The CEO story is even crazier when you find out she cut ALL employee bonuses but took a $6.4 million bonus herself.

very bold for a ceo to yell at employees depending on a bonus, not to focus on the bonus, from her cushy office/house

it annoys me to no end when the older generations complain that "customer service isn't what it used to be" yeah people have stopped busting their gut for a business that treats them terribly,

Dude, if you're nervous about being a good boss, you're a good boss. Bad bosses always think they're the best at what they do.

Farmworkers are underrated, the way they get treated by bosses is nuts, some people also mock them for working at a farm that takes lots of time & effort

imagine if we all stopped watching till he wore a clown outfit

I donno if he’s explained that but hearing Ludwig casually drop being sexually harassed gave me whiplash. If he’s able to joke about it I assume he’s fine but that’s fucked up man

The thing that irritates me the most about the CEO you spoke about specifically, is that you can tell they intended for that to be motivational. It was just so disheartening to see that -that- is supposed to be motivational, but instead is just cruel and mocking.

this feels like a subtle way to hint at slime to stop calling him pussy boy

A couple jobs ago, I had a boss (and multiple managers) that would openly harass and belittle employees in front of customers. They also illegally paid employees below the minimum wage. Long story short, a few employees, myself included, grouped together and sued the store management for disorderly conduct and hate speech. Almost all of the management was either fired or transferred, and we won the court case. I got back all of the money that they were supposed to pay me, and I quit immediately after. Moral of the story, I learned a good lesson then and there. I’m much more careful nowadays with where I work and who I have as management

That "lead the company" corrected by Ludwig to "bleed for the company" is 100% accurate. If you don't get your bonuses you are not getting a lot of money in which a lot of peoples lives depends in lower half wager jobs.

"cus he sexually harassed me" my jaw dropped. i am so sorry you had to experience that

Happens a lot at minimum wage jobs. They know you don't have the money to fight them in court. Lots of horror stories down at this level :/

We should collectively band against ludwig and make him re-bleach his hair.

She went from CEO to Pastor real quick 😂

My old boss had a serious issue. She hated all male employees and then she focused in on me cause I refused to work Sundays due to religious differences. She talked to you like you were a child, openly talked about raising the prices of an industry that already overinflates prices and then started to shout at me when I said she hadn’t paid me properly for 2 months (thankfully I still lived at home at the time) and therefore I wasn’t a productive member of the team. I then quit so she tried to delete my records (which are classed as medical)

The amount of money she makes, the smart play would be to cut her own bonus/salary and split that money up between the employees. I doubt she'd miss it that much

Just how nonchalantly the father said it, you know how that household was coming up. Wow

I've had a few nightmare bosses before. Nothing kills work ethic and motivation faster than a manager who constantly degrades and neglects their employees.

0:32 WAIT WHAAAAT

Wow lol she went from talking about being kind to ripping their throats out 😂 What a POS boss

Petition to make Ludwig wear the clown costume

Petition for him to start saying "Have a great day, thanks for watching the mogul way" in the outro?

I have worked in some terrible environments with bosses that expected someone who was 8 months pregnant to not only work up until they had the baby but wouldn’t let them sit down

One of the best bosses has got to be a previous president of Nintendo, Satoru Iwata, who apparently cut his own pay when the Wii U failed so no one had to get fired

I had a boss talk behind my back to other employees saying “she didn’t have covid she’s just lazy and wanted 2 weeks off”. For the record I was part time and could take 2 weeks off whenever I wanted. She also said all this to my coworkers whom were about 16 and she was about 57. Oh and also I did have covid, and after I quit that job she had to hire 3 more girls to take over my responsibilities.

My boss got me a birthday gift and gave me a raise without me asking. W boss

That second guy just let it rip casually that’s wild

CEOs should be able to be voted off at any time by their lowest paid employees like a game show

As a person living in a midwestern farm town, that guy is one of many. I don’t know how many times I’ve sat and had to literally argue with older people who I worked for, asking them to stop making racial slurs

I worked as a Manager at a H&R Block recently and they also have incredibly strict, unrealistic expectations. Even when they don't hire enough people. They scheduled meetings with me and told me I needed to hit these figures. I eventually brought out a notepad and did the math to explain to them how it was literally impossible to hit that number in the amount of time, and she still insisted if I work harder that I could do it. Absolute delusion.

Last year I got let go from a job cuz I was trained in 3 different departments even though employees are typically only supposed to work in one. Sometimes I was the ONLY one in two of those departments. I asked to either get paid more or only work in the department I was hired for because I was doing the job of 3 people and my boss was just like "Well actually it might be better if we just cut ties here since it's clearly not working out🤷" it's actually bullshit how much companies can get away with fucking you over

God she is such an awful person. Recently had a similar all hands call and starting to think all ceos are just sociopaths.

There's something about her that gives That Vegan Teacher vibes

Glad u covered this I was scared it would go unnoticed but man does this help the coverage a lot

Holyyy. I was like okay she's being cringe but she's being professional and then it took a goddamn turn alright

I had a manager tell me to "Get over it." When referring to my dying mother so I could work.

i usually hate shoutouts to things but ludwigs transitions are so clean i cant even be mad

I really wish someone in that meeting had brought up her bonus.I would love to see her reaction on that...

That’s actually insane that a boss is telling you to care more about the companies profit over your own income. My dad worked for a guy for like 4 years and was the reason they stayed open in Covid, and when everyone got sick he worked the entire week by himself along with me(as a cashier) and never got paid anything extra just a “thank you” and “I can never repay you this” by the boss. I eventually left by my own will because I didn’t really like the working conditions but then he got fired just like that. Never work yourself to death for someone who won’t appreciate you’re work and can fire you whenever they want to.

At the end of last year, I got told that I was up for a salary raise contingent on cutting my hair to look more "professional" (FYI my hair was shorter than Ludwigs hair now). I ended up getting the haircut, and a week later I was fired because I told my boss that I did not appreciate that my pay was contingent on simply hair and not my ability as a worker. I was with the company for 8 years and the only person above me was him, the owner. This conversation had no raised voices, no backhanded remarks, and if I remember correctly all I said was "it wasn't really a choice but if you would like to get into it we can sir" after he had said I had a choice to not cut my hair. But he informed me we would talk about it later, this conversation happened 2 days before I was fired, and the only reason it took 2 days was because it was the weekend.

Imagine you go to the fact sheet and its says "Ludwig says he's a good boss"

I worked at Herman Miller as a Manufacturing Engineer for a couple years while the CEO was Walker. I feel like the culture while I was there was relatively positive and factory workers were relatively happy with compensation and such. From what I have heard about Owen it sounds like it's been a downhill slide since her arrival. But also furniture didn't do too well with the pandemic and both they and Steelcase suffered.

I will never fire you Mr.Mail

I started working for a new company. I trained in 1 building and loved it there. After a few months I had to switch to a new building for my permanent position (which was the same job as I was doing in the other building) and one of the managers there was an absolute shit human being. I hated it so much and wanted nothing more than to leave but I was contracted for a year. So I stayed in the position for 8 more months dealing with this assholes abuse. Eventually when my contract was close to done I started applying for other interior positions. Got an interview with my now current boss and he's amazing. Always positive, nice words, complimentary, team player, wants to connect with his associates, and he doesn't micro-manage. Having a good boss can quite literally make or break a career entirely.

Sorry to hear about your experience at best buy that sounds horrible, happened to me at one of my first jobs. Absolutely ridiculous how we don't have more protections for working people

At my current job we had a meeting where they told us that we needed to boost our productivity by 5 to 10x and after an employee asked if we would get a raise for being asked more. The answer was if you're not happy you can leave and we will find someone that will do it. They rather have new employees every few months then pay fairly

DUDE YES!!! im so happy someone big i follow is bringing up the millerknoll story. my wife worked for herman miller for 3-4 years and started there a little less then a year before covid hit , when covid hit they laid off a ton of full time employees and dropped all temps at the time, they dropped the cafeteria workers/vendors and then offered voluntary temporary layoffs to the remaining employees who could then come back to work some months later when things cooled down during the pandemic , this happened in waves thru out the pandemic when the company felt like it had to many employees on payroll at specific times during the year. what herman miller did next with the freed up funds plus the government funds that companies could ask for during covid was purchase the knoll company. when employees started to come back from their temp layoffs they were forced into either taking a permanent layoff with a small severance package depending on what your position was or come back to work and work 6 days a week 10 hour shifts for over the following next couple years almost nonstop (i think my wife had maybe 2 full weekends off out of an entire year), this was mostly being done in high temperatures thru out the year as the zeeland michigan mainsite plant runs without AC on the factory floor and machines are always running extremely hot, there was employees that passed out from the heat and had to be taken for medical attention, while this was happening new management was slashing benefits/pto/holiday time off from employees and delayed that years (2021) bonus check to the following year (july 2022) and when employees asked why its being delayed they were told it was because the company was in a tough financial situation even tho the company at the time had just recently purchased an entire other company (knoll), so of course ceo makes a big dumb decision and the employees have to pay for it. there was rumors that the bonus checks were delayed as a way to get employees to stay longer since a large amount of workers were talking amongst themselves about leaving the company once they got their bonus (before they announced the checks being delayed) because new management was just ruining the company and general employee welfare was horrendous and back breaking but we'll never know for sure. every week employees attempted get a word in with upper management like team leaders trying to set up a meeting with the higher ups because they heard and felt the cries of their teams for so long only to either get some copy paste emotionless response in an email or nothing at all, finally one week after months of trying they managed to get a big group meeting scheduled with (i believe) the plant manager so the employees could voice their concerns and try to bridge the gap. the big meeting day came and everyone set up in a big room to collect their thoughts for this meeting that was about to start, low and behold the higher up did not show up because he called off the day of and sent in some new guy to take his spot for the meeting who had no clue what employees were talking about / much less even fully understood his own job at the time yet to soak up the complaints and give the higher up a quick summary of what was said the following day, nothing was changed and no voices were actually heard. more months go by and employees started dropping from the company like flies instead of waiting for their bonus that was delayed so herman miller didnt have to pay those that left the bonus that they had earned the year prior, staffing issues started to really ramp up at this point in the final stretch of the months remaining till bonus time and the company started shutting down lines / departments and outsourcing them to canada which then caused an influx of employees that suddenly had to figure out if they were getting a new position or just flat out being let go because upper management was just not communicating with the factory floor workers on what the big plan going forward was. It was a giant mess because the closer it got to the predetermined time frame of these lines/departments being shutdown any remaining workers in those areas had to scramble and look for other positions to secure their livelihood or risk being laid off which resulted in bad mannered / aggressive / sneaky tactics employees were pulling on each other like hiding information from each other on what positions/areas had spots available to try and more secure themselves in that slot over someone else which promoted more toxicity and bridge burning. after awhile of this going on that same higher up that skipped the big meeting I mentioned before came down and finally talked with the floor workers and they thought they'd finally get a word about their concerns in or at the very least get a better understanding of whats going on but instead he came to tell everyone that the amount of orders he was taking for the soon to be shutdown areas was not going to slow down regardless of the fact that they were very short staffed/skeleton crews in those areas at this point since no new hires were placed in them since the announced shutdowns earlier in the year and at one point during this meeting he even said "im not asking you to like me, im just telling you whats going to happen" (higher ups were constantly leaving early and never worked weekends so they always got to see their loved ones but didnt allow the floor workers the same privilege) , my wife told me that when he said that several very old employees that had been there for decades began to break down and cry because they were maybe a year or two away from retirement and at this point had been dealing with the horrible current work conditions for some time now, the amount of orders coming in were insane because millerknoll is an office furniture company and at this point many other companies had employees work from home during the pandemic and started to renovate / remodel their work spaces while the buildings were mostly empty so millerknoll was constantly getting big orders to fill out all the furniture in those buildings and crafting these items took a ton of man power like hundreds of giant slabs of very thick very heavy wood being worked and moved around with all day on a daily basis. some longtime employees had to get surgery on their backs from the years of work , 1 gentleman made it to retirement and died less then a week later to covid because his body was overworked and exhausted, it was just sad. when the delayed bonus checks came in a big exodus of employees including my wife quit and I think it was the best decision for them considering now this current video of the ceo andi being floated around just reassures me nothings changed since. theres a million other details of how horrible of a place its become to work there but i'd be here for hours, so I just wanna say thank you got adding your spot light to this situation and yes the actual real workers are amazing people but the leaders are just complete trash human beings.

This Mogul Mail guy has a lot of potential in story telling, he should start a Twitch Channel that specializes in the Just Chatting Category.

My last company during covid asked everyone for 3 months to take a 10% paycut to avoid redundancies and pad our books to make us look better and get more contracts. After this was in place, they extended the cuts to 1 year and then proceeded to make many redundancies. Best part is in that time, the sales team who were on much higher pay, got 0 contracts. This wasn't a small company either, this is a fortune 500 company and I'm so happy I got out!

One of my past bosses told me "never feel like you owe the company anything, but sometimes you can owe the people something".

I work at an architectural design company and the sheer amount of clients we've had specifically lambast Herman Miller this week and opt for a much more affordable Branch office furnishing set and even its expensive competitors like Haworth and Steelcase (which imo all are 100x better in quality) has been really comical. It's really over for them, oml.

Omg I remember my favorite job I had, they said if we meet our stretch goal, we get a donut party. I just remember feeling insulted. I still did my job to the best of my ability, that’s because it was as a tour guide and I loved the job. But for real, owners of companies need to treat people with respect.

I'd be interested in hearing the story about the Best Buy boss, but am just relieved you don't have to deal with them anymore.

She literally said "stfu and keep making me money🤬😀😀" lmao

The first story should be about the worst parenting in the world.

Bosses need to acknowledge their employees are actual human beings and treat them with more respect

Ayyy late night mogul mails

I work at Walmart and they literally did this exact thing. All bosses kept there bonus’s and regular associates lost there bonus’s

The mistreatment of farmworkers is so sad 😞 and for that lady..she needs a reality check

Why did ludwig just gloss over the best buy boss, huh???

every time ludwig says things he doesnt want us to do he always gets into such detailed specific examples that i cant help but think he's secretly trying to get us to make him do it. so odd.

CEO just issued an apology to the company saying "im sorry you took my motivational speech the wrong way"

my best worst boss story is actually still my current boss. when I started working for him, one of my coworkers burnt a batch of 10 scones, but my boss got so mad that he threw a carton of creamer at my coworker...

"Go fuck yourself, you're at Best Buy!" I will use that if I ever work there.

Lud, you're fired.

CEO says lead, Ludwig starts talking about blood

I went from working to a giant coorporation to a literal moms and pops shop. And the dynamic is so different, it was worth it.

If we take collective action, we need succinct demands; clown outfit, bleached hair, actually deliver on promised streams. Drop your ideas and like your favs. This is how we win Boys!

can't wait for this guy to collab with ludwig

The CEO forgot that the 26 million wasn't going to go directly into the pockets of the employees.

I think it's wild to be asking about bonuses when your company is doing layoffs.

Fun video demonstrating how journalists should deliver

As my friend’s motto in life goes: “people only have as much power as you give them respect”

The worst boss experience was my very recent boss which was at a lego store. He had such a passive aggressive tone yet he talks about inspiring and being the best boss he can be, but he gave off Charles Miner vibes. From the very beginning I could just tell he didn't care about his employees unless they were female or popular with the females. I remember my uninform was a bit messy that day (2 weeks into my job) and he just started to fix it for me which made me really uncomfortable. Another time I was new to the job and someone told me to stand by the door. So I stood there and a few moments later he comes up and tells me I look like I'm gatekeeping and he told me to walk around. A week later someone told me to stand by the door again and guard but I was a bit hesitant so I tried to stand and guard but move around once in a while, and he got mad because I was not guarding the door. Another time my girlfriend and I were having a baby and so I asked for some time off and extra hours, so he granted me a week off and extra hours, but 2 days into my time off he called me in and said I needed to call in if I wasn't gonna come. He also reminded me I asked for extra hours so he made me come into work and leave my girlfriend with our first new born all alone while she was till recovering. I have tons more stories but these were I feel some I remember.

You know, for a company that sells $1k+ chairs, might be nice to give their employees their bonuses 🥴

Finally more Mogul Mail.

I think it's fun when the video turns into a plug for moist moguls. As long as it's short, I think you should keep doing it

I hope I'm a good boss for you, Ludwig. I think you're a very good employee and I'm glad you work for all of us.

this ceo looks like the typical 90's live action actress playing an evil corporation owner starting with this monologue

Mogul "Standing-up-for-the-Proletariat" Mail

This reminds me of when I worked at a food pantry and my boss used to tell us that she’d doesn’t actually have to pay us our paychecks

so nice of mogul mail to shoutout smaller journalists like john oliver.

I love just how bewildered Lud looks throughout the video. Welcome to Rural America where this is more comical than mortifying.

I was fired from best buy for being too nice to the customers

My boss is pretty nice. But I've learned that nobody will tell you when to take vacation. And the only person concerned about the amount of work you can take before stressing out is yourself.

Whole family just doubles down on the hard r lmfao

You heard it first guys, I am the boss of Ludwig!!

Classic case of "rules for thee not for me" from that CEO

I wish you had left in her "boom" gesture... she makes it sound like what she said was groundbreaking knowledge

That Millerknoll CEO gave off such fucking creepy vibes man

I honestly enjoy the moist mogul plugs. Theyre done in a fun not naggy way, so I'll be sad to see them go 😢

This company I was luckily fired from about a month before this happened found out they were paying all of their sales reps about $500 too much per lead. The people they kept were forced to pay back about $10-20k each for the company’s mistake 😢 all docked from their paychecks. Also, they fired me because my sister passed away and I took 2 days off without hitting my quota yet 🤷‍♂️ so glad I was able to unknowingly rob them while I worked there 😂

Those videos were crazy. But it’s crazier that Lud did 100 takes lmao

You should cover the situation at EY. They were going to split the company in two and bailed out, costing the firm over $600 million and now they’re laying off 3,000 employees since they’re at overcapacity. In the meeting they let employees know about the layoffs they confirmed e-mails would be sent out to those being let go in a couple months but they still expect everyone to work as if nothing is wrong.

I love it when a boss lets their employees call them pussyboy

Seeing how Ludwig tends to respect himself I'm worried for his employees if he says he treat them like he treat himself

bruh the MillerKnoll CEO is acting like the kindergarden teacher that thinks shes always right

It's crazy with some company meetings how they'll always say "we're family" and "we're all in this together" 🤮

Damn, for the most time I thought ludwig was talking to me to. They don't lead, but let us bleed. And they cut money at our end, while their salery goes up and up. Still coming to us once in a while and try to motivate us to work harder for one of the leading stock market representives. When covid hit, we worked double and triple, but in case of bonus they halfed ours and gave them a big chunk for working from home. In the mean time, we have to deal with the danger of covid with increased work load. I also complained about one particular person who is verbally abuses us constantly to fill her ego, but it took me 2 years before I got the courage. And it was for the same reason ludwig said, sometimes complaining puts you in a worse spot than before and I rely on the job.