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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!"
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
"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!"
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...
"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." ... ... Cyberpunk Corporations....
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.
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.
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.
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
"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 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."
This is actually me currently. People say "just quit" and I say "I NEED TO PAY RENT". Everyone is so judgemental when they've never been in your shoes lol.
I know what you mean. No one likes overworking in jobs but there is just no other choice since if you don't work, you end up homeless. Sometimes I want to just quit and live in a forest and be a hermit. But Now I cant do that since Forests tend to randomly catch on fire.
@@Sohasorouri Ah yes, me, a lowly min wage slave, living paycheck to paycheck, with no notable talent or skills, or a college education, or rich parents, or any friends who can invest their abundant amounts of money into my "business"... yes, I will start the arbitrary company corporation business institution business just out of thin air. What shall my randomly selected business be base on? Essential oils, cupcakes, hand made soap, or trinkets made from resin? Or perhaps I shall become a TH-camr 😂
Sounds like slavery to me. If there was UBI or at least a decent unemployment program, you could just quit. Then companies would have to pay fair wages to keep their employees, instead of using the threat of poverty. ... Honestly, if France had such conditions there would be riots.
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
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. 😩🙏
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*
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.
@@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.
"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
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.
@@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
@@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.
@@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.
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.
You're telling me you want to earn money to live instead of wanting to work as a corporate slave and make money for some millionaire boss who doesn't care about you ? How dare you sir ?
Was the place in CA or NYC metro? Those places are very expensive. IDK why so many people live there when everything costs an arm and a leg. NYC, last time I went, only offered free refills on coffee, not soda.
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.
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 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.
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.
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!!!"
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!"
"You're gonna need to pay a bit more attention than that when you start!" - after they make a mistake is such agony, I am so familiar with it that I actively cringed inside-out when I heard it. Once had an interview where they told me four times that training started Monday at 8:00 AM, but then they yelled at me for no-call-no-showing the Friday training at 8:00 AM and were about to fire me when I showed them the literal email invitation that said Monday at 8:00 AM, and they said 'oh, my bad, but you're gonna have to pay better attention if you are going to stay working for us."
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
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 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.
@@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
"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.
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
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.
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.
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
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
"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.
"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"
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''
@@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".
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.
@@94DeathAngel this summer break my parents were constantly on my back, thinking I was lazy doing nothing but being on social media. I recently started a Channel though, And basically edit and improve my channel all day and night.
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.
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.
@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.
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.
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
@@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.
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.
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.
@@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.
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.
@@badmoonris1ng476 That's a serious 'Need' you are going to have at some point in the Future...just let me know when exactly that Time arrives (or if it already has) and I will respect that 'Need' of yours when that very important need of yours needs to be addressed and respected...but until I know exactly when you have the 'Need' for me to "Get all the way off your back" I shall remain firmly affixed, grappled and clinging to your back
@@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.
We really went from making movies about crazy dystopias and thinking "something like that would never happen" to actually living in our own twisted dystopic present
@@karlhans6678 oh sure, I mean it's still no hunger games, but it's not good. Like we're really in a mess of a system, and everything from plague to natural disasters makes that so much harder to bear with
@@thevoxdeus maybe, but this has been much more real to us because it's happened now. I'm not discrediting the past. There's some horrible shit that's happened over time. But the state of the media, our complete separation from nature and dependency on goods that harm us, a global pandemic killing millions, almost constant threats of war that are cheapened and never taken seriously because everything has become a parody of itself, the unprecedented wastefulness and the effect we've had on our planet, the fact that 90% of the wealth is in the hands of 1-2% of the population and yet homelessness is rampant, a serious chunk of people don't have access to clean drinking water, and the housing market is failing, not to mention we've outsourced every human rights violation and moved slavery overseas just so the average person feels better about themselves... And I could go on and on. It's not the great war, or the great depression, or the time of the dinosaurs, and no one's burning on a cross outside your window, but there's some really horrible stuff still going on that shouldn't be tossed aside either. If you look at everything going on right now it feels terribly dystopic, and no one really knows who or what to trust, it's sad. And maybe it's not a bang or a pop, but are we expected to support and be proud of a society that's just a fizzle? A society that lines the pockets of the undeserving while millions starve, and then turns right around and markets our starvation back to us with a grin and the promise of a white picket fence?
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.
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.
Reminds me of my company's VP when hearing complaints told everyone "if you don't like the direction we're heading you can leave" and "you walked into our company with two feet you can walk on out." So now we can't keep anyone.
That basically translates too "shut up and just do what I asked of you because it's unlikely you'll quit at this exact second". Then the worker just does what's requested and the employer continues to run his business based on his business plan written in crayon. Sorry guys, but "expecting perpetually cheap and abundant skilled labor" isn't a business plan.
@@laverdadbuscador And yet everyone does exactly what CNN and the government tells them without ever questioning it, while complaining about being oppressed.
This couldn't be more accurate. Only thing that's off is that the software won't be 2 years old, it'll be about 40 because the company refuses to look for a better alternative even if it would be vastly better for people to use.
I have three degrees, over twenty years of experience, and every time I talk to a potential employer I'm still falling short. They just keep on asking for more qualifications, experience and pay cuts. Just missing that one more thing!
@@OniDemo It's really baffling, not enough staff to do the work, intent to hire more staff, everyone is either not qualified or over-qualified to stack some shelves and move stock around.
Atleast 2 years for a junior position while their director of communications made it from trainee to his director position in literally 5 years. Yep, sounds fair
lie. They either check your work background or they don't. HR people being largely worthless , they are too busy on their social media/cellphone to check, and hire based on other criteria, like personal preference or just pick who is on the top of stack/list of job apps that has the mins- true or not..
Well, one trick is to just count all your years of related school study as years of experience. It's not a lie and if they call you out on it, you can flip it right back around on them. Even if they don't hire you, by this point you've at least you've had a couple interviews, gotten some more "experience", highlighted their stupidity and succeeded at wasting their time more than your own
@@Dukeflyhawker I tried flipping it onto this guy in an interview that said I need more experience. I asked where he would recommend I get the experience and how long I should take and he told me that he’s not allowed to.
Employer: "we need you to have 5 years of experience with this entry level job" Me:"But how can i get 5 years of experience if you need 5 years for an entry level position?"
That is literally not what entry level means. Then they probably complain that nobody wants to work there. We got barely any qualified applicants. Time to outsource this job to India.
Society be like:This question kinda makes sense when u think about it,but instead of answering it or at least try to improve things,i'm just gonna call you lazy and entitled
Obligatory: "He literally couldn't be left in space even if he wanted to, since that company hasn't yet developed a rocket that can stay in space" Blue Origin, more like Below Orbit lmao
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!
"We're hiring people at the age of 30 with 40 years of experience, you got that?" "No, but I once did a back flip, snapped a guy's neck and saved the day!"
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
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!
"Sorry is that tree on fire outside?" "Yeah trees sometimes catch on fire. That's kinda how weather works now." Me: *literally watching this during a thunderstorm with lots of trees around.*
@@hailey_the_ace_of_hearts4127 Yo, same. There's so much smoke in my town that most of us don't even know what the mask mandate currently is as we're all wearing masks to just be able to breathe without coughing.
At the ground level employees are needed yesterday, At corporate HR they take almost a month to approve hiring a new employee. Meanwhile the store manager finds out that half the promised salary was dependent upon hitting benchmarks which are impossible when the place is at about 25% staffing. The CEO is still able to afford his trip into space.
@@drwilyecoyote5357 it’s going quite well! Thanks for asking. 😄 i have great bosses (for a change!) and I like the work I’m doing. And, most importantly, I’m getting paid well!
Does anyone think that the companies actually hire people internally for these positions and only put the requirement to discourage external applications? The idea is they can say they offered the job externally but could not find the right candidate.
@@gm2407 Or more so that they hire internally as you say, and only have very high external requirements so that the applications they might get, are of a level too high to ignore compared to their internal options. Filters most applicants and makes it easier for the workplace to only spend time sorting the potentially overclassified applicants.
@@gm2407 I'm sure this happens, yes. For example, my employer's corporate policy is to post open positions publicly for external applicants, but it's common for managers to already have a person they intend to promote or transfer.
Love the "I already have two jobs and I need a third to afford living here." Because he has a job working for Screen Rant, his own TH-cam channel and now trying to get entry-level job. So realistic for Ryan and it is super easy barely any inconvenience.
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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
"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.
"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
“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😂
Competitive wage means the wage will be competing with your bills
This is all gold to me@@bellaconnor6816
@@bellaconnor6816Unoriginal (but true)
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.
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.
@@RobiticDuck 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.
“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.
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.
"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.
*"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.
"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.
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.
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
I’m still suggesting “The First Guy to Ever Milk a Cow”
........
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 ?
"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."
"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.
This is actually me currently. People say "just quit" and I say "I NEED TO PAY RENT". Everyone is so judgemental when they've never been in your shoes lol.
I know what you mean. No one likes overworking in jobs but there is just no other choice since if you don't work, you end up homeless.
Sometimes I want to just quit and live in a forest and be a hermit. But Now I cant do that since Forests tend to randomly catch on fire.
Start your own business :3
@@Sohasorouri As we all know, individually started businesses prosper all the time.
@@Sohasorouri Ah yes, me, a lowly min wage slave, living paycheck to paycheck, with no notable talent or skills, or a college education, or rich parents, or any friends who can invest their abundant amounts of money into my "business"... yes, I will start the arbitrary company corporation business institution business just out of thin air.
What shall my randomly selected business be base on? Essential oils, cupcakes, hand made soap, or trinkets made from resin?
Or perhaps I shall become a TH-camr 😂
Sounds like slavery to me. If there was UBI or at least a decent unemployment program, you could just quit. Then companies would have to pay fair wages to keep their employees, instead of using the threat of poverty.
... Honestly, if France had such conditions there would be riots.
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
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. 😩🙏
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.
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.
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.
"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
1:15 This is like that time that programmer was denied a job because he didn't have enough experience in a language he made
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
"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.
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.
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
You're telling me you want to earn money to live instead of wanting to work as a corporate slave and make money for some millionaire boss who doesn't care about you ? How dare you sir ?
Was the place in CA or NYC metro? Those places are very expensive. IDK why so many people live there when everything costs an arm and a leg. NYC, last time I went, only offered free refills on coffee, not soda.
"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
“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.
"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.
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...
As someone who’s channel is dedicated to helping people get their first entry level role…
I can confirm this is 100% accurate.
*whose
@@icarussbungeecord7779 Now go find every single spelling and grammar error in the entire comment section, and you'll win a little prize.
"What are we gonna do about it? something?"
Genius😂
Maybe-
No.
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"Something" is already too much.
"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!"
"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
"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
"You're gonna need to pay a bit more attention than that when you start!" - after they make a mistake is such agony, I am so familiar with it that I actively cringed inside-out when I heard it. Once had an interview where they told me four times that training started Monday at 8:00 AM, but then they yelled at me for no-call-no-showing the Friday training at 8:00 AM and were about to fire me when I showed them the literal email invitation that said Monday at 8:00 AM, and they said 'oh, my bad, but you're gonna have to pay better attention if you are going to stay working for us."
Oh, my...
I hope you didn't need that job
Well it's clearly your fault for not reading their minds. Did they not teach you to read minds in school?
@@Yojack872 honestly, how irresponsible is he! He shouldve known all of that and more!
This should be illegal.
“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.
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
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 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.
"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
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 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
"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
"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
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.
"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.
@@94DeathAngel this summer break my parents were constantly on my back, thinking I was lazy doing nothing but being on social media.
I recently started a Channel though,
And basically edit and improve my channel all day and night.
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..."
"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
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.
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
"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
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
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.
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
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😂
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.
He's lucky to even get a interview, hope he enjoys waiting for days and constantly told, "we'll get to it when we get to it."
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
"Another benefit of this job, sometimes the ocean comes to see ya"
"That is a flood!"
"We call it a perk!"
...just...just put the Time-Stamp with "LOL" next to it...
I heard "the ocean comes to sea ya"
@@KingOfGamesss orrrrrrr, orrrrr, you can just not care and go on with your day.
Cause I'm gonna need you to get all the way off my back about it.
@@badmoonris1ng476 That's a serious 'Need' you are going to have at some point in the Future...just let me know when exactly that Time arrives (or if it already has) and I will respect that 'Need' of yours when that very important need of yours needs to be addressed and respected...but until I know exactly when you have the 'Need' for me to "Get all the way off your back" I shall remain firmly affixed, grappled and clinging to your back
It is just amusing and impressive how he tackles so much political and social issues in such a limited time
without being obvious too!
Seriously, just wish more people could understand it!
It’s called good writing. Ikr, who knew!
"Hey I think my microphone was muted, but did you get all that?" classic boss behavior
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
Man: "Please could you take off that filter?"
Me: "That's not a filter, it's my face"
Man: "OH..."
th-cam.com/video/eLxJwzH9ugwb/w-d-xo.htmlrjieuwwhitoyy
“Yes, it’s really distracting and reminds me of a burn victim.”
“Oh, you are a burn victim? Sorry.”
Oooh
My God
That's not a filter, it's my ISP restricting bandwidth usage with the excuse that the pandemic somehow caused the need for such restrictions.
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH I GET IT! You're that one lawyer, aren't you?
Glad you've finally admitted you're a cat.
I swear, this is the most slow-burn apocalypse ever.
Oh no, it's going to accelerate pretty quickly soon.
True, color revolution.
It's about to get a hell of a lot more interesting.
@@SuchNewt hurry up pls
"The world isn't going to end in a bang, it's going to end in a whimper" -probably Douglas Adams
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”
"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 😂😂
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!
We really went from making movies about crazy dystopias and thinking "something like that would never happen" to actually living in our own twisted dystopic present
I call it light dystopia.
@@karlhans6678 oh sure, I mean it's still no hunger games, but it's not good. Like we're really in a mess of a system, and everything from plague to natural disasters makes that so much harder to bear with
Yea, this is the worst time and place to be alive except for literally every other time and place.
@@thevoxdeus maybe, but this has been much more real to us because it's happened now. I'm not discrediting the past. There's some horrible shit that's happened over time. But the state of the media, our complete separation from nature and dependency on goods that harm us, a global pandemic killing millions, almost constant threats of war that are cheapened and never taken seriously because everything has become a parody of itself, the unprecedented wastefulness and the effect we've had on our planet, the fact that 90% of the wealth is in the hands of 1-2% of the population and yet homelessness is rampant, a serious chunk of people don't have access to clean drinking water, and the housing market is failing, not to mention we've outsourced every human rights violation and moved slavery overseas just so the average person feels better about themselves... And I could go on and on. It's not the great war, or the great depression, or the time of the dinosaurs, and no one's burning on a cross outside your window, but there's some really horrible stuff still going on that shouldn't be tossed aside either. If you look at everything going on right now it feels terribly dystopic, and no one really knows who or what to trust, it's sad. And maybe it's not a bang or a pop, but are we expected to support and be proud of a society that's just a fizzle? A society that lines the pockets of the undeserving while millions starve, and then turns right around and markets our starvation back to us with a grin and the promise of a white picket fence?
Except we got ALL the bad parts from each movie and absolutely NONE of the cool stuff! We actually managed to do the worst we could possibly do!
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.
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.
"ENTRY LEVEL POSITION HIRING NOW!!!!"
*two years experience or more required.
Reminds me of my company's VP when hearing complaints told everyone "if you don't like the direction we're heading you can leave" and "you walked into our company with two feet you can walk on out." So now we can't keep anyone.
That basically translates too "shut up and just do what I asked of you because it's unlikely you'll quit at this exact second".
Then the worker just does what's requested and the employer continues to run his business based on his business plan written in crayon. Sorry guys, but "expecting perpetually cheap and abundant skilled labor" isn't a business plan.
@@laverdadbuscador And yet everyone does exactly what CNN and the government tells them without ever questioning it, while complaining about being oppressed.
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.
"So we're just, we're not gonna try to improve things." Ryan George is not a comedian, he is a philosopher. 100% truth
There’s two type of people in this world, people that say this is how things should be, and people who realize that this is bullshit.
100%. He breaks down the basic human experience in every video.
Most comedians are philosophers. At least the good ones.
We need merch with all of Ryan's different characters, He's the Roger Smith of the TH-cam.
Right!
Ricky Spanish.
There was a poster with all his characters on Pixel Empire but it might be sold out by now. I think it was only available until August 17th
Holy fuck this comment is golden
Soo.. like a line of identical dolls in various work uniforms and fashion attire choices? I think Mattel would be in on that.
Somehow Ryan always manages to make the blazing hellscape of our world seem like a whimsical comedy of errors.
This is most definitely the best description of Ryan’s talents I’ve ever seen/heard 👏🏼✌🏼
Truly we live in the dumbest timeline.
Mostly via accurate and brutally direct demonstration, I think.
It is. The errors are on purpose though.
This couldn't be more accurate. Only thing that's off is that the software won't be 2 years old, it'll be about 40 because the company refuses to look for a better alternative even if it would be vastly better for people to use.
I have three degrees, over twenty years of experience, and every time I talk to a potential employer I'm still falling short. They just keep on asking for more qualifications, experience and pay cuts. Just missing that one more thing!
Looking for excuses to pay you less.
At a certain point they'll not hire you because you are OVERqualified. Despite hiring, jobs do all they can to not hire people.
@@OniDemo It's really baffling, not enough staff to do the work, intent to hire more staff, everyone is either not qualified or over-qualified to stack some shelves and move stock around.
ageism. no one gives a fuck if you are old .. black up and identify as a geranium.
Hey just wondering- what are your degrees in?
The 5 years of experience thing for an entry level job is extremely frustrating and I see it on nearly every entry level job posting.
Atleast 2 years for a junior position while their director of communications made it from trainee to his director position in literally 5 years. Yep, sounds fair
lie. They either check your work background or they don't. HR people being largely worthless , they are too busy on their social media/cellphone to check, and hire based on other criteria, like personal preference or just pick who is on the top of stack/list of job apps that has the mins- true or not..
Well, one trick is to just count all your years of related school study as years of experience. It's not a lie and if they call you out on it, you can flip it right back around on them.
Even if they don't hire you, by this point you've at least you've had a couple interviews, gotten some more "experience", highlighted their stupidity and succeeded at wasting their time more than your own
@@Dukeflyhawker I tried flipping it onto this guy in an interview that said I need more experience. I asked where he would recommend I get the experience and how long I should take and he told me that he’s not allowed to.
Youre looking in the wrong place then.
Most of the time the "required experience" is very negotiable
The CEO must have one hell of a commanding mustache to inspire such servitude.
Nah, he has a big bushy beard, that's how commanding he is.
How can Ryan be so spot on about so many different things?!?? I love the guy 😌
“Sometime the ocean comes and visits us.”
“But at my last interview they said really scary stuff about this ocean!”
Employer: "we need you to have 5 years of experience with this entry level job"
Me:"But how can i get 5 years of experience if you need 5 years for an entry level position?"
Some of those (highly illegal) unpaid internships I'd wager...
That is literally not what entry level means. Then they probably complain that nobody wants to work there. We got barely any qualified applicants. Time to outsource this job to India.
Society be like:This question kinda makes sense when u think about it,but instead of answering it or at least try to improve things,i'm just gonna call you lazy and entitled
Worst part is the pay is also less
@@Dragon-Believer And indians are more qualified, do they not care how Math works over there?
"Our CEO really wants to go into space"
my response would be "Okay, can we leave him there after?"
"Is he coming back?"
@@flatline42 yes if he know how to use the spaceship
Obligatory: "He literally couldn't be left in space even if he wanted to, since that company hasn't yet developed a rocket that can stay in space"
Blue Origin, more like Below Orbit lmao
@@Freak80MC This is the best response I have ever heard to leaving him inspace LOL
Nice, you totally owned that billionaire
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!
There's so much resentment behind this humor and I love it.
"We're hiring people at the age of 30 with 40 years of experience, you got that?"
"No, but I once did a back flip, snapped a guy's neck and saved the day!"
Not just any guy. A bad guy.
@@nuclearpandayt8679 Says who? Why do you think he's on all those wanted posters?
Sorry. We can't hire you. We don't hire felons and you being a murderer, have clearly been to jail.
Your Hire
Now hiring 18 year olds with 20 years of experience
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
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
"Sorry is that tree on fire outside?"
"Yeah trees sometimes catch on fire. That's kinda how weather works now."
Me: *literally watching this during a thunderstorm with lots of trees around.*
Me in California watching my entire state burn
Everyone in the mediterranean region, the US west coast, Siberia, South Central Africa and the Amazonas region: "Just another Friday methinks..."
Me from Kangaroo Island: 😂 🏝
@@hailey_the_ace_of_hearts4127 Yo, same. There's so much smoke in my town that most of us don't even know what the mask mandate currently is as we're all wearing masks to just be able to breathe without coughing.
A town in California burned while a town in South Carolina flooded
I literally start a new job tomorrow morning after 10 months of looking. This video accurately reflects how that hunt felt sometimes. **shudder**
At the ground level employees are needed yesterday,
At corporate HR they take almost a month to approve hiring a new employee. Meanwhile the store manager finds out that half the promised salary was dependent upon hitting benchmarks which are impossible when the place is at about 25% staffing.
The CEO is still able to afford his trip into space.
Same here just finished my 3rd day and didn’t even realize how accurate this video is for my job and so many other jobs out there
How is the job going?
@@drwilyecoyote5357 it’s going quite well! Thanks for asking. 😄 i have great bosses (for a change!) and I like the work I’m doing. And, most importantly, I’m getting paid well!
I've been at it for 6 months, while working two part-time jobs. It's rough out there
telling you to wear the mask while also wearing their own incorrectly, that was so accurate. ..
It’s been around for the past two years, we’re gonna need you to have 5 years experience.
Does anyone think that the companies actually hire people internally for these positions and only put the requirement to discourage external applications? The idea is they can say they offered the job externally but could not find the right candidate.
@@gm2407 yes.
@@gm2407 Or more so that they hire internally as you say, and only have very high external requirements so that the applications they might get, are of a level too high to ignore compared to their internal options. Filters most applicants and makes it easier for the workplace to only spend time sorting the potentially overclassified applicants.
@@gm2407 I'm sure this happens, yes. For example, my employer's corporate policy is to post open positions publicly for external applicants, but it's common for managers to already have a person they intend to promote or transfer.
…and this is how you discreetly advertise that you're hiring time travelers.
We live in a time where reality that is so weird it can’t be made worse by satire.
The satire is made worse by reality since it has to be utterly ridiculous even trying to keep up.
Tom Lehrer was saying that in the 70s.
That’s why The Onion stopped lmao
Love the "I already have two jobs and I need a third to afford living here." Because he has a job working for Screen Rant, his own TH-cam channel and now trying to get entry-level job. So realistic for Ryan and it is super easy barely any inconvenience.