Its cool man. You cant fix all your issues in one day or please everyone. No reason to rush into things. You got all of your life to figure it out. Your good.
Jim Carrey said it best "Those that make others laugh are NOT OK. Pay attention to them because making others laugh is how they ease their pain they feel."
@@jamesTBurke hearing him say that hit me hard because it's true. I was always the class clown, I am the one at work always cracking jokes and easing the crappy parts of work. But when I'm alone.......... Yeahhhh...
Oh how I wish this wasn't so true! My company actually thinks they are doing us a favor by employing us....yet they can't seem to understand why everyone keeps leaving for the plant directly across the street that pays $5/hr more to do the same job in a climate controlled environment 🤔 Strange right?
Yup unfortunately that's exactly how all my employers have been. And they wondered why my enthusiasm would drop after a few weeks. Unfortunately I rarely ever quit. It takes too much for me to actually quit a job
Stuporvisor after yelling at me about why my first task that day isn't done yet, after having been pulled off it to do something else, which I was pulled off to do a third thing: "Do you want to keep this job?!" Me: "You want an honest answer?"
I think he was talking about the 6 hours extra he wasn't scheduled for, but still....yeah, the more you make, the more they take.....That's the law of the land
I was agreeing to everything Ricky said. Maybe throw in how body parts are wearing out and sore all the time. The forced overtime is getting so bad I'm glad to be on jury duty this week.
I don't know what it's like in the US but overtime here comes with at least 1.5× pay and they can't force you to do it. But in a lot of places they'll make the starting pay pretty shit so you have to so it to make a decent income.
The forced OT does suck but also not much a company can do if they getting people that won’t last long. I have seen it at my company now they have stopped OT. But the new ones don’t last long cause either there just lazy, or they see how hard it is and just quit after a day or so. And sometimes it is the pay.
As a boss, my statement to other bosses is this: Take care of your people. You ain't shit without them. Your job is to fight for them in the company while they make the company money.
@@jamesTBurke It’s mostly a game of politics. I suck at that but I fight to the end to get stuff done. I build my political capital through helping others outside of my team to be able to call in favors for my team.
@@brianishmael2290 All I ever wanted was to be treated with respect and given a chance to kick ass. That is what I offer my people. I do have people that hate my style. I expect a lot but will help you every step of the way. If you excel on my team, the company actually makes more money, and you will be happier. I can also say if you put in the work, you will have money come along. It might not be at the current job with me, but I try to help people find the place that will make them happy. The thing some people don't like about me is that I am straight up truthful. I believe in mutual respect, but do not guarantee your feelings won't be hurt. For full disclosure, I am no longer in a trade, but software development. My body was breaking down so quickly from the work, I had to make a decision. If I was still in the field, I would see it the same way, work hard for me and I will take care of you.
Holy crap, this sounds like a weekly conversation with MY boss man....that McDonald's vs my skilled trade money comment was right on point for me as well. Love the vids! Keep em coming!
Well the skilled labor needs to be higher pay. Although there are major down sides to fast food. The hours rotate. Nights and weekends. The grease. That smell and clothes. It never leaves and infiltrates ever fiber of vehicle and home. Dealing with customers. Then again this is coming from an electrician. lol
@@chaselostones I'm a service tech for a fire protection company. What you described is almost exactly what I do now lol. On call, clothes always have that cutting oil/sprinkler water smell....
@@shanegriffin8536 The glycol(prob spelled wrong) is some nasty stuff. Especially when a head breaks. I get it though. I have to deal with those fall outs to. It is more than that I know. Although it is nice to do and go to different places. Instead of being stuck in a kitchen. lol
I can't do it, I came from retail and fast food background, I'd rather make 5$ more and be burnt by boilers, smelling ammonia and dealing with retarded supervisor.
Reminds me of my last evaluation at my last job. Employer kept our automotive shop at the bare minimum to meet safety regulations. They told me they needed to see a more positive, upbeat attitude from me. I told them I needed to see a positive change in the shop. And until then, if I had to deal with it, they had to deal with it.
@@jrichardson-m9m believe it or not in 80's we got 40% of the labor hour charge, today that would mean 60$ per billable hr. Fat effing chance cause service supports sales they get big money you get effed over. Only joints that are mine are wrists elbow and ankles Only because we can't replace those joints. GET OUT WHILE YOU CAN
@@brianmiller1098 I get about 22% of billable hours. These cars are also only getting harder to work on too. I have the entire interior pulled out of a van right now because of a known communication issue that may or may not be fixed by replacing all the interior harnesses. Pays about 18hrs and I got about 15 in it so far and just now going back together.
I feel this one, currently less than 60 days from a strike. Haven't had a pay raise since 2019, company wants to give us a 16 percent raise over 5 years, cut jobs, and raise Healthcare cost 40%. I feel so valued.
That’s the biggest joke this healthcare when I was a kid they seem to cover everything now they don’t wanna cover nothing and they give you a $2000 deductible for a kid who these days has $2000 to spend on healthcare right on point good luck
Yo, I kinda see this as the highest compliment possible but I honestly forget that Ricky isn't actually another real person sometimes. It's so authentic lol they all have a life of their own.
This describes the life in the trucking industry as well. I switched to an hourly job driving a tanker 5 years ago and we are still pushing 60 to 70 hours most weeks. Alternating 5 and 6 day work weeks. I have trained and watched more people leave the company than are still driving for us.
I drive about 9 hrs a day. 500 mi. round trip maybe spend 2 hrs at customer. $20/hr detention after 1 hr. 5 day a week. Home every night. Gross about $1600.
This sounds exactly like the conversations I kept having with my boss after Covid hit and after I finally reported the salesman I worked with for verbally abusing me in front of customers, they fired me!
That firing was a blessing, I assure you. Allowed you to get unemployment and find better working conditions, hopefully. I had that happen and I laughed at them and their reasonings for firing me. I couldn't have been happier to get fired from somewhere. Got a better job but according to this video, it's not actually that much better of late.
That sales rep would have been complaining about me to the bosses cuz i would have whooped his ass. I’m a grown man you better speak to me in a respectful manner. I work in a customer service role in the alarm industry. I have had customers try to speak to me and trash talk me then report me to management when i either walked away and left the job site or point blank told them off to their faces and when management asked me about it i said hell yeah i said what i said. They were rude hostile and disrespectful and i will not put up with it. I still have my job.
I work in a paint store, stockroom inventory, only part time though. There's three full-time employees who have to man the counter, answer the phone, and mix the paint, and one woman who does the bookkeeping. Our delivery driver quit a month back (no idea why, he was a bit...off). I'm one of two, maybe three part-time workers, but on the days I work, I'm usually the only one doing inventory, because everyone is doing everything else. I unload pallets of paint (quarts, one gallon, 5 gallon buckets, accessories like brushes...), sign for the delivery, unwrap and stock the store, and try and stay out of everyone else's way. Days I work we get about 3-4 pallets averaging about 1500-2000 lbs a pallet. Which I deal with usually all by myself for 5+ hours straight. I know it's small potatoes in comparison, but I can still appreciate where Ricky is coming from with this.
I'm the one buying that paint to keep you in job security, and I need to know, now, if you have the paint I need. Just log and go get gone, that's all I ask!
@@jefferyschicMaybe. Odds are we either have 50 gallons in overstock, on back order so wait up to three months, or they discontinued it due to COVID. We just sell the sh@t, we don't make it.
its sad when it seems like everyone feels this way in many different fields. People in general are over worked, underpaid, and in poor work environments. i quit my job in January for this exact reason. i plan to start my own company in 5 months when my NDA is up and i plan to focus on my (and any employees) overall wellbeing.
I've been trying to start my own buisness for 2 years now. But unfortunately since I'm a white male with low credit I cant get a loan for a wrecker or big rig
@@jamesTBurke Something I did for my girlfriend was put her name on my credit card account, and as I pay off my debt, her credit goes up. Hell, I think it’s raised over 300 points in about a year. Maybe closer to 400 at this point.
So what you're saying is that capitalism is working exactly like it's supposed to? Wringing every last drop of value out of people until they drop? Edit: typo
"I'm also so, SO happy that we paid our CEO a 5 million... MILLION DOLLAR BONUS because he was able to keep our stocks high and payroll so low. I mean, it's great that we didn't spend that money on the workers who are all happy to even have a job, being paid as much as some little twerp at McDonald's. I'm sure he's been feeling the pinch of these outrageous gas prices and food shortages. Must be so damn difficult for him and his family of ten who are all going to college." - Ricky, probably.
Hey, I get it that your frustrated. But to say your CEO isn't feeling the pinch in this economy? He needs that 5 million bonus. Have you not seen the increase in jet fuel prices? Private jets to the carribean for your annual family vacation isn't cheap... Have some respect... the struggle is real... 😆
The 12 hour shifts and force feeding one's self and understaffing all sounds like "a normal Tuesday at work"....for us nurses too😅. I hate force feeding myself... eating when you're not hungry 👎.
Dude starts making the real money and then this shit happens…. HE USES HIS PLACE TO SPEAK FOR US! FUCK YES! Thank you Ricky. You were a hilarious savage before your strides in entertainment and now you are an absolute legendary hero. Thank you.
I took a break from carpentry back in 09 and started working as a Wildland Firefighter, the pay sucked and we worked 14 days on 2 days off usually working about 16 hours a day. Needless to say, I'm back in the trades.
Lmao !!!! God I love theses videos. They get my day going for me. I can have a bad day and watch one of your videos and it turns my negatives into 200 percent positive day. Keep them videos coming bro. I got my workers cracking up over here. I got them to subscribed today to the channel.
Yup this sounds about right. We just got “let go” from a job that our 3-4 person crew has been working since last September because the homeowner felt that we weren’t putting enough of ourselves into the job. Mind you that we are trying to completely rehabilitate a 200+ year old house to bring up to code with a bare bones crew and a homeowner who’s trying to FLIP this house and he doesn’t want to pay anything extra for the time and material that needs to happen in order for us to “properly” do our job. But hey even engineer’s like him know how and when to get their hands dirty and have someone else do all of the work efficiently at low cost with not much time or money spent on the job to restore this falling down, dry rotten, completely out of square, and somewhat hazardous house to bring it back up to it’s full glory 😒
12 hour shifts in a refrigerated warehouse driving a forklift. There's nothing like freezing your butt off in a heatwave. The minute you step outside you have to strip down or you'll get heat stroke.
Worked at a warehouse as a teen. Had to gonna back and forth from cold side to dry side…..talk about “body shock”…….and they wondered why ppl kept getting sick……
This is by far the most accurate employee and employer mind mentality iv seen. I'm going say something I'm sure u have heard you doing a great job. Lol
How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 6:30am by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, shit, piss, brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where essentially you made lots of money for somebody else and were asked to be grateful for the opportunity to do so? -Charles Bukowski. You have all become Institutionalized without even knowing it!
Its brain washing and slavery to the dollar bill it is that bad but people don't want to admit it or see the truth we need a new system for society but change can only happen if everyone stands up and fight for it there should no longer be power given to the few who control and manipulate everything from behind the scenes and that means a lot of people have to die for this change to happen and I hope it happens sooner than later :I
This was me at my old job. I mean ol' breadstick ricky hit the nail on the head. Ironically I went to another trade and my whole life changed. I work less, get paid more. People actually want to work where I'm at.
I know all about doing something manually that could easily be done with a rented machine. My stepdad owns rental property and he sometimes misses the bigger picture. I've manually dug a 70 ft. 36 inch deep trench that he paid me hourly for. It took me nearly 12 hours going through the rocky soil. I wound up getting paid over 5 times what it would have cost to rent a trencher. Another example was fill for a basement before concrete. He decided to use some old bricks and bad concrete from a garage floor as some of the fill. The concrete contractor even said "rock is 250 dollars a ton you're going to spend 50 hours to save 50 bucks". Well my stepdad paid 3 people to manually tear out the garage floor and transfer the rubble to the basement. It took multiple days. In the end he paid the three of us over 1,200. A bobcat rental and a construction dumpster would have only cost about 500 and the project would have been done in a day. I could go on and on. Sometimes saving money isn't actually worth it and companies don't care because they don't care about future money. They care about the dollar now.
That just about sums up the ENTIRETY of the modern view of business practice. Literally selling your feet to buy shoes, but hey they are the fancy new shoe that all the rich people wear...
Preach! I swear, I had to deal with stupidity like that daily at UPS and it drove me nuts. Story time: I worked hazmat responders where we needed supplies to do our job. These supplies included boxes because we picked up everything that leaked, not just the hazmats, and a lot of it could easily be put in new boxes and shipped on its way. UPS in there infinite wisdom apparently changed the way the paid our box supplier WITHOUT TELLING THEM so instead of paying when the order goes through or monthly billing or whatever they did, they switched to a yearly payment plan. Needless to say, the supplier said go f yourselves and we could no longer get size 14 boxes (which were extremely useful for odd sized items) but also couldn't get the really useful bags that we used to pick up the leaking packages that the supplier also sold us. Instead we had to use these basically sandwich glove thick plastic bags that ripped at the slightest tug and were also smaller to the point of uselessness on about half our usual leakers. Anytime I brought it up with management they said it's fine since that supplier was so "expensive". I'm just staring at them and screaming internally that because of that we now spend more on the new bags because we run through them quicker (torn bags are not supposed to be used to transport leaking packages) but we also need more boxes because the 14s were now flat gone so instead of using bigger and bulkier ones we used two or more of the smaller ones to make sure the item doesn't jostle too much. Plus we had to spend more time on the clock now due to the pickups taking longer to deal with. Yeah, sure saved money there. Idiots.
My current job is like this. I average 65 hours a week, which last year got me 1,235 hours of overtime. On $18.54 an hour I brought home $73,000 or so. Boss refuses to hire staff or buy equipment. That's why I'm leaving.
Then they have the audacity to complain about nothing getting done, all whilst not contributing to helping the other workers and being paid to sit on their asses most of the time. They'll also complain about the cost of something that'd help long term but hate the cost short term. They're fucking idiots without any common sense and a piece of paper that basically states they're smarter than everybody else except in common sense. It's fucking stupid.
@@shannonroberts681 Had an interview as an HVAC installer. I told them I'd accept because even if the market is prone to slow seasons, it's a better field than what I'm in now, which is thermoforming (plastics)
I would like to say thank you to all the men (and women) that are holding down the fort.... doing hard work, because you know what keeps this country going.... even when you do see the (mostly) lazy and entitled folks making the same for something that isn't important (chicken nuggets are yum, but not needed). Also this is funny, keep the truth and laughs coming... 😀😄😁
I felt that "at least you have a job". I would give anything to be able to work right now. That forced ot for an extra $30 in the paycheck hit right on the money when I worked at a factory in Virginia. Love Ricky! He tells it like it is!
😂 @1:30 When he starts to explain his day. That had me rolling! I’m a local fuel trucker in Sacramento, CA, and that’s a exactly what I do. That was funny as hell. Haven’t finished the video yet.
I remember the first time I worked seven twelves on a union job. Being young and having never had a job that paid above ten dollars an hour I was excited to crack open the envelope with my check in it. I took one look and legit thought there was an issue. By the time the union took their cut and uncles sam took his I was down a thousand dollars. Damn near made me sick to my stomach.
@@choccolocco you did so in an attempt to either be a smart ass or snarky. Show me where I indicated you didn't receive benefits in return? Don't worry, I'll wait while you get over being defensive and scramble for a response.
Damn bro that one hit all the way home for me man!! I'm in the same boat 110% and when you said "working 40hrs overtime, so that's an extra 30 dollars" I felt that in my soul!!!
Employers: Why cant we find good employees, lazy people just dont wanna work. McDonald's:Ya know we had that problem too, but then we started offering more money and the problem was solved. Walmart:Yeah, we did too, then we started offering more money and even a college scholarhsip for employees for any degree they want, and our retail stores have been great. weve been thinking about raising rates at our warehouses too since they are having trouble. All other Employers: Nah, 12 dollars an hour is good freakin money, its just this lazy generation thats the problem.
Remember though, can't have any unions that are specifically looking out for the employees. Also can't forget that they give hours just under what is required to provide benefits.
@@benjaminmeusburger4254 Remember, this is the land of opportunity, so in order to get the opportunity to not be homeless and starving you gotta _earn_ that.
exactly, all you need to do to get people to accept your job offer is to pay a wage that makes sense. where I'm at now can't seem to find anyone to accept the job offer, well the plant across the street starts a $1.50 more an hour. figure it out. lol
What's up guys I absolutely love you're channel and the content ❤️ keep up the awesome amazing work ur video help a lot of people get through there day 💙
Ya a damn shame that flipping burgers pays what it does now a days. Bet Pablo is still at $10hr if he's lucky ha ha ha! Don't get me wrong I'm glad that it's went up. Took me years to get to $30 great video thanks always look forward to new videos
Be a lot more money to go around if there were no CEOs. Or their pay was capped. And the Board of Directors realized infinite growth is impossible. And then we chuck the CEO and Board off the top of a skyscraper.
Back when I worked at a security company my boss literally told me "I don't care if my workers are happy, they have jobs, that should make them happy enough." What jobsites never understand is that this creates a revolving door/carousel of misery. Employees will work hard until they realize they're being taken advantage of, then they'll burn out, and then they'll start doing only enough work so that they don't get fired while looking for other jobs. And when they move on to better opportunities that appreciate them more and sees them as people and not just cogs in a machine, the company will move on and hire the next desperate soul that's just happy to have a job, and work them to death until they finally move on, and the cycle continues. And then the company will pay a research firm tens of thousands of dollars to figure out why their employee retention is so trash instead of putting that money where it should go: into the hands of their over-worked and underpaid employees. Just a reminder to everyone: you don't owe a job a god damn thing. It is not a privilege to have a job. It is an equal exchange: you need work, they need workers. Don't ever shortchange yourself. Recognize your value. Take care y'all.
Absolutely this shit hits HARD for someone who has been through a two year welding school and Graduated top of the class and now a burger flipper is making close to where I'm at it's a sad country right now
Underpaid, understaffed, and overworked is it. I recently shifted to part-time so I can do college as well but those 40 hrs were destroying me. 32 hrs still make me come home with just enough energy to shower and crash on most days. It's no 12hrs a day or 60-70 hrs a week but hell if I can't relate to the 3 Os. And it doesn't help that even if you're close to make 30k or 40k a year, taxes be taking 5k out of my paycheck. It would be grand if we were paid more and the people with five yacht, 3 mansions, 2 jets, 7 vacation homes, and rooms dedicated to wardrobe solely could take pay cuts so people wouldn't have to decide between eating and paying the bills.
Force myself to sleep… hits so hard. Chemicals to go down, chemicals to wake up, chemicals instead of food… Rich men north of Richmond as the anthem to next depression. We’re staring at the same problems in the 20s we had in the last 20s. Why can’t we stop it?
Seriously this hits different. For me I have been getting this nagging feeling that despite working a high-pressure job and working multiple positions on the line, I seem like I don't do enough at work. Had our coo tell me I'm doing a great job this past weekend, but it doesn't feel that way.
Yep, if you have been with a company for quite some time and get crappy raises like, well, a lot of them do; As well as couple that with inflation, this video pretty much sums it up!! 🤣🤣
Dude. You can't just have your comedy channel blow up spectacularly as one of the funniest people on the platform just to hit us with depressing true facts like this. This video makes me feel like Roscoe.
This one hits hard bro. Would love to see more stuff like this. Comedy is the best way to address social issues.
Except this is reality not comedy
Its cool man. You cant fix all your issues in one day or please everyone. No reason to rush into things. You got all of your life to figure it out. Your good.
Jim Carrey said it best "Those that make others laugh are NOT OK. Pay attention to them because making others laugh is how they ease their pain they feel."
@@amelamee4940 well yea. Look at Robin Williams
@@jamesTBurke hearing him say that hit me hard because it's true. I was always the class clown, I am the one at work always cracking jokes and easing the crappy parts of work. But when I'm alone.......... Yeahhhh...
Oh how I wish this wasn't so true! My company actually thinks they are doing us a favor by employing us....yet they can't seem to understand why everyone keeps leaving for the plant directly across the street that pays $5/hr more to do the same job in a climate controlled environment 🤔
Strange right?
Yup unfortunately that's exactly how all my employers have been. And they wondered why my enthusiasm would drop after a few weeks. Unfortunately I rarely ever quit. It takes too much for me to actually quit a job
Stuporvisor after yelling at me about why my first task that day isn't done yet, after having been pulled off it to do something else, which I was pulled off to do a third thing: "Do you want to keep this job?!"
Me: "You want an honest answer?"
Why have you not applied across the street?
@@richardpuckett8127 they probably drug test lol.
@@richardpuckett8127 exactly what I was thinking 🤔
40 hours of overtime for an extra $30. Ain’t that the truth!! 😭
I think he was talking about the 6 hours extra he wasn't scheduled for, but still....yeah, the more you make, the more they take.....That's the law of the land
Overtime will never not be a fucking trap. Fuck 40 hours as is.
@@jacobgraemoor5778 lol I get to work 60 to 70 hours a week and I couldn't afford to take vacation if I only worked 40 hours 🤷
@@Ryan.zelenski same here
Isn't it sad people on welfare make more than most? That's not including their crack sales.
I was agreeing to everything Ricky said. Maybe throw in how body parts are wearing out and sore all the time.
The forced overtime is getting so bad I'm glad to be on jury duty this week.
Enjoy a week on your butt in an air conditioned court!😁
Get this man some help, please!!!
Just damn
I don't know what it's like in the US but overtime here comes with at least 1.5× pay and they can't force you to do it.
But in a lot of places they'll make the starting pay pretty shit so you have to so it to make a decent income.
The forced OT does suck but also not much a company can do if they getting people that won’t last long. I have seen it at my company now they have stopped OT. But the new ones don’t last long cause either there just lazy, or they see how hard it is and just quit after a day or so. And sometimes it is the pay.
As a boss, my statement to other bosses is this: Take care of your people. You ain't shit without them. Your job is to fight for them in the company while they make the company money.
Unfortunately 90% of the employers don't care
I sure wish my boss thought like you especially it being hard manual labor but he's all about the $ and don't care who likes it unfortunately
@@jamesTBurke It’s mostly a game of politics. I suck at that but I fight to the end to get stuff done. I build my political capital through helping others outside of my team to be able to call in favors for my team.
@@jamesTBurke And I do believe companies don't care, but people can be convinced to care. Hence the politics again.
@@brianishmael2290 All I ever wanted was to be treated with respect and given a chance to kick ass. That is what I offer my people. I do have people that hate my style. I expect a lot but will help you every step of the way. If you excel on my team, the company actually makes more money, and you will be happier. I can also say if you put in the work, you will have money come along. It might not be at the current job with me, but I try to help people find the place that will make them happy.
The thing some people don't like about me is that I am straight up truthful. I believe in mutual respect, but do not guarantee your feelings won't be hurt.
For full disclosure, I am no longer in a trade, but software development. My body was breaking down so quickly from the work, I had to make a decision. If I was still in the field, I would see it the same way, work hard for me and I will take care of you.
Holy crap, this sounds like a weekly conversation with MY boss man....that McDonald's vs my skilled trade money comment was right on point for me as well. Love the vids! Keep em coming!
it's kind of tempting right, when the gov paid 16 Mickeys pay 18 and you do that extra OT to make 21.... why
Well the skilled labor needs to be higher pay.
Although there are major down sides to fast food. The hours rotate. Nights and weekends. The grease. That smell and clothes. It never leaves and infiltrates ever fiber of vehicle and home. Dealing with customers.
Then again this is coming from an electrician. lol
@@chaselostones I'm a service tech for a fire protection company. What you described is almost exactly what I do now lol. On call, clothes always have that cutting oil/sprinkler water smell....
@@shanegriffin8536 The glycol(prob spelled wrong) is some nasty stuff. Especially when a head breaks. I get it though. I have to deal with those fall outs to. It is more than that I know. Although it is nice to do and go to different places. Instead of being stuck in a kitchen. lol
I can't do it, I came from retail and fast food background, I'd rather make 5$ more and be burnt by boilers, smelling ammonia and dealing with retarded supervisor.
Reminds me of my last evaluation at my last job. Employer kept our automotive shop at the bare minimum to meet safety regulations. They told me they needed to see a more positive, upbeat attitude from me.
I told them I needed to see a positive change in the shop. And until then, if I had to deal with it, they had to deal with it.
I was told if I really wanted a ac machine that will actually pull a vacuum that I should start flagging 100hrs a week. Yea, fuck automotive.
@@jrichardson-m9m believe it or not in 80's we got 40% of the labor hour charge, today that would mean 60$ per billable hr. Fat effing chance cause service supports sales they get big money you get effed over. Only joints that are mine are wrists elbow and ankles Only because we can't replace those joints. GET OUT WHILE YOU CAN
@@brianmiller1098 there's a reason I took just enough automotive in high-school to know how to fix my own cars if I break down
I said something very similar a number of years ago, and it quickly led to a "mutual dissolution of employment"
@@brianmiller1098 I get about 22% of billable hours. These cars are also only getting harder to work on too. I have the entire interior pulled out of a van right now because of a known communication issue that may or may not be fixed by replacing all the interior harnesses. Pays about 18hrs and I got about 15 in it so far and just now going back together.
First time I’ve EVER & probly will ever see Ricky bring out that vulnerable side of’m. Proud of you buddy!🥹
I feel this one, currently less than 60 days from a strike. Haven't had a pay raise since 2019, company wants to give us a 16 percent raise over 5 years, cut jobs, and raise Healthcare cost 40%. I feel so valued.
Working for the railroad ey
@@JS-oh2dp The healthcare cost rise would at least partially offset that pay raise though, if not render it completely redundant.
That’s the biggest joke this healthcare when I was a kid they seem to cover everything now they don’t wanna cover nothing and they give you a $2000 deductible for a kid who these days has $2000 to spend on healthcare right on point good luck
Ricky is the guy that complains every week but still comes to work 🤣🤣. Yep just a normal Tuesday
Yo, I kinda see this as the highest compliment possible but I honestly forget that Ricky isn't actually another real person sometimes. It's so authentic lol they all have a life of their own.
This describes the life in the trucking industry as well. I switched to an hourly job driving a tanker 5 years ago and we are still pushing 60 to 70 hours most weeks. Alternating 5 and 6 day work weeks. I have trained and watched more people leave the company than are still driving for us.
I drive about 9 hrs a day. 500 mi. round trip maybe spend 2 hrs at customer. $20/hr detention after 1 hr. 5 day a week. Home every night. Gross about $1600.
What company do yall drive for
This sounds exactly like the conversations I kept having with my boss after Covid hit and after I finally reported the salesman I worked with for verbally abusing me in front of customers, they fired me!
That firing was a blessing, I assure you. Allowed you to get unemployment and find better working conditions, hopefully. I had that happen and I laughed at them and their reasonings for firing me. I couldn't have been happier to get fired from somewhere. Got a better job but according to this video, it's not actually that much better of late.
Illegal firing can be worth up to 250000 plus two years salary. Could be worth 350 or more. Think about it.
You are an employee at will. They can get rid of you whenever they want as long as it is not based on race, religion, sexual preference, etc.
That sales rep would have been complaining about me to the bosses cuz i would have whooped his ass. I’m a grown man you better speak to me in a respectful manner. I work in a customer service role in the alarm industry. I have had customers try to speak to me and trash talk me then report me to management when i either walked away and left the job site or point blank told them off to their faces and when management asked me about it i said hell yeah i said what i said. They were rude hostile and disrespectful and i will not put up with it. I still have my job.
I work in a paint store, stockroom inventory, only part time though. There's three full-time employees who have to man the counter, answer the phone, and mix the paint, and one woman who does the bookkeeping. Our delivery driver quit a month back (no idea why, he was a bit...off). I'm one of two, maybe three part-time workers, but on the days I work, I'm usually the only one doing inventory, because everyone is doing everything else. I unload pallets of paint (quarts, one gallon, 5 gallon buckets, accessories like brushes...), sign for the delivery, unwrap and stock the store, and try and stay out of everyone else's way. Days I work we get about 3-4 pallets averaging about 1500-2000 lbs a pallet. Which I deal with usually all by myself for 5+ hours straight.
I know it's small potatoes in comparison, but I can still appreciate where Ricky is coming from with this.
I'm the one buying that paint to keep you in job security, and I need to know, now, if you have the paint I need. Just log and go get gone, that's all I ask!
@@jefferyschicMaybe. Odds are we either have 50 gallons in overstock, on back order so wait up to three months, or they discontinued it due to COVID. We just sell the sh@t, we don't make it.
It is indeed small potatoes
I appreciate your perspective, brotherman
@@jefferyschic Shoot, your paint stores actually have paint in stock?
its sad when it seems like everyone feels this way in many different fields. People in general are over worked, underpaid, and in poor work environments. i quit my job in January for this exact reason. i plan to start my own company in 5 months when my NDA is up and i plan to focus on my (and any employees) overall wellbeing.
I've been trying to start my own buisness for 2 years now. But unfortunately since I'm a white male with low credit I cant get a loan for a wrecker or big rig
@@jamesTBurke Something I did for my girlfriend was put her name on my credit card account, and as I pay off my debt, her credit goes up. Hell, I think it’s raised over 300 points in about a year. Maybe closer to 400 at this point.
@@R0gueM well that's good of you... some people do similar stuff for their kids then intentionally trash it instead of being responsible
So what you're saying is that capitalism is working exactly like it's supposed to? Wringing every last drop of value out of people until they drop?
Edit: typo
@@rayzerot funky off commie
Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime, that's why I poop on company time.
Go a step further. Have a wank. Get paid to fuckin jack it.
10 minutes per day, 5 days a week is and extra 40 hours off a year paid.
Tj
Ricky is the blue collar workers spirit animal
"I'm also so, SO happy that we paid our CEO a 5 million... MILLION DOLLAR BONUS because he was able to keep our stocks high and payroll so low. I mean, it's great that we didn't spend that money on the workers who are all happy to even have a job, being paid as much as some little twerp at McDonald's. I'm sure he's been feeling the pinch of these outrageous gas prices and food shortages. Must be so damn difficult for him and his family of ten who are all going to college." - Ricky, probably.
Hey, I get it that your frustrated. But to say your CEO isn't feeling the pinch in this economy? He needs that 5 million bonus. Have you not seen the increase in jet fuel prices? Private jets to the carribean for your annual family vacation isn't cheap... Have some respect... the struggle is real... 😆
@@jimmorris9621 Preach!
Yours only got 5 million? Ours was like 40. How can he afford his four extra summer houses???
@@robsnook4512 Wait until the housing market crash that is looming over us and buy 'em up cheap :P
Well that 8th yacht isn't going to pay for itself. 💵💵💵
The 12 hour shifts and force feeding one's self and understaffing all sounds like "a normal Tuesday at work"....for us nurses too😅. I hate force feeding myself... eating when you're not hungry 👎.
I just drink my dinner
Dude starts making the real money and then this shit happens….
HE USES HIS PLACE TO SPEAK FOR US! FUCK YES!
Thank you Ricky. You were a hilarious savage before your strides in entertainment and now you are an absolute legendary hero. Thank you.
I took a break from carpentry back in 09 and started working as a Wildland Firefighter, the pay sucked and we worked 14 days on 2 days off usually working about 16 hours a day. Needless to say, I'm back in the trades.
I have gotten my lady watching your stuff please don't stop
The McDonald's line got me too. I'm a butcher and one company actually thought $15.75/hr was worth it. Lol.
Lmao !!!! God I love theses videos. They get my day going for me. I can have a bad day and watch one of your videos and it turns my negatives into 200 percent positive day. Keep them videos coming bro. I got my workers cracking up over here. I got them to subscribed today to the channel.
Yup this sounds about right. We just got “let go” from a job that our 3-4 person crew has been working since last September because the homeowner felt that we weren’t putting enough of ourselves into the job. Mind you that we are trying to completely rehabilitate a 200+ year old house to bring up to code with a bare bones crew and a homeowner who’s trying to FLIP this house and he doesn’t want to pay anything extra for the time and material that needs to happen in order for us to “properly” do our job. But hey even engineer’s like him know how and when to get their hands dirty and have someone else do all of the work efficiently at low cost with not much time or money spent on the job to restore this falling down, dry rotten, completely out of square, and somewhat hazardous house to bring it back up to it’s full glory 😒
12 hour shifts in a refrigerated warehouse driving a forklift. There's nothing like freezing your butt off in a heatwave. The minute you step outside you have to strip down or you'll get heat stroke.
Worked at a warehouse as a teen. Had to gonna back and forth from cold side to dry side…..talk about “body shock”…….and they wondered why ppl kept getting sick……
Ricky: “I’m still trying to dig that trench with a shovel…”
*Safety Man bawls out laughing*
This is by far the most accurate employee and employer mind mentality iv seen. I'm going say something I'm sure u have heard you doing a great job. Lol
How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 6:30am by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, shit, piss, brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where essentially you made lots of money for somebody else and were asked to be grateful for the opportunity to do so?
-Charles Bukowski.
You have all become Institutionalized without even knowing it!
Its brain washing and slavery to the dollar bill it is that bad but people don't want to admit it or see the truth we need a new system for society but change can only happen if everyone stands up and fight for it there should no longer be power given to the few who control and manipulate everything from behind the scenes and that means a lot of people have to die for this change to happen and I hope it happens sooner than later :I
Holy crap I just realized Ricky is my spirit animal
I never expected one of your videos to make me start crying! But in reality you nailed it, lots of people feeling like this.
This was me at my old job. I mean ol' breadstick ricky hit the nail on the head. Ironically I went to another trade and my whole life changed. I work less, get paid more. People actually want to work where I'm at.
This is why if I get overtime I try to keep it down to a minimum. Not worth it.
I know all about doing something manually that could easily be done with a rented machine. My stepdad owns rental property and he sometimes misses the bigger picture. I've manually dug a 70 ft. 36 inch deep trench that he paid me hourly for. It took me nearly 12 hours going through the rocky soil. I wound up getting paid over 5 times what it would have cost to rent a trencher. Another example was fill for a basement before concrete. He decided to use some old bricks and bad concrete from a garage floor as some of the fill. The concrete contractor even said "rock is 250 dollars a ton you're going to spend 50 hours to save 50 bucks". Well my stepdad paid 3 people to manually tear out the garage floor and transfer the rubble to the basement. It took multiple days. In the end he paid the three of us over 1,200. A bobcat rental and a construction dumpster would have only cost about 500 and the project would have been done in a day. I could go on and on. Sometimes saving money isn't actually worth it and companies don't care because they don't care about future money. They care about the dollar now.
That just about sums up the ENTIRETY of the modern view of business practice. Literally selling your feet to buy shoes, but hey they are the fancy new shoe that all the rich people wear...
Preach!
I swear, I had to deal with stupidity like that daily at UPS and it drove me nuts.
Story time: I worked hazmat responders where we needed supplies to do our job. These supplies included boxes because we picked up everything that leaked, not just the hazmats, and a lot of it could easily be put in new boxes and shipped on its way. UPS in there infinite wisdom apparently changed the way the paid our box supplier WITHOUT TELLING THEM so instead of paying when the order goes through or monthly billing or whatever they did, they switched to a yearly payment plan.
Needless to say, the supplier said go f yourselves and we could no longer get size 14 boxes (which were extremely useful for odd sized items) but also couldn't get the really useful bags that we used to pick up the leaking packages that the supplier also sold us. Instead we had to use these basically sandwich glove thick plastic bags that ripped at the slightest tug and were also smaller to the point of uselessness on about half our usual leakers.
Anytime I brought it up with management they said it's fine since that supplier was so "expensive". I'm just staring at them and screaming internally that because of that we now spend more on the new bags because we run through them quicker (torn bags are not supposed to be used to transport leaking packages) but we also need more boxes because the 14s were now flat gone so instead of using bigger and bulkier ones we used two or more of the smaller ones to make sure the item doesn't jostle too much. Plus we had to spend more time on the clock now due to the pickups taking longer to deal with.
Yeah, sure saved money there. Idiots.
Buddy, your videos hit home. You’re doing good, appreciate you.
This hits hard man, so many of us past and present live this.
My current job is like this. I average 65 hours a week, which last year got me 1,235 hours of overtime. On $18.54 an hour I brought home $73,000 or so.
Boss refuses to hire staff or buy equipment.
That's why I'm leaving.
Do what you got to do, man 💯💯
Then they have the audacity to complain about nothing getting done, all whilst not contributing to helping the other workers and being paid to sit on their asses most of the time. They'll also complain about the cost of something that'd help long term but hate the cost short term. They're fucking idiots without any common sense and a piece of paper that basically states they're smarter than everybody else except in common sense. It's fucking stupid.
@@shannonroberts681
Had an interview as an HVAC installer. I told them I'd accept because even if the market is prone to slow seasons, it's a better field than what I'm in now, which is thermoforming (plastics)
I would like to say thank you to all the men (and women) that are holding down the fort.... doing hard work, because you know what keeps this country going.... even when you do see the (mostly) lazy and entitled folks making the same for something that isn't important (chicken nuggets are yum, but not needed). Also this is funny, keep the truth and laughs coming... 😀😄😁
That's exactly how it goes! 🤣👌
Front line supervisor talks to you and turns around to his boss with everything is good.
Holy cow, sounds like Ricky works for a Class 1 Railroad!!
Overworked and underpaid, the American dream. 🇺🇸
The reality of it anyway.
Building someone elses dream was never the “American dream” what the hell are you on about?
I felt that "at least you have a job". I would give anything to be able to work right now. That forced ot for an extra $30 in the paycheck hit right on the money when I worked at a factory in Virginia. Love Ricky! He tells it like it is!
You hit the nail on the head with this one, So true
As someone who has been physically incapable of working I can say, yes, you are lucky to be able to work. I would kill to be able to work again.
Always need a extra 40 hr overtime to pay the taxes each week
ain't that the truth, you could hire someone but would need to work the same.ot to pay the tax increase
First rule- Pizza parties don’t fix a shit job!
😂 @1:30 When he starts to explain his day. That had me rolling! I’m a local fuel trucker in Sacramento, CA, and that’s a exactly what I do. That was funny as hell. Haven’t finished the video yet.
Bless you for making these videos you are a awesome funny man.
I feel this. This hits kinda close to home. 😅😅😭
Overtime all goes to taxes.
This video is so true.
I'd love to see Ricky's view of unions and a union proposition to the company.
I genuinely cried hearing this because I have been in the same situation. This seriously makes me evaluate my career.
I remember the first time I worked seven twelves on a union job. Being young and having never had a job that paid above ten dollars an hour I was excited to crack open the envelope with my check in it. I took one look and legit thought there was an issue. By the time the union took their cut and uncles sam took his I was down a thousand dollars. Damn near made me sick to my stomach.
And just what was the “union cut”?
@@choccolocco I don't recall honestly, I've been out for a few years now.
@@choccolocco although I'm curious as to why you have union cut in quotation marks.
@@theteddy1487
Because they were your words. And the dues aren’t that much, considering what you get.
@@choccolocco you did so in an attempt to either be a smart ass or snarky. Show me where I indicated you didn't receive benefits in return? Don't worry, I'll wait while you get over being defensive and scramble for a response.
Thankful for my job installing overhead doors.. I haven't seen any mcdonald's paying as much as I got started at here yet 😊
18 bucks a hr in this area Portland Oregon
@@screwitimout4920 nice 😁 thankful to have something that pays a lil more than that
These are the videos i miss, real shit we all need a major raise
My last job exactly , glad I found your channel. I can relate to about every video.
Damn bro that one hit all the way home for me man!! I'm in the same boat 110% and when you said "working 40hrs overtime, so that's an extra 30 dollars" I felt that in my soul!!!
"Why cant I keep a crew"
-this guy probably
sent this one straight to my boss. best one yet man
I love this guy. This guys gets it.
Employers: Why cant we find good employees, lazy people just dont wanna work.
McDonald's:Ya know we had that problem too, but then we started offering more money and the problem was solved.
Walmart:Yeah, we did too, then we started offering more money and even a college scholarhsip for employees for any degree they want, and our retail stores have been great. weve been thinking about raising rates at our warehouses too since they are having trouble.
All other Employers: Nah, 12 dollars an hour is good freakin money, its just this lazy generation thats the problem.
Remember though, can't have any unions that are specifically looking out for the employees. Also can't forget that they give hours just under what is required to provide benefits.
@@leadpaintchips9461 benefits = worker's rights in other countries
e.g. 25 days vacation - even for part-timer
@@benjaminmeusburger4254 Remember, this is the land of opportunity, so in order to get the opportunity to not be homeless and starving you gotta _earn_ that.
exactly, all you need to do to get people to accept your job offer is to pay a wage that makes sense. where I'm at now can't seem to find anyone to accept the job offer, well the plant across the street starts a $1.50 more an hour. figure it out. lol
Walmart still slave drives it's employees
Wow...Ricky working til 8:33PM what a hardworker! I bet Nightshift loves him!
J going home out of the sun after 12 hours covered in dirt and sweat and then I watch this. 💯 Tuesday 🙏🏼🙏🏼
What's up guys I absolutely love you're channel and the content ❤️ keep up the awesome amazing work ur video help a lot of people get through there day 💙
Ya a damn shame that flipping burgers pays what it does now a days. Bet Pablo is still at $10hr if he's lucky ha ha ha! Don't get me wrong I'm glad that it's went up. Took me years to get to $30 great video thanks always look forward to new videos
Be a lot more money to go around if there were no CEOs. Or their pay was capped. And the Board of Directors realized infinite growth is impossible. And then we chuck the CEO and Board off the top of a skyscraper.
That one hits home HARD.
This may be the best argument for organizing I've ever seen.
Back when I worked at a security company my boss literally told me "I don't care if my workers are happy, they have jobs, that should make them happy enough."
What jobsites never understand is that this creates a revolving door/carousel of misery. Employees will work hard until they realize they're being taken advantage of, then they'll burn out, and then they'll start doing only enough work so that they don't get fired while looking for other jobs. And when they move on to better opportunities that appreciate them more and sees them as people and not just cogs in a machine, the company will move on and hire the next desperate soul that's just happy to have a job, and work them to death until they finally move on, and the cycle continues. And then the company will pay a research firm tens of thousands of dollars to figure out why their employee retention is so trash instead of putting that money where it should go: into the hands of their over-worked and underpaid employees.
Just a reminder to everyone: you don't owe a job a god damn thing. It is not a privilege to have a job. It is an equal exchange: you need work, they need workers. Don't ever shortchange yourself. Recognize your value. Take care y'all.
Absolutely this shit hits HARD for someone who has been through a two year welding school and Graduated top of the class and now a burger flipper is making close to where I'm at it's a sad country right now
Underpaid, understaffed, and overworked is it. I recently shifted to part-time so I can do college as well but those 40 hrs were destroying me. 32 hrs still make me come home with just enough energy to shower and crash on most days. It's no 12hrs a day or 60-70 hrs a week but hell if I can't relate to the 3 Os.
And it doesn't help that even if you're close to make 30k or 40k a year, taxes be taking 5k out of my paycheck.
It would be grand if we were paid more and the people with five yacht, 3 mansions, 2 jets, 7 vacation homes, and rooms dedicated to wardrobe solely could take pay cuts so people wouldn't have to decide between eating and paying the bills.
Force myself to sleep… hits so hard. Chemicals to go down, chemicals to wake up, chemicals instead of food…
Rich men north of Richmond as the anthem to next depression. We’re staring at the same problems in the 20s we had in the last 20s.
Why can’t we stop it?
this jump right up to my number skit !!! 😍lol
He nailed that 30 yard stare after his boss said just a normal tuesday. Ive felt that in my soul.
Yes, mhmm, and yes. Sounds spot on for a Wednesday or Thursday.
Seriously this hits different. For me I have been getting this nagging feeling that despite working a high-pressure job and working multiple positions on the line, I seem like I don't do enough at work. Had our coo tell me I'm doing a great job this past weekend, but it doesn't feel that way.
Nurses are right there with you, Ricky.
I felt this in my SOUL!
This video hits so hard rn. My depression just went out the roof but do damn happy I’m not alone and destroyed
That is the sound of a man who is about to bury the foreman's truck beneath 50 tonnes of dirt.
Amen 💯🥂 I can't believe Ricky is still digging the ditch
Yep, if you have been with a company for quite some time and get crappy raises like, well, a lot of them do; As well as couple that with inflation, this video pretty much sums it up!! 🤣🤣
Dude. You can't just have your comedy channel blow up spectacularly as one of the funniest people on the platform just to hit us with depressing true facts like this.
This video makes me feel like Roscoe.
This one was pretty hilarious, I sent it to my boss. LMAO
I felt this in my soul
This is great love it
"Why do we keep losing employees!? We're a great company to work for!"
I feel this hits everyone.
Ricky is my spirit animal🥰🥰🥰🥰
Hot the nail on the head on this one bud. That's a normal Monday through Friday for me.
Have employees on the verge of nervous breakdown,.......IT'S ALL GOOD!👌👍Nothing to worry about whatsoever! Yep, sounds about right!
This the exact reason I quit my old job. I've been so much happier ever since
BEST ONE TO DATE🎯🎯💯💯💯💯👍🏾👍🏾🍻🍻
So true for most blue collar hard working guys
Amen Ricky tell it brother 👊 I’m on a big water main job sounded like he was talking bout this shit hole🤣that was a good one boys
This definitely hits home
Omg!! That is fkn real as it gets!!! U need to b n Congress dude
Made my day.. still laughing!!
1:19 That pretty much hit on the head why I left the job. When all you’re doing is work, it drains your soul
Holy fucking moly that was waaaaaaaay to real 😂