How did it take 15 years for the shipping company to go out of business? With that level of incompetence and mismanagement, I didn’t think it would have lasted a year.
I worked for a company for a few weeks that was so toxic (employers, owners and the building literally had toxic black mold) i reported the businss to employment bureau and the health nd safety people. It still took 5 years to shut down the buildng.. that had several doctors offices in it.. one was a cancer treatment center.. with black mold in the walls of the examine rooms.
I have a story about a job interview that went too well actually. Yesterday we had a chat with a web designer who now has her own software and web design firm. She's a good friend of our web design teacher at uni. She once did an interview for one of those big firms. They asked her to do a simulation test. They asked her to make something like a mockup website. She begun by asking them all sorts of things. Stuff like: "Do you want this or that? What are your preferences? Do you use this system or that one?" Needless to say the recruiter was speechless. He looked her in the eyes and said "I feel embarrassed you know more than we do. This position is all yours.."
@@xlr8436 it's not that they didn't knew what they wanted. It's that she was asking them about technicalities they they didn't know about/weren't aware of but she was.
Arrogant dude: "The test is pointless and I am not doing it. If you insist, you can terminate the interview!" OP: "Alright." **walks out** Arrogant dude: **Surprised Pikachu Face**
Before anyone else makes r/slash’s mistake, $900/hr. is what the client was charged, not what OP made. Still, I’m sure OP make north of $200k/yr for a job like that.
Yeah, and they did work for 2 of those hours, so it's 5400 a day * 260 is 1.4m before taxes and expenses (It's not cheap to run 2 boats and pay 4 workers) a year. I'm sure it was good money, and standing still using no fuel but being paid full money, he certainly didn't run a loss.
I came to the comments to find this comment and like it. Despite the minor misunderstanding, a great rslash episode as always 🙂 keep up the great work man
My then bf and I went to a McDonald's and ordered some food. The two employees were laughing, glancing at us, and speaking Tagalog to each other. My bf and I only spoke English, which was a reasonably safe assumption on the employees' part, given that he and I were white in Vancouver. When they finally handed us our food, my bf used one of the phrases his many Tagalog-speaking coworkers had taught him, which meant "Thank you". The stunned look on their faces was priceless XD
@@sydneyyoung7352 Caucasian stems from Caucus regions, like Armenia, Azerbaijan etc. It was essentially a colonized term, by German anthropologist, johann Blumenbach, because he was a Caucasian woman, thought she was beautiful, and took the term for white people.
@@christyndoro huh, learned something new :) I wish I looked ethnically Armenian... I dated an Armenian once, and he was one of the most beautiful humans I'd ever seen.
Point of interest: Almost everyone with dreads washes their hair 1 - 2 times a week, more as needed. If you don't you can get all kinds of problems not the least of which being mold and bugs (aka the term moldy locks). And most of us do deep cleans (ACV wash) every 3 to 6 months as as many more times as needed. It is a myth that dreads are dirty or that you stop bathing/washing your hair to get them. A dread lock is for all intents and purposes yarn made out of human hair, and must be cared for as delicately as any animal fiber yarn. dude bro with the caterpillar probably put it there, since the OP didn't mention anything about being able to smell him from across the room.
Yeah if someone has naturally coily hair they are able to have the yarn-like dreads which just lock into place but are still perfectly healthy and feasible as hair. It's only if it's not taken care of or if you have straighter hair that it becomes unhealthy. With straight hair, it can only form mats which look sort of like dreadlocks but can't be taken care of and will grow mouldy.
I've been interested in getting short locks for a while (I'm ¼ African, but I also pasty white so I worry it'll come off as rude? idk I'm self conscious) and I had no clue that there was a stereotype of dreads being dirty. Of course, I know that there's a myth of "everything gets caught in locks" but I assumed that was more of like, long hair problems, like getting tangled with headphones and the like
@@justaperson4656 Actually the "everything gets caught in locs" part is true. Locs require a great deal of care no matter your racial background or hair type. I have had to pick out debris after being out in the wind, saw dust after working on wood projects, I'm sure I have a butt load of my pets' hair in them. I work on my hair more now than ever before in my life. And even if you have sub-saharan african hair, if you don't take good care of them you'll look like Bob Marley. As far as "I don't want to insult people." I am sure there are some black folks that are not cool with my dreads. But my (black) loctician digs them. And some of the nicest things anyone has ever said about my hair came from people of African decent. The cultural appropriation people really do tend to be highschool or college freshman age white kids that grew up in the burbs and are sure they aren't racist because they met that one black guy that one time. Or held the door for that black girl last week. Do your dreads if you dig'em. This life is too goddamn short to be worried about other people. I don't know how old you are but I wanted dreads since I was like 25 and at 49 (3 years ago) I finally did them. That's 24 years of time I wasted not having dreads because I was afraid of what others would think. The only thing I wish I'd done different is go to a loctician to section and start them.
I don't like dreads on girls for one simple reason: I am over 2 meters tall. Most girls aren't nearly as tall, so I look at them from the height. When you have dreads, your hair is being pulled to the sides and there is a bald spot on top of your head. That bald spot is the first thing I see every time I look at the dreads-wearer, unless they are 2m tall as well.
@@BarafuAlbino I'm calling BS. With very few caveats, this simply doesn't happen. So you are talking about someone with dreads less than a week old, mishandled dreads, or dreads that had root work done less than a week ago. This is not normal for dreads and suggests you are probably being dishonest or talking about something you saw once a long time ago and assumed it applies to all dreads everywhere.
that first story really puts into perspective why everything is so expensive nowadays, because every industry is dealing with that level of middle management incompetence and money bleeding on multiple levels.
My oldest moved to live in PA, we came up to see he and his now wife. Imagine my surprise when he claimed he did not know how to cook, clean, do laundry, etc. Her face was priceless when we told her that HE Did infact know all these skills, plus many others we had taught him before turning him loose on society. It is really simple folks, you failif your kids can not survive on their own.
The last story about the jeans - when I was growing up (I was 10 so about 1988ish) my oldies had a pub in a little rural NZ town. Being a small town & 99% of the locals being born & bred there, a lot of the pubs regulars were their friends. They had this one mate called L. He was an absolute idiot (in the best, super likeable, funniest way possible) & him & my dad were always pulling pranks on each other. Anywho, the boys were going on a days deep sea fishing/diving trip & for some reason I can't remember, L had left his bag at the pub, packed & ready to go & to just grab (as they met up as a group & all left together). Well, my mum decided that it was her turn to get in on the fun, so she got his jeans, t shirt, undies & jersey out & sewed them up! The undies right thru the middle (from belly button down thru the crotch vertically) across the jeans legs at diff points, thru the sleeve of the jersey, neckhole of the t shirt etc. So when poor L was cold & wet & went to put his clothes on in the middle of the ocean, he had a hell of a time! He ended up cutting the sleeves off his jersey just so he could still wear it, so when he made the mistake of leaving it at the pub again a few weeks later she did him the favour of fixing it up & trimming it with beautiful, white, gathered lace. He had no idea until he was standing in a pub with everyone laughing while he stood there - beer in hand - with his frilly, lacy top on. He got my dad back by putting a sheep's eyeball in his ham & salad roll LOL
Rslash has become my favourite hangover cure. Had a crappy experience at a bar last night (found about 10 dead ants in my drink) so I need some comfort today lol
I was very young when I started learning how to take care of myself. So much so that by the time I met my soon-to-be bride, I was fully adept at all the stereotypical 'woman's' work. This didn't exactly make my male future in-laws happy. My father-in-law was one of those the wife must have dinner on the table ready for him to eat when he got home and was attempting to 'educate' me on the 'proper' way things are done. "Women cook and clean since they know how to do it and are just born with that talent." I remember asking, "... And, me building a campfire, cooking dinner for all the scouts, and cleaning up was a woman's job?" "No! Because that is outdoor cooking and cleaning... A man's job." "Great! Let's have a BBQ where we can treat the ladies to a day of no cooking or cleaning!" "Well... Since that's at home, all the prep work is still the woman's job." "Wonderful! We can take them camping, catch a mess of fish, clean 'em, 'fry 'em up, and pig out!" (Side note... Scoutmaster he was but had never cleaned a fish in his life and I knew it!) "You know that if a woman is there that is their job but fish does sound great!" Long story short, we did go camping, and I took the females on a nature hike after playing up ALL the manly-man-ness to everyone. They did succeed in catching a few tiny perch but didn't know they had to clean them, and they were charcoal when we got back. It sure was a good thing I brought a bunch of food for us to eat on our hike, but there wasn't any food left by the time we got back. Such a shame they didn't have the foresight to pack any food for themselves... or know how to get food, prepare food, cook food that wasn't precooked, or clean up everything afterward. My father-in-law did change a bit after that, and a few other incidents but his youngest son is still the same way now as he was when he was a teen. Oh, and we had to leave the next morning because of a suddenly remembered appointment of my future father-in-law. Code for, they were hungry and had nothing to eat.
This shipyard in the first story lost out on 57.24 Million dollars over those 15 years...since as OP said they had 2 boats to do the job...so if we double rSlash's 28.62 Million...we get to that 57.24 Mill...Yeah, no wonder they went out of business!
@@remylarrivee2047 And they got 2 hours a day of work out of them, so they "only" lost 75% of that 28.6m, so 21.45m. Still though, jeez that's wasteful spending.
The 900$ is not Op's salary it's the cost of the salaries of all the employees for the 2 boats he mentionned. that is still a lot of loss in the end for labors that was barely done XD
OMG! I first learned to input programming data via key punch. I was never so happy to see technology advance as I was when I watched those evil key punch machines go bye-bye.
@@wolfeyarcher20gaming45You're some right. It was a machine that you fed rectangular paper cards (slightly thicker than average index card) to type rectangular holes in to represent letters, etc. for data. One mistake and you had to type the entire card over again or the mainframe would reject your entire stack (run) of cards, which could amount to hundreds of cards depending on what you were trying to run and resulted in looking through pages and pages of fan dot matrix computer paper to find the error. Hope that's clearer than mud.
My guy comes in with Caterpillars in his hair and he still landing the job, meanwhile I can't even get an interview that's not an insult. Major respect.
Having been the "dross" sent forward by a local job center...like ew. Not cool. Guess what, we HAVE to go to any job posting sent to us by the job center. If we don't, we'll lose our stipend. Most of us *want* a job, but we know that we are in no way qualified for what they sent us to, so yeah, we won't always seem enthused. We don't want a job we'll bomb at, we hate we have to go to an interview for a job we know we'll never get, and it's embarrassing as fuck. My last stint of unemployment was not ended by the job center, but a hot tip from my sister. It's not our fault the employment office sends us out to jobs we aren't qualified to get, but we are required to go, or we lose unemployment benefits. Please be kinder to that "dross" you so distain, we're just doing what we have to do to survive.
I had a friend that had his unemployment cut because he refused to go to a job interview, which would have been fine but the job required a forklift lience and guess what he didn't have.
Yeah, I feel that RSlash plays up the “$900 per hour wow!”. But that’s wet hire/ service hire of industrial equipment. Still by being inefficient, it’s still costing them at least 2 to 3 times as much as it could.
One time my grandpa was at the market and two women there were bitching about him in Quechua (an Andean language), but they didn't know my grandpa could understand them, and he told the to "eat shit" in Quechua XD
NEVER ASSUME someone else can't speak a language you're using based solely upon their appearance. If you do, you're likely to wind up embarrassing yourself. Many people travel the world and learn other languages or they have parent(s) from another country and learned from them. Some people just enjoy learning other languages.
Years ago my oldest brother went on a church mission to South amarica and he learned Spanish. He's a 6 foot 200lb white guy. But speaks Spanish very well. When he came home he went to the store with our mother. There was a group of Hispanic men saying horrible things about our mother. My brother got fairly upset walked over and in Spanish said. You need to make sure be for you insulting someone's mother that her son dosent know what your saying. They got pritry quiet after that.
12:55 For the caterpillar story, he could have simply been walking through bushes and under trees on his way to the interview and had one fall on him. Once or twice, that's happened to me where I've found a caterpillar on me; on my shoulder or front of my shirt etc.. Most recently, a month ago, I parked under a tree at an veterinarian office and when I came out about 45 minutes later, when I drove off and went and stopped at a gas station about a block down the road and got out to pump gas, I found a caterpillar on the hood of my car.
Wow Rslash, no need to rub your bank account all over us in the thumbnail! I want to speak to your manager, unless you give me all your bank balance, or I WILL have you fired. (standard exclaimer for those who don't understand jokes and sarcasm, this comment is satire)
6:45 Not the only persons who know Dutch: 3 young boys from south east India went to Lagos Nigeria to do some IT work around 1980. In the evening they would drink beer at a local pub and shoot the breeze. One day, they were tired from solving some problem in the office and decided to blast everyone present in the pub in their language, Tamil, thinking "who knows Tamil?" In particular, they were severe on one young man who sat at the next table smiling at them, matching their beer intake. Finally as they stood up to pay and leave, he approached them and with folded hands, said in pure Tamil: "Thank you, I have been nostalgic for the 6 years I spent becoming a doctor, in Madras, India. I spent one year learning your beautiful language and then 5 years doing my MBBS. I will always remember my days there" NOT A WORD about their foul language and slander! The 3 walked out feeling lower than a snake crawling on the ground!
Bugs like locs a lot. When I worked in childcare I was outside a lot and spiders were a semi-frequent find in my hair. As a rule you can't lay your head in grass because bugs can get tangled in your hair and are sometime unable to get out, as their legs get caught in locs. It's very uncommon to find a bug in your locs otherwise.
Since the shipping yard could barely manage coordinating the moving of ships, the malicious compliance was just 1 heavy nail on the coffin. Plus it took them that long? Yeah they were incompetent
my brother is very much a "you can sew, sew this for me" kinda guy. He has promised compensation on NUMEROUS occasions, but never actually paid. He's actually told me before "You can sew, so I don't need to learn, I can just get you to do it", maybe if I pull a stunt like the last story, it'll "motivate" him to pay me
On the job interview story, I must admit, I kinda understand that dude as well. I'm in my last year of engineering studies. I get called constantly by companies asking me to come for an interview. 9/10 companies come up with those tests. Like, come on, I did just spend years proving I'm worthy to be an engineer at uni, with written/oral exams, lab tests, and a final thesis. Yet, those companies want me to take multiple extra exams, to prove I'm actually worth it? If they don't trust universities in their job, they should start schooling people themselves. Especially when it is about jobs you actually studied for.
Altough the people who speak “Afrikaans” think that people who speak Dutch can understand them, it can be possible, but most of them don’t. Examples: the Afrikaans word: moltrein is in Dutch: metro, and in English subway or tube. The Afrikaans word braai is in Dutch and English: barbecue.
I was with a girl for 2 years… we got married and I got fed up doing what should be a 5050 job for years and told her I’d do what she does…. She left me 6 months later and it took me 3 weeks straight to clean up our shared apartment (I threw 90% of it away) she really quickly learned how to clean her shit on her own but she gained like 100lbs of fat in 2 years as I gained muscle and look like a mini strong man (270 lbs)
3:44 also keep in mind that this was happening over the course of 15 years so OP make $28 million from 2 hours of actual work all thanks to the absolute corporate stooge
This boat yard needs either a really great superintendent, or some kind of middle man coordinator expert to work with everyone and work out kinks in the system and focus on organization and time management.
Fellow Afrikaans speaker! I live in a kinda small country just North West of South Africa, named Namibia. We have many many different cultures. Quicker backstory - Our nanny(A) growing up taught me some of her native language while she took care of the house, me and my older brother while our mom was working. It went from simple words to basic sentence building and due to my pale skin many people didn't know I could kind of understand her native language. Whenever I had enough spare change(coins from my mother and brothers) I would go to my favorite clothing store with A. Sometimes while standing in the queue, the other natives behind us would talk about my nanny and me. Not always pleasant things, but I was relatively young (age 6-8), so I didn't understand why they would say certain things. Usually by the time I understood what they said our cashier finished up our purchase and my nanny would start to walk away with me in hand. This is usually the time I'd say something back in their native language, ranging from 'don't be mean' to some light cursing like saying they were a butthole. I don't remember much of the language anymore, but the look on the ladies faces still puts a smile on my face over a decade later :) Incase you were wondering how Afrikaans is pronounced, I'll try my best to break it down by separating English words to get a quick pronunciation. U (like the start of 'up') - free (we pronunce our R's very clearly) - cans (the A's sound a little deeper and longer, like a double vowel) Afrikaans -> U-free-cans. It still sounds strange outside of our deep accent :)
I feel like this biggest problem with Malicious compliance is that most of the technical things that people get into don't make any sense to people just listening to zone out.
1st story: sounds like a common FL interaction. Many boats here. 2nd story: also a common FL Convo with some old bloke. 3rd story: "he's a self described momma's boy and filthy... Yep. That's hubby material"
I’m not sure if that service even works. I was talking to my friend about a very obscure autoimmune disease that I was being tested for, I had never typed or googled or anything about this syndrome. Then next day, my notifications and inbox were FULL of ads for immunosuppressive drugs and rheumatologist that serve our area. Like… even when you don’t think your devises are listening, they are hearing everything
My husband is red headed with blue eyes (looks like a Viking) and we live in San Diego. He was in line in a Mexican Restaurant, when the two people behind the counter started talking about him in Spanish....not realizing that the big red head speaks Spanish. When he told them in Spanish that they can take their food and stick where the sun doesn't shine. The look on their faces was priceless.
How much did the tug captain clear? The boats, insurance have to be paid for. Running or not there is maintenance. There is fuel, moorage, licensing, taxes etc...
Key punches are so loud and amazing pieces of computer technology. If one is missing the main board it would be silent. How about the punch cards? wouldn't there be a significant reduction in card usage. Plus the new terminals may not have a punch card reader.
ok this makes me think I can post my story on malicious compliance it has everything from a former all star dream team turning to a hell hole because of someone taking over, messing with the it guy all the way to moving to better pastures while watching that dumpster on fire!😊
8:58) 😂 gosh dang it when I ever I see the word bursar all I could think of is the Hamilton quote “you punched the bursar?” followed by Hamilton saying “yes” The mental image makes me chuckle every time
That first story shows you that big companies just work on a different financial scope. They were hemorrhaging almost 1k per h per day for 15 years and they didn't even notice
Story 4: The biggest sign of an immature adult is the inability to admit when you're wrong, and conversely the biggest sign that an adult is mature is the ability to humbly apologise and accept responsibility.
I work for a company that provides management and financial services and consulting. For some clients I had to develop the mantra "if they don't care, I don't care". But I do care! That's why they hired us! It's a struggle. The worst one closed shop rather than do actual work.
Lol, from my experience, caterpillars that live in trees will just… drop out sometimes, so he totally could’ve just had a random caterpillar fall on his head while walking somewhere. Especially if it was Caterpillar Season™️ when they’re all over the place.
I had a job interview where a tick fell off me onto the table at the height of lymes disease epidemic. He said ger rid of the tic and come back. I still got the job.
Honestly, I would encourage EVERYONE to live on their own for 1 or 2 years at least. What if your spouse, who does everything for you, dies? Is in the hospital or has cancer and just can't do the household chores right now? When my mom was sick with a hospital stay and everything (she's fine now), my dad called on his 30 year old knowledge of basic cooking, doing the laundry and cleaning. My mom came home to an orderly house and my dad took care of her. She was so grateful. A lot of older men, whose partner died, have to cough up a lot of money for a maid or even live in a retirement home, because they can't take care of themselves. It's honestly kind of sad...
Story 2, about people trash talking a relative of their audience…my grandparents were divorced, and we seldom saw our grandfather. When my sister and her husband were near where my grandfather and his wife lived, she phoned him thinking they could have lunch together. She said her name, told him she was j’s daughter, and his granddaughter. He starts talking, hey how are you, blah blah. And then he starts saying how her mother was okay, but how horrible J was, never phoned, etc etc. My sister finally cuts him off, and says “grandpa, I am J’s daughter, not C’s”. Dead silence. Awkward goodbyes. She never spoke to him again.
I knew a flight attendant from Lufthansa who flew to Cuba in the 1980s - those were the first vacation flights there and the infrastructure for tourists was not yet really developed. One evening on the beach the crew was complaining in German about how crappy the crew hotel was and how the food and the constant power outages were a disaster. A policeman was standing nearby, then joined the group and greeted them in Spanish, then said in accent-free German that they should be careful if they didn't want to go to jail. He had studied in East Berlin in the GDR, so he spoke fluent German. Oops!
That's probably what a small business looks like in a big city, I've seen millionaires start small businesses on RU-vid and flush 1.5 million dollars in a year and then shut down or completely revamp next year. But up here in Maine you can start a business of $20,000 more employees and be successful.
I imagine the $20,000 didn't last very long but it was a fish store and I assume they were able to get a loan loan easily when they were able to show the bank they were successful
$900/ hour is good but not as great as it sounds, Try writing the check for 20,000 gallons of diesel fuel every week or two, Then there are things like lube oil, lines, possibly food for the small crew.and then there is crew pay plus associated drew costs, medical insurance, unemployment Social Security etc... Then vessel insurance and off vessel expenses, a small office with maybe a couple of workers there to handle all the paperwork required by the USCG, ABS and other alphabet groups. While OP is captain of one boat the other boat needs a captain so just pay for one captain and one deckhand on a boat depending on where they are and when this occurred could be between $400 and 600 a day. Then every two or three years the boats have to go in a shipyard themselves many thousands of dollars. Or to express it another way Lot of money in/ lot of money out
Maritime work is very difficult. Since it's international, the shipowners move the money out of the country and operations are always running on fumes. The only exception is stuff that is entirely within US waters, like Great Lakes shipping, but special interests are always trying to undermine that too.
NGL I had to Google keypumch machine because I had no idea what it was. I turned 29 last month. Thank you for reminding me I'm still young😅 I have a great respect for people back when things were simpler, but way less convenient. Our elders trekked through the mud, so we could hoverboard lol
I think thats a pretty normal reaction to finding a catapiller in ones hair. What I wanna know is if the dude took the piller with him and put the lil guy in a bush or tree
I had a conversation at a friend's house about an insulin pump (she's type 1, I'm not diabetic), Got home, my FB feed is full of ads for insulin pumps. Hubby and I talked about getting a new dryer. Yu,p, ads for dryers everywhere.
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The caterpillar is easy If you walk under a tree that is infested with caterpillars, just brush a branch with your head and you got one or more on head, or neck. It happened to me just like that. I didn't notice until I was on the express bus to my home
My GF and I are both autistic but in her upbringing, which was abusive, she was never taught skills like cleaning in a productive way, whereas I was. Sadly, her parents knew of her autism from when she was young and there is frankly no excuse for why they never did, as opposed to my diagnosis happening at 17 even after my parents had worked at teaching me many skills. Since I've got disabilities that keep me from being able to work and the GF is more able than me, I view my cleaning up after her as making up for the offset in our income for paying our bills. It works for us, but it likely wouldn't for anyone else.
You know, chrome wants to implement a system that saves your interests on your computer outside of the cookies to show personalized advertisements. So in the future, a VPN will not be possible to avoid such ads.
"New manager loses the company money because he/she belives they know better than the ones who have worked with it for 10+ years" a story as old as time.
