The First Guy To Ever Work In An Office

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[@thefuturerex0197]

No

[@AJisdum]

Nice

[@saniaamirbaz1717]

NO FRICK YOU btw love ur vids

[@IDK-gd2ot]

Ok

[@Funnyfumo211]

No

[@AnikIsGreat]

I'd watch a horror movie where a normal dude is trying to escape a universe where everyone is Ryan George and figuring out how to do life.

[@ScofieldStudios]

It would be a comedy-horror movie.

[@randomperson8375]

and all the Ryan Georges slowly start to realize this normal dude isn't another Ryan George and start hunting him down.

[@thefuturerex0197]

Yeah Hollywood banger

[@YesHello_OkGoodbye]

Yess

[@kz.productions]

Ryan should make that with an other creator for some subscriber milestone

[@TThorn1]

I love the idea that these characters just hang out in the middle of fields for no reason when they aren’t doing anything

[@julialasseguarde5798]

he was hired because he was outstanding in his field. =)

[@shahanahsan05]

@@julialasseguarde5798 that makes more sense

[@blowc1612]

He was enjoying his day before he goes to prison.

[@stevethompson5265]

@@julialasseguarde5798 that was pure gold 🤣🤣

[@frutrace]

@@julialasseguarde5798 There needs to be more likes for this comment.

[@craig5322]

I got to sit in on a manager meeting and hear the HR person talk about how "some people have this unrealistic expectation that they deserve to get raises just because cost of living increases" and even the managers were like "No actually everyone has that expectation, and it's not silly"

[@tsarfox3462]

Sometimes I legitimately wonder if people like that are actually humans or poorly programmed chatbots. Then I realize it would be cheaper to just hire sociopaths with bachelor degrees.

[@stevejobs8406]

HR reps are all literally going to hell for the BS they put everyone through

[@williamrosenbloom215]

HR is the devil

[@brucewillis542]

*you walk off Manager: alright he's gone, keep those wages down or you're fired.

[@andreaaldrich4046]

HR people are a special breed.

[@pyro2708]

I feel cheated, I came here to laugh not to get depressed at how real this was.

[@Jack-sy8mr]

Well you know what they say “comedy=tragedy+time”

[@Vhestale]

Oh God, the immediate desaturation once they're inside the office hits way too close to home... You can feel your life being sucked out of your body by this place. X'D

[@Hugh_Jas]

It's actually quite a subtle desaturation too, which goes to show how impactful the setting itself is. Most of what you're seeing is just the difference being in a shitty office makes.

[@rohanmanchanda5250]

Ex Apostrophe Dee?

[@Hamburgers4Haiti]

Warehouses and factories are designed to suck out your soul as well. They don't even paint the walls in those damn places. You get lots of hard gray surfaces, poor air circulation, no a/c or heating, greater amount of safety hazards, and loud, repetetive noises in most. In the majority I've worked in, they didn't even allow headphones.

[@1ouncebird]

@@Hamburgers4Haiti You're right. As depressing as offices and office cubicles may be they aren't as bad as warehouses, factories and even laboratories ( Laboratories I have worked in don't allow photos or any sign of outside life whatsoever. They too can be very loud and sterile and sad places to spend your life away. ) Let's face it - places of employment, for many of us, are generally all places that suck all that makes life good out of us. Its that darned paycheck that keeps us coming back.

[@Jordan-Ramses]

Ryan just watched Office Space.

[@hhjk377]

The best feeling I've had all year: My office spaced moved five times farther away than the previous spot. I asked for a hundred more bucks a month just to get eaten up in gas and then probably a bit more. Got told no. Said cool I'm gonna be working from home now. Got told no again. Said cool again and that I was gonna be working from home. Started working from home. Didn't get fired yet. It's been five months. Stay strong, cube people.

[@RGC_animation]

Now that I think about it, the pandemic is probably the best thing that could've happened to most office workers, which is just so depressing.

[@GeoKnowLearning]

That you Milton?? 😆🤣😂

[@jojob1969]

@@GeoKnowLearning They pushed him too far when they took his favorite stapler!

[@StefanReich]

I will just stay home all the time now I decided

[@jimdoom2276]

You're basically my hero now. Respect.

[@snowdust3657]

As someone who works in a office, I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry at this one!

[@saladz3657]

Put this in a company wide email.

[@thematiasmadness7010]

Yes

[@SamDy99]

Cry .... and slap the HR and file a resignation.

[@ripperthesmilingindoraptor]

Weep, then use the pain to become a real life version of Green Goblin. The Willem Dafoe Green Goblin. It'll make a great movie.

[@Ironica82]

Laugh while your standing, cry when your in bed thinking about the next work day

[@clockworktri]

Anyone else use Ryan's videos as a pallette cleanser? Whenever I need to stop thinking of the news or toxic shit or just stress, I come over here because I know his vids are full of sunshine and goofiness with never a mean bone in them (even if the topic is about the depressing realities we face). It helps me sleep at night.

[@Baron_Blue_Max]

Same here. His takes on the ridiculous nature of our society are the small pockets of sanity I need.

[@chernobylcoleslaw6698]

Or when I need to decompress from work.

[@kristenmckee9990]

I like his videos because they're really really funny

[@kristenmckee9990]

They're really awesome

[@heyy1829]

Thats the most depressing way of saying the videos are funny ever

[@those1kidds]

I love how Ryan has the ability to make what we do sound absurd and funny at the same time but also depress the living crap out of me knowing that this is our life....

[@LuisSierra42]

@@paddor this is not a bot i decided

[@retteketette]

@@paddor 🤣🤣🤣

[@those1kidds]

What? What are you smoking man?

[@Hazarth]

To be fair, he's only making it sound absurd and depressing because it is absurd and depressed, you just got used to it.

[@ijustdocomments6777]

Yeah I had an epiphany of this whole thing right out of college, ended up crying my way through my first office job. Turns out I just hated being alone in front of a computer all day. It's much saner when you're sharing an area with other people. Of course my nephew had the SAME epiphany after college and became a burnout drunky restaurant worker with a 4-year physics degree...

[@bellabean7]

As soon as he got to the “who are we dressing up for??” bit, I immediately forwarded this to my boyfriend who just started an office job where casual Fridays are the best days of the week.

[@tuseroni6085]

I don't have to wear a suit where I work, but I do. I dress up for me.

[@David95111]

Any chance he cracked the code why we all dress up in offices?

[@ShadeSlayer1911]

I usually dress up for myself.

[@TheJaredtheJaredlong]

"In case any clients come in." is what I was always told. Clients never came into our office, we always went to them.

[@Pyromaniacalsquirrel]

Never have a related so much to a question than asking ‘For who?’ When it comes to office dress code. I get it if you’re dealing with clients, but day to day, past the need for basic hygiene, seriously, for who?

[@aliibrahim3264]

"I had a rough childhood. My father was a gun." One of my favorite twists in both the videos and the commercials. This is perfectionism. Also, I think that Producer Guy would love this job because cubicles are tight!

[@ToyotaTacomaOfficial]

Son of a gun

[@Mary_Studios]

The fact that it's also a reference to a phrase that people say is funny too.

[@jmurray1110]

You mean a tool of oppression upon the common man Sounds perfect for a business owner

[@nahuelfernandezetlis1249]

This needs more likes.

[@brooklynnmarti9432]

I used to work in an office setting like this but for a Customer Service center for a bank….not only did I get to be tightly squeezed next to other people but we also got screamed at all day. Those bathroom breaks were everything. Love this sketch 🤣 It’s so refreshing to see people finally calling out the fact that office jobs literally suck the life out of us and we deserve so much better as humans

[@ismirdochegal4804]

Wait! Those aweful looking workpaces are still in use? That's depressing.

[@deedsofdecapitation7477]

You know that you can quit your job anytime and actually learn a trade? Nobody forced you to work an office job.

[@JinJinDoe]

I would suggest that you quit what you're doing and come join us working in a restaurant, where you can get screamed at all the time, still cherish all the bathroom breaks AND be on your feet for 8 hours doing actual physical work, but, something tells me you'd rather not :P

[@KingNedya]

@@deedsofdecapitation7477 I feel like you're forgetting that just "getting a different job" is more complicated than simply learning a new skill. You have to account for pay, availability, location, qualifications, time, interests, etcetera.

[@deedsofdecapitation7477]

@@KingNedya Sure, but the point is to illustrate that nobody forced that person to work an office job in the first place, and it seems like they made poor life decisions in regards to their career path, and now want to complain about it, instead of getting a construction job, learning actual functional skills, and then later creating your own business with it. I know that particular person wouldn't last a day working a construction job, and would rather sit in an AC office all day, complaining about how his job is "sucking the life out of them".

[@amberburningham5100]

"No thank you I'm using my life right now" possibly the greatest line in cinema history

[@fighteer1]

"You son of a gun." "My father was a gun." And now we know. That's not a metaphor in Ryanverse.

[@boobah5643]

It's not a metaphor here, either, it's bowdlerism. It's more 'wrong' to use the word for a female dog than it is to name your interlocutor's mother one.

[@fighteer1]

@@boobah5643 "Son of a gun" is an actual phrase that is used, even if it is a Bowdlerism. It's not terribly common these days but it's real.

[@DarkTider]

@@fighteer1 well, if it's real, I'm in!

[@5punkt5]

Always dropping the truth bombs. Thank you Ryan for explaining things in a way that even politicans can understand.

[@Wimikk]

Politicians are in favour of this. It’s called capitalism. The owners (capitalists) get money just because workers are forced to work for less money than than they generate. This is why leftists say capitalists are parasites.

[@5punkt5]

@@Wimikk Of course workers will be paid less then they generate. But the point is that many companies now are not paying a fair wage, which is the issue. Capitalism in it self is not to blame, but the greed of CEO's are.

[@Wimikk]

@@5punkt5 The greed of capital IS capitalism; you’re describing “markets.” In a system that demands maximum profit growth, a “non-greedy” CEO would not get to be a CEO for very long, would they? Markets can exist outside of capitalist greed. Markets are made freer and more accessible for more people when they include organized labour unions, strong government policy that constrains exploitative business practices, and high taxation of capital in order to provide a strong and healthy working class economy. This is what happened in the 1950s and why they produced such a massive boom in wealth across class lines throughout the West, just 20 years after the New Deal. You can call it “regulated capitalism” if you want, but the important part is the regulation that takes power away from the robber-barons and landlords and gives that power to the workers.

[@5punkt5]

@@Wimikk I disagree. I think companies can very easily pay fair wages and should be forced to do so. Greed and capitalism do not have to go hand in hand. You can have growth without greed.

[@drksideofthewal]

@@5punkt5 That sounds like a nice slogan, but can you really have “growth without greed?” Why is it that billionaires, with a higher net worth than some countries, never seem to use that vast wealth to end hunger or homelessness?

[@falx94]

I couldn't decide whether to laugh or cry because this is so accurate. Reminds me of a job I had a couple years ago. "Yeah we know you've been excelling in this completely remote position for over a year now to the point where we're using the work you're doing as part of the curriculum to train our new hires but we're going to require you to be back in the office full-time starting next month!" "Wait why are you applying for other jobs??"

[@michaelclarkj]

Glad Ryan is getting paid well for his life, and hopefully can afford many days of enjoying things like air and friends and good times.

[@Bigfitz2]

This comment is funny i decided

[@myscreen2urs]

I bet he enjoys his bathroom breaks quite a bit also 🙃

[@basmbee4325]

sorry i can't like this comment, it's at 420 likes

[@pamelakelly3441]

But how much is George being payed?

[@LuisSierra42]

who wants to see my orifice?

[@Insert_Bland_Name_Here]

"That sounds like a scam!" "No, it doesn't." "Yeah, that's a good point." Ryan George is at it again, I just decided.

[@reginafallangie2867]

I lived the cube life for many years. I was really good & efficient at my job to the point where I could get a days worth of work done in a few hours. So I spent most of the day online & pretending to work. I started taking like 3hr lunch breaks at home because I just didn’t care anymore. No one noticed as long as the work got done. That life was suffocating even with the long ass breaks. Eventually quit & never looked back.

[@FionaRedWolf87]

As someone who works in an open office environment, I'd love to have a cube.

[@ganqqwerty]

imagine: your proper, EXECUTIVE wall! Three walls in fact!!! No one is moving in your peripheral vision! OMG, the ancestors lived in luxury.

[@capitalb5889]

It would be like having your own mini-office! And we don't even have our own desks anymore.

[@Sig509]

Same here. I once worked not only in open office, but also in a hot desk system, so desks were assigned randomly on daily basis, and you had to start the day by cleaning afeter the last user, setting up the monitor and so on + all the inconvinces of open space. That was a horrible year to work. Now I am a third year on home office, my productivity is higher than ever, and I also have more time for myself.

[@YonkoDGoofy]

I swear, Ryan hit so close to home with this one I thought I heard knocking on my door. These shower thoughts of his must be super easy, barely an inconvenience.

[@NellyLikesPirates]

less a shower thought and more a measured critique and acknowledgement of the futility of late stage capitalism

[@ssupermarlo]

@the stranger stupid person detected, opinion rejected

[@tbnrprimestudios1232]

@the stranger stranger danger STRANGER DANGER!!

[@GunakillyaOG]

Ikr! I felt this one deep. Has always been in the back of my mind, the work your whole life just to retire in your old age, if you can afford to or live that long :/

[@xagain3106]

@@NellyLikesPirates Well communism is not the answer so stop it with your liberal socialist crap before we end up like Hit, Stal, or Mao.

[@theperksofbeingabookworm906]

“That sounds like a scam” “No it doesn’t” “That’s a good point” There’s always at least one quote that needs to be quoted

[@GONExTOxMYxHEAD]

This was the one that got me-- I'm paraphrasing here. "And I assume if the cost of living goes up that you'll compensate me accordingly?" "Oh, God no!"

[@brothersandsistersofvalhalla]

That is so American.

[@rachdarastrix5251]

"Well I don't want to work in your office. I think it would be more rewarding to spend my entire life hunting gathering and cooking with a fire with my family." "See those guys?" **Points to 80 heavily trained soldiers**

[@realShadowKat]

Honestly the higher the walled cube was the happier I was in an office. The change to low-walled, open office environments made me stabby what having everyone coming by to bother me constantly. I don't know how people worked in the 1950's or earlier when it was coooo-o-o-o-o-o-ooompletely open space.

[@Feyser1970]

you re unsociable

[@realShadowKat]

@@Feyser1970 I'm at work for work, I'm not at work for friends. They can all sod off, every one of them more insipidly annoying than the previous.

[@bobson_dugnutt]

@@Feyser1970 you must be a manager or something, people with jobs that require actual thinking tend to appreciate uninterrupted focus time

[@Argylleagen]

@@bobson_dugnutt exactly. as if managers know what real work is

[@somerandomschmuck2547]

I think it was for a couple reasons. One being the fact they just that they were more used to it, the human mind can adapt to pretty much anything given enough time. Also, generally speaking companies were more likely to pay their employee's an actual living wage (even if only because the cost of living had started shooting up yet, and back then corporate culture hadn’t devolved into what it is today), meaning they could afford other luxuries so even if work was difficult they had things outside it to make it feel worth any stresses it might cause. Not to mention, while having no walls can be bad, just having the smaller walls might be worse, since you’re isolated but at the same not given much in the way of true privacy, so it’s basically the worst of both worlds.

[@karloz2722]

I have mixed feelings about this one. Ryan's comedy is spot-on as always but having so many truths about how miserable my life is is actually very sad... 😅

[@russellrobinson8192]

As a person who's worked in and office for years this is all too real.😑

[@ddvffcescfe2368]

Same, mate 😅 Nobody really knows what we are actually doing here, don't worry about that too much

[@AzhreiVep]

I dunno, man. As a person who hasn't been able to get anything on the level of an office job my entire life, despite his best efforts this still sounds pretty nice.

[@karloz2722]

@@AzhreiVep I mean, there are always worse alternatives... But after doing the same for decades... It's a different story

[@Jordan-Ramses]

This is why I have no financial obligations and work 20 hours a week. People think I'm crazy. I don't want to sell that much of my life.

[@rob3231]

Watching this on my lunch break literally made me want to grab 5 things from my office and never come back....I'm torn between laughing and crying. Thank you Ryan George for questioning my livelihood. The only worse thing is making us pay a different depressing building thousands of dollars to go work in another building only to pay off the the first place......

[@passthecrablegs2646]

You’re sure it’s your lunch break? You’re not just watching this video in the sanctuary of peace and tranquility?

[@ThreadBomb]

@Michael Lochlann But there's no need for it to be quite so miserable an experience.

[@creativedesignation7880]

Do it.

[@davideberhardt6150]

That's how it starts! The ... waitforit ... RYANVOLUTION!

[@heymagicalday]

At my work we don’t even have cubicles, we have desks set up like we are in school. The management insists it’s so it’s easier for everyone to collaborate, but NOBODY EVER TALKS.

[@lindseysummers5351]

It's hilarious that those that work in a modicum of privacy extol the virtues of having no privacy.

[@ganqqwerty]

except some managers that talk on the phone for everyone to hear

[@viclange3826]

Maybe it has something to do with how everyone can overhear the conversation!

[@k.b.tidwell]

Maybe it's because management makes a hobby out of manipulative lying = the core of why I'm not in management.

[@f2pkrdecade]

Ryan points out exactly what's wrong with the modern society in less than 4 minutes!!

[@somethingfunny5571]

This man’s videos are basically just free antidepressants Edit: I rescind my previous statement. This is painfully true :(

[@kaptcha]

It's true, yet while also often pointing out the depressing nature of our reality. Better to laugh than cry!

[@hayuseen6683]

@@kaptcha whynotboth

[@Some1NamedPlays]

Yeah, all you gotta do is click on his creations labeled as videos and experience the hundreds of pictures flash before your eyes coupled with noises from vibrating machinery inside of a thing called a device that you use to view the hundreds of pictures of him doing specific actions. It's super easy, barely an inconvenience I decided.

[@camelopardalis84]

ANTIdepressants?

[@markmurex6559]

Probably better for you too.

[@sonicboomkj]

This is too hilarious. You forgot to mention the poor air circulation and never changing the air filters in the building.

[@MyBiPolarBearMax]

I thought this said” never changing air farts” and tbh that’s true too

[@caravanart7321]

And the AC that works/not works depending where you are.

[@owenneilb]

While normally I love everything you make, this one just hit too hard.

[@dksmoothful]

3:29 Well if he's in I'm out.

[@prosenfi2]

Ryan single-handedly keeps the fake mustache industry in business! Brilliant video as always!

[@nicolle3517]

The left side of the mustache was way twitchier than the right.

[@lesley1204]

Wearing fake moustaches is tight! 😁

[@Daniel-ek7qd]

Depressingly accurate as always, Ryan.

[@cajunguy6502]

It's been 5 years since I last worked an office job, and it STILL hurts to watch this.

[@melissaclaassen9707]

12 years for me and it's still traumatic to remember the cube farm

[@anilz4297]

Spot on!! Would have been perfect if he worked in some joke about having to work at the office even though most work tasks can be done from the comfort of your own home with modern technology.

[@MJSailing]

Left office life at 29, and I'm never looking back. It was still better than being a server at restaurants, but 10 years of working for myself now, and this clip has only solidified that even the roughest days are still better than being in a cubicle, lol.

[@BlightCosmos]

I dont even work yet but I can already feel the dread

[@lifeiscats1337]

@@BlightCosmos same

[@IndigoIndustrial]

Worked in a law firm for a while -suit and tie everyday, got in early and left late. Now work in academia - wear what I want, flexible hours and surplus annual leave.

[@Alicia-zf3nq]

@@IndigoIndustrial I swear academics just work better in comfy clothes. One of my professors always wears comfy sweaters, one wears the same outfit like every week and one even showed up to teach in sweatpants a while back. Then there's the academic director that often wears merch shirts. They always seem very informal and relaxed and their lectures are so much better than the few extremely boring ones I've attended from professors that wore formal clothes

[@IndigoIndustrial]

@@Alicia-zf3nq Research clothing is NOT tight!

[@patrickmcevoy5080]

Compared to the "open office" floor plans, where there's no personal workspace or privacy at all, a cubicle is heaven.

[@blackdragon6]

Depends on the worker I guess 🤔 🤷🏾‍♂️

[@mlgnerd13]

Agreed

[@ArcNine9Angel]

My last place switched over the more open plan white hexagon desk pods we had into grey cubicles. Privacy is a pro, I suppose, but I couldn't hate it more.

[@SeraphsWitness]

Yea the open plans are miserable. I'm glad that trend is dying.

[@patrickmcevoy5080]

I should have said "IMO", for sure! ;) But really, I've turned down work at open-plan places. It's just soul-crushing for me to have no moments of privacy at all.

[@LucasPauling]

This video basically summed up all the reasons I recently quit my office job 😂

[@TKARLO2]

I love that Ryan is so committed to his roles that he is able to grow different mustaches

[@sorin_markov]

As someone doing his first internship that's 40-hours a week and going "wait I'm gonna have to do this for the next 40 years?", this video is the most accurate one so far.

[@danielrodrigues4903]

I'm in the exact same situation!! 😭😭😭

[@David95111]

Being an intern for 40 years does sound like the stuff of nightmares... But hang in there, it’ll get better

[@stephen3164]

But just look around the office at how rich, happy, and energetic the older employees are! That’s future you!

[@sorin_markov]

@@David95111 It's more the "working 40 hours a week and having low free time" part that gets me. I have a pretty nice job!

[@David95111]

@@sorin_markov yeah that’s a bummer for sure. But at least you’ll get more money for it, and depending on where you work (and the country you live in) some added perks like a pension and more holiday days

[@ihale13]

I love that the second the scene transitions over to the office everything desaturates.

[@alexruedi1995]

that's how you know that you work there 🤣

[@fedupN]

First thing I noticed, after the crushing despair as I stand here at my desk 😁

[@andrewbrown784]

If my man keeps making content this relatable, look out world... Dude's going to take over the internet.

[@joshgrnbuddha3381]

Really though this is actually a pretty nice and spacious office. I worked for HP doing commercial tech support and our cubes were a 5*3 table with hinged dry erase boards for dividers. And we got one little 2 drawer cabinet. They said it was 108 square feet but I think they were counting the floor, tabletop and dry erase boards as workable surfaces not exactly sure. Be well.

[@PaintingWinterMusic]

Ryan George is probably the funniest alive person on KZbin. I love how his sketches always make the world seem so weird and chaotic.

[@PaintingWinterMusic]

The way he talks in his videos makes it even more hilarious as well. And shameless plug... I'm also hoping some of you might like the music that I make...:)

[@sogpop]

You mean how his sketches reveal how weird and chaotic the world really is?

[@PaintingWinterMusic]

@@sogpop Yeah that's a more accurate description of it 😅

[@JohnCage77]

@@PaintingWinterMusic You had us in the first half, not gonna lie

[@oldkayakdude]

seem?

[@RobMedellin]

So do we want a funny video or a depressing one? Ryan: Yes

[@messibessi11]

I was literally just told in a company meeting that we won’t be getting cost of living raises this year because the economy is so unstable and they can’t just hand out raises…. So I felt that last bit in my bones

[@cosesu8929]

What type of industry do you work for?

[@messibessi11]

@@cosesu8929 insurance

[@cosesu8929]

You don't have to answer anymore if you don't want to, but... Is it a local, multi-state, or national insurance company? I'm just trying to get a feel if the CEO or someone of upper management might have gotten a raise, or at least has a 6 figure or even 7 figure salary, yet they can't give you one. Insurance is a profitable business after all. If it's big enough. Don't get me wrong if it's not one of the big companies, and/or the CEO or upper management actually put in the years of work and dedication to get where they are, I'm all for them having the big salaries. But if it's due to nepotism or a good ole boys system... Of course I don't expect you to know

[@messibessi11]

@@cosesu8929 it’s in the top 100 on the Fortune 500. They’re being selfish

[@andrewkaminskas7721]

I worked in automotive collision. Since the insurance companies only paid roughly $35/hour to repair a vehicle I could work forever and never earn more than that hard ceiling. I left pretty quickly to a industry that isnt a scam like insurance work.

[@Optimusprime809]

*sigh* We're all prisoners.

[@Dr.Maniac]

You have no idea

[@megamerp9315]

I like how the Ryans actually got more dull when they got to the orifice.

[@Rennies-World]

Too many colors are distracting?

[@San-lh8us]

it's because they are not in the sun anymore

[@lukefoster5662]

I’m glad I’m not the only one who noticed!

[@Moon_The_Magical]

Yeah I noticed! It's like they are slowly slipping away from the happy, cheerful world they used to live in.

[@frederikl.1642]

This whole skit is so spot-on. We spend at least 8 out of 24 hours a day working, and another 8 sleeping. Assuming we don't work weekends, that's more than half of our adult life wasted just trying to keep being an alive person.

[@SeraphsWitness]

Well, being alive does cost money.

[@jdfree49]

Pretty sure keeping yourself alive isn't "wasting". What most people do with the remaining hours is, though.

[@capngenie8724]

@@jdfree49 being exploited is quite the waste of time tbh.

[@SeraphsWitness]

@@jdfree49 BINGO. People act like sitting on a beach drinking all day is "living". As if that's the final goal in life, just to feed your hedonism. Do something meaningful, I say. Whether that's your job or your family, or something else.

[@taliesinriver]

Time sleeping isn't wasted, it's an essential time where our bodies repair and keep themselves functional, and our brains connect and catalogue our memories. We just don't value it because we don't remember much of it.

[@CreepingDeath_]

5 day work week is the death of humanity

[@musicmade4larry896]

You should do "The First Guy To Invent Funerals", that shiiii would be hilarious

[@Dingy-doodles]

"let me buy your life," this is the most unfortunately true part of existence also, he says, "I'm not gonna show you my butthole," at exactly 1:00, genius

[@Sahiyena11]

Haha it's true. If I'm honest, the happiest I've ever been in my life was just living out of my backpack. I sort of wonder sometimes why we are expected to change that and just give away our less than a decade of literal existence to make someone else's existence rich.

[@AndyDillbeck]

@@Sahiyena11 because someday you might not want to be still living out of a backpack? Of course if you come up with a neat idea that you can get other people to give you money for and can put in all the hard work to make it happen then you can hire people to do that thing for you and make you a lot of money so you can spend more time living out of a backpack.

[@Sahiyena11]

@@AndyDillbeck Yeah, I did some Wwoof work in Hawaii when I was like 22 because I wasn't ready yet still to jump into college and get that sweet crippling debt. I knew a couple folks who managed to jump that off into a sweet lick. I'm thinking what I'm not gonna do is work for somone else at this point. Looking into setting up a way I can set my own pace.

[@nitron3589]

1:01*

[@filip9564]

Especially if ur black during 1700

[@chaosoul-seanleeriggs369]

When you go from laughing at how accurate, true, and real this is...to just being sad because of how accurate, true, and real this is.

[@fayehobbs2948]

I know.

[@AussieAmigan]

What is sad, is that I play these with my young son. And here I am wanting him to study so he can one day get an office job like I did. I guess the alternative can be worse.

[@samanthadrennan]

This one is too depressingly true!

[@dr.braxygilkeycruises1460]

Ryan perfectly describes our deepest traumatic daily experience, yet somehow made it funny so we laugh through the pain of cubicle life. THAT is an awesome skill to have, I decided. 🥰🤣😂

[@OneTopic]

the first office was set in liminal spaces which was the brief internet fad of showing pictures without anyone in them in the mid 2021’s, i decided.

[@YllidTheLoonyDog]

Hey OT

[@julialasseguarde5798]

think he hired that guy because he was outstanding in his field? =X

[@blackdragon6]

@@julialasseguarde5798 🤣😆😭

[@TimeTimo]

"Let me buy your life" "No thank you im using it right now" LMAO

[@amandapanda5087]

I love that

[@bron379]

After all the skits and pitches, the line "my father was a gun" is what gets me everytime

[@chauncieextreme8514]

I started this trek as a staff accountant, got certified after passing CPA & got the office, more money and more hours, less free time. did this for 5 years and quit. now I work for myself (not using my degree) and make less, but much happier…this is a fair assessment of the typical American office, from cube up

[@JohnLRice]

I'm retired now but I spent my final 20 or so working years in offices, often in cubicles, and I can relate SO much to this sketch, Ryan! 😅 It's funny now . . . .but the mental scars remain! 🥺

[@flyingumbreons]

🥺🥺😢

[@DjokovicIsOurLordAndSaviour]

I mean for a lot of people this is their reality.

[@Feyser1970]

it seems you like cubicles in the USA, never seen one in France

[@katar9090]

🥺😢

[@princessthyemis]

I'm sorry *offers hug*

[@JobiWan144]

3:24 If he's in, I'm in.

[@JBlooey]

Well if he's in, I'm out.

[@Robinr13]

@@JBlooey if he's out i am out

[@yourlocalcinnasnail3065]

@@Robinr13 if he's out then I'm in

[@GloriousLuke]

@@yourlocalcinnasnail3065 well if he’s in them i’m in

[@Major_Mercury]

@@GloriousLuke well if he's in, he's in

[@CanadianOptionsTrader]

The cost of living part was spot on!

[@animeblade15]

You know Ryan....sometimes...your videos hit real close to home

[@Purrfect_Werecat]

everything about this is literally why I hate the idea of having to work all my time just to survive.

[@atlas4733]

If I could live longer I would be fine with it. But how am I supposed to only live once for around 76 years and accept having the majority of my time as a sentient stolen away in an endless loop of mindless exhaustion and miserable recovery? How has this not changed when literally every person in retirement ever has deep regrets about the prime time of their life? I just don’t see how this system works.

[@geli95us]

@@atlas4733 Because the alternative is living in a forest and using 100% of your waking hours just to survive, this way you get to keep a small % of them Anyway, we might have a solution, with how automation and AIs are going to reduce the amount of work that humans have to do, of course, everyone hates that thought because they are going to "lose their jobs", that always makes me think that humans can't look more than 3 feet in front of them, though that might be the right thing to do, considering how they can't plan ahead for more than 2

[@sparkofcuriousity]

@@atlas4733 it only works because people accept it. And people accept it because the sad truth is majority of people are sheep.

[@witchykittyy]

That’s because we’re not supposed to lol

[@TheMoose126]

@@witchykittyy uh, yes we are. We’ve had to work for literally EVERYTHING we have. If it’s not toiling in a field for our bread, it’s doing something else for your water.

[@wronek1235]

You always make me laugh. I hope you keep making content.

[@RandomInternetStranger]

There's no way you're not a bot

[@greenben3744]

Honestly, I'm just horrified.

[@Rafathy]

He has to in order to make money to survive

[@seanmcneil349]

It’s better than the alternative of a rap career

[@basedchungus]

"its his job, isnt it"

[@screwaccountcreation]

It's hilarious and yet depressingly accurate at the same time

[@seankkg]

1:39 So genuine. And there's still no answer.

[@127mfan]

Boss Ryan: "I need you to make me a TON of money, and then I'll give you a teeny tiny bit of it." This is painfully accurate.

[@AttilaAsztalos]

Yeah, that will HAVE to change eventually. One way or another. But none of us will live to see it.

[@SeraphsWitness]

It's not accurate at all. Average corporate profit margin is about 7%. And their largest expense is almost always personnel.

[@user-pu6pn8vt5d]

@@SeraphsWitness That's because the CEO is getting all the money, and he counts as "personnel".

[@jdfree49]

It is painfully INaccurate. No decent-sized company's worker payroll isn't orders of magnitude larger than its executive compensation. The lie comes from comparing the total compensation of executives to that of the tiny slice of the workforce that is one worker. The worker keeps the majority of the benefit of his own work while management gets a tiny slice. But there are a lot of tiny slices, and they add up.

[@guilhermepicolloduarte8110]

I hate these types of comments. You think you deserve millions of dollars by doing a job a computer can do? You carry boxes and its unfair that the CEO is making millions? This idiotic mindset is infuriating

[@featuresnobodyaskedfor]

Office spaces are tight!

[@idkwtvr4844]

nooooooo

[@sygmarvexarion7891]

Well technically...

[@k.b.tidwell]

I like how Ryan's videos always take a commonplace, totally accepted situation, and bring all of the details to the forefront in which if we actually looked at it this clear-eyed in the beginning, we'd be crazy to participate. I've actually been frustrated for years at how I spend way more waking time at work than I do with my family. That facet of work, if nothing else, should be illegal.

[@brighamgalbraith9001]

I love how the lighting changes when they enter the office. It's the details that make it great.

[@ClintsReptiles]

Isn't it a bit ironic that you were so careful to avoid seeing a butt hole when you first came in, but living in those little boxes will likely eventually lead you to photocopy your own and then show it to the other people who have sold their lives as well?

[@Goldenraptor_]

Hi Clint over your videos!

[@TheUglyFish]

Clint, stop watching Ryan and make more Dinosaur videos :@

[@angeladawn805]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@TumblinWeeds]

Wait what

[@weareallbornmad410]

That doesn't really happen... does it?

[@nefelx]

"Lemme buy your life." As an Administrative Assistant, I confirm that's exactly what happened the moment I started this job.

[@vanquish421]

It's capitalism 101.

[@deadlysinner1701]

Ah, the good old days when we had cubes. Now it’s all open orifice design where even more people get stuffed into the same space with zero barriers between them.

[@CMDRunematti]

i love how even the lighting changed

[@ashleytuchin7693]

I don't work in an office, but that cost of living line still hit home.

[@OccultistLord4812]

Good one

[@TopAnimeLoverEver]

As someone who literally almost passed out (like actual, legs buckle, collapse and lose consciousness) not even half an hour ago while forcing myself to power through the last hour of shift before I get lunch and then go home, and thinking how much I hate it and want to quit, this........ just... It highlights every single thought I have ever had about work ever. Which is why I never stay at a job I am displeased with longer than 6 months. Shortest stint was one month. Longest was 3 years but only because I was making decent enough money to deal with hating it. Yeah. Feels rougher to keep being an alive person these days. What with the cost of being an alive person going up but pay not going up. I work two jobs, up at 5 am and get home at anywhere from 9pm-midnight. Edit: I would just like to say, I am loving all the comments. You all are voicing thoughts I have had for so long, and just, yes. Exactly. 💯 corporate America is the problem. Unliveable wages are the problem. Having to sacrifice sleep just to survive, yes, all of that. You guys rock, I am so glad to finally hear some likeminded thinkers. I'm only on this grind until I get my degree and that gives me the ability to become my own boss. : ) I cannot wait.

[@Strangepete]

Seems sensible rational and acceptable good thing you live in a free country based on liberty and money is totally real and ought to be a thing. Work all day or starve to death = Freedom.

[@ViridianFlow]

Yeah that's kinda why there's no point in working anywhere that doesn't have a decent union. At least my union ensures my pay goes up by inflation + 3% every year so we're not sliding backwards like just about everyone else in the western world right about now.

[@alexforce9]

I think you are just basically killing yourself with those two jobs and no time for sleep. And the price is living is up coz oil companies decided they like taking more money for the same amount of product. And coz housing market is a scam.

[@thegreatestcrewmate9195]

Hunter gatherers work 20 hours a week. Medieval peasants weren't allowed to work on holy days. And there were a lot of holy days. It's no wonder the average modern person is falling apart. We aren't built for this lifestyle at all.

[@thegreatestcrewmate9195]

@Michael Lochlann True, but humans are biologically hunter gatherers. We still aren't designed for the office worker lifestyle. And numerous diseases have been shown to be caused by excessive working. Studies show we have around 3 hours of being productive a day, and the rest is spent trying to look busy. We are wasting our lives for absolutely nothing.

[@kambosoop]

Never stop making these, along with the Pitch meetings. They're all brilliant and you're hilarious Ryan. I have to laugh at these to keep from crying at the truth. 😭🤣

[@TellyMan200]

2:41 😂😂. a office with a view where i cant go outside due to work, oh joy

[@3dartstudio007]

As someone working in industrial facilities for decades, the cubicles "come and go". We put them in to "improve" productivity, then take them out to "improve productivity" it's hilarious! I have about 2 or 3 more decades of cubes going in and out of style before I can move and go see my family again. Yay work!

[@fetlock]

So damn true it hurts, but I treasure Ryan George's gift of laughing through tears with thousands of other people.

[@phantomfrivolity2169]

To quote Jim from the office: "If this was my career than I'd probably have to jump in front of a train." 🤣

[@mattball6136]

At first I thought these were comedy sketches but now I’m coming to realize they are documentaries

[@gabrieljordan8015]

I've worked construction my whole life. He needs to do a video of 'The first guy to build a building '

[@RabbiSteve]

Thanks for doing and sharing these. Makes my day. Laughter is the best medicine.

[@beanmann000]

I love the little detail that the lighting changes when the characters go from outside to the office.

[@immortalsun]

I love how the lighting changes to match the scene. Subtle, but shows how much effort is put into these videos!

[@Deathseekertrickster]

This...legit made me finally start freelancing. Thanks for scaring me into responsibility, Ryan!

[@AttilaAsztalos]

Unfortunately the fundamentally "gig economy" nature of freelancing has a fundamental incompatibility with the hard-everyday constraints of real life such as "would like to eat". But hey, more power to you as long as it works out...

[@kenobents2741]

At this point Ryan has become like an entity to me which makes me laugh and have an existensial crisis at the same time. And I love it.

[@bobbygetsbanned6049]

This is almost exactly what my old office looked like lol.

[@MrHellsing76]

feel like a fun follow up is bosses trying to get office workers to come back to work from home, for no reason.

[@ngandy1000]

Now do an open concept office as the sequel. I’ve worked in both and somehow not having a cube is worse!

[@Window4503]

Same. I went from open concept to cubicle and was actually THANKFUL for the cubicle…until my boss started hanging over it to talk to me like a farmer leaning into a sheep pen.

[@michaelroxas4127]

This was actually a very accurate description of a “bathroom” 3:08

[@b.a.p.2731]

I love how the whole color tone gets dull once they get to the wonderfully lit office

[@MainlineMini-productions]

3:03 this is exactly how I would word a bathroom

[@jw-py9nw]

"Hey, I wanna buy your life." Just right off the bat with that, I wasn't ready for it to get so real so fast.

[@StandBackLabs]

I cannot express how astute and poignant this sketch is with just a single like. My last employer took away our cubicles and personal space, gave us these tiny "desks" (pretty sure they weren't big enough to qualify as a desk. More like a shelf) crammed them as close together as possible - we're talking bumping chairs - then fired me for not being productive 😐 More people need to see this. Thank you!

[@ShadeAKAhayate]

Why ever would you choose to work in such a place? It's not like you're a slave, you can switch jobs. Unless you're in South Korea, I presume? Sucks to be you, then...

[@adammorra3813]

@@ShadeAKAhayate not ez bro and hes in US.

[@Cominupshort02]

@@ShadeAKAhayate FYI- North Korea is the communist one. I assume that's the one you were trying to refer to, unless there's something going on in South Korea I'm not aware of.

[@yazajag]

Wow what a dirt bag, probably did that on purpose to use as an excuse to get rid of people which is backwards could have made things nicer and gotten more productivity out of employees

[@itsmanasK]

@@ShadeAKAhayate Dude that's North Korea not South

[@HomeBurger]

the color grading when transition to the orifice office is just... *chefs kiss*