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Mr Beast may cure blindness. But Mr Emkay Cured my hearing, I can actually hear the narration this time!
who?
@@EmKay ain’t no way
Amaaaaaziing EmKaaaaay, how sweeeeeeet the souuuuuund
That was a good one.
@@EmKay asked
When I started at Starbucks I was making 13 an hour, but it got raised to 15 an hour with the rest of everybody. I was talking to someone from another store about how much they make since they aren't an official partner, and my coworker overheard what I had said. I started two months ago, and she had been working there for 8 years. I was making 13 and she in her thirties was making 12. She instantly broke down and started crying about it before someone told her next month all barista where going to be making 15. I felt awful for making her have.a breakdown but in hindsight, this is why you talk about salary with your coworkers so they don't get fucked over like did. I'm not to blame.
Separately we bargain
Together we negotiate
I worked at a local grocery store for 6 years as a cashier before they promoted me to a manager position. As a cashier, I'd gained two raises, bringing me from 8/hr to 9.25/hr. The manager position promoted me to 10/hr. Little did I know that we had *baggers* that were making 11/hr. They did eventually raise me to 13/hr once I threatened to leave.
I've been at this job 7 years. I think it's high time I move on with my life.
Its actually a legally protected right to talk about your salary
So if a boss or someone tells you cannot, (unless you signed an NDA) call their bull6hit
Talk about your salary, so everyone gets paid fairly
I had a job at a gas station for ONE month. During the interview for that job, i specifically statet that i'm a college student that needs it for a part time job, with which my employer seemed to be okay with. However, once i was hired and had my first shift, i noticed how i was put on a full-time schedule that would ABSOLUTELY NOT work with college at the same time, as i was expected to show up at 6 am during weekdays. When i talked to my employer that this is not the schedule we discussed, she kept on pushing me back with "i'll handle it" and kept me working for a month. until i, without ANY explanation, got my termination through mail...
at least i got paid for my month of work but this is still such a shitty thing to do, don't lure me in with false promises and information and then fire me for not being ok with being lied to!
Not to be dramatic, but the catharsis of hearing other people complain about the job market is genuinely helping me get through my days lately lol. It's nice to be reminded that this ISN'T normal and I'm NOT crazy for being upset about it.
YES It helps!! this is why venting is amazing.
Agreed. Even though I have a job with decent pay and benefits NOW, I haven't forgotten the indignity of the job interview process, and I'm terrified of ever going through it again.
is that the asexual flag?
@@palomaelegante no, it's the nonbinary flag!
@@isitleeyourelookingfor6352 oh sorry, I always mix them up 😅
“We pay competitive salary!”
Translation: “We pay either exactly what everyone else pays or as close to federal minimum wage as possible! And we will guilt trip you when you find the pay not worth your time!”
I worked at my last job for 11 years, and during that time I periodically looked for better jobs. I never took one because the only jobs that listed the actual salaries/rates were government ones, and I wasn't going to apply for a job if I didn't even know if the pay was better than what I was making. I did apply for a couple government jobs, but it turned out they weren't actually openings. They were just required to make a listing even if they were planning to promote from within. They then list the job that was emptied by the promotion, and the process continues until there's a job with no one to be promoted into it, _then_ they hire someone. It's ridiculous.
They're not lying though, you just wrongfully assume they're competing for the *highest* salary! 🙃
@@LRM12o8 We call that deception, it's lying with extra steps.
Just had a company-wide compensation meeting and when asked why annual raises didn't follow inflation we were given "we just follow everyone else" which is not an excuse to practically pay less each year because of inflation
@@tticusFinch But if they followed inflation, their profits wouldn't seem to increase as much and the investors with more money than they can spend wouldn't get as much more money that they can't spend!
Omg, I need to set the record straight here. That image of the play space with the baby next to a woman working on a computer: That is from a LIBRARY. This image was featured in an article about that public library offering newly designed spaces that made it easier for adults visiting with small children to use their public access computers. This is not a office space.
That’s a relief and also an actually really good use case for something like that. Like, you wouldn’t be able to sit there for a whole work day but like, half an hour wouldn’t be bad.
Still there was this bunghole on linkedin who thought this was a perfect solution for the workplace.
I was gonna point out the same thing, because my husband showed me that picture a few months ago and talked about how the library he works at is setting up the same situation. I think it's great for the library but definitely not for an office.
Phew.
That's actually a pretty good idea...as long as those kids keep their yaps shut. It's still a library.
love how unpaid internships were such a thing in high school, it's almost like we were being pimped out for free labor under the guise of "learning the working world"
In high school? They were "the thing" when I was graduating _college._ As in, they expected you to graduate and then work for 1-2 years for free while somehow living and paying off your student loans. And people I knew did it, working two full-time jobs, one unpaid, because they were assured it was the only way to work in their field.
@@Bacteriophagebs hell, unpaid labour was literally part of my education. I had to work in a student-run restaurant as part of my degree (I wasn't even doing hospitality, so I don't know why I had a class about being a waiter) where I had to work a 12-hour shift with no breaks or lunches with five people in a class that's supposed to have a minimum of 12.
It is absolutely ridiculous the type of shit they try to get away with in college.
at my high school we had it as "work experience" and had to pay $40 and organise the entire thing for ourselves (the $40 went to the school)
@@pennyforyourthots That's actually illegal in the US. If they forced you to not have a lunch break at all and the shift was more than 8 hours they can face hefty fines.
In our high school we call it 40 hours of community volunteer.
One time, I interviewed for a retail job at a grocery store; seemed to go well. I was promised a reply regardless of if I got the job or not. I emphasized how important even a simple "sorry, nope" email would be.
Nothing.
I really hate that companies do that. Even colleges (another ridiculous scam thing) have the decency to send rejection letters.
The last place I worked, for over 11 years, forgot I'd been interviewed.
I applied, took their test, got interviewed, and never heard back. So I called. They had no record I'd done any of it except the application. So I did it all again. Naturally, I aced everything and easily got the job. Turned out they had a ridiculous amount of turnover in HR, which continued for the entire time I worked there. I have no idea why. The same thing happened a few years later when I applied for a sort of internal transfer/promotion. I did the whole process and there was no record I'd done it, so did it again (this time on company time) and easily aced it since I'd already done it once.
It was actually a fine place to work for the first 8 years, then everything went gradually to hell until they closed my branch and I got a nice severance package right before the pandemic, which was super lucky.
@@RandomPasser or they call you 4 months later with an insulting low offer...
I’ve been having that problem lately. Both an online writing job and a grocery store job never got back to me. The former literally said they’d respond in 1-3 business days!
I applied for a position at Disneyland once as a rock painter (I don't remember the actual title). I got the rejection email several YEARS later.
go to a trade school, its the same as college
but with this little different thing called no student debt
I hate the whole "you need to come early or you're late" thing. You have to earn that. I come to work early because I love my job and I want to hang out with my boss and coworkers before work. They treat me right and I appreciate that. Some rando entitled boss will never get that from me.
No, you don't have to earn that. You have to set parameters. If you want me at work at 7:45 and tell me to be in at 8, it's _your_ fault if I come in at 7:59 because _you_ set the wrong goals. If you can't define so simple a goal as what time I should be there, you can't be trusted to set goals for the work I do, either.
If you want to come in early because you like your job, that's fine, but "if you're not early, you're late" is _never_ acceptable.
@@Bacteriophagebs I think this person wasn't saying employers earn you being expected to come in early, they earn you wanting to come in early on your own with no expectations of being early. A good job makes the employee want to work, a bad one makes the employee come to work. So if you've done well as an employer, you might have some employees coming in early, but you don't expect them to, you don't make that their new start time, and you definitely don't count them late for being less early than they sometimes are.
I'd never accept such an expectation.
If they want me to come early, they need to tell me to arrive at an earlier time, simple as that.
I don't play these stupid games , I arrive at exactly the agreed upon time to the best of my ability.
"I said _this_ but I akshually meant _that",_ grow the fuck up! Whether it's work or a personal relationship, I'm not gonna read into anyone's words and rack my brain about what they actually meant, I'm just gonna take them by the word. If they can't communicate what they want, that's on them!
@@CaTastrophy427 this is exactly what I meant lol, thanks. You put it much better :)
@@cr0nchcronch669 I, for one, wasn't confused by your intent. On the same note, your arguments are both valid af.
I've been trying to get my first job recently and it is truly infuriating applying to every position you can find and finding out that they all say that "no experience is required", but in reality, they want 15 years' experience for this minimum wage job. It really should be illegal for companies to pull that shit.
Especially when they sometimes require impossible years of experience, in something that haven't existed for said amount of years.
@@insaincaldo Oh come on, what sort of job wants more years of experience than its existence?
@@MrGamelover23 I saw a post on...I think it was FastAPI? It had been only 1.5 years since it was created, but the creator of it was denied a job because he didn't have 5 years' experience. So yeah, it does happen!
@@jimwormmaster Sounds allot like one I've seen.
Tell me about it 9_9 If it weren't for the fact I literally can't hold down a job, this would be why I don't look for work. It's _impossible._
I applied for a job at a bank, only to be told I did not make enough money to work there. I looked at the manager and said, "Thanks for saving me the trouble of working for another a--hole."
The look on his face... *Priceless!*
To be entirely fair... Can you explain the gap on your staff is a VERY valid question in an interview and a great way to dodge a toxic workplace.
Right? Interviews are a two way street, and it's the applicants opportunity to find out if he even likes the work environment.
If I call in for an interview, I always time it around our breaks so that I can tour them through the lab to see what we do, and then meet everyone before we even go do an interview. Hard to do business when you're hiding everything..
The gap in your staff?!?? This is confrontational. I have a gap in my resume. 12 years. I quit my job of 26 years due to a toxic work environment that involved being trapped in my office and badgered that I was lying. After about 15 minutes I found the Wikipedia page that proved I wasn’t lying... and that our Microsoft exchange expert didn’t know everything. Our current version still had X.25 protocol for email addresses enabled. (It was the last version to support this)
It’s taken me a very long time to get over that prolonged bullying. I think I’d want to hang out and meet the staff at coffee time to scan for red flags.
@@redelfshotthefood8213 I wouldn't word it so crudely but it is a valid question.
I'm a business student, the state of things is sad. The "grindset" and such are so toxic and exhausting. In a lesson about diversity and the gender pay gap I expressed that everyone should talk about their salary to help bring things to light. The girl beside me was MORTIFIED at this idea, said it's not okay and that no one would ever do that, the rest of the class AGREED. I'm terrified for our future
EDIT: A lesson in a class, not an entire credit on gender pay gap. I should have clarified but really guys?? That's not the point of the story
Dear God.
Maybe we're just from different places but ive never heard of people being scared to share their wage/salary
@@darkclownKellen As far as I'm aware it's mostly an American/western thing. I'm Canadian and I've heard similar stories from people in the US, there's this idea that it's illegal apparently too
Business schools usually have morally bankrupt students unfortunately. I remember seeing a cover of a magazine back in the 2000s that stated the majority of business students who took a survey don’t care about their morality.
It’s been bad for a loooong while now.
@@sparrowstale its not illigal to share wages
I had a "personality test" done by a potential employer a couple of years back that wasn't conducted in my native language during an interview. I speak my second (and third) language fluently enough to be able to work speaking it, but they presented a combination of words in a word association test with a five second limit that I had never heard in my entire life. I severely stalled and froze up, trying to understand what they meant and asked about it. The interview was cut short seconds after that. I am still so pissed that they didn't even give me a synonym in that language. It was also one of like 30 questions in the association test, and everything had gone smoothly so far. How is it possible to fail someone on one word in the last stage of a five step interview?
When I was like 14 or 15 applying for my first job (fast food) I was asked if I was an introvert or an extrovert and I didn't know what the words meant. They wouldn't tell me what they meant and still wanted me to respond despite not knowing what I was saying. I'm assuming it was just in their script of questions to ask and they probably didn't know what it meant to explain it (I'm assuming they just wrote down my responses but I don't remember those details since it was a very long time ago). I did end up getting hired though, so apparently they didn't care too much.
It's terrible that that happened to you, but think about it this way. The only thing more terrible would be getting hired and working at a place that conducts itself like that.
Yeah this is supposed to be illegal, it's giving hella eugenics vibes.
*Kentucky, 1920:*
Poll guard: "How many marbles are in this pot?"
Black guy: "uhhh, 182?"
Poll guard: "Clearly you're mentally retarded. Go away."
Poll guard: "How many marbles are in this pot?"
Suit and hat white guy: "Uhh, 182?"
Poll guard: "CORRECT! You're a perceptive young man. Vote red or we rape your sister."
Poll guard: "Hey Cletus, come on in!"
Cletus the Klansman: "Keep at it, Ed!"
Poll guard: "Sure will!"
Yeah that's absolute bullshit behavior, wtf.
I work as a hotel housekeeper and the guy cooking chicken in his coffee pot fills me with INCANDESCENT RAGE.
I bet he didn't leave a maid tip either.
I'd assume you would just toss it and the hotel would replace it. Not your problem.
I am the night manager who saw this and added a surcharge to the room for 70.00 to replace the coffee maker. You do not have to clean that dear, if you would just take a few photos for proof and then toss in the trash bin. I will go out before lunch and grab a replacement.
yep, Im sure he probably didnt clean that out. Also I wouldnt trust cooking something like chicken that should really be fully cooked in something like a coffee pot. Gross.
I feel like hotel housekeepers are SORELY underappreciated. I feel like people treat hotel rooms like as though they are "self-cleaning" as opposed to actual people cleaning up your shit and piss.
Oh there’s a reason why they want you have that degree.
It’s so they can shift the blame to you easier when things go wrong. “He has his degree and a strong background! This isn’t due to our hiring process.”
Basically, if they do this, run. If you can’t, then document everything and watch your back.
Document everything regardless.
an additional reason is that people with degrees usually have student debt to pay, and thus can't afford to simply refuse to work. If you have debt, then you need the job more than they need you, and they can screw you over while you thank them for the privilege. I've been rejected from jobs for not sounding desperate enough to work there. They do not want you to have financial independence from them.
The other reason employers want you to go to college is so that you're drowning in debt and desperate enough to be exploited.
You understand what is going on.
A degree proves you went through a series of exams, assignments and projects and that you completed enough at a satisfactory level. Any degree is not worthless. Even an arts degree proves you can write essays under time pressure.
Reminds me of the time I got rejected for a job for being too cheerful and nice on my interview. I had the skills, I had the experience, but I was too (for lack of a better word) personable.
Which, as an introvert, is bizarre to hear
I once got fired for being too nice. I felt good on my way home.
Finally, I don't ever want to watch another emkay voice without narration... Stuff creeps me out...
It made me feel so uncomfortable just watching that.
I keep seeing people say stuff like this, whats the context behind this?
@@anxiousinsomniac9648 earlier today, they mistakenly uploaded this video without the narration.
@@anxiousinsomniac9648 they posted this video with no commentary like 12 hours ago
@@Drzuk07 oh my God, I downloaded it earlier and was wondering if I was losing it or not just now 😭😭
The actual difference between a shovel and a snowblower is how effective they are depending on situations, the area and amount of snow
Both still need manual forces
Yeah true. Maintaining the engine and manoeuvering the machine around tight features takes labor too. You wouldn't invest in a blower for a yard small enough that it could be done with the opposite of laziness alone.
It’s also pure necessity, if you live in the northern US you’ll hurt your back trying to keep up with the snowfall. Depending on whether or not you have a driveway and the grade/length it can also save you significant time that would otherwise be taken out of your day.
And a lot of the time it's better to have both after a heavy snowfall. Use the snowblower to remove the top layer and then use the shovel to be able to scrap the ground.
You wouldn’t use a snowblower for the porch.
You also wouldn’t shovel the entire driveway to your house. It’s a matter of tools.
Ones with tracks get way more grip,but can't turn as tight
I swear those “to be a millionaire wake up at 4am and take a cold shower” posts give off the same energy as “microwave your phone to charge it faster” or “a drop of hot sauce in the eye turns it a cool red color” posts. Just malicious lies meant to cause pain.
Remember : comments on the interests are as cruel as the no filter high school life. Expect snark.
Okay, I love how Tommy just trolled the other person and not immediately tell them he was his own boss. Got me laughing a little.
The other person was too stupid to realize they were being set up for the punchline. Talk about misjudging somebody.
@@MrSaemichlaus Well, that's true.
Should've played it a bit longer to see just what the hell the other person was complaining about.
Yeah. My job does the whole “15 minutes early is when we want you to show up” thing. I can’t drive yet. I can show up about 10 minutes early at most. USUALLY not an issue. One day I showed up at 7 : 20. My supervisor was like “They aren’t going to like that you got here this late” and I’m like “Okay…? But I’m still early though.” Similar situation happened again later on where I was late one day due to ride complications and almost late another day for the same reason. He told me to “Start getting here sooner” and I straight up looked him in the eye and said “I wake up almost 2 hours early for this job to get ready for it. I live more than an hour’s walk away. Uber herd is 15-20 bucks one way. I do my best to get here as early as I can. I’m usually ready to leave the house 40 minutes before I need to be here since it’s a 20 minute drive from my house. When my ride is able to bring me is outside of my control.”
"...workplace. Finally a desk for working parents !!"
I can see what they're going for? But that would be a terrible goddamn work enviorment for everybody that does not have a small child who is going to be screaming and yelling and needing more than just sitting in a playpen all day type of attention.
I'd call that basic dishonesty. If they don't expect you to show up when they told you to show up, they were lying to you, and they should be called out for it.
In the US. If they're requiring you to be early they have to pay for that time, even if they don't let you clock in until you're supposed to be on shift. It's wage theft. You could report them.
I'd be looking for another job.
Employers have to set parameters. If you want me at work at 7:45 and tell me to be in at 8, it's your fault if I come in at 7:59 because you set the wrong goals. If you can't define so simple a goal as what time I should be there, you can't be trusted to set goals for the work I do, either. That's the kind of person who gives an employee design parameters, then blames the employee when the design they make that perfectly fits those parameters doesn't do the job they want.
"If you're not early, you're late" is never acceptable. Either they're trying to get you to work unpaid, or they're utterly incompetent.
Yeah, companies should not be doing that, infact they should be taxed if they do this.
I'm also banned from working at Target.
The reason being that I refused to show up for work two weeks AFTER my two week notice. I provided a notice because I was moving to another state, and was already living in that state when called saying I was supposed to be at the store by my then former manager. The HR person at the store never bothered to help transferring me to one store in the state I was moving to, despite saying she could do that.
Since the move was happening regardless and the HR person was of no help, I decided to apply to one of the stores near my new apartment. I was informed that they were no longer able to hire me because I refused to show up for work, and that meant I was ineligible for rehire. I had never missed a day at work, and even covered shifts lasts minute while working there. The only time I ever said I wasn't coming in was this incident after my two week notice had come and gone.
I would have had to drives either 82 miles and cross state lines pay multiple tolls or drives 92 miles including through Chicago to avoid the tolls to get to that job.
The amount of money it would have cost me to get to work would have been less than I would have made.
Your first mistake was trusting HR
Remember, *HR IS NOT YOUR FUCKING FRIEND.* They work for the job you work at, not you.
Honestly sounds like a blessing in disguise. If they acted this way now, they probably would’ve done the same a year or two later. Hope your new employer treats you better
@@BigMac87963 It was literally over a decade ago at this point, working a much better job at this point.
"Beginners position - Requires 5+ years of experience - We don't count internships"
"those were paid jobs"
"We don't count those either actually"
About that job thing "Come in a little early"...
About 15 years ago I got a warning at my job for coming in too early! I worked the afternoon shift and apperently my early arrival "stressed" the morning shift... FYI, I came in about 20 mins before my shift started, and that got me a warning...like WTH...
Well yeah, there's a lot of "leave that for the next shift" during the last 15 minutes of a shift. If you're there they can't say that because they're supposed to do it and you're a witness to their slacking.
@@elaexplorer That, and employers don't want to pay you for extra clock time. That's an extra hour per three shifts, which means an extra four per two week schedule.
Yeah this definitely depends on the industry. I worked at a grocery store, and anymore than 5 minutes early clock in and you were notified. Three times and you'd be written up. Same with clocking out, do not clock out more than five minutes late unless approved, although you could clock out early if approved. Then I worked at an aviation plant, and it was the opposite. Everyday I'd sit there for even an hour not working just to make the full 8.
The issue is if you arrive early and do anything work related, even looking at work emails, that is work being performed and they have to pay you for it. If your not clocked in then they don't have a record of that and now they are breaking the law.
Not sure how many, if any, it helps but when they ask you to explain a gap in your resume you can always just tell them you left the job you 'worked' during that time out of your resume because it wasn't related to the position you were applying for.
"I was cryogenically frozen. Originally it was for a thousand years, but they thawed me out when the monthly payments stopped"
my favourite is "i'm still under an NDA for that time"
"I was taking care of my sick parent who died of cancer."
Which can be a lie if you like. If they try to catch you in a lie there, they won't let you take care of your sick _child_ if _they_ ever die of cancer.
Try saying it was an intimate religious obligation. Now it’s discrimination if they don’t hire you. Lol
Or a simple "that is private information I do not wish to disclose." Having to explain your private life is bullshit anyway.
"can you explain the gap in your staff?" That's actually a traditionally acceptable question to ask, just worded wrongly.
I was wondering what a better version would be...
@@redelfshotthefood8213probably something like "what difficulties have you had among your other applicants?"
@@redelfshotthefood8213”Why is this position vacant? Is it a new position in the company, or did the previous employee get promoted?” If the interviewer looks uncomfortable, it suggests the previous employee left because he was unhappy.
Sometimes I wanna go to USA and open a restaurant called "The European Experience". Besides European food, the workers will be paid like we do here, and customers won't be rushed through in order to get someone new to a table to get some tips to be able to pay bills.
Robin! You got your voice back! I was worried for a moment.
We decided to let him talk...
This is why he wasn’t in the r/foundsatan video
@@EmKay holup
@@EmKay give robin a subreddit without him being angry
@@EmKayWhat did he do to make you guys revoke his speaking privileges previously?
13:30 I worked in an IT department at a university somewhere in the world. I was hired because the manager had a catastrophic crash on his Harley, so the 2IC stepped up, then the third IT guy took 2IC, and I got a contract for the sys admin/support job. FIVE years later, they interviewed for a new manager/head of department. In that time we'd improved the systems, expanded the storage space, sped up the network, and had a user support reputation that the rest of the campus was jealous of. Yeah, we had stuff working. 12 months after the new IT manager started, the place had gone so far downhill that the department was flagged to be absorbed into the main IT unit of the uni.
BOFH, is that you?
Sounds like you should see how much more you can get in the job market. The way to climb in wages is to find hungry employers.
I'd watch that reality show about the boomers applying for jobs.
Boomers and politicians.
It would be SO satisfying to see people who haven't tried applying for a job since $20 could get you a week of groceries and full tank of gas struggle to not only get a job but work it and try to live off it.
Mid-40's here. Donno if that counts.
Never had much of an issue getting jobs. Only needed a resume once, and that was after getting hired.
HR wasn't impressed, it ended up being a sticky-note with contact info only.
Never had a challenge shooting up the ranks, getting promotions and raises fairly regularly.
Then again, I set my sights on a company (not a job), do my research, then go get any job there, and let my work ethic, sense of accountability, and diversity of strong talents speak for me.
All in all, a boring process. Much more entertaining watching these younger employees figure out on their own what everyone has been telling them for the past 15-20 years.
I'd donate to *fund* the production of such a show, and recommend it to my friends _and_ older relatives.
@@innocentbystander3317when was the last time u applied to a job. Also what field .
@@jborrego2406
3 years ago, Geochemistry.
Before that, Fraud-Investigation for Mastercard. Before that, journeyman pressman. Before that, agriculture.
You were trying to make a point?
18:43 Actually, "competitive salary" usually means "You will literally be competing against your coworkers to earn a livable salary."
Who else agrees that Robin is a hilarious emkay narrator?
The only one thats tolerable now of days
Exact other way around for me
i dont
I do, I also think he could fix the USA if he knew what was doing.
@darkclownKellen you're not hating on Lexi and Jack are you?
The -bribe- “Thank You” card reminded me of a wholesome story:
When my high school English teacher (one of the best teachers I ever had) applied for her job, she was less qualified than the other candidate. It was in the 70s, a different era, and she got the job because she sent a simple, genuine thank you note. They 💯 made the right choice!
Her thank you note was a _real_ thank you expressing her appreciation at even being considered. (No 5$ bill attached or needed lol.)
I went to a private Catholic school, and she was just the *sweetest* woman. One of the classes I was in was especially... rambunctious. We’d know she was reaching her limit when she’d close her eyes and say “oh, you blessed children of God” like she was convincing herself not to strangle us lol. I love that woman. She was like a mother to me and treated me gently, no matter how wild I became at that point in my life.
A simple, genuine, hand-written “thank you for the opportunity” was all that school needed to know she was the right one.😊
I always like explaining the gap in my resume. Shuts them right up when I tell them it was 6 months on disability because of a workplace accident.
A good follow up is too ask about their workplace safety record and when was the last time someone was seriously injured and why.
21:00 I like how the story that started and ended with "she said something kinda mean to me once, over the course of the post, turns into "she wouldn't stop insulting me" and then "she would definitely do the same to her co-workers at my business" and then "she was constantly insulting those co-workers even though she was never hired".
17:49 You're absolutely right, Emkay. They can NOT tell you no.
They also CAN tell you "you no longer have a job here. And it's totally not because you unionized. You're just not a good fit for our corporate culture." It means the same thing, but you can't sue.
That’s so goddamn stupid. I wish every US state made companies give actual truthful reasons for firing someone and for action to be taken against them for essentially lying by omission
@@overdrivedrinker8284 ...and that's when every business that's sufficiently large flees to Mexico. Or China. Or any OTHER country with an offer of "cheerful slave labor."
Robin is soaking up everyones pain for us to enjoy, truly one of the best ways for entertainment hehe
I can see it in the guy's eyes, for the one who took a picture of his wife on a business call during their valentines dinner. He looks tired and disappointed that another occasion has been interrupted by work because his wife can't set up proper boundaries.
Edit: Around 24:07, bro is complaining about lazy effort whatever, and yet he is shopping at Costco, a place where you can buy bulk goods.
100% bet they won't have been a couple for much after after this.
She's either oblivious to the brink of delusion, or willfully ignoring her partner's obvious disappointment!
I thought he was also mildly amused, on top of the tired/disappointed though. "Yup, this is really happening. Again." The disappointment being more on the workplace than the wife
I love how employers will be like "um actually you must be here thirty years before your shift actually starts" and yet hire neurodivergent people a lot less bc like. someone with autism will be stressing about everything to do with time, and will leave an hour early because they just can't sit around doing nothing
In fairness I think the Just Eat thing was more about coordinating everyone’s lunch hour to the same time which is actually a pretty good idea if everyone is remote.
How is it a good idea to shut down your business for an hour instead of staggering lunches so you stay open? Especially if everyone is remote and can't socialize for that hour?
@@Bacteriophagebs from what I understand, shutting down for lunch hour is actually pretty common in a lot of places around the world. Although that being said, basically everywhere has better labor laws that the us, so that might be why.
When it comes to cyber work though, it's completely unnecessary.
@@pennyforyourthots Lots of places in the U.S. shut down for lunch, but they're small places where you don't have enough staff to cover lunch breaks. Just Eat is like DoorDash or Uber Eats, it's a food delivery company and most of its "employees" are contractors who work their own hours taking jobs that come up while they're logged in. Shutting down for an hour means those people can't take jobs during that time even if they want to.
The rest of their employees are actual employees and entitled to a lunch break.
It's a good idea because it prevents important meetings from interfering with the employees lunch time, obviously.
I think the "Just Eat" should have been a given. It's called a lunch break. If the work day is that long, employers are legally obligated to give employees that time for their meal (and related or other tasks they can fit in during that time)
13:55 "You wet wipe" is somehow infinitely more insulting than something like "dipsht"
Tbh that baby playpen desk thing could be cool for a home office or something. Could even use it to have a pet nearby while you work instead of a baby.
I already have a place where I put my pet while I work from home - my lap. Also, my desk, my laptop, my notebook and my keyboard. Though not all at the same time 🙂
My pet would jump out of it because she’s a cat.
Can confirm. My Bassett hound insists on being in my lap, the golden does too but he figured out the size issue, now he happily orbits my immediate position instead
Being able to take an unpaid internship at 24 is a privilege, not a flex. It's not exactly the kinda thing you can do if you have rent due, no other source of income and no one to support you.
And here I am at 25 working full-time as a teacher and part-time as a tutor on top of that.
27:07 I’m in college rn, and every company recruiter talks about how they want somebody with “a well rounded personality” who has a life “outside of work”.
They only want people who worked at a food bank, or community service. They never have any other examples of somebody with a life outside of work, nor do they seem to understand that when work takes up most of your day, you don’t have the time to do anything else.
It’s solely because it makes their company look good. They don’t care about personality or individuality. They care about appearances.
12:40 I spent two or three years as a housekeeper, and let me tell you, we hate people who try to cook in their hotel rooms. It always means a longer cleanup time while our bosses breathe down our necks about our efficiency. I still remember the day I brought out a coffee pot that someone had made oatmeal in and allowed to dry, shoved it in my boss's face, and told him this alone was going to take his precious half hour.
Don't get me started on the Bermuda shorts day story
My blood boils. Had to quit at 21:34. That is all, thank you for coming to my TED Talk.
When it came to the children playpen thing, if they appointed that baby to a managerial position, he would likely be more intelligent, effective, and quieter than most managers while also being able to be paid in play money.
That photo is from a library. It’s a public use computer for child caregivers. It’s not a work cubicle.
Glad that Robin got his voice back after reading so many excruciating subreddits.
For the one where they hired another person last minute and didn't tell the person they had originally offered the job to... I almost wonder if you could take them to small claims court to get recompense for opportunities lost. How many days or weeks did you spend not searching for a job and turning down offers because you thought you had a job already lined up... The company should absolutely have to pay up for that.
"Can you explain this gap in your resume?"
"Can you explain how it's relevant without using 'we're just curious' or 'we need to make sure our employees are dedicated?'"
"..."
"I have no obligation to explain myself when not acting as an employee. You have no obligation to know details of my life that have no relation to my work."
"I see...."
I got the job, and it was my soon-to-be supervisor who interviewed me. Overall still going well.
I always knew that my backup plan would be waitressing & bartending. Not a super exciting dream but I always thought I would be good at it. I busted my knee in mechanics and could no longer pursue mechanic job roles. 2 years ago I kept getting turned down, I went for a trial shift at a pub in my hometown and got turned down. Had a trial shift for another place the next day and got hired because they were in severe need and I did well on my trial shift despite having no work experience or knowledge of the bar Industry. 2 years later and I'm called in for the busy shifts that need reliable staff who know what they're doing. I'm one of the 2 only non-managerial and non-kitchen full time staff. I'm left in charge of the resturaunt on most shifts and even the part timers treat me like a manager. I'm also en route to being a manager when the previous one joins the navy. I also got hired at a second job with a raise, without a trial shift, but quit because it was a horribly run resturaunt (a story for another day) And I didn't even have experience before my first job. Proof that taking a chance can work out great. Too many employers rely on experience.
Oh thank goodness I was starting to get twitchy without my daily dose of Robin. The earlier version without him was such a tease.
i tried to apply to walmart... and their personality assessment, involved basically being a good or terrible person... and well, i answered honestly, as well, a good person, basically, being nice and kind... and got denied.... and i asked a few online friends, apparently walmart wants you to be a terrible P.O.S. as a worker but still BE A FAMILY
I usually just answer that kind of thing how I think they want me to answer them.
but why…? if you’re a good person, there’s a good chance that: customer quality improves, you won’t steal nothing, overall a pleasing person, won’t affect employees negatively….
what? do they want workers to be terrible so that they won’t report walmart for terrible management?
What they're looking for is that they are testing to see if you have boundaries. They won't hire anyone that will put their foot down and refuse to work for free if their manager harasses them into it. I took a similar assessment for Big Lots and it was hilariously weakly written, like "think of a time you went above and beyond for work :)"
Yeah, sure pal. All the time. When I'm paid for it.
it's because Walmart's about to go bankrupt, lol
19:24 to this woman: Do you NOT see the "slowly dying" look in his eyes? I'd be surprised if you have another opportunity to get another Valentine's Day photo op of you working on that phone next year.
18:50 Hey, why don't you guys pay Jack? He's nice!
I once worked a place that went through 5 "team leaders" in 2 years and for several months we didn't have a manager in that position at all, I stepped up a lot to help since my coworkers were also new, due to the excessive turnover. I warned them about the position, and together, we made a pact to not accept the position if it was ever offered to us. I regret nothing.
I've been to job interviews that never turned out to anything. Like they literally took time out of my day to sit down and talk with me with FULL INTENTION not to hire me. Fuck this world
I've started to do the same to them. I make fraudulent resumes so I can get practice doing interviews.
Go into interviews as experience. And. Read a book about interviews. They are your best chance on improving your $$$ bottom line.
"Can you explain this gap in your resume?"
"No, I'm sorry. I signed an NDA"
This is actually genius lol
You can make it an honest claim by printing off a sheet that says NDA and signing it.
@@Vys____ that won't make it honest, but it doesn't matter. Legally an employer can't ask any questions about an nda
The real reason Robin is banned from working at Target because he shouted the CEO to death with power akin to the greybeards. This is canon, I will hear nothing else
I've seen this online and you should learn it too. Any gaps in your resume can be filled with management positions at a dead retailer. Circuit City? Toys R' Us? Twitter now (apparently)? The employer can't call the HR department of a company that has no HR department.
When i was studying to be an electrician we had to install new plugs and lan port in several classrooms. I also got to participate in an international inventing competition, and while we didn't win, our team got sponsorships for the school. I got a prize for special contributions to the school, as well as being the best in my class when i graduated.
After getting my degree i applied for a maintenance job at that school and wasn't hired. The school that _gave_ me my qualifications wasn't happy with my qualifications. And that's when i realized the whole employing process makes no sense.
It used to be so much easier and simpler. You could walk in off the street, shake hands, fill out a 1-2 page application, talk for like 10 minutes and be hired or not… I miss those days.
@@MalefaxTheBlack
Hasn't been like that since the 2000s I think. Even I 2014 that stuff didn't exist anymore, aside from mom and pop places. And they usually retained employees.
@@clayxros576 Exactly... I remember walking into this place that was hiring for caretakers for an application about half a decade ago. They handed me a literal novel sized pack of papers that they wanted me to fill out and they had a bunch of medical, drug, and background checks that I'd have to do (all at my own expense) just to be considered for the job. I laughed my way out the door.
It's become truly ridiculous the hoops they want you to go through just to try and get a job, and if you end up getting it, they're likely to treat you like dirt anyway. I wish I'd been born in my father's time where you could make a career out of one place and be treated like a human being with a wage you could make a living off of.
It’s not just your grades. You’re competing against all the other applicants. Someone brilliant might have shone better than you did.
My summer job : computer programming. 2 university candidates got hired. We both had taken 1 hardware course. The exam was the week before our interview. I got an A. The other guy got an A+. If there’d only been one position, he’d’ve got it.
He went on to design the mouse driver for Microsoft. And retired (temporarily) at 30. With lots of MS stock. At the time, his eyes were bloodshot. All the time. Because he couldn’t switch his brain off. He got 4 hours a night sleep. Afternoons he’d go golfing. (During university ) He read 1 fantasy/science fiction book a day. During university. And still got A+. Because he couldn’t be idle.
Whoever got hired could’ve been a Brad.
21:17 this is an obvious false flag. They are acting like they are looking out for their new hires when in reality they are trying to see the minimum amount they can possibly pay their employees and get away with it.
Here's one for you to show some bosses don't understand personal lines. I worked at a construction company, so the dress code was casual. I dressed up one day just because I felt like it. Boss kept asking if I had a date and wouldn't let it go. Then THEN called me that date to CHECK IF I WAS ON A DATE. He didn't care about my safety or even liked me in a romantic way. He just couldn't mind his own business.
That sounds like he wanted a date. Glad your away from them.
A lot of retail jobs will permanently ban you from being hired by them again if you just don't complete your last 2 weeks after you quit. That's me and my last workplace- I quit with no notice because I'd become disabled and literally couldn't handle it anymore. So if I ever miraculously get well enough to work, I can never work there again.
I literally always say "I had some family issues" when I'm asked about gaps in my resume because 1. they legally can't ask and most are aware it's just too personal to ask and 2. having a dysfunctional family means I'm always having family problems so it's never a lie, it just isn't related to why I was unemployed lol
5:19- some con-goers not just at furry cons but others as well, will do half days where they work for some of it at artist alley and other places, and do con stuff for the other part. This is super common, so that the artists and merchants can also enjoy the con! Usually this is done by tagging in and out with a buddy or other seller, but you do what you gotta do lol. So it's more the inverse of what you were thinking- they're there to work, but made time for some fun!
Walmart is unbelievable with that 10% discount for an employee of 35 years. When I worked as a DISHWASHER in a local diner, I got a 50% discount on food IMMEDIATELY
Markup at restaurants is very high. Walmart has a business model that daily items are lowest markup. Anything other than daily has a high markup. They use the cheaper daily stuff to pull in customers who don’t price check bicycles for instance.
I once applied for a job at a retail store. They wanted me to run all over the damn place and even work on collecting carts... Without assistance to push the carts... In a busy lot. I straight up told them I am not interested in this position for minimum wage.
Btw, they can't seem to find ANYONE to work this position. Gee I wonder why?
We wanted a computer programmer at my workplace. When I found out, I requested to be in on the second interview. To be clear. 2 applicants i. Total. 2. 2 interviews total. Both had near 0 education. The one we hired hadn’t completed her course. I would drop by to find out how her programming was coming along, and I’d solve the issue that stumped her in a few minutes.
She went on to be our in-house HR person. Another technical college course.
5:10 WHO GOES TO A FURCON TO IMMEDIATELY IGNORE THE POINT OF IT AND START WORKING LMAO??? NAH BRO CHILLLLLLL
I never understood the whole "not Talk about salary" thing. Truckers are some of the most honest people I've ever worked with in terms of salary questions. "yeah I made $405/day" meanwhile I'm doing the same job with a different company for $222 and that's 5 years after their company shut down...
So for the companies running just fine without a manager, I 100 percent agree. I work at a Walmart and while we have team leads and coaches, we haven't had a store manager in like half a year to a year. We started panicking when there was a rumor that the old store manager was coming back. Apparently he was told by corporate to either quit or leave the store or he'd get fired. We've been running way better than we were with him and the current temporary store manager is already about to get into legal trouble if not fixed by corporate. Also one of my friends has been working here for over 10 years and they are making the exact same as the new employees. It's so bad.
Any job will pay you the minimum they can. After 2 years experience, touch up your resume. And look elsewhere. The new company needs the experience you provide. Don’t jump at the first offer. Make them compete for you. They will value you more. (Take the first offer of its significantly better than your current one, of course.)
My best friend has a Ph.D from a top school and years of high-level experience in his field (biochemistry). He's constantly being headhunted. One of the offers was good enough that he decided to look into it and start interviewing. After NINE phone interviews, they still hadn't offered him the job, so he just stopped replying to their calls and emails because, yes, they were still trying to recruit him.
Of course, he works with a significant number of the other people they might want to hire, who all now know not to bother.
If you can't tell if you want to hire someone after 2 interviews, you need to fire your interviewers.
Man I love the construction industry. There is basically no interview. ( as long as you have experience.) It's a hey can you work sober and drive, great when can you start. And then they watch you or have someone do it. It's really easy to tell someone's work ethic after a few weeks.
25:04 to be fair, some companies are _legally required_ to post the job even if they already know who they want to hire. The law is intended to ensure fair hiring practices, but the _actual_ end result is that it just wastes a bunch of people's time.
I'm currently in job search hell. These posts make me feel better.
For context - this video was accidentally uploaded without Robin's commentary for a good few hours
And it was funny
0:11 This is the same energy when a dad finally gets a son.
Reminds me of one interviewing process I had: The company actually put a lot of effort into it. I had an interview, then a take-home skill test (which I actually enjoyed) and then the owner and his wife took me to a nice breakfast on them. The only problem was: When it was time to negotiate the contract they asked whether I could wait three another three months before I started, because the summer holidays were about to begin and they didn't want to get a new and expensive employee during a time of low profit. In my application letter I stated very clearly when I had to start my new contract, because my old one was expiring. So I had to decline. Found a better job shortly after, but I am still baffled about then time and effort that company put into getting to know me, only to expect me to be unemployed for a few months.
My first “real” job after university... They made my start date 2-Jan. To avoid paying me a statutory holiday. Turns out it also meant for all my benefits my effective start date was 1-Feb. not happy when I found that out years later.
At the time I was glad to have landed the job. By the way, they wanted 2,years experience on their VAX VMS mini computer. I had 2 summers on lessor computers from the same manufacturer.
I was told by the outgoing system manager (who wore jeans with holes in them and had a Masters degree in Math) that I would never have a raise. And the job was dead end, He left to work in Japan. Presumably for a lot more money.
Why do so few companies let you know when you are rejected? Surely it can't be that hard to setup an automated response that will send an email to the same one they applied to the job with when they are rejected.
Why don’t they give you a 2 week notice when you’re being fired, but expect a 2 week notice from you when you quit? It’s because they don’t care about you…you are basically a turd they stepped on and will one day successfully shake off of their shoe.
I love the gap in the resume vs. Gap in the staff... I am doing this from now on!
8:53 Where I live, you have to do 1 week of (potentially unpaid) internship for school. The point is literally to get experience
14:31 - I'm 90% sure that's satire. The "too many meetings to eat lunch around" problem is a pretty common trap in WFH jobs. My company forced us to block out entire afternoons during the week where we aren't allowed to schedule ANY meetings just to make sure we're actually able to get shit done, and keep our customers from taking up all our time with phone calls and "this could have been an email"s.
Banned from Target too. We had a supervisor who screamed at people on hardlines and held us for hours after closing. One night, I was just done and walked out. I stopped showing up for shifts too. That puts you on Target's blacklist, which Best Buy also shares.
TIL Target and Best Buy have a blacklist. 😮
Um. Sounds like you could get a class action against that store. And back pay for all the unpaid work. Government could help with that. Labour board or equivalent.
Might get the manager in hot water. Likely they got a bonus for all the extra work done. And on time.
@@redelfshotthefood8213 way past the statute of limitations on this, but thanks for mentioning and thinking about it.
When they say the salary is competitive, they aren’t saying who’s in the competition. You’re falsely assuming it’s competitive with other business in the job market. Wrong. It’s you. You’re in the competition. It’s a chess match to see if they can pay you as little as possible without you being offended and declining, and you’re trying to see how high you can get them to go without pulling their offer. The problem is, they always have less to lose, so you’re basically playing chicken with a semi truck… in a smart car.
Now give that man a snow shovel and tell him to shovel the whole parking lot of walmart or something, lets see how fast he asks for the "lazy" option
I have 3 stories that work for this.
I am banned from reapplying to a grocery store in Canada due to giving a 2 week notice, instead of a month or 3 week notice.
A couple places I applied to contact me months later about a job and got mad I wasn't available anymore.
One place I applied to i had phone that i got something all ready due to being told they were deciding by the end of the week who would get the job. Half a year later they messaged me that they had recently picked some one and were not going to hire me. Like WTF
2 week “I quit” notices are BS anyways. Companies don’t give you a 2 week “you’re fired” notice to prevent your life being disrupted do they?
@@MalefaxTheBlack Exactly. If they're gonna fire you without notice then they aren't owed that courtesy either: let management enjoy scrambling to fix their precious fucking schedule.
I landed an interview for a summer job. Minimum wage. Programming for the summer. Government department.
A week later I got a rejection letter. I found a job at twice the pay.
Then, the day before my new job started I got a phone call. The previous hire quit after 2 days. (Could it be the low pay? That they kept looking for better wages????) I was happy to inform them I had a job. I didn’t say thank you.
8:02 actually, not only do companies “not have a legal right”, but it’s illegal for companies in the US to prevent people from discussing their salary. Heck, it’s illegal to even have policies which might discourage discussing salaries. Discuss your salary.
27:40 reminds me of the interview I had at a dentures manufacturer. I showed up 15 minutes early, walked inside _without_ my phone (to look more professional), checked in with the receptionist, and proceeded to sit there and wait for nearly TWO HOURS.
When my interviewer finally walked out of her glass-walled, see-through office (where she had been doing fuck-all from what I could tell), she had me join her and two other grumpy old people (who looked like they should have retired a decade ago), where the three of them proceeded to spend about five minutes just staring coldly at me across the table, without introducing themselves, after asking _me_ to introduce _my_ self.
I didn't get the job, and I was honestly pretty fucking grateful. Fuck those guys.
Here in Slovakia it's legaly required for employers to post the salary with every job offer
This is part of the reason why I'm scared to get a job. Yes, the *base process* to going around and trying to get interviews.
At least I have an excuse as to why I've spend the past 3 years not working or in college: I was taking care of a dog until she *died.*
Edit: No, not like, "Oh she suddenly died one day" I mean, going to the stores for dog pads and dog food, bags to bag up the dog pads, and being there for that dog 24/7 to feed her every 8 hours and make sure she was comfortable and at least resting easy.
I sacrificed my sleep schedule for that dog. She died in my arms as she was having a seizure. If you want to talk about experience when I'm getting into an entry-level position, you damn well know I'm committed.
Most interviewers would take that to mean you might leave at any time for some "stupid" personal reason. They know they don't deserve as much loyalty as a dog, and you _definitely_ shouldn't show them that much loyalty when you do get a job. They'll just use it to abuse you.
@@Bacteriophagebs ...Like I said, no job.
get a job
Any place that needs to ask why there is a gap is an auto exclude for me. What, I can't take time off to recover emotionally so I don't end up a raving lunatic filled with murderous rage and resentment that will happily sabatoge operations in a way that will snowball into global crisis that result in the annihilation of thousands of lives...? I'm sorry, I don't think you're a good fit as a workplace if you think short-term profits and forcing people to go insane with long-term effects of severely reducing human population and overall productivity in the end is something that ought to be normal. Just my take, though
@@gaerekxenos
Most that care either are looking for desperation in that gap, or have a weird requirement from the government and they don't care. I just got hired by Ozinga (cement company in Midwest) and they asked why I had a gap post lock-down. I told them why (since the actual application didn't let me tell why) and they functionally shrugged. Rather amusing
I applied for charter spectrum, I had 4x One hour interviews. Just to have me wait another week and a half to tell me they went with someone else. The hiring manager thought it was a funny joke when I told him I wanted him to pay me for my wasted time.
5:05 was quite a curve-ball, didn't expect Robin to suddenly talk about furries, nevertheless in a non-hateful manner. Quite the pleasant surprise! :)
I do indeed want to know how Robin got banned from working at Target.
0:46 - yep, that's about every "interview" story on LinkedIn - and I'm just as prepared to believe that story as I am to believe all the others.
One time I applied for a job at my local municipality. I work in IT. I know for a fact their IT is dog poop because every time I go there to get anything done, the computers are down and I have to come back another time. I was told there were no other candidates for the position.
Few days later, they declined to even ask me to come over for an interview, and then sent me a text message on a sunday at 6:30 to tell me I would not be hired. I was overqualified for the position and would make less than my usual wage, I just wanted to work a couple minutes walk from my home and fix their IT department so everyone in the town that I live in could get actually get what they needed.
I considered submitting FOIA requests and making a hassle about it but finally decided it wasnt worth it, so I got a better paying job at a private company in the city. Their IT is still poop.
2:10 nono this is just the other Bill Gates. His name is Hillbilly Gaters.
Applied at a popular, well-respected cafe in town.
Got the interview, was told I was hired and my new boss (who did the interview) would be in contact with me about my training hours by the end of the week.
Fast forward to the end of the week, I contact her because I was eager to get started. Was met with "Hey! Nevermind about you working here btw, good luck!" Basically. No reason given either, and I could've been looking for a new job sooner if they had just said that sooner.
1:50 That one’s infuriating not just because of the “If you’re on time you’re late” but the fact they wasted his time by waiting till he was actually there to cancel the interview.
As a programmer I learned about logical break points at my summer job. Fast forward 15 years and I was programming. And doing support. This Friday I was nearing a logical breakpoint... but the work day ended. I simply stayed at my desk and continued.
The President wandered by. The company was having hard times. He was seeing if any staff stayed late on a Friday. (Some folks left regularly 10 minutes early... since day the us he assumed in the bathroom for this short period).
The President was quite pleased with me. I wasn’t ready for this interaction. My mind was fixated on my programming task.
He found me at my desk reading a book another day. At that point we had flex time. I started early and ended early. That day, I’d driven. There was a traffic jam during to a train level crossing. I knew I’d be stuck in the car. Or... I could read for a it and leave once the jam had cleared itself. I explained this to him. He liked it. This President and I got along.
I once tried to do an internal transfer where I had to interview for the role. As part of the interview, they posed a situation involving a tax driver's company and several issues that needed to be resolved; I was to present which issues should be addressed in what order and why.
I was contacted a week later telling me that they were going with someone else. When I asked for feedback, they told me that my answers were "too long" and they were looking for snap decisions.
Or that’s just BS. They easily might not want to tell you why... because it’s actionable.