The Expert: Progress Meeting (Short Comedy Sketch)

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Starring: Orion Leem, Alex Wadham, Abdiel LeRoy, Amir El Masry, Ben Kernow, Eleanor Byrne, Seán Burke & Ayanna Coleman-Potempa
Directed by Lauris Beinerts
Screenplay by Lauris Beinerts
Story by Orion Lee & Lauris Beinerts
Based on characters created by Alexey Berezin
Producers: Michael Bel Gil & Damien Beaton
Executive Producers: Orion Lee & Lauris Beinerts
Director of Photography: Matt Riley
Production Designer: Catiana Becker
Costume Designer: Sabina Piccini
Editor: Connor Snedecor
1st Assistant Director: Archie Hollway
1st Assistant Camera: Matt Tregoning
2nd Assistant Camera: Joanne Smith
Sound Recordist: Xan Márquez Caneda
Gaffer: Pete Carrier
Make-up Artist: Sabrina Garside
Sound Designer: James Bryant
Colourist: James Willett
Equipment provided by Picture Canning & CARRIER-media.
Shot on location at Runway East.
Special Thanks to Natasha Larkin, Spike O'Connell & Edgars Jēkabsons.
A Constellation Creatives, FILM 0.1 & Meshes production.
(c) 2018.
The original short story "The Meeting" (in Russian): alex-aka-jj.livejournal.com/6...
The original short comedy sketch "The Expert": • The Expert (Short Come...
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- A pint glass (for the wide shot)
- Printed handouts (all 375 pages if you ask)
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- A very illustrative graph
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[@LaurisB]

You can now buy Expert shirts & hoodies at laurisb.myshopify.com/ For all the experts out there who can do absolutely anything they're asked to, this is the ideal garment for your office battles.

[@timothypham2509]

How can I submit an idea for your next short?

[@LaurisB]

@@timothypham2509, in general I am not commisionaing ideas, but I am open to collaborations (though am not planning to work on anything at the moment). You can just drop me a line on the e-mail that is on my channel.

[@jackbotman]

A project manager is the sort of person that thinks, 3 women can produce one baby in 3 months

[@LaurisB]

Plus, you can also save on C-sections!

[@lawrencecampbell933]

A shit one... yes

[@azae00Vids]

they would raise the salary to get another sap in the seat ... rinse and repeat

[@nursultanmarat7010]

or produce body in 7 months, and head in other 2 months

[@didndido3638]

The original joke was 9 women 1 month..

[@DrandelSheep]

75% is also 75 / 100 which means they can produce 75 prototypes and when he's done we can ship the other 25. Its much more efficient than shipping only 3!

[@LaurisB]

Flawless maths!

[@DrandelSheep]

Uhm, both?

[@Leveler93]

Good joke

[@GetenGeten]

Could we reasonably take a risk here and say that 75% is 750/1000? In that case we can scale the production even further.

[@lewiszim]

Even better, 75% is also 75,000,000/100,000,000. That's an increase of nearly 100,000%! This has been very productive.

[@mihaitha]

To anyone wondering, the company is called Electronic Arts.

[@madmanarrivednow]

I think this is Bethesda with Fallout 76. The "it just works" attitude is there. But yeah. The 25 percent as DLC is a nice observation on your side. Truth be told my first thought was Electronic Arts too. Then again. That conversation should end with someone saying 75 percent ready and out, if it is finished the other 10 percent ls sold as DLC, the remaining 15 is lootbox.

[@brikimbran]

😭😭😭😭

[@nathand256]

🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@Zekr0_]

Bruh i was about to comment that then i saw this.... 😂✋

[@geekworthy7938]

No, I'm certain I work there.

[@inkysplat]

I feel for Anderson, as a developer I've been in similar non-sensical meetings.

[@LaurisB]

Did you have handouts with you?

[@olivierprevost1]

I love this series of sketch. I can so relate to this. :-)

[@Grumpy_old_Boot]

The thing about handouts, if you make them really short and easy to read, people will say it lacks details. And if you make it long and detailed, they won't glance over it and sort of "go blank" and ignore all the details. You can't win in the game of handout reports.

[@LaurisB]

In the game of handout reports you win or you get a nasty paper cut.

[@thearchibaldtuttle]

Grumpy ol' Boot I feel with you! Damn I hate to create hand outs!! One fucking typo and 15 Minutes in the meeting is lost because everybody likes to procrastinate on that typo. They are too lazy, dumb or ignorante to focus on the content in the first place!

[@kapitanblue5066]

This scenario happened exactly 3 hours ago in our project meeting

[@LaurisB]

Have you finished the revised schedule?

[@MISJPEREZ]

Kapitan Blue is life in this world so Bizarre? So sorry.

[@kaushalsuvarna5156]

@@MISJPEREZ stranger than fiction

[@timesmash]

This is my daily life

[@ZoeeXiao]

my condolences

[@gereonhuppertz]

The last piece of the puzzle that is missing - is the Project manager asking for an additional customer requirement: the square will need to be capable to roll with 0 friction. "Just a minor addition".

[@LaurisB]

0 friction, haha :)

[@nicholaslau3194]

I wonder what would happen to this company if this guy quits

[@LaurisB]

Don't give him ideas!

[@gruntmaster1]

It would clearly result in a better workflow now that he isn't there to block all of the ideas of his colleges.

[@Leveler93]

Bankruptcy

[@nicholaslau3194]

gruntmaster1 That would make total sense. They would be at 1000% productivity without him

[@gruntmaster1]

Nicholas Lau Just look at how researching the size of the right angle has dragged on. Clearly Anderson didn't do a thorough enough job. Probably because he keep insisting on these left angles when he was clearly asked to use right ones.

[@eltimbalino]

I feel like I missed the "Design me a pie chart to show 114%" episode. I can just see how it would have gone down. "Anderson, you seem fixated on circles with this pie-chart problem. You're the expert, I shouldn't have to be creative for you, but maybe you should try a square. Think outside the box a bit." Then, someone else, "Clearly if he can't show 114% with his circle, then he needs a bigger circle. I'm not saying I understand everything Anderson does, but this is obvious. If you need more, make it bigger."

[@LaurisB]

Check out the previous episode:) bit.ly/SquareProjectEp2 But I like the way you're thinking!

[@Silver_o]

Hire this man!

[@refusingtoconform]

I'm not even an office worker but I legitimately FEEL this level of annoyance.

[@sirdeadlock]

There was an episode of Disney's show Dinosaurs where one of the characters was trying to explain extinction, and what they got was "what do you mean there isn't more? There's always more, that's what 'more' means!"

[@clayz1]

sirdeadlock Go to 11.

[@jcarlosquebrado6716]

What I don't understand is why 90 degrees was the bottom value tested for right angles. I believe an 81 degree right angle would be better. It is 10% more efficient than a 90 degree right angle, and so we could expect it to work perfectly 9 out of 10 times. Alternatively, the right angle problem would have been resolved using a straight angle. R&D should look into developing straight angles. As we all know, in theory, straight angles are ambidextrous, so using them would allow them to be used for both right angle and left angle applications.

[@LaurisB]

Are you looking for a new job, by any chance? We have an opening.

[@Bleagle]

JCarlos Quebrado My head hurts already.. stop!

[@Leveler93]

Haha 😅you have big imagination I can see

[@rizkiyoist]

I lost at ambidextrous lol

[@shridhar1286]

Your genius but people like me who r little dumb cloud understand this that's why they made it easy way

[@JW-be8wf]

As a 40 year old engineer I finally understand what getting triggered means. I go through this entirely too often. Art is imitating life in the most brutal and honest way possible.

[@blubb9004]

Yeah these clips are so true and well observed, they are PAINFUL to watch.

[@flemingchrisjohn]

That is why I retired!;) Ex 'lectronics Tech/ IT 42 years...

[@keeflookeem]

I do technical stuff that are hard to explain to laypeople in any kind of comprehensive way without explaining like 10 different technologies. Sometimes I have similarly frustrating meetings and interactions at work. I often show these skits to friends and family to explain what those are like for me. I'd gladly support a patreon or whatever to keep these coming!

[@LaurisB]

Glad you liked it! Patreon is something I've considered, but didn't think it would have been appropriate... Perhaps need to rethink.

[@slayerbllade]

You would be surprised as to how many people would actually donate. A lot of people would look forward to small skits like this that they can relate since they also experience something similar at their workplace.

[@infirmux]

Because too many "managers" and "supervisors" don't pay enough attention to hiring (or don't participate). Then they don't trust the hired guy... If you hire an expert, you have to make sure he is actual expert and then trust him. Because he knows stuff you hired him for. Otherwise you would be able do to that yourself. Which actually you should to some extent... But this is impossible.

[@michaelmaghi464]

@@LaurisB this is gold stuff btw, i would pay $ to watch a few of these vids per month

[@stan.rarick8556]

@@infirmux Too many managers hire experts, then don't respect their expertise anyway.

[@lestersys]

Brilliant writing, brilliant acting. He has the perfect WTF face, someone should make a meme out of it. LoL

[@velkoivanov9155]

Take any frame around 1:33 and you have it

[@DenesSebestyenSebi]

When the manager starts to explain the 3/4 like to a 6 year old, and everyone just keeps nodding... priceless

[@tipetu]

This is painfully accurate.

[@bobthompson8053]

I swear to God I work for these people....

[@flemingchrisjohn]

Oh YES!

[@o2boutdoors]

As part of a project that had a promised ship date for a product that wasn't even designed yet, this is all too familiar. One of the funnier/sadder lines came from a "marketing" person in the meeting, when "engineering" said that one of the prototype components was failing in testing, and they couldn't figure out why. "Is this going to affect the ship date?"

[@LaurisB]

Haha, you make a ridiculous sketch, but still there will be people that say: "Nah, this happened to me!" I guess, that is a challenge?

[@o2boutdoors]

I'm sure it's happened to more than just me; 'tis the nature of corporate life.

[@ceejay0137]

The reply should be "No, not at all. You're an experienced marketing executive, so I'm sure you're capable of selling the customer a product that doesn't work".

[@nambeyejkatebe6241]

This is painful to watch. Especially if you're a real life Anderson.

[@Thunar7]

if you're a real life anderson, you should quit your job or find better working conditions

[@orlanino]

@@Thunar7 Will send you my cv... you are probably with management.

[@semeionsho]

I was

[@semeionsho]

I was

[@Xylarxcode]

Agent Smith walk in: 'Well, well, we meet again.... Mr Anderson.'

[@NLTops]

Get blamed for non-existent problems whilst being ignored when pointing out existent problems. Realism 1000%. These videos make me cry whilst rocking back and forth and laugh like a lunatic at the same time. It is a good thing the Andersons of the world don't resort to violence whilst they're still sane. Wait, is it a good thing?...

[@kartikeyb8542]

I wonder the same question all the time

[@dmf1301]

In the sense that all of you Andersons of the world don't end up in jail for assault - or murder? Yes. It IS a good thing that you all manage to curb your instincts towards resorting to violence! :p

[@brandonlee5254]

😂😂

[@MubashirullahD]

Honestly, the attention given to somethings as appose to others. Asymetrical responses, one questions their sanity.

[@BobbyLandiaPDX]

10 Rules for being a Project Manager: 1. Always tell the Program Director what they want to hear. Directors do not want to hear the word "No" or "Can't". Strike these words from your vocabulary entirely. 2. Never do anything yourself. Delegate absolutely every task, including the delegation of tasks. That way, you'll always have someone else to blame when things go wrong. 3. If the project is delayed for any reason, fire someone immediately. It doesn't matter who. Do not refill the vacant position. Leave the rest of the work for the other team members to absorb since they don't have enough to do anyway. This will give the Director the impression that you are taking charge and that the delay was not your fault. 4. Do not concern yourself with staying up to date on industry standards and practices. After all, if your company isn't already doing it that way, it must be completely irrelevant. 5. Be sure to take credit for everything your team accomplishes. If they complain, remind them that there is no "I" in "Team" and that the new solution wouldn't have been taken seriously otherwise. (See the movie Working Girl) 6. Make sure you have at least one hour-long, mandatory team meeting every week where you require each team member to produce a PowerPoint slideshow presentation about what they've accomplished so far and outline their "Strategic Work Plan" going forward. This way, team members will be forced to constantly justify their position and prove that they are essential to the project, thereby shielding them from elimination. (See rule #3.) This will also cause them to compete with each other for your favor and approval. 7. Never answer emails from team members. Doing so makes it difficult to gaslight them. Also, do not answer your phone, ever, and do not, under any circumstances, reply to voice mail messages or even listen to them. In fact, it's best to just let them build up until your voicemail box is full and can't accept any more messages. Being inaccessible to your team ensures they will have to figure out any problems on their own without dragging you into the tepid shallows of the piss-filled swimming pool we call "work". 8. Contracting expensive consultants when your own in-house team members are perfectly capable of providing the solutions needed demonstrates how seriously you are taking this project while diminishing the self-confidence of your team and increasing their self-doubt. This way, even if the team comes up with their own solution, you will be able to take credit for having the foresight to bring in an "expert" and makes it easier to require a larger budget for the next project. 9. Be sure to switch to a completely new software program halfway through the project and demand that everyone uses it while refusing to learn anything about it yourself and you continue to use the old program. 10. Your number one priority is to complete the project with as little work possible (by you) and just enough mediocrity to meet all the metrics and justify getting paid while handing it over with enough polish and shine to get praise. To do this, you must learn to exploit and capitalize on the talent and hard work of your team while making sure none of them is a threat to your job. By sharpening and fine-tuning this skill, with each new project, you will quickly rise to a level of ass-kissing and brown-nosing that will perfectly position you to become the next Program Director, where you will get to rub shoulders with executives and board members, travel to flashy trade shows and conventions in exotic locations, take months-long vacations, and sabbaticals, receive large bonuses, stock options, and obtain an enormous corner office, and a parking space. Who knows, you might even become a lobbyist!

[@bait5257]

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[@samgee500]

best comment

[@notgadot]

*capitaliSe

[@GoodToGo1]

Preach!

[@AlexanderMoen]

I think the most infuriating part of these sketches is slowly realizing that in some situations I'm Anderson and in other situations I'm Anderson's colleagues.

[@wildgurgs3614]

That's great that you're willing to admit you see yoruself on both sides! I never saw it that way and only thought of it as "Thank goodness I'm not much of an Anderson in these scenarios".

[@DrewKime]

I sat on a phone call and listened to our CTO tell a client that their project would take three weeks. The rest of us exchanged shocked looks, but waited until after the call to remind him we were swamped for at least 2 months, how could he promise them 3 weeks? "I said it would take 3 weeks, I didn't say when we would start."

[@Ancapistola]

No, no! He's got a point!

[@a.h.s.3006]

Gotta admit, it's not the worst argument possible

[@geopolitix7770]

I'm sure that ended up working with no issues whatsoever!

[@hotaryuzaki]

The Chinese guy is good actor, really. His face can tell the whole story. Lol.

[@dragonmartijn]

In my company he would have been fired because he dared to undermine the certain position of his colleague: he shows no solidarity.

[@DA-bm2mj]

he's not chinese

[@user-jd3gf5xw1x]

@@DA-bm2mj looks chinese to me, someone's who's also chinese. either way he looks asian

[@blacktigershearthstoneadve6905]

​@@DA-bm2mj Orion Lee from Hongkong. He is a professional actor, in fact he had a couple of awards and he is certainly chinese.

[@hungv4375]

1:47 - His utterly confused/stunned face kills me every time.

[@sohangchopra6478]

Scary thought : there are people out there who thought this was a perfectly ordinary meeting

[@davidwuhrer6704]

There wasn't nearly enough backstabbbing and rivalry between the team leads to call this meeting "ordinary". Even though Anderson's boss made the rookie mistake of letting the engineer sit at the table as though they were people.

[@RhombonianKnight]

@@davidwuhrer6704 as an engineer, can confirm we aren't people.

[@martinhenzl]

It seems quite ordinary to me.

[@DaLoler1]

After watching all The Expert sketches i just want to hug Anderson and tell him it's all going to be fine.

[@LaurisB]

But you know it isn't...

[@SuperHansburger93]

"That's 9 out of 10" I love how he raised his finger, about to say "actually, no. That's 9 more for every 10." but didn't have time to say anything XD

[@audaciousfalcon7981]

This is the 4th or 5th time I've come back to this series to watch it. It never ceases to be funny.

[@fuzzylumpkin49]

He's decided to use the right angle for the square project, and he's getting Anderson to remove any pesky left angles, but he forget to tell Anderson to make sure the lines in the right angle run parallel to each other. ^_^

[@voltairespuppet]

fuzzylumpkin49 it's ok. 50% of the lines are parallel so we can ship the first 2 of 3 of 4. Remotely fix the 3rd. While completing the design for the fourth. Dont worry. I'll adjust the project schedule, showing you working on those tasks in parallel. Please don't thank me, that's what my executive bonus is for. Your bonus? Well this is the middle of an economic dowterm, that would just be sending the wrong message to our shareholders.

[@Neolisk]

...in a shape of a kitten.

[@robertweekley5926]

But Not Too Thick Lines! But Make the Red Lines with a Blue, Green, Invisible, and Black Pen!

[@Lucky10279]

😆

[@aklosterboer]

What Anderson is missing is a good team lead. As a developer, Anderson should never have been in that meeting. He should have been working on the 'Linear Solutions' project. A good team lead knows how to placate an aggressive project manager while still looking out for the best interest of his/her team.

[@faithful451]

Exactly this. Making Devs or techs jump to answer random emails and meetings and stuff instead of doing their job...smh my head

[@PatrisDev]

As much as I love these videos, they make me really angry :D keep it up!

[@vivianscircle]

I had a similar "meeting" with one of the managers at work. Guy can't even spell the word software and he was lecturing me (i am a software developer )about how to develop code. I was trying to explain to him how the functions he is using cannot take all the arguments he wants. Programming languages have rules just like every other language out there! It was pointless. He kept telling me to go find some tutorials online to study. 🙄 Business people are the most useless in the industry. Zero actual skills. They are overgrown toddlers that learn a new word everyday and then just repeat it.

[@fenrisulven5324]

I love how everyone has got so accustomed to the exaggerations of completing "135% of the project!" that they are yawning at it.

[@kanadetenshi4311]

Every once in a while, I come back to this video. I don't know why. It hurts the same everytime.

[@Ardjano234]

This is so good, and it is also following a story from each sketch to the next, brilliant! The diabolical thing is how Anderson is called for every meeting only to be never listened to or always contradicted

[@jazko]

We are 75% done, this means 3 out of every 4 ... I died :D :D

[@peterliljebladh]

Just like in real life then. 10 office crawlers in suits bragging away with the results left for one single worker to sort out months in advance of the regular predetermined schedule.

[@LaurisB]

I guess, everyone should hope they are not that one worker?

[@YourNickIsTaken]

90%

[@josephdouglas5242]

Before it was funny. Now I'm just conflicted on whether I should give Anderson a hug or just punch everyone else.

[@gavinmay6949]

Joseph Douglas easy conflict solution. Why not both?

[@sadia2395]

Same.I was just angry at my phone screen watching Anderson suffer ...this is deja vu...

[@arnoldsherrill6305]

To do both I have been in meetings where one guy does his absolute best to make everyone else on the project team feeling like absolute crap and after the meeting is over this same individual is brown nosing the rest of the team trying to get the objective met and take the credit yet again

[@davidwuhrer6704]

Everyone else is just doing their best to make the right noises to not get fired.

[@AnnaVelvet]

I stumbled unto these videos and was totally impressed as they captured the ignorance of the PM and the frustration of the developer.

[@LaurisB]

Now you’ve stumbled all over my videos!

[@axlslak]

why on earth do I keep clicking these? they are very upsetting. I feel for poor anderson.

[@LaurisB]

it's called addiction

[@u.v.s.5583]

Very well done. A paragon of a progress meeting. We actually train our middle management using your videos in order to streamline our projects. The turnout has increased by 132 percent during the last quarter.

[@theastuteangler9642]

132% over 4 quarters is a 528% increase! Enjoy your promotion

[@axerity9212]

@@theastuteangler9642 so true king

[@jena.alexia]

I have literally attended a meeting about meetings. I was working on a project as one of the SMEs and OMG.... People were talking about what we should and shouldn't cover in our regular catch ups, does anyone have any ideas for "meeting hygiene" 🙄, should we take turns chairing the meetings - no thanks. The project manager should be driving this. What shall we do to encourage better attendance at our meetings? I dunno, don't make them so painful, useless or long and drawn out like this one? I scream and curse internally hoping one day I don't say the quiet part out loud.

[@MrUbikkk]

That 114% pie chart killed me...

[@ltnlabs]

This is a fantastic example of how you can allow yourself to get taken advantage of if you let fear prevent you from disagreeing or being assertive.

[@MovingForwardAdventures]

Squares on wall paper, squares on shirts, on ties, on drinking glasses, out in the hall there are squares everywhere in this video! are you trying to brainwash us? lol Seriously love this series!!

[@LaurisB]

There were a few squares under the table, as well!

[@xja85mac]

Why not on the pencil box? is that any different that it doesn't get the square treatment?

[@misticalinteractive]

This is the Square project ;)

[@treviskelley1149]

Are those squares using right angles or left angles? 90 or 100 degrees? I am confident you cannot make squares with 90 degree right angles.

[@brendantracey699]

All the department heads trying to outdo eachother by completing 114% of their objectives 90% ahead of schedule is spot on

[@hueshangdangergeld]

I don't know whether I should laugh or cry. These comedy series remind me of my job.

[@TlMDV]

Before getting my degree: _I can do most things, but not in a professional way._ After I got my degree: _I can somewhat do most things kind of professional, still a lot to learn._ At my first workplace: _Who cares about professionalism, as fast and as cheap as possible is our norm!_ In other words: The employer requires his workforce to have a college or university degree, but then forces them to work the same way they did before getting that degree...

[@jamespfitz]

Who told you your degree was training? It's a pre-employment competence test administered at your expense for your employer's benefit.

[@TlMDV]

@@jamespfitz You actually got a good point there. That sadly doesn't make the 'rushed work' problem less annoying... I understand that in running a company sometimes things have to be rushed, but if this happens regularly there is a bigger issue at play. I want to be proud of my work, not ashamed and embarrassed...

[@davidwuhrer6704]

@@TlMDV Same. Still want to be able to pay rent though.

[@karimajouz8745]

these skits absolutely infuriate me, i love them

[@greenpedal370]

I did one of those ridiculous on line interviews yesterday and had to describe a challenging incident. I said that trying to explain engineering to salesmen and accountants was as tough as it got. The rejection email arrived within hours!

[@DLBeatty]

The expert after the meeting. Pure gold!

[@Madbronine]

This is an accurate representation of how most game companies publish games?

[@LaurisB]

Is that a question.

[@halfondarr3951]

@@rafanavega thanks for the link, it was too damned accurate

[@rafanavega]

@@halfondarr3951 I thought so too!

[@reptilianhuntress9968]

its painfully true

[@dmf1301]

These clips are hysterical! The whole team have great comedy instincts. I love Anderson! 😛

[@Thiesi]

Thank you so much for providing us with more insight into the life of a true expert.

[@addriannodj1990]

I'm 175% happy watching your short films. Gratitude!

[@transce]

This is so accurate that it hurts.

[@ChadeGB]

This is how developers like Bethesda develop their games.

[@somequasiparticles]

This is partially why I switched from engineering to sales. One time I got called into a big meeting with the CEO and he asked, "How many mg can our pump hold?" "Well... it depends on the concentration sir." "AGH! That's exactly what Brian said. Why won't you just tell me how many milligrams are in our pump?"

[@firstlast8847]

"We have finished 114 percent of our objectives this month." 😂

[@bigekai]

I feel so much places and reaction in common with Anderson, especially thinking and working in Asia way. Cannot help watch for dozen times, Good job, Lauris. Please keep making such good works!

[@LaurisB]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@ElGroggy]

I love when I heard a manager said, we will hire 2 or 3 more person therefore we can finish the project earlier...

[@oniongingertomato2216]

Never works like that....Also providing training on the job needs to be accounted for. Pretending like it doesn't exist is an awful disservice to the poor sod who does it.

[@nomad4k]

As a computer programmer, I have been in situations exactly like this one ..

[@harshaarun8383]

Kafka would be very proud of this 🤣

[@4tdaz]

I sat in a Salesforce product launch UAT debrief where we failed 100% of the business use cases. Next day, the head of technology announced it was ready for launch and it went completely smoothly. When I asked about it I was told, "in these things there is a 80/20 rule: get 80% right and then come back for the 20%" When I pointed out we had a 100% fail...they just looked away like I wasn't talking.

[@KingKhong811]

Lauris and team, Thank you so much for this series! Absolutely brilliant!

[@LaurisB]

Thanks, glad you enjoyed it!

[@masonhock6442]

Love this series

[@mtjoy747]

Techno babble during the yawning woman, lol😅

[@RobinHagg]

I can watch this over and over again and it never stops being true

[@StickmanA]

This is why my local park was closed for 15 months to do 3 days work.

[@Andrew0you0tube]

Wow, that's exactly how my company operates...

[@mohammedehtesham2661]

"we've decided to use right angle for the square project" 0:37 I would suggest to better use circle for the square project🤣

[@vyshak4492]

Hope these videos reach every offices

[@Leotique]

This is one of the best Sketch ever, maybe also because he's relatable with nowadays world with all the technology we have.

[@LaurisB]

Glad you liked it!

[@raduku4all]

Best short comedies ever! Please do more! I've seen them all ~5x times.

[@coloradolove7957]

I have a sneaking feeling that they are designing the back rooms.

[@jinxatron]

I feel so sorry for Anderson. Cant he get a break just once? maybe meeting someone that isn't a complete tool at the office? (Like a soulmate or another expert from another company?) It just seems like hes ready to jump the building soon xD

[@richarddeananderson82]

After 4 years without news, I hope Anderson quit and is living a happier life

[@anamulkabir1014]

That's the story of every project meetings, engineers vs PMs

[@coffeedrinker88]

I cannot believe I just stumbled upon these. My new favorite youtube channel

[@cry2love]

This is the footage of Mr. Anderson before the Matrix. Now I know the real reason why Anderson took a red pill

[@LaurisB]

Check out the previous episodes of The Expert: Square Project! bit.ly/SquareProjectEp1 bit.ly/SquareProjectEp2 Have you seen the original video? Watch The Expert: bit.ly/TheExpertSketch

[@LanceThumping]

I feel like our favourite Expert is heading towards an early grave with this office environment. At this rate, he only has has a few more sketches before someone asks him to make a triangle with 6 sides and no corners, then his heart will explode from the blood pressure spike and he'll keel over. After that, it'll probably be another 2-3 sketches before one of his coworkers realizes he's dead and not just ignoring his emails.

[@Aragorn32167]

When can we expect new ep? It’s so great!

[@ssquarepants04]

yes! please release the next episode.. im curious what will happen to our Expert... XD

[@inessafarhat7115]

I just adore all the episodes!! Perfect match of actors, esp the expert. That is nearly the structure of any company, regardless the country or language 😂. Thank you!!!!))

[@TheOlian04]

9 months later.. Are you working on a new batch of episodes?

[@billbusen]

The CEO had just approved shipping the prototype as the production version, and the best programmer in our company had received 24 hours to justify his apoplectic response. This micro-reasonable response attracted the other stellar, competent programmer to his cubicle next to mine (working on a separate project) for an all-nighter. The periodic expressions of glee were memorable. There was a 150+ page report on the CEOs desk THE NEXT MORNING. Respects, QLB...

[@chuckpeasley212]

0:13 "90 % - that's 9 out of every 10". Straight out of Sarah Cooper's "How to look smart in meetings" :)

[@jmfs3497]

Lauris, I hope these videos have provided an income to help you escape whatever situation that inspired these videos! This is all too spot on to my current experience and it helps to not feel alone! lol.

[@prandtlmayer]

This is so true

[@itarchitecture4all]

Love the interpretation of 75/100 => 3 of 4 units, LOL

[@charlescote3989]

This series is gold!

[@knightenchanter7908]

Why did you stop making these skits? They're amazing.

[@Hannodb1961]

Better to stop before they become stale.

[@ashismandal7776]

This video makes me aware of the astronomical salary difference between engineers and managers. P.S engineers are way underpaid.

[@davidwuhrer6704]

I once worked on a project where everyone was hoping the manager would not show up, because whenever he did, he would loudly explain things to himself everyone else already knew, and nothing would get done. That manager made as much as the rest of the team combined. (And I was assured that that had been a bargain, because he had been head-hunted from a different company, and been reputed as a genius in hus field (corporate management).)

[@davidwuhrer6704]

And to be fair, he kind of was. He made sure that none of the workers got paid a minute too much, that as little tax as possible was actually paid, and that marketing was generously funded for annually rewriting the unchanging company guidlines on colour schemes and occasionally posting to a Twitter feed that nobody was following, while the homepage redesign was outsourced to the relative of an acquaintance who needed to buff their CV.

[@blackhat2005]

Please keep these coming!

[@samtro]

This is all so painful 😂

[@Muzikman127]

Marvelous videos guys, really made me laugh (and glad that I recently quit this environment so now it hurts a loss less! More PTSD than an open wound haha) You should put them in a playlist on your channel :)

[@LaurisB]

Here you go! bit.ly/TheExpert_Series

[@cuteoliv]

Just like most startup.. let the users be the tester 😂

[@Mzansi74]

Septian Ahmad Fujianto Most corporates too. And not only in IT...

[@MeMe-lx2jw]

Yes. This is actually what it's like.

[@cjhickspe1399]

I love these. It's like a documentary of my life.

[@2199SPUDMAN]

I have a variation of this: I call it the "Do It Like We've Always Done It, Just Better". This scenario happens when "The Business" wants something "enterprisey" and "innovative", but the whole process is driven by risk-adverse, non-technical managers who have no idea how such solutions are actually implemented. When the Expert in this case proposes a particular solution, the Business people cherry-pick bits and pieces of the solution to fit their limited understanding of the problem and they crazy glue them onto the prior solution. As meetings continue, it becomes painfully apparent that no true innovation can take place because the Business is not willing to take any real risks. All the Business really wants is a solution similar to what it's always done, just "better".

[@icmull]

Meeting was too short. Never that quick.

[@tomatedesign1976]

Anderson is my spirit animal.

[@LaurisB]

Slide!

[@joceton]

Love these! The Expert is still my favorite video of all time :)

[@Tomwithnonumbers]

So much paper wasted! It sets my teeth on edge

[@LaurisB]

Not all the paper even made it on screen...

[@TEXAS2459]

Thomas L ikr children in africa wuda eaten those

[@IvyI2639]

More of The expert and Anderson please...

[@couragef8450]

Thanks so much for the comedy! lots of laughs

[@cattocs]

This is awesome. I can feel the frustration.