Undercover Boss Gets Fired For Packing Boxes Terribly | Undercover Boss 

WELL HAHA HE WASNT FIRED, NOR WAS HE INEFFICIENT, AS HE WAS UNTRAINED HE DISCOVERED THAT THIS FACILITY NEEDS BETTER TRAINING.... DIDNT YOU WATCH THE WHOLE EPISODE?

He should quit his job...

​@@UNABRIDGED_SCIENCE No I can't find the clips

@@UNABRIDGED_SCIENCE Take off the caps lock what is wrong with you? Try again.

…aaaand here’s another comment from someone who has no idea what a CEO is or does.

You are 100% correct.

Impossible greedy standards? Everyone else could do it. It isn't impossible for them.

"It's all about getting a little rythm, that's all it is. I love it here!"

I can tell you have never worked a job like this before nor any job where a manager is your "boss" Manager's make their own rules and their own standards.

And he was doing this to figure out how to do it faster, greedy bastards

Thats not his job.. that's why he's paying his employees to do

That may be true yet this just proves that any new employees would face similar issues

@@jimmydeewilliams6489 Kinda think a boss should be able to do kinda what the employees do.

Thats not irony, that's hypocrisy!

@@martinkuliza simple common sense

But they don't though. "Ohh well, got fired from my fake job. Back to my multi million dollar mansion on the other side of the country."

@@monkeymode5652that choice has consequences too, just different ones.

not really , you wouldn't get fired from 3 hours off work and not hitting targets my company offer 6 weeks before you get fired but they have to see improvement , some people are not cut out for picking and packing lines , some are

@King Skyline I agree. I don't think he went into the job trying to exceed expectations. I think he made those failures on purpose to see if they'd find them or just let them go. I think the company should have given him a longer time frame to improve his speed on packing. There should have been a verbal warning, then a written warning, and then dismissal. But it's America, and I live in the UK. Also, warehouses have different rules to dismissal...I think!

What consequence? I’m sure this boss is absolutely thrilled by what he found. His line seems very efficient. His employees love their jobs and say it’s a good company to work for, and the supervisor cuts dead weight fast and doesn’t let poor performers slip through the cracks. I’m sure he was absolutely ecstatic later on the conference call with the board.

What about the company where they assemble parts for the so beautiful dress like (academy award in Hollywood) the employees get $ 2.00 per hour and the manager sell that dress $35 000.oo per dress in Hollywood ? If the needle goes through their skin like one of the fingers the manager give them the day off and the next day they have to be back at work , reminder $2.00 per hour ? How rude can a manager be towards his employees 🙄?

Fast food

I did this for 8 years they don’t come up to you once your trained and doing it and I can literally text listen to music and still make over production this man was an idiot

@@erickrodriguez6108 oh God yes Used to work at dairy queen illegally as a cook at the age of 15 (have to be 16) and worked damn near full time while attending school. Within my 2nd week being their my coworkers would either call in sick or use the restroom constantly leaving me to do all the orders during rush hours. What's stupid was that I wasn't taught how make and prepare the hamburgers since they wanted to teach me later when I'm comfortable doing the simpler stuff like cooking fries and chicken strip. So I'm getting all these orders and I had to teach myself how to cook them and make them useing a old ass paper guide while being the only cook (for some stupid ass reason our boss only allowed 2 cooks per shift) and then my manager had the audacity to tell me to hurry up the hell up while my coworkers sometimes forget to take the food from the window to the people in drive even after I yelled "DRIVE" 3 times I later quite after my grades where starting to fall and I was tired as hell since my coworkers kept calling in to the point where sometimes I don't get a day off and even after I told my manager I needed to study for finals he said I can study when I get home even though I get home at 12 at night because I have to ride my bike 3 miles to get home. I didn't put a 2 week notice in because I had enough and I was exhausted and he said if I quite to not use him as a reference and I said gladly.

@@xtrithx4389 I feel you, same thing at Wendy’s man it sucks

Yet he’s the one that set the standards for how they work lol

Companies don't respect people

Well HE SET those standards. As a supervisor I can say people are usually taken in the office and door closed when being fired.

To be fair, they were in such a mad rush to hit those standards that they barely had time for first time hellos, let alone a long private explanatory firing.

So true . And humiliating ! The manager should have asked him if he could stay and extra 30 minutes after work and have him pack 10 boxes slowly while he watched . If he can get it right slow , he can get it right a bit faster the next day . An explanation WHY the company is so picky about the way things are packed would have helped too . The newbie definitely looked motivated but perplexed by the speed of action . Fired on the first day sucks

wat u mean 'these people'

@@CowsR4me he means these kinds of people

They didn’t expect him to be as good as her…. She can pack 150 an hour. They expected gradual improvement from him. Also…. He made the standards and even wanted to increase the efficency even more.

She said she can pack far more than the standard was and they didn't expect him to hit it right away. That being said the owner probably never worked in similar job or it was very long ago so he didn't have the required starting base to get on the level as fast enough. That doesn't mean the standards are set high, they are just set for people who are skilled and experienced in similar work already. He was simply fired because they didn't see any potential in him.

@@Sharakad No, its how workers are treated by an out of touch management team.

Same here. I used to work for Shasta beverage company as a temp. They had me in the lines putting the different type of sodas in one tray that they can be shipped. I got bullied on my first day because I wasn’t going fast enough and I understand that I had to go fast and reach the numbers I was trying to keep up with everyone who has been longer then me. From each passing day it got harder and harder for me to work with the other temp’s because they think that they are the bosses and real employees of the company. I only accepted the job because I needed money and they were paying me good. Like i said I was getting tired of working with them with the constant bullying and hostile work environment from the assistant managers everyday. When I complained to him about the bullying they didn’t even fire the people but just had us sit in in a room together and talk about the problems that we had. Then one day when we tempts had to poor out the bad and expired soda we had to take off the bottle caps and poor them down the drain. But my hands was starting to get hurt and when I took off my gloves . Then I had blisters and they were some blood from twisting the bottle caps. Then I tried to take a short break from twisting because I was dealing with some pain in my hand and then guys said to me “aren’t you gonna help or just stand there” so when he said they I got mad in my head and then I showed the guy next to me my hands on why I stopped for a bit because of my hands and the guys understand why I couldn’t. So they let it slide unlike the other guy. Then fast forward on my last day the same temp guy who had a fit with me with the soda bottles me and him were put right next to each other on the line to put the sodas in the trays. So the guy he was complaining that I was trying to make it hard for me to put his spas in the trays but I didn’t see an issue because I was putting my case of soda that was much easier for me to be faster but he didn’t like that. I tried to explain to me “so what that is your problem not mine” then he got pissed off and I can tell he was a hot head. On the last straw he got me so mad that I decided to punch him with the soda cans and luckily there was a barrier between me and him and the soda exploded right in his face 😂 haha. Right there I got calmed and I had a feeling it was my last day. So one of the temps from a different temp agency who also bullied me tried to calm both of us down. Then we talked to the lead and then the lead talked to one of the assistant managers and then the assistant manager came out to talk to me without hearing my side and told me to go but I tried to explain to the manager but this is my last opportunity for this agency and if you could only hear my side of the story on what has been going on, but nope he wanted me out and then I said some bad words to him and then the manager wanted to fight me because I said to him “fuck you colonizer” because I was frustrated at this point that he didn’t want to hear my side like all of my formal bosses in the temps agencies. So I know what I had to do and not fight him and then I ran up to the stairs and to get my bag and run as fast as I can to get out of there that I can get to my car and drive back home. My lesson was from this is to never apply for a temp agency ever again because people are cruel to me and not cruel to others when I’m trying to make a living and make Some money. The job was an 8 hour shift Monday-Friday 1pm-9:30pm but my shift they wanted us to stay over time because we weren’t hitting the numbers of pallets that we are supposed to hit by the end of the shift. Some days I didn’t stay over time because I didn’t want to be around them.

​@@SSJoe13 why'd you call him a coloniser you racist jerk.

I worked at Amazon in the UK for two weeks. I left because the supervisor spoke to me like dog shit over a toilet break. It's not OK to have every aspect of your work micro managed and a sure way to lose quality employees (not that people who stay in such places aren't quality themselves).

@@Paul_Ward Next time document that & report it. Then piss yourself on the workroom floor & sue.

Did you just call a jewish person a subhuman? That is highly anti-semitic. Shame on you.

wow thanks for reminding us of the holocaust

@@honkbeforeitstoolate587 sarcasm? Or not. Idk either way... stfu

late in Hitler's words he referred to ETHNIC SLAVS as SUBHUMAN pick up a history book

@@danielpetrucci8952 your rulers consider you less than subhuman

It's not that hard of a job. If you can't get a easy job to work out how do expect to advance.

Tie your balls with your bootstraps or however gen x people say it.

@sparkyguitar Difficult skill, no. Quota required on day one...that's asking a bit much. The turnover rate must be extreme. The turnover would push people away from wanting to work there. I can't imagine the pay would be good either. High turnover, pay not good, and stressful. Not to mention, a manager telling you that you aren't doing well every hour. "It's not that hard of a job". You are funny.

@@skyshroudsylvan6022 So what job do/ did you have? I've done a lot of different jobs and got the hang of most right off the bat. Am I special skilled. I never thought so but others have told me I'm quick to pick up what needs to go down. Sorry if I sound full of myself but..... In a lot of my jobs it's get it done or go somewhere else. And I learned a lot of skills. When I worked. Now I pick and chose what and when I want to work.

It's putting tape on a box. Any moron can get this down within an hour let alone a few hours

THIS SHOW IS NOT REAL DUDE

And?

Sounds like you work for a good company. This company though...?

​@UNABRIDGED_SCIENCE if you don't think this happens you're out of your mind lmao

@@midnightdagger21 wdym “and” idiot

Any company that would allow that to go on, shouldn’t be in business. Being threatened at knife point is something that needs to be dealt with immediately. I’m sorry you had to be put in that position. Our society has gone crazy. Just my opinion.

They don't want to waste their money on training new employees do you want them to pick up the job so quickly if not they just get rid of them. Unfortunately this is how it goes everywhere because profit is the most important thing nothing else.

eBay acquired it for $2.4 billion in 2011, so I’m assuming he got a nice payday.

LMAO! You are funny lady!

I never understood why people are always so surprised by this. Being a CEO is it’s own job with its own skill set. I wouldn’t expect a CEO to know how to do every job everyone at the company needs to do. That’s not the skill set they have. I would expect him to know how hard the jobs are though. That’s what made undercover boss successful a show. CEOs underestimating their workers.

@@Harryacorn2 you’re right a CEO has its own skill set. Sitting in meetings, setting overly high expectations, cutting costs that shouldn’t be cut, and receiving 100 or more times the average salary of the normal worker. CEOs are useless and I can guarantee if a company went a year without one, no one would notice

And woman can't perform at anything not even the kitchen anymore. Dude sold for over 2bil while you watch this stupid game TV show he is profiting off of. Hilarious

What if most people are able to figure it out in an hour and a half, and they found that people who had these problems that long into the day wouldn't likely ever get good enough?

@@gblargg What if you are simply making shit up and have no idea what you are talking about?

@@rhoonah5849 I'm not sure you understand rational discussion. I put forth a possible situation that would call for the behavior seen on video. Are you saying you think that's impossible? Do you know the typical learning curve for this business? Do you want to expand your mind and consider alternative explanations that don't support your pre-existing beliefs? Try making arguments rather than ad hominem.

@@gblargg So you're not willing to address my hypothesis that you are simply making shit up then? Lol. Sure, I'll bite. There are many instances where a person doesn't instantly click with something. As a personal example, I studied electrical engineering in college and my senior year, I took a course in C++ programming. I really struggled with this class despite doing well in BASIC programming in high school and Pascal programming my sophomore year. I had been writing programs since I was maybe 12 years old but C++ really didn't click with me. Fast forward 5 years and I was a senior software engineer writing high performance, real time drivers in C++ and was considered to be one of the best young programmers in the company. I then went to work for a multi billion dollar a year company and "mentored" some older engineers in some various concepts of object oriented programming with C++ and brought a new way of thinking to the team. Had this manager's philosophy been imbued onto me via my professor, I would have failed the class (I think I gutted out a C) and told that I didn't have a future in programming. I would then have missed out on a successful and lucrative career and the various companies that I have worked for would have missed out on an excellent engineer. A job like in this video takes time to develop the muscle memory required to perform the same repetitive motions over and over, day after day. Expecting people to be meeting a rather high minimum quota within hours is ridiculous in my opinion. Given a day or week to get into the groove, this individual could have been a machine and cranking out their highest volume but he was never given a chance to succeed. I believe it to be a failed model. The company wastes time interviewing the candidate, on boarding them, checking references, filling out paperwork, etc. and then fires them after 3 hours? Silly.

@@rhoonah5849 I'm surprised you've never heard of hypotheticals, or giving people the benefit of the doubt, where you DO imagine things that would explain their actions in a non-negative light (called giving them the benefit of the doubt). I'm amazed you have such poor manners in a discussion based on your claims of your credentials.

I worked in a UPS warehouse & unloaded trucks. They wanted us to unload 3 trailers a day. This was during a 5 hour shift. One day after I finished my 3 trailers. I had to use the bathroom. The supervisor tells me that he needs me to unload another trailer. I tell him that I'm going to use the bathroom first. He tells me to unload the trailer first. Some back & forth arguing starts. Then he tells me "If you go to the bathroom. I'm going to send you home.". I told him to kiss my ass. I used the bathroom & left. I went back only to pick up my check. The station manager was there with my union rep trying to convince me to come back. I already had another job. So I politely declined.

@@Undecided0 You weren't undecided that day, were you? Bravo, my friend.

why dont you let us know the secret to never having to work for someone?

@@michaelfarkas2257 No need to try to split hairs. Realistically, no matter who we are there's always someone we have to answer to. Wife, family, your customers, the IRS. But I'm pretty sure you understand what it means when someone says they don't work for someone else. And there's no secret to it - you just do it.

Unfortunately this isn't the case with every Amazon warehouse

I always tell people it's hard to get fired for productivity at Amazon. Too many errors will get you fired, though. Still you can reapply 90 days later.

Yes, When the trainer said she would show Gary what to do for a "few minutes", then set him up to work on his own. I was going "wait, What?" That was Not enough training at all! Where was the instruction of proper placing of the shipping label, best way to build the box, ( oops, you have a broken taper - try this new one instead), this is how to read the label for what item you are packing. And tell me if you need help..... Did not hear her say Any of that.

This is really a great comment. Sometimes you must do what you hate to do to acquire motivation to improve yourself. I worked lots of terrible jobs and knew that education was my way out. Also, if you ever get in a position of management, it's important to work under bad bosses so that you can be a better boss.

ALSO HE DIDNT ASK HIS EMPLOYEE TO DO THAT UNLESS YOU ARE REFERRING TO THE LINE MANAGER NOT BEING ABLE TO BOX WHICH HE DIDNT PERFORM BUT IM SURE HE COULD ALSO THE WHOLE SHOW IS FAKE DUDE

@@UNABRIDGED_SCIENCE CALM DOWN KID. ITS NOT ALL FAKE.

Do you know much many jobs it takes to produce a product? Even for a pencil, you need everything that goes into makes graphene, everything that goes into cut down and producing the wood, and plenty of metal-working and eraser production, glue production, and then an industry that takes all of those parts and puts them together and more work goes into engraving each one. Not to mention transportation. A leader's job is to lead his specific division, not be a lumberjack or work metallurgy, or process rubber. Expect him to do that well, not do all the other stuff well. The manager was unreasonable, but not because he because he couldn't do what they did. Same with the boss in the vid. With a squad leader or supervisor, maybe. But a degree of seperation more.

@Pimp My Ditch Witch Hey, everyone is different. Most of my adult working career has been managerial/supervisory positions. I started off being highly aggressive, because I thought that's what was needed in the position. When I loosened up a bit, I noticed morale, obviously, went up; but more importantly,. retention. You keep harder working, more trained workers, more often.

Um yes and No. We do have a minimum rate to maintain, but not many people hit it. If you were in the bottom 5% and didn't hit rate, you got a writeup and 4 write ups you got the boot. We do have something called Time off task, it depends on the department you working in, but if you took to long of a bathroom break or weren't do anything for 30 mins, you be subject to a writeup. That show I think is slightly scripted because amazon gave you a 4 week grace period to get up to speed. There wouldn't be an amazon if they fired people like that because that can't be achieved in 1 day

@@AaronHydeComedy Thank you for that explanation. That makes sense.

No.. lowest paid delivery drivers who do 3x the work

my friend just recently quit there because he didn’t have the proper transportation he took the bus but his commute was 4 hours and he said you’re able to go to the bathroom when you needed to

Speed comes with repition. The jerk who fired him couldn't handle the big boss job after a few hours of training

LOL What do you mean DOESN'T MEAN SQUAT he earns billions they maybe earn $1000 a week How does it not mean Squat ? He could buy 10 Houses a day They MAYBE could afford 1 House in a lifetime How does it not mean Squat ?

You learn by doing. That's how's it's always been for me at all my jobs. And you are always expected to perform as well as everyone else on your first day

Right

he was escorted off the property