The Ugly Truth About Working for Netflix
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 ก.ย. 2021
- When something sounds too good to be true, it usually is. How could there possibly be anything wrong with Netflix's unlimited vacation policy? Find out in today's video that puts the streaming service under the microscope.
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The vacation day thing is crazy smart for Netflix😭😭😭 whoever created that need a raise
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He deserves a vacation
They’ll be too afraid to ask
@@zawadsadaf9194 name one that gives unlimited days
If your job is expecting you to answer emails or think about work while on vacation, you don't get vacations at that job.
That's why this stuff is illegal over here. If you have to do a single thing for the company, the entire day - by law - does not count as vacation. Ergo, those "unlimited vacations" would turn into "unlimited days of home office" and ZERO vacation.
@@asteria9963 where is over here?
@@asteria9963 “im gonna say ‘over here’ so i get more attention and replies.”
Unlimited vacation time is basically being able to work wherever you want, if you stay organized while meeting deadlines and take vacations at appropriate times it sounds like a win-win situation
@@_hunnybe It'd be Botswana
This just goes to prove that if companies treated their employees well, they'll get more back.
Unlimited vacation is a company financial decision. It erases millions of dollars of unused vacation time from the balance sheet. They don't owe you any money when you quit or get fired.
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@@untouchable360x its the companies choice to implement unlimited vacation policy so its silly for the boss to see people take anytime off as a liability. They could remove that policy to save money but they wont
I can already imagine all of the employees working in Disney straight up quitting and joining Netflix 😂
More like every worker ever 🤣
LOL SO TRUE
Sadly if it works as i think they have a contract, and they can't work for another business inside an amount of time before joining another industry
From a dead anti-semite to pedophiles. Not a good career shift.
@@ShellShock11Ctrue
I work for Honeywell.. I'm salary and we also get "unlimited vacation".... The culture for our business unit is to be a workaholic though. Everyone takes their work laptops to their "vacations". Almost everyone I know logs in and does some work on vacations.
Honeywell as the aeronautical equipment manufacturer?
@@guspdm8217 honeywell does waaaaaaay more than that
Bay Area?
I think you are the first comment here plus that sounds like paradise lol
@Tripp14 wtf man 😒
my friend worked for netflix and she legit cried on like a monthly basis from working there due to the highly competitive and stressful environment. she only held on bcus netflix has an extremely generous mat leave policy (1 year fully paid), many companies only offer 3-6 if you're lucky enough to land a job w one who even offers that
(unless you're in Europe. *Cries in American)
One of my mom’s colleagues was supposed to get was it 6 or 9 months of maternity leave as a benefit for working at a university for a very long time, but when she approached her boss, he was like well I can’t have you leave because we’re busy. She had to start logging everything through email to make sure she could prove that if he fired her it was because she was pregnant…
@@ruiqi22 that is so effed up, is that even legal? I hope everything turns out ok for her.
@@crescentusagi definitely not legal, but it’s hard to deal with, ya know, since if you anger your boss by taking maternity leave, he can fire you after you get off leave without you being able to prove it was due to your pregnancy. I’m not sure exactly what happened since my mom works at a different place now, but I think last I heard she was voice recording all of her meetings with her boss and forwarding emails to HR. Idk if voice recording is legal for lots of states though, so if you’re ever in that situation you might want to look it up.
lol first time? Every tried the hospitality industry?
Wow I was gonna pursue some acting opportunities at Netflix but wow I’m sorry your friends had to go through that
Netflix Employers: you have unlimited vacation
Netflix Employees: I don’t want unlimited vacations
Employers: ok
Employees: wait!?
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Nice reverse psychology
What ? Can you explain ?
@@pleasedontsub2732 I meant from Netflix, that it was nice reverse psychology to say "You have unlimited vacation"
Knowing that most people wouldn't take an unlimited vacation, not use so many days if they didn't have any certain days left and would even work from vacation.
Which can also translate to "You have no vacation"
the word “wait” isn’t a question.
I gotta say, this video is 200% true. I used to work for NVIDIA, and it's the same. You have to ask your manager for vacation/time-off. "Work it out with your managers." They said. So between hardware/software launches; peer pressure; begging for permissions; engineering passive personalities; hardworking lifestyle. Not many were taking vacations. What this policy DOES, is giving executives and managers more vacation time. Without a tracking system, and without asking for permissions. Also for California, the company is not obligated to save that vacation money for you since there's no time tracking. This is a total scam system.
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More people need to talk about this , then ... they really need to know about it
Interviewer: So why do you want to work here?
Me: Let's just say I want unlimited vacations
Interviewer: Please apply again after 3 months once you have your morals check.. thnx :)
also me: hey i think this dude should be black for more D I V E R S I T Y
interviewer: your hired
@@jacobfredman9442 why did you have to bring race into it😒...
@@mychannel-rt2gn eh if your a weeb then you would probably get the joke
@@jacobfredman9442 that's the not-so-neat part, he isn't.
Solution to this problem: mandatory minimum vacation days. This way, everyone gets at least some vacation time and they should be encouraged to take actual time off during these mandatory "holidays". That way, working vacations can feel different from the ones that should be exclusively for recharging the old batteries.
Problem to this solution: what do you do with employees that fail to meet the minimum requirement?
@@Burpzzz Solution to that problem: make them take a large percentage (75%) of them or they have to take a week of forced vacation, staggered near the end of the period if multiple employees don't take them. Plus, they can only roll over 10% of their allotted days from the current year. No rolling over year to year. In other words, you can't roll over enough days to take an entire year completely off.
@@jackmackakaheavyguyhaiku545 I Don't think it's necessarily a good idea. First I just wanna say I'd completely love to have a system like that in place, because that would make my life and scheduling a lot easier. However, I know a few friends that are very motivated to work as much as they can, and simply don't enjoy the idea of taking time off, even if it makes money, they'd prefer to work overtime and get more as well as some of the guys genuinely are so in love with their job they don't look for mandatory vacations. I think it's a tough topic mainly due to people with the same ethics as my friends might feel as if a MANDATORY vacation takes away their freedom.
@@ghostinqs5173 No policy is 100% perfect they will always have at least one flaw or two.
I agree with this idea. Out of all the plans I've seen suggested, this one has the least flaws, imo. They all have them, but this seems to make the most sense.
My company has the exact same policy (unlimited leaves) and every second of this video is so true. Since we don't have any sort of balance of leaves I actually don't know how many leaves should I take that would look decent to my manager. I was asking my friends in other companies about the no. Of leaves they get to get some idea. Also feel peer pressure when taking leaves plus my manager is a workaholic making it even tougher to ask for timeoff. Infact in the last 4 months I've just taken 2 leaves. It actually creates alot of office stress if you're team is discouraging towards vacations.
I would recommend taking leave at least once a week. But you choose when to do it. Working 4 days in a week is much better than 5 days a week based on some studies.
I have unlimited vacations at my company. I work as a Software Engineer.
I never took a real vacation. Always worked even when traveling.
But I love the flexibility of being able to go wherever I want, whenever I want.
I used to work for a company that counted our vacation days. They never counted the Saturdays and Sundays I worked
Same
Which company, I am looking for a swe job
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You don’t want to be that guy at Netflix. The place is super cut throat.
My dad got a promotion as an electrical engineer, one of the perks was unlimited vacations he asked for one thing and they agreed to it. So he never worked another Friday again for that company yes for every Friday to be a vacation day they said shure.
My roommate is a software engineer, she's also bipolar, she works for 75 in one sitting starting Tuesday 10:00 a.m. she only works for 3 days the rest of her week is hers it's not unlimited vacation but it was something that she negotiated with her boss. If there's an issue with what she does then they can call her but each call is considered overtime.
Each call is consirred obertime ? And how is bipolar effting her work life balance ?
@@criptik5208 because she's only supposed to work for those 3 days per contract anytime outside those 3 days are overtime. And she's freely open to receive calls about the work she's done and I've seen her multiple times login and then not get up for about 15 hours at a time and she'll go right back basically she's using the bipolar hyperfocus for work and it works as long as I don't interrupt her she can just plow through her weekly work which gets to a sign to her on the first day.
Who does your roommate work for? Thats sounds like a great company
@@grantwalter2243 I wish I knew, I know it requires her to have security clearance but I don't know if that's civilian or whatnot just over talks about what she does I just know what she studied for in college
@@Ki6wbh She cant say who she works for?
That reverse psychology with the leave days, I saw back in high school, when a teacher who already had 2 lessons earlier took the class of another teacher who was absent.
We'd all start groaning, then he'd allow anyone who didn't want to learn, to leave the class. "I only want to deal with the ones who want to learn, I can deal with even 5 students." She said. First, There was that fear of unknown consequences, maybe it's a trap and u will be on the wrong for taking up the offer.
Maybe the teacher will keep a grudge and kick u out of class next day. Maybe she'll get u in trouble with ur parents.
Maybe it's genuine, but the second issue was peer pressure. People were looking at each other, for someone to take point and lead the way. Nobody wanted to be the one who goes against the grain, so everyone got stuck there, with the keys to the jail cell, but elected to lock themselves in.
If only one left the others wouldav followed.
This felt much longer than 9 minutes
That’s what she said, just not to me
@@foamytrojan5501 okay that was unexpected and funny at the same time
Literally
Unlimited vacation is a scam. It sounds great but it usually winds up that people take fewer vacation days. Also the company doesn't have to track your vacation balance and pay it out when you leave. It's a benefit for the company 100%.
That makes no sense to me🤔not hating or nothing just disagreeing, oh course it’s supposed to benefit the company 100% like everything is but it does in fact benefit the employees being that they can make their vacation plans whenever they want being they aren’t limited to which family events/vacations they can attend to and what not and I think it’s a great way to have employees work even more with less vacations bc they kno they can take it whenever they want to, its a big relief for new workers when it gets hard for them or any person going through it and needs a break ya kno? I just don’t see when u come from please argue back I’m interested on how u see it
@@blaize2931 So I want a vacation and we work in the same department... But it happens that the day I want off you have something important to attend to... The thing is the reason I want a day off is important as well...
We end up fighting because we cannot take a day off at the same time..
The above scenario is just ONE occasion in which there will be a serious problem... I could write a book with such scenarios...
Bad practice IMO... Want to offer more to your employees? Employ more of them, give them more days off available and pay them more..
Oh wait, there has to be a limit to how much you give them because you raise your production costs that way, ending up being less competitive than your rivals..
In conclusion, "anarchy" and "communism" sound good in theory until you try them out.....
@@NickStrife só you are saying the WHOLE DEPARTMENT would take a vacation IN THE SAME DAY.
@@TheSunIsDead Sometimes 2+3 ppl taking vacation the same day is a disaster..
@@NickStrife not in the tech world that’s why they have access to do stuff like this could easily contract it out to some small business or just get personal from another department to fill in a lot of people have many skills in the tech world I could be a product manager but still know software engineer things and if I’m getting paid 250k plus with unlimited PTO best believe if my company needs me I won’t mind filling in
Netflix: We have unlimited vacation and people can always go on vacation!
Pilots: That’s our *job*
I mean it's not a hard concept. Work hardand just be efficient. If you're taking 3 months but your job has been done to standards you're worth paying for that job compared to someone who takes less time and worse results
I also have unlimited vacation days. Haven't taken an actual truly 100% disconnected vacation in years. Probably never will again. Thank you remote working.
I can tell
This works well with companies implementing agile methodology where they consider people getting a vacation into planning. They can break down the tasks into like two week sprints. Once it got chunked like that, its easier to manage. You can file a leave outright on a planning day lets say on the first day of sprint where the planning takes place . Also the boss must be a work-life balance advocate or this will not be possible.
I worked at Netflix for 2 years, and at that office (not based in the U.S.) the solution was simply to give salary bonus to whoever did not take vacation during the busiest times.
We also had unlimited snacks including popcorn, free lunches and breakfast, free taxi rides home when working late and a bunch of things other companies just don't do. The only reason I left was because I was very unhappy with the management which I've heard later has improved at least.
Not your NAME Andreas Vannfält
The perks you got are pretty typical in San Francisco area Tech Companies.
I use to work for a big US corporation here in Europe. We had paid days of vacation but could never take them together. What it means you had Monday, and Tuesday off. Coming to work on Wednesday and going free on Thursday to come back on Friday. Working for a company where you are just the number was the worst experience of my life. Ended up being depressive after 3 months. So glad this is just a distant memory now.
Before the pandemic, I did most of my administrative work at home. It was the most relaxing and enjoyable part of my job. Now during the pandemic, nothing's changed much... except I go into work much less and it effects my biological clock.
I got an idea: 40 vacation days/year. You're getting a vacation regardless, but the first to request specific days off is the first to get them. Those days are blacked out for request by you if the company can't afford for you to have a vacation on that day/can't plan for that absence. If you have not submitted requests for all your vacation days and had those requests approved, the company will automatically assign a vacation day.
You will be prohibited from doing anything work-related on vacation days, including doing your normal job or responding to work communications.
“I’ll send an angry email!” Hahahaha lol classic.
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"German company Travis CI tried this and found that instead of being helpful for employees it actually created more office stress"
I guess you could say it was a travis-ty for them.
Well this year I managed to score 6 weeks of vacation by combining "old" vacation days (here, you can save your vacation days and use them next year), regular vacation days and some award days the company gave me for some extra work I've done. They should pay me for the extra hours, but 4 free vacation days are good enough.
I worked at a research lab. From 1979 to 1993. It was company policy that all employees had unlimited sick days. I will admit I used those sick days mostly for mental health days 🙃.
It's great if you have a good corporate culture. I worked at a company with unlimited vacation and took 8 or so weeks most years. Some people would only take 1 or 2 weeks so the company started forcing people to take a minimum 3 weeks. Certainly didn't hurt my career and employees / managers constantly told each other to take more time off. We had one guy take 12 weeks straight off
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Another reason Netflix employees may be hesitant to take vacation is the fear that the person standing in for them during that time may end up taking their job. With an excellent job like working for Netflix I can imagine most employees are terrified of losing said job so are probably always looking over their shoulders, worried that someone better may replace them.
I worked in a job with an unlimited paid sick policy. You were supposed to be home and they could check up on you back then (they don't now) but they found that people took less sick days than if they would have been given 10 paid sick days a year, or something similar.
As someone who's worked for netflix, theres honestly nothing wrong with it. It's fun.
Other countries think we're weird AF because we hardly ever take a vacation and end up with lost v days because of that. Other countries people are really encouraged to take the full time. I've never been at a job that gives vacation days, been working for the state of Illinois for 19 years now, we get no v days, no maternity leave, and you have to have worked a specific amount of hours to get 1 paid sick day, we can't even get overtime or time in a half for holiday's, and if you work over hours, you get replaced. Why am I paying union dues again?
The UK, EU are heaven for benefits and looking after you. Paid maternity for a long time, men also, minimum paid vacation every year, statutory sick pay if you’re off after a certain amount of time (after 14 days I believe, with doctors sicknote) and so on.
You should probably remove that profile picture if you want people to believe your lies tbh.
@@mr.doctorcaptain1124 just asking...why do u say that? Whats up with the profile pic?
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I googled it, Illinois gets 10 days vaca when you start...
I was supposed to work for Netflix before but I rejected it when I was called back to start as soon as possible. They salary offer was good but for some personal reasons I decided not to take it
Great call!
Limited or not, the vacation days to ask for is difficult. No matter if it's 2 weeks guarantee or whatever, most jobs will make you feel bad for using them. It doesn't matter what model you use. Lots of companies don't do roll over. Kind of a use them or lose them.
Exactly!
The company I work for has "unlimited vacation" but... If you take any time off over the amount they gave you before the policy change you get flagged and spoken to about using too much....so it's basically the same policy, but now if you leave the company you loose the payout of the hours you accrued
and missing a couble of seasons of a series
just like the google thing were they let there employees sleep on the job and have yoga and meditation programs
I always thought the standard was around 15 days or two weeks per year. If you are not counting weekends the 15 days would be like having 3 weeks off. I would figure you're pretty safe as long as you don't take more than that when you start, and then maybe give yourself another week after you've been there a while.
It goes to show that no matter what, employees will always find something to complain about.
Intresting! But why did the animation and art went down a little?
Always walk in to work with fresh eyes and feel like your new. No pressure.
Do a video about ancient giant civilizations!
The last job I had was with fixed vacation amount.
You were prohibited to check your mails during those days...
How do I sign up?! And hey man hope to see you out and looking for other cryptids eh
*Employee A:* I have been on vacation for an entire month!! But, I something is wrong with Payroll. The checks stop rolling in 2 weeks ago.
*Employee B:* Uh Dude..you were fired.
I love that ending " The producers of The WItcher are on the line ."hahahah
"unlimited vacation days might cause harm to the employees", brought to you by the same creators of "working from home is worse than going to the office"
I'm reading the book right now about this. Don't forget that they got talent density and open candour in their work culture that's why it works.
Well you should also include the fact that in California where Netflix is, if you have vacation hours saved up they have to pay you out when you leave, problem solved there since nothing saved up. I got over 500 hours at my job when I leave I'm ready for that nice check 🤘
Sounds like my job PTO-wise.. 5 weeks of PTO but I’m so busy I can barely ever use it all 😑
Seem to remember being told a career at Netflix was not a thing. Managers of departments were told to boot so many people or else they would seem weak if they were then they themselves get the boot.
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@@MrCommentGod BRUH
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@@MrCommentGod if you don't shut up I will have to jump 90 meters in the air
Full 6 months off and a bit of work emails, it's good for creative minds
A lot of high profile and private companies our like this lol people just don’t get these kinds of jobs🤷🏽♂️ I’m a bio medical engineer working for a private research company I earn 3/5 vacation days a month and sometimes depending on what it is they may just tell you you can not come in for a week lol but trust me whatever I have going on I’ll still be doing work since I won’t be in the office they’ll send me all the data from everyone station and I’ll have to do most the analyzation
I remember my uncles company Draeger I think doing this since before that time.
Netflix seems like a standup amazing company but did we all forget about how they made a series about children twerking?
Who cares anymore
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Works 1st day
Takes 364 days vacations
lol Netflix´s customer service aint even at the US or Amsterdam (I was a CSR and we are all at other countries so they pay less)
So it comes down to the fact that there are some people who abuse it (i.e. using it during important moments) and some people thrive because of it. ( i.e. using a combination of work hours and vacation time)
Nice video! Love it, sad truth.
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Maybe instead of just vacation when you feel like. There are set times where it's mandatory to be in. But capped at a certain amount of time a year you have to be in.
With Internet nowadays, sometimes your Boss sending a massage out of working hour and need to be replied ASAP, don't even mention vacation, if you took a vacation and office needs you to email, sending massage, or something like that, does it counts as vacation? Even if you still work a bit?
Sometimes I doubted that someone knew definition of vacation or day off anymore
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Great vid!
Honestly even if i have to check emails on my vacay or help some people i dont mind as long as i can still chill
That's how it works in my country, you get 4 weeks leave you can take per year, and you can accumulate it up to 20 weeks. Paid sick leave is at 10 days per year, and you can accumulate 20 days. Except if you're with the union (for me anyways) where I get 15 paid sick days and can accumulate up to 50 days)
Simple, get around 4 days for Easter, 2 days for valentines, 2 week for summer, a week for thanksgiving, 3 days for Black Friday and a week and half for Christmas, which would be around a month and 10-11 days depending on the days of the month, but you still work on weekends
Anyone else still using the DVD service?
In which real company does managers encourage employees to take vacation? Netflix really does? In my 15 years' in IT field, I've only ever seen managers grumbling and trying to guilt trip you into abandoning vacation plans. And in some cases, outright deny vacation requests because of "upcoming work". All of these in case of fixed number of vacations. Such managers will also outright deny vacation requests when the company flips to unlimited vacation.
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The fact that, when i clicked on this video. Netflix advertisement suddenly pops up about global fan event
I've taken 10 of my 25 days this year. Ned to find relaxing use of the remaining 15 soon. So much pressure
Netflix: Take a vacation
Employees: Well now I am not doing it
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As long as I can take vacation for 24 hrs during my most stressful days, which is extremely rare for me, and I don't have to sign any arbitration clauses for a company (I refuse when possible because it's a willful document), I'm actually pretty happy.
If I was an employee I would just set myself up with traditional vacation time that I personally take track of take that time and no more unless it's an emergency like sick days or someone is in the hospital
I would take a month vacation overall. Split into 4 vacations of 1 week. Just be responsible people.
Shoulda mad the music drop to something a bit sader or scarearer when you explain the "bad" part.
They use unlimited vacation so if you get fired they do not have to pay out days and use peer pressure to keep you from using many days.
Just give a few MANDATORY paid vacation days so even the people who fall into peer pressure and don't take any are doing okay
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Thumbnail looks like john krasinski😂
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"Back in 2003..." wait, why is there a rotary phone?
Was expecting the video to start with a Netflix intro sound😅
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I had a bit of a pipe dream
When and if my game is finished on top of it being successful
I wanted to do a Netflix series for it
Why is it unlisted
Heh. I'd just start, and then go on vacation and essentially take it as a work-from-home thing. lol
WAIT THIS VOICE ACTOR IS FROM BRIGHTSIDE I REMEMBER THIS FROM BINGE WATCHING THEIR RIDDLE VIDEOS YEARS AGO
I never trust netflix after all the controversy surrounding the Company is still on going.
Weird
What controversy ?
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Keep up the great stuff
I love these videos
Unlimited vacation works for those who can work remotely. If you make things with machinery and robots that can't work. For example: vehicle assembly
Me: watches video
Netflix: working for us mean you don’t enjoy anything
Me: *waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa* sounds like a waste of a job.
Better than any job in Brazil, amateurs.
So how much are the Netflix employees pay rates