I'm just grateful for having this amazing experience of getting let go and no longer having the means to provide for my family. So humbling. From having a house to a bridge. Couldn't ask for anything more.
@@JoshuaFluke1 Thank you for allowing me to serve you. I am forever grateful for the opportunity you've given me so you can profit off of my hard work. My friends and family at #Canopy will forget me in an instant but I will always remember the time and experience I've had exchanging emails with them. This has been a great learning experience and I know I will make the same mistake with the next job. #layoffs #ohwell #whenonedoorcloses #yachtforboss
Imagine if people did this after breakups. "Despite cheating on me with my best friend and ruining my life, she was a great girlfriend with a bright future ahead of her. This breakup was a deeply humbling experience." 🙃
They do this. It is like: We didn't get along well, but you are a wonderful person. Despite that, we won't be together, I always will have a place for you in my heart etc, etc.
I worked for a company where a new employee died in a car accident the night before. And they announced that he died during our morning meeting there were people pretending to be distraught. The manager then said that his position is open and if they want to recommend anyone to send a resume over...like the dude died, and with the same announcement of his death they announced his job posting. That showed me that I'm nothing to these people, just a number.
There’s a right way to handle a situation like this and a wrong way to handle a situation like this. Yes, the position has be filled. But the job posting doesn’t need to happen in the same breath as the announcement of the employee’s death. There’s a time a place for it .
I got laid off a couple of months ago from my software engineering job. I packed my stuff and left. I refurbished my resume and cover letter that same day and started sending them out. Haven't look back since. There's no "friends and family" in the workplace. There's only you.
The prevailing wisdom is to "never badmouth your previous company". Those people know that if they keep it real, then the next employer will see those messages and think they are "not a team player" and it'll hurt their career. This is what makes LinkedIn so bad. No one is honest, because honesty hurts your career.
My only family are my real ones and my friends are my real ones.I remember being asked to be a nicer person on my last day on a night shift job,so I told my fat-ass,loser boss who was never around and who made us pull overtime which he then cut,that I hoped his donuts killed him before his wife(He was binge eating even though he had severe diabetes and had a very obvious hooker who visited him right after work).
I had a friend in college who was the queen of kissing arse. She was always bombarding professors (and friends) with flattery and praise. When I watched her, I knew the only way she could be more pathetic was if she actually knelt down and planted a wet one on their trousers. She's the kind of person who would write this rubbish after being laid off. Thanks to her, I can tell you exactly why people write these absurd things. They want to look good to anyone checking out their profile when they apply for a new job. They want to make it clear to hiring managers that they'll kiss arse, wash bosses car, lay down and be used as a rug, whatever it takes to be emploied. It's all fear. People like her are taught that life is all about hissing the right arses. They're taught that the way to rise to the top is to lay down and get walked all over. It's 100% incorrect, for someone who wants to get high in life. On the other hand, it's going to ensure that she always has a job, because there will always be managers in search of a new and better doormat. People, please don't be like my friend. The more people who cower like her, who lick the shoe that is kicking them in the teeth, the more companies and managers will think it's ok to walk on people and kick them around. People like her teach bad bosses that they can abuse and use people, because there are people like her out there who will be grateful for the "opportunity" to be overworked and underpaid.
I was in a cult-like organization from the age of 11 until the age of 40 when I finally decided to leave, and, well, these kinds of Linkedin posts seem 'uncomfortably' similar to the cult dynamic. Especially since these 'laid off' employees seem reluctant to express typical emotions one experiences when being laid off; fear, confusion, anger, being a few of them. They all sound like they can't wait to move on to another 'amazing' company, amazing like one they just got laid off from, and are praising like it was a Utopian corporate paradise.
My LI account was banned for linking eminent scientists views on Covid. That shows that LI itself is a corrupt and evil cult, part of the Davos WEF cult.
My favorite part: "If anyone needs a useless HR person just let me know." HR are like an invisible legion of dark forces whose mission is to make everyone else's life as miserable as possible. You don't even know about their existence unless you start looking for a job, and then those evil demons come to life to screw up your plans.
The company I worked at was so chill until they hired a new HR woman. She began almost micromanaging us. I actually was of the notion that HR was on our side before this... I’ve had plenty good experiences with HR... that’s when I realized... they’re not Human Resources, they’re company security cameras
@@TwoDollarGararge To be fair, when you're real, it offends people. I've been blocked by a person I met IRL. He couldn't handle any level of push-back. We're having a debate; I'm not just going to roll over like a little bitch when I think you're wrong. I'm going to point out how I think he's wrong -and he's going to counterargue like an adult...- Nope. Scratch that. He's going to block me, because that's real mature and definitely not petty and oversensitive as all hell. Mind you, it was an actual debate. At no point did I ad hominem or name-call.
The reason they're acting that nice is that, if they're not, they will never be hired again and they will DIE SLEEPING UNDER A BRIDGE. It's quite a little system of slavery we've created.
Isn't there always an option not to post anything in that case though? Why would people post this bullshit, unless they were looking for some irrelevant linkedin karma? it just seems that they have 0 self-respect...
wow.... I am sorry for that experience.... I mean it is the best you are out of that! From experience, if that was the reason, then be sure they are looking for any mistake in every employee to be fired... Means that management got the goal to fire, and that means mostly financial issues.
@@TheRealCasadaro Same! My boss even asked me the day prior if I would be attending the employee awards banquet. What a nice guy. The best part is he agreed that I should be fired.
@@MiaMizuno Pretty much. My firing is part of a string firings they had been doing over the past few months. That's on top of their already high turn-over rate.
Bad reviews for bad job interviews only. If a company was paying for the work done, then there is no need. Anonymous is not a solution since they could backtrack the IP address, and I am sure that they might be stored, just in case a company decides to go against the web site hosting the reviews.
@@TFrills Bullshit, if you sign a non disclosure agreement and post a bad review about said company and they have reasonably suspicion they will absolutely do this.
@@morior yeah I suppose you're right. I mean, I would never do this, but I think people should be allowed to anonymously post bad reviews abt and employer, as long as they don't reveal any private info abt the business or the current employees or management. I hope you're not saying this cause you're a corporate simp, "standing up for them". You do realize they don't give a shit abt you, right?
praising the ex-company is part of the game of crafting a professional and grateful image in the network on LinkedIn, especially after being laid off， which is equivalent to saying “I am fired, if anybody knows an opportunity, DM me.”
This is the type of BS I can't stand within corporate world, the justification of a company treating you like shit and you justifying the company treating you like shit. In this social media age, everyone feels like they need to make a statement on every issue, they DON'T. It does them better to NOT say something rather to say something.
I remember a lady who worked for 20 years at my ex-employment. The boss-boss decided to move departments so she got promoted to the boss-boss position. After 6 months in, the corporation decided it needed to save money, so it slashed over like 500 jobs across the board. She was fired from this cut. No looking at the people in those positions, just flat out a clearance sale. 2 Decades of her life gone working for a company that didn't even bother to see if she existed. Also talk about bad timing too. Had she not been promoted, she still would of been with us today. I guess its a good thing for her sake. Of course when she left, she talked about the company being family, and how its sad she'll be gone. I just thought, man, companies don't give a F about anyone.
@@okaysoanyways2645 I grew up in a farm community. Women often would hang on to jobs for a very long time, because their husbands were farmers and moving was not an option.
I looked at my boss in his eyes and said "fuck you" before getting fired. But the funny part was that I told this to my new boss in the interview and still got the job. Never stop being genuine, I'm glad that most of the programmers I met are like that.
My dooode!!! I am not crazy after all. When I had a 1 dollar/hour raise after working 12-16 hour days for 9 months, I quit within 2 days after my "promotion". No one understood why I did it. But you get it, and this community gets it. Screw the HR, brown nosing BS employees, and corporate loyalty, you are taking the words from my mouth! Thanks for the videos!
I laughed so hard and felt personally attacked at the same time when you said working at Verizon, which I currently do. I'll be honest, they do actually take care of employees pretty good and pay pretty decent for my first job outside of the military with the main thing being they're paying for my whole bachelors in IT for software development. Aside though, I know when its time to leave it was just a job and I needed more than they could any longer provide. Love the content bro!
Yachts, like most boats, lose half their resale value when they hit the water. So even if they sell back the yacht, something... something... company consistently prone to bad business decisions.
The company I work at treats me well and doesn’t have any cringe but tbh since I started watching your videos I have seen the light about being remote and building your own self. Just wanted to let you know that yesterday I started applying for remote software jobs 😊
In small towns, your coworkers and customers are sometimes people you went to school with, people who know your parents, the spouse of your child's teacher, etc. In that setting, a fond farewell with some gratitude thrown in might be appropriate.
It's more than being afraid of burning bridges and saving face. It's something people do to get their next job. If you walk into an interview and say that the reason you left your last job is because you were "let go", it'll be a red flag for them and you'll lose a huge amount of points. Then, if they ask you about why you were let go and you dare being honest and call their bullshit, they'll discard you immediately. Remember the canon of interviewing: "never talk bad about your last company". Even if they were terrible, even if they treated you like shit, stole from you, fired you in the most humiliating way possible, that's simply something you cannot tell. (HR psychology is absolute garbage and that's why we're all here, aren't we?) Those kissass posts are all about easing the blow for their possible next employer.
@@JoshuaFluke1 Seems like the best corporate candidate is the one that pretends to smile when you stick the blade into them. Performance is just an afterthought.
@@JoshuaFluke1 Yeah, well, everything is possible when you lie. That's the whole point. If you want to survive in the corporate world you have to lie, fake and cheat your way to the top. Maybe a straight simple lie like yours or an elaborate cringey boot-lick like them. I prefer your way. I was fired a couple months ago and that's what I say: "I was hired for a project and the project ended". End of story. You will not find a single 'thank you' post from me, that's for sure.
My last day of helpdesk for a major financial helpdesk everyone took my chair, my keyboard, and other pc items.. I didnt even get the walk of shame so i walked my own self out...
Two issues here: First remember when Human Resources used to be called the Personnel Department that had three old ladies in a small office to do all the menial bullshit. Second, If Paragon Bioservices was so great, why is Adam "Shithead" Ziegel leaving? Also, Manufacturing and Operational Excellence? Isn't every department expected to be "Excellent" - do the job they're getting paid for - to be excellent or your fired. All of these "Excellence" departments drive me insane....
I like to think “being humble” means that just because you are in one fortunate position now, you could wake up and it be gone. Treat everyone with respect from the janitor to CEO
A lot of people today don't seem to have the courage to just be professional. They seem to try and hide behind the kind of stuff that is addressed in this video, and that just makes them pathetic.
Sad that people are so trapped in the workforce that they have to become weird corporate shells of a person in order to find a shred of meaning and belonging to their lives.
Honesty is a gift that cheap and fake people don't give and deserve. They are so scared of what people think of them when they speak truth so, they are fine with speaking these lies and the best part is that their company management laugh at their posts.
I find this crazy. i joined this company few years ago. A collogue of mine has been working for 35 years in the company and he is retiring did not save much unfortunately. The boss of the company sold this company recently and donated about 40 million to school she graduated, and did not give any thing, i repeat any thing to this old man, other than the salary he was paid. I find this utterly disgusting. Why would a school which took tuition for education, get 40 million in donation, but a worker of her company who worked almost all his life get nothing. i find this insane, unjust, appalling and lost faith in humanity.
I randomly came across your comment and it reminded me of an old man I was helping my wife negotiate a salary with a few years ago. His new business was a "startup". But, he'd been part of a $300 million buyout of a family-owned business (I'm guessing he got about of 4th of it). He acted insulted when we didn't take his first offer. He actually said to me "We've employed a lot of people. People loved working for us. They almost never left us." It took a lot of self-control for me to not say "dude, they may not have left you, but you sold them out to a private equity company that very quickly bankrupted the company and laid them all off." Two years into the startup that had met every expected milestone, "his heart just wasn't in it" anymore. He let my wife go with no severance. Not one penny of cushion for two years of hard work. We were fine because I'm self-employed and can just work a little harder. But I've always regretted not pointing out how he'd sold out all of his employees.
3:21 "I like your home made riser which is just a binder full of crap".... man youre killing me. my corporate has denied risers because $15 can't be expensed to operations..... so we use 2 to 3 printer paper stacks as risers for the monitors. each paper stack thing costs $8. Good financial decisions all around.
Your content is really important. Thank you for exposing the corporate world's bullshit. They live in their own world circle-jerking each other achieving absolutely nothing.
Since I'm considering a career transition in the next 2 to 3 years, this has been a topic I've been thinking about - how to part with a company you've probably spent years in. I think the size of the company is very relevant on technique/approach. I think that there should be a bracket of courtesy when it comes to doing this step, but I DO agree a lot of people go overboard with it - perhaps because they want a backup plan in case shit goes down.
Man, about 6 years ago, after having worked for a highly classified customer for 4 years, my company 'forgot' to ensure a required clearance was done for me during a periodic review. Due to their error, I was removed from the contract and eventually let go. I had a legal case if I wanted and the leadership ghosted me after a few weeks trying to get things rectified. It was at that point I realized that company loyalty is bullshit. Remember, don't work for free, these are 40 hour work weeks, don't feel guilty taking sick leave or vacation, if your job is deliverable based, recognize your freedom, and realize that you're just an asset to them, nothing more.
Ok, I don't normally ever disagree with you, but here's one thing I disagree with you on (based on experience): In some countries, it's a custom to bring in food and beverages on your last day/birthday. For instance, I lived in Estonia for three years, and I noticed this custom occurring with all the companies I worked for. I'm a little surprised you didn't come across this custom when you lived in Finland (as Estonia and Finland share a lot of culture). My apologies if you did know about it and just simply disagree with it. I have to admit I did find it a little weird when I came across it, but it's kinda nice in a way. I think it only really works if everyone does it though, cause if only some people do it, it would kinda suck. Anyways, excellent content as always Josh. Peace x
I left a corporate job a year ago without the 'mandatory' goodbye ceremony. I'm coming back this year and i was instantly hired with no question asked. The skills/work are the only thing that matter, how fast and how much money can you make for the company, it's a business transaction, not a relationship.
Yep, Stockholm syndrome is pretty accurate description. I totally understand your frustration reading all that pathetic crap. I never ever posted any last day nonsense anywhere, I never sent an email to coworkers. I just didn't show up next day and never looked back, it's pointless. I care about companies as much as they care about me. Well I did because I don't work as employee for a long time.
Some places will actually only give you severance under the condition that you don’t talk crap on the company. Happened to me once when the whole dev team got laid off, and I think we ALL would have talked a whole bunch of crap if it didn’t cost us 2 weeks of pay.
I wanted to be self employed my whole life...and am finally taking action towards that..but there has been no greater motivation (and sometimes anger) to not go back to the corp world and to create my own bizz than ur videos shittalking companies lmao. Thanksss
This is why I like being self-employed. So I don't have to deal with this cringe shit. I only had two jobs that lasted 3 months each and I was miserable. At 19, I did DoorDash, made $100/day, took a 10-month web design course, and now I make $50k/yr freelancing at 22 years old. Minimal human-interaction, maximum profit. I still socialize, but not with boring coworkers that obligate me to act a certain way.
PMSL - that dizzy chick voice. These texts are are so sickly sweet and don't contain any resentment... Love to see some Last Day "Angry Posts". "I'M LEEBIN' DIS SHIZ - WHO COMIN WIT ME!!!" Who gets a chance to even text - my experience is they shutdown the network so you can't wreck any shit before you leave...
Dude this video is hilarious 😂😂. People.... corporate America is NOT your friend. They aren’t gonna be so much of a family when your rent or mortgage gotta be paid and when you get eviction letters. I’m a college student now, and I understand why I’ve always hated corporate America! Trying to find an alternate path
I was a free LinkedIn member for 14 years. I had over 1500 contacts and was enjoying some posts and making posts. A few months ago I made a mistake and posted a video about some Muslim men that were killed by other Muslim men. I was immediately told (by email) that my account is permanently restricted - and that means - removed, cancelled etc. One mistake (if it can count as a mistake) and no warning, nothing - just cancelled. So, yeah, LinkedIn sucks really bad.
The company I work at hired a new "Training Manager" and did calls to each employee asking various BS questions, one asked is "What form of appreciation and recognition, do you value most?" I told her money, I'm not a 5 year old learning to tie my shoes, I have a family and bills. I got a call from my direct manager about being insubordinate
Feel like any company that has layoffs that high are required to pay ridiculous penalties and offer mandatory separation Costs equaling 1/2 years worth of their salary (in addition to unemployment insurance). Effectively saying "because you're so incompetent that this has to happen, you morons get to pay for it. Thanks for further damaging our economy."
I do actually find it impressive how many people actually feel grateful to companies, or even come as far as thinking that they actually mean more than money to their boss, like damn, wake up, you're just a worker there, they're not going to let their company die for you, you'll get laid off if needed
Maaaaan....... this video is rather well-timed for me as I think I've finally learned that I'm not going to get more pay if I don't leave the company that I'm at. I think I always kind of knew that, but it became particularly apparent today. Welp, time to get back on the grind - fortunately I don't need to become woefully disappointed as there are tons of jobs out there and I am optimistic!
I think people get so used to this "company family" BS, that in case they get fired and need a new job, such a vid is like a reference to them on how loyal they are/were to a company. It may not work at all with HR people and headhunters, since they face this for years. However, people just have this brainwashed way of showing they are being fired not because of their inability or laziness... Guess it is some weird way of telling the world "It was not my fault" + not telling negative points towards ex-colleagues, since they might reappear somewhere else. My mom had big troubles finding a new job after a layoff, since in every interview she stated and complained about the layoff and that is something HR does not want to hear... Until she just stopped and then was super successful.
They sell you on the “we’re a big family,” bullshit. Then, they let you go, and since you’re the one that bought into the “family” mentality, you feel like you have to say something positive about them. People need to stop being politically correct and start speaking their truth. Anyway, great video once again, Josh.
Ikr until I started watching Joshua Fluke, I didn't even realize it was a whole social network. I just log in to accept connection requests and update my employment history. I didn't think people were actually using it like Facebook.
@@zhin13 Yeah, same for me... Also I noticed it got 'worse' over the last 2 years... When I created my account I only saw some "guyA connected to guyB" or "LadyA got a new job - congrats!". Now it is FULL of weird things.... OK, sometimes my network shares discounted certificates or sth. or courses... There I see the benefit over FB. But the rest is like "BLEH" and faking.
Dude I’m a software engineer at Walmart and they literally warned us today not to speak out against a certain country online because it would affect sales. Then proceeded to tell us to get more “woke” online.
I spent 7 years at Qwest Communications as a Senior Internet Engineer where I configured, troubleshot, provisioned and tested internet circuits, customer routers, Qwest edge routers, etc. We easily worked 60 hours a week. I remember coming in one day at 6:30AM and not getting a chance to take a bathroom break till 5:30 that evening. So twice a year I hosted a party....one in the Spring and one at Christmas. Now, my wife would invite her colleagues too, and of course we would invite friends and family, so one Xmas I counted upwards of 65 people crammed into our 1600 square foot house and we had a great time. My wife and I provided everything...food, drink, soda...everything. A couple years after leaving Qwest I realized that I was in touch with only two of the dozens of coworkers from the old days. I also realized that over all those years, not a single one of my coworkers ever invited my wife and I over to their place, out to dinner, etc. That's when I truly grew up. I realized that the people you work with are just that....people you work with. Despite spending 9 or more hours a day with them, they are not your friends. They are your co-workers. Nothing more, nothing less. So now when I go into a new work environment, I don't go in expecting to make any REAL friends. Yes, I'm friendly, approachable, easy to get along with, responsive to the needs of others, etc., but I keep in mind that they are NOT my friends. And I'm fine with that. I don't even make an effort to remember people's names anymore. More often than not, I've completely forgotten them within a few weeks of moving on to the next gig. One more thing...about burning bridges. Yes, for many years that was a real concern of mine. "Don't burn a bridge"...make sure you exit gracefully, you never know if you'll need to fall back on the old company for work. So I was basically a floor mat most of my career. I put up with shit from people whose knuckles dragged on the ground when they walked, because I didn't want to burn any bridges. The only time I ever went back to a former employer for rehire is when things were really dire. My wife had been transferred down to Houston and so of course I went with her. However, the labor market in Houston is more blue-collar, oil-and-gas industrial, so there's not so much need for IT types like me. After TWO years of unemployment, I finally reached out to my old employer back in Virginia. I had a stellar reputation as a project manager with my former employer, having rolled out two applications during the three years I was employed there. During my employment, I regularly worked 50-60 hours a week, came in at night to work with the night shift, came in one weekends...I even worked through TWO Thanksgivings and Xmases. So in desperation, I reached out to them hoping that they might have some work for me....I figured if they did, I could move back up with family in the area and resume bringing in some money. The reaction I received utterly shocked me. Word got back to me that my former coworkers were running me down, wondering why I was so screwed up and couldn't figure out what I wanted to do (?!?!?!?!). As if any of these people were qualified at psychoanalysis. These miserable excuses for human being were basically rejoicing in the misery and desperation of someone who had had the courage to break free of the company. What depraved assholes! So the lesson I learned from that experience was NEVER GO BACK! BURN YOUR BRIDGES WHEN YOU LEAVE so you will never experience the same humiliation I did because, in the end, 99% of all people SUCK and they are just looking for someone to shit on to make themselves feel better in their own twisted, demented minds.
Seeing all this cringe, I’m glad I worked 30 years in the public sector. No one fed you fake bs lines, fake gratitude, etc. Everyone knew what their job was, no one patted you on the back or the fake “yay us, go teamwork.” I knew my check was direct deposited every month on the 15th and 30th and went home every day at 4pm with no expectations to work past then and never worked a weekend.
I leave every job behind. They got 6-12 months of me, thats it. Eg: I'm hired based off my resume that says 10 yrs experience. Their raise after 1 yr is less than $1/hr increase. I leave, pass out resumes with 11 yrs experience, i'm hired immediately with whatever I ask. More than $1/hr increase. Leaving a job behind is always worth more than any raise, because no ones sees your experience if you're employed. Everyone sees your experience when you're unemployed. You always end a job with more experience than when you started. So advertise it, and show that you're a competition to be dealt with. Then you will see yourself evolve into the solopreneur/freelancer/contractor you're suppose to be.
Funny thing is that I am quitting my job in a week. I mentally prepared a warm parting message but watching this video has made me decide otherwise. Hahahah
This video was a super humbling and emotional experience.
I'm just grateful for having this amazing experience of getting let go and no longer having the means to provide for my family. So humbling. From having a house to a bridge. Couldn't ask for anything more.
@@JoshuaFluke1 Thank you for allowing me to serve you. I am forever grateful for the opportunity you've given me so you can profit off of my hard work. My friends and family at #Canopy will forget me in an instant but I will always remember the time and experience I've had exchanging emails with them. This has been a great learning experience and I know I will make the same mistake with the next job. #layoffs #ohwell #whenonedoorcloses #yachtforboss
@@dimitrivasilev2905 dont forget #lastday
@@MikaelAbehsera There's never a #lastday, but #nextunemploymentday
@@dimitrivasilev2905 top 10 role-plays that put furry fandom to shame.
Imagine if people did this after breakups. "Despite cheating on me with my best friend and ruining my life, she was a great girlfriend with a bright future ahead of her. This breakup was a deeply humbling experience." 🙃
It's great! Share more of this!
They do this. It is like: We didn't get along well, but you are a wonderful person. Despite that, we won't be together, I always will have a place for you in my heart etc, etc.
@@dshaprin That doesn't seem like a bad thing.
@@YouPrincipal It is not.
Lol
I worked for a company where a new employee died in a car accident the night before. And they announced that he died during our morning meeting there were people pretending to be distraught. The manager then said that his position is open and if they want to recommend anyone to send a resume over...like the dude died, and with the same announcement of his death they announced his job posting. That showed me that I'm nothing to these people, just a number.
That’s so fucked up and cringey
It is what it is man
Wow, a company trying to fill a position, oh god what are we going to do?
There’s a right way to handle a situation like this and a wrong way to handle a situation like this. Yes, the position has be filled. But the job posting doesn’t need to happen in the same breath as the announcement of the employee’s death. There’s a time a place for it .
Lol 😂 this is what they do though I’m telling you work is a cult. 😂 I tried telling my ex that and he’s doesn’t understand it so I just ignore him
I got laid off a couple of months ago from my software engineering job. I packed my stuff and left. I refurbished my resume and cover letter that same day and started sending them out. Haven't look back since. There's no "friends and family" in the workplace. There's only you.
That's just not true.
@@YouPrincipal Boomer detected
@@YouPrincipal There's not suck thing as loyalty in a corporate or company environment. The moment they don't need you, you're out!
@@cata112233 Yeah sure, I don't doubt that. Your colleagues can still be friends though.
@@BichaelStevens I'm under 30.
The prevailing wisdom is to "never badmouth your previous company". Those people know that if they keep it real, then the next employer will see those messages and think they are "not a team player" and it'll hurt their career. This is what makes LinkedIn so bad. No one is honest, because honesty hurts your career.
Nobody likes a snitch...
That’s the reason I don’t make post about getting laid off because 9/10 times, I will probably be lying
You guys restored my faith in humanity. Thanks for your comments.
There's a long way between badmouthing your last employer and writing such posts on LI
It’s possible to not say nothing at all. Saying nothing is not badmouthing.
Something worst: Family culture. No thanks, I have a family, I just work at your company.
So true. This fake family culture in companies is so insane.
Pablo Soifer When they say that they’re a family, it’s time to go
@@Anony584 Joke's on them, I don't take my family seriously.
Some of those same people talking about their “company family” are letting the state raise their actual children. It’s insane.
My only family are my real ones and my friends are my real ones.I remember being asked to be a nicer person on my last day on a night shift job,so I told my fat-ass,loser boss who was never around and who made us pull overtime which he then cut,that I hoped his donuts killed him before his wife(He was binge eating even though he had severe diabetes and had a very obvious hooker who visited him right after work).
I hate linkedin so much. people are so fake. I cant stand it.
It makes you wonder what being professional means...
I wouldn't let yourself develop hatred for it. I would just look at it as part of the game that you are forced to play.
What's even worse than the fakeness are the humblebrags.
Even IG and FB, ppl r so fake
Jack Odell this is the smart play
I call Microsoft employees Microsoftees.
Googly Ooglies
Nice! MicrosoFTEes (inside joke). Contractors are just called "dash trash" over there.
@@artemrevelsky aww yes the microsoft FTE carrot on a stick lol
And.. do they have cubicles for them? sure they do...
must call them Microsoftesti..🙂🙂
That implies the most demeaning and condescending thing one could say, they would probably like it though... LOL 👌😂
I had a friend in college who was the queen of kissing arse. She was always bombarding professors (and friends) with flattery and praise. When I watched her, I knew the only way she could be more pathetic was if she actually knelt down and planted a wet one on their trousers. She's the kind of person who would write this rubbish after being laid off.
Thanks to her, I can tell you exactly why people write these absurd things. They want to look good to anyone checking out their profile when they apply for a new job. They want to make it clear to hiring managers that they'll kiss arse, wash bosses car, lay down and be used as a rug, whatever it takes to be emploied.
It's all fear. People like her are taught that life is all about hissing the right arses. They're taught that the way to rise to the top is to lay down and get walked all over. It's 100% incorrect, for someone who wants to get high in life. On the other hand, it's going to ensure that she always has a job, because there will always be managers in search of a new and better doormat.
People, please don't be like my friend. The more people who cower like her, who lick the shoe that is kicking them in the teeth, the more companies and managers will think it's ok to walk on people and kick them around. People like her teach bad bosses that they can abuse and use people, because there are people like her out there who will be grateful for the "opportunity" to be overworked and underpaid.
This video has been sponsored by the Utah Tech community. Very humbling.
"Very humbling" ...HA!
😆😆😆😆 Oh god.
I was in a cult-like organization from the age of 11 until the age of 40 when I finally decided to leave, and, well, these kinds of Linkedin posts seem 'uncomfortably' similar to the cult dynamic. Especially since these 'laid off' employees seem reluctant to express typical emotions one experiences when being laid off; fear, confusion, anger, being a few of them. They all sound like they can't wait to move on to another 'amazing' company, amazing like one they just got laid off from, and are praising like it was a Utopian corporate paradise.
Utah-pian, even
My LI account was banned for linking eminent scientists views on Covid. That shows that LI itself is a corrupt and evil cult, part of the Davos WEF cult.
My favorite part: "If anyone needs a useless HR person just let me know." HR are like an invisible legion of dark forces whose mission is to make everyone else's life as miserable as possible. You don't even know about their existence unless you start looking for a job, and then those evil demons come to life to screw up your plans.
This is dead on accurate
Even worse are the people who jump in the comments defending HR 🤣
The company I worked at was so chill until they hired a new HR woman. She began almost micromanaging us. I actually was of the notion that HR was on our side before this... I’ve had plenty good experiences with HR... that’s when I realized... they’re not Human Resources, they’re company security cameras
You still wish you were HR, don't you? Sad.
@ceciliacole5098 I always thought that was a bizarre phrase.
It’s sad & scary how people afraid to be themselves on LinkedIn
and not only on linkedin
That's social media as a whole
At work in general...
@work too, u gotta fake to make it
@@TwoDollarGararge
To be fair, when you're real, it offends people. I've been blocked by a person I met IRL. He couldn't handle any level of push-back. We're having a debate; I'm not just going to roll over like a little bitch when I think you're wrong. I'm going to point out how I think he's wrong -and he's going to counterargue like an adult...-
Nope. Scratch that. He's going to block me, because that's real mature and definitely not petty and oversensitive as all hell. Mind you, it was an actual debate. At no point did I ad hominem or name-call.
The reason they're acting that nice is that, if they're not, they will never be hired again and they will DIE SLEEPING UNDER A BRIDGE.
It's quite a little system of slavery we've created.
Who hurt you?
Eh I don't know about that; I left my last job on bad terms and was able to get another one.
@Gray Au it's about getting hired as soon as possible. HR's see your humble message and think this is going to look nice when leaving their company .
Isn't there always an option not to post anything in that case though? Why would people post this bullshit, unless they were looking for some irrelevant linkedin karma? it just seems that they have 0 self-respect...
@Gray Au
_"You can get fired at every job there will always be another"_
Lol, this did not age well.
My employer let me go last week because a randomized password looked like a 'bad' word. I can tell you that the last thing I will do is praise them.
I was told everything is cool. Everyone acted normal until they escorted me out of the building 2 day later. 😂
wow.... I am sorry for that experience.... I mean it is the best you are out of that!
From experience, if that was the reason, then be sure they are looking for any mistake in every employee to be fired... Means that management got the goal to fire, and that means mostly financial issues.
@@TheRealCasadaro Same! My boss even asked me the day prior if I would be attending the employee awards banquet. What a nice guy. The best part is he agreed that I should be fired.
@@MiaMizuno Pretty much. My firing is part of a string firings they had been doing over the past few months. That's on top of their already high turn-over rate.
Zheja ワットス 🤣 you should check out morning show.
Replace "humbling" with "humiliating".
Worked 2 months @ Salesforce, they fired 200 ppl in 1 phone call... Some of them were there for 5+ years
3:54 "Economists: We need English majors." I'd like to have whatever those economists are smoking.
Imagine diving tens of thousands of dollars into debt for the opportunity to humble yourself out of a job.
so glad I never went to college, for this sort of reason exactly.
People's striving for freedom is used to enslave them. Perverse.
They better be leaving bad reviews on glassdoor though since you can be anonymous there.
Bad reviews for bad job interviews only. If a company was paying for the work done, then there is no need. Anonymous is not a solution since they could backtrack the IP address, and I am sure that they might be stored, just in case a company decides to go against the web site hosting the reviews.
@@krassiem1206 One could just use a VPN
@@krassiem1206 That would never happen.
@@TFrills Bullshit, if you sign a non disclosure agreement and post a bad review about said company and they have reasonably suspicion they will absolutely do this.
@@morior yeah I suppose you're right. I mean, I would never do this, but I think people should be allowed to anonymously post bad reviews abt and employer, as long as they don't reveal any private info abt the business or the current employees or management.
I hope you're not saying this cause you're a corporate simp, "standing up for them". You do realize they don't give a shit abt you, right?
breath of fresh air I'm telling yea, these videos help me out they are very relaxing
praising the ex-company is part of the game of crafting a professional and grateful image in the network on LinkedIn, especially after being laid off， which is equivalent to saying “I am fired, if anybody knows an opportunity, DM me.”
If your trying to get a job through linkedin your doing it wrong.
Corporate cucks.
This is the type of BS I can't stand within corporate world, the justification of a company treating you like shit and you justifying the company treating you like shit.
In this social media age, everyone feels like they need to make a statement on every issue, they DON'T. It does them better to NOT say something rather to say something.
We are just a number to the company. Always expendable...
The higher the position/level, the more they become number crunchers. It is all about profit and bottomline. Everything else is expendable.
The type of thoughts I had but never had the balls to make a UA-cam video and make fun of them, respect
Why is he leaving after 14 months if it's been so great? Easy bullshit spotted.
Oh wow, hilarious video. Stockholm syndrome indeed.
I remember a lady who worked for 20 years at my ex-employment. The boss-boss decided to move departments so she got promoted to the boss-boss position. After 6 months in, the corporation decided it needed to save money, so it slashed over like 500 jobs across the board. She was fired from this cut. No looking at the people in those positions, just flat out a clearance sale. 2 Decades of her life gone working for a company that didn't even bother to see if she existed. Also talk about bad timing too. Had she not been promoted, she still would of been with us today. I guess its a good thing for her sake. Of course when she left, she talked about the company being family, and how its sad she'll be gone. I just thought, man, companies don't give a F about anyone.
20 years in a company?! Unless she was paid a fuck ton of money I'd say she played herself
@@okaysoanyways2645 I grew up in a farm community. Women often would hang on to jobs for a very long time, because their husbands were farmers and moving was not an option.
I looked at my boss in his eyes and said "fuck you" before getting fired. But the funny part was that I told this to my new boss in the interview and still got the job. Never stop being genuine, I'm glad that most of the programmers I met are like that.
How can people say those things and then look themselves in the mirror?
When I left a long tenured company, I realized just how valued I was. I didn’t feel bad leaving them.
Dude I love these videos! LOL is like thanking your an ex Girlfriend for kicking you to the street
Perfect analogy. +1
It's more like thanking your ex for the great time you had together despite the troubles.
@@YouPrincipal except the "troubles" was probably her cheating on you with your best friend😂😂😂
@@okaysoanyways2645 Do you really think I have friends? Pathetic.
@@YouPrincipal how ignorant of me 😂🤦🏾
My dooode!!! I am not crazy after all. When I had a 1 dollar/hour raise after working 12-16 hour days for 9 months, I quit within 2 days after my "promotion". No one understood why I did it. But you get it, and this community gets it. Screw the HR, brown nosing BS employees, and corporate loyalty, you are taking the words from my mouth! Thanks for the videos!
You're left-handed, that's also why you're so awesome!
"I'm Out! Bye M F'ers!". Mic drop
I laughed so hard and felt personally attacked at the same time when you said working at Verizon, which I currently do. I'll be honest, they do actually take care of employees pretty good and pay pretty decent for my first job outside of the military with the main thing being they're paying for my whole bachelors in IT for software development. Aside though, I know when its time to leave it was just a job and I needed more than they could any longer provide. Love the content bro!
Man these people have no self respect
Yachts, like most boats, lose half their resale value when they hit the water.
So even if they sell back the yacht, something... something... company consistently prone to bad business decisions.
The company I work at treats me well and doesn’t have any cringe but tbh since I started watching your videos I have seen the light about being remote and building your own self. Just wanted to let you know that yesterday I started applying for remote software jobs 😊
i love this channel.
In small towns, your coworkers and customers are sometimes people you went to school with, people who know your parents, the spouse of your child's teacher, etc. In that setting, a fond farewell with some gratitude thrown in might be appropriate.
when he said kobe that hit different 😔
24/8
pretty sure these guys did it for reference papers. You say something nice about us, we will refer you to your next employer
0:49 RIP Kobe.
It's more than being afraid of burning bridges and saving face. It's something people do to get their next job.
If you walk into an interview and say that the reason you left your last job is because you were "let go", it'll be a red flag for them and you'll lose a huge amount of points. Then, if they ask you about why you were let go and you dare being honest and call their bullshit, they'll discard you immediately. Remember the canon of interviewing: "never talk bad about your last company". Even if they were terrible, even if they treated you like shit, stole from you, fired you in the most humiliating way possible, that's simply something you cannot tell. (HR psychology is absolute garbage and that's why we're all here, aren't we?)
Those kissass posts are all about easing the blow for their possible next employer.
Or you can just not make a post, and say 'the company ran out of money' in the interview.
@@JoshuaFluke1 Seems like the best corporate candidate is the one that pretends to smile when you stick the blade into them. Performance is just an afterthought.
@@JoshuaFluke1 Yeah, well, everything is possible when you lie. That's the whole point. If you want to survive in the corporate world you have to lie, fake and cheat your way to the top. Maybe a straight simple lie like yours or an elaborate cringey boot-lick like them. I prefer your way. I was fired a couple months ago and that's what I say: "I was hired for a project and the project ended". End of story. You will not find a single 'thank you' post from me, that's for sure.
Joshua Fluke I just said this in a different comment. I would just leave and search for my next job. LinkedIn don’t need to know my business
I always watch the corporate cringe show before I sleep.
It provides me with laughter.
"My last day at dynasource"
What, did a pack of velociraptors tear her apart?
My last day of helpdesk for a major financial helpdesk everyone took my chair, my keyboard, and other pc items..
I didnt even get the walk of shame so i walked my own self out...
Two issues here: First remember when Human Resources used to be called the Personnel Department that had three old ladies in a small office to do all the menial bullshit. Second, If Paragon Bioservices was so great, why is Adam "Shithead" Ziegel leaving? Also, Manufacturing and Operational Excellence? Isn't every department expected to be "Excellent" - do the job they're getting paid for - to be excellent or your fired. All of these "Excellence" departments drive me insane....
I feel like people who say "be humble" are scared to get further in life. This is why they're in the same places instead of improving.
stop being mean to kendrick bro
that's so damn accurate
I like to think “being humble” means that just because you are in one fortunate position now, you could wake up and it be gone. Treat everyone with respect from the janitor to CEO
A lot of people today don't seem to have the courage to just be professional. They seem to try and hide behind the kind of stuff that is addressed in this video, and that just makes them pathetic.
Sad that people are so trapped in the workforce that they have to become weird corporate shells of a person in order to find a shred of meaning and belonging to their lives.
Honesty is a gift that cheap and fake people don't give and deserve. They are so scared of what people think of them when they speak truth so, they are fine with speaking these lies and the best part is that their company management laugh at their posts.
I find this crazy.
i joined this company few years ago. A collogue of mine has been working for 35 years in the company and he is retiring did not save much unfortunately. The boss of the company sold this company recently and donated about 40 million to school she graduated, and did not give any thing, i repeat any thing to this old man, other than the salary he was paid. I find this utterly disgusting. Why would a school which took tuition for education, get 40 million in donation, but a worker of her company who worked almost all his life get nothing. i find this insane, unjust, appalling and lost faith in humanity.
I randomly came across your comment and it reminded me of an old man I was helping my wife negotiate a salary with a few years ago. His new business was a "startup". But, he'd been part of a $300 million buyout of a family-owned business (I'm guessing he got about of 4th of it). He acted insulted when we didn't take his first offer. He actually said to me "We've employed a lot of people. People loved working for us. They almost never left us."
It took a lot of self-control for me to not say "dude, they may not have left you, but you sold them out to a private equity company that very quickly bankrupted the company and laid them all off."
Two years into the startup that had met every expected milestone, "his heart just wasn't in it" anymore. He let my wife go with no severance. Not one penny of cushion for two years of hard work. We were fine because I'm self-employed and can just work a little harder. But I've always regretted not pointing out how he'd sold out all of his employees.
the pet company names 😂😂😂😂
10:37 It seems like Utah needs less communities are more unions
3:21 "I like your home made riser which is just a binder full of crap".... man youre killing me. my corporate has denied risers because $15 can't be expensed to operations..... so we use 2 to 3 printer paper stacks as risers for the monitors. each paper stack thing costs $8. Good financial decisions all around.
Your content is really important. Thank you for exposing the corporate world's bullshit. They live in their own world circle-jerking each other achieving absolutely nothing.
Since I'm considering a career transition in the next 2 to 3 years, this has been a topic I've been thinking about - how to part with a company you've probably spent years in. I think the size of the company is very relevant on technique/approach. I think that there should be a bracket of courtesy when it comes to doing this step, but I DO agree a lot of people go overboard with it - perhaps because they want a backup plan in case shit goes down.
Man, about 6 years ago, after having worked for a highly classified customer for 4 years, my company 'forgot' to ensure a required clearance was done for me during a periodic review. Due to their error, I was removed from the contract and eventually let go. I had a legal case if I wanted and the leadership ghosted me after a few weeks trying to get things rectified. It was at that point I realized that company loyalty is bullshit. Remember, don't work for free, these are 40 hour work weeks, don't feel guilty taking sick leave or vacation, if your job is deliverable based, recognize your freedom, and realize that you're just an asset to them, nothing more.
Ok, I don't normally ever disagree with you, but here's one thing I disagree with you on (based on experience): In some countries, it's a custom to bring in food and beverages on your last day/birthday. For instance, I lived in Estonia for three years, and I noticed this custom occurring with all the companies I worked for. I'm a little surprised you didn't come across this custom when you lived in Finland (as Estonia and Finland share a lot of culture). My apologies if you did know about it and just simply disagree with it. I have to admit I did find it a little weird when I came across it, but it's kinda nice in a way. I think it only really works if everyone does it though, cause if only some people do it, it would kinda suck. Anyways, excellent content as always Josh.
Peace x
You pay me, I do job. The end.
Mothereffing Exactly!!
I left a corporate job a year ago without the 'mandatory' goodbye ceremony. I'm coming back this year and i was instantly hired with no question asked. The skills/work are the only thing that matter, how fast and how much money can you make for the company, it's a business transaction, not a relationship.
Yoo this was funny af hahah. Just loved seeing you go through their bs.
Yep, Stockholm syndrome is pretty accurate description. I totally understand your frustration reading all that pathetic crap. I never ever posted any last day nonsense anywhere, I never sent an email to coworkers. I just didn't show up next day and never looked back, it's pointless. I care about companies as much as they care about me. Well I did because I don't work as employee for a long time.
I love the Corporate Cringe series of videos man. Just so real.
BTW your channel is awesome. No bullshit-Josh you see through everything
Some places will actually only give you severance under the condition that you don’t talk crap on the company. Happened to me once when the whole dev team got laid off, and I think we ALL would have talked a whole bunch of crap if it didn’t cost us 2 weeks of pay.
I wanted to be self employed my whole life...and am finally taking action towards that..but there has been no greater motivation (and sometimes anger) to not go back to the corp world and to create my own bizz than ur videos shittalking companies lmao.
Thanksss
This is why I like being self-employed. So I don't have to deal with this cringe shit. I only had two jobs that lasted 3 months each and I was miserable. At 19, I did DoorDash, made $100/day, took a 10-month web design course, and now I make $50k/yr freelancing at 22 years old. Minimal human-interaction, maximum profit. I still socialize, but not with boring coworkers that obligate me to act a certain way.
PMSL - that dizzy chick voice. These texts are are so sickly sweet and don't contain any resentment... Love to see some Last Day "Angry Posts". "I'M LEEBIN' DIS SHIZ - WHO COMIN WIT ME!!!" Who gets a chance to even text - my experience is they shutdown the network so you can't wreck any shit before you leave...
Dude this video is hilarious 😂😂. People.... corporate America is NOT your friend. They aren’t gonna be so much of a family when your rent or mortgage gotta be paid and when you get eviction letters. I’m a college student now, and I understand why I’ve always hated corporate America! Trying to find an alternate path
My top video moments list
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I was a free LinkedIn member for 14 years. I had over 1500 contacts and was enjoying some posts and making posts. A few months ago I made a mistake and posted a video about some Muslim men that were killed by other Muslim men. I was immediately told (by email) that my account is permanently restricted - and that means - removed, cancelled etc. One mistake (if it can count as a mistake) and no warning, nothing - just cancelled. So, yeah, LinkedIn sucks really bad.
0:50 RIP Kobe
The company I work at hired a new "Training Manager" and did calls to each employee asking various BS questions, one asked is "What form of appreciation and recognition, do you value most?" I told her money, I'm not a 5 year old learning to tie my shoes, I have a family and bills. I got a call from my direct manager about being insubordinate
When I understood I was going to be fired, I tooke vacations 14 days, then I was fired) Always seek your profits. Forget about team and loyalty shit
When you are leaving a job you DO NOT have to suck up anymore!!
Feel like any company that has layoffs that high are required to pay ridiculous penalties and offer mandatory separation Costs equaling 1/2 years worth of their salary (in addition to unemployment insurance).
Effectively saying "because you're so incompetent that this has to happen, you morons get to pay for it. Thanks for further damaging our economy."
Oh my god those coffins
I do actually find it impressive how many people actually feel grateful to companies, or even come as far as thinking that they actually mean more than money to their boss, like damn, wake up, you're just a worker there, they're not going to let their company die for you, you'll get laid off if needed
Just search the meaning of Stockholm syndrome and boy this really justifies the video
Oh man. Thank you so much! This is going in the morning show 🤣
Maaaaan....... this video is rather well-timed for me as I think I've finally learned that I'm not going to get more pay if I don't leave the company that I'm at. I think I always kind of knew that, but it became particularly apparent today. Welp, time to get back on the grind - fortunately I don't need to become woefully disappointed as there are tons of jobs out there and I am optimistic!
It makes me want to find the rage reviews from the same event.
Check glassdoor
A good leader does not leave their people behind.
8:55 What a fake individual! Still supporting the company after that 😒
I think people get so used to this "company family" BS, that in case they get fired and need a new job, such a vid is like a reference to them on how loyal they are/were to a company. It may not work at all with HR people and headhunters, since they face this for years. However, people just have this brainwashed way of showing they are being fired not because of their inability or laziness... Guess it is some weird way of telling the world "It was not my fault" + not telling negative points towards ex-colleagues, since they might reappear somewhere else.
My mom had big troubles finding a new job after a layoff, since in every interview she stated and complained about the layoff and that is something HR does not want to hear... Until she just stopped and then was super successful.
"Resolution of a potato" 😂
My resignation letter to Apple was not nearly as nice.
Stop simping for companies. So glad someone else sees this as a problem too!
I always laugh at your HR voice tone
They sell you on the “we’re a big family,” bullshit. Then, they let you go, and since you’re the one that bought into the “family” mentality, you feel like you have to say something positive about them.
People need to stop being politically correct and start speaking their truth.
Anyway, great video once again, Josh.
wtf is linkedin for? I never log in rofl looks wild
Ikr until I started watching Joshua Fluke, I didn't even realize it was a whole social network. I just log in to accept connection requests and update my employment history. I didn't think people were actually using it like Facebook.
@@zhin13 Yeah, same for me... Also I noticed it got 'worse' over the last 2 years... When I created my account I only saw some "guyA connected to guyB" or "LadyA got a new job - congrats!". Now it is FULL of weird things.... OK, sometimes my network shares discounted certificates or sth. or courses... There I see the benefit over FB. But the rest is like "BLEH" and faking.
It's worthless trash.
You can land a pretty good job there.
@@matusmahut7268 I spent a whole year unemployed and I couldn't care enough about linkedin to even try. That place is corporate cancer.
Hey josh why don’t you do a coworker cringe video. Like go through the type of coworkers we’ll encounter as a jr dev.
Deonte Manning The sane ones you encounter outside of tech. People are the same everywhere
Dude I’m a software engineer at Walmart and they literally warned us today not to speak out against a certain country online because it would affect sales. Then proceeded to tell us to get more “woke” online.
Based Centrist China? Israel?
32 gigs China
"Double smash thumbs down to really let me know" 😂😂😂
This makes me sick.
I spent 7 years at Qwest Communications as a Senior Internet Engineer where I configured, troubleshot, provisioned and tested internet circuits, customer routers, Qwest edge routers, etc. We easily worked 60 hours a week. I remember coming in one day at 6:30AM and not getting a chance to take a bathroom break till 5:30 that evening. So twice a year I hosted a party....one in the Spring and one at Christmas. Now, my wife would invite her colleagues too, and of course we would invite friends and family, so one Xmas I counted upwards of 65 people crammed into our 1600 square foot house and we had a great time. My wife and I provided everything...food, drink, soda...everything. A couple years after leaving Qwest I realized that I was in touch with only two of the dozens of coworkers from the old days. I also realized that over all those years, not a single one of my coworkers ever invited my wife and I over to their place, out to dinner, etc. That's when I truly grew up. I realized that the people you work with are just that....people you work with. Despite spending 9 or more hours a day with them, they are not your friends. They are your co-workers. Nothing more, nothing less. So now when I go into a new work environment, I don't go in expecting to make any REAL friends. Yes, I'm friendly, approachable, easy to get along with, responsive to the needs of others, etc., but I keep in mind that they are NOT my friends. And I'm fine with that. I don't even make an effort to remember people's names anymore. More often than not, I've completely forgotten them within a few weeks of moving on to the next gig. One more thing...about burning bridges. Yes, for many years that was a real concern of mine. "Don't burn a bridge"...make sure you exit gracefully, you never know if you'll need to fall back on the old company for work. So I was basically a floor mat most of my career. I put up with shit from people whose knuckles dragged on the ground when they walked, because I didn't want to burn any bridges. The only time I ever went back to a former employer for rehire is when things were really dire. My wife had been transferred down to Houston and so of course I went with her. However, the labor market in Houston is more blue-collar, oil-and-gas industrial, so there's not so much need for IT types like me. After TWO years of unemployment, I finally reached out to my old employer back in Virginia. I had a stellar reputation as a project manager with my former employer, having rolled out two applications during the three years I was employed there. During my employment, I regularly worked 50-60 hours a week, came in at night to work with the night shift, came in one weekends...I even worked through TWO Thanksgivings and Xmases. So in desperation, I reached out to them hoping that they might have some work for me....I figured if they did, I could move back up with family in the area and resume bringing in some money. The reaction I received utterly shocked me. Word got back to me that my former coworkers were running me down, wondering why I was so screwed up and couldn't figure out what I wanted to do (?!?!?!?!). As if any of these people were qualified at psychoanalysis. These miserable excuses for human being were basically rejoicing in the misery and desperation of someone who had had the courage to break free of the company. What depraved assholes! So the lesson I learned from that experience was NEVER GO BACK! BURN YOUR BRIDGES WHEN YOU LEAVE so you will never experience the same humiliation I did because, in the end, 99% of all people SUCK and they are just looking for someone to shit on to make themselves feel better in their own twisted, demented minds.
Seeing all this cringe, I’m glad I worked 30 years in the public sector. No one fed you fake bs lines, fake gratitude, etc. Everyone knew what their job was, no one patted you on the back or the fake “yay us, go teamwork.” I knew my check was direct deposited every month on the 15th and 30th and went home every day at 4pm with no expectations to work past then and never worked a weekend.
I leave every job behind. They got 6-12 months of me, thats it. Eg: I'm hired based off my resume that says 10 yrs experience. Their raise after 1 yr is less than $1/hr increase. I leave, pass out resumes with 11 yrs experience, i'm hired immediately with whatever I ask. More than $1/hr increase. Leaving a job behind is always worth more than any raise, because no ones sees your experience if you're employed. Everyone sees your experience when you're unemployed. You always end a job with more experience than when you started. So advertise it, and show that you're a competition to be dealt with. Then you will see yourself evolve into the solopreneur/freelancer/contractor you're suppose to be.
Funny thing is that I am quitting my job in a week. I mentally prepared a warm parting message but watching this video has made me decide otherwise. Hahahah