As an introverted engineer, like most of us, being expected to socialize like this gives me nightmares. The level of awkwardness would be through the roof. I couldnt even pull off the fake smiles for a photo.
I would drink with my boss and coworker when I was on nights. However I actually liked and respected both of them, so I didn't mind it. My immediate supervisor? Hell no I wouldn't drink with him. The CEO? Hell no. Literally anyone else at that place? Nope.
I’m old. When I was a kid School was sitting in desks doing worksheets and pretending to listen to the teacher. Now it’s activities, group projects and “engaging “students. People lack attention spans, and feel the need to mix work with social life and play time. It’s hard for me because I just want to get work done and then go do my work out and drink beer with my dog. People annoy the shit out of me
And factor in yoga, pranks, Foosball, drinking 5 or 6 pints of strong ale and chasing the CEO around getting photos and videos. Everyone there has swamp ass...the place probably smells a Turkish prison.
Corporate - "We care about you and want you in our family" also Corporate - "We distrust you working from home cause we think you're a slacker so get your butt into work so we can micro-manage you to justify our phony baloney middle management "people person" jobs."
I just don’t get it unless the employee is not doing their work why do you care we are doing the work at if you want to be at the park doing their work at their home at Six Flags who gives a crap long‘s the work‘s done
All of this 'teamwork' and 'collaboration' and corporate culture and 'positive vibes energy' and 'fun' and 'afterwork socializing' and crap at work fuels my rage. I'm not anti social or anti-fun, but I just want to work. Punch in, do my job, punch out. That's it. And who has time for all of this anyway when corporations give out unrealistic goals in the first place? And all of these activities can be done in a calming sanctuary I like to call home.
I SHIT YOU NOT. MY COMPANY JUST SUGGESTED WE START A SHOW AND TELL. Feels like kindergarten working in corporate these days. "Bring something interesting to the camera from your home". How about no.
Cloud consulting. Whatever that means. If I want to hire a consultant, I'm gona have my company get one from AWS, Azure, or GCP for like 2 online sessions.
At least he has friends that he hired and can fire when he doesn't like them anymore. That's why all these CEO don't like away-from-office work anymore: they lost all their hired friends.
Just did this week. Got hired by a company - but spoke only with the tech guys on the interview. On first day I got access to internal Slack and I started reading all the #teambulding BS they are doing all the time - literally you have to hold signs and sing in front of the camera and you got "points" for what things you mention in your song :) At the end of the first day I resigned. What a total waste of time that was and honestly I'm pissed at the person hiring me that they didn't mention all that BS.
@@dexio85 God, that sounds like some Stepford Wives shit. You were smart to leave. Do they do this type of nonsense in other countries? Do Chinese and Indian natives have to endure this shit while they're at work?
@@dexio85 always ask to speak with the tech/IT guys alone (make a reason to if they ask why), they are the most introverted, and will definitely warn you of the bad stuff if you reassure them that you won't be turning on them.
Who doesn't like spending 20 minutes pulling post-its off their fucking stuff? I mean, that shit just never gets old. It certainly puts a smile on my face and sets me up for an outstanding day.
about 3 months ago...I witnessed 3 people post-it note an entire car, that had recently gotten a paint job and wide body kit installed. It was a Modded WRX...the Owner of the car was so PISSED. He had been off for a few days and they did it when he came back.
It wouldn’t take 20 minutes you just take the posts off your computer and your phone lol the rest I would just leave there lol or use them thanks for the free post it’s lol now where my mini bottle of vodka
Soooo...it's fine to prank fellow employees and take time out of your day being non productive but you can't work from home where you'd be much happier and therefore a much better employee because you're less productive? Someone needs to explain this to me. I know where I retired from this wouldn't fly for one minute, but then my company wasn't very progressive apparently.
@asdrubale bisanzio or in the case of leasing businesses often sign multiyear contracts for a better rate. So they already paid for it so GET YOUR ASS IN THERE lol
Brooooooo that bike thing was hilarious lmao, the recent videos have been hilarious. A nice mix between the skits and the typical criticism towards corporate culture. You definitely have vastly improved the quality of the content, keep it up! :)
I was thinking the same just before I read this comment... I know Josh has been working hard, I think Little Guy,(can't remember his name,sorry) has definitely added a certain element...
@@brendasullivan901 Yeah I agree. I remember him mentioning that he liked doing the skits but they weren't getting enough views, so I think it was a smart move from him to add the skits to longer videos. The skits definitely make his traditional videos much better
Each to his own, I suppose. I though it was every bit as cringe as the video he was commenting on. And honestly, the more skids he's been doing, the less I've been watching.
I remember a small company I worked for fresh out of college. I was 22 and had no worries. It really was a chit job 😂😂 But the Christmas party had free booze and was at a country club that the owner was a member of. I absolutely got chit faced at that party. My supervisor had to have his wife follow us as he drove my truck and me home 😂😂😂 I didn't get fired, but that Monday was a lot of laughs and snickering 😂😂😂
This could be your day. And then there could be your night... on-call. Josh, we need you to expose on-call shifts and how you can start investing not only your days but also your nights in someone's business.
this is what killed any enjoyment from my last job - often called in middle of the night every couple weeks for some crash caused by the latest cowboy code
unless my employer pays for night on call, i wouldn't pickup phone until the morning. and if they still ring too many times, i would turn off phone after business hours.
@@michaelvandevusse3728 It is when you deploy to prod without sufficient testing. And you deploy 100% of the fleet in one go, not doing canary releases or any gradual rollout. YOLO.
Yeah, it was at usstratcom and we'd get the latest updates sent our way on discs from Northrop Grumman - with the way contracts were done + my management's office policy, I had no authority to deny an update unless I found purposefully malicious code or the install failed. So long as the website came back ok up after the install, I had to pass it or we'd "make NG's metrics look bad." :eyeroll: The site was years of spaghetti code written by high-turnover junior devs. Even the logging was gloriously useless most the time. "Hmm, could it be this line that relates to the crash (out of the 100 false flag entries)?" At least I learned to never take an on-call job again. Also, sharing an open office with 5 dozen other people during the pandemic with only 1 entry/exit was enough to motivate me to look elsewhere.
Ugh - when I decided to change jobs this year, I refused to interview for any role that wasn't 100% permanent work from home. And if I never have to see or be near another foosball table or ping pong table, it will be too soon. We needed a skit where the company decided they HAD to have a foosball table and crammed it in right next to some meeting rooms and some work stations so every time the table got used, it interrupted all the meetings and everyone working nearby. but ... FOOSBALL!
Another point Joshua: I am about to major in Psychology and the subject I absolutely detested was Industrial/Organizational Psychology. The objetive of Industrial/Organizational Psychology, they say, is to motivate employees and make/keep them happy to make the organization/company/corporation more productive and profitable. To me, such field (the way it is approached) and the psychologists who practice it that way are a disgrace and shame for psychology. I am planning to make a video on my own later on about this issue, but if you can produce a video on that, with all expertise, that would be wonderful.
And you know the simple answers of pay people good wages and let them do their job and go home and cut out all of the bullshit won’t be the answers that anyone wants to hear.
@@johnpenguin9188 Of course not. They want to socially engineer society and the workplace is the easiest place to force it down people's throats because it's not easy for workers to leave. The objective is to pay people less, and make them less upwardly mobile, less inclined to think for themselves, and more obedient.
In the mean time, while all these pieces of garbage are brown nosing the C-Suite in the lunch room, those of us who take our jobs seriously are back at our desks with headphones on (nothing playing) TRYING to get that last build done, final PowerPoint slide lined up ect.. while those in the lunch room are whispering "Hey, what do you think about so and so, not wanting to be a team player" seen this so many times, lived it so many times..... I'll never be a manager again because in one of the last companies I was at was JUST like this, I couldn't get my staff off their f'ing cell phones in meetings and eventually had to fire one for unrelated actions (at the demand of my director) and HR took their side, so done this shit... you can have them corporate America this generation is all yours..... you can manage them all, it's not worth it, no f'ing way.
It's truly an ironic world. The people who spend the most time complaining and wasting time are often inferior in literally every way, as both decent people and quality workers. I can walk in here daily and tell people from high management to my peers how oblivious they are and how many problems they add to my daily efficiency, but it would be a waste of time because that's the "culture" of no self-awareness, common sense, or actual skills.
I’ve heard that the German work culture is way better in this regard. They don’t like to socialise while working and strictly keep office hours and non-work hours separate.
I think that is all of europe...americans are heavily brainwashed in the corporate state..if you ask a European what they do they won't mention there vocation..American's will...
I'm from Germany and I approve this. :D I work in a middle sized machine manufacturing company's software development department and must say, we prefer saying "morgen" once when we enter the office. Then everyone responses and then it's nice and peacefull. Only the sweet sweet sounds of typing for the rest of the day. Love it.
I don't think I can ever work for "fun" companies like this. I prefer to work from home. If I have to go to the office, I prefer to go there get my work done, and go home. These Google wannabe companies try too hard, and they typically pay you dirt.
@@MoHimdi We know you're drowning in student loans, we require you to work so much that you couldn't do a yoga class or go to a bar even if you somehow scraped together the money, but look how much we give you for free! Because we care! Sign here for your salary of $35k.
@@isray89 And then they turn around and brag about how well the company is doing, and how profitable they've been. While you're supposed to be grateful to earn a salary that hasnt been acceptable since the early 2000s.
"Oh we got the yoga ball chairs here. Very collaborative and innovative." I'm 💀. Josh has mastered the art of satirizig these ridiculous adult daycare workplaces!
I was in an office where one dude did the "prank" stuff often. He'd like creep into the room slowly and grab me by my shoulders and be like "hehehe did i scare you." And i'm just like sitting there awkwardly like "eh.. yea... ha...". He sitting there giddy with a big smile on his face. Sometimes when boss would put papers on my desk to review he'd draw a picture of a guy with googly eyes picking his nose and write my name next to it (name) picks his nose. I'm just like wtf. Then i'm sitting there like being self conscious like "i never pick my nose at work do i? And my eyes aren't like that. Wait are my eyes cross eyed. No they're fine so why did he draw that?" Other times he'd stare me down and be like "wanna fight?! wanna fight?" And then be like dude relax i was just joking. I'm like ?? And often he'd walk into the office and fart real loud and obnoxiously then close the door to trap the fart smell in. He'd been there like 10 years and was praised by the bosses. Then if you tried to joke back with him he'd just get real quiet and find a way to spin it to try to make you feel like you're acting inappropriately and act disgusted by you.
I've been at my current job for 6 months. I know one person's name: my supervisor. I don't care about Karen or Vince or jack or angel or Johnny. I'm here for money, then I leave and use that money to support my family. Work culture is a joke. Work is work, and to disguise it as anything else will only create an unrealistic expectation that will never be met. No wonder so many people are disappointed with their company.
company kitchen with an espresswo machine and fruit loops. i'll bet there are more than a few workers for whom that bowl of cereal and coffee is likely the only certain meal they'll have that day.
"Fun" fact from what I've read in several places - those yoga ball/chairs are the worst for your back, it's better to just either have a ball, or a straight up standing desk....or sit up straight :P
If you keep your core strong through exercise, you can just sit up straight in a regular chair and your back will probably be fine. This craze about reinventing ways to sit to alleviate back pain ignores the actual source of soft tissue pain.
A public library for me. My manager called it a dysfunctional family and I refuse to be apart. They even tried to bully me by saying we’re all going to the Cheesecake Factory, like I was supposed to be upset by that.
I've worked at a company like this. It's a complete dumpster fire and they screw you on your pay and opportunities. Especially if you don't brown nose, but still out perform the entire department.
It's such an awful office. I love how they have the "yoga room" and the "game room" but it's just these awful cheap-looking small office spaces with carpet tiles. Compared to this office, the "big tech" companies that actually get interior designed ARE amazing. Crying.
So our company decided we should all dress up for Halloween….on November 1st. I’m just no. They ask me where is my costume I simply replied ‘I’m a serial killer, they look like everyone else.’ BTW thank you Wednesday Addams for the line!!!
What's the likelihood that this whole "company culture" shit is really a bit of reverse psychology? I would think (I would HOPE) any normal adult would be irritated by everything at this company, but puts up with it for one reason or another. This alienates most people, exhausting them socially from putting on an act all day so they don't form relationships outside of work. It keeps coworkers from discussing their wages with each other (out of disgust for their work environment) so they don't find out the daily bike-to-work, lightsaber-pinata douchebag is the highest paid drone, which would lead to a worker revolt. It keeps everyone's mental health completely fucked, because they can't figure out why they hate work when it seems like everyone else loves it. "Must be something wrong with me! 😓" Or am I being too cynical?
Nope, you are totally on point and I completly agree. We are minority of those who could see behind this smoke and mirrors shit show. Its always about money.
Hard to say. I could see it being either way. The other way to look at it is that CEOs saw some stats about how happiness = more productive and so they treat "fun" in a robotic way rather than in a natural way due to how disconnected they are from reality i.e. they genuinely think you can brute force "fun" as if it's as simple as changing some values in a computer.
Why is no one talking about how the quality of these videos has gone WAY up? Keep up the good work Josh, been really getting into these as of late, this one was pretty funny.
Stuff like this is why I have a major cutoff between work and home hours. After I clock out, I don’t know my coworkers and they don’t know me, and I’m keeping it that way
lol! Awesome video, Josh! I haven't had a good laugh like that in ages! The taking pictures with the CEO bit had me in stitches, especially when the CEO was shirtless with post-it notes all over his body, haha! The wildest office party that I was ever forced against my will to go to was a Christmas party that the big boss wanted to throw. Lots of alcohol, of course. That's always a great idea at office parties. It involved the big boss ending up in nothing but his socks and underwear, my male coworkers playing tackle football in the lobby, and my female coworkers playing beer pong really badly. Oh, and two of them, who were also amateur models, started sucking each other's toes right there in the lobby, next to the tackle football game. I have no idea why that company ended up going under. No idea whatsoever.
Once again you nailed it. Companies are getting so redicuclous. None of this shit has anything to do with business. I could give a shit about perks if mgt sucks, processes and tools are terrible, and coworkers are shit.
There was a company that actually gave me bad looks every single day because I just said "morning everyone!" instead of giving a high five to every single person in there and spending +30m doing so.
Man if someone slapped my butt at work... I would be pissed 🤬🤬🤬! I have only in real life had something similar happen to me at a old company of mines. I left that company fast!
There's a very good book called 'Smile or Die: How Positive Thinking Fooled America and the World' by Barbara Ehrenreich that explores some of the reasons corporate culture headed in this direction.
" _Do unto others as you would have them do you unto you_ " ...If they think the prank is A-Okay, then do the same thing back to them & see how they like it... ...If they react negatively, then they're a fv
Reminds me of when I was at a startup and the investor/customer came in unexpectedly and started recording me in the middle of coding(it was early and I was the only one there). While stopping to think about the code I had to write for the feature I was working on, he started putting the camera over my hands and saying hey just start typing like you normally do. I froze completely.
Admittedly, I was part of a company a few years ago where I “bought in” to the “Culture” crap. I get it. There’s a ton of peer pressure to give in. Looking back, I contributed to a ton of cringe lol.
I literally worked at a company who would cut your raise down during your “performance review” if you didn’t participate they way they wanted in company social events.
OMG. You've struck gold. You NEED to start a new series where you parody Corporate culture videos of different companies. Throw in some bad glassdoor reviews to show the truth of working there too.
These kind of company culture videos just show you a bunch of things you can do at home like workout, stretch, play video games, eat food, have parties, but add in annoying, cringe people, toxic hierarchies that you don’t want to mix with your leisure time, and cult behavior while people simp for a CEO and other huge corporations like Disney and google. I hate everything about companies like this. Just pay me and leave me alone, we aren’t friends. I don’t give a shit about a CEO.
I remember someone talking about their experience working in an office like this. They had all the video games and pool tables, but nobody used them lol and if you tried to use them, everyone would give you dirty looks. Working unpaid overtime was the norm.
It seems like the more time goes on, the more emphasis these companies put into everything but the product or their business model. Fully stocked kitchen, office parties, ping pong and nerf gun wars; everything "fun" but the actual product. No wonder so many of these dumbass companies fail.
Hit like if you enjoyed it. It helps more than you know.
Here's the OG video - ua-cam.com/video/NcDBy3Ovw1s/v-deo.html
Keep it up! These videos are great, you have a very interesting niche here on UA-cam
I hope the millions of zombies around the world could wait up from their trance with your videos
dude i just hope you let your new camera guy work remote..... otherwise jesus....
@@TonyZmex agreed....pathological trance while enjoying there enslavement.
@@knucklesskinner253 Absolutely. I wish there were millions of UA-camrs tackling these key topics.
In interviews I always ask about the company culture just to keep them on their toes, if their response is boring- it’s probably a good company
Yep 💯
Same here I prefer companies with a "boring" company culture or better yet, no company culture at all.
They also can be surprisingly honest about how much paid overtime is expected.
This is a good tip!! Thanks!!
Great tip!
"This could be your day"
Is this some kind of threat?
😂 😂
That felt like the thing you write on cigarettes: “this could be you if you smoke 20 cigarettes per day for 5 years”.
As an introverted engineer, like most of us, being expected to socialize like this gives me nightmares. The level of awkwardness would be through the roof. I couldnt even pull off the fake smiles for a photo.
Its so obvious that everyone here is uncomfortably awkward in interactions, you can see it, but for some reason ceos are blind to it.
Same, why bother I just come to get paid.
Facts bro spitting facts bro
I just don't bother with that. Fire me I don't care, I just can't, won't and refuse to be a clown.
@@valkon_ true
Drinking with your boss and coworkers just seems like such a fundamentally bad idea.
Especially with the boss.
Yeah, I wonder what the company’s sexual harassment (or just general harassment) policy is. 🤷🏽♀️ 🤔 🕵🏻♂️
I would drink with my boss and coworker when I was on nights. However I actually liked and respected both of them, so I didn't mind it. My immediate supervisor? Hell no I wouldn't drink with him. The CEO? Hell no. Literally anyone else at that place? Nope.
@@scottbrown7071 yea that ass slap was primo
It's only a good idea if you treat the book 48 Laws of Power as a Bible
They make it look like school life never stops, to me that’s an F-ing nightmare!
@Pinned by Joshua Fluke bruh
I’m old. When I was a kid School was sitting in desks doing worksheets and pretending to listen to the teacher. Now it’s activities, group projects and “engaging “students. People lack attention spans, and feel the need to mix work with social life and play time. It’s hard for me because I just want to get work done and then go do my work out and drink beer with my dog. People annoy the shit out of me
It’s the institutionalization they try to force you in from day one.
Straight up!!
Stupid nerds that never grew up
nothing like biking to work in the blazing sun and then working a 12 hour day with swamp a$$
Bro we're all natural
Nothing like sitting in a cramped cubicle next to the guy who did that...
I was always confused by stuff like this. I CANNOT GO ANYWHERE BUT STRAIGHT HOME after working out.
And factor in yoga, pranks, Foosball, drinking 5 or 6 pints of strong ale and chasing the CEO around getting photos and videos. Everyone there has swamp ass...the place probably smells a Turkish prison.
Corporate - "We care about you and want you in our family"
also
Corporate - "We distrust you working from home cause we think you're a slacker so get your butt into work so we can micro-manage you to justify our phony baloney middle management "people person" jobs."
"Oh and by the way, we're making you get your Covid vaccine because you're going to be crammed into an open office with 500 other people."
@@GeneralChangFromDanang yep, in the end either 70% of the world mostly europe and usa will be vaccinated or all of us.. so we get herd immunity
I thought I was the only one that heard it like that, so I’m not crazy lol.
I just don’t get it unless the employee is not doing their work why do you care we are doing the work at if you want to be at the park doing their work at their home at Six Flags who gives a crap long‘s the work‘s done
All of this 'teamwork' and 'collaboration' and corporate culture and 'positive vibes energy' and 'fun' and 'afterwork socializing' and crap at work fuels my rage. I'm not anti social or anti-fun, but I just want to work. Punch in, do my job, punch out. That's it. And who has time for all of this anyway when corporations give out unrealistic goals in the first place? And all of these activities can be done in a calming sanctuary I like to call home.
its because a lot of the revenue generation boils down to client relationships
This really sells the work at home office even more!
I SHIT YOU NOT. MY COMPANY JUST SUGGESTED WE START A SHOW AND TELL. Feels like kindergarten working in corporate these days. "Bring something interesting to the camera from your home". How about no.
You should bring a job offer letter and show it on camera.
@@HaggisMuncher-69-420 a complete backfire set
Show them that you're sick, so you can't turn on the camera and participate.
The sad thing is: I still have no idea what this company does, and I guess that's pretty much one of the problems with these kind videos.
We're you paying attention? They inspire and motivate change.
Doesn’t look like they do much except play pranks, do yoga and play video games.
Totally, it's ridiculous. I guess it's a recruiting video just to show off their neoteny, meant to appeal to adults that act like 12 year olds.
Cloud consulting. Whatever that means. If I want to hire a consultant, I'm gona have my company get one from AWS, Azure, or GCP for like 2 online sessions.
They gorge on the souls of optimistic young adults
The CEO looks like he never had friends in his life and now he’s trying to overcome it by creating an evil cult around him.
💯
tea
@@theong9454 More like cool aid
@@eliphas_catdaddy7982 im sorry i used my slangs wrong
At least he has friends that he hired and can fire when he doesn't like them anymore. That's why all these CEO don't like away-from-office work anymore: they lost all their hired friends.
Coworkers are not your family and they are not your friends either, watch your back
Realistically... if I end up getting another job with a company that mentions their company culture excessively, imma day1 nope the fuck outta there.
Agreed. That's when I just get up and leave halfway through orientation.
Just did this week. Got hired by a company - but spoke only with the tech guys on the interview. On first day I got access to internal Slack and I started reading all the #teambulding BS they are doing all the time - literally you have to hold signs and sing in front of the camera and you got "points" for what things you mention in your song :) At the end of the first day I resigned. What a total waste of time that was and honestly I'm pissed at the person hiring me that they didn't mention all that BS.
@@dexio85 God, that sounds like some Stepford Wives shit. You were smart to leave. Do they do this type of nonsense in other countries? Do Chinese and Indian natives have to endure this shit while they're at work?
@@dexio85 always ask to speak with the tech/IT guys alone (make a reason to if they ask why), they are the most introverted, and will definitely warn you of the bad stuff if you reassure them that you won't be turning on them.
@@nopelandfill This was not true in this case - the tech guy wanted desperately to find people to his team so he sugarcoated the whole thing.
Who doesn't like spending 20 minutes pulling post-its off their fucking stuff? I mean, that shit just never gets old. It certainly puts a smile on my face and sets me up for an outstanding day.
It's how we show the actually working employees how much we don't want him in our ranks.
"What if the CEO finds out things can actually get done?"
about 3 months ago...I witnessed 3 people post-it note an entire car, that had recently gotten a paint job and wide body kit installed. It was a Modded WRX...the Owner of the car was so PISSED. He had been off for a few days and they did it when he came back.
Nothing like wasting office supplies.
I wouldn't even bother taking the notes off anything except keyboard and monitor
It wouldn’t take 20 minutes you just take the posts off your computer and your phone lol the rest I would just leave there lol or use them thanks for the free post it’s lol now where my mini bottle of vodka
Soooo...it's fine to prank fellow employees and take time out of your day being non productive but you can't work from home where you'd be much happier and therefore a much better employee because you're less productive? Someone needs to explain this to me. I know where I retired from this wouldn't fly for one minute, but then my company wasn't very progressive apparently.
@asdrubale bisanzio or in the case of leasing businesses often sign multiyear contracts for a better rate. So they already paid for it so GET YOUR ASS IN THERE lol
Exactly!
Brooooooo that bike thing was hilarious lmao, the recent videos have been hilarious. A nice mix between the skits and the typical criticism towards corporate culture. You definitely have vastly improved the quality of the content, keep it up! :)
You know what man, this means alot. Thanks for that.
I was thinking the same just before I read this comment... I know Josh has been working hard, I think Little Guy,(can't remember his name,sorry) has definitely added a certain element...
@@brendasullivan901 Yeah I agree. I remember him mentioning that he liked doing the skits but they weren't getting enough views, so I think it was a smart move from him to add the skits to longer videos. The skits definitely make his traditional videos much better
@@JoshuaFluke1 I was dying laughing on the slow mo cuts on the bike skit. Excellent work lmao
Each to his own, I suppose.
I though it was every bit as cringe as the video he was commenting on. And honestly, the more skids he's been doing, the less I've been watching.
Love it. And I have seen fights at office XMAS PARTY'S . Even seen Police called
police called to your office XMAS PARTY...?!
don't be a tease, sonny. we wanna know more.
I wonder if companies are liable when they facilitate such outcomes.
I remember a small company I worked for fresh out of college. I was 22 and had no worries. It really was a chit job 😂😂
But the Christmas party had free booze and was at a country club that the owner was a member of. I absolutely got chit faced at that party. My supervisor had to have his wife follow us as he drove my truck and me home 😂😂😂
I didn't get fired, but that Monday was a lot of laughs and snickering 😂😂😂
One in the comments is correct, don't be a tease Thomas the teaser, explain to us what the fuck happened.
I'd be much more likely to go to an office party if they guaranteed fights and cops lol
"If you can do your job in this one little space you don't need to come to here." Great measure!
Lmaoo the biking to work thing is so true people must be mad sweaty at their desk 😂
This could be your day. And then there could be your night... on-call.
Josh, we need you to expose on-call shifts and how you can start investing not only your days but also your nights in someone's business.
this is what killed any enjoyment from my last job - often called in middle of the night every couple weeks for some crash caused by the latest cowboy code
unless my employer pays for night on call, i wouldn't pickup phone until the morning. and if they still ring too many times, i would turn off phone after business hours.
@@Rhodair what's a cowboy code
@@michaelvandevusse3728 It is when you deploy to prod without sufficient testing. And you deploy 100% of the fleet in one go, not doing canary releases or any gradual rollout. YOLO.
Yeah, it was at usstratcom and we'd get the latest updates sent our way on discs from Northrop Grumman - with the way contracts were done + my management's office policy, I had no authority to deny an update unless I found purposefully malicious code or the install failed. So long as the website came back ok up after the install, I had to pass it or we'd "make NG's metrics look bad." :eyeroll: The site was years of spaghetti code written by high-turnover junior devs. Even the logging was gloriously useless most the time. "Hmm, could it be this line that relates to the crash (out of the 100 false flag entries)?"
At least I learned to never take an on-call job again. Also, sharing an open office with 5 dozen other people during the pandemic with only 1 entry/exit was enough to motivate me to look elsewhere.
Ugh - when I decided to change jobs this year, I refused to interview for any role that wasn't 100% permanent work from home. And if I never have to see or be near another foosball table or ping pong table, it will be too soon. We needed a skit where the company decided they HAD to have a foosball table and crammed it in right next to some meeting rooms and some work stations so every time the table got used, it interrupted all the meetings and everyone working nearby.
but ... FOOSBALL!
Another point Joshua: I am about to major in Psychology and the subject I absolutely detested was Industrial/Organizational Psychology. The objetive of Industrial/Organizational Psychology, they say, is to motivate employees and make/keep them happy to make the organization/company/corporation more productive and profitable. To me, such field (the way it is approached) and the psychologists who practice it that way are a disgrace and shame for psychology. I am planning to make a video on my own later on about this issue, but if you can produce a video on that, with all expertise, that would be wonderful.
And you know the simple answers of pay people good wages and let them do their job and go home and cut out all of the bullshit won’t be the answers that anyone wants to hear.
@@johnpenguin9188 especially agile masters who literally get payed for talking how people should do their job.
@@johnpenguin9188 Of course not. They want to socially engineer society and the workplace is the easiest place to force it down people's throats because it's not easy for workers to leave. The objective is to pay people less, and make them less upwardly mobile, less inclined to think for themselves, and more obedient.
In the mean time, while all these pieces of garbage are brown nosing the C-Suite in the lunch room, those of us who take our jobs seriously are back at our desks with headphones on (nothing playing) TRYING to get that last build done, final PowerPoint slide lined up ect.. while those in the lunch room are whispering "Hey, what do you think about so and so, not wanting to be a team player" seen this so many times, lived it so many times..... I'll never be a manager again because in one of the last companies I was at was JUST like this, I couldn't get my staff off their f'ing cell phones in meetings and eventually had to fire one for unrelated actions (at the demand of my director) and HR took their side, so done this shit... you can have them corporate America this generation is all yours..... you can manage them all, it's not worth it, no f'ing way.
It's truly an ironic world. The people who spend the most time complaining and wasting time are often inferior in literally every way, as both decent people and quality workers. I can walk in here daily and tell people from high management to my peers how oblivious they are and how many problems they add to my daily efficiency, but it would be a waste of time because that's the "culture" of no self-awareness, common sense, or actual skills.
Sometimes with headphones on and earplugs on underneath those...
Yah being doing management for 17 years. Im freaking burned of it. Cant stand the bad attitude of employes, employers and customers
I quit my toxic job after discover your channel a month ago..
I’ve heard that the German work culture is way better in this regard. They don’t like to socialise while working and strictly keep office hours and non-work hours separate.
I think that is all of europe...americans are heavily brainwashed in the corporate state..if you ask a European what they do they won't mention there vocation..American's will...
I'm from Germany and I approve this. :D I work in a middle sized machine manufacturing company's software development department and must say, we prefer saying "morgen" once when we enter the office. Then everyone responses and then it's nice and peacefull. Only the sweet sweet sounds of typing for the rest of the day. Love it.
well yeah they are german.
Depends on the company and its "culture". Here are companies like the one in the video too.
That's basically EU for you. Come to eastern EU, everybody secretly hates everybody, so minimal interaction.
I don't think I can ever work for "fun" companies like this. I prefer to work from home. If I have to go to the office, I prefer to go there get my work done, and go home. These Google wannabe companies try too hard, and they typically pay you dirt.
Exactly. Instead of paying a reasonable wage, they say "look at all the fun things we have at the office!"
But it’s so much fun to be at an office full of people that you don’t really like very much, not only that but you get to commute for the privilege!
@@MoHimdi We know you're drowning in student loans, we require you to work so much that you couldn't do a yoga class or go to a bar even if you somehow scraped together the money, but look how much we give you for free! Because we care!
Sign here for your salary of $35k.
@@isray89 And then they turn around and brag about how well the company is doing, and how profitable they've been. While you're supposed to be grateful to earn a salary that hasnt been acceptable since the early 2000s.
@@MoHimdi THOSE UNGRATEFUL ENTITLED MILLENNIALS!
The bad companies are fueling joshua's rise to fame 🔥🔥🔥🔥
I never understood the whole idea behind biking to work. Glad u covered that here.
Seriously. It's bad enough I have to commute; forgive me if I want the ride to be way shorter and air-conditioned.
Holy crap... I'm in tears at that bike/waterbottle skit. You're a nutcase, Josh. Never change.
"Oh we got the yoga ball chairs here. Very collaborative and innovative." I'm 💀. Josh has mastered the art of satirizig these ridiculous adult daycare workplaces!
Adult daycare sums it up quite well
Adult daycare 💀💀😂😂
I never knew that Joshua Fluke can be so highly creative with his acting. 😁😁
I was in an office where one dude did the "prank" stuff often. He'd like creep into the room slowly and grab me by my shoulders and be like "hehehe did i scare you." And i'm just like sitting there awkwardly like "eh.. yea... ha...". He sitting there giddy with a big smile on his face. Sometimes when boss would put papers on my desk to review he'd draw a picture of a guy with googly eyes picking his nose and write my name next to it (name) picks his nose. I'm just like wtf. Then i'm sitting there like being self conscious like "i never pick my nose at work do i? And my eyes aren't like that. Wait are my eyes cross eyed. No they're fine so why did he draw that?" Other times he'd stare me down and be like "wanna fight?! wanna fight?" And then be like dude relax i was just joking. I'm like ?? And often he'd walk into the office and fart real loud and obnoxiously then close the door to trap the fart smell in. He'd been there like 10 years and was praised by the bosses. Then if you tried to joke back with him he'd just get real quiet and find a way to spin it to try to make you feel like you're acting inappropriately and act disgusted by you.
Omg, what a fucking nightmare
the cringe!!!!
Dude, that guy you described sounds like a psychotic serial killer on probation. You better get far away from him and that company.
No tombstone ever read: I wished I spent more time at the office.
Josh is a national treasure. Lol. Fantastic content
I wonder what the turnover is at that company 🤔
i never understood why some companies force you to do those extra curricular activities. It's such a waste of time.
"This could be your day" - So far, it looks like a day when no actual work gets done.
I found this video very informative. If I'm ever running a company, I'll just do the complete opposite of what Guru Solutions does.
Not to mention wasting company supplies.
They should have titled it "How not to spend your time on earth"
I've been at my current job for 6 months. I know one person's name: my supervisor.
I don't care about Karen or Vince or jack or angel or Johnny. I'm here for money, then I leave and use that money to support my family.
Work culture is a joke. Work is work, and to disguise it as anything else will only create an unrealistic expectation that will never be met. No wonder so many people are disappointed with their company.
company kitchen with an espresswo machine and fruit loops. i'll bet there are more than a few workers for whom that bowl of cereal and coffee is likely the only certain meal they'll have that day.
and then ppl contract diseases but nobody will care cuz it's not covid
Man, that company really raises the bar for being the most toxic employer.
As an introvert, this company looks like hell
Gym Rat Josh is a meme I didn't know I needed. _Drippy_
And that is one of the prettiest dogs I've ever seen.
"Fun" fact from what I've read in several places - those yoga ball/chairs are the worst for your back, it's better to just either have a ball, or a straight up standing desk....or sit up straight :P
If you keep your core strong through exercise, you can just sit up straight in a regular chair and your back will probably be fine. This craze about reinventing ways to sit to alleviate back pain ignores the actual source of soft tissue pain.
That sticky note stuff feels more like bullying than fun to me
Bro that guy had remove those sticky notes in his cubicle and then also made fun of by having his back placed with sticky notes. Poor guy.
“it’s friday. have some beer and then get in your car and drive home” what a great idea
Ewwwww, yuck! I’ve worked at places such as this, they were an absolute nightmare!
ironically enough... the most "corporate cringe" job I ever worked guilty of half the things you cringe over... was a law firm xDD
An accounting firm for me.
Every tech and hospitality company I’ve worked for trying to be google 😂
A public library for me. My manager called it a dysfunctional family and I refuse to be apart. They even tried to bully me by saying we’re all going to the Cheesecake Factory, like I was supposed to be upset by that.
Bank for me
Lol. I love your outtakes. Still can’t figure out what the company actually does.
The ageism is strong in this company.
Because nobody mature would work there
@@cheshirecat2641 I'd last about two minutes in a place like that. I'd lose my temper with the tomfoolery and that would be it.
Dude! I can't take this anymore. I'm done. This is hillarious! 🤣
You need to do a video on the dangers of non-compete clauses. I for one have walked out of interviews when they said that I would have to sign one....
I've worked at a company like this. It's a complete dumpster fire and they screw you on your pay and opportunities. Especially if you don't brown nose, but still out perform the entire department.
So many companies are like that today with only recognizing the brown-nosers and deliberately marginalizing the hard workers.
I would never work there. They don't even have a ping pong table.
It's such an awful office. I love how they have the "yoga room" and the "game room" but it's just these awful cheap-looking small office spaces with carpet tiles. Compared to this office, the "big tech" companies that actually get interior designed ARE amazing. Crying.
Gurus? Not anyone over 30 except CEO.
This is some of your best work Josh, Intern dude, and HR lady! Well done. Loved it!
So our company decided we should all dress up for Halloween….on November 1st. I’m just no. They ask me where is my costume I simply replied ‘I’m a serial killer, they look like everyone else.’ BTW thank you Wednesday Addams for the line!!!
10:51 sticky note guy again on a different t-shirt...several days of shooting.
What's the likelihood that this whole "company culture" shit is really a bit of reverse psychology? I would think (I would HOPE) any normal adult would be irritated by everything at this company, but puts up with it for one reason or another. This alienates most people, exhausting them socially from putting on an act all day so they don't form relationships outside of work. It keeps coworkers from discussing their wages with each other (out of disgust for their work environment) so they don't find out the daily bike-to-work, lightsaber-pinata douchebag is the highest paid drone, which would lead to a worker revolt. It keeps everyone's mental health completely fucked, because they can't figure out why they hate work when it seems like everyone else loves it. "Must be something wrong with me! 😓"
Or am I being too cynical?
Nope, you are totally on point and I completly agree. We are minority of those who could see behind this smoke and mirrors shit show. Its always about money.
you nailed it
Hard to say. I could see it being either way. The other way to look at it is that CEOs saw some stats about how happiness = more productive and so they treat "fun" in a robotic way rather than in a natural way due to how disconnected they are from reality i.e. they genuinely think you can brute force "fun" as if it's as simple as changing some values in a computer.
I like you blending the skits into the traditional video. Nice changing of pace and great take on what they are pushing
Ya boy has been putting in time at the gym. Josh is getting some gains! Good job!
I need to be in there with you, man!
Why is no one talking about how the quality of these videos has gone WAY up? Keep up the good work Josh, been really getting into these as of late, this one was pretty funny.
Stuff like this is why I have a major cutoff between work and home hours.
After I clock out, I don’t know my coworkers and they don’t know me, and I’m keeping it that way
lol! Awesome video, Josh! I haven't had a good laugh like that in ages! The taking pictures with the CEO bit had me in stitches, especially when the CEO was shirtless with post-it notes all over his body, haha!
The wildest office party that I was ever forced against my will to go to was a Christmas party that the big boss wanted to throw. Lots of alcohol, of course. That's always a great idea at office parties. It involved the big boss ending up in nothing but his socks and underwear, my male coworkers playing tackle football in the lobby, and my female coworkers playing beer pong really badly. Oh, and two of them, who were also amateur models, started sucking each other's toes right there in the lobby, next to the tackle football game. I have no idea why that company ended up going under. No idea whatsoever.
Sticky notes on the back made me spit out my spit.
Once again you nailed it. Companies are getting so redicuclous. None of this shit has anything to do with business. I could give a shit about perks if mgt sucks, processes and tools are terrible, and coworkers are shit.
There was a company that actually gave me bad looks every single day because I just said "morning everyone!" instead of giving a high five to every single person in there and spending +30m doing so.
Man if someone slapped my butt at work... I would be pissed 🤬🤬🤬! I have only in real life had something similar happen to me at a old company of mines. I left that company fast!
Really nice skits, especially the bike one :D
Bro that slow mo of you dying after biking 72 miles 🤣🤣🤣 Also that outro was pretty dope.
I just burst out laughing. Hope I didn't wake anyone up.
😩🤣🤣😭😭 the biking skit!
There's a very good book called 'Smile or Die: How Positive Thinking Fooled America and the World' by Barbara Ehrenreich that explores some of the reasons corporate culture headed in this direction.
Barbara Ehrenreich has written some fantastic books on working in the U.S.
Thank you for that, I am interested how this all came to fruition. I would definitely read it.
Oh man... Your skits are getting better every day. Top quality content
when I read "This could be your day" in the video I felt like I was being threatened
Keep them coming. These videos and being in sportemon-go crytpo is all the entertainment I need in my life.
That was hilarious. Sure miss my cubicle by the toilet entrance.
your videos are getiing better with the acting. also 50 cent dollar general headphones made me bust out laughing
Dude i work from home and i quit as soon as i see the time is up and then I concentrate on what i wanna do next😂😂
Bro...Thank you. This video is so on point, brother.
I'd fight someone if they did that to my desk 😂
Bro it's just a prank
@@JoshuaFluke1 Don't worry bro. My fists going into the prankers gut is also a prank. No hard feelings bro.
" _Do unto others as you would have them do you unto you_ " ...If they think the prank is A-Okay, then do the same thing back to them & see how they like it...
...If they react negatively, then they're a fv
Reminds me of when I was at a startup and the investor/customer came in unexpectedly and started recording me in the middle of coding(it was early and I was the only one there). While stopping to think about the code I had to write for the feature I was working on, he started putting the camera over my hands and saying hey just start typing like you normally do. I froze completely.
Dang bro, those tan lines!
Dude this is one of the best videos you've made in a long time. A lot of laughs out of this one.
Admittedly, I was part of a company a few years ago where I “bought in” to the “Culture” crap. I get it. There’s a ton of peer pressure to give in. Looking back, I contributed to a ton of cringe lol.
same
I literally worked at a company who would cut your raise down during your “performance review” if you didn’t participate they way they wanted in company social events.
OMG. You've struck gold. You NEED to start a new series where you parody Corporate culture videos of different companies. Throw in some bad glassdoor reviews to show the truth of working there too.
Great job , your videos have changed my life for the better thankyou.
that was a logitech keyboard, so probably 20$ e-waste
Honestly the 20$ keyboard from logitech are decent.
I'm typing this comment on mine actually. Had that keyboard for close to 8 years now xD
You got me laughing right before the 5 minute mark where you did the whole **confused about fist-bumping or high-five** thing.
These kind of company culture videos just show you a bunch of things you can do at home like workout, stretch, play video games, eat food, have parties, but add in annoying, cringe people, toxic hierarchies that you don’t want to mix with your leisure time, and cult behavior while people simp for a CEO and other huge corporations like Disney and google. I hate everything about companies like this. Just pay me and leave me alone, we aren’t friends. I don’t give a shit about a CEO.
Those camera angles of you doing the post bike ride max-breathless-sweaty gaze are a total flex bro - alpha AF 😄
I remember someone talking about their experience working in an office like this. They had all the video games and pool tables, but nobody used them lol and if you tried to use them, everyone would give you dirty looks. Working unpaid overtime was the norm.
It seems like the more time goes on, the more emphasis these companies put into everything but the product or their business model. Fully stocked kitchen, office parties, ping pong and nerf gun wars; everything "fun" but the actual product. No wonder so many of these dumbass companies fail.
Ahaha, "You know what, you're fired. I'm fired..she's fired.. ... it's Friday!"
🎶everybody’s fired for the weekend
"Friday". Add an E and its Fireday.