Hvala ti za ovo 100 puta, neke zivotne dileme si mi sad resio, jedne od najvaznijih. Da nam obrazovanje necemu vredi ljudi kao ti bi bili profesori na fakultetima, a ne korumpirani tatini sinovi. Pozdrav, i sve najbolje.
It's so nice to feel vindicated once in a while. My colleagues usually call me a cynic when I refer to internal mail and newsletters from the communication department as corporate propaganda.
Careful showing your true colors around colleagues. It may give them significant leverage should a promotion between you or them ever arise. Or make you one of the first to get let go during a downsizing. I know it's a lighthearted remark and that you are still a hardworking individual, but that may not get across when HR puts that dreaded note in your file.
He is right on feeling cursed by knowledge. Sometimes i wish i could unlearn it, but at the same time, i don't want to be a braindead slave 5imping for his masters.
One of the reasons that bulkshit jobs are so infuriating to me as a public school teacher is that so many people and so many resources are propping up bloated private, useless enterprises when we never have enough people or resources to do crucial things like educating children. A drug company will give out thousands of pens that won’t be used as advertisements while I can’t get any funding to buy pens and pencils for my children. We have Tshirts for energy companies shot out of canons at sporting events while my kids barely have uniforms. Our society has the resources to fix these problems. We choose not to in favor of making trash.
The wonders of capitalism! I get so angry at this! Our teachers should be given the utmost respect and funding for any project they deem worthy. Instead they are often shit on instead....
Why not be angry at people having unplanned children to program them into future slaves for the elite? If people cared about the welfare of their children they wouldn't bring them into the world to receive a second rate education in a corrupt society. Providing pens and T shirts is waaay cheaper than providing for children period. There are many bogus teachers out here just clocking in to do a job - they're not necessarily helping make children any smarter. Is the state getting a return on its expenditure in education with such high drop out rates? As a matter of fact I don't see teachers as anything special. They're mostly just lowly paid nannies and babysitters period.
I've always hated when all the work's been done and you still gotta find some BS to do, because you're on the clock and heaven forbid workers have a chance to chill. 🙄
I just went to a careers seminar in my university and they really pressed the "smile all the time" and "don't mention any negative experiences". Going on LinkedIn is a serious hellscape of empty platitudes and self congratulatory behavior. I used to think these people were so deep I couldn't understand them but I now realise I don't understand them because they never say anything of meaning
Yeah it's miracle adulthood depression isn't a normal by now, when most people are forced to do jobs they don't like for money to pay for necessities they can't afford and consumerist crap that they don't need.
Any worker who uses LinkedIn for anything other than having an online profile to get recruited for better jobs is a psychopath. I cringe every time anyone I know actually posts something on there. Tends to be the MBAs who are desperately trying to buy into the propaganda enough to achieve the life and prestige they've been sold on.
Kek, >loyalty to your boss. Oldest trick in the book, used since the dawn of class system. Like how do people still fall for it, it was used to preserve and justify systems which came before, even though they're considered immoral.
Thanks for bringing up David Graeber. I think Bullshit Jobs is one of the best books out there to convince people that there's something seriously wrong with capitalism. Another point he makes in the book is that many real jobs exist to support bullshit jobs. For example, the janitor who cleans the office building where bullshit work is done. My job as a software developer is fun and interesting, but the product I'm creating is used for stupid purposes like evaluating marketing strategies. I feel so bad for the people whose job it is to use my software. I do my best to create something good, but its purpose is to do bullshit work. So eliminating bullshit jobs would also eliminate the need for these support jobs, making the real necessary work week even shorter.
I'm young and still in school and its a breath of fresh air to see this type of content on UA-cam. Normally my feed is filled with right wing capitalist content and it bothers me because I feel like I'm missing out valid view points that I never get to hear. Thank you for your content, its opened me up to new way of thinking.
Bro I feel you, O hate the bullshit propaganda not just on youtube, but in school. Like thay care more about Stalin than I do, AND IM A COMMUNIST. Anyway check out hakim and second thought if youre a baby leftist. I am too, only been a marxist for lile 2 years.
I remember when I realized I couldn't really have a meaningful job as an artist (this is my personal experience so if yours is different.. Good on ya). I was just out of highschool and I wasn't political yet. I just knew it wouldn't be possible unless I comprimised to bend to the "art market" or stay principled but not make enough money to help my family - my passion would just be a hobby. It was a crushing day. Lol...lol.. -__-
This video was just what I needed to watch while on break at my job. They're already pulling this bullshit on us, telling us that we're a team, family etc. But, for some reason if we were to say, exercise our right to unionize and collectively bargain, we'd all be fired in an instant because of the bullshit "at will" clause in the employee contract. Nevertheless, this video was well made, well put together and very much needed to encourage more pro worker discourse in today's society
Liberalism in a nutshell: You can have all the rights and freedoms except those that actually matter to your livelihood, especially when it comes to your wallet in the latter.
What I love is when they hire people along with their whole family and expect them to do majority of the work without hesitation for exactly the reason you stated they think it will be easier to get them to go along with the herd mentality
I remember once I was doing construction as an apprentice, and one of the job sites was one of those insurance company buildings. They had an entire floor made for entertainment. Coffee lounges, different colored walls and wall murals, table tennis, even a few ps4’s. What’s funny is that I didn’t see anybody there throughout the entire time that I was working lol. Simply make your workers believe that they have “benefits, and a positive workspace” and they won’t complain about low wages.
I worked at a building where the entire top floor was lounges with nice windows outside and there were TVs and gaming consoles. No one used them, they were all in windowless rooms downstairs cranking out contract work for customers. I didn't work for them directly, so I tried to spend as much time as possible upstairs drinking all their coffee.
I once worked in a company that had such recreational rooms. I was never once told how I could use them. At the time I could not understand why they even had them if nobody knew how and when to use them. They were always empty.
I've been contemplating this exact topic for the past week or so. The bizarre idea that working somewhere makes you part of a "family" even though they can obliterate your livelihood and safety in a split second if profits take a dip.
Being honest with yourself indeed hurts, but I cannot run away from knowing it. Trying to cope with it in my early 30's, and I'm so LOST. Cherry on a cake: I'm a marketing professional...
Im in a similar boat of "Well, thats my degree I cant got back now" my way of dealing with it was going back to teach classes at my former Uni (sharing my insight and trying to "wake" up the students) and work for small young buisness and research groups who are actually just a group of friends irl and want to do something non-harmful/for the environment...on a consulting basis. There are good things to do ads for...medical issue awareness campaigns, science communication, certain humanitstian aid programms...
I hate Patagonia I looked up their website first thing I see “black bears and black liberation” how about you pay your black workers a living wage before you virtue signal.
Ey brate! Thank You for being a Nice relatable “Yugoslav” face for us Who Are still extremely depressed at the fact that our boy Tito’s dream fell apart 😩 greetings from the diaspora Druže 🚩
For a recent example of the difference between the workers at my job and the upper management: We're fortunate enough to work from home during the pandemic. This means a lot of meetings over VC so we all see how the others live. Myself and nearly all my colleagues live in small apartments, often with roommates. In some meetings with the higher ups I see rooms with ceilings so high I can literally hear echoing over the mic as someone walks by in the next room. The difference is truly striking.
I'll never know which one of you hit like on the right video and triggered the youtube algorithm to place yugopnik on my recommended feed, but I appreciate you.
I think Japan and South Korea are the perfect example of this. Not only are they more advanced in technology, but they are also further in their stage of capitalism, where work hours are some of the longest in the world. Their work "culture" is literally killing them, killing their society, their chance to live a normal life (as promised by capitalism). Its almost scary to see how they accept total exploitation as a normal way of life - the dystopia which communism was supposed to bring.
I have found a shift in tactic in a lot of my jobs where instead of "letting down my boss" its "letting down my coworkers". The unspoken element is that, taking an extra 10 minutes on my miserably short 20 minute lunch break (I don't work at this place I am referencing anymore, I took a MASSIVE pay cut to take a job elsewhere right before the Pandemic started for mental health reasons) I am being unfair to the person covering my break (because OBVIOUSLY the machine couldnt stop for 20 minutes! That's about 15 products that wouldnt get made that day) because the company has dictated everything keep running no matter what.
When you said companies want you to treat them like family I was immediately reminded of a big store I used to work at that spat out that exact line. I love the revolutionary tone of your entire channel.
Can you discuss the relationship between capitalism and authority in the classroom? And how a public school teacher can navigate the obedient-worker-shaping force of that kind of power? Thank you
Another great one from you, cheers. As someone who works a job that is basically tuning and polishing large collections of words to be sold on dead trees and contribute to the bloat clogging people's minds (copyeditor in a publishing company)... it's soul-crushing, to say the least. Every day I feel the guilt of adding nothing to the world except carbon dioxide when I exhale, yet I still do my job because it keeps me fed and sheltered. I try to ease the guilt by donating the little extra income that I can, but the rest of the time is just staying submerged in the terrible, wonderful drug we know as the internet, trying to stay entertained, because maybe then I wouldn't have to think about stuff so much.
I honestly sometimes am taken aback when I have a coworker defend the owner of our company super hard. For some reason a few people have this idea that because the owner was involved in activism back during the wtc riots that he somehow isnt an owner who has to look out for their bottom line, though the guy takes care of us, he has paid for housing, helped find housing, he provides a contract with the city we live in to us so we have some work during our off season and he encourages us to soak up unemployment. All that being said he is still in a position of power, and to me just because he has a track record of having our backs and being there for us, the situation cant be called democratic, or an exercise in anarchism, as there are often decisions that happen that do require us to operate the away we are "A bussiness seeking profit". In the end he's a millionaire, his son is a millionaire and we are not. If he turned the bussiness into a coop id have a different opinion. I'm middle management, an it surprises me when people at my level who identify as anarchists and socialists, have taken part in anti union rhetoric. I often ask myself what hell i work in.
reminds me of the feeling when i was fired.....when i considered my boss as a friend being fired felt like a massive betrayal .....messed me up massively
Earlier this year I had to learn about the role of the leaders in an excellent company at uni (my career doesn't have anything to do with economy, don't ask me why I had to learn it) and other bullshit like that regarding the EFQM model. I hope I already know some of the points in the video! Great topic, btw
A living example, the cratered wreck of the USCA to y'alls south is an example of Yugoslavia of today.... a shamble of weak independent republics that are easier for imperialists to exploit and was largely broken up by the USA
Since, as someone in Gen. Z, I've only ever known companies and adverts to use rhetoric like this to try and dodge the reality of work under them / what their business is. It makes me roll my eyes and is part of the reason I went out of my way to avoid going down the business route and stick to jobs that offer more immediate payoff (eventually deciding on emergency medicine. Nothing more immediate than you and your team being directly responsible for whether a patient lives or dies in the next five minutes. Definitely more immediately gratifying than social or commercial work where things never seem to change / get better).
Graeber was one of the greatest people to live in my lifetime. I wish I had the chance to meet him someday just to say to him that what he wrote changed the way I see the world.
Yet another excellent video, drugar. What I would say is even worse is that a lot of those "Friendly Bosses"? They also have bought in entirely on the charade. There are people out there who genuinely think they are friends and coworkers with the people that they have at their mercy as their employees. At that point, what can one even do, really? Both the boss and the worker live in the same delusion.
It's not the same delusion; more like mirror images. The worker can either "buy" the nonsense and beat themselves and their co-workers up for not being good slaves, or get wise to the grift. The employer, OTOH, can either "buy" the lie and feel some sense of obligation to -underlings- _family members_ -- which will put them at odds with the capitalist(s) and any management shills between them and you -- or they can simply not give a fuck, treat workers badly and nothing happens.
The thing is even if people get tired of this bs after a few decades they wont think for themselves. We are bombarded by "nothing news" that occupy the public discourse. By nothing news I mean irrelevant crap, when was the last time that you watched or heard sth and you said to yourself "good to know" or "I'm happy that I'm aware of that"? I think mainstream media isnt designed to make you delusional with their lies. I think its main functionality is wasting peoples time. When you dont see people indifferent to "nothing bs"s then it shows how deep we as a society are stuck.
Blood for the blood god, skulls for the skull throne, comments for the algorithm! Continue to fight the good fight and light the path for those who are to follow comrade.
Not to mention how those "little innocent" games they make you play during orientation or training are actually clandestine tests to reveal certain traits such as competencies in certain roles or how willing you are to be humiliated for the sake of getting along with the "family." Also had a boss who got angry when I called him "Boss," I guess it reminded people that the company is not a family but a system of subjugation and hierarchy. And then there was also my direct supervisor at my first job who was "Jedi mind tricking" me into doing some of his tasks by vaguely suggesting that he was lining me up for a promotion. They think they're so smart. SMH.
Loved reading BS Jobs. Really validated a lot of what I've felt about my working life. My first job out of college was a flunkie/duct-taper combo role. Now I would say that I'm in a duct-taper role that is managed by a box-ticking task master. It never ends lol. Thankfully I realized early on that your job can NEVER be your family.
Hearing artillery in the background from a military base doing some training exercises right as the base kicked in made that alot more intense and great. Keep up the great work!
I was in the school-to-industry pipeline when I first took LSD and saw “the system” for the trap it was. I got my Ivy League degree and then a master’s and went on to work briefly in the non-profit sector at the fringes of corporate America before my spirit finally broke. I learned a trade (carpentry) and paid my dues working on housebuilding crews for years until I developed enough skills and slowly acquired tools to where I could eventually go independent. Now, I relish the transparency of my simple transactions with clients, a one-to-one where I trade my time and skills for the fee I set. It’s not a perfect world, but this at least feels like honest, meaningful work and a fair exchange. FWIW
Except your shooting yourself in the foot because what you refer to as socialism is actually still just CAPITALISM. Because what we are currently living in is NOT LATE CAPITALISM. IT'S GRATIFICATION CAPITALISM. Capitalism the principle itself does not have an expiration date. It is simply a means of getting the highest return from supply and demand. Highest Return = Max Supply && Max Demand over time. Or more mathematically put MaxR(t) = Max X1(t) && Max X2(t)... && Max Xn(t) for n from (n_0) initial n to infinity and t from (t_0) initial t to infinity. This is called the equilibrium point. But you notice that in no point does it refer to money, or strictly materialistic connotations. Even the word profit itself is ultimately up to ones interpretation of what it means. It could literally signify anything such as for example - Social Good. Capitalism just the term by itself is ultimately up to anyone's interpretation of what Capital signifies. It's entirely vague in specifics. Socialism i.e Social Capitalism - Is about utilizing the social collective of individuals to influence and transform the demand of the market to where the profit is the magnitude of the benefit to the embodiment of the society, or maybe it could be the environment - Ecological Capitalism, or a country - Nationalist Capitalism, or a planet, Planetary Capitalism, etc. And maybe it could be over the course of 1 quarter, or 5 years, or 30 years. or a 100 years, or a Millennia, etc.
@@ricker024 capital is not “up to interpretation”. It’s the value of labor extracted from workers, that is controlled by someone other than the worker, ie The Boss aka The Capitalist.
@@Bojoschannel I've never seen a single alt-right channel outside of blackpilled mention how the corporate environment works mainly because these petite-bourgeoisie never worked a day in their life or joined the army and skipped the corporate ladder because if they actually showed how that work environment is like they would know that the field of business administration as nothing to do with building a business or being a capitalist and that capitalism is not about competition or trading goods, but is rather a fields for exploitation and capitalist lies.
Just found this channel, too good, too good. Also holy shit, i was not expecting to hear an Aesop Rock clip but here we are. I'm about to dive into your channel, thanks bro
Thank you so much, tovarish! So fed up with exploitation and hypocrisy on my bullshit jobs that ready to quit and became lumpen or revolutionary ✊🏻✊✊🏼✊🏿
I was born in a town that lives off of tourism. Its basically resort owners and the rest of us who work for them. They pulled this shit on the workers for decades. People here meekly accept working conditions that are blatantly illegal. When I point it out, they say we should be grateful that they give us a job. It's so sad to see my own mother, who's been exploited her whole life and will never get the benefits she deserves for working so much, defending the employers and looking at me weird when I talk about unionizing. It's like she understands it's not fair, but she doesn't place the blame on the employers.
Whether it's tourism, coal mining or nuclear waste disposal, one-industry towns are all like that. Frankly, cities are the same too except that you can go from capitalist to capitalist, being exploited by each in turn. From here to there, comrade. ✊🛠
I am only halfway through it but I wanted to thank you, comrade, for yet another excellent piece. As soon as I find a job and am not at the brink of homelessness I will gladly contribute ...
One situation I'll never forget: When I was younger, I wanted to go into advertising. My City is plagued by a lot of ad agencies and they do an open-door day, once a year. I was one of these events, when they wheeled out a young woman, a working student. Yellowish pale skin, a bit sweaty and dark black bags under her eyes. The only other time I saw someone looking like that, was when I was in my early twenties and my friend drank 2 litres of Wodka by himself. Anyway, that agency was one of those that'll "grant you entrance anywhere when you have them on your CV" and my god did they know it. She the proceed to talk about how she'd be in the office by 7 am, work without break until 11 pm, go home, study for university until 2 am and then do the same thing the next day. And she was FORKONG PROUD OF IT!
I got fired from red rooster (shitty Australian fast food chain) because I clocked in and clocked out directly on time. I don’t give a shit if there’s a ton of orders I’m not doing an hour of unpaid overtime. It’s not like they are gonna be understaffed someone was gonna be there to replace me when my shift was. My co-workers and manager will never be my family.
11:10 I was a ducttaper at Albert Heijn in Netherlands. At the end of each shift at the warehouse, we'd check the bottoms of the shelves to see if the wide blue bars were put there properly so that the products that have fallen during the shift didn't get kicked under the shelves. The blue bars would be put there in a ducttape kinda way because there was no standardized mechanism to lock them in there, so they usually were just laying there and would move/break by a slightest impact. It baffled me - why the fuck do we have to keep fixing those bars every fucking shift instead of just one or two people being assigned, for a couple shifts, to find out a way to lock those bars in and fix ALL of them?
Ships are usually registered in Panama or Liberia to a shell company so that when something happens they can avoid taxes and didn't take responsibility for the ship
Too true. I worked a long time at a small company where I had tremendous agency and power over how we did things including ethical boundaries because we were small and they needed me. Because of the pandemic and other circumstances I ended up taking a job at one of the bigger companies and it really hits you immediately that you're working for the bad guys, you're constantly fed bs and asked to work unpaid hours (but I manage to refuse because I'm not an irresponsible goblin that is going to make everyone less experienced follow suit while earning even less...). It drives me crazy, I went from a really fulfilling job to the literal Marxist hell of being reduced to one part of an assembly line that just hammers the nail over and over on a machine no one likes. And you really do run into these corporate sociopaths who try to gain your trust and then use it as leverage while they do hardly any work... To be honest I dont see a real answer to it, I'm not someone who looks at history and can't see the realities of political revolutions. It's a fundamental problem of game theory and human greed, of our desire to cooperate versus how opportunistic we become when we see how we can take advantage. Few people truly have a conscience, and even of those who do it is so often obliterated under drug use. To me the best way forward is to craft scenarios where there is no conflict of interests as well as we can, not to hope that the revolutionaries will magically not turn out to be just as corrupt and evil as those they replaced. And for what it's worth the lie is a little better than the old brutality of early industrialism, because even a lie still needs to have a grain of truth to fool us. We're being used but we can take time off. We're not paid as much as we could be but we can afford some nice things. At least if you have a skillset that isnt yet flooded in the market.
You just described me in that sentence about the marketing person... Lately I've been mostly feeling as a fraud that only pushes products on people... So sad.
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Hvala ti za ovo 100 puta, neke zivotne dileme si mi sad resio, jedne od najvaznijih. Da nam obrazovanje necemu vredi ljudi kao ti bi bili profesori na fakultetima, a ne korumpirani tatini sinovi. Pozdrav, i sve najbolje.
This was good. You got yourself a new Patreon.
Shit , loved the final song, what's the name of it?
Cheers and thank you, camarada, desde los Andes Colombianos.
Yeah comrade, I need to know where to find that banging tune too. Please!
It's so nice to feel vindicated once in a while. My colleagues usually call me a cynic when I refer to internal mail and newsletters from the communication department as corporate propaganda.
Validated you mean
Mine ask me why I "hate the company so much" 🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️
Careful showing your true colors around colleagues. It may give them significant leverage should a promotion between you or them ever arise. Or make you one of the first to get let go during a downsizing. I know it's a lighthearted remark and that you are still a hardworking individual, but that may not get across when HR puts that dreaded note in your file.
@@akshayde vindicated - free of suspicion and justified in belief
That must be really gas lighting. Solidarity
"Living life with both eyes open can get a bit daunting and tiring at times" I love this. Sadly it's all too true.
Its ironic in my case since when i was working my left eye gets dry so i close em.
Being insufferable at parties hahahaha shit u got me
He is right on feeling cursed by knowledge. Sometimes i wish i could unlearn it, but at the same time, i don't want to be a braindead slave 5imping for his masters.
One of the reasons that bulkshit jobs are so infuriating to me as a public school teacher is that so many people and so many resources are propping up bloated private, useless enterprises when we never have enough people or resources to do crucial things like educating children. A drug company will give out thousands of pens that won’t be used as advertisements while I can’t get any funding to buy pens and pencils for my children. We have Tshirts for energy companies shot out of canons at sporting events while my kids barely have uniforms. Our society has the resources to fix these problems. We choose not to in favor of making trash.
THANK YOU!
The wonders of capitalism!
I get so angry at this! Our teachers should be given the utmost respect and funding for any project they deem worthy. Instead they are often shit on instead....
same
Why not be angry at people having unplanned children to program them into future slaves for the elite? If people cared about the welfare of their children they wouldn't bring them into the world to receive a second rate education in a corrupt society. Providing pens and T shirts is waaay cheaper than providing for children period. There are many bogus teachers out here just clocking in to do a job - they're not necessarily helping make children any smarter. Is the state getting a return on its expenditure in education with such high drop out rates? As a matter of fact I don't see teachers as anything special. They're mostly just lowly paid nannies and babysitters period.
@@TheQueenIsWithin Are you proposing that people..... stop having children? At all?
I've always hated when all the work's been done and you still gotta find some BS to do, because you're on the clock and heaven forbid workers have a chance to chill. 🙄
That situation is extra annoying if you're constantly leaving late and aren't "allowed" to leave early on days that the work is finished early.
You can always walk around with a clipboard and look at things while writing
@@aprilk141 Situational at best - very difficult to do in a factory/plant setting
@@no.6377 You arrive early and leave late all the time but arriving late once is an issue
That's why you work at a slower pace and you can or start doing things for your side hustle while on the job.
Extremely based as always
I work for a company that does full-spectrum internal employee propaganda. Many complain it feels like a cult.
Show them this vid comrade, let them attain class consciousness.
Quit or form a cult within a cult. Two negatives make a positive
Same, it's probably an transnational corporation these days.
@@edwinsaji53 and earn a one way ticket to the Gulag of unemployment?
@@edwinsaji53 never show your true colors around your colleagues
I just went to a careers seminar in my university and they really pressed the "smile all the time" and "don't mention any negative experiences". Going on LinkedIn is a serious hellscape of empty platitudes and self congratulatory behavior. I used to think these people were so deep I couldn't understand them but I now realise I don't understand them because they never say anything of meaning
Yeah it's miracle adulthood depression isn't a normal by now, when most people are forced to do jobs they don't like for money to pay for necessities they can't afford and consumerist crap that they don't need.
@@nomoredamnnamestouse Oh but it is dear, it is.
If you like top quality LinkedIn cringe, you should look at the recruiting hell sub on Reddit
God damn, I've wanted to here someone else say that for so long.
Any worker who uses LinkedIn for anything other than having an online profile to get recruited for better jobs is a psychopath. I cringe every time anyone I know actually posts something on there. Tends to be the MBAs who are desperately trying to buy into the propaganda enough to achieve the life and prestige they've been sold on.
Kek, >loyalty to your boss.
Oldest trick in the book, used since the dawn of class system. Like how do people still fall for it, it was used to preserve and justify systems which came before, even though they're considered immoral.
It is indeed the oldest trick in the book, but I would say that this trick has immensely been expanded in the last 60 years...
@@richneuro6121 and they are getting very upset if you not buying it))
Thanks for bringing up David Graeber. I think Bullshit Jobs is one of the best books out there to convince people that there's something seriously wrong with capitalism.
Another point he makes in the book is that many real jobs exist to support bullshit jobs. For example, the janitor who cleans the office building where bullshit work is done. My job as a software developer is fun and interesting, but the product I'm creating is used for stupid purposes like evaluating marketing strategies. I feel so bad for the people whose job it is to use my software. I do my best to create something good, but its purpose is to do bullshit work. So eliminating bullshit jobs would also eliminate the need for these support jobs, making the real necessary work week even shorter.
I'm young and still in school and its a breath of fresh air to see this type of content on UA-cam. Normally my feed is filled with right wing capitalist content and it bothers me because I feel like I'm missing out valid view points that I never get to hear. Thank you for your content, its opened me up to new way of thinking.
check out hakim, hes also very litterate in these topics
Bro I feel you, O hate the bullshit propaganda not just on youtube, but in school. Like thay care more about Stalin than I do, AND IM A COMMUNIST. Anyway check out hakim and second thought if youre a baby leftist. I am too, only been a marxist for lile 2 years.
And JT 😊👍🏻
and their respective OFs
I remember when I realized I couldn't really have a meaningful job as an artist (this is my personal experience so if yours is different.. Good on ya). I was just out of highschool and I wasn't political yet. I just knew it wouldn't be possible unless I comprimised to bend to the "art market" or stay principled but not make enough money to help my family - my passion would just be a hobby. It was a crushing day. Lol...lol.. -__-
Don’t be ridiculous. I am a full time freelance artist and I make enough to afford nice things. You just gotta know how to sell your expertise
@@igorlukyan206 Okie dokie
@@igorlukyan206 easier said than done i say...
Its tough lol. Please don't quit though. 🙏🙏. I can understand your choice tbh.
@@kamilareeder1493 He said that he wanted to help his family. Just sticking with art is pretty unpractical.
This video was just what I needed to watch while on break at my job. They're already pulling this bullshit on us, telling us that we're a team, family etc. But, for some reason if we were to say, exercise our right to unionize and collectively bargain, we'd all be fired in an instant because of the bullshit "at will" clause in the employee contract. Nevertheless, this video was well made, well put together and very much needed to encourage more pro worker discourse in today's society
Liberalism in a nutshell: You can have all the rights and freedoms except those that actually matter to your livelihood, especially when it comes to your wallet in the latter.
What I love is when they hire people along with their whole family and expect them to do majority of the work without hesitation for exactly the reason you stated they think it will be easier to get them to go along with the herd mentality
I remember once I was doing construction as an apprentice, and one of the job sites was one of those insurance company buildings. They had an entire floor made for entertainment. Coffee lounges, different colored walls and wall murals, table tennis, even a few ps4’s. What’s funny is that I didn’t see anybody there throughout the entire time that I was working lol. Simply make your workers believe that they have “benefits, and a positive workspace” and they won’t complain about low wages.
I worked at a building where the entire top floor was lounges with nice windows outside and there were TVs and gaming consoles. No one used them, they were all in windowless rooms downstairs cranking out contract work for customers. I didn't work for them directly, so I tried to spend as much time as possible upstairs drinking all their coffee.
Was your job unionized?
I once worked in a company that had such recreational rooms. I was never once told how I could use them. At the time I could not understand why they even had them if nobody knew how and when to use them. They were always empty.
I've been contemplating this exact topic for the past week or so.
The bizarre idea that working somewhere makes you part of a "family" even though they can obliterate your livelihood and safety in a split second if profits take a dip.
Being honest with yourself indeed hurts, but I cannot run away from knowing it. Trying to cope with it in my early 30's, and I'm so LOST. Cherry on a cake: I'm a marketing professional...
Im in a similar boat of "Well, thats my degree I cant got back now" my way of dealing with it was going back to teach classes at my former Uni (sharing my insight and trying to "wake" up the students) and work for small young buisness and research groups who are actually just a group of friends irl and want to do something non-harmful/for the environment...on a consulting basis. There are good things to do ads for...medical issue awareness campaigns, science communication, certain humanitstian aid programms...
One day I shall have a fine Patagonia vest like my boss.
Patagonia is pretty good tho for camping. I got one 9 years ago and I called them after it wore down last year and they replaced it for free.
I hate Patagonia I looked up their website first thing I see “black bears and black liberation” how about you pay your black workers a living wage before you virtue signal.
@@JefferyQuinoa a lot of their stuff is fairtrade (83% according to their website)
@@kairos5234 Yeah and they promote reusing or repairing old clothes rather than most capitalist companies that enforce consumerism.
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Ey brate! Thank You for being a Nice relatable “Yugoslav” face for us Who Are still extremely depressed at the fact that our boy Tito’s dream fell apart 😩 greetings from the diaspora Druže 🚩
Forever and ever živela Jugoslavija in our hearts. -another one from the diaspora
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For a recent example of the difference between the workers at my job and the upper management:
We're fortunate enough to work from home during the pandemic. This means a lot of meetings over VC so we all see how the others live. Myself and nearly all my colleagues live in small apartments, often with roommates.
In some meetings with the higher ups I see rooms with ceilings so high I can literally hear echoing over the mic as someone walks by in the next room. The difference is truly striking.
It really is kind of insane how people will feel thankful to be exploited... I'd never really thought that through before
I'll never know which one of you hit like on the right video and triggered the youtube algorithm to place yugopnik on my recommended feed, but I appreciate you.
I think Japan and South Korea are the perfect example of this. Not only are they more advanced in technology, but they are also further in their stage of capitalism, where work hours are some of the longest in the world. Their work "culture" is literally killing them, killing their society, their chance to live a normal life (as promised by capitalism). Its almost scary to see how they accept total exploitation as a normal way of life - the dystopia which communism was supposed to bring.
I have found a shift in tactic in a lot of my jobs where instead of "letting down my boss" its "letting down my coworkers".
The unspoken element is that, taking an extra 10 minutes on my miserably short 20 minute lunch break (I don't work at this place I am referencing anymore, I took a MASSIVE pay cut to take a job elsewhere right before the Pandemic started for mental health reasons) I am being unfair to the person covering my break (because OBVIOUSLY the machine couldnt stop for 20 minutes! That's about 15 products that wouldnt get made that day) because the company has dictated everything keep running no matter what.
Laal salaam(red salute) from India tovarisch.
Is it just me or does that "Company = Family" reminds of literaly Facism and the Organic State?
Yup..
this concept is so creepy to me, it gives me a similar reaction as if some 50 yr old creep starts calling some underage girl cute.
Corporations are literary Dictatorships
Oh boy, I can't wait for to see this.
Hope I don't disappoint 😥
You never do
@@YUGOPNIK Your videos are great! So much care and consideration is put into each section
When you said companies want you to treat them like family I was immediately reminded of a big store I used to work at that spat out that exact line. I love the revolutionary tone of your entire channel.
Can you discuss the relationship between capitalism and authority in the classroom? And how a public school teacher can navigate the obedient-worker-shaping force of that kind of power? Thank you
Good thinking! This is a good topic I'd support.
Another great one from you, cheers.
As someone who works a job that is basically tuning and polishing large collections of words to be sold on dead trees and contribute to the bloat clogging people's minds (copyeditor in a publishing company)... it's soul-crushing, to say the least. Every day I feel the guilt of adding nothing to the world except carbon dioxide when I exhale, yet I still do my job because it keeps me fed and sheltered. I try to ease the guilt by donating the little extra income that I can, but the rest of the time is just staying submerged in the terrible, wonderful drug we know as the internet, trying to stay entertained, because maybe then I wouldn't have to think about stuff so much.
I honestly sometimes am taken aback when I have a coworker defend the owner of our company super hard. For some reason a few people have this idea that because the owner was involved in activism back during the wtc riots that he somehow isnt an owner who has to look out for their bottom line, though the guy takes care of us, he has paid for housing, helped find housing, he provides a contract with the city we live in to us so we have some work during our off season and he encourages us to soak up unemployment. All that being said he is still in a position of power, and to me just because he has a track record of having our backs and being there for us, the situation cant be called democratic, or an exercise in anarchism, as there are often decisions that happen that do require us to operate the away we are "A bussiness seeking profit". In the end he's a millionaire, his son is a millionaire and we are not. If he turned the bussiness into a coop id have a different opinion.
I'm middle management, an it surprises me when people at my level who identify as anarchists and socialists, have taken part in anti union rhetoric.
I often ask myself what hell i work in.
Once again Comrade Yugopnik pops up to spit nothing but facts ✊🏻
We all now that this gonna be good.
reminds me of the feeling when i was fired.....when i considered my boss as a friend being fired felt like a massive betrayal .....messed me up massively
Hearing you talk about BP rebranding while watching the satellite footage of the spill is a fucking punch in the stomach. Well played
Earlier this year I had to learn about the role of the leaders in an excellent company at uni (my career doesn't have anything to do with economy, don't ask me why I had to learn it) and other bullshit like that regarding the EFQM model.
I hope I already know some of the points in the video! Great topic, btw
Greetings from the american Yugoslavia (México)!
A living example, the cratered wreck of the USCA to y'alls south is an example of Yugoslavia of today.... a shamble of weak independent republics that are easier for imperialists to exploit and was largely broken up by the USA
@@McHobotheBobo we're also alcoholics! xD
Un gusto ver a otro camarada mexicano por aquí! Saludos desde CDMX
Since, as someone in Gen. Z, I've only ever known companies and adverts to use rhetoric like this to try and dodge the reality of work under them / what their business is. It makes me roll my eyes and is part of the reason I went out of my way to avoid going down the business route and stick to jobs that offer more immediate payoff (eventually deciding on emergency medicine. Nothing more immediate than you and your team being directly responsible for whether a patient lives or dies in the next five minutes. Definitely more immediately gratifying than social or commercial work where things never seem to change / get better).
Shows how the system makes families crappy.
I dont mean disrespect but this shows a lack of grown up talk.
I'm ready
Got a nice advert in the middle of this video about how sustainability has been at the centre of Amazon’s business model for years 🤔
Yeah...sustainability of profit!
Graeber was one of the greatest people to live in my lifetime. I wish I had the chance to meet him someday just to say to him that what he wrote changed the way I see the world.
This is a gold amazing content here.
I never realized that I've been exploited this whole time.
Those family approach is indeed dangerous.
Remember: disillusioned is a bad word in our society.
Yet another excellent video, drugar. What I would say is even worse is that a lot of those "Friendly Bosses"? They also have bought in entirely on the charade. There are people out there who genuinely think they are friends and coworkers with the people that they have at their mercy as their employees. At that point, what can one even do, really? Both the boss and the worker live in the same delusion.
It's not the same delusion; more like mirror images. The worker can either "buy" the nonsense and beat themselves and their co-workers up for not being good slaves, or get wise to the grift.
The employer, OTOH, can either "buy" the lie and feel some sense of obligation to -underlings- _family members_ -- which will put them at odds with the capitalist(s) and any management shills between them and you -- or they can simply not give a fuck, treat workers badly and nothing happens.
The thing is even if people get tired of this bs after a few decades they wont think for themselves. We are bombarded by "nothing news" that occupy the public discourse. By nothing news I mean irrelevant crap, when was the last time that you watched or heard sth and you said to yourself "good to know" or "I'm happy that I'm aware of that"?
I think mainstream media isnt designed to make you delusional with their lies. I think its main functionality is wasting peoples time. When you dont see people indifferent to "nothing bs"s then it shows how deep we as a society are stuck.
I’ve never had so many Praeger U & Hillsdale College ads in one video! The Capitalist propagandists have really targeted this channel’s audience.
Let them waste their dollars
Mashallah daddy Yugopnik has uploaded
I think your videos are informative and of a high quality. Unlike the most you see on UA-cam. Thank you for making these videos.
This was excellent. I've been thinking about a similar project for a while. Thank you.
Blood for the blood god, skulls for the skull throne, comments for the algorithm!
Continue to fight the good fight and light the path for those who are to follow comrade.
That outtro was the most fire shit I've ever heard. Every word is pure truth. I literally smiled at the end. Preach brother!
Not to mention how those "little innocent" games they make you play during orientation or training are actually clandestine tests to reveal certain traits such as competencies in certain roles or how willing you are to be humiliated for the sake of getting along with the "family." Also had a boss who got angry when I called him "Boss," I guess it reminded people that the company is not a family but a system of subjugation and hierarchy. And then there was also my direct supervisor at my first job who was "Jedi mind tricking" me into doing some of his tasks by vaguely suggesting that he was lining me up for a promotion. They think they're so smart. SMH.
Another form of comedy is brand loyalty - customer loyalty to the brand.
Loved reading BS Jobs. Really validated a lot of what I've felt about my working life. My first job out of college was a flunkie/duct-taper combo role. Now I would say that I'm in a duct-taper role that is managed by a box-ticking task master. It never ends lol. Thankfully I realized early on that your job can NEVER be your family.
Hearing artillery in the background from a military base doing some training exercises right as the base kicked in made that alot more intense and great. Keep up the great work!
This is definitely one of your greatest hits. awesome job
I was in the school-to-industry pipeline when I first took LSD and saw “the system” for the trap it was. I got my Ivy League degree and then a master’s and went on to work briefly in the non-profit sector at the fringes of corporate America before my spirit finally broke. I learned a trade (carpentry) and paid my dues working on housebuilding crews for years until I developed enough skills and slowly acquired tools to where I could eventually go independent. Now, I relish the transparency of my simple transactions with clients, a one-to-one where I trade my time and skills for the fee I set. It’s not a perfect world, but this at least feels like honest, meaningful work and a fair exchange. FWIW
This video went so god damn hard. Fucking banger.
Capitalism isn't based, Socialism is.
I'd go as far as to say capitalism is cringe
@@Bojoschannel For sure
Except your shooting yourself in the foot because what you refer to as socialism is actually still just CAPITALISM. Because what we are currently living in is NOT LATE CAPITALISM. IT'S GRATIFICATION CAPITALISM. Capitalism the principle itself does not have an expiration date.
It is simply a means of getting the highest return from supply and demand.
Highest Return = Max Supply && Max Demand over time. Or more mathematically put MaxR(t) = Max X1(t) && Max X2(t)... && Max Xn(t) for n from (n_0) initial n to infinity and t from (t_0) initial t to infinity. This is called the equilibrium point. But you notice that in no point does it refer to money, or strictly materialistic connotations. Even the word profit itself is ultimately up to ones interpretation of what it means. It could literally signify anything such as for example - Social Good. Capitalism just the term by itself is ultimately up to anyone's interpretation of what Capital signifies. It's entirely vague in specifics.
Socialism i.e Social Capitalism - Is about utilizing the social collective of individuals to influence and transform the demand of the market to where the profit is the magnitude of the benefit to the embodiment of the society, or maybe it could be the environment - Ecological Capitalism, or a country - Nationalist Capitalism, or a planet, Planetary Capitalism, etc. And maybe it could be over the course of 1 quarter, or 5 years, or 30 years. or a 100 years, or a Millennia, etc.
@@ricker024 capital is not “up to interpretation”. It’s the value of labor extracted from workers, that is controlled by someone other than the worker, ie The Boss aka The Capitalist.
@@Bojoschannel I've never seen a single alt-right channel outside of blackpilled mention how the corporate environment works mainly because these petite-bourgeoisie never worked a day in their life or joined the army and skipped the corporate ladder because if they actually showed how that work environment is like they would know that the field of business administration as nothing to do with building a business or being a capitalist and that capitalism is not about competition or trading goods, but is rather a fields for exploitation and capitalist lies.
Thanks, tovarishch! ✊ I loved Sorry to Bother You ... the idea of recuperation makes me really sad partly because of that film.
Wonderful video man. I relate to this one quite a lot having previously worked in PR myself.
The ad I got before this video was a guy waving around money talking about "how to become a millionaire" lol talk about ironic
I get these all the time, started popping up in the last monthish
@@McHobotheBobo Same
I got an ad for the U.S military
@@lupitan4350 I get them as text messages
@@lupitan4350 When your living in such a dystopia where your country needs to advertise you in order to fight for them.
Just found this channel, too good, too good. Also holy shit, i was not expecting to hear an Aesop Rock clip but here we are. I'm about to dive into your channel, thanks bro
Thank you so much, tovarish! So fed up with exploitation and hypocrisy on my bullshit jobs that ready to quit and became lumpen or revolutionary ✊🏻✊✊🏼✊🏿
I got so excited to see your video! Then I realized I had to wait for it....
Ahhhhhh, the unexpected joy's of delayed gratification....
Abusive relationships.
YUGOPNIK is making this boring dystopia sound like an epic dystopia
I was born in a town that lives off of tourism. Its basically resort owners and the rest of us who work for them.
They pulled this shit on the workers for decades. People here meekly accept working conditions that are blatantly illegal. When I point it out, they say we should be grateful that they give us a job.
It's so sad to see my own mother, who's been exploited her whole life and will never get the benefits she deserves for working so much, defending the employers and looking at me weird when I talk about unionizing. It's like she understands it's not fair, but she doesn't place the blame on the employers.
Whether it's tourism, coal mining or nuclear waste disposal, one-industry towns are all like that. Frankly, cities are the same too except that you can go from capitalist to capitalist, being exploited by each in turn.
From here to there, comrade. ✊🛠
Is Hakim arab Yugopnik, or is Yugopnik slavic Hakim?
The eternal question
Well, they both are living in my heart rent free no hetero UwU
Is Hakim arab or a Kurd?
@@XHitsugaX Arab.
@@XHitsugaX Iraqi Arab.
I am only halfway through it but I wanted to thank you, comrade, for yet another excellent piece.
As soon as I find a job and am not at the brink of homelessness I will gladly contribute ...
Do ya ever like a video so much, love the way it makes you feel, that you just watch it back to back?
Our comrade must get more subscribers. This is quality content.
my bosses are my family when they need a favor; they're my colleagues when it's time to end my contract
This is gonna be great. I can already tell.
RIP David Graeber, wish his brilliant voice was still around
I feel this way too much. Boss tells me "you should feel inspired" or "these projects are for you and not me" Such bullshit
One situation I'll never forget: When I was younger, I wanted to go into advertising. My City is plagued by a lot of ad agencies and they do an open-door day, once a year.
I was one of these events, when they wheeled out a young woman, a working student. Yellowish pale skin, a bit sweaty and dark black bags under her eyes. The only other time I saw someone looking like that, was when I was in my early twenties and my friend drank 2 litres of Wodka by himself.
Anyway, that agency was one of those that'll "grant you entrance anywhere when you have them on your CV" and my god did they know it.
She the proceed to talk about how she'd be in the office by 7 am, work without break until 11 pm, go home, study for university until 2 am and then do the same thing the next day. And she was FORKONG PROUD OF IT!
Why am i finding this channel only now?? This is a goldmine!
I got fired from red rooster (shitty Australian fast food chain) because I clocked in and clocked out directly on time. I don’t give a shit if there’s a ton of orders I’m not doing an hour of unpaid overtime. It’s not like they are gonna be understaffed someone was gonna be there to replace me when my shift was. My co-workers and manager will never be my family.
11:10 I was a ducttaper at Albert Heijn in Netherlands. At the end of each shift at the warehouse, we'd check the bottoms of the shelves to see if the wide blue bars were put there properly so that the products that have fallen during the shift didn't get kicked under the shelves. The blue bars would be put there in a ducttape kinda way because there was no standardized mechanism to lock them in there, so they usually were just laying there and would move/break by a slightest impact. It baffled me - why the fuck do we have to keep fixing those bars every fucking shift instead of just one or two people being assigned, for a couple shifts, to find out a way to lock those bars in and fix ALL of them?
Your observation at the end, with the linoleum cut print image...was powerfully written and recited
This'll be good. Can't wait.
Leaving da comment for engagement on the algorithm
Your work is really important Comrade, thanks
Hey Comrade just here waiting for the premiere
Ships are usually registered in Panama or Liberia to a shell company so that when something happens they can avoid taxes and didn't take responsibility for the ship
really informative video, great stuff! sent this to my friend, who thinks socialism is impossible in our world with so many people rejecting socialism
Your work always kicks ass, comrade. Thank you
Hope this stimulated the algorithm like the subject matter of this video has stimulated me
“Speaking of b******* industries”
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Bernays was Freud's nephew, not cousin.
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Sometimes, an arsehole is just an arsehole.
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Kudos to you, moj prijatelj!
Your voice is soft as thunder, your words soothing as tiger's roar.
Спасибо за видео. Я думал что не могу ненавидеть свою работу еще больше чем есть.........я ошибался.
The background video is Max Cooper's Repetition music video if anyone was wondering. Highly recommended
Love the inspirational speech (and the dope soundtrack) at the end.
So cool to see you cover Bullshit Jobs! RIP David Graeber ❤️
If the business was a family they wouldn't abandon you for just falling behind on quotas.
hell yeah
Too true. I worked a long time at a small company where I had tremendous agency and power over how we did things including ethical boundaries because we were small and they needed me. Because of the pandemic and other circumstances I ended up taking a job at one of the bigger companies and it really hits you immediately that you're working for the bad guys, you're constantly fed bs and asked to work unpaid hours (but I manage to refuse because I'm not an irresponsible goblin that is going to make everyone less experienced follow suit while earning even less...). It drives me crazy, I went from a really fulfilling job to the literal Marxist hell of being reduced to one part of an assembly line that just hammers the nail over and over on a machine no one likes. And you really do run into these corporate sociopaths who try to gain your trust and then use it as leverage while they do hardly any work...
To be honest I dont see a real answer to it, I'm not someone who looks at history and can't see the realities of political revolutions. It's a fundamental problem of game theory and human greed, of our desire to cooperate versus how opportunistic we become when we see how we can take advantage. Few people truly have a conscience, and even of those who do it is so often obliterated under drug use.
To me the best way forward is to craft scenarios where there is no conflict of interests as well as we can, not to hope that the revolutionaries will magically not turn out to be just as corrupt and evil as those they replaced. And for what it's worth the lie is a little better than the old brutality of early industrialism, because even a lie still needs to have a grain of truth to fool us. We're being used but we can take time off. We're not paid as much as we could be but we can afford some nice things. At least if you have a skillset that isnt yet flooded in the market.
I've smoked weed for thirty years, and my morals are at least as intact as yours.
You just described me in that sentence about the marketing person... Lately I've been mostly feeling as a fraud that only pushes products on people... So sad.
If ignorance is bliss, knock the smile off my face!
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