Stav was an important part of cumtown. It's sad he's gone. This new stuff is still finding its feet but some episodes have been amazing. I'm still in it for the long haul.
@@angusmatheson8906 if by important you mean turning 90% of the riffs onto gay shit or talking about regular obese stuff only 20% of the population can relate to?
The thing about old people literally not knowing how to push a button is 100% true. Boomers might not be digital natives, but anyone older than that grew up in a world where a gas station had a staff of 40 people including a concierge desk with a guy in a tux
@@mrscruffles801I know 50+ yo guys who put my IT knowledge to shame and I am a 30yo CS engineer. It's not an age thing. If you're dumb with technology, you're just dumb with technology. Extra points get deducted from your account if you grew up with smartphones and not proper PCs you had to troubleshoot occasionally or install drivers etc.
@@murph5455 We use to call it mutant league, there'd always be, no matter what call center you're at have multiple people claiming to be writing a book. the least autistic person of the autists was always a thing too, and i'm the spectrum
Wait ur saying that a few years ago he had the same exact early adulthood that he used to have? Wow I thought that when stav left his past completely changed
I was just thinking this. I've been listening to some of the earlier episodes of Cumtown lately and listened to the one he told this story in earlier today.
Nick's description is spot on. 99% of the calls are, 'how do I use a computer/phone/email?'. Basic fucking things like 'how do I double click?'. I had to spend 45 minutes explaining the concept of apps and how an app is not a phone to a customer the other day.
Looking at adam for 3 seconds pisses me off so fucking much lmao. Maybe im starting to understand some certain 20th century mass political movements… hehehe
He should start the Sam Hyde stream routine. Only eating and picking his nose on stream. Sometimes he'll watch something for 10 minutes and give no commentary
Sometimes I feel Nick gives Adam a hard time but seeing the way he just sits there... There's something super icky and Jewish about him that makes me uncomfortable to lay my eyes upon him.
Call centers and canvassing jobs turn n burn 3-5 employees a week. Our weird staff dude was a 20-something that invited us all over one night and literally had swords and shields and made his apartment a low-rate renaissance fair. he asked if we wanted to see his capes and we all laughed at him. He quit a few days later. I didn't know anyone who brushed a doll's hair, but there was a guy who would talk to his daughters on the phone and help them fall asleep while there was a California 7/10 attractive coke fiend kneeled in front of him frustrated she has to wait for this phone call to finish before blowing him for blow. I'm so glad I can talk to my best friend and his sidekick that takes half the revenue
Eh if that's a hobby that makes the renaissance guy happy I'd be a bit more forgiving. One of my previous co workers had his house paid for but his x wife got pounded out by other men in it. Routinely. I'd take an eccentric hobbyist over a legitimate cuck any day. The drug stuff is far more common than you'd think and every job I've ever had there was someone that drove there completely zonked 100% of the time.
My first job was doing phone surveys. Lasted about 3 weeks but it's a good job to get into as a highschooler just to scare the hell out of you for ever ending up in these types of call center jobs my god! Just a little funny story, I remember the guy I would sit next to was pretty cool and we would talk between calls, he muted himself, turned to me and said "This guy just excused himself from dinner at a restaurant with friends to take this survey" hahahahaha
Honestly the only time I ever watched let’s play style videos with no talking was when I worked in a call center. I would also sometimes have twitch on mute. There must be something about it that tricks your brain because I would definitely feel more calm with it on
@@H4ZM4TT For me it's just the fact that it manages to imitate some level of social interaction but in a subject you're actually interested in - most people at call center gigs I've worked tend to just talk about celebrity gossip or their kids which can honestly just make the shift feel even longer. At least having some dudes in your ear talking about videogames feels like a relatively relatable conversation.
Adam's "What happened to her... Something bad." in response, IMMEDIATELY, to Nick telling him about brushing the doll's hair, has gotta be the funniest unexpected response I can imagine
I dont mind it at all. Nick seems to enjoy being genuine alot more than bit hunting. Sometimes I feel like the old podcast was sucking the funny out of him
I cannot get into this podcast but I want to I return 3 weeks later as a humble man. These guys are great. Their appearance on MSSP is one of the best episodes yet
@@toooes It'll probably end up with Stavros laughing the entire episode and copying Nicks jokes verbatim. Ironically he might end up being the most successful whilst being the least funny. I'd still listen.
I worked in a call center for like 7 years with 2 years of that in a "frontline" position which was by far the worst. Nonstop inbound calls for 8 hours straight with small business owners screaming at you because their phones/internet don't work. It's brutal shit that some companies subcontract out to prisons which is cruel and unusual punishment.
I remember learning about the prison thing after getting a job at a call center. I used it as an example for coworkers to explain why we shouldn’t expect more money, and should be ready to quit the second it started sucking.
I worked for a defunct (M&I Bank) bank call center years ago overnights. One guy worked a full shit during the day and then he would work overnights. So he'd fall asleep underneath the desk on the floor with the headset and then wake up when a call came in. He was really good at it.
The worst thing is the managment and middle managers. My first call centre job made me realise we can easily have a full genocidal tyranny in any country, with plenty of volunteers happy to help in the rounding up, running of the trains and manning of the ovens. Its these same people who now manage call centres.
I like Nick because he admits how low we've all been. You don't have to rub shit all over yourself to know what it is.... but I think I guess i did already
Nick has always carried. In cumtown he was the only one to add value. Slav would constantly ruin his anecdotes and stories by doing that cringey laugh and cutting in every 10 seconds to talk about his dick. It’s amazing that he was the one to get success out of the 3.
@@lazytitan6848 Stav's the one who put the most work in to his sets and is just way more personable than Nick is. Obviously there's an element of luck involved, but in hindsight Stav was definitely the right horse to bet on.
@@Ryan-Petre agree to disagree. Always got annoyed when Nick was setting up a joke or telling a story and Stav would ALWAYS cut him off and say “Yeh and he had a massive cock” or “then I got my cock sucked”. It usually derailed the momentum completely. I think we can both agree that Adam was never going to be the successful one.
@@Ryan-Petre Yeah stavs insult the audience bit is VERY funny and not stale. If they replaced stav with stav-bot and just never told anyone, nobody would know cumtown ever ended.
I worked tech support for the Barnes and noble nook. That shit was exactly how he explained it, talking to old people that aren’t related to you is absolutely maddening.
I once worked at a call center with a dude who had been among the most powerful lawyers in town before getting caught embezzling funds. Dude had to get a shitty call center job to pay that shit back.
Honestly that’s probably a more effective punishment than jail. Maybe add in a clause that he now has to take the bus to truly get the shitty life experience
I had a call center job working for metro pcs and we would disconnect calls all the time. Imagine getting yelled at by black women for eight hours a day. It was awful. Finally I just started putting calls on hold and reading at my desk. I got away with that for a few weeks then got fired. lol
i worked through my time in school, but one year, for some stupid reason i tried working at this job my buddy suggested. it was a place that sold $1500 vacuum cleaners. they would have us cold call these poor bastards & try to get them to agree to an in home demonstration. we would get so stoned, it was shocking, like pass out on the phone stoned. i literally never, not once single time made an appointment. i was the worst employee, but it was the worst job
It sounds made up but the old person not knowing how to push a button and you running them through that is a thing i have to do at least 10 times a week. Blows my mind.
@@lmackenzie9198 I have pictures of my kids I look at on my desk. I get paid good money and never working a factory again is a great motivator. Being able to sit down and not work in the weather is great. We call it air and a chair.
@@lmackenzie9198 If you get mad at stupid old people you aren't gonna be able to do the job. The worst are their fucking kids who've never used the service, don't actually want to help their parents, but want to take it out on you. I heard so many "you mean I have to drive 15 minutes and visit my parents to help them?" yes you horrible child.
@@5starview This is literally why I have thought about quitting many times to work at a bank instead But god do I love the solitary nature of it, 8 hours a day of being off in the middle of nowhere by myself is pretty damn comfortable too
Oh my god, as my parents have gotten older they have somehow lost the ability to properly use a TV remote control despite having used TV remote controls for over 40 years and it drives me nuts. I can totally sympathize with the call center people. Also, listening to Nick describe behavior I consider totally normal as wacky, aberrant, and autistic was a real pick-me-up.
4:29 I think about this all the time and it pisses me off, idk exactly what makes Nick want to be interned in a Chinese labor camp but this is what does it for me. I’d rather have to dig for wild roots and tubers to eat in the wilderness and die of parasites at age 40 than learn to use whatever bullshit new social media is going to be out in 5 years
I worked for a medical tech company that provided chronic ill patients with medical equipment. Teaching old people how Bluetooth connections work was something else.
I think this pair of fruits should do a 23 & Me or Ancestry DNA test and then spend several hours riffing on how Irish and Jewish they actually are, complete with offensive accents.
@fajile5109 Foive Dollas?! What do you need ten dollas for?! I can‘t believe you‘d ask me foh FIFTEEN Dollas! HELP! Police! Ders a madman trying to steal twenty Dollas from me! Yo‘r gonna hear from my LAWYER about the FIFTY DOLLAS you owe me! Oi Vey!
My most memorable moment from working at a call centre was doing network troubleshooting for a guy who, based on the frailty of his voice, was about 117 years old: "Okay, so you should see a small box with lights on the front with the word "netgear" on the side." "[FULL BORE HARD R N-WORD SHOUTED INTO PHONE]?" "no... Netgear." "*[N-WORD SHOUTED INTO PHONE AGAIN BUT LOUDER]??*" "No, net gear. Like internet gear." "Oh. Okay I see it."
Good ol' Telenetwork, sort of miss those days. I had this guy call that wanted to complain about getting 4 spam emails in the last week. He spent the next 30 minutes excitedly telling me in graphic detail how he was going to murder these people and nuke them to the center of the earth at the I just said "Well that'll do it"
I’ve worked at a call center 3 separate times, two of which were at the same place. Usually I make it 3 months with 1 of those being training. The longest I’ve ever made it was around 6 months and that almost destroyed me. I felt bad for the dudes that had even fewer options that me and had been there for years.
My call center job experience sounds so similar to NIck's. It's a fucked up dance between you and management. They desperate for workers due to the rate of turnover and constant training. You're badly underpaid and overworked. And you find a balance.
a 70 year old new employee last week at our call centre about 2m into his first call was already heard bellowing "YEAH I CAN HEAR YOU, CAN YOU HEAR ME!!!" lmfao sums it all up.
I used to go on an email in a very chill call ctr for an hour while going to the pub (it was next to Rockstar North offices so always nerds to drink with
I worked at a call center for 4 years, because of it I developed severe anxiety and not from the customers but by the ones in charge and just being complete dicks and clueless at the same time since most don't understand why the calls would last too long since they moved up food chain like withing a week of being on the floor. worst job ever, but it was the only job I could get that paid 11 an hour at the time.
Love the service desk story's super high turnover rate, and iv been grinding for 4 years just earning bank doing customer care while essentially just sorting IT problems as quickly as possible tbh I don't take more than 10 minutes nowadays even on the hard ones and I take maybe 20 calls a day so I might get lucky and spend 4 - 5 hours working and the rest is just watching UA-cam, playing games, working on other adult life activities like taxes, budgeting and investing tbh it's the best job if you can learn how to get the customer to be your ally not your enemy. - My best tip is always take the side of the person on the phone no matter how wrong, and you'll never have an angry customer again. - also helps to start of and get that going so they are more accepting of advise you give them. - even if they can't do it and you can't do it they leave feeling like they tried and didn't just get spat on and told it's too hard.
That's why you really need to experience some sort of customer service before you do service desk/ Help Desk stuff because alot of it is just making the other person like you while you fix their issues, you can take as long as you need as long as the person thinks good of you and they can see your genuinely trying to help. - the amount of people iv had to train up in my own service desk because there was one good one and the rest relied on him until I went out of my way learnt what I could and taught it to all of my colleagues that didn't know when I asked in the end I don't need any thanks or recognition because we all benefited and it made us better workers in the end never be afraid to help a colleague out - you never know when you'll be needing them.
@@shlongterminvesting Yeah I did corporate IT help desk for a while, and what you said is generally true. If you're nice and just let the person talk, most of the time they'll like you even if you can't solve their problem. After about 6 months I had it figured out that probably 90% of the calls would be one of the same 9 or 10 problems (password reset, can you install this program for me, why is my text all big/small in MS Outlook) so I was basically on auto-pilot. I was a huge NFL freak then and would watch condensed replays of that weekend's games all day while taking calls. Either that or playing boomer shooters like Doom. This was early 2010s though so maybe it's different now.
Had a similar call center job. It was alright before the lockdowns, but once I started working from home it became way too gruelling. I didn't get the catharsis of complaining about all the retards who called in anymore. I had to quit. Couldn't hold out until WFH ended.
Nick doing a robin williams bit, old MacDonald losing his farm to AI farmers, ‘A I A I oh! This isn’t very good! Robots are taking my farm! I might have to…. Kill myself’’
It makes sense if you look at footage of him from 2000/2010's - he comes off as some pasty unassuming nerd and the type of guy you'd totally feel comfortable inviting to your dorky roleplay club. Turns out he was just waiting for his time to strike.
My best friend who works in a call centre here in india(medical paper work) described it as a tap. Once you login, the water(calls) starts flowing in non-stop and it won't stop ringing till you logout. You need a shot of whiskey every night to flush the days crap out. People who don't talk will not be able to handle this job.
I have had one of those jobs, probably the easyest job I have ever had, it did suck hearing those chimes so much that i would still hear them at home in the quiet.
I remember dudes would upload the video game plays & just slap sandstorm darude in the background lmao we would do that as a bit walking around in real life & the cafeteria in college 😅
Everyone stepping into a call center gets nauseated. Sitting at your desk watching the seconds tick to the exact minute the first bleep from the headset comes in, then 8 hours of mind numbing misery.
I hope they just end up redoing all the old cumtown episodes so i can laugh at all the jokes again without nick getting interrupted by a squealing pig. People hate opie from opie and anthony so much they edit him out of clips from the radio show and upload it on a chanel called nopie and anthony. TAFS needs to do that with stav!
Adam always sounds like he’s talking on the phone while laying in bed.
Ankles up and switching back and forth
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Ahhhahahaha well done, that is perfect brother
It's a Jewish thing
Twirling his hair into the phone cord.
On his stomach with his legs in the air
I really hope they just redo all of the stories from Cumtown without Stav just to repeat the original experiment without the obese control group
Obese, low iq, easily amused… he really is the control!
What happens when we get to the iconic Thousand Island Stare?
Stav was an important part of cumtown. It's sad he's gone. This new stuff is still finding its feet but some episodes have been amazing. I'm still in it for the long haul.
@@angusmatheson8906 if by important you mean turning 90% of the riffs onto gay shit or talking about regular obese stuff only 20% of the population can relate to?
You shouldn’t speak ill of the dead
The thing about old people literally not knowing how to push a button is 100% true. Boomers might not be digital natives, but anyone older than that grew up in a world where a gas station had a staff of 40 people including a concierge desk with a guy in a tux
It males me scared for what shit's gonna be like when I'm 60. I'm in my mid 20s and I'm just barely competent enough with current tech.
@@mrscruffles801 lol I'm not sure we're gonna have a liveable society in 30 years, plenty of gay sex though
@@GaigeGrosskreutzGunClub Hell yeah dude
@@GaigeGrosskreutzGunClubI wouldn't want it any other way (unless it was more gay sex)
@@mrscruffles801I know 50+ yo guys who put my IT knowledge to shame and I am a 30yo CS engineer. It's not an age thing. If you're dumb with technology, you're just dumb with technology. Extra points get deducted from your account if you grew up with smartphones and not proper PCs you had to troubleshoot occasionally or install drivers etc.
He told 90% of this same story on Cumtown but it’s always hilarious to listen to this experience
the idea of a dude walking around with a theatrical skull cane always makes me lose my shit
@@murph5455 We use to call it mutant league, there'd always be, no matter what call center you're at have multiple people claiming to be writing a book. the least autistic person of the autists was always a thing too, and i'm the spectrum
Wait ur saying that a few years ago he had the same exact early adulthood that he used to have? Wow I thought that when stav left his past completely changed
he’s gotta drop a couple oldies for the new guys.
I was just thinking this. I've been listening to some of the earlier episodes of Cumtown lately and listened to the one he told this story in earlier today.
the thought of a grown man hyperventilatating as his codependent boss furiously makes a cup of hot cocoa is hilarious.
Clunky but you got there
Nick's description is spot on. 99% of the calls are, 'how do I use a computer/phone/email?'. Basic fucking things like 'how do I double click?'. I had to spend 45 minutes explaining the concept of apps and how an app is not a phone to a customer the other day.
If I hear Adam say “run train” one more time I’m gonna “run train” on my dad
I hate Adam so much it turned me gay too.
No, Ian nooooo
Excuse me
That guy at the call centre was probably watching DSP lmao
Adam is getting too comfortable. The whole paper bag and eating thing. Mullen needs to get a 3rd viable person so he can bring Adam down a notch.
He should be screamed at one inch from his ear for that.
Looking at adam for 3 seconds pisses me off so fucking much lmao. Maybe im starting to understand some certain 20th century mass political movements… hehehe
@@docBZA rofl
He should start the Sam Hyde stream routine. Only eating and picking his nose on stream. Sometimes he'll watch something for 10 minutes and give no commentary
Sometimes I feel Nick gives Adam a hard time but seeing the way he just sits there... There's something super icky and Jewish about him that makes me uncomfortable to lay my eyes upon him.
Adam not knowing what a Let's Play is is hilarious.
Let's Gay
He didn't get PlayStation until 2019
@@videogamenostalgia Get's Laid
knowing what a "Let's Play" is, is hilarious
@@samueltomen3337 you would expect adam to know because he's constantly absorbing weird details about gay younger people things to sound cool
Call centers and canvassing jobs turn n burn 3-5 employees a week. Our weird staff dude was a 20-something that invited us all over one night and literally had swords and shields and made his apartment a low-rate renaissance fair. he asked if we wanted to see his capes and we all laughed at him. He quit a few days later. I didn't know anyone who brushed a doll's hair, but there was a guy who would talk to his daughters on the phone and help them fall asleep while there was a California 7/10 attractive coke fiend kneeled in front of him frustrated she has to wait for this phone call to finish before blowing him for blow.
I'm so glad I can talk to my best friend and his sidekick that takes half the revenue
Jesus fuck loool
He was getting blown by a girl? Gross
Fuck man and I thought you met weirdos working in kitchens.
Eh if that's a hobby that makes the renaissance guy happy I'd be a bit more forgiving. One of my previous co workers had his house paid for but his x wife got pounded out by other men in it. Routinely. I'd take an eccentric hobbyist over a legitimate cuck any day. The drug stuff is far more common than you'd think and every job I've ever had there was someone that drove there completely zonked 100% of the time.
California 7 is not bad good for him 👏
My first job was doing phone surveys. Lasted about 3 weeks but it's a good job to get into as a highschooler just to scare the hell out of you for ever ending up in these types of call center jobs my god! Just a little funny story, I remember the guy I would sit next to was pretty cool and we would talk between calls, he muted himself, turned to me and said "This guy just excused himself from dinner at a restaurant with friends to take this survey" hahahahaha
Americans are so weird...
Worked at a soul sucking call center for a while right after college. It was a hell hole and Nick's story is 100% spot on.
@@mrscruffles801 People who are interviewing for positions but still need to pay rent in the mean time?
@@mrscruffles801 Ah, one of those. It’s ok man, not everyone has to be a doctor or a lawyer.
@@mrscruffles801 crazy to publicly say "I'm a fucking retard" but I'm proud of your honesty!
What Bruce Springstein sings about
Get that man off the frontline, he's got shell shock
I actually totally get watching Wind Waker. “I would rather be at home playing video games but instead I am stuck here in this stupid dead end job.”
Honestly the only time I ever watched let’s play style videos with no talking was when I worked in a call center. I would also sometimes have twitch on mute. There must be something about it that tricks your brain because I would definitely feel more calm with it on
The Strange Thing About the Friedlands
@@H4ZM4TT A little bit of passive stimulation goes a looooong way in a boring job
@@H4ZM4TT For me it's just the fact that it manages to imitate some level of social interaction but in a subject you're actually interested in - most people at call center gigs I've worked tend to just talk about celebrity gossip or their kids which can honestly just make the shift feel even longer. At least having some dudes in your ear talking about videogames feels like a relatively relatable conversation.
Adam's "What happened to her... Something bad." in response, IMMEDIATELY, to Nick telling him about brushing the doll's hair, has gotta be the funniest unexpected response I can imagine
People complain about them reusing stories, but this was worth it just for the part about staring into lasers
I dont mind it at all. Nick seems to enjoy being genuine alot more than bit hunting. Sometimes I feel like the old podcast was sucking the funny out of him
I cannot get into this podcast but I want to
I return 3 weeks later as a humble man. These guys are great. Their appearance on MSSP is one of the best episodes yet
So you finally scored some fenty?
You mean as a humble, gay man. Right?
I kinda feel the same Nick and Shane have good chemistry together maybe them with Soder would be as good.
@@timolean5846there’s a bonfire ep that is literally that
This Nick guy is pretty funny. He should be a regular.
so true
I would love to see what their chemistry is like with Stavros
@@toooes It'll probably end up with Stavros laughing the entire episode and copying Nicks jokes verbatim. Ironically he might end up being the most successful whilst being the least funny. I'd still listen.
I’ll let him know, we’re going out for sushi later.
I worked in a call center for like 7 years with 2 years of that in a "frontline" position which was by far the worst. Nonstop inbound calls for 8 hours straight with small business owners screaming at you because their phones/internet don't work. It's brutal shit that some companies subcontract out to prisons which is cruel and unusual punishment.
I remember learning about the prison thing after getting a job at a call center. I used it as an example for coworkers to explain why we shouldn’t expect more money, and should be ready to quit the second it started sucking.
I love when Adam pretends to not remember
Such a kind young gentleman
Cocaine is a hell of a drug
He remembers every dollar he lent out.
Damn the thing about staring in the laser is so fucking heavy haha
It always takes some sort of social anguish to engineer a great comedian. Glad nick and mark Norman are where they’re at now. Adam too.
Norman is boring though
If that were true I’d be the funniest person alive - instead I’m the gayest
Not stav
Stav’s social anguish is how he dresses himself.
@@juanmontalvo3617 what....? no he isn't
Adam looks like he calls movies "films" in that Woody Allen cosplay
Now the bug is eating in the middle of the fucking show...
He is so noisy
I worked for a defunct (M&I Bank) bank call center years ago overnights. One guy worked a full shit during the day and then he would work overnights. So he'd fall asleep underneath the desk on the floor with the headset and then wake up when a call came in. He was really good at it.
I worked a call center for 8 years due to the pay (surprising I know). I have become a husk of a human. Jaded, pesimistic and quick to anger.
And also gay.
The worst thing is the managment and middle managers. My first call centre job made me realise we can easily have a full genocidal tyranny in any country, with plenty of volunteers happy to help in the rounding up, running of the trains and manning of the ovens. Its these same people who now manage call centres.
Jaded Smith
Dude Adam’s chewing noises are making me want to destroy my phone
“Are you insane? What do you mean just come to the game?! Are you a racist “ lmao
I like Nick because he admits how low we've all been. You don't have to rub shit all over yourself to know what it is.... but I think I guess i did already
This was such a funny moment to see the switch in Nick's head as what Adam said registered 😂
When?
@@josh-kf2rd 0:10 when he says smash and Nick’s face does a reboot.exe
You wrote that like a gay stroke victim
nicks premonition about looking into lasers and going to a baseball game is considered racist when we're all 80 will come to fruition
We already got articles about "how excersise is rooted in racism" so any day now
I'm sorry but Nick is CARRYING this show. Adam is just as entertaining as a bologna sandwich.
Nick has always carried. In cumtown he was the only one to add value. Slav would constantly ruin his anecdotes and stories by doing that cringey laugh and cutting in every 10 seconds to talk about his dick. It’s amazing that he was the one to get success out of the 3.
his monologues are funny
@@lazytitan6848 Stav's the one who put the most work in to his sets and is just way more personable than Nick is. Obviously there's an element of luck involved, but in hindsight Stav was definitely the right horse to bet on.
@@Ryan-Petre agree to disagree. Always got annoyed when Nick was setting up a joke or telling a story and Stav would ALWAYS cut him off and say “Yeh and he had a massive cock” or “then I got my cock sucked”. It usually derailed the momentum completely. I think we can both agree that Adam was never going to be the successful one.
@@Ryan-Petre Yeah stavs insult the audience bit is VERY funny and not stale. If they replaced stav with stav-bot and just never told anyone, nobody would know cumtown ever ended.
I worked tech support for the Barnes and noble nook. That shit was exactly how he explained it, talking to old people that aren’t related to you is absolutely maddening.
I worked at a call center and this stories couldn’t be more accurate
I once worked at a call center with a dude who had been among the most powerful lawyers in town before getting caught embezzling funds. Dude had to get a shitty call center job to pay that shit back.
Honestly that’s probably a more effective punishment than jail. Maybe add in a clause that he now has to take the bus to truly get the shitty life experience
@@H4ZM4TT my life is literally a punishment for felonies
I did this job for 2 years. Can confirm everything he said.
Worked at one for 2 months. Surprisingly normal, but equally depressing.
Did you ever finish watching that Zelda video?
i'm on month 12 every day I'm convinced I'm gonna quit, but nothing beats work from bed
Adam is the most dainty man of all time
Interesting way to describe a hardcore racist zionist
The new meta is rehashing all the old jokes but with a little more context
"just stare in the laser" LMAO
That AI comment Adam made at the end was pretty cool and smart
ai generated comment
anytime someone mentions Zelda or a call center I always think about these stories hahaha
So now we’re just repeating stories that they already told in Cumtown but with video
They repeated stories on Cumtown too lol
Why not?
yeah Nick should catalogue every story he ever tells to make sure it doesn't happen lmao
I know right? After 10,000 hours of telling stories on the internet he has nerve to repeat something. We should ask for a refund.
That's all I really ever wanted
I had a call center job working for metro pcs and we would disconnect calls all the time. Imagine getting yelled at by black women for eight hours a day. It was awful. Finally I just started putting calls on hold and reading at my desk. I got away with that for a few weeks then got fired. lol
How do you still get hired if you were fired?
@@SorrowAvenue Don't use them as a reference.
Lmao admitting you worked in a call center to a new employer is an automatic resume in the trash situation
i worked through my time in school, but one year, for some stupid reason i tried working at this job my buddy suggested. it was a place that sold $1500 vacuum cleaners. they would have us cold call these poor bastards & try to get them to agree to an in home demonstration. we would get so stoned, it was shocking, like pass out on the phone stoned. i literally never, not once single time made an appointment. i was the worst employee, but it was the worst job
One of the most popular podcast for years and Adam still eats in mic
Adam knew from memory that David Schwimmer grew up in Beverly hills, he knows what let's plays are.
This is a common experience. I had a guy on the phone ask me if he "should put the password into THIS box or the box that says password"
It sounds made up but the old person not knowing how to push a button and you running them through that is a thing i have to do at least 10 times a week. Blows my mind.
How do you manage the anger that naturally arises? Do you meditate for like 2 hours a day or something?
@@lmackenzie9198 I have pictures of my kids I look at on my desk. I get paid good money and never working a factory again is a great motivator. Being able to sit down and not work in the weather is great. We call it air and a chair.
@@lmackenzie9198 If you get mad at stupid old people you aren't gonna be able to do the job. The worst are their fucking kids who've never used the service, don't actually want to help their parents, but want to take it out on you. I heard so many "you mean I have to drive 15 minutes and visit my parents to help them?" yes you horrible child.
@@5starviewMakes me think of Homer.
@@5starview This is literally why I have thought about quitting many times to work at a bank instead
But god do I love the solitary nature of it, 8 hours a day of being off in the middle of nowhere by myself is pretty damn comfortable too
I realize Hollywood is rebooting all the classics because they’ve run out of ideas but this has gone too far
I worked at a call center in Austin and had to sit next to this guy who would just all day quote jokes he heard on UPN sitcoms.
I stomached working at Telenetwork for all of 2 months, it was by far the worst job I've ever had
Hell yeah
2:14 love how much labor nick puts into explaining lets plays
I love how Adam pretends he doesn’t know what it is
I worked with a guy at a call center who had a sleeping disorder and he would fall asleep in the middle of calls it was fn great
now i see where nick learned his patience at dealing with an incomptent cohost
Oh my god, as my parents have gotten older they have somehow lost the ability to properly use a TV remote control despite having used TV remote controls for over 40 years and it drives me nuts. I can totally sympathize with the call center people. Also, listening to Nick describe behavior I consider totally normal as wacky, aberrant, and autistic was a real pick-me-up.
1:52 makes me fell like I’m in 2012 again
As much of a nightmare as it was it was a legitimately better time
4:29 I think about this all the time and it pisses me off, idk exactly what makes Nick want to be interned in a Chinese labor camp but this is what does it for me. I’d rather have to dig for wild roots and tubers to eat in the wilderness and die of parasites at age 40 than learn to use whatever bullshit new social media is going to be out in 5 years
I worked for a medical tech company that provided chronic ill patients with medical equipment. Teaching old people how Bluetooth connections work was something else.
I think this pair of fruits should do a 23 & Me or Ancestry DNA test and then spend several hours riffing on how Irish and Jewish they actually are, complete with offensive accents.
Oi vey
@fajile5109 Foive Dollas?! What do you need ten dollas for?! I can‘t believe you‘d ask me foh FIFTEEN Dollas! HELP! Police! Ders a madman trying to steal twenty Dollas from me!
Yo‘r gonna hear from my LAWYER about the FIFTY DOLLAS you owe me! Oi Vey!
My most memorable moment from working at a call centre was doing network troubleshooting for a guy who, based on the frailty of his voice, was about 117 years old:
"Okay, so you should see a small box with lights on the front with the word "netgear" on the side."
"[FULL BORE HARD R N-WORD SHOUTED INTO PHONE]?"
"no... Netgear."
"*[N-WORD SHOUTED INTO PHONE AGAIN BUT LOUDER]??*"
"No, net gear. Like internet gear."
"Oh. Okay I see it."
Good ol' Telenetwork, sort of miss those days. I had this guy call that wanted to complain about getting 4 spam emails in the last week. He spent the next 30 minutes excitedly telling me in graphic detail how he was going to murder these people and nuke them to the center of the earth at the I just said "Well that'll do it"
“Oh no what happening to her”
Adam finally looks 35 in the thumbnail
my boyfriend sent me here
Oh yeah? What’s his name
I wish I was gay
He sounds cute.
Sounds like a keeper!
Mine too
I’ve worked at a call center 3 separate times, two of which were at the same place. Usually I make it 3 months with 1 of those being training. The longest I’ve ever made it was around 6 months and that almost destroyed me. I felt bad for the dudes that had even fewer options that me and had been there for years.
My call center job experience sounds so similar to NIck's. It's a fucked up dance between you and management. They desperate for workers due to the rate of turnover and constant training. You're badly underpaid and overworked. And you find a balance.
"Just go ahead and unplug the ethernet ca..."
"WHAT COLOR IS IT!?!?"
"Uhhh... let me place you on a brief hold."
a 70 year old new employee last week at our call centre about 2m into his first call was already heard bellowing "YEAH I CAN HEAR YOU, CAN YOU HEAR ME!!!" lmfao sums it all up.
I work in a call center environment, and I'm about a year away from murdering our clients.
4:22 I think about this part a lot.
Reminds me of the Yelp days, shoutout all the former Yelp sales crusaders. Brutal job lmao
Adam “Sounds Like a Computer Thing” Friedland
5:29 I’m sorry but, Adam reaching and eating watching Nick talk about the premise to Workaholics was so stupid lol
if I wanted to hear the opinions of a woman I'd talk to my wife
so basic human function? you despise basic human function? a conversation? what?
Oh this is going in a special playlist
I used to go on an email in a very chill call ctr for an hour while going to the pub (it was next to Rockstar North offices so always nerds to drink with
When was this? R North made some good stuff back in the day
Weird when I’m several minutes in and start scrolling through the comments
only for some asmr to start going on in the background.
This call center must be where Nick got his inspiration for the old man character in his prank calls
that phone call center was the only time Nick truly found a place he fits
I worked at a call center for 4 years, because of it I developed severe anxiety and not from the customers but by the ones in charge and just being complete dicks and clueless at the same time since most don't understand why the calls would last too long since they moved up food chain like withing a week of being on the floor. worst job ever, but it was the only job I could get that paid 11 an hour at the time.
Love the service desk story's super high turnover rate, and iv been grinding for 4 years just earning bank doing customer care while essentially just sorting IT problems as quickly as possible tbh I don't take more than 10 minutes nowadays even on the hard ones and I take maybe 20 calls a day so I might get lucky and spend 4 - 5 hours working and the rest is just watching UA-cam, playing games, working on other adult life activities like taxes, budgeting and investing tbh it's the best job if you can learn how to get the customer to be your ally not your enemy. - My best tip is always take the side of the person on the phone no matter how wrong, and you'll never have an angry customer again. - also helps to start of and get that going so they are more accepting of advise you give them. - even if they can't do it and you can't do it they leave feeling like they tried and didn't just get spat on and told it's too hard.
That's why you really need to experience some sort of customer service before you do service desk/ Help Desk stuff because alot of it is just making the other person like you while you fix their issues, you can take as long as you need as long as the person thinks good of you and they can see your genuinely trying to help. - the amount of people iv had to train up in my own service desk because there was one good one and the rest relied on him until I went out of my way learnt what I could and taught it to all of my colleagues that didn't know when I asked in the end I don't need any thanks or recognition because we all benefited and it made us better workers in the end never be afraid to help a colleague out - you never know when you'll be needing them.
@@shlongterminvesting Yeah I did corporate IT help desk for a while, and what you said is generally true. If you're nice and just let the person talk, most of the time they'll like you even if you can't solve their problem. After about 6 months I had it figured out that probably 90% of the calls would be one of the same 9 or 10 problems (password reset, can you install this program for me, why is my text all big/small in MS Outlook) so I was basically on auto-pilot. I was a huge NFL freak then and would watch condensed replays of that weekend's games all day while taking calls. Either that or playing boomer shooters like Doom. This was early 2010s though so maybe it's different now.
The new thing of eating while podcasting is killing me !!
It's fucking nuts. Mic right at mouth to pick up all the horrible noises.
I've watched Sam Hyde for years, come back when he purposefully starts sucking the snot back into his head to clear his nostrils
I will never forget where I was on 9/11, because that is also where I was when I heard Nick on the Cheek Clappers podcast for the first time
How did Nick manage to get himself on the Cheek Clappers Podcast? His agent must be really well connected
Had a similar call center job.
It was alright before the lockdowns, but once I started working from home it became way too gruelling. I didn't get the catharsis of complaining about all the retards who called in anymore. I had to quit. Couldn't hold out until WFH ended.
should have made a team discord group. would have helped a lot
Nick doing a robin williams bit, old MacDonald losing his farm to AI farmers, ‘A I A I oh! This isn’t very good! Robots are taking my farm! I might have to…. Kill myself’’
Nick asked Adam if he knew what a let's play was so he wouldn't go "is that a computer thing"
I love how every story from nick's life is about how unreasonably nice people have always been to him despite him walking all over them
It makes sense if you look at footage of him from 2000/2010's - he comes off as some pasty unassuming nerd and the type of guy you'd totally feel comfortable inviting to your dorky roleplay club.
Turns out he was just waiting for his time to strike.
Nick explaining Let's plays to Adam tickles my 30 year old autism.
My best friend who works in a call centre here in india(medical paper work) described it as a tap. Once you login, the water(calls) starts flowing in non-stop and it won't stop ringing till you logout. You need a shot of whiskey every night to flush the days crap out. People who don't talk will not be able to handle this job.
Adam and Nick saying "upwards mobility" in unison warmed my heart
I have had one of those jobs, probably the easyest job I have ever had, it did suck hearing those chimes so much that i would still hear them at home in the quiet.
I remember dudes would upload the video game plays & just slap sandstorm darude in the background lmao we would do that as a bit walking around in real life & the cafeteria in college 😅
Everyone stepping into a call center gets nauseated. Sitting at your desk watching the seconds tick to the exact minute the first bleep from the headset comes in, then 8 hours of mind numbing misery.
I worked in a call center for 2 years and this is 100% accurate, I straight up had a nervous breakdown and quit.
Adam looks like how I would imagine robbespierre would look
I hope they just end up redoing all the old cumtown episodes so i can laugh at all the jokes again without nick getting interrupted by a squealing pig. People hate opie from opie and anthony so much they edit him out of clips from the radio show and upload it on a chanel called nopie and anthony. TAFS needs to do that with stav!
This sounds exactly like my call center experience, with the exception of upper management getting it. The work sucks.
Love how Adam has heard all these stories before, on air, and still has nothing to say.
the first time I heard Mullen on the Cheek Clappers podcast, I thought I had died and gone to heaven
I hope Vikram didn't kill himself