Thank you for helping me have the courage to appropriately not take the crap at work any longer. For me at 66 this is a great accomplishment. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!
Having entered the workplace in 1972, I can vouch for the fact things haven't changed all that much in 50 years. "Work from home" definitely has, but the situations faced in the videos can often be applied to the traditional workplace settings. The desire to micromanage and the expectation of loyalty (as expressed by working long hours) with no guarantee of reciprocal loyalty is the same now as then. "Promotions" (defined as a title and increased responsibilities with no increase in pay) is a technique that's probably as old as employment. Another long-standing presumption is that after employees are laid off, the existing employees will "pick up the slack" - aka do more for the same hourly rate. (The company often ends up paying MORE due to overtime... but that's a topic for another day). If anything, work from home has made it easier to NOT work those long hours. All you have to do to end your day is log out; you don't have to worry about dealing with your supervisor before you go. Micromanagement is harder to implement when you can't almost literally breathe down the neck of the employee. I think these are two major reasons why companies are now balking at those who refuse to come into the office.
I have so appreciated you pointing out that salaried employees are not “on” all the time. As someone in education this has started my school year off better already by not accepting crap that occurred over the summer when I am not on duty. Thank you for helping me to be more realistic about making boundaries!! Love you, especially Donna Sue!
Your characters inhabit depictions of modern office experiences that resonate with many of us -you are fighting the corporate culture madness with humour that highlights the insanity of it all. As for Donna Sue ? - her sheer common sense and humanity and lets be honest - how we would all like to be thought of by others -is marvellous ! Thank you !
Thank you for providing a visual of the toxic environment some of us have worked in & healthy ways to respond & view it. It’s helped me to heal from some of it. Also, to recognize & face it for what it was❤🎉😊😊. Thank you so much.
Thank you for your content. I am just starting my career so all of your tips, tricks, red/green flags, and your skits (Bethanie and Donna Sue warm my heart) have helped me step into being a professional. So grateful for this community. Thank you.
You are so interesting to listen to and watch. Just seeing your home too..... the puppy pet, THE DAD! Your workspace. Your fashion sense. (Donna Sue should have made an appearance with her tea cup).
Thank you for all your videos. Details of what you do is so right on point of what we as workers go through at work. Keep up the great work of what you do!
Absolutely love this! Treasure you beyond words, if only an event could hit Melbourne Australia! Never say never though right? Toodaloo! Till the next video!
❤you are a fabulous gal!! I enjoy how you and your Father interact, too. Here from Pittsburgh, Pa would love to have you visit. God bless you and all you endeavor!!
I work for a non-profit charity that supplies food to those that cannot provide for themselves. (No I am not going to ask you for anything) I just want to say thank you for selecting a food pantry to support. There will always be hunger amongst us, so just Thank You! Keep doing good things.
I really appreciate that you made a special video to thank everyone for their participation. It's the first time I've seen this and it's great to be appreciated!
Awww 🥰 you’re such a genuine thoughtful person! My sincere thanks for making content that brings a smile to my face and brightens my day. Sending BIG hugs 🤗 love and prayers 😘💜💕
❤Love your videos...the humor while you are helping us communicate and interact more effectively in the work environment. Thank u for your genuine humor and helpful practical advice. Pls keep this content coming
Thank you for providing your content both satirical and great thought provoking scenario shorts! Take care and looking forward to your next too-da-loo moment! 🎉
I hope you still keep publishing i RU-vid. I really enjoed tour content, especially "how do you professionally say" epusodes...all thecharacters. Thank you for making me feel that I am not the only one feeling how i fewl at work..as a nearly 50 yr young girl working since 26 yrs. Thank you desr. Love from Rome❤
Love your videos. Reminds me that being busy does not equal being productive. Need to set limits to keep work-life balance to stay stable. I am new to working from home. It has been hard.
Thank you so much for your channel. It is not only quite entertaining, it models ways to reframe what working should be like. You have definitely enlightened and motivated me to create a better work-life balance, after 50 years of being a workaholic. I am actually looking forward to retiring at the end of the year, rather than continuing to work. I am so grateful that your channel inspired me to make this change.
Thank you for being you. Thank you for what you do. Thank you for bringing joy, laughter n happiness to everyone. Thank you to everyone involved in this including your dad.
I am a fan. I'm not even in the corporate world, but education. I happened upon your channel and was hooked. What I really appreciated about your videos was the acknowledgement that we are people and professionals at the same time. Management of all sorts tends to forget that their workers are not computers. There are emotions, personalities, and this is our life not just a job. For me teaching is a vocation, but I've been in non-academic circles and business circles and let me tell you everyone needs to compare notes. Administrators need to realize we're professionals. Managers need to realize they are truly in a service industry and treat their employees with more worth. I have sent a few shorts to my boss and he never responded so ... You make me want to move to Canada
I am also an educator and fully enjoy every second of content you make. I think you have allowed all people to realize they can be more than just their job title, something that is definitely needed in this crazy world=orld. Thank you!
Thank you for showing a retired boomer how much the workplace has changed since I started working over 40 years ago (but now retired). I believe it’s changed for the better, and the world is in good hands with hard working people like you 💜❤️
It should be Thank You to you Laura for producing this content on the workplace dynamics and building this community. I suspect many find the content helpful, refreshing and provides a much needed outlet for stress.
Thank you! I really enjoy your content and learn a lot from it, even though the work environment in the Netherlands is different in so many ways from the ones in Canada and the USA. Kind regards from the Netherlands and wishing you the best of luck, looking forward to more of your content 🙏
Thank YOU! I dont know if you really grasp how many people you help from ALL over the world. We have found our voices because of you...and we are GRATEFUL!🎉
No need to thank us!! We all love your content and want more of it!! You've brought hidden things from the workplace out into the main stream....and some of us can/and will do something with/about it. So keep doing what you do!! I'll keep watching. Give your Dad a hug...just incase he feels left out. He's awesome too!!
@LoeWhaley, Thank you!! I am retired now, and I so wish that back then I had someone like you offering the advice you do for working in an office environment. Keep up the good work you do.
I would actually like to thank you for many of your sensible and common sense, videos! I don’t work from home or online or probably like most of your subscribers, In an office environment! I am mostly manufacturing/warehouse, working type work environment and some of your advice and videos actually apply to where I work as well! Not to mention, I actually love all of your characters. I am nowhere near where you live, so I probably won’t be able to do any meet ups, but I am in Tennessee USA and really enjoy being one of your subscribers for the past year or so😊🦦
I get so much benefit from your content even though I can't consider myself a "work bestie." I am retired but still have to deal with unreasonable people at times. Your content reminds me to focus on my own perspective, my own self-interests instead of feeling obligated to keep everyone else happy or caving to demands that leave me feeling used and unappreciated. Thank you very much.
A well constructed channel providing a safe space where we can assemble and know that we're not alone in the sea of idiocrasy that is so prevalent in the work place.
Thank you for giving me a better vocabulary to talk to managers at work. Nobody takes you seriously if you sound like a bumpkin. When you used big words, and an appropriate vocabulary, they assume you know what you're talking about, and take you seriously. You've helped a lot of people with your “how do you say this in corporate”. Meet up in Orlando, Florida, go to the theme parks. 😊
Thank you for your videos ❤ - I work in an amazing environment now (a charity), but I’ve worked with some really toxic bosses in the past. Your videos have helped me realise what the issue was and how to never end up in ‘that place’ again.😊
Well, its 6:53 AM Here, Car is packed, we are on the Way to Lago di Garda for an short spontaneous Trip, and my Wife did grin, as i said: "one Moment, Hailey did bring up an vid with an strange Title, all Letters small." You really did and do make this ol`german think about Work Life Balance and true Fullfillment for one Self and the Ones i hold dear. Thx for that:) Live your Best Life young Lady!
This was lovely. Waiting for a meet up near me. I am envisioning a community space online for educators and academics to talk about their workplace issues in a fun supportive way. Also a place to navigate the toxic political stuff that is sending so many OUT of the field. Love the model that you are pushing and the creativity in the content.
Hi Laura, I have a quick story for you. I just finished six months of stress leave that coincided with our busy season at work. My boss is an absent, incompetent, irresponsible, unaccountable, top-down micromanager who takes me for granted and is concerned only with his appearance to his superiors. I discovered your channel during my leave (thank you, RU-vid algorithm!), and you helped me set new boundaries, rediscover my worth, and not let other people--especially people like my boss--define me. Your videos have helped me more than all of the counselling and books I read over that 6 months. That is why I say, from the bottom of my heart, no Laura, thank YOU for everything. 🤗 And for the record, your black-handled UNT mug is brilliant! I need one. 😁
I would tell you to come to Montreal, but I wonder if the language police would let you have it in English... Come to Ottawa! It's close enough so that we can sneak over the border and see you. And thank you for your fantastic subjects; it is so nice to finally feel seen when it comes to workplace scams.
You Laura thanking us is absurd, we thank you for making sense of the lunacy of CBS (corporate bull shit) so thanks to you all ways up. I started watching you while I was working but now I've retired I'm still watching everything because I have (ex-)colleagues still needing your pearls of wisdom. Gratifying that the company I retired from in the UK, despite being 'Murican owned, took a very Donna Sue attitude to most stuff thus your vids letting me know I worked for an unusually sound outfit, particularly as - biological sex apart - I would rate myself as more at the Bethanie end of the employee spectrum. And can we have more of your Dad? He's the kind of dude I'd cheerfully go for some beers with.
