Of course, you shouldn't tell you boss things you wouldn't tell your coworkers. Here's 5 more things you should NEVER tell people at work: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bpd3ddRirbragYk.html

This video only proves that corporate jobs are like a never ending walk on egg shells.

Ah, the joys of working for other people and helping them become rich.

Screw being liked. I'll take being respected over all else. I'm not trying to be my boss's friend,but I know I must be amicable.

I just wanna do my job, get my check, and go home. If I have to be fake and comport in the process, so be it. The trick to being successful in corporate if you are a decent human being, is to care way less. Besides, it’s not your company!

You forgot the biggest mistake: thinking your company will reward your extra effort commensurate with the value you bring to the company. How often are employees expected to work as a manager for a year or more before actually paying them like a manager? If your boss can't keep you happy, don't worry about it - instead, switch to one who will. It's not your job to educate your manager; he's supposed to know, and if he can't manage that, it's the company's problem, not yours.

What's funny about the "you're wrong" is my boss called me out when I *didn't* tell her a work document she wrote was wrong. My only response was "you're the boss, and I thought that's how you wanted that process to work..."

On the pay raise-- I applied for another position in a different department that paid more, knowing my boss would hear about it and ask me what what was going on. When she did I said, "this isn't about leaving. I love it here. This is about me having the agency to do more for the company and being fairly compensated for it. If you can make that happen here, I have no reason to be dissatisfied." I need to add that before doing this I performed a few extracurricular tasks that were crucial and demonstrated a value that my boss would be fearful of losing.

The accountability point you mention is so true in so many levels!! People are just looking for scapegoats for their incopetencies. And this is why modern business environment sucks big time! Keep spreading the truth!

In my work experiences, when I made an error, I received nothing but condemnation. But when others made errors, even more, serious than mine, they got forgiveness and sympathy. The last part of the video, about dealing with difficult workers, managers, and HR is not a police department. They are just workers like everybody else. If there is a conflict between two workers, they are going to do what's right for the company, not the victim. They usually try to get rid of the victim, especially if the victim has a low social status within the company. That's not right, it's politics.

Most bosses suck and have no business being a team lead, a supervisor or manager! I've been super skilled at getting things done and the boss felt threatened or didn't like my ideas, whenevery one else did. Start your own business, if you can!!

Tip number one is the MAIN reason why I'll never be a manager. Petty problems that the employee can actually solve especially if it involves not getting along with another coworker. WE ARE ADULTS!!! GROW UP!!

These videos makes me never want to work ever again and become a monk

"That's not my job". Only do what's in your job description. If you want to learn new skills, make sure you're being compensated for them. Don't let them be cheap and take advantage of you.

I started my graduate job only a couple of months ago and your videos have been a life saver. In such a short time I've had to try and navigate so many unfamiliar situations but your videos seem to have guidance for almost everything! thank you so much Jennifer

You can't solve your own problems when your boss micromanages you out of your own job.

There seem to be big cultural differences between countries. I wouldn't use most of these tips in the Nordic/European countries. For example, there are laws that require the management to get involved if the working environment is toxic and causing sick leaves etc. It is NOT the individual's problem (alone)! Also, if a team is under-resourced, it is the boss's/management's problem, not the employees'. Of course it's good to be proactive, but somehow I felt this video was aimed at people who like to act like work is all sunshine and roses and lack the courage to bring up difficult issues with their superiors because they fear more for their status and career development than want things at the workplace be safe and fair for everyone. In other words, the culture difference is playing for the team vs. (only) trying to save your own skin.

Number two actually cost me my last job. I was so willing to "seek and accept feedback" that I became a lightning rod for all of the controversy and bad decision making going on in the business. I will say that other toxic workplace factors contributed to me inevitably resigning immediately/without a two weeks notice, but looking back the one thing I would change is accepting responsibility for all of the blame, regardless if I really was at fault or not.

Absolutely loving your channel

You’ve helped me so much with my workplace bully! Thank you 🙏

What a treasure your advice is Jennifer

Damn, I love this content. So handy in work-life, but also transferrable in other areas. Thanks!

CONGRATS ON 100K CAREER BESTIE 🩷🩵

This video is absolute gold ❤

''telling a boss they are wrong''. Half the time they are....and yeah, you need to dance around this one delicately and just confer back and forth if you can. Sometimes it works, but not all the time. Some bosses are happy to involve you and help see what's going on, but others not so much. They think they are right, so it's best to leave them to it and enjoy the moments, when it goes wrong. However, I hate it they blame someone else for thier mess.

Ooh thanks for this video. Very helpful.

Watching this video reminds me of when I was working under a bad boss who I later found out was undermining me the whole time. After the company decided to restructure our group and hire someone else to be our group leader, I pretty much broke all the rules: tell him he's wrong in front of others, set my boundaries, blamed him for the mess that he created in our group. Of course I did this all very subtly and professionally. I would say to the new boss "John and I didn't really see eye to eye on this issue, I wanted it this way because it is more organized and will help us work more efficiently. Whereas I'm not sure why John wants it his way because it doesn't make sense to me". He couldn't do anything about it because I had more sway with the new leader than he did, and I wasn't directly reporting to him anymore. I was kind of nasty to him at times because he gave me so much stress for 2 years and wasted my precious time. But yeah, if you have a toxic boss and can't work with him, find a way to bypass him or her to be in cahoots with his boss.

It takes a special kind of sociopath to thrive in corporate. It's all just nonsense

This is really informative

Nailed! 💪🏼

This video can definitely help a lot of people that are going through a tough time in their job.

Can you do a video on after you get fired or terminated for nothing, how to boost back up your confidence again?

My solutions got tossed in the garbage 🗑️ because I was too new. The old corporate way is the way to do it. They may think you're insulting their intelligence if you think of new ways to do things. Or they are terrified to take risks.

You are amazing!! I should have watch these!! ❤❤❤

I never miss your videos you are so helpful, sadly I’ve made some of those mistakes but I won’t again, or try not too

I was waiting for “don’t talk about your personal issues” because I just disclosed to my manager that I started an antidepressant (don’t ask me why, I was EXTREMELY foggy…). Hoping that the fact I do a good job and am otherwise not a problem will allow us to act like that never happened…😅 Anyway good tips! I am 28 and have been with my company 10 years slowly growing financially and in my career. I use your tips a lot as no one on family really ever had a career and I didn’t go to college. Between you and Charisma on Command I’ve seen a lot of success more quickly in the last 2-3 years.

As someone who went to school and has a bs in international business orbit ended up in the esthetics business I’m constantly dealing with the issue that my managers don’t have business training and I can clearly see them making the wrong decisions. It’s so frustrating because as someone who did go to business school it’s clear as day how wrong they are but I just have to go along with their ideas. People should be promoted based in education and knowledge NOT time and friends in the company. Ugh.

Good advice!

Good Morning 🌞 Jennifer ! I wear a Tissot ⌚️ & they sponsored this fine presentation. The watch , was given to me by my crew in 1990 when I switched jobs. It still runs like new ! Looking forward to that book 📖 of yours ..

Watched this over and over

So helpful!

I love the way the lady speaks (funny and true at the same time).😊

Audio goes in and out. Thanks for fixing it, Jennifer you're the best.

Powerful wisdom and knowledge! Thank you for sharing!

Great Video ❤

I wish I knew this before screwing up 😢 … is there a video on what to do after making these mistakes?

Hi @Jennifer Brick. I've just discovered your channel after a word search based on toxic, nasty co-workers and have so far only skimmed through your (and others' ) content. I feel like most of yours and other's videos are based on a stereotypical corporate office situation. However, my work life is more based around either hospitality, the performing arts, children's entertainment, and everything in-between! My 'toxic workmate' situation developed very recently and is beyond my experience in dealing with. I've met nasty, snooty, dismissive people before but this woman takes the cake in being manipulative and deliberately nasty. She targets the most emotionally vulnerable to the point of creating stress and misery for anyone who is sensitive. She's actually dangerous in this respect. I'm tough, but she's come close to causing me to crack. However, this is not an office situation, it's a high stress, fast paced, very public workplace involving a mix of performing arts, children's entertainment, and public relations. So, without delving deeper into your channel, may I ask if you could please point me to any of your particular past videos that might apply to my situation? I find the office worker, corporate stuff hard to relate to. Many thanks for your work to help people deal with people who go out of their way to make our work life difficult. 💗

The valley girl inflection is strong with you

Last one I did to a regional manager 😂. Lesson learned

Hi Jennifer Brick. Just wondering if you're going to talk about or make a video on how long should you stay in a entry level job?

6:15 I don't agree. I work in department with 3 teams and one boss. Couple of times I had to do some tasks that were in charge of other two teams (not mine). My boss said that I did it so well, that I can do this now permanently. So unofficially they are my tasks now. Officially - still their. Have I got any raise? No. Every time I hear from my boss: "Ann, I know that it's their job, not yours, but I think you can do this better, so please do it." Thank you very much.

We’re at an economic crisis! Businesses know they re underpaying and it’s disgusting! I told my place plane and simple that they need to increase pay and understand they were paying way under the industry standard anyway! And I got the increase! We’re just humans! Suicide or keeping it real was what I was left with! People are different and it’s rough out here! Get over yourself with some of this garbage!

That first example is wild......you can get fired for just that! I would like all those situations to go that well.

Thank you.

Never tell your boss about your personal life it will backfire!

Great video ❤

I like you, your concept, please focus on only office problems. It is correct, lot of problems

I once went to visit the ladies room at work and as I approached my bosses ,bosses boss stepped out, looked me straight in the eye and confidently stated “ I’d give it 10 mins if I were you!” 😂😂😂 She should NEVER have told me that! Ha! Weirdly it made me respect her more 🤷‍♀️.. I think that says more about me than her now I think about it lol 🙈

This is serious corporate level boss stuff. In the world of automotive service you could write a comedy sketch with some of the ways garage owners act.

Here is another good one. After being told what was not in my team's job function and to not do that task. We of course followed that direction. Yup, you guessed it, we got blowback. Don't say no even when you are told to say no.

Sounds like the managers themselves don’t actually want to manage. How stunting……all because of fear of offending people’s egos.

Covert made me shut down my business. Only job was available as a part-time job. The lady talks about me behind my back. Yes, I know for a fact. Only solution I can think of: leave the job, but then, where else do you go? Especially two years post Covid.

I love my new job. I can ignore most of this. It's making my head spin.... Ugh. I don't know how people live life bound by so many rules.

I can't tell my boss anything because he just got fired. Actually about a quarter of the employees that were there a year ago have either quit or been fired. I've started looking for a job but I've been going through a roller coaster of emotions. Even though it is a dead end job and I'm likely in the next wave of people to get fired, part of me hopes somehow it will get better. I admit I'd rather get a cavity filled at the dentist than go through a job change. Has anyone else gone through that?

Corporate work can run smoothly only if there are the right players on the team. No gaslighting should be allowed, no backstabbing and no bullying. If you can work with something like that, then you are a shoe in.

Hey Jenny, can you do a video on how to know if you've outgrown your job?

you are doing great things, madam; so many problems with your job. Please tell me, those are also

Hey Jennifer can you please make a video on imposter syndrome I have it really bad right now and it’s paralyzing

Great video Jennifer! Question, if you have a side job or side hustle, should this info be kept from your regular employer?

ya, i stepped up and accepted blame cause i thought it was the right thing to do, then I just became the scapegoat for anything and everything. Most f*ed up thing in corporate.

I wish so bad I had found your channel months ago. 😪

Great..... I just had to go to my boss about a complete jerk of a co worker.... now I feel stupid🤨.

Quietly quit till you get a new gob is the solution to every video

I had to bring up a kind of people issue. We have someone who never turns up for a regular IT support meeting. My manager wanted to move it a later time and since the "early" meeting at 10:30AM was too soon in the day for them. The proposed time slot was one that I often have as break time , so I asked why it was OK to just change it for one person and if it would be OK for me to skip the meeting. No reply. We discussed it later and I said that in my opinion this co-worker would never attend and asked what action my manager would take in that event. I figured my manager was making a rod for their own back. The meeting time has so far not changed.

I have told my boss they are wrong when they were wrong but still insisting on it, also not my job. Some of these no-no's you can get away with in the corporate world if unionized.

Great video. Also love your top! What brand is it?

I once pointed out one of my failings AND how I fixed it. Did I get credit for fixing the issue? Nope. Instead my failing showed up in my annual review! So yes? Do not point out your short comings.

''It's not my job'' Yeah, I been in loads of places and like for some reason, they pass something to me that I have little knowledge about. It is crazy and weird. There are loads of people about who can do it, and yet pick me. I hate it, because it puts me on the spot, it makes me look foolish and the whole thing gets messed up. I have no idea how to do something. I know there is a few times I felt like telling them, but instead I show them. The thing gets messed up and they never ask again... phew.

Oh no I’ve done some of these already 😭

"Most managers don't realy know how"=> fire them, they are incompetent and deserve to be punished.

Great video. Don't be the problem person always telling your boss problems. Do work above you. Boss is always right "yes and" don't criticize them.

Omg. I recently did the 7th thing..😭 i told my boss someone in the office is bullying me, and you’re right, she kinda doesn’t know how to deal with it. Do i need to apologize to her for bringing it up?

any advice on how to not burn bridges with your current company while going to your new company.

I said this before but my boss had me doing 7 jobs and management work and they showed me off to other business owners. They wouldn't give me a raise. I said I could make more money else where. They paid everyone in the company flat rate.

Externally never admitt to blame internally acknowledge got it

What if one of your colleagues asks publicly "Please if anyone moved the document to a different folder let me know because I can't find it" would it be okay to take the blame and apologize in this case?

That saying “that’s not my job”… I just can’t stand it. I’ve seen medical assistants or the secretaries address the doctor with this statement while I was a patient. I’ve also experienced it when delegating a task.

True

I live in my parents bedroom 🔥

I am not following the emily story…she informed her employer for being late, i think that is the default thing to do. I am not sure what her lateness has anything to do with chad’s lateness. This doesn’t seem like a maneuver i would ignore unless i KNEW that the boss doesn’t know/care. Getting in trouble for notifying my boss of being late will have to be they way I learn that. And im okay with that.

How can I start over? I’m tired

Yes and

If your boss can't solve a problem, you don't need him, why is he/she even there?

What if your supervisor is making you do her job outside your job description and your instinct just tells you you are just being used? You think this way because many had already been promoted doing less job than you because they are friends with the supervisor and there you are feeling left behind.

I told my boss maybe they should go find a new job, when I find new ways to make it work you’ll most likely get fired for it even if it doesn’t work-cost you both ways. HR manager will favor the company lie on report like police and your out unless you get a really good one that does there actual job otherwise if you have union talk to them they process you. If you met what I’ve met your workplace was already an (hostile environment) they’ve kept up good with it then doing actual work and minding there own dam business then to add weight to yours I don’t take bias as an excuse later to be told it was when people get fire and you were actually wrong for.

What do I do if your boss doesn’t know anything and knows less than you

If you here a bad idea that will brake a system/ crash / make your team look like idiots, do tell them: great idea !!! Let's all be fired

Hmm, and perhaps if you’re gonna report your Boss to their Boss, it might be a good idea to not tell them; believe it or not, I’ve made this foolish mistake back in 2008…And speaking of things to tell your Boss (or not to tell your Boss), I have a perfect future Video idea for you, which personally applies to me…You See: As somebody who’s on the [Autism] Spectrum (“High-Functioning Autism,” to be exact), I’d love to see you do a Video someday on Disclosure of one’s Disability at the Workplace, specifically when it’s Appropriate VS Inappropriate to Disclose one’s Disability whilst on-the-job and, if to Disclose, how to do so…Such a Video would really hit home for me, as I identify as a “Disabled Adult” (per my being on the [Autism] Spectrum)…There’s a fine balance between using one’s Disability as an Excuse VS being too bashful to admit that you’re different and need some adequate Accommodations for your differences…Of course, such a Video on Disclosure of Disabilities at the Workplace wouldn’t need to be centered around [Autism] Spectrum Disorders (ASD) but, rather, it could just be based on Disabilities in General…I mean a lot of my friends also identify as “Disabled” but, in their case, they’re either deaf or Hard-Of-Hearing (hence, the reason why my friends really appreciate that you Caption all your Videos)…Originally Diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome the month I turned 20, I used to be very eager in my 20’s to hand out Disclosure of my Learning Disabilities to Supervisors like as though it was candy, but now in my 40’s I’ve been much more conservative in my approach, only Disclosing my Disability whenever absolutely necessary…Life Experience has taught me that Bosses and Co-Workers don’t need to know all the in’s-and-out’s about you, because when you go to work, you’re there to get a job done, as “Work” is an “Exchange Of Goods and/or Services for Money,” not a Social; although, sometimes, it’s 100% necessary for an Employee to Disclose his/her Disabilities to their Employer(s) and/or Boss(s)…But the Question at hand is when and, if/whenever so, how to go about doing so…P.S. - If such a Video (about Disability Disclosure To Employers) already exists here on your KZfaq Channel, well than I’d love it if you could direct my attention to that Pre-Existing Video or, even better yet, if you could do an Updated Video on that…My Worst Case Scenario was a Supervisor defiantly informing me about a 5/6-year-old High-Functioning Autistic niece/nephew they had who behaves a lot maturer than me…That Supervisor and I never got along very well and when she threatened to fire me, I went over that person’s head, to which the Supervisor found out and lashed out at me in direct retaliation for my having gone to their Supervisor expressing my concerns of being threatened to be fired…That was fun (sarcasm)…To say that Disability Disclosure (to an Employer/Supervisor) didn’t go very well for me would be, like, the understatement of the century… . By-The-Way: Thank You Very Much for making your Videos so “Deaf-Accessible” by offering Human-Generated Closed-Captioning for all your Videos…Although I’m neither deaf nor Hard-Of-Hearing, I know quite a few people who are and whom decent Closed-Captioning is a total must for…You have no idea how many KZfaqrs don’t even begin to consider “Accessibility” and being as “Inclusive” of their deaf or HoH Viewers as possible…Actually, on numerous occasions, my (deaf) friends hand me the Remote Controller so I can set the Volume Levels to where I like it while I meanwhile ignore all those Captions along the bottom of the screen that my friends need in order to know what’s being said in the Video…It’s tough having deaf friends while meanwhile not knowing any Sign Language, but there are numerous free Speech Transcription Apps which work on most Cell Phones…Communication between my friends and myself mostly just involves a lot of Back-and-Forth Texting & E-Mailing and me utilizing Speech Transcription software as my friends meanwhile Write or Text me their Replies…Of course, I know of a person who hears as well as I do but who says she prefers having the CC turned on so she can read what’s being said, nonetheless, as she says she’s a very “Visual Learner”…Well, and plus CC helps whilst viewing in very noisy environments and/or where it’s preferred by others for somebody’s device to be muted…And I still haven’t taken the time to look you up in Instagram (your IG that’s associated with this KZfaq Channel, I mean), but I’m assuming you likely Caption any of your “IGTV” Videos, “Reels,” and “Stories” too…I still need to get over there and look up the Instagram (that goes with this KZfaq Channel, I mean)…

All this advice can apply to working for the government 😊

It's just office politics and corporations suck