Being in college is depressing enough, but if this is what awaits me after graduation, God help me.

Josh. No matter when, where or how you ever decide to move on with your career, promise me to never fully stop roasting corporations

"What's your favorite show"? "Corporate Cringe". "Is that on Netflix"? "Yes, yes it's on Netflix"

It's almost as if these corporate 'fun activities' are deliberately designed to break people's spirit.

When I complete my degree, I'm gonna be doing everything in my power to stay away from companies like these

Just let me work and pay me, i dont want a clown show

"Yeah we're underpaid, but we do have a cool rap video to show for it" - no one.

I've worked at companies that had mandatory "fun". I'd rather be working at my desk or from home.

“This is what coding looks like to people who don’t code” You’re getting a like for that

Regarding remote work, what I say is, "If you don't trust that people will work while remote, why do you hire people that you can't trust?"

Everything about these corporations enrages me. They purposely make us play the part of fools, because that's how c-level views the lower tier employees. It's all some sick ritual and game to them.

That $60k would probably pay off many of their student loans (the reason they're working at the company in the first place) and thus cause mass quitting. That's not in upper management's agenda.

$40k in Sarasota? Geez. Also, companies are calling themselves startups even when they're 20 years old these days so they can use it as an excuse to pay peanuts.

12 years of highschool, years in college, hours of studying, days without sleep all that suffering just so they can dance at the end of the year i feel sorry for the employees

Buying the office is just a way for the CEO to place his money into Real Estate. xD

They don't have the budget to pay you more but they can waste $10m like this?

I'd rather be with my family in these times than be feeling awkward with people i don't fancy. Im a civilized person but my time isn't a joke.

the salary for their developers is even more hilarious

One month at my internship was enough to see how dead and underpaid everyone is and that I absolutely can't be in a corporate environment. No amount of snacks and arcade games will make me stay, it's such a waste.

" I would literally throw hands" A man of my own heart

I bet the CEO didn't even show up to the talent show

if Ozark has taught me anything, it's that this company is a front for money laundering.

I used to actively take place in corporate shit. Now feel ashamed af.

Just starting as a self-taught developer and all this videos just make me strongly consider go straight with a freelance career.

I hate when companies operating for years try to sell this “startup” environment as if it’s something special. I have been snubbed at interviews in so called startups because of my prior “corporate” professional experience.

Sometimes the boss is nuts and the HR person panders to it.

"The CEO said he'd actually read this post" Translation: "I'm writing this under duress."

I had a friend used to say he was dying of exposure. They always act like experience and exposure somehow make up for a lousy salary.

Hey Josh, I'm the Skeleton in the video. Wanted to confirm that the cause of death is from the ball pit. I would have rather taken the bonus. -Skulldude CEO of Twitter

3:18 the Coronavirus came from all the corporate companies’ ballpits.

the "edumacation" thing is just beyond absurd

Thanks for making these videos. Earlier in life, I was the guy in the back with that horrified look on my face. At the time, I thought there was something wrong with me for failing to join in the fun that we were all supposed to be having. And can someone explain why free food is supposed to be an exciting perk? It was exciting when I was in grad school and perpetually broke. Now I have a good salary and can buy all the food I want. Food isn't that expensive. Will my coworkers think I'm a snob if I bring in my own food and act like I'm too good for their Cap'n'Crunch?

This is what all the "startups" looked like before the dot com bust.

I bet if you keep this up that suddenly other youtubers are going to ride this wave

"Everything will stay static for 5 years" Man I love stability like that. You know what to expect from work and can focus on other things.

If they wanted their employees to dance and sing for a corporate ad why didn't they hire singers and dancers?

I wonder how many of these employees lost their jobs

“Read a certain amount of books and write reports” This whole time I’ve been criticizing the education system for not teaching practical skills that are useful in the real world, but it turns out they nailed it.

One time we had to shoot a happy birthday video for the CEO and it took almost 5 hours lmao. I quit after that.

When the video started I thought it is one of those KZfaq ads and I patiently waited for the "skip ad" button to pop up, how can a company who does this take themselves seriously...I guess they don't 🤷

Im so scared of what I'm about to face after college

*"If I caught myself in clothes like those I'd have to kick my own ass"*

This looks like fairly standard callcenter stuff. I've worked for several outsourcers, and this is the go-to carrot-on-a-stick "this will reduce our suicide rates" kind of thing. It's the company trying to force a culture that it internally does nothing to promote in the day-to-day activities of it's employees. No way they're gonna invest in their people when they chew through 3/4 of their staff every 1-2 years. None of their executive staff have actually been on the floor long enough to get a feeling for the actual company culture.

Your ball pit germ factory is understated, so often at my office jobs people would be on their phones in the restroom and NEVER wash their hands when they left and then they'd wonder why I called the buildings a petri dish.

The only impression I get from all of those attempts to look hip is that they are probably doing terribly as a company so they try to become a meme to compensate for all the investments.

Corporate Finance Summary over the last 3 years: Employees: No bump in pay CEO: $500,000 bump + New Yacht + New Music Video + New Office What an AMAZING way company to work for.

That’s enough. I’m starting my own business. Hate this corporate crap 💩

imagine buying a 10million dollar worth of building just for corona to keep you inside you in your houses and not being able to visit it. lol

Employers force you into an office to stroke their own egos micromanaging you.

"Go to college and get a degree, get a job... it's paying off big time as you can see" L.M.F.A.O.

I think the sad thing is that most US companies do all this corporate cringe bs!

Honestly, I believe modern work should be done remotely because modern technology allows it. If employees are productive, I don't see a problem with it.

You know, instead of wasting the employees time, they could have given them extra Pto. Probably would’ve been cheaper too.

The comments are almost as good as this series. Josh thank you for your candor.

dude, 50K is near nothing anywhere in the US. I'd be pissed as a software engineer making 50k in Florida. You'd never get ahead.

I remember being a teenager and working at walmart. I felt so stupid when they did that dumb Walmart cheer 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️ I used to yell KMart!! I would get some laughs.

Wow 😳. Josh it’s crazy that PropLogix office is right down the street from my current developer job. I interviewed there passively with the CEO and I was toured around for their Sr. C# .Net position. Let me tell you guys that I could feel the corporate cringe as soon as I walked in. It’s a huge open office work space for everyone and that’s not even the best part. He told me that all of his developers love to be at work, a lot of them come in early and stay late. At the end of the day they have cocktail hour which basically is more work and they come in on weekends for like 4 hours during their Q4. He wanted to offer me but I wasn’t senior enough. They offer unlimited PTO too 😂. That was an easy NO for me !

LOL 2 percent salary increase. Consumer inflation rate is 8 to 10 percent. Hmmm. What is wrong with that picture? 🤔

I've taken a few business courses as electives, and I noticed that the subject of "ethics" always comes up. But it's always legal ethics, not real ethics.

You're my new favorite KZfaqr. Thanks for talking about this sectarian approach to corporate culture that many companies are trying to implement, and that in the end is nothing else but toxic or an ass-kissing contest. Loved your bit about "if you work in software, you don't need a physical office". So true man. I would infinitely prefer a higher salary so I can build my own home office.

Holy fuck, I live right by this, and I have always wondered what the hell this huge (fairly empty) building is doing. Now I know, a holy moly amount of nothing.

Mid-pandemic, the stance on remote work really aged well. For the next company I work for, I really need to be aware if they're keeping remote work after the dust settles.

As a computer science student, this is really swaying my decision(among others) to pursue my Ph.D. and stay in academia, to avoid this crap.

Josh, I found you through watching Clement's videos. But I'm officially subscribing because this video is f-ing epic, haha. Sadly, as a front end dev, I've worked a wasteful company just like this. So glad I moved on (and found your channel)! Great content, boss.

🤣 I don’t even work in the corporate world nor will I have to after I graduate college because my degree has nothing to do with it. But I just started watching these & I love these type of videos they’re hilarious!

I lost it at the salary they pay Full Stack Devs. LMAO. Come on now, that is the same money I was making at a non profit early on in my career.

A small startup is 15 employees. Anything over 50 people is an SMB (small-to-medium business).

I would NEVER do business with a company like that... fkn joke of a business .. great work Josh funnyAF!!

10:45 “This guy probably died from the ball pit.”. That made me chuckle.

I think that bosses should stop and ask if themselves if Michael Scott would love the idea. If he would, re-think it.

Hey! I worked here for a year. It was the worst job I ever had. My first day I thought I joined a cult lol. If you are acknowledged and given raises for the work you do, then the person's happy. They seem to promote based on who they like better though. For the most part people are overlooked, underpaid, and overworked. I actually think if you're young and need your foot in the door then it's not a bad place to work. If you are over 20ish then move on.

3 years ago...imagine buying a giant office building right before Covid starts.

It took less than 3 weeks for them to remove the video lol

There is research that backs pretty strongly that close proximity and tight spaces make humans more prone to get along with those next to them (duh, since you have no choice)...and most importantly for the micro managing style companies, more susceptible to suggestion. This research was done about the impact of apartment complexes vs more space in houses. Interesting study. But it makes sense that if all a company wants is robots, they'd want to create spaces where drones are produced rather than independent people. Like it or not, most people are perfectly happy being drones and just following orders. It is, sadly, the world we live in.

Great video, I wish I had known you had made more of these “corporate cringe” videos. There’s so much corporate shill out there now so this is lonnnnnngggggggg overdue. 💯👌🏾

the roast on mr hit record was so smooth 😂😂

Thank you for taking time to make videos like these. I appreciate you.

So the employees get a 2% raise on a crappy salary when they do their book reports? That's beyond cringe

Lol at the time that someone took the headphones off that person. You never know what someone is going through and honestly last time someone did that to me (and I legit had someone touch me) I actually screamed out of fear. I was going through major anxiety/PTSD because someone that abused me came back into my life and the next day someone touched me when I was DEEP into code and I screamed legit screamed in the office out of horror. Yeah. Don't frigging touch people.

As you said, they also pay utilities, maintenance (including cleaning!), property taxes. So sure they could have paid everyone 60k (or gone to a 4d work week and hired more people if needed) once but they also probably will find they're paying a suprisingly high amount each year just to house their pets where they can see them! Being FT remote is the best thing I ever did for me and my employer.

I like to use this acronym to know what's important. There are 3 things that you need to value when it comes to work. L.T.M. stand for "Lunch, Time and Money". You can remember it by associating with "Long Term Management". It's your lunch, your time and your money that is being wasted on this. If you don't know when something is corporate garbage, just ask yourself: "Does this take away something of my LTM?" If the answer is yes, then it is and you should avoid it.

Corporate VP of Cringe, gotta hit those KCI (Key Cringe Indicators)!

I'm glad you pointed out the obvious that so many employers completely miss: INVEST IN YOUR EMPLOYEES! People show up to work for a paycheck, not for BS amenities like a ball pit or snack train.

Can't speak enough to my support of Corporate Cringe videos lol. I need a playlist of nothing but Corporate Cringe. I subcontract people as 1099s exclusively, and I demand every client supports remote software development. My contractors wouldn't even consider working onsite. No one should have to deal with this kind of ridiculous behavior. I about died laughing at the reaction of that person who had their headphones ripped off during the video. You are literally doing God's work by exposing this stuff. The way you deliver the material and talk about it is exactly how myself (and I'm assuming many many other people) would frame it. This is probably my favorite channel so far that I've discovered in 2020

Though I worked in the financial industry, not tech - this is nearly identical to one of the last companies I worked for. I could drone on about all the unfair practices, but it wouldn't change a thing. Thank you for this video, it's great - I'm passing it along to my previous co-workers who are still stuck.

If this cringe and BS happened to my company, I would leave immediately. And I left.

working in a room with no windows - that's complete depressive trash ... never.

i hate companies that forces you to join parties and always make u feel guilty if u decide to decline and head back home after a long tiring day at work

Few things mortify me more than the thought of, as a nerdy introvert, FREAKING LINE DANCING.

These 117 thumbs down are from the employees of that company gathered for "a team building session" where one of the games was to hit this button on a video 😂🤣

Nothing more depressing than having to pretend to give a fuck about the company you work for.

2:28 funny how the only comeback companies hold strong onto is "we cannot trust people working remote, had bad experience". As you said it, Josh - don't trust? Don't hire.

20 mins of corporate cringe. Thank you Joshua, very cool

Bro really named himself Mr. Hit Record

Seems like multiple companies are doing this lately. Over hiring, wasting money on buildings they don't have the budget for. Then letting all the staff go as a cost cutting messure as a way to say "woops maybe we over spent, someone has to pay for it".

That's some of the funniest stuff I've seen in awhile. Good job man.

Wow, looks more like $10k. If that. Thanks for reminding that if idiots like that can run a company, so can I.

the company where I work does a "kick off" where the hole company comes together to build rollercoasters with paper and get drunk. "Work hard, party hard ( and never go home)" instead of "do your job as good as possible and go home".

Lol ..my man would throw hands!

This is becoming my favourite channel. Seriously !