I served 21 years. On two occasions I was given orders that would have left me exposed to court martial if I carried them out and something went wrong. On each occasion when I asked them to put the order in writing they withdrew the order and never tried it on again. Neither of them lasted too long before the system sorted them out.

Lesson of the Day: "Don't piss in my sink."

This devolved into the single funniest riff I've ever heard. "How 'bout don't piss in my sink!"

Jocko your are the best. God bless you and your family. Thank you for your service.

The first few minutes of the video reminds me of something. I do carpet cleaning, restretching, tile cleaning and contractual Shreveport city sewer backups as well as regular residential water damages in the greater area. I've noticed a far too common pattern In houses located in upper middle class/rich neighborhoods with $200,000-$1,000,000+ homes and mansions. The first thing is, I usually see cheap, thin 6 lb padding under carpet which allows the carpet to move/flex more when you step on it, causing excess wear and flexing to the backing and a shorter lifespan. People pay that much for a home in which contractors will charge top dollar for materials and skim a minimum of $50 per roll (30 yds/roll and commonly 5 to 10 rolls per mansion to meet the square footage requirements) or they'll overcharge as if it's several hundred $$$$ per roll of padding and not some cheap $60/roll stuff that they actually install. OR they will overcharge per yard which is just plain dirty to do to people as its probably the greediest way to rip someone off in this way. This gets into thousands of dollars skimmed. That's just for one home. These jerkoffs build entire neighborhoods. The other thing is that the tack strip is almost always WAY too far from the baseboards, which is a rushed/hurried job and makes it very difficult to secure the carpet in place, as it doesn't give you a tight space to pinch the edges of the carpet into. Tack strip doesn't hold carpet well by itself. Never mind stretching it, if you tug on it hard enough by hand it will come loose. This and installing via knee kicker instead of a power stretcher and then charging out the ass for the initial stretch when it could be sufficiently tight to begin with are the two reasons your carpet will bubble in places and need to be restretched within a few years. If a carpet is good quality, has thicker 8lb padding underneath it, and it powerstretched properly during install, that motherfucker should last you 20 years without any major issue. There might be a closet or a corner of a room somewhere that isn't as tight as it could've been. But you should NEVER have to have entire rooms restretched after a couple years. That's just a lazy unethical installer. If you live in a "nice" home in Shreveport/Bossier City Louisiana, there is a solid chance that your shit is cheap underneath your feet and all they did was pay attention to the trim and paint to make everything look pretty.

That man is a leader if I ever saw one...

*Jocko: 1 man - 1 printer - 1 mission* That's a movie I'd watch!

Shower is negotiable sink is disrespectful, if i pee in your sink im mad at you already

23:10 I found my fellow officer... “pissing” in the sink! *Jocko’s face* lol hahaha xD

Plant the seeds. Love it. Lead up, lead down. All our thoughts are borrowed from whomever we’ll take the time to listen to and believe what they say.

This may have helped me avoid a bad situation. I'm a cadet in CAP. I'm a flight Sergeant, and my squadron's first Sergeant is a terrible leader. He pouts, pulls rank, calls people, including his superiors out in front of everyone, and worst of all, he talks bad about my flight commander behind his back. That puts me in a position where I have to betray his trust or the oath I took to obey and respect my officers. Another layer of complexity it that his dad is the squadron commander. But me, my flight Com, and my Co-Flight Sergeant decided to go to the commander about this. After listening to some of jocko's advice, we decided to try to talk with the first Sergeant about his problems.

I am thankful 4 this video. I asked another question in another of ur videos. This one answered it. Thank you

I admit: I wrought you off profiling. Damn if I wasnt corrected soon as hearing you talk. You have a great mind sir. And I'm proud of people because of folks like you. Keep spreading positivity my man--

I like the repeated conversations and opportunities to correct this wrong approach. This is SO important! But so many don’t get this….Outside of this Military, this approach often times doesn’t work. We usually don’t have time for this kind of back and forth communication. We are all so busy, performing other tasks that REQUIRE 100% attention…And when the work is done it’s time to go home and nothing gets resolved

9:58 JOCKO HAS TEETH EVERYONE! TELL THE ENEMY!

I wish Jocko was my uncle. 💪🏽🇺🇸

Thank You Much 😊

Best podcast ever

Thank you big brothers! YNSN Higginbotham.

Amazing.

Captain's log: first lieutenant expresses doubts on direction taken. Log, next day: First lieutentant falls overboard during night watch. No findings in internal investigation on cause.

Jocko "don't piss in my sink." Willink

Thank you sir for this video

It is a last resort, but sometimes very necessary, hence why it exists. There was a time when I had to use it. Sometimes lines get crossed and people don't like each other, I get that. This is where this comes in. My example is when the Air Force did Force Shaping in 2005. I volunteered to be deployed to a combat zone 2002-2003 in a former Soviet "Republic." I did my duty and was sent back to my original base overseas. It was great. I loved the military at that point. My friends were superb and we had camaraderie that I would give anything for today in the civilian world. I was going to make it a career, but we received a horribly incompetent base commander. I was going to ride out my enlistment overseas, but all my friends were leaving. My orders transferred me stateside and it just got worse. I'm not sure what leadership they teach stateside versus overseas, but it was really atrocious. The morale was so low, an Air Force cop killed himself right near our jet. Blew his head off. We were very upset about this. I asked to be let out via the Force Shaping program, but I kept being given the okay and then a week later turned down. This happened 5-6 times. Then I followed the chain of command. I informed my senior enlisted guy in my shop, he gave me the runaround, I told him I would go to the captain, he gave me the runaround, I told him I was going up the chain, etc, eventually I got to a Full Bird Colonel at Randolph AFB and miraculously I got what I professionally asked for. The lesson of the story is, the military needs better leadership and more respect for enlisted members that do their job and volunteer to go into combat. My son enlisted in the Navy and I am very proud of him. If any NCOs or Officers read this, clean up your mess. You have a very serious problem with morale.

I’ve kind of skipped my chain of command while trying to go EOD(navy). I was in two different work centers. I got completed Fucked by my CW05... for 2.5 years. When I finally went EOD I didn’t want to be in the Navy anymore

Jocko “don’t piss on my sink” Willink. Try the toilet bro.

Love your neighbor as yourself

Jocko 'Philosopher' Willink

Their power is our perception of their power. No one has any power that we don't give them. We give them all the power that they have. That includes these politicians, these banks, and these religious leaders.

Jocks, four of you brushing teeth in the same sink!

One of my favorite pass times lol

This gets tricky when dealing with corruption eg if your on a team that is corrupt and shit testing you, you then whistleblow to a boss that covers for their corrupt team mate etc such a nightmare only option is to go over the head of the superior in order to tackle the issue from my point of view, in all cases though as the moral individual the whistlblower always gets it in the neck they are in a catch 22 and cannot win.

Just gotta get this off my chest. I worked for a company that was consistently sub contracted. I would get told "alright you guys got 5 days to get this job done" by day 3 , we could be done. But we get paid hourly, and if I don't work I don't get paid. So if I have 5 days, I'm making it take all 5 days. This is tough because if I knew I'd get another job to supplement the off days we'd get it done faster. And other side of the coin was if I got a job done faster and killed it, the contractor would add on work to make us worth the while. So on one hand I have to drag out a job to make money, and the other is that if I do a great job way faster, I get punished. Its taken me a few years to grasp that doing "the best" doesn't actually benefit me. And its frustrating.

The sink pissing needs to be brought up with Jocko ever goes on Adam Carrolla's podcast. Adam is a big advocate of pissing in the sink.

When safety is involved I’d say

Everybody serves somebody. Including the superior.

My lead at work and me got into it he said I'm always fucking whining and don't work or do anything and yet he just spoke about himself..he started yelling and speaking over me...I tried to speak to my supervisor about him but it just went over his head...so I had to go to are agency and file a complaint and my head head boss knows about what's been going on...don't help when my lead and supervisor are friends so will see how this plays out got offered a transfer if nothing works out but my head head boss told me she had to deal with my lead before and seen how his anger gets the best of him

The rule book is called the OCR. Officer Candidate Regulations

I dont break chain of command, I go right to the source

Man that was a long piss segment guys I got the point right away.

Jocko great job man plz try to get rudy reyes on brother

4:04 For our benefit we should have those hard conversations sooner than later. Because if we don't take care of business, business will take care of us.

Be kind to people, but don't let them take advantage of you. And trust people, but don't let them deceive you.

SORRY BROTHERS love u all

This was very good advice for jobs where you have to go over your managers head. Also the part about the pissing was disgusting.

My great grandfather and a coworker got into an argument while working in Central America in the early 1900s. He told the coworker "well we'll just talk out it when the boss man gets here next week." The coworker then shot and killed my great grandfather. So, uh, seems kinda relevant to the video lol.

Don't piss in my sink!

That got a green beret killed by seals by confronting them instead of going over their heads if I have my info correct.

Yea..skipping that chain is not good. Build the relationship

Most of the time , they already know whats going on , there are a million rats for every ship. They use it to their advantage, until it becomes visible, then they act on it.

*DON'T PISS IN MY SINK* lmao

4:33 "Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer" (The Godfather rule)

When people's safety is involved. Time to supercede.

What if the only person thats getting affected by my bosses actions is me. I was essentially blamed for something that they failed to do, and it cost me my position. But do i take action or should i leave it because the only person who got affected by it was me.

So next TIME I will bring a x and then WAR party we will seld it our way

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I piss in my own shower all the time, but never in public showers

Of course the Commodore laughed. You going into a war and the only thing missing is a printer... lol... Just imagine the situation.... lol

Cannot stress it more, skipping the chain of command is THE last resort.

Nuremberg trial ftw

If u need tell him or me how it works

I work in a cannabis cultivation and I see people (my bosses especially) breaking rules all the time. But there excuse is that who cares this is federally illegal anyways; which is hard to argue against. I’m not sure if my owner really cares enough or would they just fire me after ratting people out. Weird spot because I’m a “supervisor”.

Jocko Willink 2:17 - 44 may God the Spirit be allowed help Cary with genuine and true justice I and Cary deep gratitude

I disrespected a petty officer who was an E4 by saying something smart to him when he called up to the shop. He then came up to the shop, busted in the door, and choked me out until almost blacking out. The E5 got wind of it and chewed me out. Then the E6 got involved. He said that I could press charges if I wanted but if I did, I would go to captains mast for disrespect of a non-commissioned officer. I decided not to file charges and it was swept under the rug. I don't think the situation rose above our small shop. I would have done it differently. Perhaps. Live and learn. I already had a dirtbag label for being late to muster a few times. Maybe I should not have lied about having ADHD to get in. Oh well. They pay me 3000/mo now for service connected disability. I did call a lot of attention to myself while I was in.

Why did the chicken cross the road? DON'T PISS IN MY SINK.

So how exactly did we get from dealing with bosses to pissing in Jockos's sink?

Pissing on your feet in WW1 got rid of fungus.

Is that a gunshot wound in Echo's biceps?

I guarantee that officer that peed in the sink was from Texas A&M, it is common practice in the Corps of Cadets

That's what happened in Vietnam

Hey, I pee in the shower because then you turn on the water and wash it down. It’s just It’s a CONTINGENCY plan- totally strategic!

Question Jocko how would you handle a manager that ignores your advice and screw things up, but never takes responsibility for it?

I can’t not piss in the shower😂

Ever piss in the sunlight? Micro spray goes EVERYwhere. I still piss standing up, but I can see the issue.

Develop a reputation for suggesting going to the boss. Then everyone will think you always will and are willing to submit to authority or the right thing to do.

What if?

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Pissing in the shower is okay if you are alone and the one cleaning it

So be it convict meself

A solid 6.5 minutes of pissing ethics lmao the echo pissing podcast

Or you tell your leader what their doing is wrong and a major break in protocol, you do what they tell you to do anyway. Then you go over their head and report them for breaking protocol and you end up getting written up, no raise at your review, and all the while that leader sits back and laughs because he broke protocol and still got his raise.

Now I gotta pee...

The catalyst was too recondition the classics mandingo

0:58 that's why SEALS needed 60 fucking years to get their shit together.

Who is your First Sgt? 💯

Ironically peeing in the shower is actually beneficial as it prevents foot fungus.

Listening to that as a woman...how can this even be a conversation? :'D

Clipping informants money out of state funding would be pretty immoral but hey schiffforbrains does it all the time.

That is a fascinating cultural difference lol My rule is if I'm actually washing in the shower I might piss if I need to go. If it's not running, I'd rather go outside and piss on a tree or fence than another person have to stand in a puddle of my piss to turn the shower on. Can't say I have ever pissed in a sink. If I saw that I'd probably laugh, but it is pretty grotty.

Tattling is right on. If one of my kids tattled to me I’d tell them I’m the parent and I was ignoring that. Go off and be a kid. Because that’s exactly what I was doing, and I’m not going to put up with a kid trying to decide my priorities.

Take charge and if you got some one BETTER let them lead BUT. Easy don't do meth and don't spit SHIT out THE mouth

UH? Echo from Hawaii?

The only superior I accept is Jesus Christ and I know my place . " Set thy heart upon thy work , but never on its reward "

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So if there is a mass gun confiscation during the martial law that is coming, should the soldiers follow orders?

Echo Charles pisses in the showers 100%, and sometimes the sink.

We had a guy shave his genitalia in the sink during basic, he got recycled.

Nobody noticed the guy was pissing in the shower until he made it all the way to OCC?

55👍#.Believe🤗

Definitely I do not recommend EPSON.