Degrading new workplace
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- Опубліковано 19 тра 2024
- Rowan has a plan to keep Alan and Adam at their desks... and it's degrading
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That shit's Dingo
That Shirt's Dingo
@@renegadez24yeah, that's what I was expecting it to say xD
Awesome that you guys found the original toilet from Trainspotting! 😂
Already got mine!
That "oh, Adam..." was straight from the heart...
I'm pretty sure Alan thought the cameras were off at that point
Clearly they didn't tell Alan that Adam was even in this skit, he just shows up with his pants down and chains on his neck.
“i have human rights”
Rowan: “oh ok i see how it is…”
says WAY too many managers. . .
That was Rowan’s command phrase…
Oh no! Not the H word! :p
“Human rights?” I see a giant hamster wheel in the background.
"Do your little poo-poos" 😂
"I adapted to YOUR NEEDS." 🤣🤣🤣
That giant hamster wheel is just the icing on the proverbial cake. *chefs kiss*
The sad thing is there actually ARE bosses who are like this.
I worked for a guy once who insisted that if we were not 20 minutes early then we were late. We would be required to work 20 minutes a day for free because that's "the time of day you're getting back into work mode" and then we could clock in once we had done that. And if we were so late that we couldn't work 20 minutes for free before our shift began we would get reprimanded and/or suspended depending on how many offenses we had.
It was also retail work, so there was going to be some down time where there were no customers in the store and no more floors to sweep or shelves to stock. If we were at work with nothing to do we were required to clock out until a customer showed up. We couldn't leave the store though. We had to remain "on call". If we got caught talking to each other at work on company time we got a pay cut. We were required to clock out to use the bathroom/ eat/ take a break (which is legally required by law). A bird flew into a window once and killed itself. I went out to pick the bird up and discard it. My boss gave me a pay cut because that was "not part of my duties as an employee". My position required me to spend several hours at a remote warehouse sometimes. He had turned off the water and the power to the warehouse so he wouldn't have to pay for it. So I was required to bring my own flashlight and headlamp to work. And if I needed to use the bathroom while I was there I had to clock out and drive to a gas station to use the bathroom. Then I would get a pay cut for using the company vehicle for a non-work related task.
Oh yeah and while the rest of the world who worked for this company were paid around $14 per hour, we were paid $9-$10 per hour which was basically the equivalent of $7-$8 after all the free time was deducted.
I wish I was making this up.
Wow. I would have been fired in minutes I guess. Such bosses don't like when you start yelling at them. Or just saying "no, that's bullshit".
@@erikturnar6466 it turned out to be a good win for me. The day he fired me (which he did for being disloyal to the company ie: I had to get a second job) I told him that if he didn't retire then he'd lose his entire company within a year. Literally a year to the day he hung out the CLOSING SALE sign. I heard he was living at the warehouse that he refused to pay utilities for after that.
Oh wow, I started reading your comment with a "oh yeah, I've been there" kind of thoughts, but as you went on explaining more and more extremes I wonder how long I would've lasted at a place like that. I hope someone sued the living shit out of that guy at some point. Most of the things you described are literally illegal in most civilized countries. Let's hope karma is an actual thing and this person will end up in a special part of retail hell. Glad you got out of there though ☺
It's kind of ironic how Adam gets bullied the most by Rowan while also being the most ready to happily go along with whatever insane idea he comes up with.
Stockholm syndrome
Which makes perfect sense, considering Adam is most likely a super permissive and super agreeable type of person. Feels bad man
Rowan raised Adam from the dead. Maybe that did sonething to Adam
Poor Adam is smart enough to be really confused, yet also too terrified to call Rowan out on his BS.
Alan calls him out, because his confusion is mired in disbelief rather than terror.
And Ellie is confused but also 'so over this shit' (except when she's manipulating Rowan to her advantage, like getting insane pay raises).
And the fascinating thing about Britt is that she's a MAJOR sycophant, yet somehow completely immune to falling under Rowan's spell! I love her - she's hysterical! :p
It is a form of an abusive relationship. And you do see it in retail.
Being a Yes-Person isn't necessarily a good thing in that work environment. Whilst these sketches take it to logical extremes, the reality is that you will be taken advantage of. And if you "step out of line", you will be punished, even if it's a minor "issue". You do have to be aware of your workers' rights and be able to defend them at any moment. It's exhausting. But if you don't do that, you get exploited and exhausted in other ways.
I worked in Retail for almost 6 years, and even though I could potentially find work in retail to improve my income today, I'd instead not because of how I was taken advantage of and how much I sacrificed for the previous retail job.
Perhaps there are retail businesses that don't abuse their employees, but you only find out when you accept the job offer. And even then, will it trigger me to return to that environment, even if it's neutral?
I actually just love thinking of all the workplace health and safety rules that are being violated in this one scene. For example that toilet seat isn't ergonomically designed for long periods of sitting... So if Alan gets a bad back he could sue, and win, the lawsuit against Techtown.
Rowan needs to amend that immediately
Not to mention cutting off the blood vessels in the legs from not supporting the rear end correctly. The troth is probably a food safety issues, especially considering the waste disposel.
Also: Since Alan is not paid to take out the latrine, I suppose that would fall on Rowan as manager, at least until he amends the job description, wich would require a renegotiation of the terms of employment, which would in quick succesion involve the union, a few layers and the courts.
The fact that the stool isnt clean likely leasing to new colera epidemics is Also a big issue. And the nutritional value of chips is to poor to use as food for your employees
@@57thorns Oh darn... they NEED to do a follow up sketch where someone tries to make Rowan clear out the human waste from the toilets. Seriously. I hope that VLDL see your comment! ;) :p
With there luck they would get a Karen OSHA inspector who would bring in 40 hours per week of bureaucracy.
That new workstation is the definition of efficiency. Very Rowan-like.
I have no doubt in my mind that some bosses would absolutely do this to their employees, if they could get away with it.
"...cause I'm a good manager (tf)." Lmfao.
He's probably only absolvent of an internet course where he obtained such title. Not an actual good manager.
Hm, looks like the captioner earned themself a pay cut
Ah, I see you are a man of culture as well.
I mean that is doritos right there! it could have been much worse x)
So he manages a good. Okay.
Rowan when he can't give paycuts anymore 😂😭
Cause the employees are basically paying to work there at the rate of pay cuts Manager Rowen gives.
Can’t take away money from the employees? Take away their human rights instead
@@VivaLaDirtLeague Easy fix. Managers around the world could learn from him
I'm surprise Alan and Adam aren't paying rhe company to work there lol
@@brokearse2011 Bree overruled Rowan when they first transferred to TechTown. They all get paid properly now whether he likes it or not.
But before that, they were both DEFINITELY paying Rowan to work there with all the paycuts, lol.
I can assure you that after having put in many years in the trenches in phone customer service roles, a slave to the queue, if managers could have these amenities set up they absolutely would. Except that you'd need to supply your own food for your feed bag.
My last company put a stop to free coffee and water (the giant bottled kind). They started a subscription service you could pay the company every month for. This is a multi billion dollar company in the US.
The little (tf?) in the subtitles at Rowan saying he's a good mamager killed me 🤣 Such a small addition, but gotta love the subs even questioning Rowan.
There's even a giant hamster wheel for exercise and enrichment! Rowan's such a good manager!
The final service upgrade: The hampster wheel attached to a generator in order to save electric costs and increase profits, tubes connected fore and aft to drain away any pesky waste which is composted into fertilzer to grow vegetables to complement the Doritos, a standing workstation which is proven to improve posture and supplement endorphines to improve overall mood, an improved trough with 3 meal compartments (breakfast, dinner, supper) utilizing a food smoothie to ease consumption and digestion, and safety straps in the hampster wheel to protect the service sla...err...employees from hurting themselves if they fall. What a kind manager!!
😂
@@jeffreyestahl what about a bed at the work station? Driving to and from home is surely cutting time out of the day that Alan and Adam could be working
@@pIayingwithmahwii
Nah, that's what the safety straps are for. You can sleep and not fall down. 🤪
I kept missing the hamster wheel until I specifically went through and looked for it. It's so cartoonishly big and photoshopped! 😂
My first boss (from 16 years ago) was such a Rowan. I'll never forget (among other things) being scorned for keeping a small punny cup of coffee at my desk at my cubicle. I took it with a smile, and proceed to hide not just the coffee, but also dry snacks inside the desk's drawer. Of course, until he decided to saw the upper part of every cubicle in the office so he could obsessively keep watch of everyone's business, all the time. Oh, and leaving the cubicle for "basic human stuff" (like Alan said) was allowed but frowned upon. I do wonder if now his employees are forced to wear diapers...
"Time to unionize"
Rowan: "Well you can't spell union without you... and I cuz IIIII'm a great manager"
Your prop team is too good. That toilet looks rancid!
Who says that's a prop...
I read this as "Your poop team ..."
They had too much fun making that one
@@VivaLaDirtLeague It's the shit.
That's not a prop that's Adam's actual work station where he helps with scripts etc, he actually just made this whole skit up just to show his actual work station.
I'm still waiting for the joke about how corporations treat their employees.
This feels more like a documentary than a comedy skit.
Yeah… when is the joke coming in…?
i dunno i gave my last boss a look like I was about to clock him when he pulled this and he backed off
Reminds me of when I was at a call centre that only allowed going to the toilet under "comfort breaks". We couldn't even get a coffee/go to the fridge for food unless it was our lunch break. There was a food cart that came around the desks but if you were on the phone you couldn't possibly get up or put the phone on hold etc. So if you were on the phone you missed the food cart. No lunch for you.
Yeah those call centres are awful places to work.
1:37 Yup, the food and water provided by TechTown broke me. That was a past employer’s view on things. ‘You have a break room with stale Oreos always on offer, so we’ve provided meals. Stop going out for food, just stay in and remain closer to your work.’
Corporate America didn’t do it. The pandemic didn’t do it. Grad school hasn’t done it. That one sentence in this skit broke me. Thanks VLDL 😅
"The food and water is paid for by TechTown."
I think Rowan has been invaded by a body snatcher as the real Rowan would make Alan pay for it.
They'll have to take rounds now in the hamster wheel to produce electricity...
Nah it's all paid by techtown with the money from alan's paycut
You just know if he tried that with Ellie she would find away to profit from it, like taking the free food and setting up a mini cafe in the corner
Paid for by TechTown. TechTown isn't just a location or just a shop- TechTown is its people! Aka, the employees pay for the food
@@rayzerot Or the employees are the food. It wouldn't be a stretch for TechTown-era Bored to go that way. It's got so beautifully dark since they left PlayTech.
... I'm just glad Adam is happy in this episode xD
He’s got water and Doritos - what more could he need ❤️
Rowan sometimes gets me in the feels because he reminds me of an old boss I used to have... He genuinely had a problem with you sticking up for your rights and claiming that he didn't have authority over them.
Alan: "its my basic human right, Rowan"
Rowan: "And I took that personally"
Alan's stoicism towards Rowan seems to have disappeared a little, but Adam's has become even stronger!😂
steroidism?
Adam is not stoic. He is just desperate for the job... and maybe for approval...
CGI hampster wheel in the back ground is noticed, and appreciated.
true 😂
and Adam's bag was already half full 😂😂😂
"because I'm a good manager (tf?)"
gotta love the subtitles xD
This one brings back memories of when I worked somewhere for a few months, used the bathroom at work for the first time one day, then my supervisor got angry with me for doing that - calling it an unscheduled break and that I needed to find a way to make up for the work and then some, but not staying late as she didn’t want to pay me overtime.
Adam is just over there like a show pony eating from his trough 😂😂😂
He f**kin loves it
@VivaLaDirtLeague he doesn't poo while talking to the customer does he? Could just imagine Hamish with a worrying look on his face as he hears Adam grunting over the phone lol.
* on second thought Rowan can supply them with noise canceling headphones so the customer won't know they are pooing.
An idea here: having a customer talk to adam over the phone while he is drinking eatint and making suspicious noises behind the phone only for it to show he is using this new workstation?@@VivaLaDirtLeague
On the same toilet, too.
This is so inspirational. It’s gonna make our workplace so much more efficient. More of these tips videos, please. That shit’s dingo.
Adam... he really is a model employee...
I'm surprised Rowan hasn't had Adam cloned yet...
That could be a great episode idea, having plenty of Adams working in a store for Rowan.
As long as you feed Adam Doritos, he will do anything you say or ask.
Same to me, just bit cleaner toilet please
I was pretty happy filming with this a bag of Doritos around my neck 😂
Bad move on Rowan's part. Adam eats too loudly, this will cause Alan to kill him... again.
@@theq86 Alan has never killed Adam. Rowan has repeatedly tried to kill Adam.
That's how VLDL was born. Make sure Adam has dorritos and the wheel runs itself
Can we give props to Rowan actually using his brain to come up with an efficient, albeit inhumane, solution?
It was really fast too lol
And the Geneva Convention thing was amazing 😂
Rowan is always the most considerate manager, I really need to start taking notes, completes EVERY human need while enabling the work force, brilliant
I hope the next episode is Alan going to the lawyers and suing Rowan. And because Rowan is a man who loves to talk about himself, all Alan has to do is say one word and Rowan will snitch on himself and than, you can have a multi-episode spanning arc, much like the White shirt saga.
PLEASE!!!!! I NEED another multi-episode saga, much like with Rodney.
I see that Rowan is familiar with working for Amazon. What a nice manager.
I was scrolling for this comment
Average Amazon wagie experience.
Adam and Alan also can sleep under their work tables and do not go home! Don't thank me, Rowan.
TBF, Rowan once spent multiple nights at Playtech, all because Adam and Alan were several months late.
I saw that in Laos...poor ppl
I love to see Rowan taking such good care of his employees while keeping techtown working efficiently. His management skills and empathy are underappriciated.
"Because I"m a good manager (tf?)"
Thank subtitle master for saying what we're all thinking.
Adam is all in for the humiliating work conditions😂
What a good employee he is
I had a manager once got upset that I took my legally mandated lunch break.
only once? lucky...
Can't wait till Rowan's Dad makes a surprise visit.
After first seeing the short version of this skit and now the full version, I realise how much effort is being done on the shorts. It isn't just a trimmed version.
You guys rock! ❤
1:34 "This is insa"...nitary?
"insane"
Oh... yeah, both... but definitely insanitary.
1:00 I won't even ask from where Rowan found this seat or why it's in this condition, but I’m very glad that Rowan cares so much about his employees 💀.
What Jigsaw working conditions are these? Rowan probably has a marble throne
I love keeping subtitles on so I can catch those little easter eggs another great skit
The giant hamster wheel in the background was a nice touch. Was hoping to see Adam jump on it to demonstrate.
„That shit‘s Dingo“ couldn‘t be more on point!😂
@@VivaLaDirtLeague it's catching on!
OMG, Rowan is such a great manager! I wish all managers cared about their workers like this.
1:50 Rowan is too caring, he even set up a running wheel for exercise
Obviously Adam hasn't been made aware of the law of "you don't shit where you eat"
This is a law?
@@BenthewildchildE750 technically it would be categorized as a law of the streets, which we all know, is taken very seriously in Techtown :D
@@DarkenRahl Bingo! (or is that "Dingo"?)
Rowan is either the best or the worst. Never in between.
He is a digital Human. Ether 1 or 0
I've had this conversation with power hungry managers
"No Janet, i'm 30, i'm not asking you for permission to use the bathroom. I am telling you i am going to the bathroom."
I feel like we're gearing up for a Christmas Carol type episode where Rowan will be visited by three spirits to give him one final chance to turn his life around.
Rowen forgot the safety cage barriers
I love that Rowan went the extra mile to add that dingy green lighting _just_ to demoralise Alan further.
Unlike other colors in the spectrum, green is perceived directly by the retina without any refraction. That s good for eye healths
It is believed to have healing properties, the ability to soothe and refresh.
😄
Rowan is the best manager. I've never seen a manager who had such a vested interest in making sure his employees were properly fed, hydrated, and had easy toilet access. Rowan defenitely deserves another bonus this year.
You know rowan is so kind he could've been even worse and gave them adult diapers to use, but he gave them a toilet to kind sir to kind.
"because I'm a good manager (tf?) " :D
Viva la dirt league never seems to run out of ideas! Great job guys!
That confirmes the hell/purgatory theory. Alan just hasn't realized it yet.
Believe it or not, there are managers like Rowan in real life.
Not everything has to be purgatory, man :v
vintage rowan, always improving conditions for the work drones
I might be starting to think Adam has a humiliation kink with how often he's going along with the things despite being bullied the most
"Against Geneva convention" lmao
Is that a Star Trek reference?
@@mpalmer22 No. The Geneva (a real city in the world by the way) conventions basically establish what war crimes are as the most general way of describing them.
@@88Opportunist Really! very interesting. I heard this phrase mentioned in a Star Trek episode, I never realised they were referencing a real life city. If this convention existed, how come during WW2, the germans didn't adhere to this?
@@mpalmer22 it was in fact drawn up right after the war
@@mpalmer22 why? because they do not care
Gotta love seeing Rowan actually care about his employees well being for once.
Long gone is the Rowan who would prevent others from going to the bathroom. Truly a changed man.
Adam is sitting on the exact same toilet. Even the spray pattern matches.
Why would Rowan bother matching both toilets to the last detail? Because he's a good manager, and he believes in equality.
That toilet is an upgrade. I had to sit on a pickle bucket for a year in a server closet
Which funny enough is... illegal.
Hah you had a pickle bucket. pfft luxury. We were made to sit on the floor which was covered in shoddy electrical wires and rusted metal grating to this day I still can't feel my left buttock.
In retail we aren't even allowed to sit.
@@arcaneminded I used to dream of sitting on rusted metal grating. I had to stand for 26 hours a day without break.
@@A.Martin yeah I have done that too. I still can’t decide which is worse lol
I don't really mind the water and food bag hahah. The toilet is the bad one haha
And I'm really impressed with Adam to have the remaining dignity to do these stuff in the name of comedy haha
This hits close to home. Working at home in IT help desk support they really try to curtail your personal breaks.
the way Alan was like, "...oh Adam..." just perfect haha poor poor Adam.
Alan should indeed argue those conditions are unacceptable. There is no hands free toilet paper around.
Or sink to wash hands
Right, the toilet should have the bidet option!
Do you have to wipe if you never get off the toilet?
@@DH-xw6jp technically no, but then that's unsanitary and you risk getting a rash as well as probably some other health concerns lol. Now that I think about it Alan should also argue for Scented Candles. They are a tech store, so surely they have some stock they can store use.
Toilet paper costs money.
How thoughtfull of Rowan to ensure that his employees have access to their human rights❤
Rowan be casually braking human rights like it's just another day
Whoever painted those two toilets to look identical is a real good artist.
The giant hampster wheel was awesome!
would love a skit of how rowan behaves if one of them gets jury duty
Not a thing everywhere in the world
The seats are just missing a bidet. Totally not so Rowan can activate it when employees are being under-productive.
‘I’ve adapted to your needs by making the job worse’ - this is all of our future.
"ohhhhh. adam." the disapoiment in his voice
I am intrigued by the giant hamster wheel. My money is on Adam being the first to use it. 🤣
starting to see a similitude where Rowan is Mr. Krabs, Alan is Squidward and Adam is spongebob. Which is totally genius.
What would make this funnier is if Rowan's office had feeding station that's just a mini fridge full of food and bottled water
and his toilet were built into a cushy office chair and had an automatic bidet.
"im the good manager (tf?)" :D :D Epic subs as always)))
Every big corporation's dream
Every office has an Adam, don't be an Adam, or things will just get worse for everyone.
Plumber: Mr.Rowan, do you want me to take the old toilet for recycling?
Rowan: No! I have an idea for a video.
1 day later:
Almost every call center in a nutshell
The one I tried to work at years ago had no working toilets at least this toilet has a disposable way to get rid of the poo🙃
Everytime Rowan confronts Alan for any reason Alan just knows hes about to get screwed over
Adam personality is changed. He is not like that before. In "Taking a mental health break - Wellness Room", he did not enjoy the "Wellness Room" provided by Rowan. His face was sad at the end of the video. Why would he enjoy Rowan's new degrading workplace???
At one of my enterprise support jobs a colleague was told to stay in their seat and ask permission to go to the bathroom from a manager in another State. This was a fortune 500 company.
All workplaces are degrading these days. 😤
I worked IT for a company that would time you. One time I was ~10 seconds over my break and the Super pulled me up for it. So I made a big song and dance about it (Because she was), and she dropped it because I insisted we should go and see HR and the her Manager. That company was a supermarket headoffice located in the UK, not in Iceland. There are people not dissimilar from this
being 10sec late due to toilet issues is a horrible breach of a contract. But, apparently, detaining you from work for 10+ min to chastise you about it is ok. Manager logic.
That some high level efficiency made by Rowan!
Thanks for the sketch!
You can tell when an actor is good at acting when the character moves your emotions so deep (i hate that manager character). Rowan is soooo good playing that role, well done!!!!!
Ohh Adam, you poor soul
Correction: Alan's water bottle was not full when he came back from "refilling" it.
Easy to tell by the way he sets it down on the desk and the high-pitched, empty noise it made.
Thank Goodness Rowan, thoughtfully, had provided him with some water upon his return.
I love the fact that there’s a friggin human sized hamster wheel just casually sitting in the background - can we see Techtown’s “recreation” time with a Hamster wheel that somehow powers a generator or mines crypto or some other form of “utilising” employee “recreation” please? I feel Rowan would approve this decision.
Everyone needs a manager like Rowan who is always thinking about his employee's needs!
The hands free feedbag killed me!🤣🤣