Imagine getting paid 6 figures to lecture paycheck-to-paycheck employees on email fonts, stapling, and how the corporation is your 'family'. We really never left the feudal age
I don't know what you're talking about, my average Castle Age up time is roughly 20:21 and thats while also raiding my enemy's base with skirmishers and pikemen
I just got out of a big, multinational company´s sales department, and I shit you not - the Head of European trade found time to go tell employees, experienced ones even, NOT TO CTRL+C/V to copy paste info from one excel sheet to the next, he insisted on us typing it in manually, copying it with our eyes. Cant make this up.
Dont overexaggerate my friend. I understand these situations can be stressful and irritating and that it would be good for these type of people to not act this way but it is not even close to feudal age. If u like come here ethiopia and go rural. U will see feudal there.
Ok yeah i agree with that one, like the weird way he condescendingly explains it makes it horrible but like it's no harder to do and makes everything easier.
What makes me sad is that these slappable people are in jobs and offices, in abundance the world over. Just ready to make normal people extremely stressed out.
The worst part is I don't hate the coworker. He's brainwashed as hell but he's trying to help the POV character, like giving him the page and pen, instead of pushing him down. He's just genuinely gotten sucked into the lies. (And he kind of comes off as having a crush on the Boss, too xD)
Had a few colleagues like that at my past job. Working overtime was their only personality trait, and the only language they knew was corporate slang. And they made sure to remind everybody of that. Especially any superior that might be present. Never knew them outside of work, so I wouldn't know what they're like in their personal lives. But at work, they were insufferable.
@@glorytoukraine5524 As long as they weren't trying to push others down, I genuinely feel bad for them. Like imagine being so brainwashed that your only personality is working that much for a company that deems you a disposable cog, and not realizing it. Like the people who are proud of working 80 hour weeks and living for "the company" and so on. I hope they eventually realize that a) the company doesn't care about them and b) (usually also part of this mindset) no, nobody makes themselves a millionaire like this
@@RavenSutcliffe It’s hard to feel bad for them when you actually work with them or hear it from the other person’s perspective. They passive aggressively try to make you look worse in front of the boss. A lot of them are smug and try to highlight other people’s “errors” to make themselves look better so they’ll get promoted over the other. Sure the guy in the video gave the other guy a pen and didn’t literally push him down but he still was doing it to be performative along with the “you need to come better prepared” comment, as well as the other comments in front of the boss about how “John didn’t know this!” and “he didn’t read the email!” If anything I feel worse for the people who have to deal with these types of workers.
Can’t believe John wasn’t prepared to diligently take notes smh 🤦♂️ His boss even said he wants him to be a leader at this company and he just won’t put the work in 😩
A sales engineer I used to work with would quote our customers in comic sans in dark blue. It was such a specific niche industry and he was the only guy who could do the job so no one said anything lol
You just know that this supervisor gets completely destroyed by his spouse at home and tries to regain his dignity at work by making his employees feel stupid.
Those little glares at the video after the nodding towards the boss just do it for me, it's so accurate. I'm a blue collar worker and I know a suck-up just like this one, those little glares scream superiority complex, thinks they're so much better than you because the boss gives them more attention.
lmao. the sucker is still workin the same job as u at the end of the day. idk when they'll realize its slave workers like them that bosses love to keep in the lower positions since they're most useful when they're slaving away like they do.
You know most of the stuff he's asking for is reasonable, but what's infuriating is how he acts like it's the wisdom of the ages, and expects his employees to act as such. The sheer unmitigated self-importance makes you want to slap him with a keyboard
P.S. The obsequious bootlick feeding the boss's ego may be even worse though. It's enablers like him that turn a problem individual at a workplace into an entire problem environment.
@@DCUnderdog3000 so: "Don't use TNR", "remove the mobile signature from work emails", and "staple papers diagonally so they can be flipped through easier" are unreasonable requests to you?
In my experience, office people are alright for the most part but there are a few pedantic people here and there. I had this manager at my old job who emailed me and my boss because I was 1 minute late a couple days that week.
The accounting firm that I used to work at was moving me up pretty fast a year ago. I was becoming a senior accountant, while they were having ambitions to eventually make me a partner one day. I took one look at my bosses and asked myself “Do I want to be like these guys one day and live like that for the rest of my life?”. After that, I left the company for something much better.
These bosses are EVERYWHERE in accounting and finance jobs from my experience. Seriously some of the most abusive, conceited, annoying people I have ever had to be forced to see every single day.
@@StrifeZack343lol I used to work in public accounting too. People move up very fast, but also turnover is horrendous. Seeing my partners day in and day and I swore I would never want to be like them. I got out and have been so much happier since
@@StrifeZack343 Ironically I also butted heads with one of the partners almost every day. Dude would try to give me shit and blame me for things that I never did, and he would talk about me behind my back to others like I was some idiot. I usually didn’t hold back and retaliated against him. The other partners even butted heads with him too, and I guess they liked that about me or something.
Before I started working I would have laughed at this thinking it was a funny exaggeration, but I literally sat here with a straight face because I've had a boss 100% exactly like this who ended up getting worse until I put my notice in after she had begun full blown bullying, acting b1tchy, and giving me personal insults because I was off for ONE (1) (SINGLE) (ONE) day to care for my extremely sick INFANT. When I verbally gave her my 2 -3 week notice, she started saying how she saw potential in me and wanted to hand down her whole business to me, which I can only assume was to make me feel guilty? She's a monster and also underpaid me on an illegal scale (the business accountant confirmed this to me on my last day there) and hid me from the government officials who came to check on her business one day.
I worked a job for almost 4 years. Hired as a video editor in-house in a marketing department for a big store chain. The videographer quit after a couple years, and instead of replacing him they put his workload on me. They expanded to hire a team of graphic designers and once they learned I could do motion graphics as well they wanted me to do that too. I was still only paid for the one role as video editor. During my last year they hired a guy supposed to finally replace the videographer, but he did not have the skills and instead became assistant to my boss to make his life easier. Surprise; he was hired on a much higher salary than mine after three years and two extra positions on my workload. In the end I was given leave for a few weeks cause my doctor confirmed I had burned out. During that time off the company was restructuring and did some downsizing. I was let go during my leave from burnout. “Merry Christmas” they said as they signed off the e-mail. Yes, corporate hell is real. And I’ve never been more happy to be unemployed.
I think it’s normal to understand the hierarchy and to be cordial to your manager. But there’s a difference between being cordial and spreading your cheeks wide so they can see your asshole
Some people who are naturally polite and courteous to everyone sometimes get accused of being a suck up. But if you’re treating your peers and lower level employees with the same respect as you do Sr leadership you’re not a suck up. You’re just being you. A suck up implies the politeness is just contrived fake behavior that you’re only displaying to those you deem important. But if that’s just your nature then nothing wrong with that as long as you’re not nice to the point of getting walked over.
it's amazing your ability to brown-nose yourself, and then put yourself down for being even too much a suck-up for yourself. Shot-to-shot your ability to distinguish the boss from the suck-up is amazing in just body language alone.
also, every one of the points the boss made were entirely sensible for an office workplace, it just manages to become overbearing and pedantic by the way you manage to put it.
@@MemekingJagI think the worst part, by far, isnt really the stuff he says (yeah its kinda minor and petty but he is correct) its the fact that he literally admits he could have just sent all this in an email. Instead has the nerve to walk over to you while your working and expect you to be ready to take notes with pen and paper like you can't just remember what you hear. Like if you dont trust me to just remember what you say, why didnt you send an email?!
It is very difficult to bring myself to hate adam. He is really wholesome and is just trying to help john. Too bad he never got out of the teachers pet phase since middle school
I can’t believe he didn’t know Section 28- Workplace Etiquette Procedure 57- Stapling of the Company’s Code of Conduct! He’s the first to go on the next round of layoffs 😂
@@jackatk it actually can if you do it properly. "Research" is not finding research papers online or blogs online like in your school. It could be simply asking friends about their experience. Many authors do tremendous research when they write their books to make you feel that it's accurate. If we only write things from what we experience, we couldn't produce a lot of material
@@jackatkif this man has experience with everything he has posted then he has the worst life ever. He also would start to fall off soon due to playing what he knows but he keeps putting out blood boiling bangers
As an assistant in a governmental office in a bureaucratic, post-communist country, I agree that the proper fonts, staples, post-it flags, registration numbers and stamps are all VERY important and are the core of our existence.
I love how the boss nitpicks his employees on the littlest things and then basically tells them he got to where he is today by working harder and not smarter. So detached. I love it.
Honestly, this kind of suck-up just makes me feel bad for him. I usually deal with suck-ups that are backstabbing or put others down to make themselves look better. This guy just doesn't have enough life experience to know that this behavior doesn't get you anywhere and the constant inclusion and support offered to the POV character shows that while they think they know what's best, they still want you to also be successful too. It's pitiable and pathetic, like watching an elderly dog piss itself because it can't tell the difference between inside and outside anymore.
My old boss called me "inexperienced" because she thought I didn't know one obscure policy that had been abandoned like 2 years before I started working there. I did know it but it didn't matter anyway 😆
@@yourfreakreation1790 About us taking in drop-in clients before the pandemic but then afterwards requiring scheduled appts. I was making a powerpoint for a new staff meeting and put in a reminder that we didn't take drop-ins and she made me change it to specify that we USED TO do drop-ins but not anymore because the first way "rhetorically showed [my] inexperience."
@candy-ass4915 Oh God that's just the tip of the shitshow iceberg. She'd almost never come in to work and refuse to have meetings for weeks but then get randomly super micro-managey and accuse us of undermining her. Once I noticed some web content needed to be updated (very routine shit, like dates & hiring info) and she flipped out because I notified our web content admin before notifying her. She screamed that I was a child who evidently needed my hand held with weekly meetings. Once I was preparing for another staff meeting and was typing an email reminding them about it a week out. She demanded I send her the email beforehand so she could approve it. She asked if I had an agenda, I said yes, and she yelled "Have I approved it? No?!? Then you don't have an agenda! If I haven't approved it it doesn't exist!" Then two hours later when I asked if she'd read my email she yelled at me that I was "always trying to do things and get ahead of the game." Another time she found out we'd handled a client scheduling issue in the exact way she'd told us to handle someone else with the same issue before and she told us we'd "gone rogue." I quit 4 months ago but literally yesterday a former coworker texted me asking if I'd ever filed a complaint against her because she and a few others got put under her a month ago and are already experiencing the nightmare.
Regarding the diagonal staple... I had a teacher in a trade school that I attended who DEMANDED that we staple at this angle. If we turned in our work with an unacceptable staple... She'd walk up to you & tear your paper/assignment into pieces in your face. In front of the entire class. And you'd have to PRAY to GOD that you made sure that you saved your assignment properly in order to reprint it, staple it correctly & turn it back in. To THIS DAY 10+ years later... I STILL make sure to staple at an angle & I think of that little psycho. Good ol' Miss Pat. 😂😂😂
@psychicbyinternet Soooooooooooo true... Lol! But. Not gonna lie... She wasn't wrong about the staple placement. Just the way she went about it was highly questionable. Obviously. Lol
@@jakekraweckyj2801 🤣🤣🤣 Nope. But I found little ways to buck the system. I did a presentation & it involved Lady Gaga. U should've seen the wheels turning in her head on THAT one. 😂😂😂
Gosh darn it. I know its just a 4 minute video and yet I already feel suffocated and exhausted from the ass kissing and micromanaging. I don't know how you do it sir but you have knack for capturing the emotion in these kinds of situations and effectively transmitting those emotions to others. Good job.
I just started working a shitty 9 to 5 office job and even though I've only been here for a week I feel like I've seen all of these characters already.
When the boss asked why I wasn’t taking notes, I literally said to my phone “It wouldn’t be worth the paper” like I was actually talking to you. I really feel myself getting pulled into the situations you create, fantastic work as always!
I was ready for the classic cutoff once he told us to take notes. The fact it didn't happen till 3 minutes later had me feeling like I was stuck in a nightmare only a gun in my mouth could solve.
So I had a boss once who told me something like this: “You’re here to make a paycheck but you’re also here to try and learn anything you don’t know so you can start your own business. And if you think you’re not learning here then you need to go somewhere else or start a company of your own because you’re just wasting your own time” At first I thought he was being an ass but now 5 years later I’m glad he said that. I got into a spot making way more money and I’m still learning. Just keep learning is my motto
It's a true POV. When the video ends that's when we realized we've listened to this shit for too long and tune it out. Or that's when we black out in rage and quit on the spot. Truly a choose your own adventure masterpiece
Oof I have a coworker just like this. The subtle implications that I'm not working as hard as him, the anxious (almost panicked) eagerness to find some way to please the boss, and the boss's pointed refusal to acknowledge any of his efforts despite him almost killing himself with work is so spot on.
There are worse than this. The guy who reports you to the boss for any irrelevant mistake to shame you and try assert dominance even though you have the same job title
You’re the funniest dude on the entire internet. This is weirdly like self-help, since when I notice myself being even 1% of these characters in real life I cringe and self-correct
Imagine a POV: you’re a part time min wage worker at a small mom and pop shop and an “influencer” walks in and wants free food in exchange for “exposure” and doesn’t like being told no
Oh my god I rolled my eyes so much my head hurts. But JESUS when he said Comic Sans I BURST OUT LAUGHING LMAOOO not him talking about unprofessionalism while wanting people to use the two MOST UNPROFESSIONAL FONTS OUT THERE.
This boss is imparting high-level exec knowledge and these guys just take it for granted. He should do a conference with Tony Robbins and David Goggins
Right? Hey, John? When they say "Check" your email, they mean "READ IT". GODDAMMIT John, When the BOSS says "Take a Note" Then (at least Pretend to)TAKE A NOTE!!! Just imagine how careless he is with a stapler!( Shudder) SMH.
The wisdom at the end that the office does not appreciate you for being smart, they just care that you stay at the office for long hours is so spot on 😂 My boss once told me, when I dared suggest leaving the office early since my next tasks wouldn’t be available for me to do until the next day, that I wasn’t paid to just do the work; I was paid to be at the office for x amount of hours. Doesn’t matter that the work is done, received well and in a timely manner, and that I often found myself having to find things to do between projects - you’re not paid to be effective, you’re paid to pretend to be working until the clock strikes.
I worked years with a boss like this and everytime I watch this videos I have to pause time to time because its so accurate I'm cringing. Keep up the good work!
Holy fuck this is one of the most painful things I've ever watched, for some reason this one just hit different. We have to end the machine that creates these people.
I had an old boss that used to tell me to flip all the dollar bills face up and also orient them in the same direction. I looked him straight in the face and told him "no, that's stupid" it was the most shocked look I'd ever seen on someone's face. I only worked there 2 months.
This boss reminds me of one of my old bosses, but this boss is actually better. But the taking notes thing gave me war flashbacks lmao. I was the one that was more of the suck-up but it was out of fear and i never threw my co-workers under the bus, I’m just glad we managed to get out of that shithole.
the finger snapping i feel like i've had happen to me more than once. once aain you manage to get a visceral reaction out of me with this character in specific
I’m like 20 seconds in and my blood pressure is already going up. This guy is so talented. 😂 the workplace brownnoser is my absolute least favorite person.
Somehow this framing makes the boss seem likable in comparison. Sucking up to him only made Adam be treated as a zero instead of a negative one, and when he realizes that he doubles down thinking he might even get a compliment. That made it obvious that he was a true suckup rather than a regular guy just trying to avoid getting reprimanded constantly.
There's always that one employee, who when the boss asks who wants to do some really menial and degrading task, they jump at it like "ME! I'LL DO THAT SIR!" thinking it scores them brownie points above everyone else
Say what you want but at least the guy isn't trying to throw you under the bus. He's informing you (obnoxiously) and including you in an attempt to make you look good too / help you learn (double edged, sure). Beats working with backstabbers for sure.
“Fonts and stapling? I must admit, I didn't even realize these details were so important. But now that you mention it, I'll be sure to pay closer attention. Sorry for seeming a bit out of the loop, and thank you for bringing these matters to our attention.“
This guy’s going places… he might be a high-level assistant one day.
Or maybe he will be stapling papers for the CEO himself!😃
Or maybe even assistant to the regional manager
He's on track to be stapling letters for the CEO himself in about ten years.
Yep, ass kissing his way to the top
@@samrogers7804 do you think he could be assistant regional manager, or is that too much?
The boss ignoring the suck up is a nice touch
I know it feels so accurately portrayed it's scaring me, wtf. 😭
I mean, I would.
I would ignore it too or call it out so they stop lol
Because the boss isnt stupid. An arrogant prick but not stupid. He knows exactly what the suck up is trying to do. And he's exploiting that.
Imagine getting paid 6 figures to lecture paycheck-to-paycheck employees on email fonts, stapling, and how the corporation is your 'family'. We really never left the feudal age
I don't know what you're talking about, my average Castle Age up time is roughly 20:21 and thats while also raiding my enemy's base with skirmishers and pikemen
I just got out of a big, multinational company´s sales department, and I shit you not - the Head of European trade found time to go tell employees, experienced ones even, NOT TO CTRL+C/V to copy paste info from one excel sheet to the next, he insisted on us typing it in manually, copying it with our eyes.
Cant make this up.
Dont overexaggerate my friend. I understand these situations can be stressful and irritating and that it would be good for these type of people to not act this way but it is not even close to feudal age. If u like come here ethiopia and go rural. U will see feudal there.
@@georgep6495gratuitous meaningless labor so that you don't twiddle your thumbs
@@frenchyproductions9692 fucking GOATED comment hahah
Ok he’s right about the diagonal staple though it makes more sense
Is your name really Ana Rose or is it Adam Rose? 😠
@@theslappablejerkmore like Adam brown nose!
bossman makes extremely good points fairly, personally would love him as a boss and chat it all up
I actually agree that the "sent by my iPhone" text is very annoying
Ok yeah i agree with that one, like the weird way he condescendingly explains it makes it horrible but like it's no harder to do and makes everything easier.
This guy is starting to scare me with his impeccable impressions of realistically “slappable” people
Needs to rename to The Slappable Jerks
@@Allstin factual
What makes me sad is that these slappable people are in jobs and offices, in abundance the world over. Just ready to make normal people extremely stressed out.
@@Sundog1985fr
He cant keep getting away with it!
The worst part is I don't hate the coworker. He's brainwashed as hell but he's trying to help the POV character, like giving him the page and pen, instead of pushing him down. He's just genuinely gotten sucked into the lies.
(And he kind of comes off as having a crush on the Boss, too xD)
Had a few colleagues like that at my past job. Working overtime was their only personality trait, and the only language they knew was corporate slang. And they made sure to remind everybody of that. Especially any superior that might be present. Never knew them outside of work, so I wouldn't know what they're like in their personal lives. But at work, they were insufferable.
@@glorytoukraine5524 As long as they weren't trying to push others down, I genuinely feel bad for them. Like imagine being so brainwashed that your only personality is working that much for a company that deems you a disposable cog, and not realizing it. Like the people who are proud of working 80 hour weeks and living for "the company" and so on. I hope they eventually realize that a) the company doesn't care about them and b) (usually also part of this mindset) no, nobody makes themselves a millionaire like this
@@RavenSutcliffe they always talked us down for not being as hardworking as they were.
@@RavenSutcliffe It’s hard to feel bad for them when you actually work with them or hear it from the other person’s perspective. They passive aggressively try to make you look worse in front of the boss. A lot of them are smug and try to highlight other people’s “errors” to make themselves look better so they’ll get promoted over the other. Sure the guy in the video gave the other guy a pen and didn’t literally push him down but he still was doing it to be performative along with the “you need to come better prepared” comment, as well as the other comments in front of the boss about how “John didn’t know this!” and “he didn’t read the email!”
If anything I feel worse for the people who have to deal with these types of workers.
@@LM.312this ^^^^^
Can’t believe John wasn’t prepared to diligently take notes smh 🤦♂️ His boss even said he wants him to be a leader at this company and he just won’t put the work in 😩
Finally a REASONABLE commenter
Ikr John is kinda cringe ngl 🤢
@@TaylorPlace lowkey fr no cap smh he cringe af, that John guy got a bad highkey FOMO ngl
John was suppose to be the next guy.
Plot twist: John is the slappable jerk
If I read an email in Comic Sans I would probably piss myself laughing.
As long as it's not that darn Times new Roman
A sales engineer I used to work with would quote our customers in comic sans in dark blue. It was such a specific niche industry and he was the only guy who could do the job so no one said anything lol
A proper corporate email has 5 different font types and sizes
You might want to get your bladder checked
Sounds like you have a really low bar for humor
You just know that this supervisor gets completely destroyed by his spouse at home and tries to regain his dignity at work by making his employees feel stupid.
It goes that way sometimes when you're a condescending asshole to your spouse.
He's divorced. Sits at home, makes a TV dinner, watches Shark Tank and feels like he identifies with the Sharks
@@MusicMovies1990this XD
@@MusicMovies1990😂😂 😂😂😂 that too
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Those little glares at the video after the nodding towards the boss just do it for me, it's so accurate.
I'm a blue collar worker and I know a suck-up just like this one, those little glares scream superiority complex, thinks they're so much better than you because the boss gives them more attention.
People that think this kind of shit doesn't happen in blue collar jobs are in for a rude awakening.
This sounds similar to the teachers pet in class, almost identical
lmao. the sucker is still workin the same job as u at the end of the day. idk when they'll realize its slave workers like them that bosses love to keep in the lower positions since they're most useful when they're slaving away like they do.
@@centurionpan3400 Boss' suck-ups more often than not have been teachers pets, that behavior is ingrained in their brain.
@@madelaki They might appear to happen more in office jobs but blue collar workplaces has plenty of them.
You know most of the stuff he's asking for is reasonable, but what's infuriating is how he acts like it's the wisdom of the ages, and expects his employees to act as such. The sheer unmitigated self-importance makes you want to slap him with a keyboard
P.S. The obsequious bootlick feeding the boss's ego may be even worse though. It's enablers like him that turn a problem individual at a workplace into an entire problem environment.
@@SoulOfTheReaveryep. when my superiors do this i just blank faced say “i know. i already was doing that.” or “Okay.”- hasn’t given me any pain yet.
None of the stuff hes asking is reasonable tho. If u think so please never become an office manager ever.
@@DCUnderdog3000 so: "Don't use TNR", "remove the mobile signature from work emails", and "staple papers diagonally so they can be flipped through easier" are unreasonable requests to you?
@@DCUnderdog3000I mean that doesnt seem very unreasonable to me to want that, as long as you don't portray it to your coworkers like a dick
i cant imagine working an office job like this. these videos are enough to scare me off from them
Was Even worst in My case, My coworker called him "king", he got a better salary btw
These are frighteningly accurate
In my experience, office people are alright for the most part but there are a few pedantic people here and there. I had this manager at my old job who emailed me and my boss because I was 1 minute late a couple days that week.
The accounting firm that I used to work at was moving me up pretty fast a year ago. I was becoming a senior accountant, while they were having ambitions to eventually make me a partner one day. I took one look at my bosses and asked myself “Do I want to be like these guys one day and live like that for the rest of my life?”. After that, I left the company for something much better.
You are so lucky… I don’t have the personality or IQ to move fast in corporate hell….
These bosses are EVERYWHERE in accounting and finance jobs from my experience. Seriously some of the most abusive, conceited, annoying people I have ever had to be forced to see every single day.
@@StrifeZack343lol I used to work in public accounting too. People move up very fast, but also turnover is horrendous. Seeing my partners day in and day and I swore I would never want to be like them. I got out and have been so much happier since
@@AnnaHans88 One of my bosses was the worst human being that I ever met in my life. And I don’t say that lightly.
@@StrifeZack343 Ironically I also butted heads with one of the partners almost every day. Dude would try to give me shit and blame me for things that I never did, and he would talk about me behind my back to others like I was some idiot. I usually didn’t hold back and retaliated against him. The other partners even butted heads with him too, and I guess they liked that about me or something.
Before I started working I would have laughed at this thinking it was a funny exaggeration, but I literally sat here with a straight face because I've had a boss 100% exactly like this who ended up getting worse until I put my notice in after she had begun full blown bullying, acting b1tchy, and giving me personal insults because I was off for ONE (1) (SINGLE) (ONE) day to care for my extremely sick INFANT. When I verbally gave her my 2 -3 week notice, she started saying how she saw potential in me and wanted to hand down her whole business to me, which I can only assume was to make me feel guilty? She's a monster and also underpaid me on an illegal scale (the business accountant confirmed this to me on my last day there) and hid me from the government officials who came to check on her business one day.
I worked a job for almost 4 years. Hired as a video editor in-house in a marketing department for a big store chain. The videographer quit after a couple years, and instead of replacing him they put his workload on me. They expanded to hire a team of graphic designers and once they learned I could do motion graphics as well they wanted me to do that too. I was still only paid for the one role as video editor.
During my last year they hired a guy supposed to finally replace the videographer, but he did not have the skills and instead became assistant to my boss to make his life easier. Surprise; he was hired on a much higher salary than mine after three years and two extra positions on my workload.
In the end I was given leave for a few weeks cause my doctor confirmed I had burned out. During that time off the company was restructuring and did some downsizing.
I was let go during my leave from burnout. “Merry Christmas” they said as they signed off the e-mail.
Yes, corporate hell is real. And I’ve never been more happy to be unemployed.
@@JeFilm94that's terrible that that happened to you; I hope you learned to stand up for yourself and set boundaries
Did you report her?
Sounds like one of those black companies from Japan.
@@avocado3-in-182 I have no idea what you're talking about but it was a white female owned business with multiple awards
The fact that this would be a 100% real conversation that would happen at multiple jobs I've had is depressing
I try to be on the manager’s good side, but I don’t want to sound like a suck-up.
I think it’s normal to understand the hierarchy and to be cordial to your manager. But there’s a difference between being cordial and spreading your cheeks wide so they can see your asshole
If your managers not an idiot sucking up is probably not the best way to get on their good side anyway.
@@theslappablejerkI wasn’t ready to read the end there. Love u 🫶
@@theslappablejerkyou have such a way with words 😂
Some people who are naturally polite and courteous to everyone sometimes get accused of being a suck up. But if you’re treating your peers and lower level employees with the same respect as you do Sr leadership you’re not a suck up. You’re just being you.
A suck up implies the politeness is just contrived fake behavior that you’re only displaying to those you deem important. But if that’s just your nature then nothing wrong with that as long as you’re not nice to the point of getting walked over.
it's amazing your ability to brown-nose yourself, and then put yourself down for being even too much a suck-up for yourself.
Shot-to-shot your ability to distinguish the boss from the suck-up is amazing in just body language alone.
also, every one of the points the boss made were entirely sensible for an office workplace, it just manages to become overbearing and pedantic by the way you manage to put it.
@@MemekingJagI think the worst part, by far, isnt really the stuff he says (yeah its kinda minor and petty but he is correct) its the fact that he literally admits he could have just sent all this in an email. Instead has the nerve to walk over to you while your working and expect you to be ready to take notes with pen and paper like you can't just remember what you hear. Like if you dont trust me to just remember what you say, why didnt you send an email?!
It is very difficult to bring myself to hate adam. He is really wholesome and is just trying to help john. Too bad he never got out of the teachers pet phase since middle school
Can’t believe I’m saying this but the boss has a real point about the diagonal stapling- it really does make a difference
I can’t believe he didn’t know Section 28- Workplace Etiquette Procedure 57- Stapling of the Company’s Code of Conduct! He’s the first to go on the next round of layoffs 😂
Love the longer skits.
Thank you! Glad you like them!
This guy comes to work an hour earlier and makes sure to let you know that
And anyone who shows up before him is weird and he’ll make sure to communicate that to their face
This dude puts more effort into the research for his videos than most college students do into their school work. Amazing video as usual. 10/10 👌
I don’t think that any amount of research could capture the realism so well… it must be from experience
@@jackatk it actually can if you do it properly. "Research" is not finding research papers online or blogs online like in your school. It could be simply asking friends about their experience. Many authors do tremendous research when they write their books to make you feel that it's accurate. If we only write things from what we experience, we couldn't produce a lot of material
@@jackatkif this man has experience with everything he has posted then he has the worst life ever. He also would start to fall off soon due to playing what he knows but he keeps putting out blood boiling bangers
I'm guessing you're a college student who puts barely any effort into your school work!
@@JL_____ I'm guessing u r a miserable person
asking for arbitrary information like we’re children and not moving on until someone’s answered is so real. i’m shaking and crying and throwing up
As an assistant in a governmental office in a bureaucratic, post-communist country, I agree that the proper fonts, staples, post-it flags, registration numbers and stamps are all VERY important and are the core of our existence.
Curious, which country?
@@internetperson3436 Hungary.
I love how the boss nitpicks his employees on the littlest things and then basically tells them he got to where he is today by working harder and not smarter. So detached. I love it.
He’s so busy but yet doing completely nothing at the same time. People get paid to do a whole lot of nothing. It’s almost as bad as “influencers”
Honestly, this kind of suck-up just makes me feel bad for him. I usually deal with suck-ups that are backstabbing or put others down to make themselves look better. This guy just doesn't have enough life experience to know that this behavior doesn't get you anywhere and the constant inclusion and support offered to the POV character shows that while they think they know what's best, they still want you to also be successful too.
It's pitiable and pathetic, like watching an elderly dog piss itself because it can't tell the difference between inside and outside anymore.
This guy is so good at portraying the most unlikeable characters ever.
This bot says this on every video
This bot is so good at typing this same comment in every video.
this bot is so good at being the most unlikeable commenter ever
If this bot were a spice, it would be a flour.
I’d love to see some POV: you’re a part time min wage employee, and an ‘influencer’ wants to harass you for free food
I like how there is straight up zero indication of what this job actually is.
Corporate hell and Redditor 🔛🔝
I actually kind of feel bad for the suckup. He just desperately wants approval and validation. He's just a needy child.
He’s Andy Bernard without the charisma.
@@andiandersen3746 Charisma black hole
I guess there’s no such thing as a “duty free lunch” at this office if you answer emails on your phone when you’re out for lunch.
My old boss called me "inexperienced" because she thought I didn't know one obscure policy that had been abandoned like 2 years before I started working there. I did know it but it didn't matter anyway 😆
What policy is that?
@@yourfreakreation1790 About us taking in drop-in clients before the pandemic but then afterwards requiring scheduled appts.
I was making a powerpoint for a new staff meeting and put in a reminder that we didn't take drop-ins and she made me change it to specify that we USED TO do drop-ins but not anymore because the first way "rhetorically showed [my] inexperience."
@@AlyssaTaylor9 That is actual hell, what. "Well you're correct but you didn't add this irrelevant piece of information."
@candy-ass4915 Oh God that's just the tip of the shitshow iceberg. She'd almost never come in to work and refuse to have meetings for weeks but then get randomly super micro-managey and accuse us of undermining her.
Once I noticed some web content needed to be updated (very routine shit, like dates & hiring info) and she flipped out because I notified our web content admin before notifying her. She screamed that I was a child who evidently needed my hand held with weekly meetings.
Once I was preparing for another staff meeting and was typing an email reminding them about it a week out. She demanded I send her the email beforehand so she could approve it. She asked if I had an agenda, I said yes, and she yelled "Have I approved it? No?!? Then you don't have an agenda! If I haven't approved it it doesn't exist!" Then two hours later when I asked if she'd read my email she yelled at me that I was "always trying to do things and get ahead of the game."
Another time she found out we'd handled a client scheduling issue in the exact way she'd told us to handle someone else with the same issue before and she told us we'd "gone rogue."
I quit 4 months ago but literally yesterday a former coworker texted me asking if I'd ever filed a complaint against her because she and a few others got put under her a month ago and are already experiencing the nightmare.
I wonder how this new guy will progress. I hope we get to see him gradually be radicalized against the boss.
YES
Regarding the diagonal staple... I had a teacher in a trade school that I attended who DEMANDED that we staple at this angle. If we turned in our work with an unacceptable staple... She'd walk up to you & tear your paper/assignment into pieces in your face. In front of the entire class. And you'd have to PRAY to GOD that you made sure that you saved your assignment properly in order to reprint it, staple it correctly & turn it back in. To THIS DAY 10+ years later... I STILL make sure to staple at an angle & I think of that little psycho. Good ol' Miss Pat. 😂😂😂
Yay habits we have because of trauma
Did you call her Psycho-pat 'cause I bloody well would
@psychicbyinternet Soooooooooooo true... Lol! But. Not gonna lie... She wasn't wrong about the staple placement. Just the way she went about it was highly questionable. Obviously. Lol
@@jakekraweckyj2801 🤣🤣🤣 Nope. But I found little ways to buck the system. I did a presentation & it involved Lady Gaga. U should've seen the wheels turning in her head on THAT one. 😂😂😂
Gosh darn it. I know its just a 4 minute video and yet I already feel suffocated and exhausted from the ass kissing and micromanaging.
I don't know how you do it sir but you have knack for capturing the emotion in these kinds of situations and effectively transmitting those emotions to others.
Good job.
Genuinely believe this guy has had painful experiences with each one of those characters irl and now makes these videos to shit on them
Everything properly pissed me off but the staple thing is an absolute FACT!
Any boss who voices preference for Comic Sans in a corporate setting needs to be taken out back
This series simultaneously makes me feel like I work at this office and that I want to storm out half way through each skit.
I just started working a shitty 9 to 5 office job and even though I've only been here for a week I feel like I've seen all of these characters already.
I worked at a job like this for 3 months. It's a living nightmare.
When the boss asked why I wasn’t taking notes, I literally said to my phone “It wouldn’t be worth the paper” like I was actually talking to you. I really feel myself getting pulled into the situations you create, fantastic work as always!
Being named John and working in corporate hell makes this video hit hard
Funny shit as always brother
Thanks man!
The idea of calling your boss "sir" makes me want to walk into the ocean.
I was ready for the classic cutoff once he told us to take notes.
The fact it didn't happen till 3 minutes later had me feeling like I was stuck in a nightmare only a gun in my mouth could solve.
So I had a boss once who told me something like this:
“You’re here to make a paycheck but you’re also here to try and learn anything you don’t know so you can start your own business. And if you think you’re not learning here then you need to go somewhere else or start a company of your own because you’re just wasting your own time”
At first I thought he was being an ass but now 5 years later I’m glad he said that. I got into a spot making way more money and I’m still learning. Just keep learning is my motto
W boss
Top tier boss.
Rare corporate boss W
I love that so many of your skits end when the insufferable slappable character isn't finished speaking. Idk why it makes it funnier to me lol 😂
It's a true POV. When the video ends that's when we realized we've listened to this shit for too long and tune it out. Or that's when we black out in rage and quit on the spot. Truly a choose your own adventure masterpiece
Because in the world of the sketch, the pain drags on and never ends...
@@wiskyr6510 My headcanon is that the point where the video cuts out is the point where the POV character slaps the jerk across the face
Oof I have a coworker just like this. The subtle implications that I'm not working as hard as him, the anxious (almost panicked) eagerness to find some way to please the boss, and the boss's pointed refusal to acknowledge any of his efforts despite him almost killing himself with work is so spot on.
“Staying late at the office… with no overtime… is one of the things that I expect from you”
The phrase "You share a cubicle" alone fills me with dread.
Ohhh I always thought “corporate hell” was just a euphemism for a bad work environment. I see now that this really is Hell. Actual Hell.
There are worse than this. The guy who reports you to the boss for any irrelevant mistake to shame you and try assert dominance even though you have the same job title
The rapid-fire snapping triggered my fight-or-flight response
“How slappable do you want the character today?”
You’re the funniest dude on the entire internet. This is weirdly like self-help, since when I notice myself being even 1% of these characters in real life I cringe and self-correct
This, and also Jokes by Al
Imagine a POV: you’re a part time min wage worker at a small mom and pop shop and an “influencer” walks in and wants free food in exchange for “exposure” and doesn’t like being told no
Man I wish I was you, having not discovered Ryan George or Jontron or Calebcity yet.
Honestly man was right about the diagonal staples tho
I don't know what genre of comedy this is, but it's great
Oh my god I rolled my eyes so much my head hurts. But JESUS when he said Comic Sans I BURST OUT LAUGHING LMAOOO not him talking about unprofessionalism while wanting people to use the two MOST UNPROFESSIONAL FONTS OUT THERE.
That part where adam rats out on john passive aggressively and pretends to help gets on my nerves so much ive had SOOOO MANY PEOPLE do this to me.
How does the boss not have a worlds best boss mug yet?
The stare into his beloved bosses eyes, the look up in anticipation, mouth slightly opened and drooling. Dudes going in for a quick suckie, i stg 🤣🤣
oh my god - too accurate. the fact that he goes on and on and on and nothing productive is actually getting done.
This boss is imparting high-level exec knowledge and these guys just take it for granted. He should do a conference with Tony Robbins and David Goggins
Right? Hey, John? When they say "Check" your email, they mean "READ IT". GODDAMMIT John, When the BOSS says "Take a Note" Then (at least Pretend to)TAKE A NOTE!!! Just imagine how careless he is with a stapler!( Shudder) SMH.
The wisdom at the end that the office does not appreciate you for being smart, they just care that you stay at the office for long hours is so spot on 😂
My boss once told me, when I dared suggest leaving the office early since my next tasks wouldn’t be available for me to do until the next day, that I wasn’t paid to just do the work; I was paid to be at the office for x amount of hours.
Doesn’t matter that the work is done, received well and in a timely manner, and that I often found myself having to find things to do between projects - you’re not paid to be effective, you’re paid to pretend to be working until the clock strikes.
Your characters bring me comfort and the feeling of stubbing a toe, bravo.
He's crying tears of joy by the end
I worked years with a boss like this and everytime I watch this videos I have to pause time to time because its so accurate I'm cringing. Keep up the good work!
Adam giving that look kids give when their classmate is getting flamed
Idk how Adam speaks so clearly with his tongue surgically sewn to Frank’s gooch
Holy fuck this is one of the most painful things I've ever watched, for some reason this one just hit different. We have to end the machine that creates these people.
This could all be communicated in a much nicer way 😭😭😭😭😭😭
I love comic sans
You’re sick
@@theslappablejerk I wrote a essay in comic sans and got a four so I think it works
the information he learned from all that hard work of course being - "write emails in comic sans"
I rolled my eyes at Adam, KNOWING this was a skit. You’re an absolute master at character design and development. Amazing
I had an old boss that used to tell me to flip all the dollar bills face up and also orient them in the same direction. I looked him straight in the face and told him "no, that's stupid" it was the most shocked look I'd ever seen on someone's face. I only worked there 2 months.
"No, that's stupid" Great all-purpose response if you want the whole world as an enemy, is THAT your goal?
@@icu3869 I found the boss
@greasybumpkin1661 no he is the boot licker.
@@icu3869suddenly your boss is the whole world??
I would honestly seriously contemplate only stapling the papers vertically with the sole intention of pissing Frank off.
This boss reminds me of one of my old bosses, but this boss is actually better. But the taking notes thing gave me war flashbacks lmao. I was the one that was more of the suck-up but it was out of fear and i never threw my co-workers under the bus, I’m just glad we managed to get out of that shithole.
the finger snapping i feel like i've had happen to me more than once. once aain you manage to get a visceral reaction out of me with this character in specific
I have never worked an office job and this video was actual torture, great job man
I really like the corporate hell ones please do more
I absolutely agree "sent by an iphone" would make me fire someone.
This is my new favourite character. 😂❤
I want to roundhouse kick all of your characters except Teddy
The more videos I watch of his, the more I'm convinced he's a social genius
I’m like 20 seconds in and my blood pressure is already going up. This guy is so talented. 😂 the workplace brownnoser is my absolute least favorite person.
Dude you’re a really good actor
Somehow this framing makes the boss seem likable in comparison. Sucking up to him only made Adam be treated as a zero instead of a negative one, and when he realizes that he doubles down thinking he might even get a compliment. That made it obvious that he was a true suckup rather than a regular guy just trying to avoid getting reprimanded constantly.
There's always that one employee, who when the boss asks who wants to do some really menial and degrading task, they jump at it like "ME! I'LL DO THAT SIR!" thinking it scores them brownie points above everyone else
The useful idiot
I don’t care what you say, that part about the iPhone emails is completely true.
I have never wanted to choke two people out at the same time 😂
Critically slappable
I vote for the staple to be stapled horizontally into both of these character's heads.
That side eye was like something out of looney toons 😂
I wait for the toxic behavior like a narcissist waits for its next victim, good on ya Jack. 😂😂😂❤❤
Say what you want but at least the guy isn't trying to throw you under the bus. He's informing you (obnoxiously) and including you in an attempt to make you look good too / help you learn (double edged, sure). Beats working with backstabbers for sure.
The interruptions are so spot on lol
“Fonts and stapling? I must admit, I didn't even realize these details were so important. But now that you mention it, I'll be sure to pay closer attention. Sorry for seeming a bit out of the loop, and thank you for bringing these matters to our attention.“
I know you're acting but I still want to punch my screen