Why I won't work a developer job anymore |  

This was real. I know my experience doesn't reflect alot of people, but I wouldn't be here today without it. This is my story. It's not everyone's. But you can understand why I'm cynical. Why I am pro entrepreneurship. Maybe I'd be making code tutorials if it worked out. Maybe I wouldn't have this channel. Who knows. But either way, I appreciate all of you. Thanks for watching.

The older I get, the more I think that you're not actually supposed to do all the things that you're supposed to do.

“Why are you killing yourself for a job that will replace you in a week if you died? Take care of yourself!” ~ Unknown

At my first job I asked for a raise after 9 months of working at a much higher level than I was hired for. My boss told me "you don't even bring in customers, all you do is code". I left that job a month later for more than double the pay and benefits. When I put in my notice he was mad and made a comment about using his business as a stepping stone and how it's not professional to leave unfinished work. I still think about what he said and it just makes me laugh.

I love this guy…everyone in the IT and tech industry needs to hear this

Corporations are for profit, use them like they use you.

Have a lot of respect for you Joshua. Im a 54 yr old and couldnt figure out the corporate pyche game until my 40s. Was always blaming myself. You saw through it in your 20s. You're a good man. Your parents should be proud.

Corporate companies are ruthless dude, never trust anyone especially when it comes to work

This is literally me, except i was a chemical engineer. No matter how hard you work it's never enough. Fuck corporations. I'm alot happier just doing odd jobs and pursuing my own business, i will never work for anyone again.

Kid, that's an epic rant. I'm 51 and it took me about 20 years to wise up. When people criticize your attitude toward working for the man, just tell them "I'm just ahead of the curve."

Dude, your dad didn't get the job because the guy asking the questions was afraid of losing his.

Huge respect for paying your parents rent. You're a true inspiration. Post edit: I haven't caught up on the drama but I hope the best for you and your family Josh.

My first 3 jobs I was a corporate simp, I’m much more aware of how companies are not loyal to there workers now, your not alone and it’s evident your videos are helping a lot of people, keep up the great work 👍

Truth. People who disagree with this, it just hasn't happened to them yet.

Sitting here alone in my parents spare room, aged 40...... looking back at 14 months of redundancy from my last dev position...... skills becoming less and less like skills and more like what I used to know........ wondering where did it all go so wrong. I look in the mirror and see that youthful 25 year old full of hope, just with 15 fewer years to do anything about it. Thank you for this video and this honesty......... I think it's time to start working hard for myself and not for someone else.

As a developer I am seeing this happen right now to my teammates. Great hardworking devs with a ton of internal specific and external knowledge. I am really beginning to think that I didn't get selected for a layoff because I do senior level work at a mid level salary. During all of this turmoil in the last year I applied for other jobs for a backup plan or a possible promotion. After interviewing with about 10 different companies I see three patterns: - They are looking for a chump to do a lot more work for less (40+ hours/week expected, clean up their bad practices without changing their bad practices) - The interviewer is also a developer with an issue that they want you to solve in the interview or have solved in the past (advertised for a back end dev, but really needed an experienced DBA to solve a big data problem) - They don't really know what they want but advertise for a jack of all trades, interview you ten times and then ghost you This video earned my sub!

The same thing happened to me Josh. My boss fired me and replaced me with "a better deal". She didn´t even let me say goodbye to my colleagues. I was thrown out as a criminal Never felt more humiliated in my whole life :(

"You are expendable, you are a profit margin decrease, there is no job security, there is no company loyalty, there is only job skill security and your ability to sell yourself in the interview." - Joshua Fluke

This should be a TED talk.

You make a strong case for being self-employed or being a small business owner. Your story is why the millennials are not loyal to a corporation.

this one hit home for me to a pretty painful level. I was at a company as a glazier for a few years and I was super nervous to lose my job and was super gung ho to learn absolutely every single little thing and work 12 hour days with shit pay because I was "so grateful for the opportunity". I am being 100% honest when I say this! as my mother was passing away from cancer during the start of the pandemic which was impossible to judge weather I would lose my job due to the company shutting down (as mass layoffs were happening) and the country was shutting down, i knew I needed to be with my family. So I packed my bags flew back home to spend time with family. I shit you not, my boss called me back repeatedly asking me to come back to work because "we're really busy and we need you to come back" they couldnt even wait for my mother to pass. companies could give a flying fuck about your well being.

A wise coworker once told me "You don't owe a multi billion dollar company anything."

Never, ever be loyal to a company, because they aren't loyal to you. Always put yourself and your own career interests first!

the problem starts in school making employees, thats what I regret the most of my life , studying to become an employee and to depend on a corporate job.

99% of dev jobs are 100% the way you described it.

So my father was a coal miner. He had a rock fall on him in 1999, and it broke his back--not a break that paralyzed him, but one that required a 16 hour surgery where they took hunks of his hip bone and grafted them to his vertebrae with titanium straps and screws fusing the 4 on top of his hip bones together. The company, of course, fought his disability. This happens automatically even if you get all of your limbs chopped off. During the two years that it took for him to get that settlement, he wasn't able to have any income. This was holding up his disability from social security because they're contesting whether or not he actually was disabled. So, two years, no money coming in, $106/month for food stamps, and every other month there was a church that would pay our power bill. That's not what I'm posting here to tell you about. Everyone knows how shitty companies are to injured employees. I'm posting here to tell you about his Union, the United Mine Workers of America. My father had been a miner for the decade before the incident, and that entire time he was a passionate and active union member. Some of my earliest memories are from being taken to union meetings and events, and we're in a right to work state. Hated scabs and really believed in the union. Well, at some point he'd been told that he didn't qualify for the union disability pension for some reason or another. Five years ago, one of his old co-workers reconnected with him and set him straight on that, then spent a lot of time helping Daddy put together his application packet and get that going because they owed him 5 more years of pension before that. He managed to get everything, even the employer's internal incident report, the initial hospital visit, the referral to specialists, the x-rays from before and after, the surgery order, surgery narrative, even the letter from the social security administration that dated his total disability to the same day that he was hit by the rock at work. The UMWA starts by not responding for 10 months. Dad didn't want to keep calling them because that's how your packet keeps finding itself on the bottom of piles. When they finally got back to him, they sent requests for more records, mind you they at this point have more than enough to determine the disability was caused by an incident at work in a mine. Dad manages to scare up a few more and send that in. Another almost year wait. They send the same vaguely worded request for more information. At this point they have everything and that coworker happened to have some pull so he put a packet of all the records together, this time annotated. Now it's supposedly being handed off to nurses to evaluate the medical records. This time it's an 18 month wait. I want to point out that my dad had only been drawing $1200/month for disability and he was scared if I sent him too much, they'd find out and it'd mess up his disability, so while I was able to pay most of his bills for him by having stuff in my name, he didn't let me help much with things like his medicine which took a giant hunk of the after tax $900 he had every month. Daddy needed that damn pension that he earned and needed it badly. So yeah, 18 month wait. Every time he calls, he's told they're working on it, but he's told something at some point around October of 2018 that had him pretty confident that it was finally going to come through for him. I don't know if you noticed that I've only spoken of my father in the past tense. Daddy passed in January of last year. I moved back down to take care of everything, and in February, I received a letter addressed to my father from the UMWA that vaguely requests more records. Because my state is stupid, I wasn't able to get his death certificate until April and then immediately probated his estate so I could get things wrapped up. Once I was named administrator of the estate and had the legal standing to take action, I send copies to the UMWA, then after a wait so I'm sure they've been received, I call up the UMWA and try to get a straight answer from them of what exactly they're looking for. At this point, I'm dealing primarily with the head of pensions. What I'm told boils down to just "more" and they refuse to answer why what they had already wasn't sufficient. They kept saying it was the nurses who were requesting it and because of how they were set up they didn't know. I'm pissed. It's not about the money for me. I make decent money, but at this point screw them for screwing my dad, doesn't matter if it's a single dime all of this is over. Anyway, a month after I spoke with them, I get a letter saying his pension was denied. No denial reason, just, nope--screw you. There's an appeal form, so I go to the local office, give them copies of my letter of administration (again), look over what they have, and put the appeal in. I'm told this usually takes around 4-6 weeks (this stuff happened in May). During this time, I also call up the lawyer that represented my father 20 years ago and get him to represent me. I finally, at the end of November, get a letter that tells me the prehearing call will be on December 19th. When I conference in my lawyer, magically, the evidence that wasn't good enough for the last few years becomes good enough instantly. We're told that there's no need for a hearing because it's clear that the incident happened in the mines and his records will be forwarded to the nurses for final review. When she said that, I unmuted my phone and asked how this is different from before (those exact words). She told me that before it was unclear that the incident took place at the mines and his information never went to the nurses. I had to quickly mute my phone again before I reamed that lying asshole out. So I got the first of the checks last Thursday. Once organizations get to a certain size, it's no longer about whatever the organization was originally about, but about keeping the organization going, even the ones that are supposed to be about the members.

In the corporate world, you're just working towards someone else's dream.

God, I hate the corporate world. I just don't understand how those who are in charge of all the hiring can be such out-of-touch slime balls.

The very name "human resources" is insulting. These people are psychos.

There's no respect for the workers. We are expected to give a 2 weeks notice before quitting but workers can be laid off at the drop of a hat.

I am 71. I have been in the computer industry for over 35 years. At my last job at a major university on the east coast, I was given the option of retiring early, or face termination. Age discrimination is rampant in this country. Nobody wants to hire someone with a lot of experience in tech, in both hardware and software that is 71 years old.

I re-watched this 2 years afterwards and this is absolute gold! I worked at a few high profile hedge funds, investment firms and so on and all of them are exactly as u describe. No matter if u make 50k or 300k, you are just an expense and u are there as long as they can extract more money than u cost, that is it.

This is horrible. I never understood this "you have 5 minutes to leave" thing in the US. In Europe, you have 1-2 months notification period. I had to change my job a few times but it was never like this nasty.

You may be salty and cynic with companies, but you are one of the most honest and caring people I've ever seen, judging by your videos. I am merely an internet stranger to claim this, but without that, your videos would be just some bullshit like "How cool I am". Instead, I see a living person talking about his experience in the most straightforward way I can imagine. Thank you for what you do!

"I did everything in this life that you're supposed to do". I felt that.

This happened to me recently. The company I worked with quite literally forced us to resign. They unassigned all of our projects with one e-mail stating that we did an excellent job but we were basically no longer needed. And just like a Thanos finger snap, 500 of us were out of a job. The job I worked for before (retail 10 years) was very similar. Stop giving these companies your loyalty. They do not deserve it. Stand up for yourselves.

Love it young man. I'm almost 50 an in your dad's shoes. He's lucky to have a son like you.

How the hell could a person enjoy being awakened at 6:30AM, by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, shit, piss, brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where essentially you made lots of money for somebody else and were asked to be grateful for the opportunity to do so? ..... Charles Bukowski

I've said it before and I'll say it again: This, right here, is why I've always loathed the modern job market. It's borderline dystopian in nature. -You need the job experience to get the job that requires the job experience. Don't have the experience? Why not try """volunteering""", as if you have a choice? -You have companies trying to undersell your job position in an attempt to make you believe your career of choice is not worth as much, so that they can pay you less. -Your skills aren't important; what's important is whether the interviewer finds your personality good enough to be _considered_ for hire. -As mentioned in the video, if they can find someone better than you who is willing to work for the same salary or less, then say goodbye; you've become a liability. -Oh what's that? You were let go from your previous job? Well then we can't hire you with a record like that. Bye. -Oh what's that? You haven't been working a job for an extended period of time? Well then we can't hire you with a record like that. Bye. -Oh what's that? You're desperately in need of a job because you've become homeless? Well then we can't hire you with a record like that. Bye. And people wonder why everyone is so depressed nowadays? When this is how we're all being treated? And we just brush it off by saying "life isn't fair; get over it"? To hell with that; this isn't "life"'s fault. We did this. Society. We're the ones making life unfair. All so that a select few people can load their pockets, only to end up dead like the rest of us. Josh, I hope you inspire more people to stop taking this crap. No one should get to decide which life is worth more.

I want to say I was just recently awaken to not trusting companies. My dad died on April 22. In the middle of that, my manager called and I could hear him being sad, telling me that corporate came back and shorten the bereavement time from 5 days to 3. I told him 3 days isn't even to grieve for my dad. He agreed but only thing we could do was use my vacation time. Shortly after when I went back to work I found out the department is being sold off to another company. So in about a years time I probably won't have a job anyway. After watching this, I get it and I agree with you Josh.

never sign a non-compete, NEVER.

I thank God your parents have a son like you, who cared for their needs at your own risk !!! You deserve your success !

These companies are ruthless and don't care about you.

I've spent 40+ years working, first 15 for government and the subsequent 25 for Corporate America. Josh's comments are all spot on.

Nothing wrong with you. You realized how screwed up corporate is. Corporations are trash. I have had a deep hatred for corporations since I was 19

This is why I've worked for myself for the last 20 yrs. I can't deal with attitude and incompetent leadership.

You remind me of Louis Rossmann. Similar experience, philosophy and work ethics except he is in hardware repairs instead of software dev. Good video, wish you the best.

As you become older you will find that you will have to be nearly perfect in your occupation to hold your job. When I was forced to retire I was told that "you're lucky that you were a good Pharmacist". So, I'm cut out of 6 years of my profession that has nothing to do with my skills. The complaint against me was that I didn't take ownership of the Pharmacy. Corporations like Kroger have no ethical bounds. Do you really want to work for someone who has no ethics? How about a country which has thousands of non-ethical organizations and do you feel relaxed and accepted in public or on constantly on guard? People in the U.S. do not realize that we could change this in a matter of months. Stop believing the lies, don't participate and demand a better country for our children.

Man this is what I’ve been feeling for years. I’m sick of jumping through hoops for these companies, I’m sick of sacrificing my time away from my family. I’m sick of my life being in other peoples hands. Everything you said was 100% true and I’m glad I decided to watch this video. Hell yeah man keep it up.

The salt sustains him

"don't feel sad for me" put sad music

My dad lost his job through outsourcing in the 90s and I feel this exact same way about how people are being treated as slaves. Corporate Slavery is evil.

As a manager at a big company, I can say that almost everybody is just a line in an excel sheet somewhere...

I’m a delivery driver. With a bachelors in education and a masters in accounting. I was a teacher for 13 years overseas and then an auditor for three back in the states. I received no training at my auditing position and I struggled all the time. As an auditor I was given a lot of responsibility including having to communicate with the client with regards to the audit. I struggled just to keep my head above water but it never really got better. Every day people expected me to know the answers for key financial information but half the time I did not even understand the question. After struggling for two years at my CPA firm I called it quits and never looked back. I do food delivery now. I enjoy food delivery. I enjoy talking with and meeting people. I don’t make a fortune but I can support my family with the amount I work. I could not fathom returning to an office. Often it seemed that work had to be first in your life and everything else second. That is not possible for me and it took me a lot of schooling and time to figure out. But I am happy, now.

I had my ex-boss accuse me of stealing via text message over a weekend. I was out of town for my birthday. I got the text message just as we were sitting down to blow my candles out on my cake. I was freaking out. I'm fairly certain he was looking to downsize because of the coronavirus, and found that excuse of me stealing. He threatened me with calling the police etc. I felt less than human. It was one of the shittiest things a human has ever done against me. This video helped me. I had 3 months of savings put away. So I'm fine. This last job has made me realize that I don't belong as an employee. I am working on my business idea I've had on the backburner. It's a huge risk. But life is short, and risks are meant to be taken.

I graduated with a BS in civil engineering right the peak of the 2008 crash in the US. There were no job prospects in my area. None. I worked as a temp draftsman for 5 years jumping company to company, approx. every 6 months. These were large engineering and architecture design firms. I saw them layoff 25% of their senior engineers/architects (usually already 30+ years of experience at those companies) because they could hire another senior for entry level money. It was freakin' brutal. I learned real quick; you are expendable no matter how good or how experienced you are. I learned the death "signs" of a company (before bankruptcy or major layoffs), as many companies I used to be a temp for went under. I'm in a more stable place now. A lot of colleagues has asked me; why I move to another company every 3 years (Reason: better wages), or why I never allow companies to "pay or claim" my certifications (reason: companies can claim that those certs. are the companies property) and I get them o my own dime, or never sign a non-compete (reason: duh), or always have two other side jobs (reason: so I always have backup streams of income). MOSTLY this was learned because I saw the devastation of people who had seniority in a company be tossed aside like unwanted trash. And usually, embarrassingly, I was the part of the "cheaper" replacement. I know I'm seeing this video late, but I've recently changed jobs and this pop-ed up on my feed.

1) do WHATEVER you can to create an income that doesn’t mean you swap time for money. 2) ALWAYS have 6 months living costs at hand 3) NEVER think other people’s lives are better than yours, focus on making yours the best for you 4) consumerism and marketing is the most powerful trick in the book, learn how unnecessary it is

One of the main reasons I open my own excavation company.... Got tired of a bell telling me when to work and when to stop... I started off with a ten-thousand-dollar excavator and $3,000 dump truck... And now... all I can say is I'm blessed.... You'll never get rich working for somebody else...

Hey man, thanks for these great videos I'm not a Coding-guy, but an Electrician. Your vids helped me get into a better job and earning what I'm damn well- worth. 10/10

My last job was at a startup. I have tattoos. When I started I stayed late and worked hard to learn their system. But behind my back, the 31-year-old CTO referred to me as " the criminal" when talking to his team. I heard it on an office drinking night. Everyone laughed. I was deflated. When I resigned, the CEO (30-year-old) wanted to talk to me to change my mind. He said it was just a "joke", "It's like how when they refer to El Salvadorians as Mexicans" - Ceo. It's so strange because they look human and act human but strangely aren't. They should call it Corrupt-porations.

This is the reason I dropped out of my MBA school. One of the professors literally told us that in the 2 years of time doing this course, we will get papers torn and thrown in our faces, yelled at and humiliated because they are trying to prepare us for the stress and atmosphere in the corporate world. I was like wtf? The assignments kept piling up one after another so much so that I was sleeping at 3 am,used to have dinner in my bed and had no time to even go to the gym. I worked my azz off and usually never got yelled at but I saw other people getting yelled, humiliated and insulted on daily basis and it disturbed me personally. I asked myself if I am ok being treated like a trash and a working machines as long as they pay me to tolerate it. That's when I realized that it isn't for me.

This my favorite video of the year. Spoken truth that everyone lives, but afraid to admit.

Very true. There is a reason why they call it "human resources" you are no different than any other appreciating or depreciating resource on the books.

the system is the problem, letting companies get away is these shady practices. I live in Europe and the same companies exist here, but under the law you have 20+ days paid leave/year, health insurance (working or not), 1 to 3 months notice when laid off, while working for them (microsoft, google, axa, ing...)

I feel like you need a hug. Thanks for sharing your story.

Oh boy, I thought my experiences were bad. I'm completely put off working in tech, so tired of managers talking down to me when they make more than me and couldn't do my job. Thanks for being upfront about your experiences, it made a difference to me.

Never sign a non-compete. I learned that as well.

Dude is spitting the truth ♥️ and unlike other youtubers who try to show their life as perfect, you're being real, and honest! Unfortunately employers don't respect honesty anymore

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I stopped developing for companies when I realized i was making millions for them and not seeing a return other than salary. Screw that.

This video has made you a lot cooler in my eyes, thanks for opening up so authentically.

When I started working IT I was a go-getter. I wanted to prove myself as an asset. It took a few years of let downs such as layoffs, no raises, 2 percent raises. I changed my attitude from working for the company to working for me. This way I wouldnt get disappointed and that I would be constantly investing in myself by learning new things earning more certifications. It was my goal to become a better version of myself so that when I get a better offer it would leave a hole in the company where I came from. Because of this I have gotten nice counter-offers. Now I work for a company a few miles from my house and have a side business that makes almost the same money and in part time. If they let me go I would still be comfortable. I hope to ride it out though to retirement. It would be nice to have the extra money. Im so sick of cooperate life! 59.5 cant come soon enough!

Guy with 15 Years of Dev-Experience here (8 professional & 7 Education) Josh share your opinion and I think you are not salty or mad .. I think you are telling the truth.

Hey, Joushua. Thanks for video! You convinced me to not move to USA because corporation world is ruthless here. I prefer paying 60% tax in Norway but without worrying about landing on street everyday.

When people say all homeless people didn't work hard, I think back to stories like this on how people can just get screwed working hard because of circumstances beyond their control.

I understand why you won't work for a corporation. I only worked for small, family owned business until age 23, and then I've been a business owner ever since.

i am a well educated... corprate slave. and this video made me wanna cry man

Mate, I don't even work with computers, but I ended up watching this whole video. Respect.

This is scarily close to my experience. My boss sent me an email once after I completed a task where the threatened to make me tell our clients why I hadn’t completed work that he “thinks he could’ve completed in 2 hours”. These bosses are so out of touch. No wonder that my company is losing so many people at the moment. Good for you man for standing up for yourself.

I have been working for the man for nearly 26 years now. This is my personal observation, and it really makes me lose faith in the way how developers are perceived by management. You see CEOs going on TV and tell everyone how cutting edge their product is. You see how they get millions in bonuses and a golden handshake as they leave the company which they couldn't save with all their promises. Yet the people creating the "cutting edge" products, the developers, are seen as the lowest denominator in the company. In some companies they honestly don't see a developer as someone valuable to the corporate structure. That is why so many youngsters fight to move up the ladder as architects or completely give up programming to be project managers just for some useless title with no experience. This leaves companies with a huge turn over with devs, since they just use that as an entry level stopgap. Even the well paid devs are treated like janitors in some places with what I can only describe as dev sweatshops, where they work stupendous hours just so the VP can get his second luxury car while they get hammered with unreasonable deadlines.

Some advice for an developer in Salt Lake City..... $65K is starting pay for an new developer in 2004. Don't accept anything less. Never sell yourself short. Good companies will pay you what you're worth, because they understand your value. 2nd advice, when you interview with a company... you are interviewing the company too. You get to ask them and see if they are a good fit. Never join a company just because... make sure it's a good fit for you.

I used to tell the team we should all submit our resumes to the candidate we're interviewing so he can make a more informed decision whether he wants to work with us. They thought that was ridiculous.

Josh. You probably just saved a life by sharing yours. I have never in my life heard a more heartfelt, honest, and humbling moment then the few moments I just spent listening to you. I realize this video is an older one and I pray you are still in the same mind set. I honestly believe you gave hope to someone who felt that there was no hope. Directions to a directionless person. It does not take much to change a persons life and you never know when and how it happens but you made it happen by just speaking from your heart and being you. THANK YOU.

Joshua Fluke, You are my “New Hero”! As a now 59 yr old man, working the last 14 years as a software development engineer- who was recently the unwitting casualty of a corporate Reduction in Force (RIF) - on my birthday no less, nearly 8 months ago! I’ve had a very similar mindset (I maintain there is no such thing as ‘corporate loyalty)! So a former colleague & I are setting out to start up our own business partnership- with a small ready made client base. So your story has done more to inspire me- since having a similar experience to your father - on the interview circuit. Thank you, for the motivation!

In my experience i've always been the one screwing the companies over. They would train me up, promote me and then i would jump ship to a new company for a lot higher pay and continue this same cycle. LOL i guess i got lucky.

You know, you are so right. There came a time when I caused my entire department to get a 50% salary raise because I pointed out to all of my colleagues that we were saving the company millions a day, while they paid us just above minimum wage. People started leaving and going to other companies that paid more, and were more appreciative. So they were in a corner because the job was hard, and wasn't something just anyone could do, and gave us all a raise. I worked my ass off for that company, and was ultimately fired due to the sabotage of a supervisor who knew I was about to apply for a supervisor position and she didn't like that. She knew I would get it because I was constantly going behind her and doing work she should have been doing to begin with. Corporations, no matter what kind of family community they represent, are not your family. They are not your friends. Lie to them if you need to, they are sure as hell gonna lie to you.

My dad worked morning, evening and night shift for over 40 years. He is really smart and knew how much he was worth so his salary was decent, but the older he got the more he noticed how that kind of work took a toll on his health. So he asked his employer after years of holding together his team, to reduce his time so he doesn't have to continue working night shifts. The company offered NO solution for 3 years, until my dad had to quit several years before he was supposed to retire. Now my dad is doing great since he had enough savings and a house, but I hate how he was treated after sacrificing so much. And for all I know, the company I'm in now and many others my friends work for aren't any more cooperative towards their long time employees, so I'm really questioning how I want to continue with this.

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I worked with a guy who told h.r. that he didn't like the difference in the terms "resignation" and "termination." rather than "resigning" he told them he would "terminate them as his employer." he told them they were fired from being his employer lmao 🤣

a *great* man once said: 0:00 - 33:15 thank you for this. and the community that you have build, so people will know how companies see you and how we should treat them

At this time, there are 3 things lacking in society: Logic, empathy and humanity. What you are describing is exactly that. When we go through a situation, ain the aftermath we must be careful about not becoming everything we were fighting against. So you have a chance to rebel. You can be different than they were with you. If you want to help someone, remember that those in need usually do not ask for help. It means you need to have your eyes opened and your radar on to spot them. I am very confident that your rebellious character may become great for management. A leader is someone who says "follow me" and you follow because you admire that person. You admire the way he treats people. That person may be eccentric and even weird, but that person does the right thing. A good company uses KPIs for performance evaluation, a bad company uses narrative based evaluation. KPI performance evaluation means you promised something, and you delivered. Period. There is no subjective narrative. Narrative based evaluation allows lazy greedy people to thrive, while high performers are not appreciated. Guess what happens, high performers leave. One thing I discovered is that greed comes from a sense of scarcity. So we may decide two things, we either fight for scarcity or we produce abundance. The abundance mindset is about win-win, not win lose like the mindset of people who caused our scarcity. We use to meet people who are like us. When we change our mindset, people we meet are different. From an existential point of view, being unhappy with our reality provides the drive to start changing things. When we are fed up, we can no longer be part of the problem, because if we are, others will experience what you did. So a good rebellious attitude is to do things in a way in which no one has to suffer what you did. The change that comes from that mindset is very interesting. For some years you will feel that sense of injustice, but also you will start to make a difference in people's lives. You do not need to change the system, you just need to be remembered by people. That will start a snowball of good, because we are fed up of evil. You cannot imagine how big the snoball grows. You may not even see the snowball, but it will be there, growing. I have had bitter times too, I know what injustice is. And I invite you to join the rebellious attitude of making a difference by promoting logic, empathy and humanity. So now you will say that others may take advantage of you. Here are the rules: 1. Respect the other person 2. Promote mental health 3. Promote personal growth (actively) 4. Apply all previous rules only to people who abide to the 3 previous rules. Surround yourself by these people. This is useful for work, friendship and even relationships. You will find great people that you should not let go. They may be very few, but those are the ones that matter. The problem of trust is when you give lots of trust for nothing. Trust is earned, hard to earn, easy to lose. People do not earn trust with words, but actions. Open you r eyes and learn the difference, and give value to those who really earned trust. There is no need to see danger everywhere if you grant trust only to those who earned with actions, not words. Get close to those who make you grow, stay away from those who are an anchor in your life. Get close to people who are better than you. It is not easy because you are behind them, but those who surround themselves with people who are worst than them, to feel they are better, will always be mediocre. And in time, less than 10 years, you will discover that those who were unfair to you, will get their karma, so you do not even have to move a finger. Life is strange, but the universe gives people a chance to ammend greviances. And this is why bad people do not have instant karma. Most of times karma hits in their private lives, not in public, and it hits hard. I have been there were you were, the problem is not the company, it is the specific people you had near you. A company is a group of people, and the group was bad. When you see a company and people leave, and new people arrive, the company is not the same, for better or for worse. Without being unhappy with out reality, we would not have the drive to change. And at this moment, the needed change is logic, empathy and humanity. I know you can make a difference. You probably may see how things change with that positive rebellious attitude to spread good where there was evil and surround yourself with good people. They are hard to find, but they are there. Sometimes you will feel lonely and misunderstood but that is the price for seeing what others cannot see, the price of not being another brick on the wall and being outside the wall. Once upon a time a great boss I had taught me professionalism. Before that I was a guy with a degree. Professionalism is about delivery of good work led by pride, not by the desire to please others. It means that I do my best, not because I want appreciation, but because I want to be proud of what I did. So how do you handle injustice? The universe will take care of that, you just stay away from bad people and get close to good people. Be a rebel who uses the 4 rules, and make a difference among people who are near you. Think of evil as an infection that hurts. You need to fight the disease, and it cannot be cured by being part of the problem. Many others are feeling like you. How do you change the world? Create an oasis where injustice does not exist, using the 4 rules. Even if you find one or two people to apply these rules, you will notice a great difference in your life I wish you the best. I know you will discover the magic of these 4 rules. I am not exaggerating. Years ago I was where you are now. I am a rebel with a clue. And people who really abide to the 4 rules wil discover the world is better for them when I am their true rebel friend who delivers, logic, empathy and humanity to them.

"I'm all about loyalty. In fact, I feel like part of what I'm being paid for here is my loyalty. But if there were somewhere else that valued loyalty more highly, I'm going wherever they value loyalty the most." -Dwight Schrute

"This is not a sob story, dont be sad for me" *SAD MUSIC BACKGROUND* But no really dude, i hope everything goes well with your life, remember one thing, nobody can take your knowledge away. That is the most important part.

Firstly, subscribed. Second, this was extremely moving, heartbreaking, and motivating. I’m an Air Force veteran who had a very similar experience as yourself. Needless to say, I won’t be joining the military again, but I love my vets. I’m now a project manager trying to find a way to take that salary to never have to fear the loss of a job again. Hearing you sounded so much like me to my mother when I told her I got kicked out, after years of service and a tour to the Middle East. They said I was honorable, but not cutting it, and took my education benefits. They left me on the street 2 months before I would have left with all my benefits. I got a job at a local dealership working 15 hour days every single day and borrowed money to survive, but learned how to sell myself. My future boss hired me off that car lot and now I make more money that the commander who fired me. I don’t want to ever be in that position again. You speak the truth, and your story was heard loud and clear. Thank you for this video, it was gut wrenching.

Currently working my ass off to get a CS degree and intended on being another sardine in the ocean trying to snap up one of those jobs. Clicked on this video not expecting much but man this is a gold mine. You’re absolutely right about the corporate structure. You’ve given me a lot to think about and have well earned my sub. Thank you for going through the BS and coming out the other end to tell us about it.

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My scenario that put me into a deep depression; after 11 years, my job was outsourced, and training a foreign person in another country how to do your job so they can feed their family. If I didn’t do it, I lose my severance. There’s nothing more debilitating, more depressing, more dehumanizing and mind fk’d than having to go through that process.

6 years at a company that "allowed" me to do hiring, training, have an intern (the first time for that company), run teams (lead developer/team lead), run production management, handle budgets and resources, and I initially was hired as just a web developer. I was let go in the middle of the day on a Wed., with the employees called into another room so I couldn't even say goodbye. I have no idea why they did that, but I did know they did not handle firing people well, from what I had seen in the past. I still left gracefully, because I was not about to let them dictate to me what I should feel. Instead I thanked the guy (one of the partners) that escorted me out, for the opportunity and for the work we had done throughout the time I was there. My "sin" was, I got sick, pneumonia and other complications, and I just "took too long" to get better. All the while I still worked right up until the end. My last project was a large hospital website that I did solo. Even while sick, I was trusted to get it done right, and I did. And when that project was done, so was I.

Dude, your boss interaction at the 8 min mark is word for word what happened to me with a creative directive at the one day job I had that fired me over covid 2 months as a stellar performance review.

At 56, hard to believe that number came up so fast, but as a full stack developer, I've been in enough of these "letting you go" meetings since turning 50 than I care to think. Even being let go when I knew I was a top performer in the team. This video was the best inspiration for me today and going forward to do my own thing. You hit every conscious thought I've found out about the corporate world. Thanks.