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@ethoman042 жыл бұрын
You know you're ex-military when you call getting shot at on a civilian job a minor annoyance.
@Zach_Hazard2 жыл бұрын
Or a sucking chest wound "Really put a damper on things."
@Lance-The-BoS-Lancer2 жыл бұрын
Or when you talk about your time in the military.
@brycealthoff80922 жыл бұрын
@@Zach_Hazard you may have been the safest when in combat judging by how many times you’ve hurt yourself in civilian life!
@hmmyou25442 жыл бұрын
@@brycealthoff8092 Pretty sure he got like 3 concussions and god knows whilst in the army
@brycealthoff80922 жыл бұрын
@@hmmyou2544 while he was in the military, yes. But he went to Iraq, an actual war zone, and came back without a scratch.
@DatBoiUKno2 жыл бұрын
Remember everyone… talk to your coworkers about your wages, if it’s “against company policy” That’s illegal
@corvusvocatio2 жыл бұрын
this
@SamuraiBonesie2 жыл бұрын
The problem is: I’m a lot of states, it’s legal for jobs to say “well, the law says we don’t have to tell you why we are firing you, for your own pride, so… “personal disagreements” “
@Karniveron2 жыл бұрын
@@SamuraiBonesie Yep, fucking Right to Work 😡
@uria36792 жыл бұрын
@@SamuraiBonesie and people wonder why people are still rioting, calling out the government, or come to the realization that the National debt is the reason for most of America’s problems
@kacpero022 жыл бұрын
Thats what i liked while i worked for amazon, you know your salary before you even apply (depending on ads you see). While they get shit (that they deserve) for other things, i hope more employers pick up that practice. Seeing a job offer without salary is so infuriating
@nickelakon53692 жыл бұрын
Man it hurt when Mike asked why he didnt say anything about being homeless and zach said because he was embarrassed. So many people are too willing to go through hell out of pride.
@emosgowoof2 жыл бұрын
Believe me man, it definitely isn't out of pride. It's out of shame, for being incapable of providing for one's household, and the lack of knowledge / resources for better oppurtunity. It's also a dark spirally road of negative thought that tends to end in tragedy, if left without outside intervention. And if nothing else, im glad he still had friends he could rely on, who even got him a job, and out of that road.
@nickelakon53692 жыл бұрын
@@emosgowoof in the wise words of uncle iroh, "Pride is not the opposite of shame, but it's source."
@Tubepoacher2 жыл бұрын
Because we live in a society that deifies "success " and demonized "failure" even though most cases of both are caused by the same inequalities and injustices in the system.
@davidmarsh79332 жыл бұрын
It's an issue that still affects veterans
@Tubepoacher2 жыл бұрын
@@davidmarsh7933 probably way more non veteran homeless than not
@cjnf112 жыл бұрын
Zach in the military: "U.S. MILITARY IS FUCKED UP" Zach in civilian life: "U.S. INFRASTRUCTURE IS FUCKED UP"
@BayouBoy24436 ай бұрын
I can see why he’s not a fan of this country now
@beelzebub722121 күн бұрын
me: U.S. IS FUCKED UP
@Phonixfire20 күн бұрын
Mostly it's if the government runs it it tends to be run like crap.
@merryharry648717 күн бұрын
We live in a society
@justin230816 күн бұрын
@@beelzebub7221 Came here JUST to say that. 😂
@nickzakrath70802 жыл бұрын
Damn, the fact Zach was literally homeless for weeks...that sucks man.
@uria36792 жыл бұрын
And people think there are no reason for people to be rioting and calling out how corrupt the government is and how stupid The National Debt is
@Codex_06132 жыл бұрын
@@uria3679 and he's STILL paying off student loan tell me if that shit isn't crippling af and i'll slap u in the face
@FearlessLeader20012 жыл бұрын
@@Codex_0613 yes. He's paying a loan, with more loans, from 2007. 15 years ago.
@Bananwaffles2 жыл бұрын
@@Codex_0613 I thought his GI bill was paying for his student loans?
@legoyoda90262 жыл бұрын
@@Bananwaffles because he dropped out he has to pay it back
@Tounushi2 жыл бұрын
"We named it Sheila, because it had tank treads." I understood that reference.
@InfinityBeingYT2 жыл бұрын
That reference legit made my day
@noneedtoknow072 жыл бұрын
But can they pick up chicks in it?
@H9092-22 жыл бұрын
Was just about to say that.
@Crybaton2 жыл бұрын
@@noneedtoknow07 That's stupid. You can't pick up chicks in a tank!
@ducaoftheabruzzi2 жыл бұрын
@@Crybaton yeah they'll just jump in!
@ClonedGamer0012 жыл бұрын
Mike, I'm like 90% sure you could sue that furniture company. Targeting employees like that is illegal from what I've heard. It might be to late now, and probably isn't worth it, but you could.
@darkjesterxiii2 жыл бұрын
Yeah. Generally it's never financially feasible to do that. Which the company knows.
@ClonedGamer0012 жыл бұрын
@@darkjesterxiii It's only a viable option if you _know_ the company will settle. Which is nearly never
@MachineMan-mj4gj2 жыл бұрын
@@darkjesterxiii Pretty sure gasoline and matches are more affordable than lawyers.
@Fox_Olive2 жыл бұрын
@@ClonedGamer001 with the advent of twitter and social media spaces, making companies settle over issues like that is remarkably easy compared to years past.
@ClonedGamer0012 жыл бұрын
@@Fox_Olive True, especially when you have enough people behind you (which Mike definitely would in this case! I think the problem though is that this was many years ago now. It might be too late to file a suit
@lsswappedcessna2 жыл бұрын
I think the employer who fired Zach for going to a doctor's appointment may have violated the ADA, considering Zach's PTSD at the time was bad enough for him to be medicated.
@SirBladewind2 жыл бұрын
100%. I work in medicine and I seen companies sued for less. He told a lawyer and he'd have walked away with enough money to buy that house he's always wanted.
@bullinchinashop73576 ай бұрын
How do we tell him this is statue of limitations here or ?
@MichaelJohnson-ej1pl20 күн бұрын
The pipeline guy, also could have gotten sued for a fat check, plus the back pay
@H9092-22 жыл бұрын
"OSHA's nowhere around, why would they care?" OSHA knows. OSHA always knows. They're watching you. They're waiting. Also, Zach had his first "Not only can this kill you, but it will hurt the entire time" event.
@dinodude69922 жыл бұрын
Osha is big brother
@H9092-22 жыл бұрын
@@dinodude6992 Big Brother wish it was as competent as OSHA
@subtlewhatssubtle2 жыл бұрын
I work with engineers now and have learned that OSHA is terrifying because they're arguably second only to the IRS at digging up dirt about what you, personally, have been doing and then punishing you for it. So many stories about other guys getting busted and fined and fired for breaking the regulations. (Grant you, a lot of these regulations involved public safety and water safety especially so I'm not complaining.) At this stage OSHA probably knows where I was day drinking in Pittsburgh.
@H9092-22 жыл бұрын
@@subtlewhatssubtle Regulations are written in the blood of workers who broke them. My little test for if someone can be reasoned with is if they think OSHA is necessary, despite if they like them or not.
@worldofdoom9952 жыл бұрын
OSHA, much like Baskin Robbins, always finds out.
@masterthomas88452 жыл бұрын
Zach you are the type of guy an investigational journalist would foam at the mouth to get a hold of.
@flaskhjertako2 жыл бұрын
Journalist would have a pen and pad and mutter "gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme, GIMME"
@rednovastrum24752 жыл бұрын
i have a feeling his biography would be thicker than the dictionary
@insiainutorrt2592 жыл бұрын
@@RomanvonUngernSternbergnrmfvus Look for the ones called rayzisnaziblablablabalbablablabalblablablblablalblbalblalbalblablabl
@lyravain63042 жыл бұрын
Honestly, if he writes his own autobiography, it would sell like hotcakes.
@uria36792 жыл бұрын
@@RomanvonUngernSternbergnrmfvus you have the Vietnam War to thank for bringing down TRUE journalism
@HappyHellscapes2 жыл бұрын
I knew a guy named Darryl, he worked at the garage door factory with me. Guy had been fucked by management time and time again, they refused his pto, refused his vacation time, cut his hours, verbally harassed and bullied him, list goes on. Well one day he called in sick and management decided that was enough to fire him. He comes in the day after ready to work and he gets stopped and told he doesn’t have a job there anymore, they question his loyalty to the company, call him lazy, call him stupid, etc. Darryl just quietly walks out to his suburban, grabs a gas can and a map torch from the back, heads in, douses the mens room in gas and lights it all on fire. This was the job I held almost 4-5 years ago, I still haven’t seen my final check. Honestly the work wasn’t worth it, definitely wasn’t worth getting treated like dog shit for $11/hr. Darryl’s incident was honestly the point where I decided I was gonna quit.
@theunlikelyhero123meh32 жыл бұрын
That's... That's honestly something that a Darryl would do
@HappyHellscapes2 жыл бұрын
@@theunlikelyhero123meh3 I mean, guy was an ex prison guard and ex marine with ptsd, what did they expect would happen when they decided to make the poor guys life hell. Last I heard they tried charging him for arson but an insanity plea was put on the table, don’t know how all that turned out as I moved back to Texas a few years ago.
@danku-chan2 жыл бұрын
what a legend. good on darryl.
@TayDoesStuff Жыл бұрын
Go Darryl
@nog0dsnomasters2 ай бұрын
Sounds like management fucking deserved it. Darryl sounds like a chill dude, and everyone has their limits.
@Goliath_actual2 жыл бұрын
At this point, I’m convinced Zach is immortal with some debuffs
@Lance-The-BoS-Lancer2 жыл бұрын
Permanent damage, but practically immortal.
@Goliath_actual2 жыл бұрын
@@Lance-The-BoS-Lancer exactly
@bobbycrofts92412 жыл бұрын
Deadpool
@kavky2 жыл бұрын
@@Lance-The-BoS-Lancer If Zach's body were to be sectioned into equal parts, which part would hold his conscience? Or do all of his severed body parts gain his conscience?
@Lance-The-BoS-Lancer2 жыл бұрын
@@kavky all damage stays there, but the part is still alive, jist without connection.
@nickl16402 жыл бұрын
If Zach likes writing. Mike makes mods. You guys should make a mod. The end.
@dragonranger84562 жыл бұрын
And Mike's done some voice-acting work, like finishing Doc Friday's unvoiced lines, and they both have pretty decent vocal range, so... This is a good idea
@theengineerinabox23852 жыл бұрын
Facts
@ScoutTrooperMan2 жыл бұрын
didn't mike already made a mod with voice acting and everything? i remember al even doing videos on it
@rolo66762 жыл бұрын
Mike has made a few mods
@mitchellbonds7662 жыл бұрын
I'd play anything they released, for sure.
@big_tymerro2 жыл бұрын
We got CAMPFIRE STORIES?! And it’s 40 MINUTES LONG?! Come on guys, it’s 11 months until Christmas, chill out with the gifts!
@sal_ad2 жыл бұрын
Honestly, theyre spoiling us
@daddyjesuschrist2 жыл бұрын
I honestly did not even notice that until I read your comment, by which time I had already finished the video...
@someoneyoudontknow60832 жыл бұрын
@@daddyjesuschrist You know, it's ironic because I, for whatever reason, started to scroll into the comments as the video was playing, and right when I clicked "View replies" and looked at your name, Zach, said "Jesus Christ." I shall take this a sign of...something.
@GorFrag2 жыл бұрын
nah this was a stealth pod cast
@dantucho2032 жыл бұрын
Jesus christ zach never gets a break, he has celiac disease, he got his back fucked up in the army, he was homeless for 2 weeks, etc.
@SummeryMussel92 жыл бұрын
His sister has it. I believe he doesn't have it
@Bacony_Cakes2 жыл бұрын
he got cheese in his pants
@dantucho2032 жыл бұрын
@@SummeryMussel9 he does. He talked about it in a campfire stories video. I even remember mike making a joke about how zach would die if he ate pizza because he has celiac disease (cant eat bread) and he’s lactose intolerant
@scowler72002 жыл бұрын
And a TBI. Three concissions.
@GenshinLover2832 жыл бұрын
@@scowler7200 also, Ft. Polk.
@nathanjames74252 жыл бұрын
Crazy to imagine that in another world I could've had Zach as a tug assist when docking. Working on oceangoing ships is a great career as long as you don't mind being away from home for months on end. You make great wages with relatively few certifications required. Most recently I worked on a research ship for 3 months and made 20k, with no rent or groceries to pay for during it. Highly recommend it to anyone interested.
@CsabaGamings2 жыл бұрын
In Hungary I can't do these kinds of jobs, but they look fun. If there's like a charger that can be used for laptops or phones then I could even learn, or just chill out when it's off times I guess.
@whtwolf1002 жыл бұрын
Im a security guard, what kinda papers i need to do that on the water?
@nathanjames74252 жыл бұрын
@@whtwolf100 Commercial ships don't typically have security guards, except probably cruise ships. I haven't sailed on one before Ports will have security, but that's kind of outside of my area. You'd probably still need a TWIC
@spamreciever42082 жыл бұрын
I wanted to get into some kind of seafaring job but when I looked into it, it seemed like the only way to get into the industry was to basically enlist in the CG or Navy Is this the case?
@nathanjames74252 жыл бұрын
@@spamreciever4208 Nope, that's one of the biggest misconceptions about the industry. Most of the guys on my ships never served in the military, myself included. You can attend a maritime academy, which is a 4 year college, and work as a navigation officer or engineer. Alternatively, you can join one of the unions' training programs. This is a lot shorter, but you'll start out as an Ordinary seaman/wiper, and get paid less than the officers. After enough seatime, OS/wipers can get their AB/Oiler license. After that, they can take classes and eventually test to become officers. If you're a high schooler/vet, I'd recommend the academy route. It's more regimented than a typical college, but you're fasttracking your way to captain/chief engineer.
@lokinighton72992 жыл бұрын
You two should write a joint biography together about your lives in and out of the military it would honestly be a fascinating read
@mitchellbonds7662 жыл бұрын
"One Brain Cell Between Them: True stories of the post-military trudge."
@macrodesatire11082 жыл бұрын
"Explosive Residue: the whacky lives Burnfire & Hazard"
@MrTwilightwolf2 жыл бұрын
They did its called campfire stories
@vapor4042 жыл бұрын
@@mitchellbonds766 that actually made me forcefully Snicker
@Gruthartheclaw Жыл бұрын
Fart Knocker and the Testicle: the podcast : the biography
@inurokuwarz2 жыл бұрын
Why is it whenever congress is like "Damn, we need to save money" it's always just "I know! Lets make a ton of people unemployed! This will spur economic growth!"
@steveheist64262 жыл бұрын
"Also, let's spend nearly a trillion dollars a year on the military! And freak out when that much is suggested over 10 years for literally anything else!"
@toxicKorgi2 жыл бұрын
Because politicians don't care about people and only want to save money for themselves or the companies that own them.
@uria36792 жыл бұрын
And people think there are no reason for people to be rioting and calling out how corrupt the government is and how stupid The National Debt is
@bobsondugnutt99142 жыл бұрын
I've never heard any major political talk about a need to save money. It's always that there's not enough money. Not everyone is aware, but in the congressional budget, everything gets an annual spending increase. Repeat, every year, more money is spent on the same stuff. If you try to even reduce the amount of the INCREASE for that year, politicians will furiously scream that the budget is being gutted by their opposition, and get that request denied. And this is just part 1 of why we have constant debt limit crises. What to do? Increase the credit limit, of course.
@ihatethatyoutubedisplaysyo81062 жыл бұрын
@@steveheist6426 blame NATO countries for not contributing to defence
@alanheyes6942 жыл бұрын
“Survey cancelled because bullets” may be my favourite Zach quote.
@izzy89342 жыл бұрын
Both not paying out banked OT/vacation days and reclassifying employees to avoid paying OT are so wildly illegal where I am that even hearing Zach's story makes my blood boil.
@filmandfirearms7 ай бұрын
The problem is, the federal government has so much power in the US that corruption is the single most lucrative thing for any business to partake in. The pharmaceutical industry is by far the worst example of this, where the government just shuts down any company that becomes successful and isn't paying them "campaign donations", but it's a problem across the board. To make matters worse, we've got a bunch of morons on both the right and the left who want to solve this problem of an overbloated government that has too much power over people's lives, by giving that same government even more control over people's lives
@jacobevans4892 жыл бұрын
Goddamn Zack is a saint. I would have gotten an assult charge the moment they fucked me out of all that overtime I was owed. I work pipeline construction and if someone did that to me or anyone on our crew, they would be found years later buried with that fuckin line.
@crimsondynamo6152 жыл бұрын
Give them the Jimmy Hoffa treatment Eh?
@notasmo91202 жыл бұрын
I do Industrial construction in the refineries. If anyone tried sayin we weren't getting paid OT, I guarantee either no work would get done or the whole crew would drag
@Zach_Hazard2 жыл бұрын
I'm not a saint. I'm just non-confrontational.
@EzekiesAcheron2 жыл бұрын
@@Zach_Hazard The pain of being non-confrontational in the times where you really do need to confront people about things.
@hopelessromanticpify2 жыл бұрын
He could have said "make sure I get that overtime or I won't come back" and boom a lot of this alleviated. Stand your ground, they are on the back foot not you
@MaximumHeresey2 жыл бұрын
The details of the incidents given by Zach and Mike remsembles an investigative thesis on post-Subprime America... What a wild ride this was. Kudos to you guys.
@arx35162 жыл бұрын
Zach should found a political party.
@brok562 жыл бұрын
@@arx3516 Zach just tells his stories and rally People with him, because he is so relatable.
@coolghoul85152 жыл бұрын
@@arx3516 he'd be just as capable as any other presidential candidate we've had the last about 30 years
@chrisb50052 жыл бұрын
America increasingly resembles a third-world country for an increasing proportion of its citizens.
@Zach_Hazard2 жыл бұрын
I understood some of those words!
@Beefyrulz2 жыл бұрын
My first job was a Union job at a Grocery store , and I'm so glad for it because you learn so much working with a Union. You learn real quick how little employers/management really care for employees even when they're contractually obligated to. I know one of the things I learned really quick was to *read and understand your contract* , and to basically never sign anything unless you're contractually obligated to. Over my time working there I've been 'written up' maybe 4-5 times but every single time was 100% bullshit, usually just shit managers on a power trip. Once for taking my Union mandated breaks and lunch as afforded to me via our contract. Once for 'clocking in late' despite being within our punch window to be considered 'on-time' as described by our contract. And I think maybe once for uniform violation despite being within 100% compliance to any uniform codes I could find for myself and my department. I can't remember the others but all equally as useless and bullshit. Of course I never signed any of them because they could not force me to and in the end I've never gotten in any real trouble or suspended or anything. But either way just knowing in the back of your mind that whatever shit management might try to give you, they literally can't do shit so long as you're not stealing, doing drugs, or some other obscene shit. As long as you're within your contract, you're golden. It's so liberating to sit there and listen to some shit-for-brains manager try and dress you down for some shit you know isn't your fault or a problem, then they hand you the write-up slip and ask you to sign it and you just hit 'em with a "No. I don't think I will. Are we done?"
@kekula692 жыл бұрын
i fucking hate those bosses. they were everywhere in job corps, and they REALLY did not give a shit about anyone and clearly didn't want to be there at all
@yoekix2 жыл бұрын
Here is a little insight from Belgium in Europe where Unions are standard and have a good foothold in companies. A colleague of mine once received a mail from HR because he wasn't using his full 30 minutes lunch break ( he was clocking in at 28 minutes or so) for the last few weeks. it felt like HR was afraid that he was forced to work extra and would go complain to the unions (yes we have multiple in each business).
@corvusvocatio2 жыл бұрын
@@yoekix it's almost like unions and pro-worker stuff are necessary for people to not get walked all over by conpanies who don't give a shit about you. gotta love america and its bullshit anti-union and inflammatory propaganda about the rights of the people
@humanoidwolf2 жыл бұрын
@@corvusvocatio I was once in the union working for a grocery store back then it paid nothing and now I'm in the fast industry ey it's basically shit where cheap ass because we can put no air conditioner in kitchen and near dishwasher.
@Malikyte13 Жыл бұрын
@@corvusvocatio It's almost like the reason why Americans with functioning brains are anti-Union is because in most cases, the Union doesn't give a shit about you either. As long as they get their membership dues and their cuts from the company, they literally don't care. Therein lies the problem with any organization with authority: They have no real reason to give a shit about you. If you quit, get fired, or die, they'll just replace you with somebody else. You are nothing but cogs in a machine, with or without a Union. At the end of the day you and you alone are responsible for making sure your interests are being looked out for. Imagine thinking "Union" immediately means "these people will take care of me" lmao why, because they say they will? Employers say that shit too, what makes you think the Union will be any better?
@JamesCrimson432 жыл бұрын
The bit about new hires getting more money than people who've been there forever is EXACTLY why companies tell you not to discuss pay with coworkers.
@filmandfirearms7 ай бұрын
Funnily enough, the few companies I worked at that had that policy, no one gave a shit and everyone was getting paid exactly what you would expect for their position and time with the company
@thelucifun43972 жыл бұрын
This whole episode just actually does mental damage to the point I had to pause it and do a long introspection about my past work life and my future. God damn.
@Tiger85662 жыл бұрын
Yeah on god, this gave me second hand anxiety, especially the parts about looking for jobs and having to go to worthless unemployment courses
@SSgtJ0hns0n2 жыл бұрын
I live in SG, and I thought I had it bad when i spent years working a single temp job on/off while still living off my parents and stuggling to find full time. Then COVID came, killed the careers of the rest of my family (all of them had jobs related to the tourism industry, go figure) then suddenly I had to step up and be a breadwinner. Then I listen to these campfire stories and read a lot of American workplace horror stories on reddit and suddenly I appreciate my situation a lot better and glad where I currently work (full time now, thank god) at least there's govt enforced standards of pay and work hours.
@I_am_ENSanity2 жыл бұрын
Reminds me of my last welding job. I ended up almost breaking my spine due to severe managerial negligence and both my mentor and I sued them and I got $330k while he got over $500k. Took me over a year of physical therapy to get back to normal.
@LordChesalot2 жыл бұрын
glad you got your money , that sucks man
@theOneTrueCactus2 жыл бұрын
Zach's capability to produce sound effects that are almost exactly accurate to the real thing is amazing.
@Zach_Hazard2 жыл бұрын
When I was younger I'd sit in my room making weird noises a lot.
@kanaka118446 Жыл бұрын
@@Zach_Hazard I was an only child until I was 13 with a single parent since I was 8. I had a lot of alone time so I did the same. I still do
@hammer13492 жыл бұрын
So Mike is straight up missing like half two of his fingers? Yikes that's rough. I swear though zach is rolling death's dice every time he wakes up lol
@xandyflare2 жыл бұрын
Zach makes death saving throws so often that God as the DM thinks they're loaded
@Zach_Hazard2 жыл бұрын
Nah, he isn't missing any fingers, and they've healed pretty much entirely. They're kind of scarred, but that's it.
@Rowcan2 жыл бұрын
@@Zach_Hazard Glad to hear the doctors 'doing what they could' was good enough!
@theenderdestruction2362 Жыл бұрын
@@xandyflare god would know if their loaded cause he was the one who loaded them
@nautica87452 жыл бұрын
That rearview mirror factory sounds like Magna-Donnelly, an awful employer in my area that makes those rearview mirrors. Everyone who's left it says they hated it there, and it had so many safety hazards. Though the biggest furniture factory in the same area here in west Michigan also like that is called Herman Miller.
@underpaidoverworked42502 жыл бұрын
Small world, I've suspected the guys were from this area for a while
@underpaidoverworked42502 жыл бұрын
I think Gentex does rearview mirrors too
@DarkMatter9462 жыл бұрын
OHY GOD THANK YOU. The name was on the tip of my tongue.
@voltronimusprime3833 Жыл бұрын
@@underpaidoverworked4250 The Alarm company?
@underpaidoverworked4250 Жыл бұрын
@@voltronimusprime3833 Gentex has a hand in just about everything
@Csp4992 жыл бұрын
Had an old CNC operator job I got partly through family connections. Some people at the plant had known me since I was a kid, and I'd done work for them before, so while I wasn't expecting special treatment or anything, was hoping I'd at least get a square deal. Had to be up before 4am, usually didn't get home til 7 or 8 pm due to mandatory overtime and a busy commute. Technically got weekends, but would invariably be asked to come in every time. Generally easy work, but mind-numbingly boring. Not allowed to use headphones, had to leave phones in the breakroom, couldn't leave a machine during a cycle, so had to spend 12 to 16 hour days just watching the machine do its thing. Never said anything til one night where I'd clocked 18 hours, and only got to stop because the machine I was working on broke down. While maintenance was doing their thing, I went up to the shift manager and asked "hey, so I've been here since 5am and it's getting late, I'm gonna clock out for the day". He replied "Okay, so you don't want to work. I'll let the floor supervisor know." The floor supervisor - despite being one of those family friends - took me aside and chewed me out for "non-commitment" the next morning. Tendered my resignation later that week and got dirty looks from him and the others for the remainder of my time there. So yeah. It's healthy to always see the good in people, but no matter who they are, NEVER trust an employer unconditionally.
@TheAzCorner2 жыл бұрын
"Family" and "Work" are like oil and water
@lightningkitten2 жыл бұрын
*18 hours?* no days off? plus fucking commute? and he had the audacity to chew you out? i'm surprised you didn't kill him
@mitchellbonds7662 жыл бұрын
As I'm in the middle of a 3 month job hunt myself, I can 100 percent agree that it's one of the most demeaning and depressing things I've endured. If you're lucky enough to even get a response, being told "nah, you're not good enough" several times a week starts chipping away at you...
@TitaniteHydra Жыл бұрын
Feeling this right now. Hope you found what you needed.
@JustDevon12 жыл бұрын
7:29 "Cause OSHA's nowhere around, so what do they care?" Very true, it's “Safety Second and Efficiency First” when it comes to construction sites. Well at least in my experience.
@reverendraven46612 жыл бұрын
“Safety third”, right after Budget and Schedule
@Suchsdirhaltaus2 жыл бұрын
@@reverendraven4661 i would guess budget and schedule is within the efficiency.
@nickelakon53692 жыл бұрын
Literally most jobs are like this.
@thebladeofchaos2 жыл бұрын
See, I was expecting Mike to make a comment about the AC DC converter putting Zach on a highway to hell
@RedShocktrooperRST2 жыл бұрын
I think he was a bit too busy reacting to the fact that Zach got fucking tesla'd.
@projectboxtrot87232 жыл бұрын
@@RedShocktrooperRST you could say that Zach was “Thunderstruck”
@noggy31332 жыл бұрын
@@projectboxtrot8723 badum tsssss *Laughtrack*
@walnzell93282 жыл бұрын
It's a pleasure to see workers now realizing that high pay isn't good enough if the conditions are garbage.
@LoneWolf-kw3ol9 ай бұрын
ive learned some things about electricity since becoming a lineman, and i can say Zach is VERY lucky to have survived 750 Milliamps, or .75 Amperes. The average human body can be sent into cardiac arrest by one THIRD of an amp regardless of voltage; it takes an entire amp to light a 40w lightbulb. So taking .75 amps across the chest while acting as a system ground, yea. You coulda easily been sent to the hospital with your hands smoking and your ankles blown out.
@juror96682 жыл бұрын
Based on my limited chemistry knowledge, I think the reason for running electricity through the pipeline is to ionize it and prevent rust.
@Zach_Hazard2 жыл бұрын
Yeah, that's probably it
@Harbinger4212 жыл бұрын
My goodness this was a good one. I had a good laugh at the German con. Cant wait for many more stories
@sweetsucculentcontentnectar2 жыл бұрын
Love the long storytime, guys! I sure wish I learned those lessons about jobs back in junior high school so that I'd have known better.
@CatBotBlaire2 жыл бұрын
That story of the guy who got 5 gallons of milk as a Christmas bonus. I feel that Where we work, we asked about a Christmas bonus, and we were literally told "you should just be happy your health insurance didn't go up too much." Didn't help that two days later the boss showed up in a brand new Tesla, bragging about it in the kitchen.
@SirBladewind2 жыл бұрын
My current boss has two yachts. But they can't raise the food budget for the medical facility that is hemmoraging utility staff to pay the nutritionists and kitchen workers worth a damn. I see where the priorities lie.
@BayouBoy24436 ай бұрын
That’s how it is. Owner steals the workers money and uses it for themselves. Human greed at its finest
@logangagnepain71542 жыл бұрын
Honestly, this whole story screams to me "we need to unionize" All of the problems they mentioned from training, lack of good employees, bad treatment, bad pay... it all would be helped if they unionized. The employee is nothing more than a tool by the employer, and they will treat you like one instead of a human
@theenderdestruction2362 Жыл бұрын
But remember if the tool knows how to talk and breath they can break and when they do *you might be the one who they break :)*
@kevinwillems8720 Жыл бұрын
FYI more than unionize individual workplaces, join the one big union.
@BayouBoy24436 ай бұрын
Unions can be just as bad so be careful with that
@logangagnepain71546 ай бұрын
@@BayouBoy2443 At least with a Union, you can fight for better pay, argue for better treatment, ensure better accountability with your employer, and have more say in how the company is run. Unions can still be corrupt and problematic. There was recently a massive scandal with the Teamsters Union about sexual misconduct and racist hiring practices, but lets not pretend that corporations dont have the same issue, and at least theres more democracy in a Union compared to working to the equivalent of a feudal lord in a non-union workplace.
@edg4rallanbro7533 ай бұрын
@@BayouBoy2443 There was that story where the milk delivery guy stopped and didn't do any work until he got paid more. Now imagine if everyone did that. That's a strike.
@chief699112 жыл бұрын
I'm currently working in a similar business surveying anc checking light poles. I feel ya Zach, only difference is that there are no guns here and we can't randomly stumbly onto somebody's private property. Besides that, the points of what are you doing and hey are you going to fix X problem soon. We are a surveying team, not the repairmen. nor from the government for that matter.
@WolfHreda2 жыл бұрын
Man, the difference in pay between being in the military and becoming a civilian contractor for the military is bonkers. I went from basically making minimum wage to $28.60 an hour. And then budget cuts rolled around and I got laid off shortly after Christmas.
@ShinobuSakurazaka2 жыл бұрын
"...so I rented a U-Haul truck and then just lived in the back of that" 'MERICA! ladies and gentlemen...did this to a fucking army veteran!
@BayouBoy24436 ай бұрын
I can understand why so many people want revolution now
@captinfox12972 жыл бұрын
THANKS ZACK FOR MENTIONING BRAIN PILLS I ALMOST FORGOT TO GET A REFILL TODAY THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR INDIRECTLY REMINDING ME TO NOT FORGET MY MEDS THAT ALLOW ME TO FUNCTION THANK YOU THANK YOU
@Zach_Hazard2 жыл бұрын
You're welcome.
@treyjetson5320 Жыл бұрын
By that you just mean adderall?
@dez20022 жыл бұрын
Within 22 seconds I see pipeline and I finally can learn the full story.
@dez200211 ай бұрын
Hey I know that guy!
@IamHat2 жыл бұрын
I didn't know it Zach went to college 2009-2013. I remember when they made those GI bill cuts and friends of mine were literally screwed over in the middle of our final year at a school that already lied to us about financial aid.
@bige82932 жыл бұрын
7:40 as someone who’s ridden an MT100, I can assure you those things are not designed to go underwater. And they are a PAIN to work on.
@ollanius_papyrus802 жыл бұрын
“My dream job was to get a job teaching or writing about small arms repair” He got pretty close.
@BayouBoy24436 ай бұрын
And then it was taken away by everyone’s favorite villain: the us government
@The1stPistolSniper2 жыл бұрын
These campfire stories are EXACTLY what a podcast is meant to be. I love throwing these on and letting it go, its one of the times I turn autoplay on.
@MegaBloodeye2 жыл бұрын
Ugh... yeah man I feel everything about this conversation. I went to college to be a graphic designer, graduated in 2009, and just could not get a job. Doesn't help that I probably have undiagnosed autism and trying to apply for jobs or going to interviews is a challenge for me. Tried to freelance to get more experience, but never got any clients because no one wanted to pay for design work and thought I should work pro bono. Ended up moving back in with my parents and working at a McDonalds. Then I worked at a chocolate shop (best job, but hardly any pay). Then a courthouse as a "second deputy prothonotary". Worst damn job ever. Now, I'm working at a warehouse that ships towels and other textiles. Still living at home. And people have the freakin' nerve to tell us that millenials don't know how to work.
@Gurmudgin2 жыл бұрын
"Survey stopped due to bullets" Well whoever got to read that writeup must have had some very very interesting questions.
@alanko2082 жыл бұрын
Those probationary periods are absolutely ridiculous. I once worked for a place that required me to walk a lot, about 10-15 miles a day and they had a miss 4 days for any reason your fired policy,.. well i ended up breaking a toe on one foot and a week later developed an infection in my other foot. For reference on the severity, the doctor stated i was about a day away from possible amputation. well i informed my work i couldn't make it to work, they told me to come in as soon as i was able and they would find a temp position while i was recovering. I worked part time thur-sat at the time so i ended up missing 3 days. I show up the next week able to limp my way in, and HR pulls me to their office and informs me to turn in my stuff and that my check will be in the mail. Then had the audacity to tell me "We're sorry to see you go, we know your supervisors really liked you, so we hope you reapply as soon as you are eligible to come back."
@dinodude69922 жыл бұрын
One could only imagine where Zach and Mike would be if the war on terror never happened.... would they still become youtubers? Would they have still been apart of the military? If so, then Zach wouldn't have been shipped to Iraq, and he'd be (maybe) stuck at fort Polk. But, sacrifices have been made, and without them we probably wouldn't have been here.... But thanks to stupid politicians, we wasted our time in the middle east, only to leave it for the middle east to return to the way it was before 9/11... Nice video btw, these camp fire stories teach me valuable lessons... the u.s army is incompetent most of the time, and companies are ran incompetent people, and watch out for carbon monoxide.... oh and Zach's time at fort Polk told me to avoid fort Polk, even if I am a civilian
@uria36792 жыл бұрын
And people say that there is no reason for people to riot, or call out how the corrupt the government is, or how stupid the National Debt is
@arx35162 жыл бұрын
In the war on terror they didn't waste time nor money, weapon manufacturers got richer, mission accomplished!
@arturmical2 жыл бұрын
Tbh the Middle East was much more tidy before US intervention and War on Terror. It was shit, but not as shit as now.
@K-116092 жыл бұрын
I’m glad you said the politicians and not the “right” or “left” cause it’s a shitshow on both sides. Also you know someone’s going to complain that I said right before left so let’s just see how that plays out XD
@TalkingVidya2 жыл бұрын
@@K-11609 well, when you consider that the US dosen't really have a left wing... Republicans being more to the right than Democrats dosen't make them left wing
@weekendwarrior31742 жыл бұрын
I work in a paper recycling warehouse. Pay is decent, weekends off. Good job all in all. We had a new hire come in, worked his first week then went out and got wasted and smoked weed that weekend. That Monday we had a building-wide drug test. He Saw the van in the parking lot, went home and then called in to say he quit rather than get fired on a drug violation. Gotta love Blue collar work, always attracts the best characters.
@kekula692 жыл бұрын
at least it's not like restaurant work where everyone is addicted to drugs and no one wants to actually work
@Able5422 жыл бұрын
@@kekula69 I've worked construction for a few years now, and I'm privileged enough to afford to pay my bills. Nothing in construction is harder than restaurant work, because in a restaurant you get 0 break time. You don't get a lunch. You never sit down. If you sit down, the manager screams in your face after work. And this wasn't McDonald's, this was a nice, family-owned Italian restaurant. If you show initiative like I did, and learn how to do other shifts so you can take on more responsibility, you have to do those other shifts without any increase in pay. You have to do more jobs for the same pay, because they will pay you the minimum they think they can get away with. They will pay you nothing and when you quit, they will say "nobody wants to work". I've had the owner text me multiple times asking me to fill shifts for him, because I didn't have the heart to flip off management and make life harder for the workers next to me. So yeah, when I have to deal with the guy in charge of my paychecks screaming in my face all day, and deal with customers bitching about me not being able to make a fucking vegan chicken pizza, and having the wait staff get pissed off at me not being able to fill 5 pizzas in 5 minutes, I'm tempted to want to get some fuckin' release. When I get told that not only is my job 'non-skilled' and that I shouldn't dare expect a living wage, I don't want to work there. I hated that fuckin' job, and I've had to clean out toilets in abandoned houses with no water used by homeless guys. I've had to deal with people screaming in my fuckin' face that they would shoot me if I dared to stand on the sidewalk the banks told us to replace. I've had to work with no benefits 60 hours a week breaking concrete and forming while my back is so fucked that I cannot stand straight and I can't file shit because there was no union. I'd still rather take that than working for dirt wages in a business that thought I was worth less than $15 because they could replace me in a week with a fresh hire no matter how much responsibility I took on, because they would just shift it to the other employees. So yeah, not a big fuckin' shocker nobody wants to work in restaurants.
@Feasco2 жыл бұрын
@@kekula69 with all the inconsiderate pricks who go to restaurants, who would want to a) work there b) do it sober
@NerdyGardevoir2 жыл бұрын
I love the fact that Zach is wearing the construction worker hat given that he’s talking about his past in construction. “Construction worker Zach does not know about the economy!”
@jamesvspr2 жыл бұрын
This is eye opening for me, I'm currently in living in the city and doing a 1 year course of website design, and I have never been more afraid than I am now. Your stories are told wonderfully and I must say you guys are super tough to have gotten to this point. Thank you for all that you are doing, Mike and Zach. You guys are awesome.
@fangorn232 жыл бұрын
"they liked me so much they promoted me! Then they fired me over a minor mistake" because you got promoted. half of promotions these days are just them moving you up into the category of "work them to death and get rid of them immediately" because then IF you come back they dont have to pay you as much as before. you're back at the bottom of the totem pole.
@Nomed382 жыл бұрын
As absolutely shitty the local natural gas company can be they did replace the old pipelines about 10 years ago. Just looking around at bridges, overpasses, tunnels, & other critical things it's painfully obvious that most are in desperate need of repair and replacing.
@nickelakon53692 жыл бұрын
You just reminded me, when I was a kid s housefire killed my grandparents and some of my aunts. My mom has always insisted it was because the gas company fucked up installing the pipelines (the fire started beneath the house)
@sarkastikartist70442 жыл бұрын
Damn it's weird thinking about how in an alternative universe, its primarily Mike and Kirk with Zach getting guest spots and telling stories about his tugboat work.
@vagabondwastrel23612 жыл бұрын
During the 08 recession I was told by a few employers that I would have been hired if I were an felon or ex military. The government was giving kickbacks to businesses. Also plastic mold injection can be a fun job. Except when the machines break down at long enough variables to let you forget how to identify the problem as a laymen. I once got sprayed with coolant. For a split second I thought I was going to die by being fried with hot oil.
@Ribbons0121R1212 жыл бұрын
Even if there's books already on small arms, your mess of a military career is prime for a mini story novelette compilation
@fragant472 жыл бұрын
One correction about 15:20 ish, the heart is a self-driven organ in a way. At rest the SA node, which is a part of the heart, controls the hearts functions without the brain. This essentially means that for heart palpitations to occur because of electrical shock, you completely fucked the wiring of your heart which allows your ventricles and atria to properly contract. Much worse than a little mixup in your nervous system, because the very way your heart beats was at risk.
@DoubleHelixStrand Жыл бұрын
A company trying to fire you after a workplace injury because they want to save money is exactly the kind of thing that makes unions so important.
@IsaTehGothicMando2 жыл бұрын
Hey Zach if you have the records of that overtime, You could go to the Labor Board, they still owe you that money if you worked it. That's the law. So you are definitely still entitled to that money, no matter how much time has passed, please consult a labor attourney they'll often do it on contingent and consulations are free.
@firej772 жыл бұрын
Man, this is gooood speak. I remember the hell dealing with unemployment after covid happened. You had to call, at specific times, and hope the automatic machine allowed you to wait two hours and talk to a real person, and pray they didnt lead you to a dead line. This went on, for 10 months, after i had to move back in with my mother and reapply to walmart because no one was hiring. It was extremely demeaning, especially with people sayin i was all lazy getting unemployment. I didnt want to use unemployment. I wanted to feel i was earning my check. And even now im going application to application, hoping to god something a step up from retail, just like, a boring office job would work, so i can actually build a resume, and earn a decent enough check to have some savings. Its a fucked up job society these days. Everyone sayin theyre hiring, yet wanting multiple years experience, for an entry level job
@beardofknowledge37922 жыл бұрын
It great needing several years experience or a diploma for entry level work at basically anything these days. I've been running the newpapers every single day for over a year now in the mornings, while also working afternoons as a health care worker for the old and infirm- both jobs I only got because they were desperate for workers. But yeah, like you said, it's damn near impossible to find good work to start your life out with. Need experience to work but need work to get experience. Or they just have unrealistic goals for their jobs. I applied at my local mayor's office to basically just file paperwork, and they wanted an English degree, four years or better. For filing *paperwork*.
@astrodreamer9462 жыл бұрын
@PheenX: I'm right there with you in the application void, mate. Everything I've sent out has either been ignored or the interviews were never fruitful. So many "we'll-call-you's" that never yielded results. I got laid off of a good job right before COVID hit and I haven't been able to rebound since. Had a few short term gigs, but otherwise... nothing worthwhile. I'm hoping things will get better for the world soon. Though frankly, I don't count on it. Good to be hopeful, but things are looking grimmer everyday.
@smarks67792 жыл бұрын
That little bobcat skidsteer would be called a "ditch witch" or a "dingo" at least down south. They are fun but controls like an arcade machine.
@egg15102 жыл бұрын
Is that a controls like a dream or controls like a baked potato
@smarks67792 жыл бұрын
@@egg1510 depends all on if it's wet and the attachment...or if it has a kabota motor
@smarks67792 жыл бұрын
@Warlok it can be both and called both...it's a not all squares are rectangles kinda thing. A dingo can have a trencher attachment. so it can be used as a ditch witch or as skid steer aka dingo... We have one at work that's for sure skidsteer like but has factory stickers that say ditch witch
@Zach_Hazard2 жыл бұрын
Yeah, a really fun arcade machine that is great at crushing stuff for funsies. I MEAN I WOULD NEVER DO THAT, OSHA.
@smarks67792 жыл бұрын
@@Zach_Hazard they are definitely faster funner and heavier than when I first expected and who cares what OSHA thinks anyway as long as you're wearing your proper PPE
@psycosanches5892 жыл бұрын
"Retired people have nothing to do so their bored so they just try to come out and waste your time." This statement literally gave me fucking PTSD to when I worked landscaping last year (2020) cause my company did ALOT of retirement communities....oh my god...you don't know anger until you deal with fucking HOA people and retired old people.
@tadferd43402 жыл бұрын
If I work a job in the future where I deal with angry retired people, I will probably just tell them to either get out of my way, or call the police and then get out of my way.
@mschrage6182 жыл бұрын
I can relate to the property owner story , I used to work for a natural gas provider and we would regularly have to go inside fences, under houses etc and people would call the police on us. Thankfully the law here states we had to have 24/7 access to the infrastructure and can force entry onto a property if we need to, so they would just check our credentials, explain it to the reporting party, and we’d go on our way
@nickster52072 жыл бұрын
They named the thing with tank treads Sheila. Someone has watched Red Vs Blue.
@pretendthisnameisfunny21972 жыл бұрын
Can they pick up chicks in it?
@agentwashington99112 жыл бұрын
@@pretendthisnameisfunny2197 You can pick up chicks in a tank!
@Zach_Hazard2 жыл бұрын
Shelia was the lady in the tank.
@JDTN19852 жыл бұрын
That part about trying to get a job during the recession hit me right in the soul. I remember seeing an ad for a dishwasher job and when I went to interview for it there was at least 25 other people in line for it as well. I swear I spent more time in my early 20s looking for a job then I did actually working.
@Become-Eggplant2 жыл бұрын
Seeing companies handle their employees like you 2 makes me realize, Those people who shoot up places, yeah, its probably not their fault they went crazy, because their bosses, and the people they worked for fucked them over so bad, going postal is the only thing that comes to mind. Not saying I support that kind of action, its just that i'm starting to see things in a different light. Had a job that treated me like shit, i always ask, look we need more people, We can't handle this with only 5 people! We fucking NEED HELP HERE! they haven't hired anyone till I left, and whats funny is, The new hire they hired? Quit, and my co-worker also quit, now they're running on 3 people. The 3 that are left are good people, its just that the company and our higher ups are fucking assholes.
@Spider-ew2gc2 жыл бұрын
Nah it’s their fault
@Majima_Nowhere2 жыл бұрын
As a fiber installer working directly for the ISP, I feel this. We'll get 4 installs a day, all of which will take 3-4 hours for one person to do by themselves. We work 10 hour days yet we're supposed to do 12 hours of work in that time, plus the mandated hour for lunch, plus the 30 minute average drive time between jobs. After months of screaming at leadership that we either need less jobs per person or an extra set of hands with every installer, we got... one less install a day. Usually. If someone calls out we're all still fucked. All while the people running this shit show get to work from home and clock out on time, while making twice my wage. And they wonder why the turnover rate is so bad.
@jamesoprey63302 жыл бұрын
That's why you need communism. Death to borgers, glory to workers.
@jamstheshapeshifter2 жыл бұрын
@@jamesoprey6330 That is unless they disagree, then it's mass shooting to workers
@uria36792 жыл бұрын
@@jamesoprey6330 so you want to be treated like a Activision employee?😒 (I’m being serious)
@Condorito3802 жыл бұрын
Real talk kids, there are more homeless people than you realize. I work for a company that literally all of you know, and for a little while in college I was homeless. Shame is a giant part of why people keep silent. Ask your friends how they are doing. More people than you realise are just having a hard time getting enough food and shelter. The only way we are going to get through this is making the connections from the bottom up. Love one another out here.
@AtheistIII2 жыл бұрын
I do sewer inspections here in germany. I feel you on the bored retirees. PS: Also on the antiquated plans. "Here are the plans someone made 40 years ago, we just found out that this pipe here does not exist, could you please find it for us? Also, as you can see here your access point should be right there, but that seems a bit unlikely considering that is under the lake over there, but I'm sure you'll figure it out."
@bplup64192 жыл бұрын
"Did a college give you your money back?" AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA *WHEEZES IN* *AHHHHHHHHHHHAHAHAHA*
@tarnvedra99522 жыл бұрын
"Once you have their money, you never give it back." Ferengi Rule of Acquisition no. 1
@Malenrick2 жыл бұрын
Hearing horror stories like this makes me appreciate even more the fact that I actually found a good place to work where the management actually do care and are human beings that are willing to work with you to make your work environment a good, healthy and productive one. Jobs like that seem hard to find, but if you do get one, cherish it. And since I've been working l there, I've been actively trying my best to be as productive and useful as I can be because I don't want to be fired. I'm working there and trying to be productive so that I can keep working there, and not because I'm trying to keep a paycheck. Companies need to realise that human beings usually enjoy being productive as long as they're not being shit on the entire time.
@yoboikamil5252 жыл бұрын
"Zach Hazard" sounds like a show I'd watch as a kid, some teenager just getting into all kindsa sheninginas with a banger intro song.
@Polonsky972 жыл бұрын
Oh man, on the topic of avulsions, my mom suffered one last year. Lost the first phalanx on a finger and all flesh was ripped from the second one. Got her finger SURGICALLY INSERTED into her stomach so some tissue could grow back, but since it was an avuilsion, the first one is gone. Kinda weird to see the finger shorter and with no nail
@Keegan19112 жыл бұрын
i lost my middle finger tip to a tablesaw cus i wasnt looking at what i was doing, lucky it only hit the tip of my middle finger and just scraped my ring finger tip, i had no bone left on the middle finger tip so they just amputated the what was left of the skin/nail. That sounds bad but my sister is a nurse and talked about how people could get a bunch of them cut off fully and reattaching is probably a lot longer and harder thing then just losing the tip, so i know that feeling. Its funny tho when i flip people off now tho xP
@mathiasaspen67502 жыл бұрын
I once worked for a store that broke multiple work laws, had the foodregulators breathing down their necks because of some prior violation, made us work extra hours without pay, the boss was PROUD that she had the most people quit in the city, i got constantly berated for small errors (got shouted at by my boss for forgetting to change the radio channel after closing up) it was hell.
@scarletrain2818 Жыл бұрын
Speaking of not knowing the whereabouts of pipelines, the town that I live in just found a pipeline in our neighborhood that hadn't been surveyed since the early 20th century. They had no idea it even existed until someone doing a construction project in their back yard dug up a section of it.
@Rabascan2 жыл бұрын
That reminds me when I was 18 years old and the unemployment agency lied to me for a year straight and threatened to kick my parent, sibling and me out of our home if I don't follow certain guidelines one specific case worker just made up. Oh boy was that fun :) Also, Wrench is a bro.
@mairaineplayzgames22052 жыл бұрын
5:38 you would be a tugboat captain, or sliced in half from the line snapping...its a dangerous job my dude! 42:57 when those guys showed up i would have said: "fuck no! i dont mind giving you all a ride, but not by using this fucking trick, go take a walk!"
@Ladle662 жыл бұрын
Mike thinking you can ask your money back from college made ma laugh like Jay Jonah Jameson meme.
@SmilingJester22 жыл бұрын
Some places, you have a month grace period. I went to community though, so I don't know if Zach was at a university or something and how those work. But there is a grace period, at least in Maryland communities, to try the classes to see if they fit and duck out before things get too involved
@Squashylemon2 жыл бұрын
How is it that there are still extremely interesting stories from these two that we haven't heard yet? I could listen to them all day.
@purgeutopia86962 жыл бұрын
Loved the stories about bad jobs. I used to work at Walmart...I think that's all I need to say.
@jacksonthompson70992 жыл бұрын
Been there, i work as a unitizer operator at a box plant. Aside from the machine being a pain in the ass sometimes cause its a prototype and the program is still beta stage, not super terrible after they got most of the bugs in the program worked out. Still tho have my shit days.....
@bently132 жыл бұрын
Your pipeline job makes me think of when I first moved to Oregon, and worked at a call center. Not just any call center, but a mortgage call center, ON CONTRACT, so we were paid less then a normal support agent. We still got equally cursed out and called names. The best part was that the trainer originally had us watch The Big Short to explain why we're so heavy on rules, only to be told to stop doing that after our class, and then was fired. My last straw was when our lease was up and one of the floor leads had me be a guinea pig for a loophole that someone was trying to do. Needless to say, fuck call centers, and fuck the mortgage industry.
@zeratul____12282 жыл бұрын
Damn this whole episode is like an advertisement for the r/Antiwork subreddit.
@dubspool2 жыл бұрын
Yeah or a argument for unionizing everything.
@void86172 жыл бұрын
God that subreddit is unironically a tragedy
@zeratul____12282 жыл бұрын
@@void8617 in what way?
@toxicKorgi2 жыл бұрын
@@zeratul____1228 It was full of people legitimately pushing for better work conditions and treatment and essentially was fucked over by a pathetic reddit moderator going behind their backs to be their "representative"
@zeratul____12282 жыл бұрын
@@toxicKorgi How though?
@norakraft66562 жыл бұрын
As a Minnesota I can confidently say that people here never mind their own business and don't end conversations. I feel zach's pain
@rolo66762 жыл бұрын
Also pro tip: if your job pays less than $15 per hour, working overtime is an absolute scam. In the US it's taxed as if you are getting paid the time and a half normally so you end up getting paid like $7 total per hour.
@pcdeltalink0362 жыл бұрын
Even at my job which is higher pay than that I’ve sat down and done the math. If you do more than 8 hours overtime per pay period (2 weeks at my job) you lose anything past those initial 8 overtime hours to taxes.
@Brent-jj6qi2 жыл бұрын
Man, if only they stopped stealing all our money
@rockboy39702 жыл бұрын
...Thats not how taxes work at all. Maybe whatever weird state your in has taxes for overtime but the fed sure as hell doesnt
@mastemathedank40432 жыл бұрын
@@rockboy3970 can comfirm, I live in GA and whenever I got overtime it was the same tax rate as if I didn't work overtime, so I still ended up with a net positive
@rolo66762 жыл бұрын
@@mastemathedank4043 a positive that can be less than what you usually take home per hour.
@cowboycave50712 жыл бұрын
I'm actually excited to finally hear all about this job that you've mentioned so often!!
@RedTalonTaskForce2 жыл бұрын
Sheila is also the name of the training program in a tank in the show: red vs blue. It’s introduced in around ep3 s1.
@SSgtJ0hns0n2 жыл бұрын
But why does she have six pedals if there's only four directions?
@ptrd41112 жыл бұрын
37:20 relate to this story a lot. About 4 yrs ago now, ripped a huge chunk of flesh out of my elbow when I tripped into a pile of metal left on the floor; blood everywhere. Nearly blacked out from blood loss because management was too busy trying to figure out what hospital to go to and if they should call an ambulance; co-worker, thank god, pulled me into his car. After that, HR tried to pin the whole thing on me and tried to get me fired. They also refused to clean up the scrap metal on the floor because it would mean that I was in the right. My co-workers had to clean up the metal on their own time. Luckily my floor manager was a good guy and he backed me up.
@darbodrake892 жыл бұрын
I feel the pain in looking for jobs, I graduated with an engineering degree right into covid. 6 months on unemployment, no one was hiring, finally got a job doing vaguely related work to my field only to be broken down as a person by management until I couldn't send an email. Trust your gut, if things are looking like a raw deal then scoot before they get worse.
@novideostopost12682 жыл бұрын
Watching this makes me super glad that the channel is taking off on y’all. I’m kinda going through the 14 hour shift phase right now trying to decide if what I’m doing is worth it lmao.
@jacksonthompson70992 жыл бұрын
Just got done ish with working 60-70 hour weeks for 4 months straight. Man literally lived to work.
@novideostopost12682 жыл бұрын
@@jacksonthompson7099 damn bro I think I’d honestly just blank out.
@jacksonthompson70992 жыл бұрын
@@novideostopost1268 that's how my days felt, was nice tho to have a consistent schedule for awhile (new plant being built, new machines etc) 5-5 or 5-3, 5 or 6 days a week. Around 2-3 weeks ago we went back to the schedule of 2 weeks day/2 weeks of nights. Our regular shifts are 5-3, nights tho can be extended to 12's because "it's gotta go".
@Bakedbeard08202 жыл бұрын
I just watched the episode of fallout where mike asks why your friends cause you have nothing in common. But mikes concern over Zach being homeless and all the rough times you guys survived together show why your friends. I love it here lol
@komrade2232 жыл бұрын
Found out you can "grind" a mini skid today. Was running one that you have a platform to stand on. Slid sideways on an exposed tree root when the machine was balanced. Also picked up and bent an 8 inch nail into a U, with the track.
@nukalegend2 жыл бұрын
I feel Zach on being unemployed part, I only held a temp job when I was 23 (25 now, 26 in May), it was for the 2020 U.S census. Outside of personal home problems from 18-22, it was the only job I could get. Since the U.S census ended, it was a nightmare trying for unemployment (never got it) and looking for work. No one was hiring because of covid and having lacked any experience outside of HS, I had nothing going for me. Depressed and fully demoralized just sending out application where was hiring. I finally nailed a job at a Car insurance firm and given a chance to work, as of next Monday I finally start. I really excited to start.
@fabriziocossio33362 жыл бұрын
If you ask someone above you for something, and their respond is "we will figure it out", 95% it's just a way to say "I'm not gonna do shit for you" If they say they will figure it out keep pressing so they they figure it out now, even if it sounds annoying Cause it very easy to get fucked over by that
@17nero442 жыл бұрын
The lives of these men would make a great story that Zach needs to write and Mike needs to mod. You guys are great and obviously survived a good amount, true inspirations.
@statelyelms2 жыл бұрын
Campfire Stories are hands down me and my friend's favourite part of your channel. We make a habit of sending each other the new Campfire Story video when we see it, and the other'll get hyped up for it. It's been one of the little highlights of my year, so thank you Zach and Mike, and here's to many more! And hi Tag. Hope you see this
@BLOODANGELS5792 жыл бұрын
I love when they do campfire stories because I learned a valuable lesson’s life lessons and what to do when not to do