How The Office Ruined Your Life

[@OrdinaryThings]

Thanks for coming to the office party! Remember to like, share, subscribe and drive safe. Be good to yourselves x

[@jonuno]

Love your videos man, keep going

[@OrdinaryThings]

will do dude!

[@OrdinaryThings]

it's not. I try to keep myself Ordinary

[@thesaddestdude3575]

You had no idea what this would lead to with the Lockdown and all!

[@MattnessLP]

After almost a year of home office for so many people, I wonder where the office is gonna develop next after this whole plague situation is over

[@tobynsaunders]

"By 2020, it's estimated that over half the British workforce will spend a good deal of their week working remotely." How prophetic.

[@fjfeuankcnncne7663]

Christ this comment is 8 months old. Has it already / only been 8 months. Wtf is time anymore

[@BurnsyMcBurn]

@@fjfeuankcnncne7663 Time has never been more relative. When this all started I wondered "Will this be a really weird chapter in the history books? How will they describe it to people that never had their life put on hold?" Now I'm wondering how the hell we are even supposed to go back to living again.

[@jakeprocter8477]

Came here to make this exact comment

[@Superabound2]

They knew. All of this was planned.

[@pierrebegley2746]

He predicted the future.

[@billyheaning]

I thought this was about how the show The Office ruined my life.

[@shyrory]

Me too.

[@87pastrychef]

So did I

[@clydefloyd8751]

Same..

[@blaspemy5398]

Yep me too

[@Blighted_Ashes]

Unfortunately same here... QQ

[@SeizureRobot5000]

My last IT job switched from very private cubicles to an open office design, and it was the worst experience I've ever had. Even our callers could hear the cacophony of conversations all taking place simultaneously. "Increased collaboration" became coworkers routinely asking me "are you on the phone??" (the answer is yes) instead of using Skype. This was a high paying job in a successful company, but you'd think we were an offshore call center.

[@My_Old_YT_Account]

Same

[@nothanks9503]

You’re a slave and don’t forget it! Sorry sorry I mean pizza party!

[@Ididathing]

Extra marital affairs you say! I have to get my self an office job!

[@OrdinaryThings]

I think your home office is where it's at my dude. thanks for stopping by

[@alexandrosnicolaou1988]

Wtf are u doing here bro

[@Puppy_Puppington]

It’s the boy boysssss

[@SeedsAndStuff]

Clown

[@El-Burrito]

I tried to start extra marital affairs but they always told me "I have a boyfriend". I gotta work on my game

[@everyone5200]

"By 2020 over half of the British workforce will be working remotely" Ohh they will alright

[@spookidrew4284]

Ikr? I was like, wait what year was this? Lol

[@SerAbiotico]

3:12

[@Mitaka.Kotsuka]

well... i would said like everyone, not just half

[@aaronlandry3934]

Yeah, Covid’s accelerated this video tremendously. There’s no purpose in having an office building if you can’t even house your workers in it. Might as well go completely virtual

[@BlueScreenCorp]

the thing is by 2022 it will probably only be 30%

[@mobiusevalon]

Cubicles, open concepts, work at home, all seem to have the same result. It's almost like the requirement of being indentured as a serialized piece of easily replaceable machinery for 40 years has some adverse effect on your psyche, regardless of the circumstances under which the servitude occurs.

[@your-username-here2308]

Not really. And you will be always a replaceable machinery. I look if it comes to a Job, if its worth to spend my time, for the Company and work for them if i get the chance. And home office far outweighs all other options. And made, for me, all other option pointless. I work to live. But i don't live to work.

[@GuitarOwnsDrums]

@@your-username-here2308 Just remember, you're one of the few who get to make the choice of a home office. I either spend my life in open office hell, or crammed behind my work laptop in my 1 room rental. We are just drones, and you've been able to afford yourself the freedom of feeling slightly less like a drone. Good job, you're in a slightly less shit situation than the rest of us.

[@christianfaux736]

What a shitty, cynical, lazy way of looking at gainful employment.

[@mobiusevalon]

​@@christianfaux736 You know as well as I do that any and every business/corporation gives no fucks about you at all. You are a piece of machinery they install as a method of generating income for the shareholders and investors. If you died tomorrow they would just get another human and you would not be missed. You probably hate your job just as much as everyone else. You don't go there because you have fun, you go there because you have to. I get it that you're at a loss of how life could be any other way because this is just what you're used to and how it's been, but don't pretend that a system that forcefully extracts a third of your life just to generate money for everyone but yourself (utilities, mortgages, car payments, etc.) is a perfect and flawless system.

[@pasta-and-heroin]

@@GuitarOwnsDrums i agree. i also hate the idea that being ‘replaceable machinery’ is an acceptable default for those of us not born into wealth or luck. i do like the sentiment that it can be a mutually beneficial relationship… however that is dependent on both being lucky enough to stumble in to a job you enjoy, and being fortunate enough to turn that in to a career opportunity for promotion rather than stagnation

[@idopsis]

I was just recommended this video. This is without a doubt the best thing KZbin's algorithm has granted me in the past few months!

[@OrdinaryThings]

ah, you're too kind. Thanks dude!

[@ratbird6358]

I was thinking the same thing! Except I had the misfortune of having to wait an extra entire year to see this gem!

[@mob8502]

Amen I praying to the algorith to gift me something new and boom the next day I saw one of his video and said fuck it...don't regret it

[@jk770415]

You never know. This could also be advertised and that could be the evil business of youtube?

[@BusinessDog2000]

@@jk770415 I got it recommended to. Gotta say it's a nice break from Dog Fart Cat Puke that often pops up.

[@TrapLoreRoss]

This video is too good. I will be filing a DMCA takedown notice. DMCA of course standing for Dope Motherloving Content Afoot

[@OrdinaryThings]

😎

[@AppalachianCryptidDoge]

criminally underrated comment

[@sunshinr5786]

what’s this a crossover episode?

[@timkenda8203]

I've been switching off between your channels for the past few days and I'm trying to figure out how one of you voices both channels so seamlessly

[@sthandiwemapumulo1525]

I was wondering who this dude reminds me of,then you showed up,what a coincidence😂

[@olslimy6428]

Man this needs an extra update for 2020-2021, since there'd been studies, surveys, and coverage on post-pandemic remote working trends (with more offices going away, it seems like).

[@OneTopic]

oh oh no

[@Nikolai_The_Grolar]

Hewwo Topicy wopicy

[@yolando1774]

Anyway..

[@guidestone1392]

@@Nikolai_The_Grolar *Hewo

[@ataphelicopter5734]

Well well well, look who it is Had no clue you watched this guy but I’m pleasantly surprised

[@Nikolai_The_Grolar]

@@ataphelicopter5734 do I know you

[@TheSnoozeFox]

I worked in one of those hipster "shared office spaces" for a couple years, It was so awful, I much prefer the Wage Cage tbh

[@thefalsekingslayer3717]

Yeah I did some work in one of those once and it just looked like a whole bunch of people getting in each other's way while being completely falsely kind to each other

[@storrho]

They both have their ups and downs. Right now I'm working at a "wage cage" kinda office, and the 2 people i sit closest to and have about the only interaction with outside of my breaks are absolute dick bags. I'd prefer to be able to pick the people i interact with to some extent right now. But the grass is always greener am i right?

[@Justfillintheblank]

I much prefer living.

[@pierrex3226]

Why was it awful?

[@evantambolang3052]

@@storrho Beats being an influencer scamming people for living

[@Ralndrath]

This show really just emphasises to me that when mankind finds a way to "fix" a problem it usually just makes twenty thousand more new problems. That's not depressing at all. Thanks a lot, Ordinary Things!

[@marianschoeller8764]

Exactly that. Two reasons that spring to my mind (there might be way more) is 1. People dont take lessons from the past and 2. People only see everything as good/bad/fix etc. these absolute terms and dont view everything in terms of pros and cons that should be weighed.

[@azzzanadra]

@@marianschoeller8764 3. sometimes things don't work that way. that's the life of a programmer.

[@davecullins1606]

4. I don't think that employers would have accepted any other new idea that didn't at the bare minimum either result in more productivity or fewer expenses. And when those two are the criteria you judge something by, then worker comfort will just end up becoming a lucky, unintended side-effect.

[@btchiaintkidding7837]

or maybe it is just that humans are not built for rotting away at offices... sitting there whole day dying of boredom minimum precise physical movement... constant stress but without any sense of anticipation of danger or anything. evolution didnt prepared mankind to rot away at office desks, thats it

[@ryuunosuk3]

And so he writes, with a stuffed belly, from his mobile phone that no one from a century ago would have the luxury to have about how humanity is trash. God, the calamity is unbearable for these poor modern people.

[@polytongue5714]

“By 2020, a lot of people will be working from home” Oh my sweet summer child...

[@hagridflower2907]

Aged like milk

[@brunop.8745]

@@hagridflower2907 or like a fine wine, depending on how you look at it

[@HOTD108_]

@@hagridflower2907 He was right though?

[@swaggerdagger8976]

"Oh my sweet summer child" is part of the redditor starter pack are you one ?

[@cheegus4160]

@@swaggerdagger8976 probably

[@tylerdinis958]

"Architects as social engineers instead of failed artists who could only draw in straight lines". As an architect, I approve of this

[@TheSkyyIsAwesome]

Agreed

[@TheMauri0409]

Nah Architects are respected more than artists, & you actually require a brain to be a architect

[@unregisteredhypercam1327]

@@TheMauri0409 Why are artists stupid? Wouldn't creative work require lots of thinking?

[@bat6353]

@@unregisteredhypercam1327 I don't think they meant to imply that artists are stupid. Just that intelligence isn't entirely necessary for many forms of art.

[@unregisteredhypercam1327]

@@bat6353 oh ok Please tell me it's required for drawing, it's one of my hobbies

[@danlightened]

I'm an architect (not practicing tho) and hate corporate culture. I was aware of many of the things you talked about and you're very very right. I just don't get how people can be okay with the things they put us through. And how even though we're the 95% of the population, we can't change the dynamics.

[@Incrediblefatslug]

Do one on call centers. I hate those jobs so much. So cult like.

[@OrdinaryThings]

dang. that's a good idea

[@tertiaritus]

+ a whole lot of people who never held a job there don't understand what goes on inside

[@jamesluna5914]

@@tertiaritus i worked there and it's hard as hell.

[@tertiaritus]

@@jamesluna5914 I worked at three different ones, but I would still take working in customer support over sales and cold calls any day. the trainings for them... brrrr. all of the customers telling me to go get raped and then kill myself don't even compare to shit that sales agents deal with even from their own kind.

[@bigslow4732]

@@tertiaritus can you explain more plz

[@xd333]

The 2008 financial oopsie-daisy is the best way that I’ve heard anyone describe an economic recession

[@bobboberson6664]

The 2021 real estate bubble gonna be crazy too

[@zero1zerolast393]

@@bobboberson6664 no the 2021 fuckaroo is gonna be great

[@bobboberson6664]

@@zero1zerolast393 great for big investment firms

[@user-pq4bb4iu9m]

@@bobboberson6664 One year off buddy

[@bobboberson6664]

@@user-pq4bb4iu9m yup. But it's happening now:) so far a lot I've said over the last year is here. My wife didn't believe gas would be 5 bucks and she paid 5.19 this am

[@e.t.theextraterristrial837]

This video needs a sequel. "How offices went remote and then forced workers back to offices"

[@harrison6632]

"By 2020 it's estimated that over half the workforce will spend most of their work week working remotely" I absolutely lol'd at that!

[@Starmar]

Wow wee!

[@mariopario8637]

They've been planning it for years

[@_ikako_]

that made me rofl as i lmao'd! xD!

[@Sevenseasick]

Prophetic

[@KnockOut101inc]

how did he know this

[@Spectrumpicture]

Ive been working remotely for the past 9 months, I live alone and Covid distancing compounds the isolation. I sometimes walk around grocery stores just to be out and around people... though we don't talk. It sucks.

[@gloving4hire]

talk to people and spread love you silly goose! Give compliments! Help folks!

[@teranokitty]

Seek out activities people are doing in online groups. For example, I think there's an uptick in people playing pen-and-paper RPGs in voice chat on Discord. It doesn't replace face-to-face interaction, but it could help.

[@TomSistermans]

Hang in there my guy, we will get through this!

[@Peglegkickboxer]

get into video games and discord. Sometimes my friends and I work and/or study together over discord. We'll even have periods of time where we work quietly without talking for like a hour. It's just nice to know someone's just a holler away on your microphone. After everyone is done we will play video games or watch something together using the streaming option.

[@Res1514]

I feel you dude.

[@galaxyproductions2076]

It is wild that almost nobody talks about the effects of total isolataion w/remote jobs! Glad you did, ive been unemployed for the past 2 months, and I'm not even a social person but it has been incredibly hard working on my school work, then going back to bed with essentially no interaction other than weekends

[@killian9314]

Morale of the story: literally every step foward attemping to improve the office working coditions, has corporately exploited to made it worse and more profitable for the overlords.

[@Darth_Insidious]

They only way that corporate would switch to it is if it was profitable.

[@somemaycallthisjunkmeicall133]

@@Darth_Insidious And for that reason, every innovation and step forward we’ve made has been impeded and degraded by greedy businessmen. Just look at the tech industry. Planned fucking obsolescence. When will it end

[@GenerationX1984]

That's why they hate labor unions. Labor unions force the greedy pigs at the top of the corporate pyramid scheme to share their wealth with people who actually do the hard work. As a general rule, nobody who makes ten times more than you has a right to tell you your demands for higher pay are selfish or unreasonable as they leech off your labor.

[@the80386]

that's because they weren't trying to improve. they were trying to maximize profit - and they did.

[@PhatMax2324]

Yay! Isn't capitalism great?

[@AccountantsRCool]

6:42. I love the 'Epstien didn't kill himself' in the wordcloud.

[@TheChivasRegal]

Nice find 👌

[@SmilingOrange]

"Architects loved this philosophy as it made them feel like social engineers and not failed artists who could only draw straight lines." HAHAHAHAHA

[@adrianb5028]

This took me out

[@Harathor]

Poetry

[@elhomo6406]

As an architect I can't really say he's wrong

[@angryherbalgerbil]

I met one recently. They were so happy with their project. I told them that "it was ticking all the right boxes" I forget that my delivery can sometimes be so ironic that it sounds genuine. Their facebook post went live. I then posted the George Takei "oh my" meme... Given that this was a local council project, I'll probably never work in this town again, or get any grant funding... But still it was an Andy Kaufmanesque dedication to the bit on my part, and only a joke that was funny to none other than myself... Worth it, and I regret nothing! I think they canned the project... Not heard much about it since 🤣😂🤣

[@nifftbatuff676]

I thought artists were failed architects who cannot draw a straight line. Lol.

[@mariuszj3826]

Gig economy - avoids all the social benefits that full-time workers worked for a century before. It's a sweet deal for corporations.

[@OrdinaryThings]

spot on there

[@nickstone1167]

Tbh, its ideal if you actually run your own business and are a specialized professional. Then again, few professional occupations would both be in demand enough to justify opening your own business while simultaneously not requiring you to be in a specific office most of the time. Ironically, I think building designers (the bad straight-line artists) might be such an occupation.

[@carrolloutdoors4764]

@@nickstone1167 no, its not. It pays awful

[@mariuszj3826]

@@nickstone1167 Nobody's saying gig jobs are inherently bad. The problem is they're becoming the new norm and they are least stable in income and employment security. Gig jobs used to relate to very specific professions or additional income side-jobs.

[@nickstone1167]

@@carrolloutdoors4764 They pay building engineers poorly, what? Must be a cheap cost of living state or low experience, cuzz that is never what I've heard.

[@PabbyPabbles]

60's~90's were like "alright give us 40 years of your life and then you get to retire and chill" now it's like "alright give us ͟͝7̸̡́c̷̢̕͢v̢́͟͢à̷͡ years of your life and then"

[@testaccount4191]

Well, in the UK this can be blamed on Blair raiding private pensions, so now even if you retire your are poor.

[@Succadeez]

@@testaccount4191 glad it's not just the US

[@testaccount4191]

@@Succadeez well..... i guess every cloud

[@1ex1uger-prank-calls]

Can you clarify what you mean about Blair raiding pensions? I know that in the US, workers are forced to pay into a scheme called social security, but the government uses the money as soon as it gets it (as collateral to continue going into debt). The money is not put away into a pension fund, as was implied by the name.

[@testaccount4191]

@@1ex1uger-prank-calls he taxed pensions, basically killing the private index linked pensions. Although this is a simplification

[@SwiftNimblefoot]

Y'know, I unironically say, COVID is the best thing that happened to office work in decades. 2020 was a great year for me, I have so much free time working from home - when I had empty hours at the office I could only browse the net or such, now I can watch shows or play games or do the dishes! Also the company saves money too since now they don't have to pay for office loans, cleaning ladies, kitchen services, heating, electricity bills... I do hope that home office becomes permanent as an option from now on.

[@michaeldalton8374]

It won’t. The big kids have a massive position in commercial office space. You WILL come to the office!!

[@karenwang313]

Remote work isn't sunshine and rainbows, its basically large corporations offloading their rent and utility costs onto their employees without having to pay them more.

[@brentshirley477]

While enriching tech billionaires. Excellent point.

[@virtualpunk448]

I work in tech... Zoom has been a shit show, but now that we're doing a staggered return,we can work from home if we are sick and still feel well enough to work but not enough to come in (like cold or waiting for covid test) instead of using sick leave..

[@wholesome122]

I prefer it but I also wonder about the impact on wages.

[@nope24115]

Not to mention that they aren't responsible for your rights. They are freely allowed to breech them by giving you insane demands and hours within dangerous buildings/situations. If you get injured, they don't pay a cent. And since you are your own company, legally, it was all your fault all along. This is all just a step back in worker's rights.

[@picklep9812]

Ooh I never thought of that...but can’t you claim stuff for tax exemption?

[@Hank..]

Remote working doesnt take you away from the office, it just brings the office to your home. You know, so you never REALLY get to leave

[@bipolingdaco1607]

Wrong I can now move around more rather than having my ass on a chair all day.

[@Null_Experis]

This is why it's important to set hard rules on your working hours and document all your time spent on the job.

[@gregoryspatisserie9858]

I hate working from home , maybe if I were further along in my office career it would be nicer? I find it far more lonely and depressing than going into the office.

[@XXXXX8]

Hank I watched you for like 15 years. No way you're ever doing office work

[@Jaz31day]

@@Null_Experis - its the difference between having a manager and managing ourselves. Turns out a lot of us have more trouble with self regulation.

[@isaaco5679]

As an introvert the lack of people sounds awesome. I found the lock down quite peaceful.

[@allensacharov5424]

introverts are enemies of the people. How often have we heard mass murderers described as "He kept to himself, didn't socialize or say much."

[@eligreg99]

I agree I want another one. Tired of interacting with everyone

[@puffdaddy4537]

@@eligreg99 ever since Covid, people have lost their minds.

[@turtleanton6539]

Indeed it is😮😊

[@WavePotter]

How did I JUST NOW get recommended this. Absolute gold dude. Nice work!

[@OrdinaryThings]

Welcome aboard! thanks for saying so!

[@lucioledizerot196]

Not gonna lie, I thought this was gonna be about the TV series.

[@failingnovelist6443]

It's called "click bait"

[@davidjimenez1000]

@@failingnovelist6443 Is it though?

[@montana-road-kill-harvest]

He gave you an 8 bit office jingle at the end, though!

[@lucioledizerot196]

@@failingnovelist6443 that's not really clickbait

[@CYNEMICAL]

Same here lol

[@PossumReviews]

Solution: become a unionized garbage man or construction worker, work ten hours a week for $50,000 a year, and retire with a pension. "But I can make more money as a marketing consultant!" That may be true _after_ you've paid off your student debt.

[@martiananomaly]

Ok

[@terminator572]

Is it ever too late to start?

[@DansuB4nsu03]

TFW university education is free for my country's citizens Feelsbadforeveryoneelse.png :(

[@bananasaur5209]

Where dafuq do u get paid almost 5k a month to take out garbage or stack some bricks?

[@jyro6095]

@@bananasaur5209 literally anywhere, union jobs are awesome

[@jp_bousquet]

6:43 Nice little easter egg

[@OrdinaryThings]

gold star to you. The FBI will with you shortly to deliver your award.

[@jp_bousquet]

@@OrdinaryThings Yeah! I'll prepare some nice crudité for them.

[@peterhowell6080]

Oh no, i know too.

[@KhoaNguyen-rk9dz]

"camp of concentration" playing dangerously, I see

[@dungeonmaster6292]

Watch out for Susan WOSHITSKI

[@MisterM2402]

I started office life in the era of "open plan everything" and I'm jealous seeing all those cubicles. With open plan, you see and hear everything all the time, which is even more a nightmare if you have ADHD. Hot desking makes it even worse.

[@kain0m]

I think hot desking would be the final straw for me. When I started in my job ten years ago, we were in a tiny, stinky, 40-year old shack. Biggest office was six people. Now its 24 people in a shiny new place with minimalistic dividers in between. Productivity has suffered, the "team" feeling is gone, and almost everyone would rather go back to the smelly place. Despite the fact that coffee is paid for by the company in the new office.

[@BlackSlimShady]

@@kain0mthey added dividers? Interesting. Most modern day offices have transformed into a very open plan, "friendly" environment. Almost too friendly, it feels fake. Everything always insanely clean. Seems like a bribe to have to work good, because we get free barista coffees etc. Only just starting working in an office 4-5 months ago, and already after visiting 3 of the companies NZ offices, it's clear that they all follow the same corporate, wanna-be-friendly/inclusive feeling

[@blakksheep736]

What's hot desking? You don't have a fixed desk?

[@MisterM2402]

@@blakksheep736 Yeah, you have to book your desk every day and you're not guaranteed the same one each time.

[@blakksheep736]

@@MisterM2402 well that sounds fucking horrible. Especially for me, who probably has ADHD and needs all the help establishing a routine that I can get.

[@M16Ben]

I like having a cubicle. I get to decorate and no one bothers me.

[@brianp3570]

I'm currently hybrid, 50% in my cubicle, 50% on my couch. It's a decent setup. I think I prefer 100% remote but the variety might be a good thing.

[@hermionestranger4964]

I've been in open office environments for the most part, and I'd prefer cubicles as well honestly. In open offices, it's like your supervisors are constantly watching you, and everything you do is being judged. If you have an illness or you're on your period, how exactly do you clandestinely slink off to do your thing when there are like ten people who constantly see you from the corner of their eye? I solved the solution by putting my meds and pads into a money-purse and then pretending that I'm going off to buy snacks. But I used to have a colleague who was type 1 diabetic, and he had a whole world of problems injecting himself with insulin before lunch somewhere where people wouldn't notice, and not in the bathrooms either. I prefer remote atm too because the worst aspect of working was having to commute for 1,5h every morning (and I'm too poor to afford an apartment that's closer or even a car). So I can get up at decent hours, don't have to worry about my shoewear or make-up, it's much more relaxed. Of course, there's another downside, namely video-conferences D:

[@pungoblin9377]

Yeah. I like also cubicles because nobody can spy on me doing my dark evocations in order to slowly kill people who are adjacent to my cubicle thinly veiled as radiation poisoning too!

[@crotchet6439]

@@pungoblin9377 interesting.

[@l1n5n8]

Do you have a shart xing sign like workaholics

[@illegalprogram]

I've now watched two vids from this guy and hes been telling the future....2-3 years ahead of time

[@toomanymarys7355]

To be fair, as an introvert who is easily startled when I'm super focused on anything, a kind of cubicle farm with individual doors and artificial windows would be awesome as individual spaces.

[@frankm.2850]

Yeah, cubicles don’t sound that bad. The problem is less cubicles and more having things set up so that the only time you’d leave is to go to the bathroom or leave at the end of the day.

[@LeavingGoose046]

So just give everyone a bloody room.

[@_averageenjoyer_]

None of the mentioned ideas in the video sound bad. They were just executed horribly since efficiency is valued more than personal needs

[@kaikingsland]

It wasn't until 6:48 that I realized there was never going to be a transition to talking about the show "the office" and that the video was just about offices in general.

[@Level_No_Curve]

Did you not see the hidden message behind his head

[@kaikingsland]

@@Level_No_Curve I guess not cause Idk what you're talking about.

[@kaikingsland]

@@Level_No_Curve when is it?

[@MsLenepigen]

That’s why it’s mandatory to start the video and immediately scroll down to comments and spoil tf out of whatever you’re watching.

[@Level_No_Curve]

@@kaikingsland 648 look on the wall

[@JohnSmith-wj2wd]

I love working from home. My commute is now the 10 seconds it takes to shamble from the bed to my PC. I'll wear what I want to, have breakfast when I want to, do chores when I want to, or go to shops in between that are closed after working hours. Oh, and when it's raining a pisston out of the sky, I'm all dry.

[@conors4430]

So true the first six months of my job we were in a big building with lots of nooks and crannies. But the culture and the feeling around the place was better. Then we moved to an open plan supposedly agile and collaborative workspace. All of a sudden it was like working in a library. Either we were annoying each other or we were all so concerned about annoying each other that everybody would have headphones in and there would be no talking whatsoever. It’s sold as agile and collaborative, what it is is cheap. And then they bring in management consultants and team building exercises to Massage your emotions into convincing you that you are wrong and that it’s the workers own fault because they don’t have a sunny disposition which would fix everything.

[@AngryTheGnome]

I'm a chef, and sometime during rush hours or boring days i think to my self "I should have worked in an office" I'm glad I am wrong.

[@matthewmckean8771]

Same....spending my entire adult life working in kitchens, I've always wondered what exactly people did in an office all day to fill 8 hours.

[@TheWiseDrunkard]

@@matthewmckean8771 (Former?) Office worker here. Depends on the role (I'm Cust. Service) but I sit at my desk, draft/send emails and get invited to conference calls/meetings where I'm not needed. Occasionally we have parties, and gather around the kitchen area to talk about work as ask about each other's weekends.

[@jenniffermejia4252]

@@matthewmckean8771 we pretend to be really busy even if the actual work takes a couple of hours

[@AMK544]

I work in a lab and I’m so glad I do. I couldn’t sit in a desk/cubicle for 8 hours a day and stare at a screen. I love working with my hands! And the best part is it’s nearly impossible to bring work home

[@TheShmrsh]

@@matthewmckean8771 i can read or study whatever i want when i don't feel like working

[@CollinShook]

I just love the recurring appearance the stock footage guy at 12:05 makes!

[@thepaintingbanjo8894]

[With remote working] soon we'll be free of the office altogether! Isn't it nice? If the video had a happy ending.... (coronavirus has entered the chat)

[@bipolingdaco1607]

a blessing in disguise

[@SuperNuclearUnicorn]

So this is what existential dread feels like...

[@phdonme1]

'Nothing could possiblie go wrong.. .That's the first time something's going wrong"

[@adimaxify]

When I become a corporate drone myself and start earning value rectangles the first thing I'm gonna do is become your patron. You're criminally undersubscribed fr.

[@spencer4679]

It took me far to long to work out what value rectangles are

[@JK-iz7is]

I came for entertainment, I left with depression.

[@hblackburn5580]

Thank you almighty KZbin algorithm for showing me this absurdly funny guy! He's absolutely hilarious and I love that instead of poking at just internet trends, he's educating us while also trolling the topics. Brilliant!

[@busteronlyfullscreenmode]

This was just the kind of optimistic boost I needed to make me forget about losing my freelancing career to the pandemic and being forced to continue living with my parents until I die alone probably. No gray walls for me, unless you count the basement I've been staying in. Thanks! :]

[@GabrielBacon]

A year later now. You’re still with your parents huh? Wife?

[@busteronlyfullscreenmode]

@@GabrielBacon Job offers and potential relationships keep trying to stop me but I'm strong willed and refuse to give up on my dreams of dying down here sad and broke. Thanks for asking!

[@angryherbalgerbil]

@@busteronlyfullscreenmode Quite possibly the most freedom anyone in society has today! At least you have family nearby, time to use as you'd choose. No one has upward social mobility. Enjoy the freedom, ignore the stigma! In a society where meaning and purpose are eroded, only the free man gets to determine what those things are. The rest are consigned to their fate of nullification. Let the dead bury their dead. You have the chance to live. It's only once we've lost everything that we're free to do anything. I heard of this guy who makes soap from his basement, while working two other jobs. He also runs something else, but I can't talk about that. Everyone else is a product of our times quite literally. You my basement dwelling amigo are at the vanguard of change, ahead of the curve, and from your dank basement you have the widest vantage point of our cultural miasma, which means you're the most primed to find the way forwards and into new horizons while everyone else clamours for the highest desk in a dark glass tower at the heart of a neon and concrete cesspit of flawed dreams and failed conquests. The lowest ape at the base of the tree is also the one most likely to learn to walk on two legs, weild fire like a Promethean legend, and evolve beyond their simian peers that squabble for their spot in the sun at the apex of the canopy. The canopy is their limit, the sky, the horizon, the ocean, and space itself is yours to venture into. The modern shaman on the precipace of the known journey, and the unknown void of uncertaintity. A space monkey ready to head into the obsidian, star speckled infinite. Revel in your times oh Promethean soul, remember who you are!

[@AJ-ey4ev]

@@busteronlyfullscreenmodelol

[@AJ-ey4ev]

@@busteronlyfullscreenmode funniest comment and best reply ever

[@lography6917]

Came for The Office, stayed organs being squeezed out like toothpaste

[@ErkanMehmedali]

like "hot" toothpaste

[@jtimleck]

OMG! The Michel Foucault burn at 4:24 😄l Great piece, as usual. Thsnksl

[@nanaak8617]

Absolutely brilliant stream of inside jokes. Gotta love the self awareness here. Great video man.

[@FakieStreams]

Ironically "that thing" appears to be an IBM 727 mainframe. My brain is like a collection of useless information that nobody will ever need, but, there it is.

[@kendarr]

Don't worry mate, it was good info for me because I was really curious

[@fm-jl7xe]

the only hacking someone would do to that mainframe is with an axe

[@B3Band]

Why is that ironic?

[@andreasapei2859]

"By 2020 it is estimated that over half the office work force will be leaving the office" I'm from the future, and I've got something to tell you

[@plushieoctopusonhead8415]

@Lee Juddy I'm from the future, and I must say here you are gay af

[@TovenDo.O.Video-]

@Lee Juddy In fact, I'm your future husband

[@discflame]

This is a good video and I'm glad it exists. very true and almost existentially scary Hopefully more folks come across it in the recommendations (which is why i'm commenting to help increase audience interaction)

[@OrdinaryThings]

Hero. Thanks dude

[@saturn_v3362]

He predicted it, he talked about 2020 and 80% of workers being home

[@mofire5674]

This is so depressing. It's like "Hey this is pretty GOD AWFUL. But at least these other ideas are worse!"

[@panicatthedisconnect]

:( working from home for 6 months. i work 3-4 hours more and my productivity is less because our company constantly have meetings as if we are together in a room. only difference is that i'm in my room instead of another room working 3 -4 hours more.

[@himintheflesh3877]

I’m here bc I thought you was finna tell me how much my life suck bc I binged all seasons of The Office ...

[@camuscolorado]

November 21st, 2019 Very interesting timing for a video about working from offices

[@sson386]

Man, Captain Bonnet pumps out some quality content. Why did he become a pirate again?

[@cocoabutt1711]

Steeeeeeeeeeeeeeed!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@indexwell6546]

Well of course because her nagging wife

[@mykal2803]

I was convinced this was going to be about 'The Office' the show. Thats on purpose isnt it. Touche. That ending Midi. He knew.

[@hjalfi]

I was wondering if that epic matte painting from Tron would show up (at 12:13) --- I love that shot; there's a cubicle on the right foreground which has no door!

[@mario77263]

This was incredibly informative and depressing. I swear I’m going to have to get lucky with some innovative idea or become a successful streamer and KZbinr to be remotely satisfied with life.

[@jusu8961]

because surely then you will be happy… right?

[@austinlipnicki7761]

I just wanna say this showed up and i couldn't have worded that better

[@0ihatetrolls01]

happiness is a mind set

[@THRAKORZOD]

@@jusu8961 yes money would make me very happy

[@christopherlee7334]

@@jusu8961 "And I know what they say, that money can't buy everything; maybe so, but it can buy me a boat"

[@0Ciju0]

Ha, it's a weird concept. Growing up I was told, "work hard to get a good office job". I had one and I did not enjoy it haha.

[@juulranch]

It'd be neat to come back to this after a time when the effects of covid on the working environment become more clear. I'd love to hear your take on it!

[@eyesofthecervino3366]

I second this motion.

[@blakksheep736]

Well?

[@thenoodledrop]

“By 2020 it’s estimated that half of the British population will be working from home remotely” This simultaneously aged horribly and surprisingly well

[@ekki1993]

Holy shit this was published before the pandemic. I thought it was a bit.

[@TheSultan1470]

God damn these dumb comments

[@rcousens1982]

I really enjoyed this, thanks for the entertaining and informative original content! You give me a bit of a Charlie Brooker vibe and that's a huge compliment! :)

[@OrdinaryThings]

ah thanks dude, that's a big compliment indeed.

[@chrisvoss8405]

I've recently found your channel. Love it! Thanks for your content. Love the amount of research and detail you put in. I'm a history buff so madd props

[@gottimw]

7:30 Ok, that was the funniest joke I heard in months. Perfect timing.

[@quiahjohnson5871]

Erika

[@ElDirtybacon]

"Epstein didn't kill himself." Nice touch.

[@edfx]

12:52 very true. Fast PC with dual monitor in a cubicle was changed to "modern" open room with non-personal empty desks and a laptop. I quit, it was truly horrible.

[@juliabielski8890]

WHY IS NO ONE TALKING ABOUT CAMP OF CONCENTRATION LMFAO

[@Barrytown69]

A refreshing blend of Charlie Brooker wit delivered with Harry Hill style, whilst maintaining something unique to yourself. Love your content mate, been on a binge the past few weeks. Please keep up the good work. Can't wait to see where you take things!

[@itastain]

I could never work in an office. I spent 8 years working as a trolley collector at a supermarket until I figured out what I wanna do with my life. Iv now been in the events industry as a stagehand for 6+ years. Iv worked on some of the biggest concerts and musicals the world has seen. Has there been hard days? Yep Have I had to work 10, 12 even 18 hour days? You betcha Would I trade this for a cushy office job? Hell no

[@blakksheep736]

I'm proud of you.

[@BlackSlimShady]

"I could never work in an office" ... "I spent 8 years working as a trolley collector at a supermarket" 💀💀💀💀💀

[@itastain]

@@BlackSlimShady Yep. Was killing me inside, but I grew complacent. Luckily I managed to find a passion. That said, I'd probably prefer trolleys over a office job. I just hate the thought of being stuck in an office chair all day

[@geirnords]

Quality content as usual! Thanks Ordinary Thing, for keeping the Ordinary in Things!

[@OrdinaryThings]

keeping it ordinary, always

[@norik1616]

The study: It's estimated 50% of the UK workers will work remotely by 2020 2020: Hold my beer

[@mamott99]

That aged poorly.

[@369kjo]

Your commentary is the best!!! I appreciate your insightful, dead-on humor!!! My ❤ is yours 😊!!!

[@travisumbel6877]

That advert at 7:48 was... Was really something.

[@lonk5113]

Plus at a “home office” you literally never leave work. You wake up, it’s there. You go to sleep it’s still there. There’s no escape.

[@MrAnperm]

Same as living on a farm.

[@braydoncundiff8005]

@@MrAnperm but if you live on a farm your likely your own boss and atleast it’s rewarding work

[@theapplechapel]

I personally have a box I lock my work computer in after 8PM. Works like a charm.

[@gagne6928]

Im homeschooled rn and its kinda like that

[@scwirpeo]

Unemployed because of lockdows or spoopy work pc living in my house. I know what i pick.

[@olgabedash5669]

Watching in 2021... working from home permanently... with the best workplace setup - never been happier.

[@Hanschri]

The German bit was absolutely hysterical, you've outdone yourself once again!

[@OrdinaryThings]

thanks dude! that's my favourite bit too

[@nathanleary9662]

"butt-sniffing jargonese" 😂 Where has this guy been all my life.

[@TornadoSandwich]

“I looks like soon we’ll be free from offices all together!” -posted November 2019. If only he knew

[@dgmmgd8506]

The wage cage! I love it, I used to work in an office. Never again! 😂

[@bebopcola4643]

wasnt this guy a Pirate who worked with Blackbeard back in the day?

[@ChadKirk]

I used to be an office slave, then I quit and started cutting grass. Started my own business making almost as much as my office job. It’s hilarious just thinking about some guy telling me what to do 😂

[@TheBestcommentor]

Hey, I found the smug guy

[@SheepUndefined]

​@Patrick Ryan I kinda feel like a lot of that looking down is because of the idea that they're more physically laborious than office jobs, which...doesn't really make sense in reality. Sure trade jobs involve moving around more, but sedentary work is really hard on the body and mind in ways that trades aren't. Neither are great, don't get me wrong, but the divide between how comparatively "hard" they are is often not as wide as people may think. Also danger. I get a lot of that brought up when it comes to trades, but I don't have the statistics in front of me to know if suicide rates or worker-to-worker conflict causes as much death as...you know, getting electrocuted because JERRY DOESN'T KNOW WHAT FREAKING LOCKOUT TAGOUT IS. So I'll leave that one be.

[@SheepUndefined]

​@Patrick Ryan Commercial's definitely what I'm aiming for, once this freaking pandemic ends, but that's more bc I've always heard that residential is a lot more rushed, and I kinda...don't wanna go in people's houses and deal with their landlord's shitty self-done wiring job. (Had quite a few cases of that in my own houses growing up. One house had one breaker for 90% of the house outlets. Each room was spread among different breakers, while another had several appliance loads that're supposed to be on their own circuit by code, all on the same breaker, so if you ran them simultaneously, it'd trip and fuck up the heater.) And also with high voltages, they'll kill ya faster, but will also throw you back from them instead of locking your grip on the wire, and they don't have the complacency that comes with "low" voltages. 120/240 has killed an awful lotta people here bc "it's just house voltage" and people don't take it seriously as they do those kilowatt lines. Also, best of luck on your goals! Always nice to meet someone with a mutual career interest!

[@gircakes]

Now you tell people what to do and they resent you for it.

[@eechauch5522]

Wait a second, you’re making almost as much as as an office worker? So you made more, when you just did what you were supposed to and went home at the end of the day. Instead you now have a business with all the work and risks attached to that and you make less money from it? Owning a business is mainly...office work, with more risks and responsibilities. If in turn you don’t make more money then as an employee, that would be my example for why office works sucks, but sure.

[@DaVeganZombie]

I am so glad Internet Historian put me here.

[@rolanddeschain823]

This video shook me to my core...thank you

[@terranhealer]

And now the pandemic has catalyzed the home office where your boss will accuse you of slacking off and sleeping in

[@Surfermario]

And if you're on a zoom call just remember to turn it off if you need to do a Tubin.

[@muther1997]

I thought this was gonna be a critique of the show. I was like “I haven’t even seen office, how could it ruin my life?”

[@alkaholic4848]

Everyone's different. Personally there are a few things I miss about the office, but overall i'll take working from home anyway. Haven't gone back since the first lock down and I hope I never have to. That extra hour in the morning and in the evening from not commuting is just priceless. Not being frustrated and worn out from battling the chaos of the rush hour. And being able to do something useful with my lunch break. Wear whatever, shower whenever. Not being out for parcel deliveries. Putting the washing machine and dishwasher on during the day. Choose the chair that I want, the desk that I want, sit where I want, as much or as little noise as I want. And not having to deal with people when I don't want! I am still employed tho, not freelance. Is there even a connection between freelance and home working? I haven't noticed it here in the UK. You could be freelance and work at an office, and you can be employed and work at home. I haven't noticed a correlation.

[@BlackSlimShady]

Freelance at an office? How many freelancers are out there renting office space?

[@iSometimesWriteMusic]

Hey algorithm overlords! Witness this video!

[@OrdinaryThings]

may they bless us al

[@DrGrantH]

8:30 "but he spoke exclusively in butt-sniffing Jargonese" LMAO

[@Ninjujitsu]

remote working isn't the cause of loneliness, the overwhelming demands of the job regardless of from whence you work is the cause

[@kyleaegis5613]

13:12 You predicted the future...

[@Noshbedumb]

The way the ending aged 💀