Passive Aggressive emails in the workplace
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- Опубліковано 23 січ 2022
- Passive aggressive emails in the workplace can be horrible
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I'm fairly confident that if Alan finally reached his limit and quit, that entire place would fall apart. lol
It's actually quite a good feeling when you leave a job and drive by after a few months to find they're out of business.
@@neowolf09 O.o that should be a season Arc......Alan finally has enough and either takes his vacation or quits, the store slowly falls apart in a few episodes only for Alan to come back from vacation or come in as a customer only to be begged to return
I'm surprised they're still in business due to Ellie's current pay!😆
Can't quit without Rowan's permission. It's been tried before. There is no escape.
@@FlaminKanami her high pay is offset by the other's low pay... it all works out ok in the end. For Ellie anyway...
It feels like Alan is the only sane logical person in that work environment.
You mean adam
That's clearly adam
I think you mean Rowan. Rowan's the black shirt.
Alan : You are going to repeat what i say. And only what i say. Nod if you understand
andre : (nod
Alan : It feels like Alan is the only sane logical person...
andre : It feels like Alan is...
...and then you watched him deal with someone who games on a mac...
@@HandleDisliker no that's obviously ben
"At your earliest convienience Alan, please feel free to care about your job." -Adam.
omg, hahahaha. XD
@be good WHAT. THE. F. IS THAT VIDEO BRO
Report
"this is bullying"
atlast Alan acknowledged his problem ever since he started working for playtech
Everyone has a dark side :)
@JZ's Best Friend i cant relate enough
@@sherylcorbett8283 that is not rightful justification for such behavior.
@@NightLancerX so truee. ♡
Uh oh. Im sorry. my comment is incomplete. 🤣 I'm talking about their character. I meant to say, I notice that everyone has a dark side. 😁
Allan called Rowan a piece of sht for liking the Phantom of Menace. He even said he hates that he know Rowan. This made Rowan speechless.
He killed someone for wanting to use Mac for gaming
He intimated Adam on his first day of Job. He made Adam cry.
He participated in the walk of shame. (To shame Adam)
He killed his childhood bestfriend.
I feel bad for Allan. really. I think what I'm trying to say is it's pretty interesting to see everyone's Dark side in this series and I love the diversity of their character. ✌
It’s the problem with most work places. Hence why Alan will never quit. Also hence why Bored is so relatable 😆
Ah yes, the feeling of being left out is completely explained here with accurate emotions, nicely done, LOL.
When they describe these mundane occasions you can always tell that at least one of them felt the same emotion irl, since they reproduce it so vividly. Great acting but also great writing
The feeling of being left out seems to be primal universal fear that drives a lot of behaviour.
Too relatable in retail. I've been a carer/caterer/ESL-teacher/sales-assistant and something about retail makes people behave like they are 14 year old girls gossiping constantly behind peoples backs instead of actually talking directly. Doesn't matter about age either, in fact the older (literally people in their 60s) and longer they've worked in retail the more like this they are it's bizarre.
Literally a 60 something grandparent at work leaves me little notes about what I didn't do (without realising I was on a different duty and couldn't even do the thing, or wasn't even the one who did the thing wrong), and then when I try to have a grown up talk about it immediately runs away like a 13 year old.
Hahaha 🤣
"Regarding the hostile work environment"
Immediately starts talking crap with everyone else in the building over email
😆 Poor Alan gets my total sympathy!
I had a coworker who sat in a neighboring cube, we literally shared a ‘wall’. I could roll my chair back about a foot to lean around the divider and see her.
She would wait until I was on a call and then send me an email about whatever her latest gripe was. She’d always note ‘I was going to talk to you about this, but you’re on a call.’
Not to mention we have a chat function available. So, just to annoy her further, I’d reply to her emails via the chat. And, naturally, she’d email her reply… it was ridic.
So, all the hugs for Alan!! 🤗
She: I can't talk. But I will email
You: Then I will chat
She: thats... thats illegal
It'd be funny if you changed the interface each time. Shoot her some messages on Google Hangouts, throw in some Skype, then end it with some choice words in a nice-smelling letter with some candy.
Bet she thought she was being clever with the phone thing.
@@DrSwazz 🤣😂 I wish I’d thought of that! There was the temptation to toss paper airplanes over the ‘wall’. But, I’d have gotten another email asking me to ‘refrain from childish shenanigans’. LOL
@@nardalis4832 omg, did you know her? 😃🤣. Yeah, that was basically her reaction the first time I messaged her. She actually tried to say that she didn’t see the chat notifications, so she preferred email… I kindly offered to help her make sure her chat settings were setup correctly. She had to begrudgingly give in.
I wonder when Alan is going to contact corporate and get his old job back. That would be hilarious
When did they establish Alan worked for corporate?
Maybe one day he will be manager again
@@lorrdy7640
That'd be a demotion. He's the SUPER manager!
Rowan IS corporate
@@DreamWizardMedia
He never said he worked for corporate
Adam, you're being a bit of a Rowan. And that is coming from someone called Rowan.
Lol
I heard that pets and their owners sometimes look and act the same.
Are you saying that you are a jerk and a manager 😂
Seconded by second Rowan.
This comment chain is golden
This gave me anxiety on how much this reminded me of a similar situation I’ve been in. It’s all smiles in person, but anger is expressed through e-mail.
Hey Sam! How are you? Hope you're doing great! 😀
..
Check your mail please.
I remember at one job - respond to them via email if you need to, don't talk to them. Really, you are certain you want me to do this? Yes, it is your job. Okay, I can tell this won't go well. Didn't respond to any emails which didn't need a direct response, just do the work and mark it done on the schedule, print, turn in to the 3 manager/boss. Then I have my managers PISSED because I never emailed them or talked to them. "Didn't you tell me only if I needed to, as in having Q's?" Well yes. "Okay, then, I didn't have any for you, and showed the work was done. I'm not sure I understand the problem." No, you are suppose to email them back. Next time, email them back. "Okay, are you certain you want me to do that?" Yes, just do it. Next time an email came, listing days we are to work, and I sent back, "Got it, printed, will do." You guessed it, still did it wrong. So glad I no longer work at the Tech call in center at UPS.
This reminds me of my time in retail -I like being nice to angry customers it’s funny because you stay chill and they get even angrier
A skill most people don't have.
No point getting angry back, it only prolongs the conflict.
I highly enjoy this as well. I play the village idiot that "just wants to make you happy". It's kinda condescending but at minimum wage I only tolerate so much. Then I put on the characters lol
Why are you smiling?!?
That's part of my job, angry bro.
@@Alfiy_Wolf Nonsense. They can't yell at you anymore if they are unconscious.
Alan to Adam: "I don't bite."
*several hundred episodes earlier*
Alan to Adam: "I killed a man with a golf club, boy!"
Killed the Byron-acted robber, then one of the two armed robbers, I think he's killed Ben once with a sword (or at least was going to until the video ended), and also strangled his friend over the White Shirt
Well he didnt bite
@@TeenPerspektiva You are technically correct. The best kind of correct.
Nod if ya understand
I remember an ex co-worker who first loudly asked everyone who was the one who accidentally left the door of the server door unlocked (it was me), before then sending a mail to the entire department to please take care never to leave the door of the server room unlocked. After me locking the door after him numerous times and only once politely asking him in person to be more careful about that.
I genuinely love watching these videos, but it gets to a point where it hurts to watch alan lose. I wish he won more often.
I agree, but that is the point. Being the only sane person the the constant insanity they put him through. Kind of the born loser character trope.
@@sinisterthoughts2896 Yeah i know but it is so painful to watch.
"genuinely love"
bro the “This is bullying.” at the end is perfect
This completely captures what it’s like to work for the NHS.
🌚
Civil servant here, exactly the same.
Everyone wants to cover their arse so it's a constant stream of Bs
Just openly confess that you do no work and we shouldn't have to be paying for you...
But, shouldnt you just talk to the culprit rather than typing passive aggressive comments on youtube? 😆
Huh a bot that copies a random comment, interesting
being an email guy myself, i find it easier to put all info down into an email rather than talk to a person who tends to interrupt every single point you are trying to make... of course, emailing a person siting right next to you is taking this to another level
no. in fact, if you find emailing to be a far better method of communication, then you should go for it.
@@matthewbarabas3052that’s how communicating works
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I love Adam. He's so dynamic. One video, he can look all quirky and awkward, and the next he can seem suave and domineering. 👍
No matter how badly a conversation is going, you know it’s going to get worse as soon as Rowan walks up 😅
As funny as it might seem, I had a coworker once who did exactly that - she sent emails to me when I was sitting IN FRONT of her, most of the time to mention silly things like 'please close the door'. Aaaah... I miss toxic environments so much.
What the heck.. Asking someone close the door by email.. 😅😂😂😂😂
Nah just mail back: No you close the door. And cc your boss into the convo later on.
Probably because you left the door open, right? :D I had that at home... 10 times in one hour, always had to get up and close it myself because of draft.
Lol
@@Hawky2947 yeah same but I wouldn't e-mail my family members about it
Adam's strong desire to not cause any hurt combined with email access... Beautiful
But he is hurting somebody, actually he is downright malicious this time
@@magdalenajozwicka2708 yup. Distancing himself from the conversation via electronic communication meant he could say things without seeing the recipient and that freedom... Turns out given the chance Adam is capable of being mean, and enjoying it when other people get it on it and have fun and he's not the victim.
It all started with a passive aggressive email... and it escalated to workplace bullying
these are levels of snowflakery I never thought was possible, lol.
I'm still waiting for the episode where Alan gets his revenge on everyone.
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Or one where Adam gets his revenge on his "friend" David.
@@raeeskamaar6190 omG Yes!
@@raeeskamaar6190 I don't know, many more videos like this and I might call it a karmic balance.
Never seen the white shirt episodes?
Almost 20 years ago, I shared an office with four other people doing software development. One day it was just me and another guy, everybody else was off doing something else. I was trying to finish up a project for a delivery the next day and was kind of stressed. The other guy gets a phone call on his cell phone and proceeds to yak away, distracting me from my work. After 20 minutes I had had enough. I figured this guy was gonna be ticked at me for asking him to take the rest of his call outside the room, so I had been reluctant to say anything to begin with. I figured instead of verbally asking him, it would be less disruptive to his call if I just DMd him via our work chat client. So I sent the chat asking if he wouldn't mind taking the rest of the call outside the room since he was on his cell phone anyway, and heard it "ding" on his computer. lol
I turned to watch him lean forward, squint as he was reading it, and then get this look on his face. He says "what!?", then looks up at me and practically yells "F you! Blah blah blah". I was surprised and already annoyed and that sent me over the edge. I just blew up and was like "No, F YOU! Blah blah blah!"
I can't remember if he left the room or if I did at that point. I do remember a few days later I happened to be leaving for the day and as I was walking out to my car, his wife had just picked him up at the curb. She said something like "Sorry he's such an ass." or something to that effect. Pretty sure he had been talking to her. lol
ah, memories. Good times!
I see an opportunity for Adam to get a pay raise for improving workplace communications..
Is Adam late for work too? 😜😂😂
Rowan: “but I’m going to do things a little bit differently, instead of just giving you a pay rise Adam, I’ll just give everyone else a MASSIVE pay cut, it works out the same”
"You get paid?!"
Then he'll finally get some money from working there again
But he should use Ellie's pay raise method :D
Alan: "Adam, you can't just avoid difficult conversations by putting them into email!"
Adam: "Challenge accepted."
When you're boss needs to generate a hard record of his grievances with you, this is how he does it. Management 101.
Adam you can't just run away, you are a coworker!
I hate how accurate these videos can be, not long ago they posted a video about pen thieves at work and now I watch this. I feel like they are following me around my work and seeing what pisses me off then them being like “right that down, right that down!”
Love you guys. Yall have made my life so much better by making content. Keep it up 💛
Thank you VLDL, i was not having the best day today, but this genuinely made me laugh, thank you!
This was the most infuriating video you guys have ever made, and I've watched close to an hour of Adam trying too be a therapist.
Unrelated, but I'm an IT guy, and it drives me crazy when I send people emails and they don't read it and instead come and bother me because they are too lazy to read the damn email. Some people just want to have their hand held through everything. This sketch is really funny though, and I love it. Adam is taking it to absurd levels.
“Hostile work environment” got me. Lol!
A skit where ADAM is the villain?! What?!
I love it!
He's always been the villain, remember his intro?
And the gold shirt saga
@@jaredschepemaker9258 [Adam remembers his intro] "Am I... _evil_ ?!"
They need to do a series where they're bullying Alan and he just tells them f-ck off and quits. Then we watch how Playtech fails without him there to run it and all three have to grovel back to him to get him back.
Just to go back to bullying him. "Well done loser" this is me to Alan. Sorry, please don't get it personal, I have been in Alan's shoes way to many times already. I wouldn't ever go back to work in a place like this, and while this is almost impossible, this is the reason why I choose to work for myself now-a-days. It is both rewarding and sane.
@@inseerlink3511 It's a comedy series, I'm sure they could come up with something where Alan is king for a bit. Sort of like what they did with the white shirt saga but better.
Alternate timeline: Alan quits, new guy is annoying buddy David or whatever his name was that bilked Adam out of all his money, business goes under, they’re all homeless. Alan walks by them on the street at their cardboard box homes & drops a 5 in their beggar cash box…& takes his five 1’s for change & gives them each 1 before getting into his Bentley & driving off, but he backs up & takes all of Rowan’s money because revenge revenge!
In a Tarantino movie, this is where Alan goes postal on the rest of them.
This brought back some deep memories of when I first started working fast food. When coworkers don't like you they really like to leave you out of convos and talk like this around you. It got better eventually and they started to like me. But it took 6 months.
Remembering how evil Adam actually is from when he started, I feel Alan is gonna bring back the White Shirt
I once had coworkers on either side of me messaging each other and laughing like this. I definitely sympathize with alan here. Super uncomfortable...
Nailed it! This is exactly what aggravates me about people today. Good job 👏
You guys never fail to make me laugh 😂 Great stuff guys keep it up!
Needed a "per my last email" email
For what it's worth, it can be useful to leave a paper trail when it comes to conflict in the workplace. That way you can prove that the matter was discussed and exactly when it was discussed.
At this point, if I was Allan I'd just never come back to the job again
Adam sending the email to Alan when he's right behind him! That cracked me up! 😄😄 & Then it just kept going. Brilliant! Simply brilliant. :-) 👍🏻👍🏻
Adam is also generating a record of his conversations that could, I suppose, be used by HR to support his positions.
Regarding to this video, Alan is officially the only one "Normal" PlayTech employee.. Bahahahaha.. LOL
Just don't give him the white shirt...
Adam somehow manages being most loveable, to sprinting past rowan as most hated
PLEASE.. more Playtech videos. I'm a big fan from Tampa, Florida. I'm not a gamer so I can't understand the other skits. Really love you guys.
I feel for Alan. He's the only sane one at this point.
How about an arc where Alan finally has enough and goes to work somewhere else, leaving the store to fall apart.
Love your videos VLDL, it makes my English better
thx for the subtitles, always happy to see them)
What was wrong with the boxes? Couldn’t Adam get to the ones he wanted to get a good sniff of?
I believe Alan's used to stacking the old boxes on top of the new boxes, being entirely unaware that the new box smell only lasts about 2 hours when properly preserved. He must have missed Rowan's orientation.
Working in a government office for almost a decade, the best ones are the ones that come through as "As per my previous email..." or "If you require clarification on this please refer to the..."
sometimes I do that, but my office usually uses the reply function so its just scrollingdown a bit, and SOME PEOPLE have a tendency to ask questions that were already answered (they only respondto the last message and don't bother reading the entire chain if not familiar).
More often then not, I'm just acting as a gopher between the supplier and the appropriate technical team, so its [my brief summary], [please see below]
Love the videos VLDL!!!
In the hospital with Covid, needed a good laugh, thank you!
As a socially awkward introvert, and one who writes better than I talk, I've never related to Adam more than in this skit
Yep, this is exactly the experience I had at my last workplace a few weeks before I got fired, just the tension I felt whenever I entered the room, all conversations would stop, and everyone would be short and blunt in my interactions with them (e.g. such as when I asked how are things?) But then I'd get emails written very matter-of-fact with certain criticisms (e.g. it has come to my attention that you arrived 5min after your starting time, this is unacceptable, blah blah). Getting fired just came out of left field for me, just got called into a meeting one morning and told my employment with them was terminated due to not fitting in with their work culture?? I mean what does that even mean?
That they wanted their buddy to have your job, so they made up bullshit about you...
@@carrieullrich5059 Well, it worked out for the best, I ended up starting my own company after that, I just didn't want to work under a boss after that experience. Now my company has grown, and theirs have shut down, some of their clients have even moved across to me
Poor Alan. When he thought he had Adam on his side in the struggle against Rowan, Adam stabs him in the back.
Adam being a real Rowan right there 😂
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"You can't just avoid difficult conversations by putting them into an email."
Oh you can.
As a receiver of said emails I think I'd consider deleting each email after reading them so that I could carefully ignore any unimportant info XD see how long it takes for them to actually talk to me. Irl my whole office was used to receiving and deleting irrelevant annoyance emails at my previous office jobs. The worst but most amusing were the accidental 'reply All' to a company email.
Yes I can it more easy then you would of thought
But thats not Email, thats blackmail lol
😂 you guys are consistently hysterical. Much love from Kansas
Made me smile and I needed that thanks :)
There is never a win win with passive aggressive people.
every episode where Alan gets screwed around should end with him opening a drawer with the white shirt folded up inside and a massive bass drop
Being the only sane person (like Alan) in an insane world can you drive you insane. It happened to Frank "Grimey" Grimes in the Simpons, Dib from Invader Zim, and now poor Alan...I think he's definitely due for a pay-cut at this point.
These guys are always starting my day off right. 😏 thank you!
"As we previously discussed..."
Adam's such a nice guy wanting to avoid conflict face to face. Excuse me while I write an email about how Alan was in the wrong.
cc me. I love tea
" *_This is bullying!_* "
That line killed me!😂🤣
Me: Where's Rowan in all of this?
Rowan steps in: Whoa whoa whoa
Me: Like clockwork
This is an interesting situation though where emails are used between coworkers near each other so there is an official record.
This is the kind of things which ends with people quitting. That or getting punched. I mean Adam is exuding massive Rowan energy and again, I have to say, it is surprising no one has ended up getting punched yet.
Prolly because it is just a skit. They don't seem to actually have some beef or nothing too serious at least against each other. Otherwise, yeah, I can see people possibly if not for certain to be falling out cause of this.
The work place has the energy of "ugh, I want to punch you. I want to to punch really hard, but I can't."
Quoted from the majesty Rowan himself
@@stevenastillero9599 Of course I understand that. They are actors playing a role. I am talking about the in-world characters. Seriously, I don't think it is that hard to understand.
@@cttommy73 Oh, lmao. Just to be clear, didn't really mean anything by what I said earlier in case you were offended. That and that didn't thought about it that well, I suppose. Just took it at face value.
In any case, to be fair, the vod is titled "Passive Aggressive" that much is still true, lmao. Didn't really strike me as needing to come to punch someone or so initially. Kinda makes sense now that you made it clear but yeah, the vod still holds true pretty much even without the rumble or so.
NZ is a first world country, not... wherever you live so I don't understand why you think punching would ever be involved, that sounds like loser behaviour.
keep up the great work cant wait so see more
This is so true. Working in a cinema, there are so many, especially young people, who can't even order tickets eye to eye properly. You can see how they cringe to have to talk in person to somebody. All conversations for them are via mobile, they can't really socialize anymore.
Yeah its pretty pathethic
I mean in all honestly, considering how Adam is normally so passive and nervous and awkward and anxious and has trouble talking to people, the fact he actually found a way to do so is good for him. I'm kinda on his side in this case. Now if only he could send an e-mail explaining that...
Usually, but it seems he got really toxic really quick once he found his workaround.
Alan needs his white shirt back
extreme times call for extreme measures
"This is bullying!" lmao
Never disappointed, always excited to see a new vid post 😎
This is the kind of world we’re living in these days.
Rowan: *f**cks with Alan for 2+ years*
Alan: 🙄
Adam: *writes passive-aggressive emails about alan*
Alan: this is bullying!
Yes, but bullying is (dramatic pause and Rowan's voice) "manager's privilege".
I can relate so much to Adam ... I don't like difficult conversations. But if you can write it, no problem.
Being in a corporate, I feel Adam's actions 😂 everything needs to be on Email...."EVERYTHING"
This is horrifyingly close to real life. The art of face-to-face communication has become a lost art.
This is bullying
Be careful, you never know when the white shirt might come back
Adam has turned into Rowan. God help us.
Wow! I'm within the first 100
Neurodivergent people who struggle with verbal communication and face-to-face conversations feel seen 😄
One golden rule in the workplace is "Always cover your ass." Use email so everything is documented.
VLDL: you are not subscribed????
me: sends an email
How about a mandatory prison sentence for people who send emails to a person right next to them. I would sign the petition.
Up to a point, there are (in my opinion) situations where sending an email to a colleague within 5 meters (to name a number) would be allowed:
- When the recipient is very busy with something and the email doesn't have high priority.
- Sending background/context prior to walking over to said colleague.
- Sending links with suggestions for a team-outing or surprise party for another nearby colleague.
- Invitations to (online) meetings.
There may be more situations where sending an email to a nearby colleague has merit, I can't directly think of any right now, but other than that I agree with your statement.
Do they get to send emails from prison? 🤣
Anybody like Adam here, would "accidentally" fall of their ladder one day...
We just openly talking about assaulting people because they avoid confrontation?
@@FFKonoko well... maybe he'd have less "accidents" if he treated people with respect. Lol.
In opposite of this skit I would tell my story. There are 3 of us working in one room. One guy is friendly and another one is really toxic (like Rowan), so if me or friendly_guy needs help with work we just text each other on e-mail, even though we are're sitting right in front of each other. It's definitely better than listening that we are "stupid af" or whatever
That was absolutely hilarious, too short^^