people to work for. Most of the staff has been there less than a year, and tell everyone that he's the reason they're leaving.

@@darkdudironaji Damn, sounds like he got off cheap only giving you a 22% raise lol

They just made nothing into a story. Whilst not reporting on real stories. Pathetic.

You are one of the few people that figured out the problem. The business owner(s) should not be friends with the managers/supervisors they have running the company. That is a huge red flag. I've turned down many good paying jobs because during the interview process I've seen how "buddy-buddy" the owner was with the supervisor and/or general manager. Those are places you want to avoid working at.

@@AK-47ISTHEWAY That's why you see incompetent people get promoted, but they're golf buddies.

2:58 "Duh, what's some advice for HR folks?" Corporate Apologist: "Well management needs to be more HONEST about.... uhhh, ummmm....... ah, screw it! Who's kidding who?!?"

This right here. Cronyism.

It’s always the friends and family that ruin the work environment, nepotism is disgusting and obvious when it’s happening

Or not updating you skills like we all should be doing.

DM you won 🏆

Next one is not sucking it hard enough.

Nope. Capitalism is for them not you, you need to be the pleb that carries their profits.

A lot easier said than done to have multiple back up plans.

@@gummy5862 Gotta have plans on plans xD

Your granfather and you were smart. Wish I had realized this years ago. Loyalty to one company is career suicide.

I lead...not follow

@@AFuller2020 If you want to be a good leader, learn how to follow first.

Is that "career cushioning" or "moonshining"? Either way the man was a blue collar jack of all trades... that's awesome and having that base is important, you don't know when a trade might come handy. I think that's not stressed enough in the US, having a trade aside university training / title seems like a winning strategy, more than having 50 PhDs and no work experience.

Josh changed my life!

it’s perfect he works for himself, so only he is liable to himself and not his boss!

I guess you were supposed to go home and die idk 😂

It sure is. Good luck!

Americans really don't have privacy. That's insane. In my country there's no such tracking of people. Employers can't get much information from you beyond what you give them.

Yeah, it's just another SEO key term.