Something Weird Is Happening To Your Job

You’ve heard of quiet quitting but now companies are fighting back in a really strange way and your job might be next. Today, the job market is showing signs of change and companies are seeing a unique opportunity for a workforce revolution. One that’s already begun. It’s the dawn of a new era in the job market.
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00:00 Companies are doing this strange thing
00:28 But first you need to understand this
02:04 Why don't they do this anymore?
04:11 The truth is..
5:51 Here's what you need to do today
07:44 Here's what I did a few years ago
08:50 This fix is easier than ever to do
10:06 But this might be the most important thing
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[@bin4ry_d3struct0r]

You got a link to that financial freedom course you mentioned?

[@mouserr]

if youd have left tghge commercial here instead of forcing it in the vid things would be different but as is. never again

[@TheSensationalMr.Science]

this video can be summed up with two terms: *Blue-Ocean/Niche* and *Entrenched-Function* though yeah, have some self-respect for yourself is a thing everyone needs to hear... and no, destroying yourself for the greater good is never good... no matter the reasoning. Hope you have a great day & Safe Travels!

[@TritonTv69420]

Dude... Just got laid off from my $90k+ job on Tuesday. 6 years man 6 years!!! No warning just got a meeting invite after pushing my manger. He lied to me after putting me in a working situation that he knew was going to cause issues. I think they were looking for justification. These last few months have been hell. Shady lizard brain tactics. I really think they were trying to get me to quit. O well I will take the severance package and finish my engineering degree.

[@aelaan12]

Never do that, it might be too late, but to anyone working in a toxic environment: document, document and document even more, and do not save it on the company computer. If that fatal comes, never sign or agree to a severance package, even verbal or post it on KZbin 😀. Get a labor lawyer, I was surprised how much they pulled out of a bad situation. Do not get bitter, what has happened, has happened, but don't give up. Reach out to previous employees you worked with in other companies. Get up on time and time management in your work days. Sure, it might be nice to sleep in because, believer it or not, depression will set in when I did that. I get it, the times are tough, you need to evaluate your skills you have now, link up with recruiters. The job I am working in today is my dream job. Unlimited vacation time, working from home two days a week or more if need be. I did not get this job because it was not advertised, I got it because of a restructuring with a contract. From making 103k a year, I jumped up to 160k a year. This happened almost 4 years ago. During this time with the company I started doing different things, helping out different teams, be the go-to person to help in most situations. Now I am going to be 62 and if they laid me off today I would still be sad, but... I think I have had my time. Also, please do consider getting into contract work, become a full time contractor, doing your own bookkeeping sucks in the beginning, but the freedom to accept contracts is refreshing. No Oh, well, okay? Full steam ahead!

[@keshams3665]

That's though man! No respect from them. How's going now?

[@howtoinvest4yourself241]

And they still demand you give 2 weeks notice

[@Bambotb]

How did you work without a degree and get 90k

[@JDxFFF]

Just got fired this Tuesday too. Got in a fight with my manager that used to be my friend, but got some mental issues and started to think I want to take his job, and that never was the case. So I have noticed certain work progress issues with the team and wanted to discuss ways to get around them, asked for a call, my boss was like "I dont have time now, lets talk later today", and then later in the day he messaged, I jumped on the call totally not expecting what will happen, and then he told that "we let you go". I was just crashed. Last few months were weird and I felt like some lizard tactics were applied to things I do, but was hoping that I have at least more time. What is the most sad for me is that I really put all the dedication in my work and covered up a lot for my boss too, taking on his work a lot of times with his consent, just because no one else could do it at the time. I also had one serious health incident less than 3 months ago, and I have a small kid on my hands, but none of that stopped them. I'm still in pieces today, but will need to start looking for a new job soon to get by. Totally feel you.

[@rmr_studios]

It's so crazy what we've all been conditioned to accept. My old employer laid me off with 9 other ppl of a company of like 70 ppl. I was actually sick.. With the flu.. And called me in to the office sick, so they could lay me off and clean out my desk.... After 10 years at the company. Ten freaking years! It was the final straw for me. I have been freelance business owner...I don't think I could EVER go back into the corporate world or "work force". NO company cares. There is no loyalty, it's cutthroat competition. And for what?! To make OTHER PPL RICH?! Naw.. No thanks.

[@BIGALEX_DRDOOM]

So true man like wtf. 🙏🏾😂🤷🏾

[@karynsperry7676]

Try 30 years! Even worse!

[@susancheung5334]

From my 20 years of career life, I have learned that everyone is replaceable. Even if you’re a key person or a go-to expert, that doesn’t mean you’re safe from layoffs. You may not be the first on chopping block. I’ve seen in most cases, the company would have you documented all your knowledge and trained another person or team to learn what you know because you’re more expensive than the new hire/new team.

[@cpK054L]

Weak. Right the details in your journal, release only high levels. If they fire you, they have to buy your journal

[@TheSoulCrisis]

It’s funny cause sometimes that can work against a company. I know some cases where a key programmer had control over a program by building a sort of kill switch into the program. When the company tried to dick around and fired him, he shut the program down and they were losing a lot of money. They had to hire him back at double his rate, rare case but it has happened. xD

[@cpK054L]

@@TheSoulCrisis unless that was a dumb small company, doing that against a more established company will get you wrecked in criminal court

[@whickervision742]

​@@cpK054Lyou still should do it though if you can. It's all about leverage. Companies think they can do whatever they want when they want, even if illegal. Same concept.

[@BochaENT]

@@cpK054LYeah that’s a straight up crime.

[@Tbird761]

6:33 This won't protect you. I can speak from experience. Don't underestimate a company's willingness to shoot themselves in the foot if they think they'd rather keep your salary and suffer with ineffective contractors who are cheaper than you are. It doesn't matter if you've been there 2 years or 20.

[@ordinaryhuman5645]

It does give you quite a bit of leverage though. I negotiated a comfy part time remote arrangement with my corporate overlord a few years ago. It's cheaper to keep me on for some the niche stuff that doesn't require much attention but would require a lot of ramp up time for someone else to learn. But if I do get laid off or fired, that's fine with me. One of the best things you can do for employment peace of mind is to have a big stack of money saved up so you can afford to be unemployed for years or decades. That also gave me a lot of confidence when asking for my comfy part time remote arrangement.

[@the1337fleet]

It's one of four factors Vincent described. From MY experience, becoming indispensable *is* the way to protect your position. A company that would fire someone like that (for what reason, just for profit?) isn't one you want to work for anyway and you will have other options

[@GreenspudTrades]

Yes I've seen arrogant managers outright say that they'll just find someone else who can figure it out. They will even discontinue a useful product or internal tool and build a new one if they can't figure it out. The popularity contest and feels are more important to them.... because nobody cares the people making the decisions just work there and get paid regardless of how well the company does.

[@jmanakajosh9354]

​@@the1337fleetIt is not profitable to fire people unless you have a really good reason....if it's profitable to fire people you weren't making money in the 1st place aka Twitter.

[@lurst]

I've seen someone pull this off, but the CEO was involved in the team, so they wouldnt let the manager fire him at all. This creates a highly toxic environment.

[@cawheeler27]

Personally I think the idea of companies reassigning to be better than layoffs. At least it gives you time to decide if you want to move on to something else and search. It’s always easier to find a job when you already have one. Layoffs are extremely traumatic, anyone who’s experienced one knows that.

[@teacupteddybear6778]

It isn't better it causes them to avoid paying out unemployment insurance to those laid off

[@cawheeler27]

@@teacupteddybear6778 idk about you, but I would prefer to voluntarily leave because I found another job than be shocked by a layoff and have to get by on unemployment, which is very nearly nothing.

[@Rncko]

For youngster, layoff is nothing. But once middle age, that's the scariest even with severance pay. The stress just compound itself for each responsibility like house loan, family, parent's long term medical aid etc. (and that's not even touch age disadvantage yet)

[@vvalasek]

They do this to avoid paying severance

[@vcutler4735]

If health insurance wasn't tied to work and unemployment paid decently layoffs wouldnt be so bad. Honestly consider a reassignment or a round of layoffs you survive as writing on the wall and put in time applying elsewhere.

[@LeahBrooksJeremiahGardens]

The forced back to office movement is causing quiet quitting, also. By requiring people to drive an hour or more to get to the office, and not providing actual office space or supplies needed to do the work (like monitors, comfortable chairs, etc), many are jumping ship out of sheer frustration.

[@rodschmidt8952]

wait, you mean quiet quitting, or real quitting?

[@samanthacallaway2276]

@@rodschmidt8952It’s uno reverse basically. Employers will reduce your work and your hours to get you to quit so they don’t have to pay severance. Quite quitting is like that but the employee does a little less than bare minimum, still getting paid and looking for another job until their employer finally fires them. It’s a game of attrition.

[@darthwiizius]

@@samanthacallaway2276 It's a war of attrition more like and salting the earth has always been a tactic in warfare, as long as you do it an unprovable way you can seriously hurt your company. I bankrupted one I worked for. 😎

[@jeremy.snyder]

MAJOR caveat on making yourself integral to a task in the company as is suggested here: If you make yourself unable to be fired because of something that you do or know, then you mostly also make yourself unable to be promoted. I've seen this mentality far too often and, while it does add stability, it also adds a hard limit.

[@piratecody44]

Does getting promoted matter?

[@jeremy.snyder]

@@piratecody44 That would be why it's a caveat and not a warning. It's your choice to create the limitation, but you should be aware that you are creating one. And knowing that is really important. Personally, I think that people that protect their jobs this way are asshats anyway, but that is also a choice.

[@piratecody44]

@@jeremy.snyder why do you think they are asshats? Never worked in a corporate environment, so I might be missing some things.

[@julianazotter6680]

at least here where i live: when the employer notices that an employee gets integral because they dont follow code conventions they fire the employee as fast as possible and let others rewrite the code base. They know: when this guy makes himself too comfortable, he is much more of a risk than a gain. That strat worked a few jears ago, but not anymore

[@catchthesehands2936]

​@@piratecody44 typically people don't stay in the same role/group/position forever. They might be promoted, bored, or dislike the company at some point (I've seen people leave a company after 20+ years). If they didn't train others or leave extensive documentation behind then the person who takes over is going to go through hell. It's the absolute worst. Also, if there's a bug or an issue with the code or whatever only ONE person can fix it, and they may not be available.

[@StarcoreLabs]

The last company I worked for went through a corporate restructuring and eliminated 20% of the roles. This was a mass layoff under a different name. They justified the mass layoff by saying they were removing redundant roles across business strata and brand lines. Regardless of the corporate word games, 500 people lost their jobs in a down labor market. So the CEO and top executives could still get their quarterly bonuses. Remember, corporate companies care about profit over people.

[@donaldmaxie5264]

Why do you think we have more self checkouts in stores? Gotta support those executive bonuses.

[@MarKeMu125]

​@@donaldmaxie5264it's the same with ATM machines, using an automated system rather than a bank teller.

[@elmateo77]

Of course they do, it's a business not a charity if they can increase profits they will. So don't be loyal to an employer, keep your skills up to date, maintain contacts in the industry in case you need a new job or so you can find out if another company is paying more for the same job, and make sure you have at least a 6 month emergency fund.

[@donaldmaxie5264]

Unless those people are at the top of the food chain.

[@spencerhardy8667]

Companies who attempt to hold on to all employees end up in disaster. American railroads and British car industry are prime examples of over staffed organizations falling to insolvency in the seventies.

[@AndreiDante]

Becoming an expert in your field at the job doesn't always mean that you'll be protected in case of a mass layoff. Yeah, you might have higher chances that you keep your job, but the other face of the coin is that you'll be assigned more and more work and not necessarily be compensated properly for it. Although you might say that "still having a job" can be considered compensation, but that's a toxic environment to work in anyway

[@wafercrackerjack880]

Nothing does. Everyone knows that. But you still try to.

[@JohnSmith-dp2jd]

That whole section is absolutely fucking deranged. If you feel the need to hold everything you know hostage because you think they might maybe fire you in the future, either a) you've got serious control issues and therapy is probably a good idea or b) that company's on extremely shaky ground and you should probably look for a new job anyway.

[@infini.tesimo]

You'll be protected in the sense that you don't need that company to get another high-paying job. You are wanted everywhere and it's time you shop around until you find a company that will give you what you want so you can live the life you desire.

[@new-lviv]

@@JohnSmith-dp2jd Sharing knowledge in a normal company actually looks valuable by itself. "That guy who puts together meaningful manuals" looks favorable in the eyes of an adequate management.

[@Choco-Kat]

True, they will have you train someone else to take over your position

[@MR_THINQ]

This happened to my brother’s wife, she got pregnant and had the child and went back to work and they ‘changed her role’ and gave her ‘a project’ which turned out to be just something for her to do. What she didn’t know it that it was a strategy to get rid of her. She finished the project and the boss wasn’t even interested in seeing it, it was then that she realised that they were trying to strategically get rid of her. In the end she resigned and got another job nearer their home, in effect they drove her out.

[@juliaa.8594]

Same thing happened to me last year…

[@Samookely]

shady businesses everywhere

[@hopeseekr]

Why didn't she quietly quit?? Write a book or something at work instead of working?

[@EviMlcak]

Yeah, that'll fix 'em. @@hopeseekr

[@lingth]

My boss said..no one is irreplaceable, not even the CEO, sure it will be a pain to lose someone knowledgeable but eventually after a few weeks or months, the company will get over it..

[@centex7409]

So let's say an employee spent their time effectively getting blackmail on the CEO, board members and everyone important.. Going so far as to entrap them once they found any weaknesses and/or proclivities of these important people.. That means finding out the dark secrets of the company higher ups is a more productive use of ones time than doing any work at ones job. All you have to do is get the right persons dirty details and you pretty much own the place. Let's be real. If they're going to treat people this way, there's no reason not to treat them like scum.

[@zakosist]

In one way thats good. Someone irreplaceable is not invulnerable and could still fall seriously ill one day and not be able to work, and everyone ages. Their personal priorities could also change

[@marklapis7569]

Your boss is 100% correct. Find people who can adapt and reverse engineer the knowledge or find alternatives and it will always get sorted out. As it should. "Irreplaceable" coworkers leads to unskilled workers and a toxic work environment.

[@paulgavian90]

The issue the next person is desperate for a job so they ll show bright for few months until burnout knowing very well the next person would do the same.

[@Maya-sv1pz]

or go under. but that's ok because the leaderships have golden parachute. so even if firing you literally means the company will lose money, it doesn't matter either. the group of decision makers wins either way

[@oceantransistor]

I became essential and then when they wouldn't give me a raise I quit. I've always found a better paying job later. I've done this three times already. Always learn more for your own benefit.

[@mitchhedberg4415]

LOL, you can only do that about 3 times, then nobody will hire you

[@DJ-nw2ef]

@@mitchhedberg4415 No, then you become a contractor and stop worrying about so-called "job security" altogether, because it does not exist in the first place. It's just a lie that corporations tell to prospective employees who are timid enough and gullible enough to believe it, which, unfortunately, is most people. I spent most of my career as a software designer working as a contractor, and it's fine. It's like learning to swim - once you realize you can float (i.e. find prospects), then actually swimming (i.e. getting hired) is no problem at all. You just have to go through a bunch of prospects to find one that actually has a use for you. This is all possible because companies are almost always short-staffed in some part of their organization, but they don't want to commit to a long-term employee for the sake of fully staffing a single, short-term project, so they hire contractors who will go away quietly when they are no longer needed. Plus, you get paid by the hour, so if they want sixty hours a week, you get sixty hours pay, which is why contractors do as well as salaried employees overall, but only work part of the year. My average work year was six to eight months, not twelve months with lots of unpaid overtime. You also get far wider experience, as a rule. Instead of being slotted into some narrow skill set for years on end (and then abruptly fired when they don't need those skills anymore), you can talk your way into all kinds of projects, where you get ever-greater amounts of increasingly varied experience. The only catch is that you have to get very comfortable in job interviews, but that is easy since you will go to a couple of dozen in any given year, on average, and after a while you will have seen every possible interview question many times over. So, eventually you get to a point that no one can surprise you anymore, and you also have a smooth, coherent answer for any question that might get asked. Towards the end of my career I was closing almost fifty percent of the prospects who actually gave me an interview, and I was nearly always in the top two or three candidates, just because I had so many well-developed skills to offer, not only as individual skills, but also in any sort of combination the prospective client might require. Unfortunately, most people don't have the nerve to even try this lifestyle, much less stick with it long-term. So, instead they are stuck, always going hat in hand to whoever condescends to give them an interview, and then begging for a long-term job. Employers always see these people coming from a mile off, and they are usually very well prepared to take advantage of them, often in the worst possible way. In short, feel free to quit whenever you are getting a raw deal. That is how I became a contractor myself, and it's a perfectly legitimate career choice - once you understand how the clients actually operate.

[@hopeseekr]

@@mitchhedberg4415 No one knows why you've been let go.

[@driftergrey]

How do you defeat the competition in your way to the other company?? 🤔

[@stopthecap2644]

Honestly, it’s a good thing… if you get reassigned then you have time to find a new job while being paid vs being completely out of work… as someone with a family, I’d take that as a win to a degree

[@sd-ch2cq]

Yeah, in general having a bad job would be better than having no job. But not everyone is able to get a new job quickly and then it sucks.

[@samanthacallaway2276]

It is if you know what’s happening. My fiancé didn’t and neither did I because this is a new thing.

[@JoeTchify]

There's another word for reassigned back in the day, it was called DEMOTED! LOL

[@dexterspeights3484]

QUIETING CUTTING is when an organization is forcing out undesirable workers by putting them in bad job with a heavy work-load, low pay, poor benefits and almost no opportunity to get promoted!

[@Samookely]

i see that happening with warehouses

[@easyranger6898]

The solution is overemployment - you get reassigned and then you hunt for another job. When you get the other job you keep your current job. Do as little as possible in your current job and work a second job and get double pay.

[@NoNameCherry]

This I agree with. I have a main employer that I have stayed with for 5 years now. They reassigned us late last year, reduced our hours due to the recession, paid us less, the whole enchilada. Luckily, I still continue to freelance even while I was full time with the company so my financial side stays unbothered. At the moment, I actually have split budgets dues to overemployment. I have a second job that helps. My main company is the one that pays the benefits like insurances and such. While my freelancer work is reserved for savings and other spontaneous expenses should they come up. Thank God I can have this at this day and age. It was a wise decision to work this way.

[@-VIGILANTALWAYS]

TILL...THERE ARE NO MORE JOBS FOR HUMANS THUS REPLACED BY AI WORKERS AND AI TECH IN INDUSTRIES.... TOO MUCH AI IS A RECIPE FOR A HUMAN APOCALYPSE IN ANY SCENRIO...😢

[@3balam3]

The "integral guy" at my former engineering office still got fired. Only he knew the software contracts but his job was outsourced to a company that is only focused on reducing labor costs and not providing the same or better service.

[@JW-ku7nn]

Been quiet quitting for 3 years now. 5 hours of actual work a week max. Fully remote. Im basically just traveling around the world until they fire me.

[@xX_TIAMW_Xx]

woahh that's the dream... tutorial? LOL

[@asherscott3151]

IT fetishizes knowledge. You can work 100 hours a week, and they'll still fire you, but if you known something no one else on the team knows how to operate, you could work 1 hour a day and never be fired. The advice at the last third of this video is honestly very good.

[@dutube99]

Or write really bad spaghetti that code no one understands but you to get more job security - sad world we live in.

[@rodschmidt8952]

See essay: "Why Arabs Lose Wars" which discusses strategies like this

[@SurprisinglyDeep]

You assume that the bosses in upper management got their jobs by being competent rather then just by talking a big game, have a basic understanding of any given employee's importance and have a decent understanding of how the software they make works. As MANY people in this video's comments section have pointed out, even being the "integral" employee is no security if the boss(es) don't understand the actual importance of keeping you on.

[@torkgems]

i dont want to work anymore. its so much hassle. i got fired from my job a month ago and this is the third time in two years im changing jobs without meaning to. companies are so shit nowadays theres no point. theres literally zero point

[@shirleyallen1418]

Jesus please make a better way for this person. Open doors he cannot see now. Open his eyes

[@Samookely]

theres no other generation that i think feels this more than gen z. Like our education system made damn well sure we knew there was zero point in trying for actual knowledge right from the get go. all these problems start from the school system

[@drbettyschueler3235]

You are so right about all of us being caught between a rock and a hard place. None of my biological grandchildren plan to have children and they will soon be too old to bear children. All of them figure they will have to work till they die which I find so sad since I got to retire--even if it was on disability. And while I have both a government annuity and Social Security, I also have several serious illnesses and have spent a small fortune paying for temporary help, when needed. I've used up my savings and now live month-to-month like most Americans. While it sucks, I'm still better off than my children and grandchildren who have to continue working even though some of them have health issues.

[@faustsin9366]

I've got into coding and AI model training straight up every 1 month it just keeps getting more advanced. I can see a 35% layoff world wide.

[@centex7409]

Hungry angry people break things. Machines, equipment, infrastructure, companies and nations. A fact the nerds will soon be shocked to discover while the wise have long been shaking our heads in disgust.

[@thatxdamnxgirl7416]

Your comment makes 0 sense

[@vladimirofsvalbard9477]

@@thatxdamnxgirl7416 How? Learning how to code on many of these certification programs includes a list of AI programming software. He's not wrong; it is not for everyone and it gets harder. The selection pool of coders that can create innovative software and participate (going forward) with AI technology is going to shrink. I'm not sure about globally, but a 35% layoff in the US would be generous. I'd wager it would be at least 50%; if not higher. Coding isn't even 'remotely' enough anymore. The simps that got sold into thinking it would get them six figures are going to be ripping their hair out. It won't even be worth minimum wage.

[@SurprisinglyDeep]

That's terrifying to hear.

[@gnosis7188]

My job just handed all of us an entire contract with new rules of conduct and the threat of disciplinary action or possible termination if we dont sign. I've been here 5 years so far, other guys more than 30 years, we are union blue collar workers who already work under a legal contract, I refused to sign. If they threaten to terminate me, I'll fight it through union arbitration, I will argue they have essentially used intimidation tactics , and the threat of termination , I would like to see them argue against this. So lets see if I sit at home with no pay for a few months , than eventually come back with full back-pay. Im prepared to fight this for the long haul.

[@Ladywren101]

I'm so glad you have a strong union. Not all states support them legally.

[@vladimirofsvalbard9477]

@@Ladywren101 Boy was I wrong about union intervention. Sure, there are 'some' lower end companies where trickle-down works and mom/pop treat their employees well, but those days are largely gone. These days, if a company 'can' screw you; they 'will'.

[@fredholley6248]

@@vladimirofsvalbard9477 My grandfather told me at age 14/15 that if I ever got a job that was unionized to NEVER let the union go or kick them out. Said the union was/is there for a reason, likely for something that company did in the past that they'd love to be able to do again. That was 40 years ago.

[@samanthacallaway2276]

@@vladimirofsvalbard9477Those days have been gone for a long time, now it’s just more obvious. The rule as a young adult is always assume your employer will do their best to short change you and screw your over. Because they will.

[@SurprisinglyDeep]

Tell us how it goes. We wish you the best.

[@TheRidersChoice]

I think the key jobs to look for are the ones where you’re the only person doing your niche. You don’t want to be on a team of 4 that all kind of have the same role. You’ll always be in competition with each other. Finance and accounting usually are already as lean as can be they avoid layoffs as well. So look for teams that already are as lean as can be. You don’t want to be hired in a group of people

[@cpK054L]

I don't want to work for fat people anymore

[@Emilycatloverdoglover]

And your workload is unsustainable because of the lean team structure. I do feel more secure about my job currently because I know they can't afford to lose me for now (watch the "for now"), but the burnout has been bad so it's not surprising we have ridiculous retention/turnout.

[@elmateo77]

​@@Emilycatloverdoglover Try to find ways to automate some of your work (don't tell your boss about it though if you can avoid it). I've found lots of creative uses for AI that let me cut my work load roughly in half.

[@exjehooberdubexpiobeezleeb6269]

Agreed on finance and accounting (at least for now). I work in accounting and even with layoffs, I've never been unemployed for longer than a week.

[@sewnsew6770]

I have a niche job but I can see they are trying to retech and outsource my niche. I can retire so dont care

[@squareyes1981]

Remember all this is happening on the back of years of wage stagnation and current full employment with supposed demand for labour at record highs. Workers should have all the power but appear to have none since the GFC. The world is a very strange place at this point in time

[@orangerightgold7512]

I got reassigned at my job to the secondary office where I'm the only person left in my department with literally nothing to do. everybody else found new jobs or quit, but for me it's heaven. over 150k a year for doing nothing besides showing up and having 7 hours a day to work on my own business.

[@-Believeinyourself-]

What do you do, or rather where do you work

[@TheSoulCrisis]

Damn…..talk about ballin’! Jackpot right there, no idea how that works lol. I see why everyone left before.

[@tranceporter7426]

Are you in a basement wondering where your red stapler is?

[@JohnSmith-sj2dk]

is ur name Joe Biden?

[@vladimirofsvalbard9477]

Enjoy it while it lasts; eventually the company will slash your position. You're probably being kept on as a 'filler' position for their corporate hierarchy. It may take a year or five, but eventually these companies outsource the work to subcontractors or another position that will accept less pay.

[@KingofGeo]

I left a place recently that accidentally created side projects that caused everyone to leave and I was one of the engineers that understood the back end how everything worked. The funny part is my whole side project team left and we were the ones they wanted to keep and they were freaking out in the exit interview. I hear they are having a hard time now but I let them know that these side projects were going to make everyone leave. I also did my best to train up people but there is only so much you can do in a short period.

[@onedroprule]

Finding a niche or "your own thing" at an organization is excellent advice. My career took off after i found an area at a former organization that was required by law but pretty much no one paid attention to. I became the go to guy on that one area and it's been the best thing that's happened in my career. More than doubled my salary.

[@johnrobberts7936]

Never assume being the go to guy will be the solution. Stupid people will still fire you out of spite or ignorance. Of course if others know then at least you can find another job.

[@baomao7243]

It’s because the manager who does the firing won’t be held accountable. And that is how you know leaving (getting let go) was actually a blessing - the company mgmt culture had become cancerous. Seriously, if a true, successful entrepreneur witnessed your firing as a sort of political behavior, that manager would be fired INSTANTLY and without regret. Employees are the only thing holding a company together and incredibly mgmt fails to remember that every day you vote with your feet and literally decide EACH DAY whether you will return to work for them.

[@ImpartialDebater]

Quite firing and restructuring is better then being fired. You have time to put up with it till you find another job. If your fired is like a ticking time bomb. And stress builds up way more. And when money stops your done.

[@PrettyPrincess9609]

My boyfriend got laid off from his job a couple of weeks ago. They gave him a severance package and he will be getting a paycheck until March 8. I’m now freaking out because my job did lay offs last year. It didn’t affect my department last year but I’m scared that they will come after my department next.

[@jamesgraves9858]

Your job exists as long as you're doing something that is demanding in more than one facet. A lot of people and "professions" don't really produce anything in America. They ridicule those who actually work and produce, saying they don't deserve the wages, meanwhile wanting their own increases. People who produce in America deserve the pay. Those sitting behind a desk, you likely don't. Sorry, AI can do your zoom calls.

[@gavinlew8273]

What about people who sit behind a desk producing software?

[@jmanakajosh9354]

iPads already have taken service job at McDonald's! No one is safe expecially when robot start using legs and arms. Know that you are never safe and save save save your money.

[@User37717]

​@@gavinlew8273ai can do that

[@ma2i485]

Yeah and when you mention the inevitable automation of these service based job roles people just laugh it off as something too far fetched to happen or decades away from happening.

[@ma2i485]

​@@gavinlew8273A.I will take care of that in no time.

[@vcutler4735]

No such thing as indispensable these days. Literally watched a company fire the person who had been running a whole aspect of the product get fired and "replaced" by someone who had been hired on by an acquired company a month prior... who then quit because he didnt accept a job doing an entire multinational's worth of work lol. They tried to get a still in school summer intern to do it for awhile lmao. No idea the state of things now as I got out haha. The rest of your advice is solid though, I will add to make genuine friends and keep up with them because half my jobs i have gotten were because a friend got me fast tracked to an interview.

[@Maya-sv1pz]

yes, and indispensable actually means your absence will not hurt the board of directors, the "people" running the company. not the company itself. because the people proof themselves with golden parachute. the company going under is least of their concern. they are protected either way.

[@tinad8561]

C-suites know nothing about product or process, and take pride in that. Sometimes these decisions shoot them in the foot; most of the time they can bail the sinking ship long enough to transition to roles with other companies.

[@snakeplissken3063]

The company I worked for during the last recession did this. They cut benefits, eliminated bonuses (except for executives), froze pay, and doubled or tripled people's work loads hoping people would quit. It actually backfired because there were no other jobs. So people quiet-quit until they got laid off with a severance. Executives would be reassigned to a new team with no direct reports, so they held on to their job with both hands and very little got done.

[@theelvensong4328]

Companies can also avoid outright firing employees by simply not rehiring the position when an employee quits. If parts of that position are still needed, they may be redistributed to other employees. That position is gone and the company won't have to worry about the dynamics of hiring for that position ever again.

[@mofly1860]

This happened to me they laid off 5000 people in august and now someone just quit so I got all of her items as well as my usual job role. Did I get a pay bump? Lol no but at least I still have a job.

[@dan.c.s.]

Do y'all think that if all companies start quiet cutting and their employes keep quiet quitting we will eventually create the perfect loop of wasting evebody's time and energy?

[@jmanakajosh9354]

Many corporations esp. Silicon Valley ones like Snapchat and Twitter were already wasting everyone's time and burning money loosing billions a year. I think these companies don't know HOW to NOT waste time.

[@blucantrell2]

Beautiful

[@zakosist]

And the whole society will deteriorate from it. The qaulity and access to products and services also go down, and maybe for something important. Someone intentionally doing a terrible job when constructing a building or tunnel, could lead to it collapsing and maybe killing people. If healthcare workers dont care about doing a good job, then people in need of it have a big problem. There needs to be a reform where the exact opposite happens: corporations actually care about their employes wellbeing and employes have a certain respect for them back and try to do a good job

[@Samookely]

hope so at this point, it’d be a good wake up call for everyone

[@barbarahecht4617]

@dan.c.s.- That sounds like the premise for a weird futuristic Sci Fi movie.

[@qwertyzxaszc6323]

Good premise. but no one is indispensable. I have seen things go on just fine whenever they fired someone we thought was indispensable. Everyone is replaceable.

[@baomao7243]

The “assigned to a new project” approach is now pretty well worn out. Most entrepreneurial people now see through this. Countless times i’ve seen mgmt/HR try to “incentivize” the “bottom 10%” to leave while keeping all the high-output, entrepreneurial types. But turns out that the dead wood have few opportunities while the top dogs have many paths outside the company and simply vote either their feet. Moral of the story: Stay current and well-networked; when youf mgmt “goes stupid” just walk out the door and into another job. Your family will thank you.

[@sumdude4281]

People often think the only people who get laid off are the bottom 10% and they don't have to worry b/c they are a performer. It's just not true. For example in banking, an institution like Citi may decide it no longer wants to be in Muni Bond business and lay's off everyone in the that division retaining a few people to unwind until they work themselves out of jobs. It doesn't mean there aren't good people getting laid off. It is not always underperformers.

[@Shishkebarbarian]

I've avoided multiple layoffs and restructurings because I was the only person who knew the complex history and details of a project. I had 5 bosses in 6 years over the course of the project. Felt great

[@rodschmidt8952]

...until it doesn't

[@Entopysbane]

Same here until the last boss came and reassigned me as several other workers because he knew nothing about the job an took away the only enjoyable part of the work.

[@myplatinumlife]

Companies like Cognizant have used the notion of a ‘bench’ where you can use the time to look for another position in the company or train yourself for another position instead of doing a massive rif.

[@TheSoulCrisis]

I was going to work for Infosys out of college, did two months of training but was let go because I couldn’t get my degree on time (pandemic). They were also acting like I stole a laptop that never reached me, but I know some people that were on bench for like a year (one said almost 2 years). Not sure if Cognizant pays for bench, but hope they do!

[@INTELLIGENCE_Revolution]

I have no idea why more companies don’t do this!

[@DrunkenUFOPilot]

Boss: "So, um... the higher ups have let me know that, um, you may go ahead and head up the new North Dakota office." Cubicle worker: "But, boss, we're a retail surf shop!"

[@mikeifyouplease]

There is also the situation where a company is so dysfunctional that even though you are basically indispensable, they will let you leave...even if by doing that they will be harming the organization in a major way. This is especially possible in a governmental position, where the taxpayer will pick up the slack even though the department is going off a cliff due to your departure.

[@iRelevant.47.blacklisted]

I hear outsourcing and the use of external consultants are big in government. Indeed a department going of the cliff would be a business opportunity to examine.

[@nivama23]

We have a very good thing here in Europe, which is fully paid unlimited sick leave 😅

[@marklouis1890]

Must be nice

[@cpK054L]

We have that here too, it's called SSDI and long term disability

[@gi2man3468]

This type of attitude is why Europe's economy is stagnating

[@zakosist]

@@gi2man3468 yet europe still have the best living standards in many ways and way less of a poverty problem than america and africa, unsure about australia. The current war between russia and ukraine, and boycotting russia because of it is also a major reason why european economy is struggling nowadays. More money may be needed for the military as well, with much greater war risk than there has been in the last few decades. But I get that allowing people to be as lazy as they want with no consequense is gonna cause problems. That needs to be balanced, having some consequense but helping the ones truly in need. And over a certain amount of sick days it should require proof that you are actually sick/injured and not faking (but sometimes one can just fall ill and have it last like 2 days)

[@barbarahecht4617]

@@cpK054L No we don't- that's a Big Lie. You have to have a lawyer/attorney in order to get long term disability benefits, and God help you if you get any better physically during or even after the disability process, as you will be outed for fraudulently cheating the government out of whatever monies you received for disability benefits. Then, the Government takes it out of your tax refunds if you can get any, and you may owe the Federal government until you die. European benefits are more automatic and guaranteed, and don't represent any or much hardship to the recipients.

[@lurst]

Much easier to improve yourself like someone else in the comments mentioned, and then be resilient to being fired, even embrace it and get a higher pay on the next role.

[@thebesttheworst2277]

... *I've just told my boss about the thumbnail text on your video, he says I still have to come in on Monday.*

[@agentp6621]

I know this will sound out of the blue but reassignment sounds like additional duties in the Army. The Army can’t kick me out. But they don’t like you or you screwed up. So you get reassigned to another unit or you have to do stupid stuff like hand UA: Urinary Analysis for the unit. The professional way of reassigning you without any extra pay. You can’t quit. A but of a stretch but it sounds similar.

[@cpK054L]

Urinalysis for the unit? You call that "reassignment?" In the Marines they have you police calling until 11, then mowing the barracks lawn with scissors. And whatever else they had that poor guy doing elsewhere where Noone sees him until 8pm. Apparently he didn't know the game

[@journeyto100channel2]

Nahhhh I see reassignment like this Coming from Marine Corps. As a Grunt 0311, I injured my Knee after my Deployment, I became a problem with my Company in the Battalion. (Not a ShitBag) just not 100% Physically Strong Enough. So I was Moved to H&S Company and Became the Battalion Barracks Manager… Well Sorta.. I became the Active Guy while no NCOs were in Charge directly of me. So turning this Around to the Civilian Environment I find my Tasks/Responsibilities Different. Respectfully No Supervisor up my Ass, and I have my Whole week to myself. I was moved from busting my Back all week, and training New Lazy ass entitled Employees, To being by myself LowStress, and Easy Tasks. It all depends on your Job/Career. I work in the Beer Distribution Business. So nobody has it the same. Just gotta Understand you gotta Set yourself up for Yourself. Fuck the Company, Nobody really gives a Real shit about you, until you you thrown enough meat on the Table for your Superiors, for them to Throw a few bones for you.

[@TindolsMetals]

My wife has had cancer for the last five years and she’s going back to work January 4/2024 And I guarantee you they’re going to try to find a reason to let her go so they can stop paying for her cancer treatments. It’s time to get a lawyer I do believe I don’t think they can do this legally if anybody can help me with just let me know please.

[@kalliste23]

I'm English. In England if I go to a Shell gas station I have to pump the gas myself then walk into a shop and pay the lone attendant for the gas I pumped. If want to clean the windshield or put air in the tires or what have you I have do it myself. In the Philippines I go to a Shell gas station the pump attendant pumps the gas, cleans the windshield, takes my card to the cashier and comes back with my card and receipt while I sit in the car. I'm confident it's not a technology issue.

[@johnnyboyvan]

A I will take over! People are about to face horrid layoffs.

[@YOURRACHINAPRIL]

Very well said!!!

[@420funny6]

One good thing about the trades during times like this is i always have a job

[@turtleanton6539]

A back breaking job

[@Tony-uv4pd]

Interesting. I was reassign to a new team when thing were slow. Instead of my pay is under their budget, it got transferred to another team. But I later left for 20% boost elsewhere. New team was already understaffed and adding myself into the team doesn't change when you have 3 project and 1 person doing jobs of 3 peoples.

[@Slaythehippies]

Well I guess that's the perk of being a diesel mechanic. Every fucking company out there is desperate for mechanics. I've gone to contractors to do work for my last company and the contractor would discreetly slip me a business card with the number of the big boss. If the trucks ever stop needing fixed because they aren't running anymore, well, there are bigger problems in the world than my employment status that need to be navigated.

[@aidandaniels02]

None of the benefits you listed at 0:14 actually happened for workers. Companies just told the media that they were increasing pay with more vacation days and more money to 401ks and the media never verified this because they pay them to publish these lies.

[@elpelazo]

18 years and they stopped sending work to me. Just like that. Freelancer by the way…2 kids

[@Weaklytune]

wow..

[@Impotantmink]

Hey thanks! Huge boost to my overall attitude ❤

[@meltossmedia]

The corporate world seems to underestimate how lazy I am

[@RJones-tn5vg]

I'm about to start this strategy

[@ArnisM100]

Very good video! Thanks for bringing this up!

[@DreamAboutMe823]

Me. The payroll manager who is the only one in the company who knows the ins and outs of everything payroll and benefits related.

[@danette3689]

Love the way you convey messages! Followed!🥳

[@mkiniedits]

So glad I stumbled across this video! Thanks for the education on this much needed/relevant topic 🤙🏾

[@user-um9ys1kf7n]

Thank you

[@Amber-ct8ri]

This is such a great account. Plus you are very good on camera- very pleasant and likeable. I don’t know how you do not have a network show yet, you’re super talented

[@crocus5632]

Love you videos!

[@jaidern]

If nothing else, sir, I can tell you are very smart. Great videos

[@onebridge7231]

Never quit unless you have a new job offer. Getting fired is much better and get that unemployment. They’ll try to keep you from getting it, but most of the time you get it.

[@shandrakor4686]

6:56 Please note that being essential does not mean you won't get fired if your boss is dumb enough. A twenty year old business I worked for a decade laid me off and died six months after I left.

[@iminheaven3505]

nothing is guaranteed anymore.... f it.

[@user-tu7ro6fp6v]

Cashing out my 401K and HSA after I quit to go full time on my side hustle.

[@Eaglemadhatter]

Thinking the same exact thing my friend

[@haqinc]

One of your best videos yet!

[@eurovianmutt]

I work as a custodian at a sports arena that also used for non sports events. When I take online surveys or fill out forms online when I get to the list of places of employment and job title portions of the survey or form there is no sports arena and custodian options on the lists or drop down menus. This also happens when I filled out tax federal and state tax forms. It is like custodian is not considered a job and sports arena is not considered a place of employment.

[@Prairieshutterbug64]

I think that's called constructive dismissal.

[@wesleywesley3012]

you make great videos

[@thecutestcat897]

very good video🥰

[@lurst]

Worked for a company where someone -digged- dug their own trench deeply so they wouldnt get fired, ever. Results? Every new engineering team hired in order to grow the company shortly quit, it was the most toxic company I ever worked at, this is not only because that employee was toxic, but that he also did not let anyone do something new that would impact the trench he dug for himself. I wouldn't invest in that company, if you ask me.

[@barbarahecht4617]

Not digged, honey, Dug. Like the dog from the Disney movie Up.

[@lurst]

@@barbarahecht4617 Ha, thanks for the correction ☺️

[@barbarahecht4617]

@@lurst -And thank You for not taking offense at the correction.

[@khayon4364]

I work in the Psychology and Human Services field - barring Blade-Runner level robots I have no fear for my job in this market. I am quite thankful for that.

[@raelamaestra]

I was laid off last year and i can't believe i didn't put together the reassignment thing until this video😱 the truth is I did despise my job, but it paid so well i couldn't leave and the severance package was a massive relief.

[@MichaelaH2059]

I was told, on a Zoom call in front of many people, that I was being reassigned to a different department. No conversation....just BOOM done. I immediately began looking for a job and found one. Sadly, this seems to be the way of the world anymore. It's sad, really.

[@johnnydiaz925]

The people that he is referring to are rare and in this laborer market, it is even rarer to see anyone take the initiative to get to that level. Most workers are just drones, these companies don't care. Better to find a small business that is willing to take care of you and appreciate your hard work.

[@ramanne5962]

also businesses always keep additional swappable resource for business continuity

[@mikexhotmail]

Indeed

[@ordinaryhuman5645]

I recently had an indirect job change when part of my work was outsourced to offshore employees. It was a bit of a pain initially to get them trained up, but now the worst parts of my old job are done by someone else. They get paid less, but it's still a good job for them, and now I'm free to do more valuable project work for my employer so they don't have to hire more expensive contractors. Wins all around.

[@surlyGir]

Kind of the same but different for me as well 😊

[@ordinaryhuman5645]

@@boyblue3270 Why is it problematic? Is it really better if people outside of your country remain poor indefinitely because of their suboptimal birth location? Please check your privilege.

[@andra9694]

@@ordinaryhuman5645thanks for saying it dude :) and hire me please haha

[@sinyud]

@@boyblue3270 they’re a corporate chatbot

[@CaedenV]

@@ordinaryhuman5645 As you travel the world... stuff just isn't as expensive in other countries. And it doesn't even need to be as drastic as off-shoring to a 3rd world country either. A lot of the products that I use are American companies, and their support has been off-shored to England and Austrailia, which I would consider to have similar (or better) standards of living to what I enjoy here in the US, but their living expenses are less (sooooo much less) than it is here, which is why the jobs were off-loaded overseas. Not saying that there isn't a problem of sending undesirable jobs overseas to companies where management takes all the money and forces their employees into practical slave labor (look at the animation market... there is all kinds of bad that happens!). But more often than not in professional markets, it is a win-win where the company saves money, and the employees get higher wages and more upward mobility than they would otherwise. In fact, China is a prime example of this right now. They had a massive cheap manufacturing base, but now their kids are much higher educated and don't want to work in factories. The mismatch of education and job opportunities means that manufacturers are paying much higher wages to attract employees, which is driving business to other countries with cheaper manufacturing capacity. It is awesome that so many Chinese people got that higher education... but without the jobs to match, they are not paid what they hoped for, so even in a cheaper economy they end up struggling. So they then pivot to work remote, or move to work in markets that have jobs that match their education because in the global job market, sub-optimal birth locaion is less and less of a factor. But China doesn't want too many of these people to leave because they don't want an Africa style brain drain to happen, so they are held back. But this isn't the fault of the employers who want to hire these educated Chinese people who can do good work for less money than most of their western counterparts. It isn't the fault of the Chinese people who did the hard work to be qualified to jobs that are available over seas. But when a country makes weird alliances and enforces short-sighted policies, then people get trapped in a bad situation. It isn't so much an issue of privilege on the part of employers and employees, it is just a quesiton of if a country allows their people to have access to better jobs or not. And many don't for a whole host of reasons. But most of the countries that are being off-shored to are not the problem.

[@6catalina0]

People find that - Everything is personal - if the other, supervisor, sales person, service person, customer disagrees with your opinions, political beliefs, racial beliefs or has an argument with you. In the hourly jobs in supermarkets, security, etc - supervisors schedule least favorite employees various days so they have no way to expect what days off they will have next week. Or supervisors schedule least favorite employees an evening shift and a morning shift the next day with only eight hours in between to go home, sleep, and go to work the following day. Supervisors do this to make the employee leave the job. The other thing that is happening at hourly jobs is the supervisor tells the employee that he does not need them any longer when they have given a two weeks notice. This employee found another job, so they gave their start date in two weeks to the new employer in order to give the previous employer the standard notice upon leaving. “The (customer) EMPLOYER is Always Right.”

[@jaykay5142]

Ultimately though, people need to be doing more to retire asap. The FIRE movement is honestly the only real answer to the employment/job situation. Everything else is just a band aid

[@andrewwoodgate3769]

How to avoid being crushed by capitalism 😕

[@_oly_241]

Well socialism could have you living in a hut

[@SasukeFan21]

Thank you. No wonder FedEx sucks although I worked five years with two different location with no promotion and raise. Especially not easily recognize but what’s harder is because I’m just Deaf. So yeah I been working for myself and of course seeking financial freedom so I started my own store recent. I’m still a beginner, however man, your Spiderman wallet is dope. 😎

[@turtleanton6539]

Indeed it is so😊

[@pascalxus]

if you're going to make an ENTIRE video about lays off / firing, for christ sakes, learn the difference! Firing and lay offs are NOT the same things. they're two very different things and shouldn't be used interchangably. Learn the difference.

[@AdrianaGreaves]

Damn this exact thing just happened to me last week…My company “dissolved my roll” so now I no longer have a salary or benefits, but they still “value me as an employee and want to retain me”🙄

[@midlifecrisis7888]

little do they know, I am never quiting no matter what or where they re-assign me. Let them pay to let me go. LOLLOLOLOL

[@CobraPR893]

Very true. Big 4 audit firms run the US Gov. Waste & Abuse is the norm.

[@denises3779]

This is why I fund my kids passion their in their 20s run a successful brand and have never worked for anyone. I went to college it got me no where but in debt. I promised myself I would never sell my kids that go to college bs. When kids are young fud their passion and put them in business/money management camps.

[@irisssx]

Hi Vincent, please provide the link to that financial freedom course you mentioned. Thank you!

[@mrwaldoful]

Omg bro data entry we are all so blessed to be able to learn such an awesome skill like data entry totally not mind numbing and soulless work at all bro 😮😮😮

[@brycejohansen7114]

Question is... if you are in a work environment like that then why stick around? If they are gunning for you then that's it, you are no longer in a mutually benefiting relationship.

[@dannyho6786]

that type of BG music is PLAYED !!

[@GreenBlueWalkthrough]

Great video and I agree 100% anjd to use a recent exemple... The non for profit Open AI fired the CEEO of their for profit branch this week and almost caused the whole company to walk over to Microsoft thus given them a 200 million USD company for free... But what did happen was the non for profit was restructured from the ground up and the for profit stayed. So yeah fire people at your own risk.

[@Nuhbuddys]

Got fired for insubordination. The insubordination was me refusing to drive an 80,000 lb semi truck when I needed to sleep. Have it alllll recorded too. Nobody gives a $#!+

[@exposingproxystalkingorgan4164]

Nobody should aspire to be a wage slave and consumer zombie. Live below your means and invest the savings in the stock market and rental real estate to get passive side income. Working and saving alone will never get you wealthy. Investing in fractional artwork shares is good too. 😂

[@robreid6195]

I'm old but still working, and have lost my job 6 times (so about once per 7 years). Every time was either the cancellation of our entire project, disestablishment of my part of the org or the whole org (ie. gone bust), or in one case they ran out of work for me. Sometimes it just seems to happen. My main regret is not getting out earlier when (in some cases) the writing was on the wall.