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Dive into the world of corporate culture with me, as I analyze a CEO's controversial method of building company culture by visiting employees' parents unannounced. We'll look at how such actions blur the lines between professional and personal life and what it means for employee privacy. They even look at a few things like embarrassing stories and their childhood photos.
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Your stretching these videos lately man. You can tell you passion is gone.
This app sounds like it is made by the type of companies you would roast on this channel. What happened to you Josh?
It's like you are parodying yourself now.
Josh TBH most daytime reality shows have just as weird a premise. Sadly, I could actually see this working as a TV show today. And like all such TV shows it's really about the panel and/or presenters while pretending it's about the contestants. This CEO is seriously obsessed with himself and is only interested in promoting himself using other people's "back stories"- look at the production value on this. In fairness the families played along but then they've been put in a bit of a fix - and all to massage this w****r's ego.
From my perspective, over the years I invest in tools like these for self-improvement especially forming good habits. Good habits that turn into greater financial independence, lifestyle stability, and highly improved quality of life.
I wish you could try this app before you purchase it.
Spending time away from family at my job so my CEO can visit my family instead. What a life.
This!
"Hello slave of my mother/father. Your son/daughter will be staying back late for no other reason but to put more money into my pocket. I, the person you don't care about, will keep you company with fake smiles while wishing that the people you do care about will come home before dinner"
😂😂😂📌📌📌
They are slowly replacing you 😂
The clown energy being displayed is strong with that one! 🤣😂
If my CEO went to see my parents, perhaps I should visit his wife.
Probably be surprised not to be disappointed like I am everyday at work
Best comment ever
But seriously, this shines a light on the power imbalance in the Ametican workforce. Companies like this one think that not only is OK to pull this stunt, but they're proud of it. Meanwhile, if an employee just sets some boundaries on their time, or asks if they're getting paid for their overtime - well then, how DARE he!
😂 this comment should be pinned
Just scroll after typing same thing😂😂 Good minds think alike. DIBS ON WIFE LOL
Well I want to part of visiting his wife
This is straight out of a thriller movie, Imagine the plot being a family having to fight off against an obsessed CEO/Executive
I’m waiting for Lifetime to come out with a creeper thriller about this! 😆
I’m waiting for Lifetime to come out with a creeper thriller about this! 😆
I’m waiting for Lifetime to come out with a creeper thriller about this! 😆
"Brenda thought she landed the perfect job."
I’m waiting for Lifetime to come out with a creeper thriller about this! 😆
Malignant narcissists like this CEO should never be given any credence or credentials.
it's mostly those people that want those positions
@alf3071 It is more that those people who lack morals and ethics enough to STEAL and grift themselves to those positions.
The saying "Cheaters never prosper" was written by a cheater trying to eliminate competition of those who try to achieve success honestly.
That is the joke Billionaires tell each other. Every single robber barron one of them.
Damn, I'm glad someone else clocked it
They can get a foot up the a55 though. They need to leave people alone
Exactly, it's all about him, he is very obviously narcissistic.
Shouldn't the CEO who is getting paid over 100 times my salary have better things to do?!?!?
Try 300 times more on average (or perhaps even 400, “due to inflation”).
It's a marketing company. So no.
That's creepy my parents were narcissist
No
Properly not 😂
This CEO has a severe case of "I use my money to get friends because otherwise everyone thinks I'm a creep"-itis.
except,.... he is a creep
I worked at a place where the ceo thought a salary was a way to buy friends and then power trip over them without respecting boundaries and privacy. It is truly a terrible employee experience, and a slippery slope back to indentured servitude (the kind with the evil subclauses that mean you never escape the contract)
This takes the pizza party to improve office morale to a whole new level.
Except everyone still calls him a creep
This smells like a lawsuit in the making. I would quit and lawyer up immediately.
Yeah, seems like an utter misuse of personal data.
What are the damages exactly? This is definitely invasive and downright creepy, but unless some kind of suffering or pain was endured, I don’t see what the case would pursue in terms of damages? How would you quantify the losses?
Better call Saul mate
@@np494609 huge 4th amendment violations. Osha violations. Misuse of company funds. I could keep going. But, why argue with jackboots?
@@np494609 tell us you're an abuser without telling us.
They're not even trying to hide the fact that they don't respect privacy
If they contacted my mom, she'd tell them to kick rocks and never contact her again. Then she'd tell me and I'd immediately start looking for another job lol
Same with my parents, though my dad might let his 12 gauge do the talking.
No doubt they got a few of those, and just kept contacting until they duped enough parents to film their little montage
Man, this makes micromanagers like I like they’re actually decent people. They have zero boundaries
This is so creepy, There is nothing these companies wouldn't do
What if someone (like me) is estranged from their parents? This is terrible. My parents would go out of their way to undermine me.
Same for me!
Not only is this creepy, not only is it beyond invasive, not only is it without consent and arguably illegal. This feels like *STALKING.* And the parents who *cooperated* in this. WTF? Borderline abusive. If my mother did this, I'd have permanently cut contact. Also, the business of exposing your personal stories (especially embarrassing ones) to co-workers in an apparent *ambush* during work hours is simply beyond the pale. They're all smiling and laughing because they quite literally can't leave, and can't cry. I'm certain that CEO didn't run this past an attorney. Or HR. Or, you know, any person over the age of twelve. And that business of running people around on a roof when they are afraid of heights? OMG. Can I just say, both their landlord and their insurance carrier are having heart palpitations if they know about this.
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I’m sure their maintenance crew were also not thrilled about the running around on the rooftop activities 😂😅
I can't imagine all the ways the CEO can use whatever information he finds against the worker. "Look, Bill, you're performance is down this quarter. Might that have something to do with what your Mom said about....."
My cro wanted to come to our houses and watch us work. He actually stayed over night and one of the reps houses. Beyond ridiculous. He is a mormon guy. He really wanted to see peoples overhead because if you have a big house payment then you will sell more. He was a creepy dude. He was always flirting with the woman reps too and sexualizing them. Not to mention making racists comments to black people on team meetings. Sadly, hes still at the company
You can understand the parents side since they see it as an opportunity to talk positively about their kid so that they could get a raise, albeit this is probably not going to happen like that I can't understand it from the CEO though..
This says alot about how the CEOs treat their employees; like children.
Yeah. It brought me flashbacks of P. E. I hated being forced to do sports at school. I'd quit that job and find a real one that respects their employees.
...and like disposable people too!
@raven4090 maybe you should do some p.e because u might a casualty
@@thetest8777 Maybe you should learn how to write comments that make sense.
@@raven4090 OK
Nobody answers the door to a stranger with a camera crew with a hug. The only "surprise" about all of this was someone thinking it was a good idea in the first place.
Of course, they had to get releases signed to use initial shots of them on their own property, plus a property release just to show the building. It's set up in advance. If my parents did this for money or free!!! even, they wouldn't meet their grandchildren.
Yeah, pretty obvious these types of "surprise" visits are always known about and agreed to in advance.
Imagine you’re secretly working your butt off so you can afford to escape an abusive controlling household, your employer shows up to “meet the family”, your parents passive aggressively go out of their way to make you look bad and you get fired…. Then you get in trouble at home.
That CEO looks like the type of boss that would love to start a sect once their business goes brankrupt.
Technically, it could be invasion of privacy or seem as intimidating behaviour/coercive control using personal details to access employees outside of the scope of employment, especially without the clear and expressed permission to do so from that employee. Be very careful. - 30 year business owner.
If my son's employer paid me a visit, I would certainly ask some hard questions. If an employer opens that Pandora's Box, don't complain about the outcome. Imagine if the employee's parents were workplace litigation attorneys. Is this an invitation for helicopter parents of adult children to start showing up at some of their meetings and putting in their two cents worth?
I'm sure a lot of parents declined this.
These are attention seekers and their parents who want 2 seconds of fame
Go visit his kids at their private school without telling him.
bring candy and a minivan.
How did he get the address of their parents first of all? This is beyond creepy and these guys should be presented a lawsuit. Disgusting.
Maybe emergency contact info? Although a lot of information is on the internet these days. Unless they run extensive background checks or something.
I didn't even consider this. What did they do exactly? Prowl through their employees emergency contacts to get the information without having to ask them? If so, that's just gross. We're way beyond red flags with this one.
Addresses are in public record databases and you just need a name to find them
@@CrabtreeJK this stuff falls right in there with harassment and stalking laws. I've seen enough people get sued for doxxing to know this stuff isn't cool.
@@CowToes I am not saying that this is not insane harassment....only that when you purchase land, you make a public record that anyone can access. This CEO should have a law suite filed against him.
This is so disrespectful. It's degrading because it strongly resembles a school child-parent conference, but unlike school meetings where kids are present I am not, I'm an adult, indicating how the firm views me. Additionally, I would sue on grounds of privacy, as there are pictures of me from infancy to adulthood in my parents' home, violating the terms and agreement regarding image sharing without consent. I would also sue for emotional distress.Violating my rights under state and federal law can never be superseded by your selfish agenda, regardless of how well-intentioned or, to be honest, delusional the CEO is about company culture. Consequences will follow.
So glad you didn’t show his book. Anyways, naw that’s weird. Not even giving their employees the choice to keep home life and work life separate is sickening. I can also see how that action could be construed as harassment
I agree! But HR probably thinks this was fun.
I imagine the book is something akin to "Wish it, want it, do it!"
it is stalking and harassment.
Another CEO doing unnecessary things to give the illusion they actually add value to the company.
seriously youtube needs a lot more content covering peer-reviewed, statistical studies of 'how well generative AI can make recommendations and decisions in comparison to a human executive'. a quick web search suggests that in 2022 a ceo takes 200-350x more money out of a business for compensation than a typical worker. so swapping out one ceo with a bot could put a lot of money back in your budget... plus genAI probably wouldn't try to sneak around behind your back and meet and film your family, and then hang giant posters of you in public so sketchy people have a much easier time tracking you down...
As a Safety Manager I can confirm your interpretation of the law is correct. This was pretty dumb of them to record themselves doing.
In other words, he's visiting parents to make sure that the employee fits the "culture"
and the poor parents don't want their child to lose their job in this economy, so they say yes even when the want to say no. that is not free and informed consent
You can't spell "culture" without "cult"
I'm 60 years old. My dad is now 98 years old, a retired dairy farmer who often doesn't know who I am. I'd pay my boss to go talk to my dad. They'd learn more about cows than they ever thought was knowable, but would get a blank stare if my name was mentioned.
I had more before, but it all simply boils down to this.
Sue them. What they did was in the borderline realm of what is legal or not, in not just America but Canada as well. And if no lawyer will take up the case, force it to happen instead.
That’s the crappiest unequal wheel of misfortunes I’ve ever seen a professional make.
If my boss did that, they wouldn't even get the luxury of notice to quit.
I'm surprised they didn't set up a bouncy house next The Office building and see who can jump from the roof and land on the bouncy house. Michael Scott would approve.
As a person who has gone non-contact with my own mother due to abuse, this isn't cute it's frightening
Same here.
Similar issues here in the past and the “were like a family here” doesn’t evoke the feelings the company might think it does.
@@agirlfrommars3441 ha so true. I also had an abusive mother who i cut off all contact with. I can't even imagine the horror of if my boss had done this.
These guys have never heard about boundaries.
This is someone that has control issues. He believes if he gets in good with Mom and Dad you will be his servant.
Just curious if regular people can make videos about secretly meeting with their CEO’s family?
Exactly. Did they return the invitation? This is slumming, thinking they are cool hanging out with the unwashed masses. The invasion of privacy should be grounds for stalking charges, and doxxing.
Good point
Beyond nuts! I am so sick of "company culture". I'd really like to see a company that says: "Our culture is to have you work reasonable hours for reasonable pay and benefits and you go home at the end of your shift and forget about work."
LOL if I ever start my own company I'm using this. :)
💯 THIS!
@@666Musik Excellent! Do it. I'd come work for you!
@@TPIR_Fan_1972 my current job offers this and it's nice. I log off after putting my time in and I'm done.
I'd make it mandatory to forget about work, not to bring work home, etc, after the shift ends. Why stress out your work force? What these ass-clowns are doing is elevating employee stress, not alleviating it.
I’m embarrassed that this is my news station here in Iowa 🤣
We really are “Iowa friendly” however, this is too much at this point. 😂😂😂
More like Iowa Creepy lol
Creepy - in the extreme. Employers like this is the bad that just keeps going deeper into the cesspool.
I would have quit that job immediately and my parents probably would have cursed them out. That is not ok.
And that basketball challenge... what happens if that basketball goes off the roof and falls on someone's head at speed? That could give someone a serious head injury from high up enough.
This CEO is a psychopath.
Holy hell, when you mentioned safety equipment on the roof, I was like "come on, can't be that bad, been to a couple rooftop events, the normal rails are more than fine".
I wasn't expecting a barren cement roof. Hell to effin NO. I don't do heights, normally, even with rails I never lean or support myself on them and stay a good distance from the edges. But a barren cement roof without anything? I wouldn't be caught dead in that thing.
If an employee did that exact same thing to another employee they would be fired for stocking or harassment.
Frankly , if I was the parent , I would've held the CEO against their will and asked them to improve my child pay 100% 😂😂😂
They had the jingly-jangly music on the video that makes it all okay.
I strongly dislike CEOs like this. We are not obsessed with your business like you are, it’s not our whole life. Family is our family, work is not our family.
The roof top stuff was just dumb and demonstrates that the CEO is low IQ and the company is probably a long term train wreck.
That is weird. My parents probably wouldn't care for it. If they wanted to speak to my boss, they'd visit him at the office. They don't like people showing up to their house unannounced, though.
The CEO should only communicate with an employee's parents if the employee is under 18 years old.
Not even then. A CEO should always maintain professional boundaries.
i think CEOs have too much work and this kind of job is for HR or someone else
If they're hiring people under 18, that's a whole other set of problems.
@@erubin100 You really never had a job as a kid?
Or they're listed as their next of kin in the case of an emergency.
The worst part about all of this is that they said that they "kept this all a secret."
So did they gaslight/bribe/blackmail their parents or something?
The parents are just gong to keep this visit "Secret?"
What kind of parents would even accept this bs(The kind that doesn't actually care about hteir children, but how they look to the world[narcissists])?
For a job as a police officer I had a background investigator talk to my parents, neighbors, in laws even my wife’s 90 year old grandmother about me. It was crazy
The blurred close-up shots of the book had me laughing, not gonna lie
They should give an award for "most awkward photo your mom showed us thinking it was cute." Don't tell them what it was, just give them the award.
Why are Ceo's trying to act like capitalism cares about humanity
3 days visiting employees' parents. So who was running the company for those 3 days? Or maybe a CEO isn't as indispensable on a day-to-day basis as they'd have us believe. Hey, maybe CEO should be a part-time position with no benefits like other jobs that aren't needed every day at the company...
Not just 1 CEO, 2 CEOs driving 500 miles, 3 days, at the company's expense. Insane.
Imagine if a serious complaint had come in while this fool was cosying up to the parents of his employees. Bet that would go down like a lead balloon.
What if your parents don’t want to meet with the CEO. It’s not like he’s paying them for their time.
250.00 is not a substantial bonus, 250k is a substantial bonus. 😊
I think the CEO was a die hard fan of The Office and tries to re-enact situations from there...
Visit the parents ... It's so they can continue to treat their employees as children.
As much as the things Blue Compass is doing can be considered positive on the surface, I wonder how genuine it really is once the camera is turned off.
I mean, serious red flag that the company went to parents without consent.
And like Joshua said, the roof wasn't safe for shooting basketballs from.
We need to be careful about not falling for corporate companies' cheap tricks to make us think they're good, because they treat us like family...until the bottom line's in trouble.
I bet the CEO has hidden cameras in the employee's bathrooms. That's how much he doesn't respect their privacy.
I'm curious if Jeff actually made that shot. slowing it down, the basketball goes out of frame and I wouldn't be surprised if someone was down there lined up to take the shot once the ball hit the ground
Creepy. What about the employee that wants to leave their childhood behind, grow up, become self reliant and build their own career? Involuntary hot air balloon parents.
In a few years his company will be out of business, his books will be pulped or remaindered, and all that "corporate culture" he developed will have vanished like a fart in the wind.
Don't worry, he'll make out with a million dollar payout though!
@@jgood005 like a million dollar fart in the wind
Parents: "Oh, so YOU'RE the tyrannical boss my son keeps complaining about."
My parents would have some four-letter words with a few CEOs I have worked for.
Its all fun and culture until one of the employees starts visiting the boss's wife 🤣
That dis right out the gate with the fake advertising plug was cold bro 💀 You’re only getting stronger.
This is a very good way for the company to select for only a very particular type of employee.. No non-weirdos will apply now
If an employee fall of the edge of the roof while trying to get the $250 bonus, does the CEO go visit the employee’s parents to announce the bad news to them?
First thing I'd do is call a lawyer. Second thing I'd do is quit.
Yea it's pretty creepy and unnecessary unless you're giving them a huge bonus. no need to invade their personal space. why didn't you invite them on company grounds? would that be weird as opposed to showing up at their doorstep. Sounds more like a way to gather blackmail and learn how to manipulate your employees better. is it trying to get on a parent's good side so now you can say "not only am I disappointed in you, but if I have to let you go your parents will be upset that you let me down." Overall just a very weird thing to do.
The basketball stunt is straight out of The Office. Can you imagine what their liability provider would say if they saw this video?
Narcissist CEO: we care about our employees
Also narcissist CEO: we’re going to find your parents and secretly meet with them
cOmPAnY cULtUrE! Hurr durr 🙄
Proof that CEOs have way too much free time
An employer of mine does this and I'm visiting their parents, alright...
I remember that a company told their supervisors to follow me around after work hours and observe me and then the boss afterwards made speeches disagreeing with everything I did after work hours. Basically these bosses are overpaid with no purpose for their existence, nothing to do, and then decide to bother people.
Interesting how they all have both parents with nice homes that look in general to be living comfortable lives and nobody has a mom living in a dirty one room apartments with clutter all over the place and 6 cats.
Yeah, crazy how no parents are estranged, or in jail, or alcoholics, or have mental issues, or are a caregiver for an elderly parent or person with disabilities, they all just happened to have great lives and clean homes, almost like it was staged
Don't worry, if one of more parents aren't up to snuff, that employee will probably be let go (since their parents don't fit the company culture).
Great video, Josh. Loved it! Keep up the good work!
Great, as usual, Josh!!!!
This "initiative" (if you want to call it that) reeks of the abusive narrative parent-boss dynamics that sociopathic management have at some companies towards their employees.
wow this video made me really appreciate my WFH job, i would die if my boss visited my parents, i would also probably die jumping off the building...not because of my balance but because i hated working for that company.
The parents though... like some dude shows up at your door, tells that he is their child's boss and they just go ahead and share private matters with the strangers? like seriously? this gotta be staged/fake
Holy crap. I’m hoping my company doesn’t see this. They’d probably think it’s a good idea. 🤦🏻♀️
As a transsexual woman with unsupportive family, this is literally fuel for my nightmares.
Do they know your parents' names?
@@user-ov4wr5yu4r Only if they violate HIPAA regulations whereby your parents (if you have any) might be listed as an emergency contact on the medical form(s).
@@user-ov4wr5yu4r they don't know mother's name but they have to know father's name because in my country father's name is always written between first and last name on birth certificate. Officially, for Serbian government, I count as Natasha (Alexander) Stanojevic, just spelled differently, but not to torture you with Serbian characters.... And if someone was to run a more in depth background check, based on JMBG which is Serbian equivalent to Social security number, mother's name can be found but companies here don't do that because of slow administration and fees for everything you want to have checked by the state. And while it is still very improbable that stuff like this can happen today here, it may come as a trend in a few years (having my condition, transsexualism F64.0 be counted as something Republic Fund of Health Insurance covers treatments for was unimaginable until 10 years ago, but now it is, so trends do come to Serbia few years late). I just don't want my employer to know my dead name, suicide attempts from teenage years, the fact that Serbian Orthodox priest tried to do Orthodox equivalent of exorcism on me when I was 13, to hear me referred to as "godless sodomite with globalist agenda against traditional Serbian family" as my parents describe me and similar results an endeavour like this would give to my bosses.
Oh wow, I had totally missed this The Office episode.
If a CEO ever visited my family under any circumstances without letting me know first, and I find out, I'm putting in my two seconds.
This is messed up on so many levels, it's insane. Firstly, the CEO assumes that everyone has a great relationship with their parents, and abusive or problematic parents just don't exist.
Secondly, people should not be forced to share very personal details of their life, especially to someone who is in a position of power over them. I believe this is a huge privacy violation and I'd run away as fast as I could from that company
The roof sounds like an exhilarating place to try out my newest team-building exercise that I like to call "Jump To Conclusions!"
This is so creepy and sleazy.
Your content is so encouraging for someone like me who left corporate world to make it on my own. Largely because i became disabled and was pushed out, but it was a blessing in disguise.
Why the f**king f**k would I want my boss to meet my parents as a surprise?
Bro, an overstepping of boundaries like this is how CEO's get punched out in the street
I would say "Did you bring gifts? Ha ha." under the theory: Is it ever really a joke? They have more resources, unless the parents also happen to be CEOs, so bring gifts!!!
Woo. I am gave the 1000th like. Its mildly fun to see that.
This is disturbing and yet there's people at my company who think this would be cute.
I have never once given an employer my parents' contact information. So, are they stalking the parents online? I'm so confused. 😂
I mean it can be pretty easy to find if you know what you're doing.
Seriously? Why would you go to your employee's home? Do they even live with their parent's? Are the employees being coursed into saying yes? So much wrongness
Coerced. I didn't get your meaning at first.
When you think things can't get cringe enough...
Agreed dude. This is WILD.
@3:00 - Bro this music is so uplifting and inspirational its definitely not trite generic garbage that even being subjected to it for three seconds makes you want to blast your ears off, no it's great music and the people that selected it are freaking geniuses.
I loved this 😂