The guy getting the cake looks like he'd rather be dead... Damn dude.

The sad thing is that a lot of these employees are convinced they got a great deal.

You see it in 90% of people and it’s sad af dude. But we all have choices to make. Life circumstance may keep you cornered but only for so long. At some point someone has to say enough is enough. I refuse to fall into this “corporate” world bs

50 years of dedicated work and you get a cake.... damn that's harsh - At least I hope he got something better that we don't see, although from the looks of it, I don't think so. The guy getting the cake is definitely like: "50 years of hard work and you got me a goddamn cake?" The guy with the "40" cutout? "I'm gonna murder the CEO in his sleep" My old colleague's husband had his 50th anniversary last year - he got a big medal, a huge party and a fat paycheck for his dedication... Hell, i've seen 5 and 10-year anniversaries better than this.

@@MK_ULTRA420 If they feel like they got a good deal, then its up to us to educate them, I envy that they dont question working in a supermarket for 50 years.......Some days I literally wish I could go back into the powerplant and make all my questions go away.

A solid gold Rolex???? Wow. I thought that went out of style decades ago. I bet that guy's name wasn't Homer Simpson.

I'd prefer the money

If you love watches..(a lot of men do).

My MIL worked at a bowling alley for over 30 years. The owner (who owned the company far fewer years than she worked there) had a primo stainless steel refrigerator/freezer to her house. That's not bad, considering!! I work in the public sector, and we're supposed to have an annual Employee Appreciation Day. Management is given a budget to spend on each employee, to spend as they see fit. Some offices had group outings at a state park, at a ballgame, etc. My office usually had a luncheon with greasy fried chicken and pre-made side dishes. One year, management really hit the IDGAF button by purchasing boxed lunches and telling us to eat quietly at our desks. The worst of it was my current management who was forced to acknowledge an employee retiring after 35 years of state service. Fair disclosure: The manager and employee couldn't stand each other. We held a staff meeting one Friday, at the very end of which the manager gave a Ho Hum mention of, "Hey, she's retiring. Here's your plaque. Oh, and only if y'all are interested, we're going to go out to lunch now." Yikes. Regardless of your personal feelings, 35 years is a long time and deserves better recognition than that. One of the team leaders in the office we worked out of got wind of this and decided to give our employee a proper send-off. She was so excited, she even brought her wife, which is huge because she was very old-school about keeping that a secret. It was shaping up to be a great day. Until.... Our manager found out and insisting of making the drive down to include herself. She insisted on using that day, A RETIREMENT PARTY, to collect all of our employee's computer and law enforcement equipment. There were a few items missing that could have been left with the office manager and mailed back the next day. BUT NO!!! She insisted on driving down again the next day, and when she didn't see what she wanted, actually insisted on following our employee to her home to collect said items. You read that correctly, folks.

@@ADAPTATION7 lol

Give him 1-2 years he will come back to reality. XD use to have really idealistic thoughts then i started my own business and understood what reality is and what imagination. You can never understand and awlays blame employer until you start your own business and find how complicated things are. every company can't spend like google.

@@EL12111 Well a 5 dollar gift card is way too good to be not pissed. If talking about spending, better just not give anything, he would've probably not left the company and no dollars would've been spent on him. A win-win situation.

@@BorsaMANIAC it would be better to give him a badge or something, my brother in law told me that someone fired the janitor where he was working, that janitor was working there for 40 years, the owner fired the guy that fired the janitor, and brought him back, that is when you know the boss respect the employee

Why not fire him and sue the employee afterwards to get back the paid salary

@Sentient being We all play our roles. There can be only one CEO of a company, CFO, CTO , etc. Just like not everyone can play pro football. Know your role and do it well. Everyone benefits.

Exactly!

I was waiting to see the IT guy and when I saw him...😍💜 B itches be jealous. 🤣

and the only one in the place smart enough to figure out how to convert a PDF

Abaratarat those 40 yr employees are the opioid users we keep hearing about. They looked beat down and depressed from trying to make it through each day.

Use it as motivation to no end up in that position

@Jared Kamel some admiration but some stupidity for not recognizing your plight, saving money and no major exit move, become like animals not using higher brain function.

And they actually felt they had to have their picture taken

Lol 😂

😂😂😂

Gold star or bust

I mean, the cake can be a nice thought, in addition to like a month of paid vacation and a plate, or naming an isle after you, or something for heaven's sake! 50 years!!

@@mrknarf4438 There is no amount of compensation for 50 years of loyalty to a company. Give him a cake, give him $50,000 a year wage. It really doesn't matter because he sold his life to that company and a life is priceless.

You guys do remember that people also have lives outside of work?

@@Fif0l Not blue collar America where you're expected to work 60+ hour weeks. It's not a life.

@@griffin955 Why do I keep getting surprised with US labor -laws- lawlessness?

Can i go work for your dad lmao

Lmmaaooo🤣🤣🤣🤣

This is why you can't buy ammo on Amazon. But where there's a will there's a way...

​@@tnix80it was a Cabelas gift card

That is so horrible. The fact that you can now advance your paycheck or take southland at many companies.

hey hey hey, its DLC. Expansion packs ? no ? xd

Hey, I work at a casino game developer, so that comes with the territory. Too bad good money doesn't come with that.

EA enters the chat

@@Juppie902 9 - 5: digital deluxe gold diamond sapphire legacy anniversary edition

Gamers 4 Life the worst part is... the corporate values promote having a great culture and completely go against it with this Booing.... Let that sink in.

It's sad really.

I agree, if they treated me like that i would quit

Would have left on the spot to write my resignation letter.

I think it would have been (from the sounds of it) one person who likely thought they were being funny. An inside joke with the IT guy. Someone you give a little smack and expect it in return as part of their friendship. It didn't sound malicious

Love Thy Neighbor it feels like a company that just went against their corporate values... Let that sink in.

I know a company where they forced their all IT employees to move furniture for conferences everyday!

ex sakiko: I've been in the same spot - not exactly booed at, but really underappreciated and sometimes mocked for my work. Generally the aura was that IT didn't do shit when in fact we had to bust our ass to get the company up to spec - the IT dept was basically in shambles when I arrived... but that's what you get when you put 70% of the IT-boss' time on other work and let apprentices basically run the department... Without IT, you're better off trying to sail a ship with no sails or without an engine...

@@TomBabula Thats their own fault. I've worked in a place where the owner asked the two IT guys (me+1) to help him move apartments, admittedly it was during work time, I thought he was kidding, when I refused, it was me who was the one with an attitude problem.

Amen to that! But if an IT is treated like shit, the IT needs to know his\her worth and leave. And if they have certifications, seriously don't settle!

thats life if your not born rich yup

Receives engraved fountain pen and 3 small pastries at a 2 hour lunch in their holiday time. 40 years.

E.R.O That’s good ol MURICA!!!!!

@SeasonedGamer and still getting trashtalked by everyone above him, cuz u know fuck the poor

Me personally, if I have to endure a job for 50 years not by my own choice but because "shits needs to be done" and "thats all i know and have", I will go down in flames with a big fucking ceremony, I might do some borderline immoral shit on my there, but hell, I will go out my OWN way.

Team player = be my slave and don't complain

Tbh I feel that your supervisor was a cunt. It most probably had nothing to do with coworkers. People like him put you in a position where you feel something's wrong with you by saying "everyone thinks of you a certain way" which may not at all be true.

i used to have groups at a job where the group would buy everyone a coffee. they refused to ask me. one time one of the guys got me one, but never asked me money. i was like if asked me for the money i would pay.

This. There was an event at a park about an hour away. Very few people went. Upper management couldn't understand why nobody wanted to drive an hour to eat a hotdog in 100* heat. Just lol.

Comapany's events on weekends should be called "crimes against humanity".

I don‘t know how it‘s in your country, but in mine you can be completely honest about it because they can‘t fire you if you don‘t want to come to such events. I always just said that I don‘t want to come because I have better things to do. After 3-4 months they just stopped asking me.

@@CedarMountainsnow Maybe, but it has never happend to me. I was never fired because I got my work done, but I always made it pretty clear that I'll never come to such events. I see all of you 40 hours every week, I don't need to see you on the weekend. Of course, I didn't say it that way, but I always told them that I won't be coming. And like I already said, after a few months they just stop you asking. The only problem is that if you switch companies, which I have done 3 times, everything resets and you have to explain yourself again. And it takes them a few months to get the message.

Yeah, my current place was spamming us for months to buy tickets for the Christmas party. Dude, I hate being around you people when YOU pay ME. What makes you think I'M going to pay YOU to be around you?

Same for me, quitting that corporate cringe shit in 2 months

Congratulations. I hope you are doing well now

and the tools to do that proper job. Not like most companies I've worked for, where you get given tools that are so bad you just buy your own because otherwise the work won't get done.

Reminds me of Milton from Office Space.

Yes.

I really recommend to watch others episode.

Wow! We had an employee lose his wife and no managers offered condolences. Not one and there are 5. No card or anything. We employees had to take matters into our own hands and management did not want us to do it.. We got cards and started a fundraiser for him so his kids would have a good Christmas. Times were tough for him and he was really depressed 😔. He continued to work very next day.He didn't even know that their were free resources from the company for him and his kids. He would have never known if it wasn't for one girl who brought it up to him. Management did not even bring it up because he's just a number. Pretty sad.

My then-supervisor lost her husband during COVID, leaving her a single mom in a job that sees her constantly brow-beaten and feeling unappreciated. She does what she does because she loves the job she now supervises and gets a lot out of her interactions with the staff. So, in her moment of grief, her boss didn't show up. In a way, that was a good thing, because she's one of those divas who gets upset at a funeral that she's not the corpse because no one is focused on her. But still, it would have been an appropriate gesture. Her boss didn't even want any of US to go to the memorial because it was a work day. . I took it upon myself to get donations from our team to give her a donation for the family and for a portion of the Grief Buffet (forgive the expression), which I personally delivered to her front door. Yeah, what she got from us far made up for the faux pas from management.

Worst thing's the so called expert doesn't even seem human. "Let me, tiny android, tell you what I've learned from observing humans" kinda vibe. She isn't talking about work itself or holidays but fucking ping pong? And then HR gets confused why technicians just go get another job.

oh its so sad, upper management are always fucked in the head, no compassion no care at all, the only thing that matters is the money, I let them know on a weekly basis that its important to say thank you and apreciate your staff because without them no one would have a job.

Did the same and understood Things are not as easy as they seem. XD When I started my own company, i use to think how we ill reward our employees. and now after 2 years I know why other companies don't do. Now these videos make me cringe. Because i know how stupid these all business cringe videos are and what the reality is.

@So Who's the Dummy Now? I would ask where is the blackjack and hookers?

And! That cake was bought last minute on somebody's lunch break!

“Happy Anniversary Mark and Dave,” on a single cake, like they’re married or something. Sheesh!

BWAHAHAHAHAHA "thank you for your 10 years of service."

I'll chip in $3 cake and mock coworker talk.

lmfao i'll get the cupcake at safeway (from the soon to be expired rack)

The $25 gift card will have $14.25 left on it.

I'll be sure to send the wooden 1 and 0 for his 10 years!

"Thank you for your service."

Welcome to wage slavery.

SeasonedGamer You say that like it’s so easy to start a business. Did you know most new businesses fail? Do you think he’s had the opportunity to take on that kind of risk?

​@@Laroc1982 You can tell he still lives with mommy and cant even pay his own bills yet so let him live his basement fantasy

Should have smacked that cake 9nnthe bosses face.

@Cyber Simba 6 Lol true! Firing (or setting up to fire) someone because they have a life. smh

Get laid 😂😂

Imagine hiring someone to tell you what your employees want because you are incapable of treating them as normal humans (and therefore can't relate to them at all) and paying them a decent wage.

"Get laid" - That's what "star" employee gets from his boss :D

I got to learn that. Became the star employee at my workplace. Only thing I got was more work. Kinda letting the ball drop on pourpose now so I can be at peace again. Problem is I know I'm watched now.

@@shrihara Yeah, in the ass

"pay is not to be here, pay us more, or heck dont even pay us, just let us leave when we want to." I think you mean "Allow us the financial freedom to not have to go to work sick/injured, value us more instead of awarding the value of our work to yourself, give us more of our time (The most valuable resource of all) in this relationship where we trade time for money" If you joke about requests like these you'll soon find yourself with a terrible workplace.

@@krisjohnston5569 he doesnt care. he'll replace those selfish employees with H1B visas.

Instead you'll get: 1. Dress down day. 2. Sports team day (you're lying, we know you're into sports, how could you not be into sports?). 3. $5 coffee shop gift card 4. Picture on wall.

4. Work from home (if possible)

Oh well they’ll easily replace you.

@@Ewang2727 oh I left. Wasn't worth the trouble. Feel sorry for the poor soul who's next in the meat grinder.

@@Ewang2727lol I think that’s the point The job is also replaceable, hence people leaving and getting different jobs 😂

Exactly

there like hahah look at this fool making me millions the past 40 years... ofcourse there smiling

i think some bosses are high as kites and have lines memorised. my last company's VP had lines he would parrot as he saw you in the hall. the hey how you doing. if you asked more, he would get caught in a loop.

The CEO must be that out of touch to where they think that they're actually doing something nice when their puny display of thankfulness is anything but.

You know it might be that they really don't know this. Remember these are people with MBAs and just how useless are people with MBAs? Only other MBAs hire them that's how useless they are. So it's very well possible they don't know these simple things.

that's why I don't sell my time for money anymore. I sell services, being a human drone is a terrible offer.

it's like buying a gift for a friend your not really that close to you don't really know them that well or at all so

I am thankful for videos like these. It is finally getting exposed.

@@monad_tcp Which services do you sell? What skills?

I would pay to fly him and his family anywhere he wanted Jesus Christ.

Still better than 99% of appreciation awards today. Most just give you a certificate of some sort.

Yeah my grandfather got a Rolex for 30 years working as a pilot 40 years ago. Would be lucky to get a drink these days

Even the Italian mafia gave better appreciation to its members than these corporate hacks. Italian mafia even had a name for their appreciation, "getting made" or "becoming a made member" which actually came with real, but nasty, perks.

@@mitpoker7319 Yeah but most people wouldn't want to go through a mafia initiation process.

@@MK_ULTRA420 You've been watching too many movies. Initiation process is only if you're poor and disposable. Most actual mafia members are middle to high class. And if you're talking about hitmen, mafia have learned to outsource that a long time ago through Ms13 and black gangs.

This. 100%. The people who suck up the hardest and eat whatever force-fed bullshit their managers throw at them get a nice little pat on the head for basically being corporate slaves. It's so shitty and wrong.

At my work it was always a coincidence that the bosses friends or favorites got the trip to Disney every year cause they were hard workers. 40 hours a week sitting at a desk doing paperwork.. Never mind they were a part of the leadership team and were exempt from working 10-12 hours a day on their feet lifting heavy workloads with weekly forced mandatory overtime year after year. Come to finally find out later that those free trips were not for the leadership team. They were to go to the floor employees. Talk about low....

@@brendaechols5929 yes of course and when you want to take a week or two off you banked over time…it’s an issue

same bro

The algorithm is getting pretty good, I've been accidentally finding a lot of awesome channels lately

I’d rather go by by myself

You have been deleted!!! *que megaman death sound and r2d2 scream*

Nooo just ask for. Blackjack and hookers...watch as everyone starts to just imagine how that's better than a rock wall....da fuck do you do with a rockwall at a job? Go on your day off?

I wish we had a ping-pong table at work, do some exercice during lunch time. But our office is way too crammed because the bosses are too cheap/stupid to actually find another office with reasonable space for each employee.

I told my manager the same. But it was because I was embarrassed for all the years working there.

Amen .

Command it

mackjeez Because you felt played and felt like a fool. The fact that it still bothers you implies you learned from it.

@So Who's the Dummy Now? I definitely didn't quit at the time, though I did leave several years later since I was offered a job somewhere else. I live in Montreal Canada, finding a job here with my background with a decent wage is like going through torture, so there was a lot of discretion on my part, I had mouths to feed. Unfortunately this company had people in administration that have ego's the size of a planetary system, I could have been more aggressive/assertive but with the risk of making a lot of people mad, I would have just put a target at my back. I also never received a raise, instead relied on overtime hours, sometimes working 60 hours to make due.