The 7 Lies of Wage Slavery
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- čas přidán 4. 06. 2024
- In this video I wanted to share the 7 lies of wage slavery. Escaping the 9-5 rat race using quiet quitting might seem wrong. But my failed life story so far shows me that is it actually makes perfect sense in corporate work. This is not just a rant, but a reminder why reaching financial freedom is important.
00:00 Introduction
01:26 Lie 1: "Your Employer Cares About Your Well-being"
03:13 Lie 2: "The customer pays your salary"
04:23 Lie 3: "Society would crumble if we stopped working"
06:33 Lie 4: Lie 4: "The More You Work, the More Valuable You Are"
08:12 Lie 5: "Job Security Equals Financial Security"
09:35 Lie 6: "Making More Money is Always Better"
11:13 Lie 7: "Hard Work Always Leads to Success"
12:51 Conclusion
13:49 Behind the scenes vlog
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I was told, "work hard and you will be rewarded". Yeah rewarded with MORE hard work. "Hey that guy works hard , LET him do it...ALL.
Same here
Been there more often than I care to remember.
Yup
It’s obvious.
Absolutely.
And that is why career advancement is virtually impossible.
“Be nice, work hard, keep your thoughts to yourself, and never be seen as insubordinate and you’ll do fine.”…. Yeah, RIGHT! Do all those things and you’ll always be a slave and your entire life will pass you by while you remain unsatisfied and never reach your true potential. We were born to fulfill our purpose, and working for someone else, jumping through their hoops, and and punching their time clocks will steal your essence and suck your soul away while they sit back and laugh living the life that you can never afford, and use you for everything you’re worth. Wage slavery is REAL. Even the indentured servants of the past had a better life than what we are allowed to have today.
This is the beast system…it is all around us…and the walls are closing-in…
Get out while their is still breath in your lungs and strength in your bones!!
Seek Truth. YaHUSHA is The Way, The Truth and The Life.
🙌HalleluYaH!🙌
"20 years from now, the only people who will remember you worked overtime are your kids." 😯
Yeah read that somewhere, and it was just so good that I had to include it.
20 hours from now, not years
Will they really though
@@KoolRanqeperhaps, perhaps not
You’ll remember that you were working instead of seeing your kids grow up though
THAT HIT ME TOO, LIKE A TONNE OF BAD SMELL FROM HERBAL MED FOR MY LIFE DISEASE.
I watched an uncle of mine work his way up from a cashiers to a regional manager only to be diagnosed with cancer two years before retirement and fired due to cut backs. Ain’t America grand!
Diagnosis literally means bad knowledge. The medical system is designed to get you off the BUS, if you know what I mean.
Damn, my father worked 40 years for a Retailer as a butcher, does not want to rise. They had ONLY a little celebration for those people who have worked 40 years there. What a fucked up signal to the rest of the work force.
Dude I started working when I was 15 and I knew right then we were modern day slaves and evertime I brought it up to anybody they said I was just being paranoid and told I know nothing of slavery so watching this is a breath of fresh air and I'm starting my own business as soon as I can
I wish you success, I love seeing people taking charge of their life.
Another choice quote from Rockefeller:
“He who works all day does not have time to make money.”
omg. I loved that so much.
writing it down.
don't be suprised if you see these quotes on future videos. :)
Hope so!@@TomScryleus
He who allows these kind of rich people to do what they want without consequences are also the same slaves as they claim not to be
Well, you can always try to overthrow them if you want!@@divergentthg7925
At least I can spell his last name.
Hard work is rewarded with more work
thats what I have observed over the years.
@@TomScryleus I saw the way you're working out. Be careful, I recommend you to wear gym belt to prevent any unexpected situation.
I'm telling you this from experience. I saw you doing an exercise that is very risky. Be very careful.
Keep doing this kind of content, it's different, you're very good at it, you have talent. I wish you the best
I don’t see a problem with that as long as it’s work and not a job.
The sad part is that there are people like me who actually like the extra work to learn more, feel more fulfilled and make the day go faster, but it seems like my bosses have been disrespecting me for doing this.
@@JakoWako it's true that time passes quickly, but at they same time your boss starts to think that you're a "nice guy", that's the problem.
That's why I work just 15 hours per week, just 3 hours every day (I should work 40 hours in fact), but I'm quite quitting giving them 🖕
I worked in a job for 22 years. Almost every year they work load increased and the number of people we had to do the work decreased. The business thanked us every year for our hard work, then failed to give us pay increases equal to half the cost of living increase. Since I didn't have much of a life outside of work, and I was socking money away for retirement, I went along with the lie. By the time I retired last year. It was common for employers to work 400 to 500 hours of overtime in a 5 to 6 month period. By the end of the overtime season people would be soooo burned out, you could track us by the trail of ash we would leave. I didn't even realize how emotionally, mentally and physically empty I was until about three months after retirement. Thank God I'm out.
Enjoy retirement and I hope your recuperation is going well.
Cant believe you working there clouded your judgement. If I worked there I would be fired within 6 months for “slacking off” 😂
Are you using that fiction to market things outside of the fiction itself?
Nope. The state of Montan pays very poorly. I was lucky enough to start working there 3 or 4 years before they changed there retirement plan. The old retirement plan was fairly decent. The new one blows goats. The funny thing is they upper management can't figure out why they can't fill job vacancies.🤣@@bunk95
I can't change the past, but I spend every moment I can with my grandson, even if my back hurts, I put him to bed, I play with him, we laugh, we run, we... because when my daughter moves out later this year, those moments are gone. TODAY is all you have people!
"No one ever became wealthy by working hard at their job, we gain true wealth by working hard on ourselves." ~Jim Rohn
true. I once read an article about this guy here in sweden who became a millionarie by constantly changing jobs (increasing his wage every time). it took him about 30 years to become a millionaire (swedish at least).
@@TomScryleus30 years is insane. Some people do it in a few years, not to say 5-10. It's usually 10-20 for the fast people who had no assistance. Even then, how does that money truly come. What's the point of having it too? Isn't the fear of death, even though its inevitable, but isn't the fear of death more mentally consuming and pressuring then caring so much to make all that money?
@@TomScryleusalso if you had kids to give your earnings to, they wouldn't know how to keep it, unless you taught them, and even then, somebody will envy the wealth, some John d rock Motherfucker will try to put you out, we don't live in a free world. The only freedom is our choice, and mental frame, outside of ourselves, there is no freedom
@@mma4355 don’t forget he was getting taxed at the Swedish rate every one of those 30 years, so maybe he could have made it quicker in the states.
Working hard or working strategically?
“Society would crumble if we stopped working.”
Lol society is crumbling right now and we’re working harder than ever.
touche. :)
I should have mentioned that. People are often quick to say, oh society would fall, but what about now?
Now? It's elite gaslighting to the bitter end.🤣 @@TomScryleus
Would be harder you have no idea
I say let society crumble. It was built on the backs of slaves by greedy, rich douchebags. I'm only working now so I can afford a peaceful way to check out of this stupid life. I'm tired of it all.
It's exactly this theory that working hard isn't good that is contributing to the degradation of our current society. Not everyone has the skills to make it in their own business. The best thing you can do, is what you do best, as you are more likely to enjoy your work and then enjoy your life. The alternative of not working will undoubtedly culminate in your lack of respect for yourself and if everyone did the same, then where would you get your food from? How would you cook it if there's no one to keep the gas and electric running? Then, if you say some people should work to keep essential services running, how is that fair? You need to think your point through to its logical conclusion and stop killing your own spirit. If you don't like your job, educate yourself in the skills you need to do a job you will enjoy. That's how you will find fulfillment, not by working less. Think about it. No, I mean REALLY think about it. Thank me later. 🙏🏻
This is a huge chip on my shoulder constantly. I realized at a very early age when being sent off to strangers to school and my parents telling me I must go it is the law. This made no sense to me it is a major contradiction to everything I had lived up to that point of 5 years old . We are slaves and I am sick of the compliance and I am just pissed at myself and everyone participating and especially pissed at all my ancestors for letting it get this out of hand. Free country my ass
Totally agree. I never understood why we were forced to spend all day, every day surrounded by and interacting with strangers when my Mom (who I actually cared about and wanted to spend time with) was at home alone. WTF?
You said it perfectly! We live in a country of brainwashed cowards. Still can't believe people turn their kids over to the government school freaks.
Well I think if we all stay home from work.. especially you Repo man, it would be a peaceful Rebellion. If we would put our efforts into ourselves living sustainably it wouldn't take that long to achieve self-sufficiency. Stand our ground and hold that second amendment in your hand as you go live our god-given lives in the elite can eat shit in fend for themselves
@@almondmilksoda Hey hey. Healthy kids come out of loving families that stay together. Our country wants dysfunctional, easy to control, immature, ignorant people being churned out. Best way to accomplish that? Turn public schools into cesspools and force children to attend them for decades while barely being taught anything necessary, and certainly not to critically think or anything like that. More time with strangers means more time for manipulation and grooming too!
One thing is so clear. The people that shaped our current society, are monsters.
I hated school from the very beginning, so.much so that I ended up in therapy for school phobia. When the therapy didn't work I was placed in an adolescent psychiatric unit. That place was a freak show. When you've been in one of those places it follows you around for years. You're an ex mental patient. My stay in that place didn't help me at all.
My father had a strong work ethic, and called me lazy because I couldn't hold down a job and was unemployed a lot of the time. He was proud of the fact that he'd never claimed benefits. All He ended up with was a tiny semi detached house on a mediocre housing estate. We had no car, no home phone and only a couple of short holidays when I was growing up. He had to work overtime just to buy a colour tv. I spent most of my so called working life on the dole, and managed to buy a colour tv, mobile phone and freeview recorder out of my benefits. The work ethic is a con.
Work ethic has been turned into a con by companies taking more and more advantage of their employees over time, never stopping. Work ethic SHOULD yield more money and promotions. However the system is corrupted to hell and back. The people at the top get selfish, claim what the people 'under' them did for themselves. Bring in their own friends / family into positions that others are more qualified for (nepotism).
Then add the government trying to make people lazy and incapable by handing them free money (also used to slowly drop the worth of our money to ultimately destroy the country along with throwing trillions to fake wars). Why work and have integrity when you can be a bum and live off the evil governments hand-outs? That way the evil government gets bigger, more powerful, more control. One of the best tactics to ruining a person is giving them everything their ignorance and misunderstandings want.
Your dad had pride, and he has my respect.
@@stevewheeler6118 I think He was a fool.
We don't have the same possibility to live off benefits, especially when someone lives and is born outside a welfare country like the US. Some of us are stuck in backwards armpits (even in Europe) and our only choice is to work.
@@stevewheeler6118and his pride was his downfall and might end up being his children's downfall as well if he expects to be taken care of by them. But at least he wasn't lazy and worked hard to make his master rich
The worst part is being disrespected at work, if you wanna kill motivation / loyalty disrespect your staff. One thing I’ve learned is do not trust anybody at work there’s no such thing as friends
True, I only consider them friends if we no longer work together and we still regulary talk. You can met good and nice people at work, but it doesn't mean you can start discussing innapropriate stuff (discussing colleagues in a not nice way, sharing work details they are not suppose to know, sharing sensitive information for example your health and family struggles, your wild stories, the sad thing that these people can share it with some other colleagues. I heard this stories many times.)
You can have fun at work, share laugh, spend time with coworkers you like, but be proffessional at the same time.
These things have time and place to share work and collegues are not it
Nothing like a manager walking up to you and saying, "hey slacker" after standing around doing nothing for hours to make me suddenly want to slow down.
Coworkers are as fake as they come
Absolutely, you would think bullying would end after school but as long as there are broken brain overcompensating pieces of shit there will be bullying
They'll pretend to be your friend so they can get you off balance. Typically starts with them sh-t talking the boss, a co worker or the company. If you "dont want to get involved" just like prison, you dont have a choice. You already are. Staying nuetral and wanting to just do your job and stay out of the fray makes you just as much of a target as if you joined in in the gossip mill. Next thing you know? you['re on somebody's sh-t list because the pepetrator started a rumor saying you said something you didnt. They'll see to it your job is even more miserable....its like this is what gives their life meaning and purpose. Its totally f'd up. The job being soul crushing and unfufilling is bad enough....couple that in with this and no wonder everybody hates their job.
The obsession with workplace happiness always cracks me up. We’d get a survey every quarter asking what would make us happier - change the selection in the break room vending machines, more pizza parties, more “attaboys” from the bosses during meetings. I’d always write in “higher pay.” Seems like an obvious option to include, yet it never was. :-)
hehe.. they don't even let me fill out surveys (as a consultant, they don't want my opinion) :)
My last job, they would have these kind of surveys, and you know what it felt like? It felt like they would look at the suggestions and do the opposite. We want less meetings, bang, every day 4 hour long mandatory meetings. We want more freedom, bang, now we have to track every minute of everyday, including bathroom breaks. Less social justice engineering, bang, we have to watch Priscilla Queen of the Desert every Monday and talk about that community.
I stopped filling out the surveys. Start calling out sick a lot or claimed high priority tasks that needed to be done. Stupid.
not more pay, less working hours, specifially 4 days a week 8h a day.
The survey - how they get you to do more work for them. If they actually cared about you they wouldn't need these pointless surveys.
They read those surveys for entertainment.
I always feel this sense of dread when people accept their current circumstances despite not being happy about them. To say "that is just how it is" is the most doomer thing I have ever heard, yet people complain about me being the negative one. I'm surrounded by miserable people, poor, overworked, shaming themselves and others day in and day out. There's no self awareness anymore, no common sense. If I had the ability to give someone else a salary, they should be able to thrive on it and be treated like a humanbeing who needs time for other things, family, friends.
Right? Like everyone's imagination going in the right direction is dead. We have plenty of toxic imagination running around, people pretending to be this and that. But when we all sit down and ask "should we be able to live a decent life working to keep society running?" and they all just stare at you like a gold fish. "Should we all really be working most our lives and still need government assistance just to pay for rent and food with no money or time to spend enjoying anything?". "Duuuuuh that's just how it is, I'm gonna go pretend to be a cat in the corner now".
Accept as in theyre being abused and/or tortured and/or killed?
Sorry to break it to you, but certain things are as they are wether you like it or not
My life is governed by the anxiety related to getting to work, keeping a job, I'm 51 years old a cry all the time because the end of this he'll seems so far away still.
I have severe anxiety to. It’s absolutely insufferable.
51 years old here too with horrible anxiety. I'm burnt out in the career I chose. Is this what mid life crisis feels like? I'm doing the bare minimum to get by. I need a new dream, but no energy. Ugh!
“Your employers care about your well-being” I have a story for that: During my last performance evaluation, I was explaining to my boss that my heart disease played a major role in my depression; he made a scoffing noise and minimized it as if I was just complaining. I quit that day.
They see you as simply pandering for sympathy to get special treatment. You probably came to them only after a trend of decreasing performance long before you considered telling them.
I don't know that person so I can't speak for their empathy specifically, but most bosses (even the good ones) would be annoyed if you weren't honest up front the moment it became an issue because it shows little respect for their time as well as your own.
Some may have more empathy than others, but from my experience if they even have a shred of decency, simply coming to them when a problem first starts affecting your work will typically be the quickest way to get on their good side. You don't even need to be specific about what the issue is, just how it might affect your work and what it generally falls under (family, pregnancy, change of housing, medical, etc).
my boss reduced my hours just for getting my heart tested and finding some issues out. I had same reaction with my heart, it depressed me a bit for a while. Most bosses are psychopaths
@@_shadow_1 sorry mate but you are absolutely wrong: I came to them the moment I got diagnosed.
@@geomundi8333 That is too bad and I am sorry to hear that, I agree they are psychopaths in most cases.
@@_shadow_1And no, they only care about the performance you can bring to the table, I was nos expecting anything just explaining my mood during the aforementioned year but anyways, that’s water under the bridge and I have a MUCH better economic activity now.
My dad worked his butt off. He ran a small business. I remember him taking us to the swimming pool and then leaving after an hour. I got home and the 7 days sign was placed outside the shop. He passed at 87 and mum was there when he took his last breath. He said "I was an idiot, I worked too much"
he actually said that???
@@TomScryleus
Probably not, but it's great movie material. 😳
If you don't work too much then you can't afford to live on your own, and sure as hell can't attract a female. That shit costs MONEY.
You wouldn't exist if your dad didn't "work too much."
My dad left home at 8am to return at 11pm and did that for 30 years, just to have a heart attack from the stress of being flagellated at work and was forced to retire with 20% of his heart left functioning.
His colleagues were way ahead of him due to him not wanting to participate in corruption.
He barely spoke to me for 20 years.
He regrets it but he won't say it, he is too committed to his idea of morality of following society, supporting your family and "doing the right thing" which means doing what is accepted socially and not actually what the right thing may be.
His mantra is to follow the rules.
When cv came around though he had no reason to take the jab and despite me showing him it's poison, he still took it because that's what "you're supposed to do".
He fell badly sick afterward and did not even tell me. My mom told me after which I made her put him on a diet+medicine regimen which helped him recover but it still took two months.
A lot of people are too ingrained into the system, taking them off it will break them like said in the Matrix.
I do think there is a time an a place to put in the work and hrs to get in a good financial situation but I think some people don't know when it's time to cut back...I think some people just get to a point that that they don't know any other way to live.
I was an artic truck driver back before all the regulations came into effect, we worked anywhere from seventy hours a week up to one hundred hours plus. They didn’t allow you time to eat or sleep, as has already been said, hard work does not get you respect, it just gets you more work. The wage we were paid allowed you to survive from week to week, you could never ever, afford to buy your own house.
Sitting in a truck stop restaurant, a crowd of truck drivers sat at the next table, they were praising a fellow they knew, as been a great worker, he took one day off a year, Christmas Day.
I walked out of that restaurant, knowing full well, I was getting out of this industry.
I've been telling people this for the last several decades. The documentaries, Zeitgeist Addendum, and The Secret of OZ, really woke me up to the evil reality we live in. Thanks.
Nobody looks back on their life and says _I wish I would have spent more time at the office._
Im going to borrow that line for my next video!
@@TomScryleus By all means do 👍
You ever hear of Rodney Dangerfield?
@@spaceflight1019 I have indeed. He was a great comedian even to his last. Why do you ask?
@@prima6170 Because he would have included his wife in the statement.
When I was working at McDonalds at age 17 , I had been there a year. My boss kept having me clean the bathrooms and the new people didn’t . I asked him why I still had to do it . He said I was reliable and he knew the job would get done. That statement has always stuck with me. It was a lesson learned. I t has crept up throughout my career as a nurse. I now work casual and set my own hours at different hospitals just to keep the control in my court.
But this worth nothing at McDonald but in a good company a reliable person is always valued and kept. Not saying to do that at shit jobs but there are places you want to be
I do, but that doesn’t me a reliable person should always get the bad assignments, it should rotate .@@RobertToberr
Yeah, that was your reward for doing your job well: a compliment and the same pay as someone who didn't do their job as well.
A wise descicion.
And now you earn all of £27k as a nurse, which isn’t enough for a family home
Exercise makes you feel better, but cutting fire wood makes you feel warm . I’ll be cutting firewood today and I will feel better when I have a big stack on my front porch . From the mountains of North Carolina , warm wishes on a cold February day.
that sounds AMAZING!
I am 70 years of age and I finally realized that I don't have to hurry and do things because I have to be at work on time. I was on the freeway yesterday morning and realized that I do not have to commute anywhere. I do need to do something to make some money but if I hear about "multitasking" by people who don't even know what "multitasking" even means, or rag at me, I am quitting. I did that once before because the boss criticized everything I did (she did it to everyone) but I finally had enough, I was working for minimum wage and thought this is just not worth it.
Companies pander so many lies its not even funny. When people say they are loyal to a company I just don't understand it. A company does not care one iota about you.
nope. companies have zip feelings for you. This has been my work experience. Been at MANY companies.
oh and HR isnt your friend is another painful lesson people have to learn.
@@TomScryleus
You are absolutely right they do not care at all. In my experience it is the boomer generation that was/is loyal to their companies. Millennials an Gen Z typically change jobs every few years.
My old supervisor was at a company for 37 years, he offed himself, and the company couldn’t have cared less. There was also one manager that heavily contributed to his death.
Agreed! I worked minimum wage job, no break, no lunch hour for 39 hours per week so the company wouldn't have to pay benefits, sick time, overtime, or paid vacation. One day the manager "quit fired" me by reducing my hour to 3 per week ( so I would be forced to quit) after I spent a previous week unwittingly training my own replacement. After 2 days the company began calling me 4 times a day over the next week. It seems my replacement decided the job wasn't for her and never showed up agAin? I decided as well not to come in and work the 3 hour work week as I was scrambling at that point for a new job so I could pay my weekly motel room. Because I didn't go back the manager had to cover my old shift - the gal had who quit for a total of 39 hour a week for over 1.2 months until they could hire another person . This person also quit after two weeks training. I was told later the manager lamented her decision to reduce my hours in the first place and give them to her friend the gal I wound up training. Since then I have never allowed a minimum wage slavejob to dictate my hours or bar me from a full time position.
"just quit your job"
@@frosturation2474 sounds like they did
" I was told later the manager lamented her decision to reduce my hours in the first place and give them to her friend the gal I wound up training."
"In Experiment 1, only women (not men) showed cognitive balance among [automatic] in-group bias, identity, and self-esteem (A. G. Greenwald et al., 2002), Rudman, L. A., & Goodwin, S. A. (2004)." Note: [automatic] insertion comes from the article title: "Gender Differences in Automatic In-Group Bias: Why Do Women Like Women More Than Men Like Men?"
You sound like you made most of this up...if not you are truly not competent to work.
That's actually quite common that managers do stupid changes for any reason, which sometimes is some optimisation plan and sometimes just "recommending" a friend and so, they get rid of experienced and hard working people. Only after such a change they realise that the people laid off actually did the job that is not being done anymore and the company even can get into trouble because of that. The strangest thing is that managers never pay for such stupid mistakes, the only ones who pay are these hard working employees. The lesson is, most often hard work doesn't pay. Unless you're visible, they can easily disregard how much you contribute. That's also why these managers don't pay for their mistakes - they're visible although maybe not even contributing too much, their bosses know that they need them to deal with all the sh** and, as bosses don't even know the sh**, they can't imagine replacing managers with anyone.
I quit my job after 16 years because I wanted to live instead of work, I now paint and sell art instead, and I'm on a better wage now than I was working for "the man"
Another old saying is "hard work kills horses". I'm from Sheffield England, until 30 years ago a very industrial hardworking city, I remember complete wrecks of people in their 40's and 50's from work related illness and alcoholism due to working and playing hard, the drink took the edge off their drudgery and heavy routine but also contributed to their deterioration.
I'm one of those horses ....
This is why many religions forbid alcohol...
You are perfectly sane. Companies are ruthless.
so ruthless... and people don't seem to see it.
@@TomScryleussad and true!
Businesses hire you, they don't adopt you.
I mean corporation by their very nature are technically psychopathic....
@youtubesucks1499 I don't think most people want special treatment. They just want their workplace to be more flexible and more accommodating. Most wage workers have very little say in what they actually want in their workplace, especially if they're in the lowest positions. They tell them when they want them to come in and how much they need to work with minimal consideration of their worker's wants or needs.
They pay sure, but workers also get no say in how much they want to get paid or what they are worth to their company. It's a frequent issue that workers don't get paid for their qualifications or experience and don't get hired if they demand reasonable compensation for that training or experience which makes them a more valuable asset to the company.
I've worked closely with several wealthy business owners, commercial and private throughout my years and I can say they ALL have one trait in common above all others: Heartless, Relentless, all-Consuming Greed. Rich people are rich because they hate everything and everyone that doesn't make them rich. They are soul crushingly greedy, selfish, and entirely righteous in their own minds. The closer you get to these people, the more you understand, there are VERY very few "good" wealthy people on Earth. Society is running on backwards morals. 💀
(Matthew 19:24) And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
They run open air sex cults
@@riverroad-rn2gbbruh andrew tatte saying something differently
@@riverroad-rn2gb those who exalt themselves will be humbled. Those who are humble will be exalted
Nope. Businessmen are focused on making a profit.
They are driven, focused and hate wasting time because it's the one commodity they can't make.
What you perceive as hate, they see as a waste of valuable productive time.
I love rich people. They will pay you to solve their problems and safeguard their time.
I started in the oil industry when I was 19...I couldn't believe how much money I'd be making, employed by a fortune 500 company! Midnight to noon were my hours and I sacrificed my entire social life to work, work, work! Into my 20s I could purchase a house brand new trucks.... still all alone.. but I couldn't quit! Alcohol, pills, weed became my go to if I started thinking to much and got depressed. I met someone at work just as toxic as me. After 14yrs I lost everything
I remember a piece of advice from one of my father's best friends maybe 30ish years ago, something to the effect of..."Ya don't wanna be at death's door thinking to yourself, shit, I really wish I would've spent LESS time at work!"
100% in agreement. I had to leave a professional career at age 48 due to permanent disability. Was there for almost 16 years & barely got a goodbye. They’d have done more if I’d died. It was a business of about 60 people. I learned & tell my kids that “you work for your personal benefit. You owe the employer nothing more than what you’re paid to do. “
What was your professional career? Real Estate?
I see this ALL the time. :(
its just the truth about workplaces.
I've worked hard since 16, all it ever gave me was a bulging disc in the back, missing family events and friends, and still $0 in the account. I'm 24. I stopped working hard the first time I witnessed nepotism
Thank God you're not a soldier. We're all domed.
@@DoctorNERO616 my back aches for soldiers 😣 carrying the true weight of the world on their damn s(h)oldiers
@@mindlessdillanfighting fake wars.
@@dallassegno regardless of the reasons, they're still fighting every day. Same reasons we're still clocking in. We all deserve respect and humility.
@@DoctorNERO616A doctor who can’t spell doomed.
My grandad was a war hero. He got a very prestigious medal. He never saw it. It was for dying in his early twenties the first time he ever left his country.
Don’t talk about soldiers, you don’t know what you’re talking about.
One thing I get so tired of hearing is "Just go get another job if you don't like the one you have." And I always say....what will people do if every employer starts treating their workers like crap and not paying them enough? Where will you go then? If we keep making excuses for them, they'll keep making your work environment worse. You need to stand up for your well-being. We need jobs to pay our bills, but they also need us to run their businesses.
Then start your own business
I worked hard, had a stroke due to 15 hour days for months as low staffed in dept and they would not hire more. 3 years later 1/3 of us lost our job and all outsourced. Companies do not care. Wake up people. This guy is spot on. Took me 33 years in IT and now forced early retirement and diminished pension to realize it. Funny thing now work part time for a grocery chain to for min wage for some extra cash as can’t touch my 401k and IRA yet. I am happy now working in Produce. Clock in and out. Paid for any OT I would occasionally happen to get. Not bad at all. Weekends sometimes get messed up but get days off in week.
WORKERS: The company says that, "we are like family."
COMPANY: Yes. You work harder than we do. You work longer hours than we do. You make much much less than we do. And if you don't work like we want you to, we kick you to the family curb( Unemployment Office ).
I think the term you're looking for is "kicked to the curb" short for (curbside). And you're right! The secret is to show up every day on time and become so good at what you do that you become irreplaceable.
The bottom line is that in reality we all are working for ourselves. Your time, your skill set, your money!
family curve :) hehe
The best way to approach working for someone else is do the least amount of work as you possibly can with out causing you to be terminated...working harder or being the most productive only helps out to a very small extent when it comes to being promoted..
Coming from a dysfunctional family that has sabotaged every thing I've ever done and has the nerve to say "they care" The company is right....they are like family
Business owners work WAY harder than employees. Working a 9-5 job is literally the easiest thing you can do. And that’s why most people choose wage labor over entrepreneurship. It’s easier. I tried to sell my vet clinics to some of my employees, and they wanted no part of it, because they didn’t want the mountain of debt, and they didn’t want the life they’d seen me living the last few years.
Company: "We are one family!". Therapist: "Nearly every family is dysfunctional".
😂.. funny but sadly true 😢
The-Rapist. The Psycho-the-rapist.
😂 True
When I was in my 20's I realised that the definition of employ is to use. From that moment on I knew that was what they were doing to most people in most lines of work. Since then I have worked in many different jobs & it was always the same. Working for yourself may not be as remunerative but the satisfaction is worth it & you always get by somehow. I have retired now & continue to do the things I love & care about. Thanks for your post
I will be 74 years old next month. I still work full time in a physical and mentally demanding job. I have lived through all of your points. I am still working because a US company took most of my good pension by going bankrupt in the UK. Too late for me but please listen to this man. He has worked it out. I do like to continue to contribute to society.
those bastards! Im sorry to hear that. Sadly Ive heard many stories like that.
@@TomScryleus Thank you Tom. I’m fit and resolute. Great videos keep them coming. Oh and yes, all big business are b&£@ ards. Best wishes.
I remember a little over a decade ago, I was working in a retirement home, and I'd talk to all the old blokes there, and they all said the same thing, I wasted it all at work, I should have spent more time with the missus n kids, but I had to work, work isn't that important lad, they would all say. All of them are now gone, but those words,Those words have stayed with me .
We will probably say we wasted it all on our dam phones.
it really depends on what you work on... if its working on something that is genuinely making a positive difference to humanity as well as aligning with your potential, it wasn't a waste, quite the contrary, that is the best possible use of your time.
And what they didn't tell you, had they not worked, the missus would have taken the kids and left, finding a man who would provide more.
So be poor.
@@youtubesucks1499 Poor in pocket or poor in spirit, you won't miss what you never had.
@@rosevan7845 Nope. Poor in pocket, rich in wisdom became rich in pocket.
Just saying. The Book of Proverbs won't tell you how to pray or get saved.
It will tell you how to be wise.
Wisdom is better than gold.
I’m in my mid 40s and have only just realized a couple years ago how much of my own personal growth I’ve lost slaving away every single day just to come home tired to do it again the next day. I’ve managed to put away a nice chunk of money that supplements my now 25-30 hour work week, sometimes less. I regularly take extra days off just for me now. Every three to four months I take a week vacation. It’s tougher money wise but I worked hard up to this point to not live paycheck to paycheck. As long as I’m putting a little money away each month after my bills are paid, I’m doing okay.
sounds great. Seems to be a good enough lifestyle. Thats something I hope most people will get to experience.
I've been on a 30 hour contract for 18 months, I just quit the job as the company and managers were annoying me and the hours were getting more awkward as it is shift work. I've decided to work full time again for a bit as I was getting a bit bored to be honest. I'm not short of cash but now the toys are getting cheaper as people are becoming broke I fancy some new kit. I'd say in 2 years max I'll be back down to part time, might even chip off abroad again for a bit like I did a few years ago. I've not no family to provide for or mortgage and carry no debt so I can pretty much do what I want, and I do. I have some investments but don't bother with dodgy pension funds, with the gear I take I expect to be dead in my 50's anyway so it won't matter. I mean getting old sucks, as a lifetime trainer it's like having an old car that just steadily gets a bit slower, I want the speed and strength I used to have at 40 at my peak.
Im 51 male and single. , got laid off Sept 2023. I'm living on my savings and some passive income. I'm not a big spender. I still want to work but maybe 3 to 4 months only in a year until 60. Loving all the time I have now and never ever going back to a full time corporate job.
@@pinoyheartbeat7245 big hug and wise decision!! What did you hate the most about corporate job?
Your comment and this thread is amazing
I completely agree with you. In my various jobs I always ensured that I met the standards required, but never obsessed about going beyond that. When I left the office, work was completely left behind. I’m now retired and live modestly, but I’m happy and content with what I have. I know plenty of people who spent their lives obsessing with work, to the detriment of their families and their health.
I share your belief that you work to live, not live to work. Yet so many people seem to believe the opposite.
The issue with side hustles is that you shouldn’t need one in the first place.
I had a friend who dies at 55. Long story short, type one diabetic and worked more and more as the yrs went on and he gave up the gym to work more. Easily more than 80 hrs a week and he killed himself by proxy
geez.. thats horrible.
Why didn't he get a better job or better yet start a side hustle?
@@youtubesucks1499you have been quite the wisecracker in the comments, but you ask such a question that was effectively addressed in the video?
@@darklugia2300 What did I say that isn't facts?
That isn't the question
When I had a gap between jobs to recuperate after burnout, there were a few people I told that looked at me like I was crazy. It's such a stupid system we have, where spending so much of your life into work that doesn't actually get you anything in the end. All those hours I spent at work that weren't necessary were hours I didn't get to spend doing something fun, improving myself, or spending with the person I love. Eventually, I'll die, and my partner will die, and any kids we have will grow old. You don't get time back.
this really depends on how you use the money earned... for me I worked long hours to generate enough money to start my own business... I had to sacrifice a lot, both time and health but now im in a position where my future is going to look very different.
I think one of the best pieces of advice I have ever gotten is, Find and do what you love the most in life and you will never work another day in your life. One may have to create it through. Creation and Creativity are the highest abilities a person has. The other option is One may need or want to find like-minded people to create with to produce whatever it is that you and or your group produces, goods or services to get remuneration. The whole idea is when doing a function that you love it is the least amount of effort (WORK) for what you get back, Money, Satisfaction, Etc... A helpful tool is Ikigai and how to use it.
I have found in my life that managers will throw anyone under the bus when layoff season comes.
Remember this, when you become a hard worker, you become too valuable to promote, so the employer has no incentive to move you up or promote you. So hard work does not pay off nor benefits you.
Exaxtly
I’ve learned that the hard way. I used to be the best agent at a customer service call center. Everyone from my wave (people that were onboarded with me) got promoted eventually. I didn’t. At the time I didn’t understand. But I was simply too good to replace. I had the best ratings and did the work of several agents while also being the go to guy for tough cases and everyone’s favourite mentor. Eventually HR took me out of the project and promoted me to their ranks. That’s when I thought I was rewarded. In reality, I did more work than the remaining 15 recruiters and managed to finish staffing a project within two and a half months rather that six. I cut off the branch I was sitting on. I could have done what everyone else does and kept the job for 6 months and become permanent HR afterwards. That’s when I slowly started realizing that being too good at what you do is actually detrimental. Luckily I’ve quit working for corporations eventually and started building my own business with a model that cuts out the bs and doesn’t allow exploitation. I hope it takes off so we can show the world a better way.
Being a hard worker doesn't mean the company should promote you, because the company likely understands that extrinsic motivation from money will motivate you to only care about the money you get from the job, meaning that instead of doing your job if you're passionate, you'll expect the salary to increase with more work.
If only you could quit the job and find another one.................... Chuds : RRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE my delusions !!!!!!!
When I started hearing about quiet quitting becoming a new trend, I thought to myself, I've been doing that for years! I've always known that I was replaceable at every job I was at even though I was compensated very well for my work. I'm under no belief that a company fully values me. A company will toss you away if you don't produce and/or cost too much to retain. Job are just that, they are jobs. They're not the main focus of my life.
❤❤❤
Basically you were sabotaging the company. The resistance also did that to the germans when they occupied the factories in ww2. Keep on going :-)
@@jackcarpenters3759 I never sabotaged anything. I just did the minimum to not get fired lol
Viva la resistance
@@SineEyed just like a boss parasites off his employees...
Nobody on their death bed ever said in the history of mankind - 'Gee, I wish I worked a lot harder'.
Once, in a wage job, I was told 'there's no you in team.' I had enough sense (and space) to say right back - "There's no I in team too.' There was total silence... Employers are there for money - nothing else. Sometimes, the business is also an place for well-placed idiots, with power and a sense the company was there is self their personal wants. Most of the time - company goes away - along with the idiot. GREAT video!
Next time someone says there's no I in team, tell them there's M E for ME!
Thank you Tom. Workers of the world unite…my goodness if we haven’t learned about how disposable we are treated as people, in society, from the covid-19 pandemic, to the 2008 GFC…the homeless camped on the side of street in every city across the world; what is going to take for us to get together and create a better future?
loud voices in the community. I think too few speak up like me. Im just a youtuber. We need people in bigger places that can make a difference.
The unfortunate reality is that “they” don’t need you or me. as Ai and automation take over most jobs people will be forced to work harder and harder. This is going to be one of the main causes of WW3.
not even outrageous vehicle and housing/rent prices have done anything to wake people up. it just drives them to get another gig job outside of their full time job.
"Workers of the world unite". No. Fuck communism.
Nothing, because that's never going to happen. The people who are in the position to get together and create a better future have zero interest in actually doing that. The CEOs, rich jackoffs born with a sliver spoon in their mouths, the politicians... they are the ones who can make a better future, but they're also the reason the world is so terrible in the first place, because they benefit from it.
Meanwhile, the system, which was set up by the aforementioned, is designed so that it's near impossible for anyone altruistic enough to better the world to get into positions of power to actually do so. The system rewards the two faced idiots who know how to kiss up to the right people while lying about hard work and effort will get you somewhere in order to keep the rest of us complacent and slaving away for their benefit for the rest of our lives.
I have helped to financially liberate at least two hundred people over the last nine years. I have noticed that even when a person no longer needs a job, they still struggle with being in control of all of their time. I tell people that it takes at least two years of economic freedom before it starts to feel normal to them.
How did you achieve all of that? Great btw!
Almost every person whom I have ever met already have the tools they need to get free.@@rika6767
How? Can you help us too?
Thank you - it was not easy at all, but worth every second@@rika6767
Why do you feel like you need help, not being a smart ass, but what exactly are you trying to achieve? @@jonakuka6578
Hard work does not guarantee success, but you will never achieve success without hard work. The main thing is to always keep your personal goals and well-being in mind. You'll never get out of this world alive, and you'll never achieve anything without much effort. But do it on your own terms.
You are not alone. Life as defined by the establishment makes no sense, lacks fairness, and overide our nature as humans. We have been born to a social contract that we don't understand, and which doesn't benefit us. You make a lot of sense.
I am also in my 40s and just started weight training a few months ago and agree with what you said. The benefits are tremendous, as far as mental health goes, in addition to the physical. It is all linked.
I know right? I feel stupid that I didn't start earlier. It really helps me mentally. I really had no idea.
Same here, just discovered the same thing in my 40s.
Must be nice to be able to focus on improving your health, most people can not afford to, most people have to work to pay bills and to eat and pay our health insurance premiums, there is no time or money to care for oneself. Companies make billions of dollars off the backs of desperate people and only a select few will benefit.
I've been lifting since my teens and now 48. It is the best anti aging exercise there is. We lose muscle as we age and that's (basically) how we lose physical ability and get fatter. As sedentary as society has become, weight training should be considered mandatory.
@@lada3264 Must be nice....why yes it is nice. It is being nice to yourself and not things designed to hate you.
It is more important to care for yourself than afford things. When you are well you maintain your wellness, when you are burned out everything in your life suffers. It seems you want to believe the, we can not afford to, lie but if you look and watch closely, people afford what they want to afford and let the rest take care of itself. You will also be amused at how the wealthier they are the more, must be nice, they are when you are living large on one tenth of their resourses.
If you think it is expensive to live now, you have no idea how expensive it is to live with cronic health failure.
"I've freed 1000 slaves. And I would free 1000 more, if only they knew they were slaves"- Hariet Tubman. Keep on doing the good work fam. 🙏💯💯💯
Now THAT is a quote!
thanks, im gonna use it in a video.
Looking forward to it one day. People like you are a beacon of light in this world. Bless up 🙏💯
Thank you. But I don't know... I think more people, smarter people than me should speak up.
What is that 100 comes from? Is that in procent ? Slaves in procentage ? Why not just wait for some cheap things insted to go and develop your self? Go have an education, go make self study . Afterwards you can produce more than 100.
@@Potencyfunction Go learn to type in proper English internet miscreant 😂
Just saw this. Thank you. I'm 45, and recently changed careers, from retail operations and shipping to physical therapy as a physical therapists assistant. I love what I do, and it IS far more fulfilling. But I do recognize that while I'm trying to consistently improve my technique and patient outcomes, that the "squeeze" is very similar, treat more patients simultaneously, maintain a schedule that is difficult for my wife and kids, etc. The work is more rewarding, but the "Covey" and similar workplace principles seem to have found me again. And it's becoming unsustainable. Thank you for helping me, if just for a moment, to reinforce the suspicion that my hard work, is once again, being exploited.
Glad to find this video, I've often mentioned this but most people don't agree or refuse to see it. Also, one big lie is work life balance. There's 24 hours per day, we're supposed to sleep 8 of those hours, we work 8 ( some people more) that leaves us with 8 hours. Most people commute is 1 hour each way... now we have 6 hours. Of those 6 hours approximately 1 hour is spent grooming ourselves, sure cleansing is essential for our health and making ourself presentable has other benefits but now we're left with 5 hours. Of these 5 hours we need time to cook or dinner and eat, at least 1 hour and for most people today prepare our lunches. 4 hours left. I did not add in here any chores yet or errands we might have, groceries, laundry etc. If you have a family, you're supposed to have "quality" time with your children and your spouse. How much time is left to pursue your interest, have fun and/or just relax?
None of this is for our benefit, it's slavery. I could go on, many companies have stopped having DB pension plans because the idea behind these plans was that most people didn't live much after they finally retired, the fact that the previous generation is living past their 90's has created a strain on companies. Society tells you to work hard so you can enjoy your retirement but most people don't realize that companies knew that most people didn't make it. I worked for a pension and benefit service company. So many lies but when you try to waken people, they don't want to hear it.
Exactly. The math of the hours dont make sense. I fully agree. Thanks for sharing your perspective.
thank you so much everyone for watching my videos! you have no idea how glad it makes me to read all your comments. your thoughts and experiences.
most people at work have zero idea what I talk about.
When I give you a Super Thanks, I don't see it in the chat like I see Super Chats.
Where do they go, Tom?
Do you know?
❤you Sir. I will watch you til you create your own,
"I'm leaving youtube" video, if that happens, of course.
I'll watch you til the end and follow you where you may go to next.
If I can be honest, I am big fan because of your authenticity, vulnerability, and sharing your suffering s you took a break to handle he loss of a loved one.
A loved one who wanted you to fulfill your dreams of escaping wage slavery and set you up to pursue it.
Thatnis beautiful.
Also, because you reply to my comments. Your community.
Here if you need me,
Jeremy
We thank you for making these videos. The're very inspiring. I'm 19 and currently going to school and I don't want to fall in any traps like these. I'd prefer working interesting jobs where I get to keep fit or its not boring (even if it pays a wee less) and building other income streams too.
Like any happy person. What types of alternative incomes did you even build up? Was it real estate or stocks? What do you even define them as?
Whenever someone tells me that my intermittent employment idea (work for part of the year and then quit when I have enough saved) is bad, I exaggerate a lot and say "my generation is gonna die of climate change before we get to retire, so why would I waste this time working?". They usually shut up as soon as I say that lol.
Look at setting up a small tourist related business. Eg hiring out sun loungers, beach bar. Work the tourist season spend rest year doing your own thing.
@@RobertToberr in my opinion people who are concerned about resumes are worried about the wrong things in life. I’m a pretty good person to have on your team and if you aren’t willing to overlook a spotty resume for that, I don’t wanna work for you anyways.
That and the American dollar is taxed to such hell that we work for nothing but to upkeep the basic maintenance of being a human like bathing and eating. Maybe a car if you’re lucky
Burnt myself out and jeopardized my health for a stupid "prestige" job, one of the biggest mistakes I ever did.
its not worth it
"The customer pays your salary" - This is something I used to hear every week at work (it's just their way of making you work harder for the same amount of money) You can smell that from far distance.
"The more you work, the more valuable you are" - Yes, that was so true that I was in those situations where I realized I was working for 3 of them and myself and in one time just get burnout for nothing. They lied that they appreciated me because I was a good worker etc... (they just used me)
No more...
Thank you Tom for simple and straight forward explanation.
When we moved into remote working I got myself a standing desk. It has been a game changer. I do most of my work standing up in front of my window looking into the garden. I live in a small town so I cycle everywhere. I have a one gear commuter bike and I go everywhere local on it within 3 miles. I realise how before I would use a car even for short journeys. going out in all weathers is building resilience in body and in spirit.
That is great. I personally built a habit of walking home from school everyday
I worked 3 months with no days off. 16hrs days. For a corporation in the oil field. These companies are ruthless. They dnt care about your well being.
Are you planning to save money for short term? If not, I feel sorry for you, all your doing is making another person rich
@@aaas6348 I left the corporate world and am now a business owner. 4yrs in plumbing business and my customers genuinely appreciate you. I could care less bout money. I had it all. I want family time. No more exploitation.
Oilfield should have been your first clue
@@jaleesa00 The men in my life( 3 generations ) and ppl I looked up to we're oilfield. It's all we knew. I had to unlearn it. I'm a plumber and own my own business now. I'm sorry. I should of known better. You're right.
@@sewerdawgs it’s great money but at the expense of the individual . I know I couldn’t cut it
I quit working for money at least 30 years ago. Im 57.
I think instead of quiet-quitting, we need a wave of loud quitters, maybe 'ruckus retirees' or something--if people need alliteration to get it to stick.
We may not require a full blown revolt, but definitely a vocal reboot to the slave-wave system as it won't surrender quietly!
(Also you are inspiring me to start lifting weights again. Good advice!)
good idea.. I'm thinking of Jerry McGuire, that scene where he goes "I relax, Im not do what everyone thinks which is to just flip out! who's coming with me.. whos coming with me and the fish"
@@TomScryleus exactly! We need a cultural Jerry McGuire moment!!
this already happened during the industrial revolution. it gave us unions, worker right, overtime pay, made child labor illegal. Today, they are working hard to undo most of those. We have gotten too quiet and complacent it seems... the rich are getting arrogant and back at it!
"...you can take this job and shove it, I ain't workin here no more..."
Just walked off my job last week. Told the new manager to get bent. Luckily I’m in a position to retire.
I have to work my ass off just to survive at the moment. The increase cost of EVERYTHING is making life for normal people very unpleasant
Very good point. No one wants to be a slave to the grind but unless you’re independently wealthy what can you do? And it only seems to get worse?
That's inflation, due to the FED money printers. Imagine if deflation happened and prices went down, like if we didn't use fiat money.
Suggest joining local groups on getting free items like Facebook has them. Have gotten many things that way.
Also look up conscious manifesting.
I hope you find something better
Just ONE thing proves absolutely every you’re saying is correct: the relationship between the wage stagnation/ wealth inequality that occurred since the GFC vs the current world where there is a labour shortage but STILL the worker can’t negotiate a better reward.
This relationship proves that there is NO reward in heaven for hard work. The harder you work, the more corporations win at the expense of workers. The mountains of wealth reserves of corporations existing at a time when the aspirations of workers are in huge decline is all the proof you need that the game only works in favour of those in the boardroom while you can’t afford a stable home, health insurance, pensions, and so on.
i work as a freelancer. I'm 'poorer' than some other people, but I actually feel valuable. I try to help people. I also try to improve myself, so I can help people. I know how fickle everything can be. And that, in fact, everything can get lost. I now focus on helping people. Of course, I need to be paid, because I have to live. But this insight shifted my focus on 'trying to make money' to actually helping people. I feel so good when they thank me if I could help them. That's what I'm doing it for.
Gary vee once said: its not about how much money you make, but how you make it.
Makes all the difference in the world.
@@TomScryleus thanks for your answer. 😉
When I was young in the 90's, the norm is :
Daddy will Work so family will have food on the table, pay the bills and sunday off for family. Mom will take care of home and kids.
But now? People will always say, always grind, hustle everyday, dual income for home (mom and dad) and for what?
TO BUY THE LATEST STUFF TO SHOW OFF ONLINE!
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Wow... Crazy isn't it?
"Advertising has us working jobs we hate to buy stuff we don't need to impress people we don't even like." /Chuck Palahniuk - Fight Club
@@AyyyVik You broke the rule brother...
@@mrgtmodernretrogamingtech6891 yeah, it's the only way to bring the ideas to people who haven't seen or read it.
And, in fact, I broke two, 1&2. ;)
I’m so glad I left my job when I turn 34 and started my own small business as an artist , putting my skill to use . I went from low income working for corporate to six digit …..over six digit working for myself. I’m now 64 and enjoying my family, more time for myself and very nice retirement.
I never regretted for jumping over the fence.
six digit!! wow. thats good.
Sounds like you did allright in life. Im jealous and glad for you.
Oh that's fantastic! How did you do it and what field were you working in? Independent artist, freelance work, illustration, patterns....? And now you've stopped working?
What type of business/services did you provide?
I agree 110%, I learned about what you're saying years ago. I've been working for 35 years now and I've suffered from burn out a few times. Unfortunately none of my efforts at starting a business have panned out, I've fallen flat on my face every time...
Hey Tom, this is the 1st video I've watched from your content, and let me start off by offering my condolences regarding your late father! Your way of calm speaking sounds like you're a very stoic person, idk if that makes sense. You're a very calm speaker from what I noticed on this video. You hit the spots with all the lies, especially on the 1st one. But overall, it's a great video, and just keep it pushing, man. I liked how you ended the video and honestly look forward to seeing more great content like this one.
Thank you. I appreciate your kind words.
you know, i recently changed the way I make my videos, and it seems to be more appreciated. The "trick" is I'm trying to be more authentic, instead of pretending to be "all knowing". I think people can sense that I'm being genuine. Or at least trying to. You know what I mean?
anyway, have a great weekend.
Hourly wages have always dumbfounded me, let's say you make $15 an hour and in that hour you mow grass, clean a room, and paint a room. If someone offered you $15 to do all those things you'd think they were crazy, yet people get up everyday and go to jobs that do just that. Employers also tell you what hours and days you have to work, and what time you're "allowed" to eat. The way to escape that life is to use whatever talent you have for yourself, work for yourself. If you clean start a cleaning business, if you build things start a contracting service. Take the skills you've learned and use them to benefit yourself instead of a company.
As someone who does 30 different low-effort roles for only $14 an hour (previously $12/hr, raised, without my request, surprise you're getting an extra $2/hr) I literally texted in reply "thank you". I am dumbfounded how I am alone an miserable while people with mortgages have beautiful partners. Where I work the Directory of Safety has 1/3rd of what I just paid for trench coat to replace the yellow plastic piece of crap that was the standard issue raincoat. I have never experienced poverty and I question if I would somehow find happiness in poverty. I live to work. My day consisted of at least 4 people referring to me as a vampire and that was not at all my goal with the new trench coat. I am the no life king and my boss is Sir Integra Fairbrook Wingates Hellsing. I love her as a master but in an intimate scenario, she is repulsive. She gives purpose to this walking corpse who welcomes death.
I’m probably around your age. I recently lost my Dad too. He was my best friend. This world looks very different without him here. After he died, I lost my other best friend Jason. He was in his early 40s and was killed while riding his bicycle. 🚴 He rode long distances professionally. I have felt pretty lost and emotionally drained now for awhile. I started this you tube channel but stopped making videos of me talking to myself. Maybe I will pick it up again at some point. You seem like a good man. I appreciate your message and resonate with your words. You speak the truth about our current situation in the matrix. I hope you continue making these videos. I’m sorry you lost your Dad. Maybe you will see him again someday in a better world. I don’t know but it would be amazing wouldn’t it!
Thank you Tom. Take care
I'm sorry to hear about your losses. Death really drains you of hope doesn't it?
I think you should give youtube another go. It can be very liberating. But most people I have tried to convince of trying it, have not stuck with it. I get it. Not everyone wants to be in front of a camera. :)
But there is a world of possibilities.
I guess my dad is watching my videos from heaven now. Hope they have good wifi up there. ;)
@@TomScryleus Thank you Tom for your condolences, much appreciated.
Yes losing those closest to us definitely drains us of hope.
Maybe I will give CZcams another try. A journal to myself and children if nothing else. I actually enjoy talking to myself in the camera lens once in awhile.
Also..good to see you exercising in the evening and encouraging others to do the same. I exercise myself in the evening after work, and it is what gets me through life. My favorite and most effective antidepressant. I encourage you to continue 🏋🏻 :)
If you do start, and you want me to take a look, let me know. DM me or something.
(edit: I just saw that you have posted some videos, but they are a bit old).
Big hug to both of you. feeling drained, i will hit the gym tomorrow morning
Thank you for spreading awareness! You are a breath of fresh air ❤
Thank you.
What a nice thing to write.
Just discovered your channel. Thanks for speaking out. I'm a 60 year old chef so I know how much of our working lives are a complete .... complete ... waste of time, in many ways. Keep speaking out. Again, thank you.
I have got to the point in my current job that I am the only person in the organisation that knows the technical knowledge that I have. This has allowed me to increase my salary dramatically while reducing my working week to 40% of what i did before. I am cashing in on my knowledge and ability, and the freedom that comes with knowing that they need me more than I need them is very powerful.
Keep this leverage. Don't educate new staff. That moment they will replace you for someone cheaper.
This totally connected with me . I work in a very toxic environment where my employer texts and or calls after hrs and on the weekend for things. Most recently I got a text at 4:26am with edits to a video I made saturday night. I never responded but my co-workers do and are more than eager to kiss the bosses ass which makes me look like shit when I want BOUNDERIES and work life balance. I thought i was going insane and was a crazy person because every one seems to be ok with it except me. This helped me realize im not the only one. Thank you. Thank you so much.
at least you get to work with video editing. that sounds like fun.
but I get it. Work life balance. We want it!
I’m the same way. I’ve never kissed someone’s behind. I have morals & a certain level of integrity. And I’m never part of the “click” @ a job because I don’t come to work to find ways to steal money from the company, make friends, gossip, look for love, or look for somebody to cheat on my lady with. Sadly most jobs consists of too many individuals that fall into these categories. Any job that I worked would be only about 25%-30% of the employees that had their heart in the right place & were not @ the job for the wrong reason. But the gossip is always the worst. I choose not to say much in a job setting. It keeps you out of the majority of the foolishness that might come up.
My last job was toxic like that as well. My coworkers answered calls and texts from the boss after hours and did office work in their personal time. I have never done that and I am glad I am no longer at the mercy of such an unreasonable employer. These employers need to learn about boundaries
Video editing is only ever fun when your ideas are being heard. Otherwise you are a tool in someone else's hands, and that someone doesn't give two shits if you like it or not. We don't care what our pens have to say about our writing, after all.
Video editing is only ever fun when your ideas are being heard. Otherwise you are a tool in someone else's hands, and that someone doesn't give two shits if you like it or not. We don't care what our pens have to say about our writing, after all.
You are 100% correct. Thank you Tom for your presence, you are much appreciated.
You are to kind! 😍
Have a nice day my friend
I never thought I'd hear something talking about this!!! Thankyou so much ❤
glad you liked it.
I worked 84 hour weeks. The employer caught up with the backlog, and 2 weeks later I was fired. Only two 40 hour weeks
Hold my Beer
Excellent video, very relatable.
I will never forget the first time a company didn’t even pretend that they cared about my health when they asked me to work overtime and miss an important evening with my wife. At some point the frightened, incompetent managers at your company will decide that you are no longer useful in the long term so they will do everything they can think of to squeeze you until you leave.
Never go to HR voluntarily, and when they ask you questions just pretend everything is fine. They are there to make money, and they are only ever rewarded for protecting the company. If someone in HR cares about you, that feeling runs counter to their job.
Instead, go home and find another way to make money. Be good to yourself.
Amen. Which is the alternative way in your opinion?
Good advice
@@davids_d3246 I agree with the vlog, find a better way to be good to yourself. Life is too short to spend doing something you don’t love.
Yes, you can fail at trying to do something you love.
But I would rather that than fail at doing something I hate with people that don’t care about me or my family.
@@feasterfamine836 Thanks man, really appreciated
First time viewer: I liked hearing someone talk about a topic and not being interrupted by a sponsor or ad. God I've missed that 😭 Very well done and I detect a slight accent so curious as to where he's from?
Im from Sweden. (But i was born in Poland)
Thank you for shearing!
I thought I’m a long thinking this way too. Covid did opened my eyes on just how much even big corporations does care about their workers, regardless they always saying that this company is one big family!
My boss was VP engineer in this community, my coworker was senior engineer, we had two other offices on the floor regional manager and vice president of the company. I was rubbing shoulders every day with all this people as well as I developed revolutionary concept for this company that would have saved them about 40% on labor time and labor cost just before Covid.
I was laid off as any other worker just over email, being a few months shy from 10 years working this company, making my way from shop floor to general office space in my first 4 years and not to mention being a valuable asset to the company 🤷♂️
I was staying past working hours to make sure I cleared my daily work flow, then I worked some more after dinner developing better practices in the company. My dedication, position and engagement in the company was my life security. I just now starting overcoming my depression and anxiety associated with unexpected security breach in my life(
I came out of wage slavery in 2015.
good for you! Im jealous. but I will have my day in the sun this year.
@@TomScryleus please read and implement "from the rat race to financial freedom" by Manoj Arora .
It took me eight years to implement.
Even when you own your own company, it doesn't matter much. The corporations you contract with are just as ruthless. They will still try and Lord over you.
For a long time I felt bad for working from 7 am to 5 pm I did felt like a slave and starting getting depressed. After 20 years and not having really anything. I think the way of thinking it's making you depress not really your work . Now I enjoy the smaller things . There are just things you could never change . Enjoy the air your breathe time with your children your sleep the food you eat. Take care of yourself . Eating right resting not consuming drugs cigarettes energy drinks or sugar . Try no to spend your money in things you don't need. That's a trap .
Ah, I remember a grocery store I worked at that had managers who said “the customer pays your wages. But not with money, with good surveys. So if you have a rude customer, signal the cashier to make sure they don’t hand them the survey code.”
It’s a shame they all got replaced after a few years.
Tom thank you for making these videos. I come from a 3rd world country and was sold "the American dream" worked hard and studied very diligently for it. I got a job that stresses me out, the culture is atrocious my anxiety and depression have soared. I am unable to be a good spouse since all my free time is spent recovering from the job. Thanks for the exercise recommendation at the end. I found you about an hour ago at 5:30 in the morning on a walk hoping it would help me deal with all the stress and have been binge watching your content. Thanks so much for all you are doing!
My pleasure. Thank you for taking the time to share your experience. Appreciate it. Have a great day
Im debt free and own my home. I have been with the current company 17 years. I had 2 years of carry over vacation that i took combined with my 4 weeks I got this coming year. After coming back the area manager took me to the office to chastise me about getting paid to do nothing for over a month. I told him it was great and how fortunate I was to work for a company that grants me that much vacation. Its great time with myself and my family and I dont work overtime.
I chose debt free early, I have recieved many notices, but I don't consent to the system, I am protected from any prosecution.
I was quiet quitting long before it was a thing (the 90s actually). My coworkers hated me because I would pretty much go home on time while they stayed and worked an extra couple hours, and then even more from home (I did software development, and we could dial-in from home). When I say "they hated me", I'm not too far off the mark. I discovered that your coworkers _will_ like you based on your work ethic almost exclusively; not whether you are friendly, kind, generous, helpful, or any of that.
I was let go for poor work performance (not putting in my time). And, over the next few years, my coworker were let go of for the same reason, or because they were no longer needed.
That's sad. But thanks for taking in the time to write this good Sir. In the end - all people care is how they can use you. At least this applies for the workplace.
Not unless the place is full or slackers, if it's full of people jackassing around, the last thing you should do is work hard, you will piss everyone off by forcing them to change.
@@canadiansoviet Actually, I was the "slacker" because I would go home at the end of a 10 hour day (5 days a week) while the rest would stay and work 12-14 hours, and then some hours on the weekend.
I was kind, cordial, friendly, and helpful. But, none of those characteristics seemed to garner any favor with my associates unless I also "put in my time."
Hands down one of the best, relevant channels there are, Thank You !!
I think it's great your exercising. I started jogging and found I liked it after a while. It gives me an extra boost. I also lost 40 lbs. Great video Tom. I feel this way about my corporate job. Thanks for your insights.
Glad you liked it. :)
Have a nice weekend
@@TomScryleus it's very relatable. I think a lot of the newer generations need to hear this message. Have a good weekend as well Tom!
It all boils down to a messed up sense of priorities. Some of my favorite CZcams channels are the minimalist channels. Being happy with less. Trading “stuff” for peace of mind. I know a lot of wealthy people. They work very hard, long hours and they are rewarded with their “stuff”. I wouldn’t trade lives with them for anything.
There's a grain of truth to "you will own nothing and you will be happy" 😕
hard work usually just leads to more hard work.
truer words have never been said.
Nicely done mate. Thanks for this honest, clear and somewhat not leaning perspective.
thank you. Appreciate it.
have a great day.
On point, sir! After experiencing many things you talked about myself in the job I couldn't agree more. - Hope MUCH more people will see that and take actions.