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  • Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
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  • @RyanGeorge
    @RyanGeorge  2 роки тому +781

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  • @TThorn1
    @TThorn1 2 роки тому +5767

    I love the idea that these characters just hang out in the middle of fields for no reason when they aren’t doing anything

    • @julialasseguarde5798
      @julialasseguarde5798 2 роки тому +1094

      he was hired because he was outstanding in his field. =)

    • @shahanahsan05
      @shahanahsan05 2 роки тому +115

      @@julialasseguarde5798 that makes more sense

    • @blowc1612
      @blowc1612 2 роки тому +15

      He was enjoying his day before he goes to prison.

    • @stevethompson5265
      @stevethompson5265 2 роки тому +28

      @@julialasseguarde5798 that was pure gold 🤣🤣

    • @frutrace
      @frutrace 2 роки тому +22

      @@julialasseguarde5798 There needs to be more likes for this comment.

  • @AnikIsGreat
    @AnikIsGreat 2 роки тому +15929

    I'd watch a horror movie where a normal dude is trying to escape a universe where everyone is Ryan George and figuring out how to do life.

    • @ScofieldStudios
      @ScofieldStudios 2 роки тому +504

      It would be a comedy-horror movie.

    • @randomperson8375
      @randomperson8375 2 роки тому +661

      and all the Ryan Georges slowly start to realize this normal dude isn't another Ryan George and start hunting him down.

    • @thefuturerex0197
      @thefuturerex0197 2 роки тому +85

      Yeah Hollywood banger

    • @YesHello_OkGoodbye
      @YesHello_OkGoodbye 2 роки тому +33

      Yess

    • @kz.productions
      @kz.productions 2 роки тому +134

      Ryan should make that with an other creator for some subscriber milestone

  • @craig5322
    @craig5322 Рік тому +1192

    I got to sit in on a manager meeting and hear the HR person talk about how "some people have this unrealistic expectation that they deserve to get raises just because cost of living increases" and even the managers were like "No actually everyone has that expectation, and it's not silly"

    • @tsarfox3462
      @tsarfox3462 Рік тому

      Sometimes I legitimately wonder if people like that are actually humans or poorly programmed chatbots. Then I realize it would be cheaper to just hire sociopaths with bachelor degrees.

    • @stevejobs8406
      @stevejobs8406 Рік тому

      HR reps are all literally going to hell for the BS they put everyone through

    • @williamrosenbloom215
      @williamrosenbloom215 Рік тому

      HR is the devil

    • @brucewillis542
      @brucewillis542 Рік тому +169

      *you walk off
      Manager: alright he's gone, keep those wages down or you're fired.

    • @andreaaldrich4046
      @andreaaldrich4046 Рік тому +98

      HR people are a special breed.

  • @Vhestale
    @Vhestale 2 роки тому +2177

    Oh God, the immediate desaturation once they're inside the office hits way too close to home... You can feel your life being sucked out of your body by this place. X'D

    • @Hugh_Jas
      @Hugh_Jas 2 роки тому +44

      It's actually quite a subtle desaturation too, which goes to show how impactful the setting itself is. Most of what you're seeing is just the difference being in a shitty office makes.

    • @rohanmanchanda5250
      @rohanmanchanda5250 2 роки тому +4

      Ex Apostrophe Dee?

    • @Hamburgers4Haiti
      @Hamburgers4Haiti 2 роки тому +29

      Warehouses and factories are designed to suck out your soul as well. They don't even paint the walls in those damn places. You get lots of hard gray surfaces, poor air circulation, no a/c or heating, greater amount of safety hazards, and loud, repetetive noises in most. In the majority I've worked in, they didn't even allow headphones.

    • @1ouncebird
      @1ouncebird 2 роки тому +25

      @@Hamburgers4Haiti You're right. As depressing as offices and office cubicles may be they aren't as bad as warehouses, factories and even laboratories ( Laboratories I have worked in don't allow photos or any sign of outside life whatsoever. They too can be very loud and sterile and sad places to spend your life away. ) Let's face it - places of employment, for many of us, are generally all places that suck all that makes life good out of us. Its that darned paycheck that keeps us coming back.

    • @Jordan-Ramses
      @Jordan-Ramses 2 роки тому +7

      Ryan just watched Office Space.

  • @those1kidds
    @those1kidds 2 роки тому +2079

    I love how Ryan has the ability to make what we do sound absurd and funny at the same time but also depress the living crap out of me knowing that this is our life....

    • @LuisSierra42
      @LuisSierra42 2 роки тому +17

      @@paddor this is not a bot i decided

    • @retteketette
      @retteketette 2 роки тому +2

      @@paddor 🤣🤣🤣

    • @those1kidds
      @those1kidds 2 роки тому +6

      What? What are you smoking man?

    • @Hazarth
      @Hazarth 2 роки тому +49

      To be fair, he's only making it sound absurd and depressing because it is absurd and depressed, you just got used to it.

    • @ijustdocomments6777
      @ijustdocomments6777 2 роки тому +4

      Yeah I had an epiphany of this whole thing right out of college, ended up crying my way through my first office job. Turns out I just hated being alone in front of a computer all day. It's much saner when you're sharing an area with other people. Of course my nephew had the SAME epiphany after college and became a burnout drunky restaurant worker with a 4-year physics degree...

  • @pyro2708
    @pyro2708 2 роки тому +167

    I feel cheated, I came here to laugh not to get depressed at how real this was.

    • @Jack-sy8mr
      @Jack-sy8mr Рік тому +7

      Well you know what they say “comedy=tragedy+time”

    • @thegamersclub9326
      @thegamersclub9326 2 місяці тому

      I know right, I can really relate to Florpflap in the ad segment at the end.

  • @michaelclarkj
    @michaelclarkj 2 роки тому +1281

    Glad Ryan is getting paid well for his life, and hopefully can afford many days of enjoying things like air and friends and good times.

    • @Bigfitz2
      @Bigfitz2 2 роки тому +31

      This comment is funny i decided

    • @myscreen2urs
      @myscreen2urs 2 роки тому +13

      I bet he enjoys his bathroom breaks quite a bit also 🙃

    • @basmbee4325
      @basmbee4325 2 роки тому +3

      sorry i can't like this comment, it's at 420 likes

    • @pamelakelly3441
      @pamelakelly3441 2 роки тому +2

      But how much is George being payed?

    • @LuisSierra42
      @LuisSierra42 2 роки тому

      who wants to see my orifice?

  • @amberburningham5100
    @amberburningham5100 2 роки тому +429

    "No thank you I'm using my life right now"
    possibly the greatest line in cinema history

  • @snowdust3657
    @snowdust3657 2 роки тому +1140

    As someone who works in a office, I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry at this one!

    • @saladz3657
      @saladz3657 2 роки тому +36

      Put this in a company wide email.

    • @thematiasmadness7010
      @thematiasmadness7010 2 роки тому +7

      Yes

    • @SamDy99
      @SamDy99 2 роки тому +15

      Cry .... and slap the HR and file a resignation.

    • @ripperthesmilingindoraptor
      @ripperthesmilingindoraptor 2 роки тому +12

      Weep, then use the pain to become a real life version of Green Goblin. The Willem Dafoe Green Goblin. It'll make a great movie.

    • @Ironica82
      @Ironica82 2 роки тому +12

      Laugh while your standing, cry when your in bed thinking about the next work day

  • @fighteer1
    @fighteer1 2 роки тому +174

    "You son of a gun."
    "My father was a gun."
    And now we know. That's not a metaphor in Ryanverse.

    • @boobah5643
      @boobah5643 2 роки тому +1

      It's not a metaphor here, either, it's bowdlerism. It's more 'wrong' to use the word for a female dog than it is to name your interlocutor's mother one.

    • @fighteer1
      @fighteer1 2 роки тому +4

      @@boobah5643 "Son of a gun" is an actual phrase that is used, even if it is a Bowdlerism. It's not terribly common these days but it's real.

    • @DarkTider
      @DarkTider 2 роки тому +1

      @@fighteer1 well, if it's real, I'm in!

    • @criley7755
      @criley7755 Місяць тому

      I did not understand this reference because I always skip the adverts... well done for making me willingly subject myself to one!

  • @hhjk377
    @hhjk377 2 роки тому +3427

    The best feeling I've had all year: My office spaced moved five times farther away than the previous spot. I asked for a hundred more bucks a month just to get eaten up in gas and then probably a bit more. Got told no. Said cool I'm gonna be working from home now. Got told no again. Said cool again and that I was gonna be working from home. Started working from home. Didn't get fired yet. It's been five months. Stay strong, cube people.

    • @RGC_animation
      @RGC_animation 2 роки тому +492

      Now that I think about it, the pandemic is probably the best thing that could've happened to most office workers, which is just so depressing.

    • @GeoKnowLearning
      @GeoKnowLearning 2 роки тому +60

      That you Milton?? 😆🤣😂

    • @jojob1969
      @jojob1969 2 роки тому +92

      @@GeoKnowLearning They pushed him too far when they took his favorite stapler!

    • @StefanReich
      @StefanReich 2 роки тому +95

      I will just stay home all the time now I decided

    • @jimdoom2276
      @jimdoom2276 2 роки тому +46

      You're basically my hero now. Respect.

  • @clockworktri
    @clockworktri 2 роки тому +482

    Anyone else use Ryan's videos as a pallette cleanser? Whenever I need to stop thinking of the news or toxic shit or just stress, I come over here because I know his vids are full of sunshine and goofiness with never a mean bone in them (even if the topic is about the depressing realities we face). It helps me sleep at night.

    • @Baron_Blue_Max
      @Baron_Blue_Max 2 роки тому +18

      Same here. His takes on the ridiculous nature of our society are the small pockets of sanity I need.

    • @chernobylcoleslaw6698
      @chernobylcoleslaw6698 2 роки тому +5

      Or when I need to decompress from work.

    • @kristenmckee9990
      @kristenmckee9990 Рік тому +5

      I like his videos because they're really really funny

    • @kristenmckee9990
      @kristenmckee9990 Рік тому +1

      They're really awesome

    • @heyy1829
      @heyy1829 Рік тому +4

      Thats the most depressing way of saying the videos are funny ever

  • @Insert_Bland_Name_Here
    @Insert_Bland_Name_Here 2 роки тому +137

    "That sounds like a scam!"
    "No, it doesn't."
    "Yeah, that's a good point."
    Ryan George is at it again, I just decided.

  • @brooklynnmusiclive
    @brooklynnmusiclive 2 роки тому +766

    I used to work in an office setting like this but for a Customer Service center for a bank….not only did I get to be tightly squeezed next to other people but we also got screamed at all day. Those bathroom breaks were everything. Love this sketch 🤣 It’s so refreshing to see people finally calling out the fact that office jobs literally suck the life out of us and we deserve so much better as humans

    • @ismirdochegal4804
      @ismirdochegal4804 2 роки тому +17

      Wait! Those aweful looking workpaces are still in use? That's depressing.

    • @deedsofdecapitation7477
      @deedsofdecapitation7477 2 роки тому +10

      You know that you can quit your job anytime and actually learn a trade? Nobody forced you to work an office job.

    • @JinJinDoe
      @JinJinDoe 2 роки тому +18

      I would suggest that you quit what you're doing and come join us working in a restaurant, where you can get screamed at all the time, still cherish all the bathroom breaks AND be on your feet for 8 hours doing actual physical work, but, something tells me you'd rather not :P

    • @KingNedya
      @KingNedya 2 роки тому +41

      @@deedsofdecapitation7477 I feel like you're forgetting that just "getting a different job" is more complicated than simply learning a new skill. You have to account for pay, availability, location, qualifications, time, interests, etcetera.

    • @deedsofdecapitation7477
      @deedsofdecapitation7477 2 роки тому +4

      @@KingNedya Sure, but the point is to illustrate that nobody forced that person to work an office job in the first place, and it seems like they made poor life decisions in regards to their career path, and now want to complain about it, instead of getting a construction job, learning actual functional skills, and then later creating your own business with it. I know that particular person wouldn't last a day working a construction job, and would rather sit in an AC office all day, complaining about how his job is "sucking the life out of them".

  • @Bookwormtalksabout
    @Bookwormtalksabout 2 роки тому +83

    “That sounds like a scam”
    “No it doesn’t”
    “That’s a good point”
    There’s always at least one quote that needs to be quoted

    • @GONExTOxMYxHEAD
      @GONExTOxMYxHEAD 2 роки тому +7

      This was the one that got me-- I'm paraphrasing here.
      "And I assume if the cost of living goes up that you'll compensate me accordingly?"
      "Oh, God no!"

    • @brothersandsistersofvalhalla
      @brothersandsistersofvalhalla 2 роки тому

      That is so American.

  • @MJSailing
    @MJSailing 2 роки тому +630

    Left office life at 29, and I'm never looking back. It was still better than being a server at restaurants, but 10 years of working for myself now, and this clip has only solidified that even the roughest days are still better than being in a cubicle, lol.

    • @BlightCosmos
      @BlightCosmos 2 роки тому +31

      I dont even work yet but I can already feel the dread

    • @lifeiscats1337
      @lifeiscats1337 2 роки тому +8

      @@BlightCosmos same

    • @IndigoIndustrial
      @IndigoIndustrial 2 роки тому +24

      Worked in a law firm for a while -suit and tie everyday, got in early and left late.
      Now work in academia - wear what I want, flexible hours and surplus annual leave.

    • @Alicia-zf3nq
      @Alicia-zf3nq 2 роки тому +25

      @@IndigoIndustrial I swear academics just work better in comfy clothes. One of my professors always wears comfy sweaters, one wears the same outfit like every week and one even showed up to teach in sweatpants a while back. Then there's the academic director that often wears merch shirts. They always seem very informal and relaxed and their lectures are so much better than the few extremely boring ones I've attended from professors that wore formal clothes

    • @IndigoIndustrial
      @IndigoIndustrial 2 роки тому +16

      @@Alicia-zf3nq Research clothing is NOT tight!

  • @5punkt5
    @5punkt5 2 роки тому +269

    Always dropping the truth bombs. Thank you Ryan for explaining things in a way that even politicans can understand.

    • @Wimikk
      @Wimikk 2 роки тому

      Politicians are in favour of this. It’s called capitalism. The owners (capitalists) get money just because workers are forced to work for less money than than they generate.
      This is why leftists say capitalists are parasites.

    • @5punkt5
      @5punkt5 2 роки тому +10

      @@Wimikk Of course workers will be paid less then they generate. But the point is that many companies now are not paying a fair wage, which is the issue. Capitalism in it self is not to blame, but the greed of CEO's are.

    • @Wimikk
      @Wimikk 2 роки тому +16

      @@5punkt5 The greed of capital IS capitalism; you’re describing “markets.” In a system that demands maximum profit growth, a “non-greedy” CEO would not get to be a CEO for very long, would they?
      Markets can exist outside of capitalist greed. Markets are made freer and more accessible for more people when they include organized labour unions, strong government policy that constrains exploitative business practices, and high taxation of capital in order to provide a strong and healthy working class economy. This is what happened in the 1950s and why they produced such a massive boom in wealth across class lines throughout the West, just 20 years after the New Deal.
      You can call it “regulated capitalism” if you want, but the important part is the regulation that takes power away from the robber-barons and landlords and gives that power to the workers.

    • @5punkt5
      @5punkt5 2 роки тому +7

      @@Wimikk I disagree. I think companies can very easily pay fair wages and should be forced to do so. Greed and capitalism do not have to go hand in hand. You can have growth without greed.

    • @drksideofthewal
      @drksideofthewal 2 роки тому +6

      @@5punkt5
      That sounds like a nice slogan, but can you really have “growth without greed?” Why is it that billionaires, with a higher net worth than some countries, never seem to use that vast wealth to end hunger or homelessness?

  • @rob3231
    @rob3231 2 роки тому +187

    Watching this on my lunch break literally made me want to grab 5 things from my office and never come back....I'm torn between laughing and crying. Thank you Ryan George for questioning my livelihood. The only worse thing is making us pay a different depressing building thousands of dollars to go work in another building only to pay off the the first place......

    • @passthecrablegs2646
      @passthecrablegs2646 2 роки тому +17

      You’re sure it’s your lunch break? You’re not just watching this video in the sanctuary of peace and tranquility?

    • @ThreadBomb
      @ThreadBomb 2 роки тому +10

      @Michael Lochlann But there's no need for it to be quite so miserable an experience.

    • @creativedesignation7880
      @creativedesignation7880 2 роки тому

      Do it.

    • @davideberhardt6150
      @davideberhardt6150 2 роки тому +4

      That's how it starts! The ... waitforit ... RYANVOLUTION!

  • @patrickmcevoy5080
    @patrickmcevoy5080 2 роки тому +570

    Compared to the "open office" floor plans, where there's no personal workspace or privacy at all, a cubicle is heaven.

    • @blackdragon6
      @blackdragon6 2 роки тому +32

      Depends on the worker I guess 🤔 🤷🏾‍♂️

    • @mlgnerd13
      @mlgnerd13 2 роки тому +8

      Agreed

    • @ArcNine9Angel
      @ArcNine9Angel 2 роки тому +24

      My last place switched over the more open plan white hexagon desk pods we had into grey cubicles. Privacy is a pro, I suppose, but I couldn't hate it more.

    • @SeraphsWitness
      @SeraphsWitness 2 роки тому +40

      Yea the open plans are miserable. I'm glad that trend is dying.

    • @patrickmcevoy5080
      @patrickmcevoy5080 2 роки тому +28

      I should have said "IMO", for sure! ;) But really, I've turned down work at open-plan places. It's just soul-crushing for me to have no moments of privacy at all.

  • @FionaEevee87
    @FionaEevee87 Рік тому +146

    As someone who works in an open office environment, I'd love to have a cube.

    • @ganqqwerty
      @ganqqwerty Рік тому +27

      imagine: your proper, EXECUTIVE wall! Three walls in fact!!! No one is moving in your peripheral vision! OMG, the ancestors lived in luxury.

    • @capitalb5889
      @capitalb5889 11 місяців тому +4

      It would be like having your own mini-office! And we don't even have our own desks anymore.

    • @Sig509
      @Sig509 8 місяців тому +1

      Same here. I once worked not only in open office, but also in a hot desk system, so desks were assigned randomly on daily basis, and you had to start the day by cleaning afeter the last user, setting up the monitor and so on + all the inconvinces of open space. That was a horrible year to work.
      Now I am a third year on home office, my productivity is higher than ever, and I also have more time for myself.

  • @prosenfi2
    @prosenfi2 2 роки тому +139

    Ryan single-handedly keeps the fake mustache industry in business!
    Brilliant video as always!

    • @andurilcuivie
      @andurilcuivie 2 роки тому +2

      The left side of the mustache was way twitchier than the right.

    • @lesley1204
      @lesley1204 2 роки тому +2

      Wearing fake moustaches is tight! 😁

  • @falx94
    @falx94 2 роки тому +113

    I couldn't decide whether to laugh or cry because this is so accurate. Reminds me of a job I had a couple years ago.
    "Yeah we know you've been excelling in this completely remote position for over a year now to the point where we're using the work you're doing as part of the curriculum to train our new hires but we're going to require you to be back in the office full-time starting next month!"
    "Wait why are you applying for other jobs??"

  • @PaintingWinterMusic
    @PaintingWinterMusic 2 роки тому +417

    Ryan George is probably the funniest alive person on UA-cam. I love how his sketches always make the world seem so weird and chaotic.

    • @PaintingWinterMusic
      @PaintingWinterMusic 2 роки тому +7

      The way he talks in his videos makes it even more hilarious as well.
      And shameless plug...
      I'm also hoping some of you might like the music that I make...:)

    • @sogpop
      @sogpop 2 роки тому +27

      You mean how his sketches reveal how weird and chaotic the world really is?

    • @PaintingWinterMusic
      @PaintingWinterMusic 2 роки тому +4

      @@sogpop Yeah that's a more accurate description of it 😅

    • @JohnCage77
      @JohnCage77 2 роки тому +1

      @@PaintingWinterMusic You had us in the first half, not gonna lie

    • @MiotaLee
      @MiotaLee 2 роки тому +1

      That's some big boots to fill but honestly I agree

  • @frederikl.1642
    @frederikl.1642 2 роки тому +128

    This whole skit is so spot-on. We spend at least 8 out of 24 hours a day working, and another 8 sleeping. Assuming we don't work weekends, that's more than half of our adult life wasted just trying to keep being an alive person.

    • @SeraphsWitness
      @SeraphsWitness 2 роки тому +12

      Well, being alive does cost money.

    • @jdfree49
      @jdfree49 2 роки тому +11

      Pretty sure keeping yourself alive isn't "wasting".
      What most people do with the remaining hours is, though.

    • @capngenie8724
      @capngenie8724 2 роки тому +20

      @@jdfree49 being exploited is quite the waste of time tbh.

    • @SeraphsWitness
      @SeraphsWitness 2 роки тому +9

      @@jdfree49 BINGO.
      People act like sitting on a beach drinking all day is "living". As if that's the final goal in life, just to feed your hedonism.
      Do something meaningful, I say. Whether that's your job or your family, or something else.

    • @taliesinriver
      @taliesinriver 2 роки тому +12

      Time sleeping isn't wasted, it's an essential time where our bodies repair and keep themselves functional, and our brains connect and catalogue our memories. We just don't value it because we don't remember much of it.

  • @heymagicalday
    @heymagicalday Рік тому +57

    At my work we don’t even have cubicles, we have desks set up like we are in school. The management insists it’s so it’s easier for everyone to collaborate, but NOBODY EVER TALKS.

    • @lindseysummers5351
      @lindseysummers5351 Рік тому

      It's hilarious that those that work in a modicum of privacy extol the virtues of having no privacy.

    • @ganqqwerty
      @ganqqwerty Рік тому +4

      except some managers that talk on the phone for everyone to hear

    • @viclange3826
      @viclange3826 Рік тому +3

      Maybe it has something to do with how everyone can overhear the conversation!

    • @k.b.tidwell
      @k.b.tidwell Рік тому

      Maybe it's because management makes a hobby out of manipulative lying = the core of why I'm not in management.

  • @RobMedellin
    @RobMedellin 2 роки тому +42

    So do we want a funny video or a depressing one?
    Ryan: Yes

  • @somethingfunny5571
    @somethingfunny5571 2 роки тому +367

    This man’s videos are basically just free antidepressants
    Edit: I rescind my previous statement. This is painfully true :(

    • @kaptcha
      @kaptcha 2 роки тому +24

      It's true, yet while also often pointing out the depressing nature of our reality. Better to laugh than cry!

    • @hayuseen6683
      @hayuseen6683 2 роки тому

      @@kaptcha
      whynotboth

    • @Play_solosongs
      @Play_solosongs 2 роки тому +8

      Yeah, all you gotta do is click on his creations labeled as videos and experience the hundreds of pictures flash before your eyes coupled with noises from vibrating machinery inside of a thing called a device that you use to view the hundreds of pictures of him doing specific actions. It's super easy, barely an inconvenience I decided.

    • @camelopardalis84
      @camelopardalis84 2 роки тому +10

      ANTIdepressants?

    • @markmurex6559
      @markmurex6559 2 роки тому

      Probably better for you too.

  • @andrewbrown784
    @andrewbrown784 2 роки тому +12

    If my man keeps making content this relatable, look out world... Dude's going to take over the internet.

  • @Dingy-doodles
    @Dingy-doodles 2 роки тому +232

    "let me buy your life,"
    this is the most unfortunately true part of existence
    also, he says, "I'm not gonna show you my butthole," at exactly 1:00, genius

    • @Sahiyena11
      @Sahiyena11 2 роки тому +9

      Haha it's true. If I'm honest, the happiest I've ever been in my life was just living out of my backpack. I sort of wonder sometimes why we are expected to change that and just give away our less than a decade of literal existence to make someone else's existence rich.

    • @AndyDillbeck
      @AndyDillbeck 2 роки тому +5

      @@Sahiyena11 because someday you might not want to be still living out of a backpack?
      Of course if you come up with a neat idea that you can get other people to give you money for and can put in all the hard work to make it happen then you can hire people to do that thing for you and make you a lot of money so you can spend more time living out of a backpack.

    • @Sahiyena11
      @Sahiyena11 2 роки тому +3

      @@AndyDillbeck Yeah, I did some Wwoof work in Hawaii when I was like 22 because I wasn't ready yet still to jump into college and get that sweet crippling debt. I knew a couple folks who managed to jump that off into a sweet lick. I'm thinking what I'm not gonna do is work for somone else at this point. Looking into setting up a way I can set my own pace.

    • @nitron3589
      @nitron3589 2 роки тому +2

      1:01*

    • @filip9564
      @filip9564 2 роки тому +2

      Especially if ur black during 1700

  • @megamerp9315
    @megamerp9315 2 роки тому +91

    I like how the Ryans actually got more dull when they got to the orifice.

    • @Rennies-World
      @Rennies-World 2 роки тому +11

      Too many colors are distracting?

    • @San-lh8us
      @San-lh8us 2 роки тому +2

      it's because they are not in the sun anymore

    • @lukefoster5662
      @lukefoster5662 2 роки тому +1

      I’m glad I’m not the only one who noticed!

    • @Moon_The_Magical
      @Moon_The_Magical 2 роки тому +3

      Yeah I noticed! It's like they are slowly slipping away from the happy, cheerful world they used to live in.

  • @cajunguy6502
    @cajunguy6502 2 роки тому +47

    It's been 5 years since I last worked an office job, and it STILL hurts to watch this.

    • @melissaclaassen9707
      @melissaclaassen9707 Рік тому +2

      12 years for me and it's still traumatic to remember the cube farm

  • @OneTopic
    @OneTopic 2 роки тому +59

    the first office was set in liminal spaces which was the brief internet fad of showing pictures without anyone in them in the mid 2021’s, i decided.

  • @rachdarastrix5251
    @rachdarastrix5251 Рік тому +46

    "Well I don't want to work in your office. I think it would be more rewarding to spend my entire life hunting gathering and cooking with a fire with my family."
    "See those guys?" **Points to 80 heavily trained soldiers**

  • @ClintsReptiles
    @ClintsReptiles 2 роки тому +542

    Isn't it a bit ironic that you were so careful to avoid seeing a butt hole when you first came in, but living in those little boxes will likely eventually lead you to photocopy your own and then show it to the other people who have sold their lives as well?

  • @chaosoul-seanleeriggs369
    @chaosoul-seanleeriggs369 2 роки тому +40

    When you go from laughing at how accurate, true, and real this is...to just being sad because of how accurate, true, and real this is.

    • @fayehobbs2948
      @fayehobbs2948 2 роки тому +3

      I know.

    • @AussieAmigan
      @AussieAmigan 2 роки тому +1

      What is sad, is that I play these with my young son. And here I am wanting him to study so he can one day get an office job like I did. I guess the alternative can be worse.

  • @owenneilb
    @owenneilb 2 роки тому +26

    While normally I love everything you make, this one just hit too hard.

  • @RabbiSteve
    @RabbiSteve 2 роки тому +89

    Thanks for doing and sharing these. Makes my day. Laughter is the best medicine.

  • @JobiWan144
    @JobiWan144 2 роки тому +22

    3:24 If he's in, I'm in.

    • @JBlooey
      @JBlooey 2 роки тому +5

      Well if he's in, I'm out.

    • @Robinr13
      @Robinr13 2 роки тому +4

      @@JBlooey if he's out i am out

    • @YLCinnasnail
      @YLCinnasnail 2 роки тому +2

      @@Robinr13 if he's out then I'm in

    • @GloriousLuke
      @GloriousLuke Рік тому +3

      @@YLCinnasnail well if he’s in them i’m in

    • @Major_Mercury
      @Major_Mercury Рік тому +1

      @@GloriousLuke well if he's in, he's in

  • @127mfan
    @127mfan 2 роки тому +110

    Boss Ryan: "I need you to make me a TON of money, and then I'll give you a teeny tiny bit of it."
    This is painfully accurate.

    • @AttilaAsztalos
      @AttilaAsztalos 2 роки тому +2

      Yeah, that will HAVE to change eventually. One way or another. But none of us will live to see it.

    • @SeraphsWitness
      @SeraphsWitness 2 роки тому +2

      It's not accurate at all. Average corporate profit margin is about 7%. And their largest expense is almost always personnel.

    • @user-pu6pn8vt5d
      @user-pu6pn8vt5d 2 роки тому +2

      @@SeraphsWitness That's because the CEO is getting all the money, and he counts as "personnel".

    • @jdfree49
      @jdfree49 2 роки тому +2

      It is painfully INaccurate. No decent-sized company's worker payroll isn't orders of magnitude larger than its executive compensation.
      The lie comes from comparing the total compensation of executives to that of the tiny slice of the workforce that is one worker. The worker keeps the majority of the benefit of his own work while management gets a tiny slice.
      But there are a lot of tiny slices, and they add up.

    • @guilhermepicolloduarte8110
      @guilhermepicolloduarte8110 2 роки тому +2

      I hate these types of comments. You think you deserve millions of dollars by doing a job a computer can do? You carry boxes and its unfair that the CEO is making millions? This idiotic mindset is infuriating

  • @3dartstudio007
    @3dartstudio007 2 роки тому +30

    As someone working in industrial facilities for decades, the cubicles "come and go". We put them in to "improve" productivity, then take them out to "improve productivity" it's hilarious! I have about 2 or 3 more decades of cubes going in and out of style before I can move and go see my family again. Yay work!

  • @f2pkrdecade
    @f2pkrdecade 2 роки тому +25

    Ryan points out exactly what's wrong with the modern society in less than 4 minutes!!

  • @nefelx
    @nefelx 2 роки тому +57

    "Lemme buy your life."
    As an Administrative Assistant, I confirm that's exactly what happened the moment I started this job.

  • @wronek1235
    @wronek1235 2 роки тому +350

    You always make me laugh. I hope you keep making content.

    • @RandomInternetStranger
      @RandomInternetStranger 2 роки тому +3

      There's no way you're not a bot

    • @greenben3744
      @greenben3744 2 роки тому +2

      Honestly, I'm just horrified.

    • @Rafathy
      @Rafathy 2 роки тому +4

      He has to in order to make money to survive

    • @seanmcneil349
      @seanmcneil349 2 роки тому +1

      It’s better than the alternative of a rap career

    • @basedchungus
      @basedchungus 2 роки тому +1

      "its his job, isnt it"

  • @messibessi11
    @messibessi11 2 роки тому +13

    I was literally just told in a company meeting that we won’t be getting cost of living raises this year because the economy is so unstable and they can’t just hand out raises…. So I felt that last bit in my bones

    • @cosesu8929
      @cosesu8929 2 роки тому

      What type of industry do you work for?

    • @messibessi11
      @messibessi11 2 роки тому

      @@cosesu8929 insurance

    • @cosesu8929
      @cosesu8929 2 роки тому

      You don't have to answer anymore if you don't want to, but...
      Is it a local, multi-state, or national insurance company?
      I'm just trying to get a feel if the CEO or someone of upper management might have gotten a raise, or at least has a 6 figure or even 7 figure salary, yet they can't give you one. Insurance is a profitable business after all. If it's big enough.
      Don't get me wrong if it's not one of the big companies, and/or the CEO or upper management actually put in the years of work and dedication to get where they are, I'm all for them having the big salaries. But if it's due to nepotism or a good ole boys system...
      Of course I don't expect you to know

    • @messibessi11
      @messibessi11 2 роки тому +4

      @@cosesu8929 it’s in the top 100 on the Fortune 500. They’re being selfish

    • @andrewkaminskas7721
      @andrewkaminskas7721 2 роки тому +1

      I worked in automotive collision. Since the insurance companies only paid roughly $35/hour to repair a vehicle I could work forever and never earn more than that hard ceiling. I left pretty quickly to a industry that isnt a scam like insurance work.

  • @TimeTimo
    @TimeTimo 2 роки тому +17

    "Let me buy your life"
    "No thank you im using it right now"
    LMAO

  • @Purrfect_Werecat
    @Purrfect_Werecat 2 роки тому +138

    everything about this is literally why I hate the idea of having to work all my time just to survive.

    • @atlas4733
      @atlas4733 2 роки тому +24

      If I could live longer I would be fine with it. But how am I supposed to only live once for around 76 years and accept having the majority of my time as a sentient stolen away in an endless loop of mindless exhaustion and miserable recovery? How has this not changed when literally every person in retirement ever has deep regrets about the prime time of their life?
      I just don’t see how this system works.

    • @geli95us
      @geli95us 2 роки тому

      @@atlas4733 Because the alternative is living in a forest and using 100% of your waking hours just to survive, this way you get to keep a small % of them
      Anyway, we might have a solution, with how automation and AIs are going to reduce the amount of work that humans have to do, of course, everyone hates that thought because they are going to "lose their jobs", that always makes me think that humans can't look more than 3 feet in front of them, though that might be the right thing to do, considering how they can't plan ahead for more than 2

    • @sparkofcuriousity
      @sparkofcuriousity 2 роки тому

      @@atlas4733 it only works because people accept it. And people accept it because the sad truth is majority of people are sheep.

    • @witchykittyy
      @witchykittyy Рік тому +2

      That’s because we’re not supposed to lol

    • @TheMoose126
      @TheMoose126 Рік тому +5

      @@witchykittyy uh, yes we are. We’ve had to work for literally EVERYTHING we have. If it’s not toiling in a field for our bread, it’s doing something else for your water.

  • @chauncieextreme8514
    @chauncieextreme8514 Рік тому +1

    I started this trek as a staff accountant, got certified after passing CPA & got the office, more money and more hours, less free time. did this for 5 years and quit. now I work for myself (not using my degree) and make less, but much happier…this is a fair assessment of the typical American office, from cube up

  • @fetlock
    @fetlock 2 роки тому +70

    So damn true it hurts, but I treasure Ryan George's gift of laughing through tears with thousands of other people.

  • @StandBackLabs
    @StandBackLabs 2 роки тому +569

    I cannot express how astute and poignant this sketch is with just a single like. My last employer took away our cubicles and personal space, gave us these tiny "desks" (pretty sure they weren't big enough to qualify as a desk. More like a shelf) crammed them as close together as possible - we're talking bumping chairs - then fired me for not being productive 😐
    More people need to see this. Thank you!

    • @ShadeAKAhayate
      @ShadeAKAhayate 2 роки тому +9

      Why ever would you choose to work in such a place? It's not like you're a slave, you can switch jobs. Unless you're in South Korea, I presume? Sucks to be you, then...

    • @adammorra3813
      @adammorra3813 2 роки тому +31

      @@ShadeAKAhayate not ez bro and hes in US.

    • @Cominupshort02
      @Cominupshort02 2 роки тому +26

      @@ShadeAKAhayate FYI- North Korea is the communist one. I assume that's the one you were trying to refer to, unless there's something going on in South Korea I'm not aware of.

    • @yazajag
      @yazajag 2 роки тому

      Wow what a dirt bag, probably did that on purpose to use as an excuse to get rid of people which is backwards could have made things nicer and gotten more productivity out of employees

    • @itsmanasK
      @itsmanasK 2 роки тому +8

      @@ShadeAKAhayate Dude that's North Korea not South

  • @k.b.tidwell
    @k.b.tidwell Рік тому +2

    I like how Ryan's videos always take a commonplace, totally accepted situation, and bring all of the details to the forefront in which if we actually looked at it this clear-eyed in the beginning, we'd be crazy to participate. I've actually been frustrated for years at how I spend way more waking time at work than I do with my family. That facet of work, if nothing else, should be illegal.

  • @justme22154
    @justme22154 2 роки тому +22

    "Hey, I wanna buy your life."
    Just right off the bat with that, I wasn't ready for it to get so real so fast.

  • @TopAnimeLoverEver
    @TopAnimeLoverEver 2 роки тому +106

    As someone who literally almost passed out (like actual, legs buckle, collapse and lose consciousness) not even half an hour ago while forcing myself to power through the last hour of shift before I get lunch and then go home, and thinking how much I hate it and want to quit, this........ just... It highlights every single thought I have ever had about work ever. Which is why I never stay at a job I am displeased with longer than 6 months. Shortest stint was one month. Longest was 3 years but only because I was making decent enough money to deal with hating it. Yeah. Feels rougher to keep being an alive person these days. What with the cost of being an alive person going up but pay not going up. I work two jobs, up at 5 am and get home at anywhere from 9pm-midnight.
    Edit: I would just like to say, I am loving all the comments. You all are voicing thoughts I have had for so long, and just, yes. Exactly. 💯 corporate America is the problem. Unliveable wages are the problem. Having to sacrifice sleep just to survive, yes, all of that. You guys rock, I am so glad to finally hear some likeminded thinkers. I'm only on this grind until I get my degree and that gives me the ability to become my own boss. : ) I cannot wait.

    • @Strangepete
      @Strangepete 2 роки тому +10

      Seems sensible rational and acceptable good thing you live in a free country based on liberty and money is totally real and ought to be a thing. Work all day or starve to death = Freedom.

    • @ViridianFlow
      @ViridianFlow 2 роки тому +7

      Yeah that's kinda why there's no point in working anywhere that doesn't have a decent union. At least my union ensures my pay goes up by inflation + 3% every year so we're not sliding backwards like just about everyone else in the western world right about now.

    • @alexforce9
      @alexforce9 2 роки тому

      I think you are just basically killing yourself with those two jobs and no time for sleep. And the price is living is up coz oil companies decided they like taking more money for the same amount of product. And coz housing market is a scam.

    • @thegreatestcrewmate9195
      @thegreatestcrewmate9195 2 роки тому +15

      Hunter gatherers work 20 hours a week.
      Medieval peasants weren't allowed to work on holy days. And there were a lot of holy days.
      It's no wonder the average modern person is falling apart. We aren't built for this lifestyle at all.

    • @thegreatestcrewmate9195
      @thegreatestcrewmate9195 2 роки тому

      @Michael Lochlann True, but humans are biologically hunter gatherers. We still aren't designed for the office worker lifestyle. And numerous diseases have been shown to be caused by excessive working.
      Studies show we have around 3 hours of being productive a day, and the rest is spent trying to look busy. We are wasting our lives for absolutely nothing.

  • @bron379
    @bron379 5 місяців тому +1

    After all the skits and pitches, the line "my father was a gun" is what gets me everytime

  • @ngandy1000
    @ngandy1000 2 роки тому +31

    Now do an open concept office as the sequel. I’ve worked in both and somehow not having a cube is worse!

    • @Window4503
      @Window4503 Рік тому +3

      Same. I went from open concept to cubicle and was actually THANKFUL for the cubicle…until my boss started hanging over it to talk to me like a farmer leaning into a sheep pen.

  • @seankkg
    @seankkg 2 роки тому +1

    1:39 So genuine. And there's still no answer.

  • @Deathseekertrickster
    @Deathseekertrickster 2 роки тому +36

    This...legit made me finally start freelancing. Thanks for scaring me into responsibility, Ryan!

    • @AttilaAsztalos
      @AttilaAsztalos 2 роки тому

      Unfortunately the fundamentally "gig economy" nature of freelancing has a fundamental incompatibility with the hard-everyday constraints of real life such as "would like to eat". But hey, more power to you as long as it works out...

  • @EternalYorkieMom
    @EternalYorkieMom 2 роки тому +10

    I love how this reminded me of how much I miss having a cubicle but also am glad I can work at home. With my dog and window.

  • @michaelroxas4127
    @michaelroxas4127 2 роки тому +9

    This was actually a very accurate description of a “bathroom” 3:08

  • @musicmade4larry896
    @musicmade4larry896 2 роки тому +2

    You should do "The First Guy To Invent Funerals", that shiiii would be hilarious

  • @annaaquitaine4225
    @annaaquitaine4225 2 роки тому +97

    These videos show that Ryan is at his core, creative.
    And damn good at it, too.

  • @JM-mh1pp
    @JM-mh1pp 2 роки тому +37

    Ironically working in places which still uses cubicals is just awesome.
    It is normal- you are at work, you go home.
    Most places that do modern open office style are just cultish nightmares
    - We are not just a company, we are family
    - No sir, most certainly not, you do not look like my wife.
    - I mean you will treat us like family
    - No sir I will not, again I am happily married
    - No I mean you will spend time here despite not being paid extra for your time, also there are company picnics
    - Voluntary?
    - No, mandatory. I mean technically you do not HAVE to go but if you will not I will terminate your contract.
    - Oh... so what about extra bonuses?
    - We are family! You would not ask your brother for money
    - No sir...cause he is my brother.
    - We also have mandatory meetings designed to raise morale
    - How about raising wages?
    - No, morale will do just fine.

    • @silverscalederg8632
      @silverscalederg8632 2 роки тому +4

      issue is working in an office period it's 5 days a week and that's shit

  • @phantomfrivolity2169
    @phantomfrivolity2169 2 роки тому +2

    To quote Jim from the office:
    "If this was my career than I'd probably have to jump in front of a train." 🤣

  • @couldarstrolm6969
    @couldarstrolm6969 2 роки тому +26

    Oh man, the cost of living hit home with me at the end there
    Couple years ago I was making enough to build a savings and now I barely have enough to pay for needs

    • @kitkat47chrysalis95
      @kitkat47chrysalis95 2 роки тому +1

      you think your savings got hit, 90% of my networth was in gazprom ... i lost of everything, ive gone from having enough to buy whatever i want, to living paycheck to paycheck

    • @andrewkaminskas7721
      @andrewkaminskas7721 2 роки тому +2

      I am living a net negative life. The only money that keeps me alive is what I inherited from my dead mother. I'll be homeless before im 50 with a college degree

    • @A____G
      @A____G 2 роки тому +1

      @@andrewkaminskas7721 that's insane, what city do you live in?

  • @Optimusj1975
    @Optimusj1975 2 роки тому +5

    1:28 - "Oh, OK"
    Seriously?🤣🤣🤣

  • @popexplosion7759
    @popexplosion7759 2 роки тому +8

    I've never laughed & felt such anger at the same time🤣

  • @albertastro3761
    @albertastro3761 Рік тому

    I spent 3 years in a cube, it was miserable. The building was a converted chips factory, and bland, and gave me allergies. The tile above me was water stained, I think from a bathroom leak. There was this constant hum of forced air as well, like being in a plane. Lastly, there were no windows.
    Insane!

  • @Ginko1396
    @Ginko1396 2 роки тому +9

    rarely Ryan's sketch hits close to home but this one is genuinely depressing

  • @Moon_The_Magical
    @Moon_The_Magical 2 роки тому +62

    Imagine you're in the Ryanverse and you're standing in a field, enjoying your hot energy drinking stuff. Suddenly another person, who has the same face as you but dressed a little different, comes up to you and tells you their idea for a new profession, holiday, activity or social custom. You have no choice but to listen, as you know that you are now in a Ryan George sketch.

  • @CanadianOptionsTrader
    @CanadianOptionsTrader Рік тому +6

    The cost of living part was spot on!

  • @RelakS__
    @RelakS__ 2 роки тому +11

    Those cubicles used as a background actually have more storage space than our whole room in the office O_O

  • @immortalsun
    @immortalsun Рік тому +2

    I love how the lighting changes to match the scene. Subtle, but shows how much effort is put into these videos!

  • @wrathofainz
    @wrathofainz 2 роки тому +5

    This sketch makes me both happy and incredibly depressed as is typical for me on a day to day basis.
    Thank you. The happy is refreshing.

  • @kambosoop
    @kambosoop 2 роки тому +53

    Never stop making these, along with the Pitch meetings. They're all brilliant and you're hilarious Ryan. I have to laugh at these to keep from crying at the truth. 😭🤣

  • @zoritsanepenthe638
    @zoritsanepenthe638 2 роки тому

    Ahh, the cubicles. My husband longed for the cubicles when they went to pods…then longed for the pods when they went to a long table. Now he works from home and said he didn’t feel safe to go back to the long table when they said it was time. He’s still working from home

  • @fleurmal7648
    @fleurmal7648 2 роки тому +13

    Them talking about the cubicles is my company trying to get us back in office after working from home for 2 years lol. That lack of raises to meet inflation really hit too 😅

  • @Optimusprime809
    @Optimusprime809 2 роки тому +10

    *sigh* We're all prisoners.

    • @Dr.Maniac
      @Dr.Maniac 4 місяці тому

      You have no idea

  • @jeffreyrook8073
    @jeffreyrook8073 2 роки тому +15

    Just want to say kudos to George Ryan for staying faithful. Stay strong lad. Don't be distracted by whatever orifice someone offers you.

  • @thedungeondelver
    @thedungeondelver 2 роки тому +10

    @ 1:10 The First Guy To Ever Enter The Backrooms

  • @animeblade15
    @animeblade15 2 роки тому +7

    You know Ryan....sometimes...your videos hit real close to home

  • @mungofinalfi4480
    @mungofinalfi4480 2 роки тому +9

    This might be your most spot-on video yet! So damn funny, depressing and bang on.

  • @amybrown4626
    @amybrown4626 2 роки тому +20

    This is one of the most accurate things ive ever seen lololol thanks for another much needed dose of laughs as always Ryan 😁

  • @thatguywiththeface2444
    @thatguywiththeface2444 2 роки тому

    "Maybe dress up a little!"
    "For who?!"
    That never made any sense to me either

  • @PpP-dr1od
    @PpP-dr1od 2 роки тому +5

    Literally watching this in an office bathroom! Thanks for making my day Ryan

  • @computernerd1101
    @computernerd1101 2 роки тому +7

    0:17 This might be the first time Ryan George said the name of the thing that's just being invented.

  • @FleaMarketSocialist
    @FleaMarketSocialist 2 роки тому +1

    *_Capital is an abstract parasite, an insatiable vampire and zombie maker; but the living flesh it converts into dead labor is ours, and the zombies it makes are us._*
    - Mark Fisher

  • @amandajohnson2823
    @amandajohnson2823 2 роки тому +15

    You absolutely slayed this one, Ryan!! This is the hardest I have laughed since my last conversational interaction with a hilarious friend.

  • @mega7070
    @mega7070 2 роки тому +4

    In reality you'd be lucky to even have a cubical, in most offices everyone is just in open space with only a desk.

  • @WebbanationX
    @WebbanationX 2 роки тому +7

    I've never had an office job but damn do I feel this

  • @MrHellsing76
    @MrHellsing76 Рік тому +3

    feel like a fun follow up is bosses trying to get office workers to come back to work from home, for no reason.

  • @chloebillman4992
    @chloebillman4992 2 роки тому +17

    0:36
    "C'mon follow me, I'll show you my office."
    "Wha-? Oh-haha noo, no thank you."
    "What?"
    "I'm in a relationship buddy, no thank you."
    "Okay? Why does that matter?"
    "Well it matters because I'm not gonna follow you and let you show me your *oRoPhOuS* ."
    "No-er-ah- I said *office* , that's what I'm calling this place I decided."
    "Buddy, call it whatever you want, I'm staying faithful."
    "It's not anything gross, *it's just this place I want you inside of* ."

  • @datnatee
    @datnatee 2 роки тому +1

    I watch this dude once and he’s all over my recommended.
    I’m thankful.

  • @samspady5
    @samspady5 2 роки тому +6

    Watching your videos are super easy barely an inconvienience!

  • @stoneprevious4294
    @stoneprevious4294 2 роки тому +7

    I don't work in an office environment but I have always wondered how the whole cubicle culture started.

    • @pedrovallefin8406
      @pedrovallefin8406 2 роки тому

      Dont think its particulary complicated. Some evil rich person realiced that if they reduced the work space they could cram as many people as possible in the same room. And that, if they put wall in between each mini-work space, they could get away with forcing the workers to work without any distractions with the excuse of giving them "personal space". Its just a natural conquence of rampant capitalism.

  • @Chrispmiller84
    @Chrispmiller84 2 роки тому +2

    This hits hard. There's nothing more incongruous to life, then life itself...

  • @TheBonsaiZone
    @TheBonsaiZone 2 роки тому +10

    Washroom breaks actually were the best part of my working career.

    • @DQMYN4T0R
      @DQMYN4T0R 2 роки тому

      Ah, yess...
      the extra long shit breaks
      and the stall jerkys. 😅
      I remember. 🥴

  • @daniellanctot6548
    @daniellanctot6548 2 роки тому +5

    3:46 - Hey! doesn't that alien OWN Nord VPN? ... Whoops! Whoopsie!

  • @bobbygetsbanned6049
    @bobbygetsbanned6049 Рік тому +5

    This is almost exactly what my old office looked like lol.

  • @julialostetter8855
    @julialostetter8855 2 роки тому +5

    I've never worked in an office and this made me feel pretty happy about that

  • @b.a.p.2731
    @b.a.p.2731 2 роки тому +2

    I love how the whole color tone gets dull once they get to the wonderfully lit office