I had a boss that did not like a letter i wrote that he dictated to me. He asked me to rewrite it. So i went to my PC and just changed the font. The exact same letter and printed it off and showed it to him. ''That's better'' he said and signed it. Bosses are IDIOTS
When I was working at a restaurant, I once had a customer order a ham sandwich but request it with turkey instead (???), and then when I brought them their sandwich they complained that it had ham on it, even though it was clearly turkey. And my manager even came out to show them the difference between the turkey and the ham, but the customer still insisted the sandwich was wrong and demanded we make them a new one. So my manager told me to just take the sandwich back to the kitchen, then bring it back to them in 5 minutes. I did, and the customer did not even notice that it was the same sandwich. Customers are also idiots.
@@Dachusblot Some people are just obsessed with power and will try to assert it on anyone they can, I guess. Even if it makes them look like pathetic morons.
Georg's comment section has the rare distinction of not precipitating my despair at humanity. A civil and thoroughly decent bunch. Thanks lads. And that lady.
Thank you kindly 😊 I own a buisness & I'm feeling kinda meh about a lot of things I have watched the "where to invade next" where they talk about having paid vacations and all that stuff, increse quality stuff I need to have a global movement with Forest gardening, something near all of our homes So we can appreciate the forested areas more, have better air, water & food quality I'm going to learn about the 4 day workweek I'm feeling tired of this "grind" culture
@Michael Smith Jesus man calm down. Youre not really living up to the OP's "a civil and thoroughly decent bunch" now are you? Here you are yelling at someone you don't know about how to run their business that you have never seen. As far as you know theyre one of the good business owners. He sounds alright to me
@Michael Smith what makes you think he won't pay them a good wage? He might, or might not but implying he is a POS is not going to change his mind. Like seriously, never in the history of the internet has someone's mind been changed because they were called a POS. Instead you can say something positive like " employees who are happy with their wage or more likely to work for efficiently which in turn will mean gradually making more profit than if you would pay them minimum wage" or something else with that positive tone which is waaay more convincing than just "don't be a POS" That's why I didn't call you a POS just because I disagreed with you, that's not the way you should interact with someone online
I mean, the guy mentions looking into a 4-day workweek and his dislike of "grind" culture and gets lumped in with being a POS. Lol! To think this comment thread started out so wholesome. Lol
The worst part about this which Georg didn’t mention is going to school for years and putting yourself in debt to get into a field where the only way to get a job is to wait for someone in the department to die. I’m glad academia never stuck with me, I build ships for a living, the work is hard and dangerous but I love it, I’m good at it, and it pays pretty well. I wish the trades weren’t so overlooked, I feel like a lot of people here could benefit from hard honest work.
It seems like everyone falls into their line of work based on the skills they acquired during their developmental years, and through the people they know getting them in the door in a career field. I don't know where to start. I guess work minimum wage until I have enough saved up for an education.
It doesn't help quite a few trades tend to put barriers in the way to keep certain types of people out of the field. Source: a lot of my family works in trade unions and tell me the shit that goes down with them and how you need to have connections either through family or friends to get in the doors
Word. There are a million jobs in the trades that are going unfilled in the United States. Yet the propaganda is still that college is the only way to go, despite many of the trades offering far superior pay to your average college degree, competition between employers to hire you, and a better path to business ownership. On, and doesn’t come with six-figure debt.
ah yes, the "not enough people go into trades" fallacy, or the "hard honest work" that apparently you cannot get in an office - stupid white collars!!!
Every time I see a "we are closed due to staff quitting" type of sign I smile a little bigger. The wages here in the USA for most of the work available is a joke at best.
@Byronic Fate and stop printing So much money Shouldn't they be removing more money from the circulation to actually give it more value? Stop making pennies & phase them out More than a dollar 'coin varieties'
@@VincentGonzalezVeg There are hundreds of news articles pointed out the vast majority of $100 bills are outside of the US. A lot of them also say there are more $100 in circulation than 1$ bills. As of 2020, the US dollar remains the World's Reserve Currency at a composition of 59.02% of official foreign exchange reserves. The Euro only makes up 21.24% of the world's reserve.
Rich People: "Let's pay the commoners as little as possible and make their lives absolute hell in exchange for doing all the shittiest jobs in society." The Commoners: "Right, then I'm not gonna do that shitty job." Rich People: *surprised Pikachu face*
@@anteeko Or, alternatively, you can demand to be treated better for doing the shitty job. After all, *someone* needs to do those shitty jobs, so why should we just accept terrible treatment? "You should be happy that you're not starving" is more like extortion than incentive. Next time big corporations whine about taxes being too high or workers demanding higher pay, we should just tell them they should be happy to exist at all.
When you're at school and you think "I'll never have to put up with the bullies or that dim but pushy project partner who undermines the task and takes credit for my work"... Then you grow up, get a job, and realise that they have all become managers.
As an american, I've never had any illusions that i would ever get to retire. I figure that the fact that i dont have access to healthcare and the fact that i dont have access to retirement savings are two problems that will cancel each other out eventually.
"So I was sitting in my cubicle today, and I realized, ever since I started working, every single day of my life has been worse than the day before it. So that means that every single day that you see me, that's on the worst day of my life."
I had many dead-end jobs as a young man. Eventually, I joined a union as a pipefitter. I hated the work, but it paid VERY well, so I kept doing it. I mean, so few jobs in the US still have a pension, you know? And unions still have that, plus 401k & 401a, plus medical, blah blah blah. Then, something weird happened. About ten years into my career, I realized that I didn't mind the job anymore. I even kind of liked it. What changed? It took me another few years to figure it out. I had gotten very good at my job. Enough to develop a good reputation. Enough that I was respected. I'm now 21 years in, and while I'll never love it, and look forward to retirement in about nine years, I don't dread work. And did I mention that it pays well? I recommend the union construction trades to any who are lost.
people underestimate the "its honest work," concept. doing something tedious and repetitive is perceived as dreadful. but doing something tedious and repititive....but you are skilled at it. you are known for it. you are respected or sought to for advice. you are prefered over others or directed to train team because of it. in your years as you exit the company you may even work on leavinh behind a protege maybe? or at the very least your modest finances grow enough for you to be comfortable. maybe not rich, but life is enjoyable. people underestimate that a lot, because our country doesn't play out the "American dream." often the work is tedious and repetitive but anyone can do it, and also you're still poor. and if you do something better or that someone else can't do, you are aren't recognized or appreciated for it (given raises or promotions and such).
I've been welding for 6 years now, just broke out of the production plants and after a couple years in a small fab shop, I'm aiming for the union. In a right to work state, or anywhere else really, I feel like union is the way to go.
George, you're a delight, man. I started working at 11, and I think over the course of my checkered professional career I've had 35 jobs. Exactly three of them were tolerable, and only because I liked the people I was working with. I'm a little upset that your lava lamp isn't as big on the screen as it used to be, but otherwise you're a delight.
Spot on. I've had nearly 20 jobs over 35 years, and nearly all of them were intolerable - and always because of the creatures I worked with and their need to scramble higher up the greasy pole by demeaning others.
36, 6 proper (I'll count the two seasonal ones. We all had to start somewhere) jobs. I'm past the point ruing the five years I spent unemployed after dropping out of college. Once I started work, I never stopped.
Started working at 11? Who the hell was hiring 11 year olds where you lived? I started working fulltime just before the age of 16 for the minimum wage available to 16 year olds, which was not a lot, and I have nothing to show from that as I was too busy paying bills and rent to save... But 11? What?
i once had a job that i absolutely adored, but my coworkers were shit. i had like 2 coworkers that i liked the rest were evil cretins, just as my managers were (except for one). i started dreading going to work so much that i ultimately quit cause of all the build up anxiety. i can deal with the every so often karen customer, but having gossip heavy coworkers with 0 IQ and a God-complex is utter hell. anyways, thanks for sharing your CV with us Georg!
I actually liked working with those types of people cos they'll believe just about anything, and do just about anything for you if arbitrarily compliment them about whatever they feel they're not being recognized for.
@greenbat Not at all. First off I just want to say I didn't mean to come of as a manipulating sociopath lol. Secondly, these people tend to be lost, vapid, and not very bright hence why they engage in gossip and petty actions of revenge or backstabbing, so right off the bat we know they can be lead in almost any direction you want to, but you don't have to take advantage of them like a sociopath would, instead you can lead them in a positive way that actually makes them feel good about themselves in a healthy non petty way and they will be more inclined to be a good person and that makes the work environment better for everybody. Not everyone can be won over but most people aren't the evil villains they seem to be.
@greenbat I had similar experiences in EMS. The whole bs "family" narrative gets pushed hard yet you get punished if you don't kiss ass to beloved coworkers of the workplace and just want to do your job
Had to quit the best job I have had because of my evil coworkers/boss. Manipulative, lying, bullies the lot of 'em. Nothing better to do than make their coworkers days as shitty as possible for no reason.
I really hope the labor movement in the US keeps going. In every job I’ve had, I’ve experienced exploitation. I’ve had my wages minimized to “keep the place afloat”, I’ve had someone threaten to call ICE on me even though I’m a legal resident with a work permit, and not to mention just the awful, condescending environments. I’ve also experienced injuries at work but have been told that I can’t go home or to a clinic to get it looked at because “if you can still stand, you need to finish your shift”. I still have a big scar on my right arm from a nasty burn that I had to just grit my teeth at for about 3 hours before going home and putting burn cream on it. I’ve had this guilt since I’ve quit my job and moved in with my girlfriend to become a full time artist. Like, this feeling that I NEED to be in some sort of menial job and earn a wage, or risk being a drain on society. But I’m starting to feel like that’s just some bullshit conditioning that I’ve allowed myself to believe. I’m never ever working food service again. You couldn’t pay me enough to bear through it. I know a lot of you guys are feeling the same.
Worked at DnB for years. Saw what they did to their servers. Corporate mindset makes no sense sometimes. I was written up for helping them clear tables. As a tech I made $11, even though I was at the bottom of the totem pole so all I could was fill tickets. So 2 hours into my shift I had nothing to do. So I start cleaning. Turns out I got paid too much to waste time cleaning tables. But the chick making $2.75 should clean up and handle her tables and any other crap that gets shoved on her.
@Ai Zee geebus, why are you yelling? Try asking if it was a mutual agreement. I agree with you if it wasn't but I'm not going to just assume and yell at and try to shame a complete stranger.
@Ai Zee Who said anything about being hurt? I'm asking who raised you to think it's ok to just yell at random people without having the whole story? And take you own advice and mind your manners. This is the real world. I'm a real person, you're a real person, he's a real person. Or is this all in your head?
@Ai Zee You certainly do as I don't have to work anymore. I understand you were hurt. I can only imagine what you've been through. However that in no way makes this your story nor gives you the right to lash out like you have. You're using our shared experiences and acting as if they apply solely to you. Think of yourself as some great warrior or whatever, but dude, get over yourself. Any empathy I would have felt towards you has turned into sympathy. You're just an angry person who never took the time or maybe wasn't given the time to properly heal. Again, doesn't give you the right nor leeway to be an ass to a complete stranger.
Frankly hearing about Mister Homunculus' antics fills me with confidence that a bunch of low-paid grunts in the back room could run any business better than basically all bosses, and that's a feeling I cherish. Thanks for the inspirational stagger down absurdist memory lane!
Left a horrible on call IT support job soon after lockdown 1. Volunteered my time driving a van for charity. Best fuckin decision I ever made. Although I don't understand how people are suddenly realising how shit their jobs are (probably the added stress of covid). More power to them.
It's because in a very long time people have woken up to the realization, that unemployment was in many cases, especially minimum wage jobs, was paying better then the the job itself due to the pandemic. Pandora's box has been opened, and people finally woke the fuck up.
Also, it’s more about not just putting up with things anymore. A shit job was probably equally shit before covid, but the added pressure forces people to take stock. It’s a catalyst
the bit about housing and work being actually worth it is big. i just want to be able to buy my own place- not a fucking apartment where i get to listen to my neighbors argue and fuck and shit, but my own house. i make well, well over minimum wage and i still can't afford that shit, and i don't even live in a particularly high cost of living area. it's insane.
I noted your nod to academia. Doing a PhD, I was ineligible for a scholarship in Japan because I was working to pay for rent, food and tuition, and of course taxes, and this put me above their allowable income limit. It's like, yes, I don't live my parents, so if I don't work I would be destitute. Professors are more understanding at PhD level. But at Masters some dropped my grade because I dared to miss one seminar to put food on my plate.
Wow?! What the hell kind of Masters program where you in. I guessing it wasn't science based, because in my experience those normally PAY YOU (albeit not a lot but something. lol) for the exact reason you just mentioned above. You can't be homeless and hungry and STILL be an effective student. Life doesn't work like that. Lol. I'm sorry you went through that ordeal. It sounds terrible.
@@khrashingphantom9632 Cheers. It was a humanities course, basically applied linguistics with a new age title. So no sympathy required hahaha. Though I appreciate it all the same. To a certain extent it was my choice to go back into university to do a Masters degree, so I just accepted it for what it was and got on with things. Though I will admit having my grade knocked down irritated me at the time (and a good year after lol) But I agree with you, it's difficult to find time to process the information required for serious study in 2 hour blocks before work.
Some companies (especially in the US) have taken to posting passive-aggressive signs like "tip your waiter, they actually bothered to show up" or "sorry we're closed, nobody wants to work". First of all, of course nobody _wants_ to work, by definition, work is something undesirable that you have to do. Duh. Second, they're ignoring the fact that most of them got paid so little, even a piddly hand-out from the government during a pandemic is more than what they were making. Third, maybe just reevaluated their priorities, especially if they've lost loved ones. Maybe they just realized it makes no sense to -spend- waste their -time- life doing some worthless, unfulfilling, boring job to make enough money to stay alive to go back to work the next day to make the CEO slightly richer. Maybe they realized life is too short for that. ¬_¬
But those capitalists are WEALTH CREATORS, they can't do that without exploiting workers! Now know your place! Prince Musk, King Gates and EMPEROR Bezos are our rulers!
@@apophis2129 Great you got a good job, no one really cares what I find interesting is that you disagree about something. What exactly do you disagree with what was said here? You think people just quit for shitsandgiggles?
My immediate thought was the band name 'Men at Work' as the tune started... not so much the track name. Then the track 9 to 5 segued in. Great topical mini-mash nonetheless
Thanks for proving to me that I'm not actually crazy when it comes to working. It's bizarre how just decade ago you would have been called a commie for having such thoughts.
That still is a reality where I live. People have all the reasons to revolt but they don't and will shame anyone who does so. I live in an almost feudal country, many poor people in my area would gladly get whipped a couple times a day by their bosses I bet. Only reason I couldn't ever be like those loser capitalism-bootlickers is because I'm not stupid, only reason I could never be a communist is the "proletariat" ain't worth shit, I had enough of living amongst them to lose all empathy for their suffering, if they don't even have it for themselves.
@@RenegadeShepard69 Hey, I completely understand and empathize with what your saying, but I would caution against "loosing empathy". If you mange to at least care about such topics and talk about them with sincerity and empathy I'm sure you'll get at least a few people to change their minds, and maybe they'll change the minds of other people in their lives. I certainly think that's worth something. Frankly, I'm not sure a communist system would every work, as it truly necessitates the abolishment of capitalism, and as a tool, capitalism has a few good points. I'm a socialist in that I believe I'm governments that at the very least ensure a basic standard of decent living for it's citizens, while stepping on the toes of corporations as little as possible. Don't get me wrong, there will certainly be quite a few toes that need to be stepped on, though.
@@cjlooklin1914 Thanks for your empathy and understanding but with all due respect, if you lived where I live you would understand what I mean about losing empathy with the working class. Most people are not easily convinced about anything, especially what they don't know about but think they know about, such as politics. I wouldn't fit well in a communist state this I've always been aware, I would try to leave if I were in it. Statist iterations of socialism don't suit me, but I'm not well read enough to formulate my exact position. I like your view, sure that's a good way to go about it. About that whole thing of losing empathy with the working class, I still support politicians who try to reach politically illiterate people, but the propaganda of the elite is much more effective at indoctrinating the workers here. In this country people naturally hate the rich, but only untill a certain networth. Say if you are upper middle cass, you're a bourgeois, a playboy, and you own the poor something, or everything. But if you are a millionaire heir to a colonizer family that has destroyed the country for decades you are loved by them. So if you are lower class, get a high paying job and work your way into a decent life, my case, the middle class will hate you, but if you are an actual capitalist they'll love you. The only right thing to do when under oppression is fight back, but against your oppressor that is. The workers have chosen their side, there is no revolution, this country is happy to go feudal. I have no responsibility for educating grown adults into using their brain, I have my life to take care of. That's, in resume, what I mean with losing empathy, they don't want to help themselves. I'll vote for a socialist every 4, 2 years but I don't have any interest in going through social death, mccarthyism-style persecution for trying to instill common sense into adult minds.
OMG I work for the United States postal Service and we had the exact same training demonstration with a little wooden man picking up a box 😭 and everyone had to pick up a box to demonstrate they knew how to lift with your legs
Did a lifting course recently. All very well bending your knees and keeping your back straight and slightly tipped forward when you don't have worn out 53 year old knees to contend with.
Just this past June, my boyfriend and I both quit our crappy jobs. Mine was a desk job that wasted hours of my life on pointless nothingness. His was cooking as the place that managed to open a 3rd resturaunt during a pandemic, yet can't pay him more than 12 an hour or fix the ac in the kitchen. Haha. We been doing lawn care with a friend. Just splitting the job doing gig work... idk.... I know a lot of ppl doing or feeling the same. It honestly makes me feel good. Know your worth ppl. I know im in a lucky spot to be able to quit like I did.
When I had just left hish school I was told about a job only a short bus ride from my home. It was nothing special, just afternoon shifts at a local, small chain supermarket. The boss interviewed me, offered me the job and asked if I would start immediately. So, I did. I helped out across the entire store, filled shelves, helped at the registers, mopped up any spills etc. When the truck came to unload the pallets of replacement stock I assisted with that too and got to know my colleagues pretty quickly. I worked 6hrs and, come the stores closing time, the boss asked if I'd be happy to do some 'night fill' and if I'd do another shift of the same hours I'd just done the next day. I was stoked! This was 1992 and I was earning $19.26ph at standard rates. After closing the rate increased to time and a half. It was such a great job for an 18yo as I learned to get up, get myself to work and give my best as part of a small team. We covered shifts for each other when needed and worked well as a unit. I enjoyed every moment there and felt I was well paid. Going there was NEVER a chore as I felt I was fairly compensated. Full time award wages in Australia today are only a dollar or so more than the per hour figure I quoted above for 1992!! Real wages have gone nowhere yet cost of living has gone through the roof. One year after I began this job I was offered a two bedroom unit I was living in by my landlord for $118000.00. As I was single I baulked the purchase price. If I was to look at a similar property today it would be close to $1m!! Wages have gone nowhere and the cost of everything else now is unrealistic. Georg is right. The old bastards have most of the money and get most of the tax benefits.
The last time I applied for a promotion at my old office job, I ended up yelling at the HR lady during the interview. It was shortly after that I opted to struggle financially and not commute 2 to 3 hours daily for that 9 to 5 I'd been at for 10 years.
One value of this conversation by George is his overall message & tone to lower expectations. Saying that human beings are as thick as ‘flour in mud’ puts it quite well. Earning money is an obstacle course with constant barriers put up by human incompetence & competition. The result is a person often stumbling around, as George did, to try to eventually figure out a place in the muck.
Every job I've ever worked in America was a total waste of time. It's not about how hard you work. It's about what your politics are. What your social skills are. How much your boss prefers your personality. It has nothing to do with how hard you work. In fact if you work hard people just workhorse the hell out of you. I swear we are headed for social genocide.
Every aspect of the American work place is because of regulations regarding race and gender- because it explicitly illegal to hire or fire based on these issues jobs create as many methods to “effectively “ hire or fire based on these issues- to many white make workers? Work then till they quit and refuse to hire till you get the right demo applicant Not enough white male workers? Add in additional background screens totally unrelated to the position to remove 99% of applications. Just blame the algorithm!!! You can’t win
Yes, I starting working at a lab and it was doing poorly. I took over and it runs better then any other labs-but because of this-the higher ups think I can do all the work now
My first job was at a retail store.. a really popular one… and about once every couple of months they would make the entire staff reorganize the entire two story building filled with clothes for the new season. This would take all night. Longer than 8 hours for sure (more than 8 hours per shift by law means u get overtime where I live). The management would make us clock out at our 7 1/2 hour mark so we never got paid our due. I ended up getting fired (without a warning) for apparently misplacing a return receipt…. Really tho I feel the reason was because I refused to clock out unless I was off work. The company was forever 21 lol Never been in a store since
Even before adulthood life is work work work: school work plus homework plus "extracurricular activities" to improve your CV to get a job, chores at home... etc
The problem is that no exploitative, hierarchical system based on infinite growth can last forever, especially one that lacks any inherent spiritual, moral, ideological or social fulfilment.
My first job was at a Telefund. We also had to call people to ask for donations for my university. I learned a lot from the experience, including how unfair the job market is to graduates of different degrees. We had different ask amounts for different graduates, and that made it clear from the beginning that Nursing graduates (We would start at $50) made far far less than Business graduates (starting ask at $1000). What a world.
Just because you were a patient there for 30 years doesn't mean you were an employee. I'm kidding. I envy you. I hope you can manage to enjoy your retirement through all this bullcrap going on.
@@thehighllama8101Thank you for the kind thoughts. The fact that I'm retired helps me cope. My last year during the hight of covid prevaccine was a nightmare.
For over 10 years I have worked in filth and grease over a hot fryer or grill. Drenched in sweat, doing the work of 3 people, having to stay over every night, and not even making enough to pay bills and save anything. These low level jobs don’t pay the good employees or treat them right. They give everyone garbage wages and half the employees don’t care and are lazy. Doesn’t matter though, they still make just as much as the employee who comes in early, stays late, and works non stop to keep the place running. Blows my mind how employers are so out of touch with humanity that they can’t see how rewarding your good employees will lead to them sticking around. If i ever had my own business…the busier we are, the more we make, the more money employees make. If you work in a kitchen and get paid more, the more customers that are ordering, the more you get paid. It would motivate employees to see a benefit to doing a great job and working fast. It would create a cycle of more customers coming in more often and employees making more money and giving more effort while feeling as if they have a share in the companies success.
You wont find happiness there. Too many problems to be able to realistically fix things. Employers, employees, and customers would have to change. Hope you find something that treats you better.
Well dont dream! Do it! Workers need to start taking the risk to get a more complete picture as to why people are paid what hey are, and what all goes into a business.
It's a class thing. They don't want to pay on principle. It doesn't matter if it would be good business sense. To them, all lower class people are wolves even (or especially) the ones in sheep's clothing. So they don't deserve more than scraps.
My first job was at Co-op. My boss was a nasty bully and he wrote a fake letter of resignation for my friend who also worked there. We got to work and he was told he had quit?! We both quit that day. Not worth our trouble
i work as a fuel truck dispatcher and it can get stressful but honestly there are way worse jobs. Been here 19 years and dont hate my life so I guess I got lucky
Work is out of our control in America. Businesses prey on people and use them up. The jobs that are "desperately hiring" are mostly the type that have min/maxed to squeeze productivity out of people to the point It is killing people, and worst part is they pay the least. We have to prey on each other to survive by becoming ads ourselves. Some people get good advice and education early on but many are pushed into dead ends for little pay. The medical insurance industry alone will take it all from you sooner or later, which those urgently hiring places don't offer anymore.
I’m so depressed at the moment. I’m out of work and I can’t see myself ever working. I don’t know what to do. Right now my only option is to take my own life. So yeah this life is great. So glad to be here
Like my boss says, "This job would be great if it weren't for the customers." I work in a local small framing shop, designing creative ways to display people's art. Supply chains are in the trash, no one wants to work and there's no time to train the one or two people that do. We're ten to twelve weeks out, it's just my boss and I and a part-time girl who is shit at her job and keeps challenging us to fire her. Twice in two months we had people lying about having cancer to get their framed art bumped ahead in line. My boss was cussed out by a customer who lied about her work being at our shop for three months when it had only been there for a month; he told her to come pick up her art if she was going to behave like that. She was all innocent and meek as a lamb when she came in to get her stuff, and said she was going in for heart surgery next week, but my boss, kindly and very professionally, said he couldn't help her get her work done. The number one excuse we get, at least ten times per week is: "I need it now because I'm having a party." During Christmas, my boss worked for 70 hours a week, and in February he finally dropped down to 60 hours per week. A customer had the audacity to seriously demand that he go back to working 70. My boss owns and runs this shop, he has three kids he's had to miss growing up, a wife he rarely gets to see, and gets nothing but spit on by customers. At this point, you're probably thinking, "Oh how awful! People are so terrible! I could never do that!" But here's the twist: Yes you would, and you probably have many times, but you didn't notice and don't care because it was you, and it was an emergency, and your emergencies are real emergencies.. "This job would be great if it weren't for the customers."
Yooo, Guyana represent!! I keep hearing about Guyana and it's a bit surprising. Normally people think you mean Ghana when you say you're from Guyana. Then I watched Lovecraft Country last week and they know it exists, and now I find out Georg has been there... 👀
I saw this was up last night and I'm always happy to see new uploads from George Rockall-Schmidt, but I waited till now (30ish minutes before I have to be at work) to watch this. Anyone else watching this before work? I gotta go open an close on a Sunday, but knowing a guy like George is out there thinking similar shit to me makes today a bit easier. Cheers all!
There's a guy at my work hates his job but feels like he's trapped there because he's extremely unlikely to get a better job elsewhere. He calls his paycheck the golden handcuffs
I have loved the opportunity to walk from a shit job. New manager comes in, demands I attend a staff meeting during class hours, and schedules me to work the morning after my 20thb'day. I told her she better change the schedule cause I'm not going to be there. She told me I had better. Guess she didn't believe me, since I had to unplug the phone to make it stop waking me up while I tried to sleep off a hangover. Buddy who worked with me later said she asked what happened with me, and he said he thought I moved and got a real job. Total disrespect right to her face. Working a shit job can be okay, provided one is not dependent on it for survival. That's the cruel part.
@@mrmagoo-i2l it's not that I'm against the concept of work. I plan on getting a dream job one day(farming). But if that doesn't work out I plan on learning survival skills and hitting the road with a bike and cart and never looking back
@@zzzzzz-ti2rv no no, working didn't used to be pointless. Now though, yes it is pointless for the most part. You won't ever retire or get a pension, because the social security system will be out of money by that time. Due to taxes and other restrictive nonsense, we will literally never own anything of worth. House? No. Property tax. Car? No. Insurance and registration, inspection, emissions. Stop paying any of the about and see your rightfully owned property disappear. Meanwhile, shitless layabouts drive without license or insurance, live for free on the dole or welfare, all while being essentially useless. You pay for them too, regardless of what struggles you face. Work is pointless in today's world. We are slaves, essentially.
Some jobs are pointless in the sense that the world will still keep rotating if McDonalds or Amazon went under. (It would be a bumpy ride for anyone using AWS) but I’m sure people working in health, finance, waste disposal all have purpose
When you talked about them seeing you logged in to LinkedIn from Mexico, you could have done a seemless segway to a Nord VPN live read. So glad you don't do that shit 😎👍
Its the old : " If we pay them enough they'll save and quit, but.. if we pay them nothing they'll be stressed depressed and willing to take abuse because they're so downtrodden and desperate". I find personally the antidote after being a chef for years, was to manage my outgoings.. cheapest sharehouse in nice part of Sydney ( still somewhat expensive ) near beach, work enough to buy laptop, guitar, and surfboard, then quit find job 3 days a weeks, covers rent ( bills, internet included) no phone contract, don't eat out, I work cooking or other odd jobs with nice bosses 3 days or sometimes less still have an abundance of food, learning skills for coding, engineering math, physics etc.. surf every day I want, practice guitar everyday, stay fit stay sober stay healthy.. call me lazy if you want, I'd rather be dubbed "lazy" than scrambling to still be broke and stressed out, flailing around and making poor financial decisions on a daily basis.. Work to live, not live to work
@@riffsnoleads I reckon I'd be fine mate..as i said I'd readjust to do what I have to do to get the life i want.. Ive lived in the street before in Melbourne, also lived in my car, worked 50+ hours as a chef and was still broke and an Alcoholic, made the adjustments and now do half that and have the same to show for it and happier after cutting the costs, Lots of destitute immigrants go to not only the self proclaimed - best and freest country on the planet - but many others and prosper and flourish, some however do not unfortunately - but I'm sure the changes they made were still beneficial to an extent and at least they made them.. I've lived in a halfway house full of junkies and other alcos, and somehow saved money to get a visa and move to UK and to work 6 days a week for 8gbp/hour after arriving with 1000gbp in the bank as everything I had up to that point, i lived on mi goreng noodles to get it, I will never eat them again LOL, In the hypothetical you're mentioning maybe I'd have to work an extra day, but i can almost guarantee i wouldn't live off fast food and continue to sit in a crap situation while doing nothing about it yet blaming everyone else when not even I have made attempts to do better for myself, I will never afford to own a home, have no debt but also no credit rating..i haven't blamed everyone else for my situation and kicked myself in the ass and made the changes i needed to make.. you don't have to agree with me does not make me wrong, or you wrong either.. I've been there and done that self pity crap and the only one who fixed me, was me..
@@riffsnoleads Also, based on around what I'm earning in the last 2-3 years, Im well below the poverty line in Aus, and just on it in US, $13,000 USD.. so lets say chefs average there $15p/h ill take a bit off to be extra negative,and full federal tax and state income tax for $12p/h for every hour,although id say its per $ over the threshold not just every dollar.. but who cares.. on that $13,000 working I'd only have to work 21 hrs a week.. OK this is optimal, lets take minimum wage.. its like 35hrs per week LOL.. Wow why don't i move to Florida or Nevada where there no state income taxes? id have even more! LOL i know you don't have healthcare there, so ill take the risk on that, Ive looked up food and clothing costs and asked a few buddies who've either lived there or traveled there, both are comparatively cheaper then here in Aus, rents in Aus are a bit lower maybe 10% on average but there is also a rental crisis here, and rents are skyrocketing.. but that doesn't change that i can survive eat well everyday, am fit and healthy and have a roof over my head..I also think the system in US is crap.. toxic and greedy, ruled by corporations and people are left out to dry and we are all being scammed on a daily basis.. hence my decisions regarding personal finances and personal accountability..the system isn't gonna change itself as its crap.. but if I lived in an area where i couldn't afford food or only had the option to eat Dominos I'd leave.. if I had children I'd leave quicker!
Once I got authorization to take three weeks off instead of the normal two. When I got back they acted like I just decided to stay out an extra week, and don't you ever do that again. That and similar things terminated my motivation to do any above-and-beyond.
Mr. Hermunculus. Nice. All of what George says is right, plus the fact that the cost of living has gone up about 1/3 in the past few decades, but the actual wages have increased about 10%. In my city, the last apartment I lived in about 10-12 years ago cost me $595 a month--admittedly a good deal. But the other day, helping a friend look for a place to rent, studios were starting at about $1100 a month. With wages having barely increased in the city in the last decade, how are people supposed to live? Probably explains why our homeless population has increased by about 300% in the same period.
Ahh man thanks for the refreshing insights... your story reminds me of my work history... only difference is i'm still looking for the worth while thing to do....
I used to be a porter for my day job, dishwasher for evening job, and as a medicinal plant distributor on weekends. The distribution work was for supplementing my day job income. As for dishwashing that was for free meals and ciggs. Not really what I had expected as a degree grad, and I'm just glad that was all over. Now I'm self-employed and work at/from home!
2 weeks after Christmas when your toys are just toys rather than something new and special, that's how I see things and i hate working 40 hrs when i've earned my rent in a day. Apart from the PC i built...jimmy loves youuu.
This is very similar to a video Philosophy Tube did recently where she went over the jobs she had before RU-vid. I love them both a lot, I guess tired British people talking about their shitty jobs is just a really compelling format 😂
The film industry especially is soul crushing, honestly if you make RU-vid videos on your own terms is much better..... spending many many months without sleep to cater for Diva actresses for the sake of the worst show ever created in history, pretty much sums up my experience
My mum worked for the Royal mail at a large branch where most of the clients were picking up the weekly allowance from the government. The place was incredibly poorly operated, the safe was just unlocked sometimes because people couldn't be bothered to lock it. 10k stacks of money just left on the side in view of customers because management couldn't be bothered to lock it back away. Security door in the back being left open to let some cool air in - the list goes on. I'm shocked they were never robbed and the cherry on top was they were a horrible employer who forced my mum in to work related stress leave. Nice to know they haven't changed
Georg, this is called the service economy; it's what happens when you let the older generations outsource all the real industries so they can pay less, to people who aren't you and barely speak your language. Congratulations!
One of the worst things happening today is that the overwhelming majority of workers don’t make enough to save a single cent. So they can’t feasibly “save money to buy a house” or whatever. They’re literally stuck in the same job, same apartment for pretty much ever. We all know what’s inevitably gonna happen.
The worst job I ever had was a quite well-paying job in real estate for a company that offered a lot of perks like catered lunches, a massage chair in the office and virtually unmonitored use of the company cars, however there was an open hatch in the ladies' bathroom wall that I discovered someone had been shoving their used sanitary products in and management were too complacent to resolve it. I left inside of a month.
