No joke, I was asked to do that when selling Dish TV through an "authorized 3rd party seller". We were but we were shady as fuck. They told us it was "advanced persuasion" in training too. One lie I was told to tell was that people get their credit card information stolen all the time via hacks sourced from Netflix and Hulu. That DishTV was safer.
I use the "not taking action is actually more expensive than the product I'm offering you" tactic all the time. Really puts things into the right perspective for the potential client.
on the first day of training at a call center they said "never lie to a customer or you'll be fired" which soon turned into "I mean you have to lie to them obviously just don't lie about these specific things about the product, but yeah do tell whatever lie you want to make them buy it"
@@BarackLesnar Reminds me of when I worked a call center and they told us to make sure the customer was fully serviced and we didn't rush them. While putting us on a time requirement of 3 minutes per phone call. If you went above that you got in trouble.
And small wonder when people seeing these videos learn to behave in like manner. I know it is meant as a joke, people are always looking for the next scam they can pull for easy money. It's not corporations, its mankind in general.
This reminds me of the corporate training videos I had to watch when I got hired at Olive Garden. 30 minutes of floor training, but 3 days of videos on how to upsell food. Because we weren’t serving Italian food, we were serving the concept of Italian food.
So does the hacker in India when he connects to your bank account and drains your savings! But for only $5.99 a month you can prevent Uncle Pedo from touching your great grandchildren on TH-cam. 😊
I sold Timeshare's. It was truly descpicable. I love sales, but I don't like how you have to lie to people to make deals happen. Being honest just doesn't work.
@@emmw7794nothing wrong with being a greedy sociopath, don’t be a pussy. Golf after work? Me and Chet fished up a couple choice slabs of meat, you gotta meet em.
I work for T-Mobile and this is EXACTLY how they want us to act on the phones with the customers. and yes looking for another job but its rough out there.
It's great to have a supportive, nurturing work environment that helps you grow as a person. It warms the cockles to see Dick teaching Charles how to terrorize strangers in order to snap up those sweet, juicy sales commissions.
@@uNiels_Heart The guy who makes the videos made a how do i make the effects And he uses old videotapes and CRT televions to make the videos as 90s as possible
I was not expecting a "happy" ending. I thought Charles was going to come to his senses and realize his entire job is built on predatory lies, try to blow the whistle, but then be confiscated and tortured by SkyCrop, with Dick being found complicit and thus ruining their friendship by betraying him. But no. Charles overcame his struggle, his friendship with Dick is stronger, and neither faced a cruel consequence. The only bad thing here is the exploited customers paying a 4.99 month subscription and being more wary of the internet (which could be taken as a good thing?). I am left with an eerie feeling like I witnessed something I wasn't supposed to.
@@BellalisDope MacAfee also constantly budges about "ur trial being over", even if you don't wanna buy it anyway. Popup ads will still show up on some computers. they are the scummiest antivirus ever, and if they were to happen to go bankrupt i'd be glad.
@@Eagle3302PL Sounds like your worldview is really compromised. That happened to me once too. I was beat up by some clowns. What you really need, to overcome that, is some cybersecurity. It really helped me.
I am so glad I watched this with my VPN on so all my Data went through this secure tunnel that all the TH-camrs told me about while all the savage cyber thiefs were outside gnawing their teeth of!
I would not be surprised if someone actually used this, unironically, in a presentation in one of these corporations nowadays. Great work, I enjoyed every second of this!
Aired 1989. It actually looks incredibly realistic, and the suits look also very 80s/90s but next time make them wear actual dress shoes and not sneakers
Some of these SkyCorp videos remind me of those old 1990’s work training videos and I know that’s what’s that’s what they’re going for and make it funny
outrageous as this video is it has very common selling points that work: fear, ignorance, insecurity. many cyber security products do not work or have very little effect. the main selling point of cyber security is simplifying complexity but at a cost to maintain ease of mind because the customer does not know better. i would classify it as an exploitative business model. take a anti virus for example, if the malware is already on the system running an av is a little late :(
No, it can often let you know you have the malware in the first place. Then a boot into safe mode, running malwarebytes, some manual registry editing, etc is whats prescribed. But you never get to do that unless the antivirus/malware package hits.
Windows defender is good enough for 99.99% of people. If your PC is compromised the only sure way to make sure it's safe is a bios flush and completely replacing the drives while burning the old ones. Good cyber security is about data handling processes, obfuscation, training, keeping track of exploits and updates and redundancy. Cyber security software is only good when it's designed to lock down systems to prevent Karen from HR from clicking on every hyperlink in her mailbox.
@@jadedandbitter commercial anti virus products do work at detecting malware that has been seen in the wild but have a difficult time with custom malware. files are scanned via sha or md5 to a hash list that is updated that the client downloads or it can operate in holistic mode / behavior analysis, network scanning, or system integrity checks. if the malware is running on the system it can get elevated privileges and just disable the anti virus from running or inject code into that process to prevent a successful scan or remotely control it entirely. using an av is always the very last line of defense because if its on the system and running then you already lost. since so many computers have some type of scripting language what i have seen is powershell scripts that require the user to run it. normally its easy to see even from looking as the code if it does anything bad but the script can also be obfuscated so users will have no idea and this is extremely common because the av wont detect it and the user runs it with elevated privileges and it downloads the actual malware in a state where the computers av might be disabled/uninstalled just by running the script.
"Advanced persuasion" is another way to say "Economical with the truth", which is another way to say "I made that shit up", which can also translate to "I lied": but no one will ever get to the point of realising it's a lie or made up if you don't tell them that it is, indeed, a lie... interesting. Man, that Dick really knows a thing or two about making a sale!
hey wait the guy in the blue suit is also the guy that was in some Value Select videos! For example, the classic "Triple Bunk" video! Glad to see our friend is involved in lots of different projects. Good stuff!
0:57 - but what if the customer doesn't have a problem? *Then you make one* This literally happened to me at my first tech job. One day while fixing a computer my manager comes up to me and complains about my fixes that *don't have problems.* I tell him "But there's nothing wrong"... he turns around... grabs the harddrive for the computer in question and throws it to the ground in a controlled manner, just to enough to make it give off errors. He hands me the harddrive and says "check again".
Someone ruining a hard drive is peak evil. Once data is unrecoverable you are screwing over someone's cherished memories forever. Want to ruin my CPU? Fine. Buy another. Speakers? Buy another. But data can at times not be recovered or replaced.
Yep, then it was up to you to figure out how to install it, OR you could call the 'helpful' call center and they'd gladly walk you through installation...for $1.99/minute. Thanks Dick!
@@engineeredarmy1152 Come on. India is most famous for its scammers, and secondly Bollywood. The only contact I have with Indians is when they call from scam centers several times a month, I just hang up the call of course, but It's irritating.
Or pharma companies. What could we do, if the customer is not sick? Sell em' vaccines to "prevent" them from getting sick. I know times are tough, but hey, we got you covered. You don't even need to pay, as you already payed in advance with your tax dollars.
I made a small fortune, as a HS dropout, selling office supplies over the phone. Eventually I started my own business,. I raided the company I used to work for of their best sales people and retired last year as a millionaire.
This is supposed to be a parody but the sales tactics are actually very real
No joke, I was asked to do that when selling Dish TV through an "authorized 3rd party seller". We were but we were shady as fuck. They told us it was "advanced persuasion" in training too. One lie I was told to tell was that people get their credit card information stolen all the time via hacks sourced from Netflix and Hulu. That DishTV was safer.
I use the "not taking action is actually more expensive than the product I'm offering you" tactic all the time. Really puts things into the right perspective for the potential client.
@@codyf3419and if they say "nat taking action got me this far"?
on the first day of training at a call center they said "never lie to a customer or you'll be fired" which soon turned into "I mean you have to lie to them obviously just don't lie about these specific things about the product, but yeah do tell whatever lie you want to make them buy it"
@@BarackLesnar Reminds me of when I worked a call center and they told us to make sure the customer was fully serviced and we didn't rush them. While putting us on a time requirement of 3 minutes per phone call. If you went above that you got in trouble.
The supervisor looks so proud of himself for freestyling that organization name lmao
Technically a crime, but he's too high off his own persuasion to care
@@glumbortango7182 no crime in staying safe!
Hilarious
Where would we be without NARMTOA?
As outrageous as Dick's tactics were, that's Social Engineering right there! No wonder he got promoted, keep up the great work 👍
Only the best go up!
I can only hope to become like Dick...
He's my role model...
Its just morally ambiguous enough
@@lordfriedrick7911don't be a Dick
And small wonder when people seeing these videos learn to behave in like manner. I know it is meant as a joke, people are always looking for the next scam they can pull for easy money. It's not corporations, its mankind in general.
I had this job for a while when I was 19
This is EXACTLY how sales organizations train their employees. Sure, this is slightly absurd, but 100% accurate
They probably use this video. At least one.
There’s a word for that, it’s ‘parody’
Yep. According to my experience that's exactly how sales organization train their employees and that's why I despise them.
i don’t think they train it, they halfway train it and then they find the liars / thieves that will profit them.
This proves that a movie about a scam call center could be amazing.
If you would like to see a movie like that then you might like a movie called Glengarry Glen Ross.
@@roger_something Thanks for the recommendation, I'll check it out!
@@roger_something Coffee's for closers!
@@offscreen6578was it good?
I mean there's wolf of wallstreet! It's not the same thing but some of the sane shady call tactics!😂
This reminds me of the corporate training videos I had to watch when I got hired at Olive Garden. 30 minutes of floor training, but 3 days of videos on how to upsell food. Because we weren’t serving Italian food, we were serving the concept of Italian food.
I like the concept of unlimited soup, salad and breadsticks
Concept my ass, concept wont feed me
Dude you have balls to do that I admire you. @@andrewcecka
It's the idea that counts.
"You know what's expensive?
Therapy."
Some things never change ❤️
@@SeraphicPhantasmno it's fictionally set in 1995..
@@ionbg7no its from 1995
Therapy is expensive even now
@@ionbg7 It's obviously from '95
"yeah we're recovering"
As a former Customer Representative for an Antivirus software, this video really connects with me.
Thank you for protecting america from cyber rapists.
@@Paul-A01 That sentence makes me think of dudes putting their peepees in computers.
¿every month?
So does the hacker in India when he connects to your bank account and drains your savings! But for only $5.99 a month you can prevent Uncle Pedo from touching your great grandchildren on TH-cam. 😊
This is exactly how the best sales people do it. It’s why I quit.
Yeah. The most successful salespeople are psychopaths with no conscience and no shame. Unfortunately.
Ditto! And the money
I sold Timeshare's. It was truly descpicable. I love sales, but I don't like how you have to lie to people to make deals happen. Being honest just doesn't work.
@@emmw7794nothing wrong with being a greedy sociopath, don’t be a pussy. Golf after work? Me and Chet fished up a couple choice slabs of meat, you gotta meet em.
Every call center job turns into a sales job.
I work for T-Mobile and this is EXACTLY how they want us to act on the phones with the customers. and yes looking for another job but its rough out there.
Next week I need to call them to tell them not to put me on a more expensive plan I don’t want. I’m sure they’ll try to convince me why I need it!
@@Sashazurhow did it go?
@@BlackFlamingo314 he's probably paying 50 a month now
It's great to have a supportive, nurturing work environment that helps you grow as a person. It warms the cockles to see Dick teaching Charles how to terrorize strangers in order to snap up those sweet, juicy sales commissions.
what do you mean terrorize? they where just selling conceptual security. And thats something pretty darn worthwhile for only 49.99.
Conceptual security is best, it conceptually saved my family, so what my left me, she is conceptually having sex with me
You know what I appreciate the most? The fact that the video is the old aspect ratio of a CRT television. 😂
Fonts, music, video artifacts, audio quality, form factor of the computers and monitors. All in all very convincing 😆
@@uNiels_Heart The guy who makes the videos made a how do i make the effects
And he uses old videotapes and CRT televions to make the videos as 90s as possible
Man used the modern scammer method of guilt tripping and using the customers fears against them.
“Scammer” i think you mean advanced persuasion, my friend
Definitely reminds me of the scam call centers.
i read this as he said this lmao well done @@notatrollll
I don’t think that’s a *modern* technique.
it's a sales technique as old as gold, baby.
So great that you guys are becoming increasingly common again!
I was not expecting a "happy" ending. I thought Charles was going to come to his senses and realize his entire job is built on predatory lies, try to blow the whistle, but then be confiscated and tortured by SkyCrop, with Dick being found complicit and thus ruining their friendship by betraying him. But no. Charles overcame his struggle, his friendship with Dick is stronger, and neither faced a cruel consequence. The only bad thing here is the exploited customers paying a 4.99 month subscription and being more wary of the internet (which could be taken as a good thing?). I am left with an eerie feeling like I witnessed something I wasn't supposed to.
The customers got peace of mind; everybody wins!
Are you sure it's 4.99 and not 49.9 or 499
@@TheCat_3 you're right it could be... but I would expect them to say the whole 499.99 if it were $500
@@WestonHawk true
yo we got another one trying to crack the code here! gonna need a few doses of mind melter for Mr. big thinker over here
The world is a better place with saxophone-dominant music.
I was about to say. That music is actually good.
The real ones. Saving people from problems they never had.
average NordVPN worker
why's this not top
I was thinking MacAfee. The only thing MacAfee did was slow your computer.
@@BellalisDope MacAfee also constantly budges about "ur trial being over", even if you don't wanna buy it anyway. Popup ads will still show up on some computers. they are the scummiest antivirus ever, and if they were to happen to go bankrupt i'd be glad.
Thanks Dick :D
Because of you I’m not being tracked down by the voices in my head anymore
And I owe that all to you 👍
What, you installed mind protection?
Nothing brings me joy like seeing a Skycorp video in my feed. Always good to see you back!
I was a furniture salesman and this is the exact vibe I had with my boss
"What if customer doesn't have a problems?" "Then you make one!" Imao
This channel is fine art
As someone in sales... I would recommend this video to any entry-level sales person, even door to door guys. Sell or be sold baby.
Did you sell me the 2002 Honda Civic, Donovan Zerbest?? Who also goes by Mike? Yeah. I am not swayed by these tactics anymore.
@@gwen110 no. But you almost had me there.
@@donavonzerbest9530 you can run, donavonzerbest9530. but the 2002 Honda Civic Cult is coming for you.
ew
Nowadays with easy access information online, this kind of tactic only has opposite effect.
"I don't want anybody waking up to his tongue licking their forehead"... love the absurdity, lol
I would happily watch a 30 min video like this, about damn near anything
Did sales for 4 years, i did this all the time!
Bro
Yeah I work in IT and our sales guys always sell unnecessary shit and then I have to explain that to customers when things start breaking, fuck em
@@b0exi It's a clown world, people with poor morality exploiting ignorant people to make money for sociopaths.
@@Eagle3302PL Sounds like your worldview is really compromised. That happened to me once too. I was beat up by some clowns. What you really need, to overcome that, is some cybersecurity. It really helped me.
Exactly. A true closer can sell sand to a beach.
THE WOLF OF THE WALLSTREET of sales business 😂🤣
and BOILER ROOM...very underrated movie..
3:15 "It's okay, we are recovering" .
😂😂😂😂
There's no better entertainment on the information super highway !
I see you bought their product for $4.99
I am so glad I watched this with my VPN on so all my Data went through this secure tunnel that all the TH-camrs told me about while all the savage cyber thiefs were outside gnawing their teeth of!
I would not be surprised if someone actually used this, unironically, in a presentation in one of these corporations nowadays.
Great work, I enjoyed every second of this!
Aired 1989. It actually looks incredibly realistic, and the suits look also very 80s/90s but next time make them wear actual dress shoes and not sneakers
We should do a Wikipedia article this bro.
Hey.
It's Tennis Shoes Tuesday. We have fun in this office.
This is one of those things we know exist, but it is hard to put what was happening into words. This video is perfect lol
Life back in the 1990s was so colorful. Lol. Nostalgia and childhood! 😆😎
Some of these SkyCorp videos remind me of those old 1990’s work training videos and I know that’s what’s that’s what they’re going for and make it funny
This makes me feel strangely nostalgic, like it reminds me of a very wholesome movie and I think this is wholesome by association
"It's okay, we're recovering."
*5:15* * _dial up handshake sound_ * (as his brain tries to come up with a thing)
outrageous as this video is it has very common selling points that work: fear, ignorance, insecurity.
many cyber security products do not work or have very little effect. the main selling point of cyber security is simplifying complexity but at a cost to maintain ease of mind because the customer does not know better. i would classify it as an exploitative business model.
take a anti virus for example, if the malware is already on the system running an av is a little late :(
No, it can often let you know you have the malware in the first place. Then a boot into safe mode, running malwarebytes, some manual registry editing, etc is whats prescribed. But you never get to do that unless the antivirus/malware package hits.
*some* forms of _free_ antivirus are worth a shot. malwarebytes has helped me a few times to get me out of stupid mistakes.
Windows defender is good enough for 99.99% of people. If your PC is compromised the only sure way to make sure it's safe is a bios flush and completely replacing the drives while burning the old ones. Good cyber security is about data handling processes, obfuscation, training, keeping track of exploits and updates and redundancy. Cyber security software is only good when it's designed to lock down systems to prevent Karen from HR from clicking on every hyperlink in her mailbox.
@@Eagle3302PL oh, that sounds right thanks for your prospective on this all of this is complicated :(
@@jadedandbitter commercial anti virus products do work at detecting malware that has been seen in the wild but have a difficult time with custom malware. files are scanned via sha or md5 to a hash list that is updated that the client downloads or it can operate in holistic mode / behavior analysis, network scanning, or system integrity checks. if the malware is running on the system it can get elevated privileges and just disable the anti virus from running or inject code into that process to prevent a successful scan or remotely control it entirely. using an av is always the very last line of defense because if its on the system and running then you already lost.
since so many computers have some type of scripting language what i have seen is powershell scripts that require the user to run it. normally its easy to see even from looking as the code if it does anything bad but the script can also be obfuscated so users will have no idea and this is extremely common because the av wont detect it and the user runs it with elevated privileges and it downloads the actual malware in a state where the computers av might be disabled/uninstalled just by running the script.
It’s so good to see a Bob Odenkirk/Tim&Eric prodigy! I only mean that as the biggest compliment I love you man.
Been in commissioned sales for 30 years and this is is pretty much how it’s done.
This is literally the best analog thing I’ve ever viewed
Dick is a great guy. He saved me money by giving money to his cause. Thanks buddy!
Congratulations, Charles!
Congratulations, Dick!
Good work, both of you!!
That subtle move of cutting off the end of the customer's "thank you" before they hung up on them
yeah, not a second to waste!
LOL, I legit thought this was real right up until he called and created the problem.
Guy took his name literally.
That's how they monetize anxiety, well represented.
"Advanced persuasion" is another way to say "Economical with the truth", which is another way to say "I made that shit up", which can also translate to "I lied": but no one will ever get to the point of realising it's a lie or made up if you don't tell them that it is, indeed, a lie... interesting.
Man, that Dick really knows a thing or two about making a sale!
I'm so happy to see you're back to uploading here. Your videos are my bread and butter, and I honestly can't get enough of them.
hey wait the guy in the blue suit is also the guy that was in some Value Select videos! For example, the classic "Triple Bunk" video! Glad to see our friend is involved in lots of different projects. Good stuff!
0:57 - but what if the customer doesn't have a problem?
*Then you make one*
This literally happened to me at my first tech job. One day while fixing a computer my manager comes up to me and complains about my fixes that *don't have problems.* I tell him "But there's nothing wrong"... he turns around... grabs the harddrive for the computer in question and throws it to the ground in a controlled manner, just to enough to make it give off errors.
He hands me the harddrive and says "check again".
Your boss has ZERO integrity! He can not take the fact that he was wrong. Best of luck to ya, cheers mate
Someone ruining a hard drive is peak evil. Once data is unrecoverable you are screwing over someone's cherished memories forever. Want to ruin my CPU? Fine. Buy another. Speakers? Buy another. But data can at times not be recovered or replaced.
I think we all worked with Dick. Truly an inspiration.
I worked with Dick. It was hard work, but it was worth it in the end!
That was incredible!!! Awesome to see you guys coming back and coming back strong!!
6:27 I've never heard the term "Man, dick" said so casually before. 😆😆😆
SO HAPPY Sage is getting stuff out there again
Hot damn that "smile the camera is watching you" pay-off at the end was brilliant.
This is basically showing how phone scammer telemarketers work.
Truly a mastepiece. Sky Corporation has outdone themselves once again!
This cybersecurity company has an incredibly supportive workplace culture!
The only thing I didn't like was me not discovering this channel sooner, so I could subscribe!
Thanks!
Thank you Shawn for being a loyal affiliate. 50 cents knocked off your first month of Cybersecurity!
i think they got an actual character generator this time, the production quality is so much better
Love how it’s actually converted into VHS!
I... thought... you just watched it online?
You have a VHS of it?
In the 90s you didn't pay for software monthly. You would order it from a magazine and they would send you a box with floppy disks.
Yep, then it was up to you to figure out how to install it, OR you could call the 'helpful' call center and they'd gladly walk you through installation...for $1.99/minute. Thanks Dick!
Skycorp videos and their comment sections are always a good time.
I hope a musician collabs with y’all one day for a funny, well-produced music video
This was a good ass video happy to see yall back making original stuff skycorp
Utter perfection. I was waiting for Hercules the Legendary Journeys to come on next...
Finally, positive SkyCorp video!
I need some advice: I sold the Masturglove and VR-set to someone, and now the FBI is trying to get me.
What should I do?
@@noxrim to where?
@@PTB_BE IKEA. No one will find you there. The Swedish Backrooms.
This is so nostalgic; I'm so glad my parents purchased NetProtect Pro when I was younger.
The eyes are screaming the moral conflicts the trainee is having. I can tell exactly what he is thinking 😂
This needs way more views
Satire is my favorite humor. This is real funny and makes me think.
The first thing super-cute Charles's imagination goes to is . . . a ball gag. Hmm . . .
Thanks Dick for helping us all with our security!
I love this channel's humour XD very underrated
You hear that? It's all the VPN companies taking notes
I'm convinced this is just real security footage from an antivirus company.
It feels like they use this video non ironically as training in Indian scam companies.
Not just Indian. Scammers are from everywhere
@@engineeredarmy1152mostly Indian because that’s where most call centres are
@@engineeredarmy1152 Come on. India is most famous for its scammers, and secondly Bollywood. The only contact I have with Indians is when they call from scam centers several times a month, I just hang up the call of course, but It's irritating.
Or pharma companies. What could we do, if the customer is not sick? Sell em' vaccines to "prevent" them from getting sick.
I know times are tough, but hey, we got you covered. You don't even need to pay, as you already payed in advance with your tax dollars.
such a good superviser ❤
SKYCORP IS BACK BABY
Me imitating mr krabs from that one episode of SpongeBob:
THERE BACK THERE BACK I TELL YA I SAW IT WITH ME OWN EYES
THE SKYS THE SKYS
This is how every insurance salesman makes money.
"That's ok we're recovering"
“But what if the customer doesn’t have a problem?”
“Then you make one.”
This is the line that divides sales from service.
I made a small fortune, as a HS dropout, selling office supplies over the phone. Eventually I started my own business,. I raided the company I used to work for of their best sales people and retired last year as a millionaire.
Aw cute little office workers
extremely underrated video.
so glad to see The Sky Corporations back and at it again
the acting and then the music at the end its too good haha
The writing of if this is so good! 💙💙💙
Really miss this brazen style of comedy I haven’t seen in years online. Great stuff
This is deeper than most realize.
I'm glad they finally made a sequel for Glengarry Glen Ross. Always Be Closing guys
Thanks! I can't wait to use these tips... Oh the FTC has just sent me an email!
They give off a Mormon vibe, lol !
You could offer this up as a training video and any major sales/marketing organization.
Time to watch this video on my Self Aware Computer.