This skit gets a lot more real when you realize many coal mining towns in WV did exactly this and went much further than groceries. Employees were paid in company currency, lived in company housing, shopped from company stores. dystopian AF
Thank you for calling federal trade commission. Please submit all complaints in writing and in 7 to 10 business days we still will not care, because these managers are kewl and you are not. Now get back to work.
It’s a theme that I’m surprised this doesn’t come with unions and other organizations basically beating the shit out of this company for the crimes it’s clearly committing to the workplace.
@@TheDarkkilla12 I work for a place with a union. The problem with them is that the union reps are paid by the same people that pay me. They can be fired same as anyone else can.
Ya. The wealthy/powerful have always needed slaves/peasants to work. The second we get an extra nickel in our pockets, prices go up to take that nickel back. It's not an accident
This is perfect for "quiet quitting" and "shopping on the lunch hour". Walk slow. Work slower. Lots of bathroom trips. Always carry a tool or clipboard in one hand. Go through each and every safety procedure, line-by-line, on every piece of equipment. Always clean up after yourself in the bathroom and on the floor (especially if they already have a cleaning crew). Drive that forklift at the slowest, safest possible speed. Get a second worker opinion on every action. There's ways to "work" and maximize efficiency.
Yeah then u get sacked and can’t feed ur family. Ur tasks are watched and time tracked in blue collar work. If u don’t perform u are fired. Ur an idiot.
Companies like this are what motivated me to pay my house off 14 years early and carry no debt. It meant a lot of going without, but without that debt over your head you have that extra leeway to walk away from a crap job.
I have 24 years left of my mortgage (Chicago burbs) and just left a job a month ago that paid 106k a year. But I was basically a slave 6 days a week 14ish hours a day driving and unloading a semi truck. When I quit I only had a lead on a new job and I got it and I'm making 60k now 5 days a week 40 hours. I have not felt this good for 20 years. Sure I'll miss the baller pay and free health insurance but fuck it I get to enjoy life now not when I'm old as fuck.
@@NathanaelNewton Keep in mind we bought in 2006 and it still took 17 years of paying $2,000 extra a month (between my wife and myself). That didn't leave much for extras, and it was rough, but the feeling of having a paid off roof over my head is worth it. Plus, it gave me the breathing room to quit a shit gig with a 3hr daily commute and 80 cent a year raises.
Best Buy now has it to where you have to pay the full tax on employee discount purchases, which is deducted from your paycheck. (note: it wasn't always like that)
Promise me they'll be an episode sometime in the future where the manager gets dragged out by the cops with the *real* OSHA there ready to throw the book at him. Throw in an extra bit with him trying to bribe everyone with his grocery store credit lol
since this is an exaggeration of reality, I suspect the manager will get away scott free much like the CEO's at Budweiser that are still not fired or in jail, and probable 98% of other corporate businesses. Our economic system is corrupt and needs to be fixed/altered to favor actual workers when it comes to pay, (specifically in corporations, private businesses are different where the owner actually has a invested interest in making sure their business is good as they can personally lose stuff, unlike in corporations where CEO's can do pretty much whatever they want, tank the business within 1 year and will have 'earned' enough to retire at basically any age. Yes, I realize that's for the larger/multi-national corporations, but it being true in one corporation is one too many times.
I used to work for Circuit City and their employee discount was a decent 15%. Unfortunately it had the condition where upper management had to personally ring up the items you were buying and 99% of the time they were either indisposed or not even on the property.
CompUSA was mostly better in that you got stuff at cost. Some things had a ridiculously high markup, but other big ticket items they didn't mark up much at all.
Most the places I worked at wasn't so bad in terms of being hard to use. But the discount wasn't that great usually the 10-20% range. Which sounds good till you realize they usually have rules that you can't get sale prices with it. So often anything of real value would be better on sale than your employee discount.
When OSHA and the Labour Board come in and give the manager a medal for being so kewl and so great and then impalments a 25% "stop being lazy tax" on the income all employees, that aren't management, because they are a bunch of lazy ingrates Yeah, that'll be a great ending.
Considering Amazon has been trying to find a way to implement company scrip for a while now, this is really on the mark. I'm surprised it took him this long to quit, but if a 50% pay cut wouldn't have done it, I don't know what would have.
@@literallyanangrymoose7717 Amazon already does it with their some of their bonus pay. The only silver lining is that it technically doesn't count as income and isn't taxed since all store credit has exactly zero monetary value to the IRS.
@@literallyanangrymoose7717 , except for video games and films I buy all my stuff at Target and the mall, but if you know any stores to buy from that don't treat their workers like slaves then I'd buy from there.
What's sad is this happened in a LOT of companies years ago. Not in Karl Marx's Russia but here in the USA. By giving you "Company Scrip" and not money, you couldn't save money to send your kids to a better school or College to learn better skills so they didn't have to do the same horrible job you did. They would most likely follow in your footsteps doing the same job effectively being indentured servants.
It’s funny that he use Karl Marx because that’s not a communist thing that was a capitalist, thing in America by American capitalists. Abuses like that is why communism even exists.
You load 16 tons, what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt, St. Peter, don't you call me 'cause I can't go, I owe my soul to the company store. - Tennessee Ernie Ford
Look into the Coal Wars it's a terrifying read. The Martyrmade Podcast did a episode on it to (who's America pt1) it was fucking wild. Feel like we are working our way back there too.
Please do a whole story arc where this guy eventually gets arrested for osha violations and eventually comes back and gets a redemption arc where he fucks it up by doing the same old antics. Our guy here can be a temp supervisor while he's away
I always thought the discount at the retail place I worked was humorous. After all, they knew what we were paid so there was no way we could afford to shop there even with the discount.
I knew it was all bullshit when the store I worked for claimed that because they made $.02 on every dollar of merchandise sold, they had to sell $50 in items to pay for a loss of $1 in theft. Only in store math.
I worked maintenance at a apartment company. Long story short. They gave the employees a discount to live at the property. But they didn’t pay us enough to live at the properties. Nothing is more ironic having your job tell you that you can’t live there because your job doesn’t pay enough.
This some Gilded Age type voucher deal. After spending a 275 hour work week at the Ford car factory, you can trade Ford ticket vouchers for groceries at the company store.
That's ironic because Ford created the 40 hour work week that other vehicle manufacturers were forced to emulate and offer extra pay for overtime in order to keep their workers.
Everyday I see more and more similarities between the comedy skit supervisor and my actual supervisor.... and everyday I become a little more like the worker by questioning everything and becoming increasingly frustrated with their bullshit.
Best words I've ever heard! I'd quit to if I had a bastard of a boss like that, you can't keep writing him to be so damn hateable like that it's too good!
My last job did a meeting back in February about a raise. They were like "our last raise was one where some got a big raise and some got a little raise, we decided we will do a flat raise this time around because everything costs more now" when they said the raise amount, everyone kinda went silent when they said "88 cents"
@@nedlyest That's the problem, at 8%, you are best case keeping your income the same. You would need an additional 10% to have any meaningful pay raise. That is assuming you haven't increased your value through more training/education in whatever your field requires. Let us say you have bettered yourself (which you should be doing at all times) and are now worth more. Think about how much you should be selling your labor for. 10, 20, 25%? thats what you have to add to the original 8%. Watch your supervisor's reaction when you tell them you want a 35/40% raise. If you are part of a Union, you can forget ever seeing that kind of money.
I remember when I worked at a shop that had a C.O.L.A. wage tacked on (one of the union 'cost of living' benefits), it was often referred to as the 'Coke fund' because it was only enough to buy a couple of 20oz soda's. And that was in the early 2000's.
I remember when the commercials were at the end only. Now they're at the beginning & end. I hope that means he's getting paid good so he can make more content for us😅 I ❤ this! 🎉
The more I watch these skits the more I'm reminded of a retail job I worked at where they put me for overtime each day 6 days of the week which ended up giving me the same amount as if I only worked part time, tried to convince me to work a few hours on my 7th/only days off each week, and when I quit gave me a prepaid card that wouldn't let me access any of the funds so I had to fight them for days just to get my money out of it
these are so funny any yet are so visceral. my company has tried to screw with our pay several times, and sell it as some kind of net positive for the workers. luckily most of us come together and push back when it happens. So all in all, I feel like I work at a balanced company.
It's almost a shame. The presentation style is that of a continuity-based skit, meaning any significant plot change would curtail future episodes, potentially. I guess I just have to accept the format of "Somehow it'll always just get worse", which when I think of it IS impressive. Your last few videos have explored levels of petty and selfish I'd merely dreamed of before. You have a rare artistic hand when it comes to imagining, understanding, and even portraying modern middle and upper management psychology. Still glad I found your channel. Fantastic work every time. Edit I think I just realized your skit selection method. You're having the higher ups engaging in the "grey" area. Where it's illegal, but it's never prese Ted thst way and most people don't know. These skits are basically workers rights PSAs!
Bonus day when your boss dresses like santa in July on a tuesday to just hand out hundred dollar bills. Hes chilking that list twice and some of yall need quite a few of these
Bro, I lived and worked in Mariposa California for a year. One family owns half the town, and theres only two big chains (a burger king and a subway). They did a similar thing where if you were an employee, you just got a discount at the stores/gas stations. But I mean, he considered that a Benefit, so ya know, you don't need a raise. You have the discount. BUt he literally owned the One grocery store/pharmacy. Two of the three gas stations, three of the four liquor stores etc. Family has its own little fiefdom up in the mountains haha
The most insulting thing that ever happened when I worked at a grocery store was they didn't give us an employee discount, however they once gave us a 10% discount card that was a limited time offer, only lasted like a month or two...
_"So we're taking half of your paycheck and giving you a store credit of equal amount.. That is reset weekly if you don't spend it, no roll-over. We're also giving your purchases at the store 10% off, but keep in mind it's a small store with a limited selection of goods that are marked up about 20% higher than the norm for the same goods in other store. Oh, also, the shop is only open during work hours."_ Legit just theft. Gottamn.
You forgot to add- You gotta scan your employee badge to use your credit and get the discount (hours 9-4, M-F), but you gotta have your badge on your person at all times while at work.
This hits. I work retail and got some stupid fuckin award for team member of the store and the reward was a branded deck of cards and TAXED 20 dollar store credit 🤣🤣🤣
I own a lawn care and snow removal company. I worked 30 hours straight once last winter running on about 2 hours of sleep. It finished when I was at an account plowing and as I was pushing into the push pile, I fell asleep at the wheel, truck still in drive, and I just slept for an hour straight truck pushing directly into the pile lol. The downside was I fell asleep with my thumb still on the controller so it caused an O-ring around one of the hydraulic valves on the pump to blow so oil was leakint all over the place once I woke up and tried to finish. Yeah that wasn't fun. Luckily I went to school for mechanics and have an O-ring set at my shop so it took like 30 minutes to get it all figured out and I was able to finish up that day. It was a storage unit property and the last one that had to be done so no real rush. I slept so good after that.
Our store tried to pull something like this where each payday we'd get a coupon that would save us a pitiful amount after we spent an almost absurd amount first. I asked why we couldn't just get the amount that would normally be discounted as store credit instead, and they said because the store still had to make money.
That's pretty shit ngl for now at least I'm working with nice managers who bend the rules for employees sometimes but the company police is that we get 50% a 10+ dollar order ( I work fast food)
Actually, in the USA this was a real thing back at the turn of the 19th century to 20th century here, where factory owners had workers buying from the company store and paying rent to the company. Fortunately, Unions broke this down (but not without unionizers being threaten or even murdered by Pinkerton "Police" on the factory owners' payroll). People seem to forget (or more specifically lack of education on history) that the 8-hour workday or 40-hour work week weren't always so, and that child labor was very much thing, not much more than a century ago.
Don't forget that trying to be peaceful didn't work so many Unions began arming themselves and fought a guerrilla war with the companies. Today those companies are trying to censure the war. A coal company is trying to destroy Blair Mountain where the most important battle took place.
Companies exploit your feeling of loyalty for their profit. The moment they can make more profit they will and if it has a detrimental effect on your life they do not care. The "If I'm not making maximum profit all of the time I am losing money" mentality is truly harmful.
