Entry-Level Jobs These Days
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You make me happy ryan
Okry
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I’m still suggesting “The First Guy to Ever Milk a Cow”
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Yes! Just Yes!
The first guy to witness a murder
Just what was that guy thinking?
Okay It's cool
But what were you doing with that Cow ?
“This software has existed for about 2 years, but we require 5 years experience in it.”
I remember the guy replying to an ad with that requirement. He was salty that he didn't have that experience despite writing the software.
"We are searching employees with 10 years work experience below the age of 25 years. - Nobody apllies - "What a situation, these lazy people do not want to work! We have to import more immigrants who will do this job for the minimal wage, or we should outsorce it to the poorest country!"
Pretty much my life story when I graduated from college. “This is our in-house software but we require you to know how to use it on day 1.”
Proper response to that is "Oh I have 10 years experience. I can retroactively provide that over 10 years."
I've literally had this happen in a job interview about tech that was about a year old at a time.
“Competitive pay” means they’re competing to see which company can get away with paying the least.
Underrated comment.
.05 cents a day then work up to minimum wage😂
False. Not enough talking about how “we’re a family” and “we work hard and play hard.”
Yes run away fast if you hear this.
By family, they must mean it in the sense of "organized crime".
Only way it makes sense given how they constantly betray and abandon their less powerful members...
" we're a family" is the biggest fucking lie companies tell. We're not a family. We're not even friends.
"We're family" in the way that if you question your parents, the bosses also scream at you "because I said so, now just do it!"
"We're a family" is what they use because they expect you to be content with shitty working conditions at even shittier pay.
HR: “Our CEO really wants to go to space.”
CEO: “Why hello there, I’m the Adstronaut”
It's all coming together.
I thought the adstronaut is Capt Tom
@@json_ao major Tom*
@@BlindCoyoteGod He was demoted after what happened with the last ship.
That's what I thought as well. He is the CEO
"By the way, how much does this job pay anyway?"
"Listen we aren't interested in employees who are only in it for the money"
"Well then you must not be interested in most employees unless you're able to give them the means to support themselves via corporate owned housing and food, so when you fire me I'll have to give you back everything I own."
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Cyberpunk Corporations....
The literal definition of EMPLOYEE
the last time I got that question responded by asking if they would be there if they were not getting a paycheck. I then told them that I was only looking for work because I need a way to support myself and family and that if they could not provide that then we were both wasting our time.
I got the job. The problem is that the company wants employees who are not going to look elseware for work. If an employee looks around for a better job then they might find out that their talents are worth more than the company is paying. Then its all about giving pay raises or losing talent to other companies, both of those cost money.
I've had 3 interviews go that way in the past 2 months. It is beyond asinine. I only ask because I've had my time wasted by companies who wait until you've taken 2 hours of tests and driven out to their facility in another state for an in person inteview only to tell you via a phone call that they are only paying their electrical engineers 35K salary, locked in for 2 mandatory years of employment which you cannot negotiate, if you quit you have to pay a delinquincy fine of 26K and they wanted me to be available to work in "all major US cities"... another payed 40k on a contract position in Chicago (no benefits) and the worst offender answered my question of "how much does this position pay?" After I had done their online tests, online interviews, driven to their facility and answered their hiring manager on the phone: The job posting said salary was 70-90K, I asked for 75K, the hiring manager began laughing at me, told me that they were *only hiring entry level employees without any experience* and that they were being generous enough to offer 30K salary at all, then hung up on me.
Edit: I currently have a year and a half of experience, a bachelor's and state certification. Apparently that still does not qualify me to get full time, permanent employment. The tech industry is a contract-gig ecconomy, companies refuse to directly hire workers, instead they hire contractors from hiring agencies so they can hide the fact their workforce is primarily composed of temporary workers.
@@bodaciouschad I feel like that's false advertising but i'm no lawyer.
Nothing will ever surpass an "entry" level job in my field that required a PhD, 4 years of experience(couldn't be replaced with schooling) and only paid $35k and was only temporary.
...What's your field. Teaching quantum mechanics in space?
@@dannonyogurt98 nah probably just teaching
Holy shit
@@Lorraine202 as a teacher, I can relate to that
That sounds like every job in academia.
Jobs: we need punctuality! We need dependability!
Also jobs: *won’t send a follow up message from an interview until three weeks later and they just want to have another interview*
The most painful thing is seeing a company advertising the same job you applied for but which they never got back to you about
That's how it went for me when I applied for a position that (for legit reasons) required education and experience. Going through multiple interviews is standard, and waiting weeks before getting an answer is also standard. Has nothing to do with the company being incompetent; that's how it is.
Also jobs: requests you fill hours on short/no notice because someone else called out.
@@hoppytoad79 what industry is that? Medical? Education?
Any hospitality place I've ever applied to usually got back to me in a week, or the next business day.
Took two weeks for the my engineering place to get back to me
One time I called a place up to set up an interview. They said the interviewer had one opening the next day so I said I'd be okay with that. Got there and was ushered into a room full of 20 other people. Someone got up to talk and went on for close to an hour about what the job entailed. At that point he mentions how this was the first of two interviews and they'd be doing short, 5 minute, interviews with each of us (they had 3 people conducting interviews and we had to wait for our turn) and then pick 4 to come back for the second interview, of which only 2 people would be hired. At that point this one guy sitting with us that had come in with a briefcase and wearing a suit just got up and walked out. I wish I'd had the sense to do that, but I was 18 and looking for my first job.
Waited another 20 minutes for my turn at an interview. They said they'd call me back in a few weeks if I passed the first round. Obviously never heard back from them, there were far more qualified people there than some 18 year old kid like me looking for a first job where only like 10% of the people there were going to be hired.
I was relieved, though. I had already decided they operated too shady for me. They had told me on the phone it would be a one on one interview (which technically happened for like 5 minutes, and is why I assume the one guy showed up in a suit and what I assume was a printed out resume in the briefcase) but made no mention about being put in a room with the people I was competing for a job with while they lectured us about the job and safety requirements (it was some kind of HVAC installation job IIRC) before we even got to the interview. On top of it all the job posting online I had seen had said $15+/hr starting wage but in my interview they said my lack of experience only qualified me for $10/hr. Which was at least more than minimum wage, which was $7.25 at the time in my state.
Still.. I envy the guy that just walked out. Didn't even phase the speaker, though. Made me wonder just how high the turnover rate was that they do these group interview sessions to hire a few people because someone else finally got fed up with their BS.
*"You can work your way up to minimum wage"*
That hurts, Ryan
But minimum wage is like $15. And because minimum wage is $15 a cup of coffee is $9.50 so corporations can still pay their employees nothing and make butt loads of money.
@@azombie8mybaby it's still 7.25 in most of the US, there are very few cities that have it at 15
I wish it was at 15, I'd actually be making enough to pay for tuition
@@azombie8mybaby The coffee at the gas station I buy coffee at is 1 dollar and has been 1 dollar for at least 20 years when I started drinking coffee in highschool
@@azombie8mybaby Some states don't have minimum wage, and in states that do have minimum wage, there are still loopholes to pay less to certain groups or job positions.
He stole that joke from Cracked.
So true. “Entry level”
Must have 2 years experience
At this point, if corporations and companies and employers won't pay a decent wage, maybe its time to fabricate those two years + experience needed.
If they lie about their hiring practices and wages, then we should have a right to do the same.
@@olivergrayhoundII I feel like they would probably be able to find out if you're lying on your resume, right?
With references. 😉
@@olivergrayhoundII There are legal consequences in most places however where said company could fire you for lying on the resume and sue you for damages and opportunity costs. You can do the same if the company is lying to you about worker conidtions but you'd need to considerably lawyer up first.
@@kohlcooke8789 not as much as you would think. They might call to verify your experience...the contact info you gave them was for your buddy though who will totally lie for you.
"Yeah, that was 'up to' $30 an hour. You'll be getting $7.25."
"How would someone qualified for the $30/hr?"
"Be the owner's nephew."
"Be the owner's nephew"
Where I live, you'd look at the desk plantation and reply, "Do you have any idea how LITTLE that narrows it down?"
@@hexmech1893 Yup at my previous job we had like 6 different bosses for 20 employees lol glad i got fired from this bs
"We start you at a competitive salary then over time you can work your way up to minimum wage" I felt this in my soul.
The only thing missing are the “parties” and “free donuts” whenever productivity milestones are met… you know, instead of bonuses or pay increases.
I was walking thru my companies building during orientation with a group of other starting employees. They walked us around a cafeteria, break rooms with tv and lounge area (even a ping pong area), gym, etc. I made a joke to some others, "Man, how much does working here suck that they have to do all of this". We all laughed. 6 months later no one was laughing. No one had time for any of the "amenities", you ended up using your break to try and finish your work and we couldn't afford the cafeteria prices even if we had time for lunch.
Oof yes. If you see a company providing lunch and treats all the time then run. If you work at a real place they don't need to do this kind of stuff
You guys got parties and donuts?
You guys got paid?!
Ironically my friend used to work in sales at I think AT&T, when they offered cash bonuses for high production nothing happened, then they would offer nachos and all the dude would get hyped and do the work to get the nachos, instead of the previously offered $200... She always groaned at this.
My old company didn't even do that. The most we got sometimes was the leftover fruit from the sales rep meetings. Gosh that place was garbage.
Entry-level job: "Sorry, we're looking for someone with a few years experience."
I don't think they know what 'entry level' means.
Constantly told they went with someone with more experience who has been doing it for four years.
@@MrSpartanspud At which point those people would be demand 80k on the low end because HR is dumb.
At this point, I'm assuming "entry level job" isn't "entry into the job market" but "entry into the company" in the eyes of companies - AKA "this is a good job to get into the company ladder!"
It means that they want to pay an experienced worker an entry level salary.
Facts
This is accurate. When I was interviewing for a job I requested a higher pay due to their pay not covering the lowest rent in a 50 mile radius. They came back and said “you seem to be only in this for the money”. Yeah bec that is all our agreement as employee and employer. You give me money to live. I give you my 8 hours a day for 5 days of my life for financial compensation to live in this society and economy.
I can’t believe real life requires this.
I feel like when God created existence, it was meant to be so much more.. free?
@@piotrbojkoff that’s not what I’m talking about. I was expecting life would basically be an eternal dreamstate where anything is possible
I don’t think they understand what a “job” is
When I graduated from grad school (with an additional 5 years of work experience) a company tried to convince me that they weren't interested in hiring people concerned about money and that this was all about being a part of a "family".... the company being the family. I told him there was no way I would even consider pursuing the interview further if he was unwilling to give me a salary range for the position (after telling him what range I was looking for). So we ended it right there. 3 months later he called me asking if I'd found a job yet (I did and at the salary I wanted) and if I had any friends looking for a job. Surprise surprise they hadn't found anyone to fill that position. You reap what you sow.
Joining a family as a man usually at least for me means somebody is giving me b. Js and they are actually into it. It ain't a new family otherwise, I know that sounds crass but it's literally true.
This sounds like the Marriott.
Join a family
A really unhealthy abusive one that’s a patriarchal dictatorship
Yeah, a real family cares about its members.
Some states have now made it law to advertise a wage range...it's a good law...
"I think my microphone was muted. Did you get all that, though?"
Jesus...How can something be so absurd and yet so accurate?
I think the funniest thing about this video is that he didn’t even have to make jokes, he just summarized the beginning of 2021.
...YES...sala...yes
No? Alright well your really gonna need to pay better attention if you get this job!
Translation: 'Ok, are you really gonna make me repeat that though? I don't wanna and I doubt you care either.'
I failed an interview with a heavily accented lady apparently in an echo chamber... for a tech position. I asked and she could not put the questions on the screen.
The boss touching his mask and wearing it improperly is painfully accurate
Yeah, that was a great touch.
"We're gonna need you to closely follow these CDC guidelines and mask mandates if you're going to work here"
I didn't realize the CDC requires we all watch season 24 of south park for instructions on how to properly wear face diapers.
N95 is proper, everything else is dogshit ignorant. I am a dental assistant so i can actually speak on what protects from viruses of the mouth unlike the masses
A diaper is preferred to catch a turd but a pair of unerwear helps in an emergency
@@majormarketing6552 Thanks for letting us know you're clueless and have no fucking clue what you're talking about.
I love how the '5 years experience with software that's only existed for 2 years' is in there. This literally has been a thing with certain companies and has been ruthlessly mocked for years.
I can't remember the specifics but , I remember similar thing in the job section of the news paper 20 plus years ago.
So, like, do they just not think, or what? How does that even happen?
The employer saying it was tough for his generation too while there's a flood exacerbated by an existential threat behind him is the best depiction for that whole generation
"Getting an entry-level job is super easy, barely an inconvenience!" - No one
Entry-level is literally the worst. But once you have experience you'll get hit up on linked-in every six months by recruiters asking if you want to switch jobs.
@@aina3387 Entry level literally is the worst. I have a pretty good job now but we only work 10 months out of the year. Even just working 10 months, I make more than I was working crap min wage jobs year round. I can collect during those 2 months but usually ive gotten a job at just mcdonalds or something to get me a little money and keep me busy. Its such a pain in the ass. I also realized that even after jumping through hoops to even get a min wage job, its horribly stressful working there. ITs not hard as in you have to be smart, but alot of min wage jobs are hard that its constant GO GOG O GOG OG O!!! FASTER!! WORK! WORK!! WHY ARENT YOU GOIN FASTER!! AAAARGGGGHHHH!!!"
Getting an entry-level job is tight
Do you know that's not really a problem in countries where most students do an apprenticeship?
In Switzerland 70% who finish school do a 3-4 year apprenticeship (AS) at the age of 15/16 and then have a lot of experience once they're finished. During that time students have an income (around 1300/m in the last year). In IT people can earn 7000 $ a months after the AS. In retail it's around 4100 swiss francs. People who chose that path could still go to Uni later. They have to visit a specific school (part time) to obtain the "Matura". which grants access to Universities. Germany works very similar.
Coach - "To be a Pitcher on this little league baseball team, you have to have Pitching experience as a Pitcher."
Me - "I've only been an outfielder but practice pitching at home."
Coach - "Yeah, that's not good enough."
Later in the season, Coach puts their own son in as Pitcher and balks almost every single pitch.
Me, in the outfield - "You suck!"
"Let's say it was tough for your generation, does that mean it should be tough for all generations to come?" Ryan just became my favorite person
Plot twist: It wasn't nearly as tough. Even tough at all.
Older generations were trying to make the future better. They're just irritated that you spoiled clowns complain about how good you have it constantly.
The most laughably air-headed boomer quote I’ve seen all day. Congrats good sir!
@@DrFrogglePhD They bought cars and houses for dimes and all I hear from them is bitching about how kids these days are always glued to their phones.
Every generation since the dawn of society had treated their next like that.
Boomers thought the same way of Gen X.
@@DrFrogglePhD Quality of life has been found to have been decreasing since Generation X onwards. Boomers can’t stand the fact that they failed and want to blame everyone else for their mess
Other: "Oh, so you work retail?"
Me: "Yea."
Other: "What are they paying you?"
Me: "$14.60"
Other: "To do what?"
Me: "Morning warehouse pick; stocking shelves from that pick; customer service; cleaning; repair orders; carry-outs through the back doors; carry-outs through the front doors; sometimes doing work for other departments; hole-checks; putting up sales signs and then taking them down--"
Other: "But that last one sounds like a normal tas--"
Me: "--Shut up; Shipping; Receiving; did I mention we still do this shit in button-ups and ties because our owner couldn't be bothered to move his ancient ass forward and update the uniform? Also, the air-conditioning in here sucks. I just got shit for doing my job--"
Other: "Oh, customers can be so--"
Me: "--by my boss; We still get paid via paper cheque, get ten cent raises if we're extremely lucky, and the owner thanks us by getting us coffee and donuts. Our longest-standing employee of 25 years was thanked with a $20 Walmart gift card. We also did all of the renovations because the owner was too cheap and lazy to pay for real renovators which is why this layout look like shit."
Other: "...For $14.60?"
Me: "Yes. $14.40."
-When I worked for Canadian Tire, Meadowvale. Yes. They are crooked.
But what solution would you suggest?
Canadian Tire employees don't wear ties....
@@yorkshiremgtow1773 to walk out even if you can't afford it
The 'shut-up' had me chuckle. Seriously though, that sounds fucking awful, I'm really sorry
@Mike Dalby Self respect and nerve is what it took to keep that job for the sake of my family and present situation. I couldn’t possibly explain every little detail and why keeping that job made sense for the time but I had my reasons. As the sole income, nothing was as simple as just leaving the job.
So yes, I had some fucking self respect. It just wasn’t that easy.
Crazy how it’s worse in 2024
I know right?
Murphy be right tbh. It can always get worse.
"Maybe the lifted spirits are more literal, then."
That joke.
Wdm joke
@@sergeantsainsburys9181 The joke is that since the poeple are sick they are going to die and so their spirits will exit their bodies upwards
@@MA22 they get the joke but were just saying that it's almost too true to be a joke
Oh I thought he was talking about how a lot of Amazon workers killed themselves in 2020/2021 because of their work conditions
I saw that coming, but the phrasing and delivery were still on point.
"We require 5 years of experience for a software that's been out for 2 years"
This isn't a mistake, this is just how companies seek out time travelers so that they can make even more profit.
This is actually one of the most relatable points for my industry.
That's a good one
Those rat bastarrds
No wonder the interviewers were looking at me like they wanted to run
This is how companies weed out actual job competition so the CEO's son can get a cush job doing f*ck-all. "Oh look, nobody qualified applied. Guess we'll just give it to Chad over here."
God this is so true! I have 12 years of experience in my current role and when applying for jobs I’m qualified for and have the experience to do, I get told I haven’t got enough experience... even though the role description asks for 2 years experience. Got to love employers’ inconsistency
Fuck em. They'll probably hire an undergrad with no experience for 1/5th the pay.
Just take note of the company and don't support their services/products.
You're overqualified, which is why they're lying to you. Why they're choosing such an obvious lie, I have no idea, but it's probably because you're so overqualified. They want someone who has years less than you they can exploit.
@@hoppytoad79 Oh absolutely! I know fully that it's all down to the ability to exploit lesser experienced guys and to pay them a measly salary. I've had a few interviews since posting that and every single one of them has fallen when it's gotten to salary! Of 5 interviews, they were all apparently "competitive salary", all were told in advance on the application of what my current salary was, and all of them tried to tell me they could only pay 10k less than I currently earn! Every single one of them were given both barrels for wasting my time with that shit. If you can't match someone's current salary, don't offer an interview without telling them that upfront
@@hoppytoad79 god I hate been told ''you're overqualified'' way more than ''you don't have enough experience''
I fucking know, I am worth more than this shit, if only there was anyone willing to pay right?
and they decide to ''move forward with another applicants''
You see, they just think that it's read as 1 to 2 years of experience instead of 12 because they just can't understand how to read numbers properly.
Never been a truer skit. "so your generation must be lazy and entitled" "I work two jobs and need this third one to live...." lol
I'm actually excited that employees are asking more of their jobs and being pickier after covid, companies should have prioritized their employees a long time ago
It's not gonna change soon, companies have been diminishing salaries and services for employees for a LONG time, in a world where progress is slower and slower, the easiest way to give the shareholder increasing margins is to cut on cost, and the easiest cuts are your new employees salaries/benefits. We have arrived at a point were everybody is like "wtf? we can't even afford houses" so the problem is obvious, but it won't get better until we somehow tackle this constant growth paradigm. Here is a little anecdote:
During COVID I worked at a company where ~70% of the work force was laid off, could it afford to keep them: of course! And they would've even remained profitable, but their profits would've dropped by 90% or so, and that's not good for the stock, so bye bye loyal employees. The stock responded very well to that, and over the course of the next year, the company could slowly rehire the people who were laid off as the situation normalized (without their annual benefits and bonuses of course). These people were laid off without warning so most of them were still on government employment insurance when they were rehired (insurance that employees end up paying in our taxes, around 50% for individuals in my country, not the company that pays merely around 20%). The CEO was very praised for that move so he got a bonus of 4 millions that year. I'm sure you can talk to a lot of people with the same experience.
There is nothing inherently bad in this scenario, everything worked as intended, in the end all of my colleagues are now back to work, the least lucky maybe lost 20k that year, but it's manageable if you didn't have previous debt. But the company made a shit ton of money on the government's back, and the CEO got rewarded a ridiculous amount of money for it. It's really disgusting, but who's gonna do anything about it? If you can change it, it's cause you already benefit from it, and nobody is gonna self sacrifice like that lol
They're asking more because they are hiring even less. Expecting 2 people to do the jobs of 6. It's definitely NOT a good thing.
@@Vacuon That's the issue with power in general. You have to have power to make a change, but that change usually means losing some of your own power or money, and every human is too invested in themselves to ever do that. The system will forever be broken unless it reaches a point where it has fully eaten itself. Whatever comes after that is anyone's guess.
@@DarthObscurity Pretty much. Company I'm working for right now keeps cutting down hours for our department and less people work in it now, all while putting the workload made for 2-3 people onto one person, like me, and get upset when demands aren't met.
@@Vacuon how is it not inherently bad that the company, who could afford it, laid off 70% of its workers and gives millions to the CEO as a bonus? (Id underline the bonus part if I could). Those millions likely came from erasing the jobs, aka salaries.
I get you're saying you are on the same side as that companies like that are bad but to say its not inherently bad is pulling the wool over your eyes.
"You start off at a competitive salary"
I guess that means all trainees have to compete at the end of month and the winner gets paid
Probably.
It´s instant gratification, they are giving you the "High end" salary first (assuming you arent going to have to negotiate with X other guys looking for the same job) and from then onward you are never going to be paid apropriately whenever you advance in the company ladder.
A competitive salary sounds great until you realize the competition is to see which company can pay its employees the least.
Competitive salary = you'll be competing with rats for trash scraps
Recruiter: competitive wages
Me: Oh, Thunderdome
I will never not be salty about the fact that ENTRY-LEVEL jobs ask for years of specific employment experience.
They want an early adapter
Even worse when it's for internships, and said internship pays half wage or nothing at all for the first 6 months.
I think the companies see it as an entry-level job to their company, as in "you can enter our company at this level" which is stupid and not at all what everyone ever looking for a job seems to think entry-level means. And not what I think it should mean. But it would explain this.
@@Pingviinimursu But by that definition, any job advertised would be entry level...if it's only a job for someone already at the company that would just be an internal promotion...
@@lewisroach8723 Exactly. And since people can join companies as low level workers or high ranking managers, it doesn't make any sense. I just get the feeling they are trying make it seem you can enter as a low level employee and make your way up to the top, which at least in my field isn't how things happen. But I think it worked more like that in the past, and they might want to pretend nothing has changed? I don't know, any explanation of how the term is used doesn't make any sense at all :D
2:23 "Sometimes the ocean comes to sea ya"...
I 'sea' what you did there Ryan George...
“That is a flood”
“We’d like to think of it as a peak”
"Hey I think my microphone was muted, but did you get all that?" classic boss behavior
The part where shit gets dystopian is relateable.
what does random ass ruthe do in the first few comments ^^
and yeah even Austria got a little bit of flooding.
Oh, hi Ruthe! Guter Geschmack!
what are u talkin about
Oh wow a wild Ruthe, didn't expect you here :)
Can't wait to see one of your life shows again :)
Oh yes the whole video
Some companies be like:
Wage: *minimum Salary*
Required education: *Masters degree*
So stupid, it´s not even funny, also you can tell most of those companies to F*** Off with the proximity principle anyway.
They do that so they can tell the govt to ship in more H1-B or have excuses to hire cheaper labor overseas. "We can't find anyone here!!"
It's literally a parody of itself
Needs 14 years of experience
Yeah and than think about how much of that minimum salary is going into paying off that masters degree
Thanks a LOT for being so entertaining, Ryan George! I just watched the entire Adstronaut Grammerly ad wo consciously realizing I was watching an ad until it was almost over solely because I was entertained by the interplay between you and Florp-Flap. That’s talent, man!
2:42 - 2:53 Oh my god, finally my exact thoughts put into words so that everyone can understand. This is just... EVERYONE in the word should watch your videos Ryan. Children at school should watch your videos and analyze them. The world would be better if we did.
"So, you have a dystopian reality for me?"
"Yes sir, I do."
Wow wow wow wow…wow.
We like to think of it as a perk
Dystopian??
@@andorfanjullopez2427 yeah yeah yeah
Um that’s the real world he just described
"Say it was tough for your generation but does that mean it should also be tough for all generations to come?"
Ryan spitting facts
Not really - the babyboomer generation had it quite good for the most part.
Back then waiters at McDonalds got health ensurance and higher pay than current minimum-wage (adjusted for inflation ofcourse).
@@Shuizid Of course, but this argument works because it even says that even IF it was hard for the Boomers, it's still stupid and illogical to NOT want to make a better system and improve for future generations.
It's just selfish Boomer conservative logic.
it SHOULD be hard, to a point, for each generation, because there will ALWAYS be trouble in the world, and people need to be prepared for it.
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@@nybergsgarage that's like saying there will always be murders in the world so we should also commit murder to prepare other people for it
How can Ryan be so spot on about so many different things?!?? I love the guy 😌
"We've had this program for the past two years. We do require you to have five years experience with it." Literally my last two jobs.
"What are we gonna do about it? something?"
Genius😂
Maybe-
No.
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"Something" is already too much.
"Software that's been around for the past two years, we do require five years of experience with it."
"I don't have that, no, no, you know, because of the mathematical impossibility."
Found my argument.
The recruiter who knows nothing about the job;
"Not a team player"
"Problem focused instead of solution focused"
"Attitude problem"
Voila, not hired, because basic logic is not welcome in a corporate environment.
Which is coincidentally why corporation keep making mistakes avoidable with... You guessed it, basic logic.
It is possible to have five years of experience with software that has existed for only two years if you used the software in three different, unrelated projects at the other two companies.
Two years from one project plus two years from another project plus a year from a third project equals five years of experience.
If that makes sense to you, you can get an entry level job. If it doesn't, you're probably paying for the privilege of being allowed to solve other people's problems for free. People who got entry level jobs.
tbh why not just lie in that situation? The recruiter asking is never gonna actually check this they wouldn't be asking this if they knew how to do that and anyone who actually has anything to do with it will obviously be aware that you could only possibly have X years of experience. Otherwise just give a vague but affirmative answer such as "I have significant experience with that software" or "I have years of experience with it", just avoid actually saying how many years again they probably won't check.
@@hedgehog3180 Correct, always overexaggerate in interviews. The whole point is to make you look like a god.
Thing is this isn't a joke ,this actually happened. Think it was OpenAPI or something, the guy who invented made a tweet about jobs asking for 5 years experience when it's existed for 2 and even he couldn't get that job despite fucking inventing the system
Looking back on this in 2022 is excellent and so funny thinking about all those companies who "can't find employees" when they've been treating workers like crap for years!
The company health plan is a loaded revolver in your desk top drawer.
Nice, I'm in. My last company said I had to buy the bullets myself.
"We are hiring university graduates in their 20s with 30 years of experience and the salary is of a high schooler."
"These requirements are ridiculous."
"Get off my back."
"No, you get off my back."
"No, I will not get off that thing but you can."
*gets job*
Me: "Man I really hate how low pay is, it's basically minimum wage"
Guy with boomer mentality: "Well then you should get a skill and make more, minimum wage jobs are for high schoolers!"
Me: "But this IS a skilled job...."
Guy: "Well you're just lazy"
We require you to have so much experience, you were in diapers when you started.
@@alexandermarvin9536 Meanwhile the employer(s) can barely send an email without someone walking them through every step...
You get off YOUR back
.....
@@alexandermarvin9536 We also require your grandparents to have an engineering degree
Companies nowadays: “Urgently hiring, apply now!”
Also companies: *Don’t reply to you for over two weeks*
Or by the time they offer you a position it's been months and you already settled somewhere else.
@@m1k3l1f3 One place contacted me nearly two years afterward...
@@Shadow-iv9ft wow
I've been waiting to hear back from a grocery store that was "very short staffed and looking for immediate help" 4 days now. When asked what I would expect to earn I said $10, and the interviewer looked at me like I was fucking insane. I made $11 at my last job doing the same work. They expect me to take less with more experience while "desperate" for workers. Because we're all so laaaaazyyyy these days
@@chrismanuel9768 Same thing happened at me working at a restaurant. Got hired on immediately as a cook, left the company 8 months late making $9.50 while the cashiers, who did close to nothing, started out at $10. What they really want is a bunch of mindless worker bees.
One cool thing I learned about my job is that if I say yes to coming in once on my day off they’ll also ask me to come in every time on my day off! I work Tuesday-Saturday and out of 3 months of working here I have been called in to work on a Monday 7 times. It’s super cool to not have a weekend or anytime to myself
telling you to wear the mask while also wearing their own incorrectly, that was so accurate. ..
"But the thing is our CEO really wants to go to space."
"Oh he REALLY wants to go I didn't realize that"
lol
It's worth it then. We'll all pee in a bottle with the hope that someday we get to see him go to space.
Wait, he's planning on coming BACK? Fuck that then.
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If you took the 5.5 billion that Jeff Bezos spent to go to space and distributed that to every Amazon employee, they would each get an extra 79 cents a week for a year.
I’ll take it a step further, if you liquidated Jeff Bezos’ entire net worth and distributed that to every Amazon employee, they would all get an extra $27 a week for one year.
Do you see now how Jeff Bezos’ wealth is not a problem and wouldn’t help anyone if it was taken away from him?
@@thedoor43 still full of shit to spend people into space instead of like? Idfk helping with the fire
@@thedoor43 If Bezos gave his employees a 2-minute bathroom break now and then, along with other basic necessities, he'd STILL have billions of dollars. In fact could be argued that he might even have MORE money because his company wouldn't be so unpopular. It would be easier to find employees, those employees would be happier and less likely to burn out / quit / commit suicide, and customers would be less likely to look for other options of where to buy their junk from.
"I already have two jobs and need a third one to afford living here" god that hits hard
IKR 😞
California.
you can do it internet doggo!
@@sadtani5677 literally most places post Covid. Rent went up like 20% everywhere in the Last year
Yep, have to admit, my son has been going through the 'need 3 years experience before there's any earthly chance of getting it' problem for entry level jobs for the past 8 years.
On the other hand, I was doing a full time job as a (very poorly paid) head gardener, worked in a fast food restaurant for 2 hours each weekday evening, and worked as a private gardener for a banker at the weekends - the first 2 jobs for £3 per hour, the weekend job at £6 per hour (that was around 32-33 years ago).
Houses were impossible to buy on those kind of wages at that time, and I was struggling with the ever-increasing rent, utility bills, rising public transport costs. Oh, and back then, if a potential employer didn't want mere 'women' working for him - he could say so right to your face and there wouldn't be anything you could do about it (happened to me twice).
It makes no difference what generation you're in, the job market sucks for the majority of us.
Unfortunately it’s a lot worse now due to the saturation of degree’s a stagnant minimum wage and the use of completely insane algorithms that’s will discard everything without 200 key words without any nuance
All this is missing it "We have a labor shortage because nobody wants to work, but you need to be grateful that you have an underpaid job with no benefits."
"Your generation is lazy and entitled
- I already have two jobs and I need a third to afford living here!"
That kind of sums everything up!
That one always baffles me. If you can't afford to live there, then why are you? Move to a place you can afford.
@@saber-jocky3436 But that costs money, something they don't have, hence the 3 jobs
@@saber-jocky3436 the cheaper place to live has fewer jobs and they pay less. So you still can't afford to live. But now you've spent all your money moving.
@@paulchro_ 3 full-time jobs?
@@saber-jocky3436 how is that suggestion going to work on a societal level? For Example if people would move out of areas they are being outpriced of almost no one would work in essential buisnesses like retail, cleaning or the serivce industry in Expensive areas (Aka Cities) think outside of mere job occupany as well and get creative about what would happen to an area if people who are being priced out of it move away. You will see that the "just move away solution" is no solution at all.
Boss: "I need you to work overtime."
Me: "Are you gonna pay me overtime?"
Boss: "..."
Boss: "Do you want to keep this job or not!?
sorry you don't qualified for the pay
Yes. We will pay you over time. The first payment will arrive after your death. Funds are non-transferable to beneficiaries.
"pay you what now?"
Boss who literally walked into his job 30 years ago and was able to buy a house, two cars, and a vacation home from it then: "Man this generation just really doesn't know how to put work in. Things were so hard for us!"
I'm almost in tears watching this. Because I honestly think there is a global disease that only infects people in upper management that literally reduces their words and discernment to incoherent audible drooling. I always feel like I'm on a completely different plane of reality than they are.
Narrator: they were.
Narrator: Hey! The author fired me! Well, back to trying to work 20 jobs at once again. Wonder what having a decent HR is like.
The part at 1:07 is so true. I was finishing my computer science degree in 2015 and when I looked for some jobs for programming in Swift (an Apple programming language that was released in 2014) everywhere I looked the minimum requirement listing for the junior/entry level positions required at least 5 years experience programming in Swift.
"Your generation's lazy"
"I have two jobs and I need a third one to afford living here"
That one hits home a little too hard...
@@94DeathAngel And boomers didn't work 3 jobs. Seriously I am so fucking sick of that generation, and they have the balls to say WE'RE entitled.
@@itsybitsy999 The hell they didn't. My Dad had 3 jobs as long back as I have memories of him. I had 3 to 4 jobs to raise my family. One full time and 2 or 3 part-time. I love how people who were NOT alive 40 and 50 years ago, know ALL about it. But people who have lived through what we're seeing now, "don't have a clue".
@@lauragriffin6512
THANK YOU!!!
That's how life has been since before the Great Depression almost 100 years ago. My generation was called lazy by the previous generations. "The more things change, the more they stay the same." Ever heard that? It's so true.
@@lauragriffin6512 Time really is a flat circle
“We should improve society somewhat”
“But what if we took all that time, money and human ingenuity and instead we send our CEO to space for 4 minutes”
Can we blow up the space ship in those 4 minutes otherwise I'm not interested lol
And they did, (at the end of the video)
Priorities ppk
@@erikmckoul2478 with Jeff bezos in it right?
Getting it up for 4 minutes is relatable.
Ah yes. Entry level jobs. I remember when I first started after getting my degree, all the jobs required 3 years experience. I got my first 9 months by working for free. Didn't mind that as at least they paid for my food and later accommodation when I wasn't working in the field and camping. Was just about to start getting paid when the project shut down. Managed to get a paying job on a 12 month contract next. The pay was terrible but I was in the middle of nowhere so nothing to spend money on. Due to the financial crash that got scaled down from 28 staff to 3 and projects everywhere lost funding. Entry level jobs everywhere went to 5 years experience required as unemployed people flooded the market. After months of no success in finding a job I decided it was time to volunteer again. Cobbled together another 6 months experience. The last straw was getting interviewed by a 3 person panel for a 12 month unpaid contract that could lead to a job eventually and they decided I didn't have enough experience. By that point I had my name in 5 scientific papers and had even been teaching certain aspects in my field but it didn't count for squat apparently. I gave up after that.
What do you do now?
@@RandomSkyeRoses I run a brewery. I do miss being out in the field though.
What are you doing now? Are you working at Mcdonalds flipping burgers for $3 an hour?
@@justicedemocrat9357 That would be illegal.
Wow, that's was kind like my life! Now I'm finishing my last contract (I get paid, but I had a master degree in engineering and earn less that basic union workers in the same factory). All the jobs I'm looking now are the same, the even ask for more work days or hours per day, pay same or less, don't give me food or commute like the last one, and they still say I'm not qualified enough. I really want to start my own business, and a brewery is in the list. I'm looking for a part time job (maybe teaching) that covers my basics and give me free time to work for myself.
Ryan you are by far the most creative and fun youtuber. Thank you for making content that always helps make my day better.
Plot twist: The Ad-stronaut is a billionaire CEO.
Mr. Businessman was a simple CEO with a life-long dream of going to space. But after selling his soul and the blood of his employees to achieve that dream, he was cursed. He was to remain in space, forever advertising random brands with only a snarky alien as a companion. That alien would sometimes try to lay eggs in his chest.
And all the products he promotes are part of his Ryaniverse Empire
He got into space purely from constantly pitching ads
No, it looks like he's in actual space.
It all comes together now
"Want a job? Here's a test with complicated maths problems in it."
"Um... This is a warehouse job where all I need to do is stack boxes... why do I need any of this?"
"Good luck."
Based on a true experience
I had a similar experience with a job application, except I had to arrange five different personality traits from most related to me to least related and had to do so like 20 times. That kind of shit is what interviews are for.
@@thefanwithoutaface8105 Just reverse the order of every list they give you, regardless of it's content. They'll be so impressed with how quickly you finish that they'll hire you regardless of the results.
If you're be tested by an AI, or some sorta quiz filter, the only part you need to get right is the address.
I had to do an hour long maths and english test to qualify for an apprenticeship as a butcher.
My first month's self-study work included a reflective writing assignment.
I'm now 5 months in to an 18 month course and I have not had a single lesson that involved any meat.
^that maths and english test contained stuff like working out the area of an irregular rectangle, working out the angles of an isoceles triangle, and complex grammar questions.
@@Pro_Butcher_Amateur_Human O.o ...the fuck
God, I was trying to find this funny, but honestly it just gave me anxiety because it’s so true.
I love the fact that you don't distrupt the sketch with the sponsorised content.
The mask being used as a chin-guard while he was lecturing about needed a mask was the funniest part, BECAUSE IT ACTUALLY HAPPENS.
Semi-related but I just got flashbacks. A while back, we had one of our quarterly video calls between our entire on-campus office and a C-Level who'd been working remote since March 2020. At one point he "joked" that we really didn't need masks for a remote meeting and it'd be nice to see people's faces again.
Nobody laughed. We did not have the space to distance, one of us had already caught COVID, management "couldn't justify" remote work despite staying at home themselves, the public would NOT be convinced to back up a few steps, and vaccines were only just being rolled out to an age bracket none of us fit.
That said, the other great thing about masks is that they are very, very good at disguising a pissed-off expression. That meeting might have gone even worse otherwise.
@@katrinahockman5561 That's just how the modern world is. The C-levels are all happily remote working, while everyone else below them is forced back into the office.
Lol I wear mines as a chin strap if I wear it all.
But, that's no different than the boss coming out of the office to remind everyone to wear earplugs, knowing he's not wearing any at all.
Its almost as if no one actually cares but were all pretending like we do
"The ocean comes to sea you." That made me laugh way more than it should've.
See
@@LordKalte pun 😅
It’s “should of”
…according to 99% of the idiots online. I was in shock that someone knew basic 1st grade contractions.
Unlike the ocean, I don’t have to come sea you. I can sea you from afar.
Anyone else I'd think that was a coincidence, but with Ryan it's probably intentional
Great video Ryan good choice to you something similar to pitch meeting. One of the issues that deal with pitch meeting is the lack of visuals it becomes a little repetitive versus everything wrong with CinemaSins. That was a good thing about this video same format just on a different topic very good decision
“You need 5 years experience in an entry level job.”
Ooph. I felt that one in my soul.
The sad part is this really even isn’t parody, this is really how businesses are now days
oh my sweet summer child.. that's how business is allofdays😑
When the public turned on unions, this was inevitable. But it was definitely made much worse, and to happen much faster because most of us became mindless consumers. Buy stuff ya don't need from rich, greedy people, as frequently as possible. What can possibly go wrong?
@@ichijofestival2576 Our consumerism is a massive drain on well-being. We support sweatshops overseas. We support imperialistic wars and occupations that help get access for these companies to feed our insatiable consumerism. We support the reaping and dumping of huge amounts of toxic wastes (like lithium), as well as a ton of other unsustainable, destruction industrial behaviors. We support the crumbling of education and meaningful human communication, as people stare at screens all day and night because they can carry it around with them everywhere they go. Consumerism, without the sugar coating, is a nightmare.
@@tomm04471 found the boomer
@@tomm04471 because being able to afford a house, a car, and a family of 4 on 1 minimum wage salary was so difficult.
I resonate strongly with the "entry-level" position requiring 5 years of experience in a software that has only existed for 2 years.
Like, I'm almost certain I've seen *exactly* that on a job posting before.
No you didn't.
@@drjonesey5 I cant find it now but I did read a humorous article once about some software developer technically not being qualified for a job because he created the software but he didnt have so many years of experience in a job using that software. It was basically a commentary on how years using a certain software does not equal how experienced you are.
Ive also seen job postings that literally say "Must have previous job experience that used word or excell" or something like that. Most just say that you must be able to use them, but others actually say you had to have used them in a job. The first time I had a job that required me to use excel was when I was 27, but I had been using spreadsheets since I was 18 or 19 years old.
Last thing, any job that requires any years of experience shouldnt be able to pay min wage. If you require me to have several years of experience with something, why on earth would I work for the same amount of money I could get at a job that requires me to just have a pulse?
@@letsplayxboxsports I don't know about that, but I remember the story of a guy that was fired after automating his own job. The guy was hired and 8 months later he had completely automated his job. The next 6 (!) years of his workdays were spent playing League of Legends. A period, by the way, during which he forgot how to write proper code. When IT found out, he got the boot.
@@letsplayxboxsports I remember something similar about a company that wanted a few years of experience on a software but the guy who created the software couldn't get the because it had not existed for the required amount of years
@@Alkis05 reminds me of an article about a guy that outsourced his coding to China for 1/3 his salary.
this is not even satire... any millennial can confirm.
In the USA, at least
Still love the fact that his moustache has a bigger moustache over it to show the scale of his importance.
Double moustache required to climb the corporate ladder!
I wonder how many moustaches the CEO has, hopefully not too many or he won't fit into the spaceship
It makes him look twice as important!
@@erufailon4723 Plot twist: CEO has no mustache to show how much of a "down-to-earth maverick" he is.
I don't know how Ryan consistently manages to have the most savage burns while being ridiculously wholesome at the same time. It's truly amazing.
I know! Right?!?
Its a Canadian thing I assume
It’s super easy, barely an inconvenience
Ahhh wholesome savage burns is tight!
I couldn't agree more.
Requiring 5 years experience for a software that's only been out for 2 years is TIGHT 😆😆
Grammarly is the only ad I've seen on youtube that delivers solid services
Employee: "This job sucks ass."
Boss: "So get a new one."
Employee: "Fine!"
Interviewer: So it looks like you were only at your last job for a year, I don't think we can hire someone who has such commitment issues.
Interviewer: "So I see here that you were on your last job for two years, I don't think we can hire somebody so unmotivated."
It's their fucking loss.
Now they can't hire ANYBODY lol
@@rafael502 , honestly, I’m just glad that I’m super mentally and physically disabled to the point I don’t have to work real jobs at all because I’d constantly be calling bosses dickheads, and immediately demanding higher wages if I’m the only person working in the company the longest and doing the most hardest work.
I left my job after a year because when covid happened no one had any idea how bad it was going to get or how dangerous the virus was. Italy was literally reporting mass death unlike I've seen in my lifetime. I live with my mother and grandmother(because of fucking course I do) and both were at risk my mom especially since she needed surgery.
You'd think that I had joined a terrorist organization from the reactions I get during interviews. Thankfully I'm a GameStop Ape so I can live with out working for some number of years if I wanted to.
“You can’t get sick if your spirt is being lifted”
Technically correct
If your spirit is lifting that much that quickly, it's likely you're already dead and just don't know it yet.
Spirit being lifted right the fuck outta you!
In a literal sense, yep
But its grammatically incorrect
Spirit*
And i know its probably Just Quick fingers
Life hack #23452 - you don't need health insurance if you're already a ghost.
I have to say I just love those creative Ads from Adspace, You are a genius my good Sir.
Damn Ryan. You hit em HARD with this one.
The best line Ryan ever had on entry level jobs was in the Ocean video. "Our sick day policy is don't get sick and we wont have a problem" is the motto of sooo many places I or friends have dealt with
seriously, this is a thing.
Straight FACTS.
My buddy just quit a warehouse; if you're sick you have to come to work, so they can judge you themselves
Business insurance has skyrocketed because of the pandemic. Employers are going to be more draconian about sick days and long term disability. They will mandate masks and vaccination. They may refuse to hire people who have had covid because of possible long term covid. Or the possibility that someone who had it once will be sicker if they get it again due to cumulative lung and brain damage.
It’s for this reason I stopped doing part time and just applied to full time positions. Less stress, more money, and benefits, paid sick days included.
No more catching something and dreading that feeling that a day missed could make or break me. 😩🙏
Watching Ryan using a mask reminds me of producer guy saying: “I could’ve been a doctor…”
🤣
I heard it could have been super easy, barely inconvenience. He had good grades.
lmaoooo
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"I had good grades..."
I love your channel keep up the great stuff!
I haven't laughed that hard in awhile. Thank you for your work
As someone who’s channel is dedicated to helping people get their first entry level role…
I can confirm this is 100% accurate.
*whose
The very sad thing about this video, especially requiring 5 years experience for a technology that has only existed for 2, is how accurate it all is. Nicely done.
And it's software that was created in house that was never released outside of the company so there's no way you could have even heard about it.
I once saw that a job my friend was applying for required 5+ years of experience for a software (i forget which one) that had only been publicly released for 3 years. It was an entry level job
We have a job here but no one is qualified to fill it
Sebastián Ramírez's FastAPI came to mind, he posted a while back he saw a job requiring 4 years of experience in it, he had created it 1.5 years earlier. Job entries get made by HR, not people with a clue.
@@MoriguTheDead damn it’s sad to see the HR department of all things fail to assess the qualifications and resources needed for a job. That’s like half of their job
This skit reminded me of a job requiring you to have 5 years of experience with a library/framework, and the one who made it called them out for it, saying he had 3 years of experience with it, because he made it.
Numbers might be off, but you get the issue.
This is the only channel that actually makes me interested in their sponsor because on how this guy talks just convinces me
"You can't get sick if your spirit is being lifted"
Logic of every CEO
also, money doesnt lift spirits, heartfelt emails from the CEO's assistants secretary lifts spirits !!
@@asmosisyup2557 I had a manager at KFC who wanted to have some lame contest to see who could get the most upsales and addons in a month, which no one wanted to participate in. He asked us what kind of reward would motivate us to do it but before anyone could answer he said, "Anything but a money prize." We all just looked at each other for a moment and shared a nearly telepathic "What does he think we're here for?!"
@@Dargonhuman omg I'm laughing so hard dude. Same thing kinda happened to me. In the company that I worked for, there was this super special award that our CEO told us about. All employers worked hard to get it, but at the end it truned out to be a "best employee of the year" poster and something like 50 dollars.
"The lifted spirits might be in a more literal sense"
He's hilarious 😂😂
This makes me realize that when the apocalypse actually happens there will still be people making fun of it on the internet all the way up til it all goes dark.
Even worse, they will be people calling it a hoax while they themselves are already literally dying. At least making fun of something acknowledges reality.
So?
_Taco lips_ rhymes with _apocalypse._
T'is all Fun & Games until *anarchy* comes to town
that is literally what is happening. the timescale is just too slow for you to perceive.
Bro we’re literally already living in the apocalypse
ADstronaut at the end was great. Loved it
Just happened upon your personal channel. Thank youuuuuu!
Plot twist: the Adstronaut is the billionaire CEO that wanted to go into space
That would be one of the greatest if not the greatest plot twist of Ryan's videos
And now I wrote literally the exact same comment without checking if someone already did that. Accidentally stealing jokes is super easy, barely an inconvenience!
All billionaires want to go to space because the planet is becoming uninhabitable for human life.
A timeline where Bezos was actually denied reentry.
you fricking genius
Ryan outdid himself in that one. And I mean: with the writing. Not with the job interview ... that went rather horribly.
Ohhhhh, no -- that went *exactly* according to plan.
But he got the job
The algorithm reminded me I should watch this video again and it is amazing! That Blamazon company is really hilarious! Thank you Ryan George! And thank you algorithm, excellent choice!
a sponsor ad that i actually enjoyed watching. genius.
I was expecting Ryan to change the "Hello it's me, I'm the adstronaut" to "I'm the CEO" at the ad section.
I'm with you ont hat.
Wow, he REALLY wanted to go to space.
Or just have the CEO cameo in the background. Either way, a slightly missed opportunity.
Oh man, that would have been gold!
He missed a trick😂
my fav was my school telling me I wasn't qualified with a degree from my school
Wtf?? How? What's the story?
I am interested in this story
Please tell us the story.
Oof :/
Story! Story!
I watch the adds after the skits, no clicking away.
Well deserved.
The flooding and still having to work thing literally just happened where I live/work (Philadelphia). It’s kinda funny how true this all is.