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hey everybody how's it going hope you're
having a lovely day so today we're going
to be going over a post that got linked
a bunch of times in my Matrix chat which
is linked down below and this comes from
the Linus Tech subreddit this was I
almost said Linus Tech tits Linus Tech
tips
say it three times fast without saying
it's very difficult anyway this was on
the front page the other day and I
thought I would go over it because well
I just thought it would be an
interesting topic here so it says
throwaway account going to anonymize and
change relevant details as needed to
avoid doxing remember this tweet the one
where Lana showed off all the Tesla's
employees could afford yeah all three
employees out of around 60 to 70 at the
time two of them are owned by managers
and the others someone who owned it long
before working there what about this Wan
show actual Wan timestamp if they
remember to take down the clip merch
message where Linus is asked about Linus
Media Group staff unionization and says
if Linus Media Group did he and Yvonne
would consider it a personal failure and
calls out Brazen anti-organizing
policies in the states and then says I
don't really feel like employees need
additional protections to be perfectly
honest with you and goes on to talk
about at will employment rules in the
states while falsely stating that Canada
is not at will
these are comparable to Linus's adage do
as I say not as I do which he applies to
what seems to be that every area of his
business he makes a big deal out of
lines Media Group being a great place to
work but he either lacks the necessary
work experience or was out of touch due
to his prior employment history as Linus
Media Group is a poor place to work
another significant factor is expected
workload and pay structure writers are
between 55 and sixty thousand dollars a
year and are instructed to release a
video every week oh no
they have the right build prepare shoot
and get the video to the editors for
review each week with essentially no
backup it appears to be hell there's no
incentive for them to change the sins
and line is his own words we can't not
do what we said seven a week anymore
therefore instead of employing more
writers to pick up the slack and give
them two-week schedule or better they
constantly rush around and leave a huge
mess for Logistics and others to clear
up think of all the new hire names in
the end of the credits videos you've
seen before all for the chance to have
the opportunity to reside in the city
where the annual living salary is 55
000 slightly over the poverty line her
physically exhausting intellectually
taxing job Linus talks about making sure
every employee can buy a house in
Vancouver but that's bullcrap empty
promises nevertheless if you're
fortunate enough to survive your first
year they might raise your pay to
another roughly sixty five thousand
dollars plus a bonus structure which is
fascinating because I've heard it's
actually attacked to sort out those who
don't want to work there and it affects
everyone not just writers pay low to see
who leaves then raise their pay after
determining whether or not they can
handle a demanding workplace
I'm going to save comments until the end
because there's so many things here that
trigger me
also there was a lot of tension because
the necessary effort is never well
supported because the goal is to Simply
release something and sort it out later
rather than to do it effectively which
is why a bunch of the launch videos
lately have errors in them because the
goal is not to be done well it's just to
release something at all and figure it
out later oh and remote work forget it
Linus Media Group hates working from
home and it's because Linus hates
working from home it was initially
introduced for covert but has since been
reduced to a maximum of two days a week
they have repeatedly stated that this is
a hard cap and there are rumors that
they intended to eliminate it entirely
by the end of the year for those who
couldn't work entirely remotely such as
editors buyers designers and
ldtstore.com support employees it makes
no sense however Linus doesn't give a
damn because he hasn't worked a real job
in more than a decade keeping track of
hours is also bad everyone is paid
hourly including those who are
compensated to salary because time
keeping is required even for managers
however there's no clock in clock out
system involved instead you simply enter
your job hours on a Google spreadsheet
due to Management's strong disapproval
of paying overtime if you work an
additional 15 minutes at the end of the
day to complete video or clean up your
workspace it's too bad so sad you won't
get paid for that Linus media groups
gets all signs of free time work without
pay because you aren't putting in the
time you're in and time you're out for
those extra 10 minutes here five there
30 like a normal workplace that's kind
of [ __ ] up but Linus Media Group is a
bad place to work and nothing is being
done to improve it according to what
I've heard they've recently implemented
a retirement program by the way never
trust somebody that includes extra
letters in a word program is spelled
p-r-o-g-r-a-m-p-r-o-g-ram adding an Emmy
to the end of it
that's almost as bad as paying people
with Canadian money instead of dollars
which is great but I'm confident
everyone would prefer it if they would
use that money instead to fix the things
that are broken there was always a lot
of resentment about the way things are
done here and there's always a lot of
whispering behind Management's back
as opposed to the type of job where
people don't say things when the manager
leaves the room but
but speaking up to anyone and management
is heavily frowned upon because the
explicit anti-union an anti-employee
attitude hi Paul people have been
actively disciplined for talking about
wages before this so don't let them
weasel out of this and say it means you
can share other people's wages but
you're fine to talk about your own
because that is false than if others
choose to speak up they can corroborate
I know of at least one person who still
currently works there who's had this
happen to them okay so we're going to go
over this piece
by peace peace by piece okay let's go
over this because some of it some of it
makes it has a point
so the first one remember this tweet
where Elina showed up all the Teslas
that his employees could afford
two of them all by managers and this and
the others someone who owned it before
working there
okay so like he's responding
tongue-in-cheek to people claiming that
he he's a [ __ ] employer
um I I don't really care about this one
to be honest with you because when it
comes to cars I know people that are
worth over a billion dollars that drive
20 year old pieces of [ __ ] and I know
people that have no money whatsoever
that drive cars that cost twenty
thousand dollars more than my own
vehicle I know people that make probably
half what my receptionist makes I drive
cars that cost thirty thousand more than
my own vehicle uh people when it comes
to cars it's just
okay I mean I get I get the point but
it's like managers or employees too like
I have a manager who works here he's
also an employee
um maybe he didn't know if the guy owned
it before working there I don't know
that just seems like a really lame dunk
again it's in my opinion it's Linus like
Linus is kind of bringing this on
himself by even doing this essentially
what he's doing by taking this picture
of the Tesla and saying I hear Linus
media is an abusive employer doesn't pay
well is he's accepting the premise of
[ __ ] which is that I need to respond
to somebody saying on the internet
somebody anonymously making fun of me on
the internet so like somebody
anonymously Brett you know ribs you on
the internet and you respond to
admittedly I'm guilty of this as well
and I shouldn't be doing this [ __ ] but
you're when you do this you're accepting
the premise of [ __ ] it was actually
this post on Reddit earlier today it was
am I the [ __ ] and this guy's saying
like my girlfriend essentially accused
me uh in a joking way of being a rapist
at a party and she was kind of
describing me as if I am a rapist and I
was aggravated at this am I the [ __ ]
it's like
um and I had said am I posting that
thread you can go through my Reddit post
history is like what you I don't
understand this whole like well you know
honey really probably shouldn't have
said that that wasn't very funny uh it's
like no you just leave like you just you
have a standard for how people treat you
and you leave you don't and somebody
responded to me saying well he should
have responded back saying no that's not
exactly what happened this is actually
what happened at that point you're
except you're essentially accepting the
premise that if somebody falsely accuses
you of something massively screwed up
that you're actually supposed to start
saying well no no that's not true honey
instead of just leaving the person that
did that uh this is
yeah anyway Luke you eat a dick bro I
don't know what the f
uck you're not even paying attention to
video get the [ __ ] out of my chat anyway
um this like I I don't this I don't I
just don't see the reason for that
there's like
okay so like one of his employees has a
car like people [ __ ] on on Linus so he
took a picture of his employees having a
a car that cost like forty thousand
dollars
I don't know uh moving on where Linus
has asked about uh staff unionization
and lion said he would consider it a
personal failure honestly I felt the
exact same way like now don't get me
wrong if I had like if I owned a two
million dollar house and you know like a
Mercedes s580 and like you know did the
the the MC Hammer thing of having cars
with paint that changes colors and [ __ ]
and like my employees wanted to start a
union like I kind of understand that
but like at my point I would feel like
it's it's a failure it would be a little
like people felt like if they thought
they were in an unfair situation they
couldn't talk about and I think honestly
most most small business owners probably
feel the same way I think you know I
could understand the argument that uh I
can understand the argument here to some
extent that he that he's maybe out of
touch at this point in time with how
somebody making 50 000 bucks for may
feel once you get to the point of being
a multi-multi-millionaire but
yeah I mean this this is this is normal
I think if you'd asked most people that
have a small business they would feel
like they failed if their staff will
said we want to unionize because
essentially that means that they feel
like they can't walk into the office and
say this is not fair this is screwed up
this is what I would I would like my
working conditions to be better once
you're at the point where your employees
feel where your employees feel like they
can't walk in to talk about that
you're either a a giant ass company or B
a douche I think that it's I don't think
that that is really necessarily a bad
thing now the part where he says I don't
really feel like employees need
additional protection to be perfectly
honest with you and goes on to talk
about about at will employment rules in
the states well falsely stating Canada
Canada is not at will I think the reason
that he's kind of mad at this is because
at least from Reading Linus is Twitter I
don't really know his politics and [ __ ]
personally he comes off as a very kind
of Highly left-leaning like bernie-ish
kind of dude and there is this problem
that this thing that I've noticed where
a lot of people who say this stuff don't
very often don't live it like one
example I've talked about a lot in the
channel is there was a place a few
blocks over that paid considerably less
than we did and I think they had a
teenager at one point it was one of
those things with like you know the
owner's nephew is doing the counter
because he can pay him five bucks an
hour or whatever kind of thing
and people would say well that place is
you know ten dollars less than you why
don't I go there and I would point to
the Bernie sticker on the laptop that
said like 5 for 15 on it and go I'm you
know the people here make more money
than the 12 year old that's working the
counter at that place just so you know
wait extra five to ten dollars is going
uh
when you're or you're extra
like I think maybe the argument to be
made there
I think the argument can be made there
though like you know
you're not living up to your particular
ideals but again when it comes to people
who tend to have those political
opinions in my experience it's always
been that
they think that it applies to other
people not them so I could kind of
understand how that could be making
somebody aggravated
yeah like I I again the amount of times
people with a Bernie Sanders were
president or fight for 15 sticker when I
say like when I say this is 65 and they
go the guy down the block does it for 55
and I would go the guy down the block
has a [ __ ] 12 year old working the
counter I'm like the person that's doing
that repair here is getting 30 bucks an
hour like I'm just saying I'm just
saying you got the sticker over here and
I got a couple of one star reviews for
it that eventually they deleted when I
responded to it but yeah it's been my
experience that at least in my life that
a lot of people did espouse those
opinions don't actually see and I can
get that I can understand why that would
make somebody angry to be clear I
understand that but that doesn't I don't
think that that makes somebody a [ __ ]
employer like to be clear I am 100 what
line is here which is if my if all my
staff said like we're starting a union
I'd feel like [ __ ] I really treat people
shitty enough that they feel like they
need a union like that yeah it kind of
made me a little sad I'll be honest I
feel like I [ __ ] up there now again if
I were if I were driving around a
Mercedes s580 I had a 10 million dollar
house all this other [ __ ] and everybody
here was making 40K yeah I kind of
understand the Union but I think most
small business owners think that uh
continuing on here
this is these are comparable to Line
This is attitude as I say not as I do
which she seems to apply to every area
of the business he makes a big deal out
of making Linus a great place to work
but he lacks the necessary work
experience or is out of touch to the
employee Ministry is it support place to
work uh okay so the next is the writer's
thing so again you get 55 to 60 000 a
year and you have to make a video every
week
okay so you make 55 let's see somebody
here says
unions will take your money and leave
you stranded uh I agree with mid even if
I had a great boss at slavik with the
rest of the staff to unionize official
Avenue employee employment relations
like like for instance I would give you
an example so like at this comp like
there there's a technical number of sick
days people get that's like listed in
the Gusto payroll [ __ ] but like I've I
really don't usually keep count of that
thing
so like I would imagine unionization to
occur in somebody's Casino says I get 14
sick days but I believe I should get 21.
but if you tell people like you get
unlimited sick days and then like well
we want to unionize
I guess it depends on the type of
company what we're talking about oh Cam
let me add you as a mod here
here cam you'll be a managing moderator
here you can remove all the shitty
crypto spam yeah writers earn between 55
and 60k okay
now maybe Canadian Dollars are trash
let's see what is a Canadian dollar
worth
what is a Canadian dollar
okay that comes out to like 44 586 US
dollars
okay it's all like
a writer at Linus Tech tips makes less
than
Logistics or customer service does here
okay I mean I could kind of see that
yeah 40 44k is kind of in 2023 that's
really kind of stretching it
let's see what was yeah 60 yeah 55 to
60k what would 55 000 be
damn Canadian dollars nothing
okay that's like 40K a year so that's so
if you're talking about full time that's
like 20 bucks an hour
so I will let Chad go over this here
okay 20 bucks an hour to write and
prepare YouTube videos for a
professional YouTuber is that good or
[ __ ] good or [ __ ]
so that that the approximate when you do
like 40 hours a week 50 48 52 weeks a
year whatever like the approximate it
comes out to like a 40 Hour Work Week
is that good or [ __ ] what would you say
pet the cat use these money for the
greeny fund thank you Greenie okay so
the majority are saying [ __ ]
somebody said really good with kids
that's nothing minimum wage is 15. okay
so it's like 20 or 30 above minimum wage
British Columbia is expensive okay so
are we talking like New York expensive
or like Austin expensive versus like
Austin are we talking like Austin versus
Temple in Texas expense are we talking
like San Francisco Palo Alto expensive
California expensive okay hmm
yeah I don't know how much money makes
off of this stuff
like bottom like a lower level position
here is usually like 23 or 25.
I don't know how much work is involved
in the writing of the videos they have
to write prepare build shoot and get the
video to the editors for you each week
with essentially no backup it appears to
be hell there's no incentive for them to
be change this and some Linus's words we
cannot do this amount of week anymore
hmm
Amelia says go back to border pairs
Chris is not you and don't have this
thing you know Chris is way better than
me at this job you have no idea Chris
shits on me for board repair
nevertheless uh all the let's get on to
the next
all for the chance to have an
opportunity to reside in a city with the
annual living salaries fifty thousand
dollars slightly over the poverty line
for physically exhausting intellectually
taxing job Linus talks about making sure
every employee can buy a house in
Vancouver but that's bullcrap empty
promises I've I've felt the same way too
but I've admittedly kind of fallen short
there like I think every employer wants
their own employees to be able to buy a
house in the area they're in that's what
I hated about living in New York City
because I couldn't [ __ ] buy I I guess
I could if I was willing to have him
like a shitty mortgage up to my eyeballs
and live in an absolute dump it's just
that I didn't really want to do that
um like every employer wants their
employees to be able to buy a house
somewhere and I haven't heard him say
that I've heard him say that he wants
people to be able to do that I've never
heard him say that he
is actually making sure every employee
can do that if you have one of the entry
level jobs at a business you're probably
not going to buy a house in an expensive
city almost like regardless of where you
work
I could understand why they would be why
the employees would be aggravated if the
boss is going out of their way to say
that
nevertheless if you're fortunate enough
to survive your first year they might
raise your pay to roughly 65 000 plus a
bonus structure which is fascinating
because I've heard it's actually
attacked to sort out those who don't
want to work there and it affects
everyone not just writers payload to see
who leaves then raise their pay and
determine whether or not they can handle
a demanding workplace I made 25 an hour
and this is from poly me 25 an hour or
I.T work in 2005 and a much lower cost
living area so I think it's kind of [ __ ]
but Linus Tech tips has been massively
expanding one from like 50 to 100
employees in the last year hey that's a
lot of people
okay payload to see you okay this this
seems like a normal thing like I think
most businesses pay people lower when
they first hire them and then like if
they don't suck over then they wind up
paying them more later so like I think
it's a normal thing to pay people less
in the beginning and then like when you
see oh you're not crazy you consistently
do a job you don't have a drug addiction
you don't you know punch a hole through
a table because your wife cheated on you
because that's never happened before at
Rossman repair group like once you
realize everybody is sane then
fighting a ring of jello with lioness
for charity I don't know about that that
seems kind of weird
why do you want to see me in jello like
if you said celebrity boxing is one
thing but Jello brah that's a weird
[ __ ] King man it's a really weird
King but like back to this
oh like I mean I think it's normal for
most companies to do that like they pay
you lower in the beginning and then they
pay you more later once they see that
you're actually not crazy now obviously
it's like it you know it depends on the
ranges here and again the 40K thing is
I could kind of see again like 55 000 a
year comes out to 40 000 USD that's kind
of [ __ ] for a major city
I could see that as a job if your job
was essentially like the most like me I
don't know
I'm trying to think of something that
I put this
like if you were looking for people to
clean the toilets or something just so
that you all didn't have to do it
yourself or like I could see for the
lowest level job maybe as an entry level
thing average house price is 1.16
million dollars kanakistan okay what's
1.16 million Canadian dollars because
this I don't know out of this this [ __ ]
ain't real currency to me I gotta okay
so an average house price or median is
862 000. okay so that that's kind of
like living in Long Island I'd say
that's like living in Malvern or Fort
this is kind of like Cliffside Park New
Jersey okay this is kind of a New York
price there that's a New York price
so you have 40 000 bucks that's what I
would be looking to pay somebody that is
like an entry level at a high school
kind of thing
I probably like an entry level at a high
school kind of thing or like the lowest
level employee like let's say somebody
who's again because that comes out to
like 19 20 bucks in it probably like 18
or 20 bucks an hour I'd be doing that
for somebody who
is pretty much not able to advance is at
the absolute bottom needs a lot of work
needs a lot of con you know oversight
and micromanagement to actually get
something done which honestly is
something you probably shouldn't you
probably shouldn't be hiring somebody at
that point and you know it's it's almost
better at that point to kind of do the
work yourself
and also there's usually a lot of
tension because the necessary effort is
never well supported because the goals
that simply release something and sort
it out later rather than do it
effectively which is why a bunch of the
launch videos have errors in them
I mean I think
I can't I can't really criticize there
because there's
a company of 100 people is again like
it's very difficult to keep up with the
schedule you need to produce [ __ ] for on
YouTube and if you have 100 employees
yeah you're gonna have to release one
video every single day or every other
day you're gonna have to be filming
every single day in order to actually
pay 100 people I don't know if a lot of
people realize like the amount of
YouTube channels that can afford to pay
50 to 100 people on staff just from the
YouTube [ __ ]
that's like
0.0001 percent
own remote work forget it liners hate
working from home and that's because the
Linus Media Group hates working from
home and that's because Linus hates
working from home it was interesting
introduced for cover but has since been
reduced to a maximum of two days per
week the repeatedly stated as a hard cap
and there are rumors that they intend to
eliminate entirely by the end of the
year for those that can work entirely
remotely such as editors buyers
designers and lttstar.com support
employees it makes no sense however
Linus is a good day because he hasn't
worked a real job in more than a decade
ouch
so yeah from my business I've always
been
like I don't have any working remotely
[ __ ] because there's not really much
here you can do remotely like okay
receive packages and ship them that's I
don't know how you do that remotely fix
a hard drive with broken heads like
until robot arms get good enough I don't
know how Steve's gonna be out I guess
maybe robot arms may be good enough now
it's just the machine to do that [ __ ]
would probably cost
more money than my entire net worth
customer service can be done remotely
but only if you're talking about the
email side and cam used to do a very
good job of that so email customer
service can but but it's not the same
because it like one of the things here
is you can just if you're not sure how a
machine is in the queue like you could
literally just walk up to it and go oh
yeah this is filled with [ __ ] versus oh
this is only mild liquid damage it's
probably going to be easy like that's a
type of stuff you could do in person you
can't do remotely even for email
customer service I'd be open to email
customer service being all remote but
the problem is we have people that
actually walk in so it's kind of
difficult to uh to do the whole like
when you have a retail store it's very
difficult for the walk-in person to do
that
I want Tim Cook to open me up and fix me
at his Apple Store
that's gay
that's kind of weird honestly even if
that was heterosexual that would kind of
be gay that would be that would be kind
of weird
yeah I mean that's kind of weird either
way honestly
that that's kind of weird
yeah that's that's strange
I mean it hasn't worked a real job in a
decade again this comes back to the
whole what is a real job thing like
again if if a real job is working in the
salt mines then sure working at HEB
grocery store but like what is a real
job
what is a real job I mean he shows up in
his videos he finds like he does stuff I
mean I don't
keeping track of hours is also bad
everyone is paid hourly including those
who are compensated to salary because
time keeping is required even for
managers however there is no clock in
clock out system involved instead you
simply enter your job hours on a Google
spreadsheet due to Management's strong
disapproval of paying overtime if you
work an additional 15 minutes at the end
of the day to complete a video or clean
up your workspace it's too bad so sad
you won't get paid for that
lattice Media Group gets all kind of
free time work because without pay
because you aren't putting in the time
and you're in and the time you're out
for those extra 10 minutes here five
minutes there 30 minutes there like a
normal workplace okay that's [ __ ] up
there's no way around it that's [ __ ] the
[ __ ] up that's not the way a workplace
is supposed to work so I used to have a
Time Clock system where you punched in
you punched out my biggest complaint
with that system is that people hated it
because they couldn't they always forgot
to punch in and punch out and it wound
up driving management crazy and people
hated having to deal with the punch in
and punch out [ __ ] so he eventually just
went back to the like let me know if you
have overtime at the end of the week
thing so
um
so the only time that [ __ ] like this has
happened here I've always told people
like punch in if you're early punch out
if late if you're staying late if you're
working like there have been times where
people feel really really bad because
they spent half an hour extra on a board
that they couldn't fix and like I Chris
has come to me but he's like no no no
I'm not staying if I'm like I will [ __ ]
you up if you don't punch out if you
punch out and then go back to your desk
to work on a board like [ __ ] that you're
not doing that I'm it's my you get paid
a flat salary whether you fix 10 boards
a day or zero if you spend an extra half
hour on a board and you're not able to
fix it I [ __ ] pay for that that
that's the deal that's being a business
owner but like the weird thing is it
depends on how it is like with punching
there's no actual interaction with a
manager it's just you're punching in and
out but whereas if you have a system
where it's like salaried or a bro system
which a lot of small businesses are
which is you know we I'm automatically
going to have you on the clock for like
eight to four or nine to five but if you
work over let me know you're creating a
conflict point and Linus may not see it
this way somebody actually brought it up
uh scroll down here
what is it uh
yeah I recall on occasional
I recall Linus and occasion being
serious with employees learning live
should tell them to make sure that they
are putting in overtime for their
working make sure you submit for that
and whatnot it at least shows an effort
to ensure non-exempt employees are being
compensated and it says it sounds like
the standard corporate disconnect Line
This doesn't want people I could pay but
he also doesn't want to pay for a bunch
of overtime so he tells his managers
that you make sure people aren't working
overtime so yeah this is this is the
kind of thing that could like
this is this is this is a standard thing
that winds up happening like um
yeah I'll give you one example
let's say that I say everybody needs to
get paid for overtime we're like I'm the
company owner I say everybody needs to
get paid for overtime I have the manager
in the office and I say like this month
we lost seven thousand bucks and the uh
and we don't have a punch clock system
we have the system where you have to
manually walk over to a manager and said
I work two hours of overtime this week
the manager is stressing about the fact
that the company lost money and the
employees like I'm not going to walk
over there to tell them I did that
because I'm just going to piss him off
it's not worth it screw it so the
company wasn't even trying to take it
away from the employee but they could
create this kind of culture where it's a
walk of shame to walk over to the
manager and say that um
it's a walk of shame to walk over the
matter to the manager and say that you
worked overtime like you can be creating
that so even if you are telling people
always tell me what your overtime is
if you've created this environment where
there's shame involved
then
like again you really have to be aware
of that [ __ ] and this is why I say you
know you your employees are not your
friends
because there are just these small
things that your friends can tell you
that you're with it's just going to be
different when you have people that have
a different Power dynamic
uh on land show Linus claims you work 12
15 hours a day for years and part of the
hiring so much
is so everyone including him can get to
eight to ten hours a day for work-life
balance might just be spin
I mean I don't know I believe that he
probably works 12 to 15 hours a day Hey
listen it ain't easy to become a
multi-millionaire off YouTube 99 of the
people that try are not going to do it
who's not going to be willing to put in
that much work but yeah it's very easy
for you to have a company culture that
gets to this we actually switched back
off the punch clock system when we moved
here I just asked everybody like I'm
going to put it to a vote do you want
punch clock or do you want Norm like me
to just assume that you did 40 hours and
if you did more you just walk over and
tell me that you did more and everybody
decided like [ __ ] the punch clock system
we hate the punch clock system because
people were constantly forgetting to
punch in and out and it's just it's
aggravating for everybody but you have
to understand at that point then it's on
you as the employer to walk around
everybody and say did you have overtime
and also not shame them for having it
and that's something that can really
kind of get lost the problem I see with
LTT is the pay combined with the
anti-competing makes them sign an
anti-compete oh [ __ ] that anti-competes
are [ __ ] I'm very against anti-competes
I'm surprised I wasn't mentioned here
I'm I'm massively against anti-competes
I mean
the like I believe in free market
capitalism but I also believe you should
be the a big part of what makes that
[ __ ] work is the ability to switch if if
I'm a [ __ ] to my people they need to be
able to like [ __ ] leave and go
somewhere else like if you break ifixes
I don't know I'll give you 60 bucks an
hour like
I would
you know you played the game better you
know like
my manager has been here for 10 years
and he's because I stole them from
someplace else funny thing uh the person
who I hired a year before the manager
who worked at that same place he
actually signed the non-compete at this
business I think it was yeah laptop MD
it's he told me he signed a non-compete
so when I hired him I hired him as a
janitor
and I'll just check who would mention
that he's a janitor so that he was not a
tech and technically it's kind of true
because like he's cleaning motherboards
we do liquid damage or parachute but
yeah I got him around his non-compete
you know he was working for like 17
bucks an hour or they would [ __ ] him
around on his sick days in his paid
vacations so at the time this is like 10
years ago back when 28 bucks an hour
actually meant something uh he was he
was like one of the best technicians I
ever had so I gave you know he got ten
dollars extra and he also got to take
more pay vacations than he did before
and it's like you know if you if you
want to keep him [ __ ] the non-compete
pay him better
again this this was actually 11 years
ago now this is 11 years ago like 28
bucks an hour back then was actually
like
I mean that was
like again it actually meant something
in 2012. now who the [ __ ] knows love the
channel appreciate you thank you
now the party the the again I can
understand the low paper when they said
we have to do one video a day the top
comment on this thread is one I really
agree with your complaining that writers
are expected to produce an episode a
week okay that's what they're hired to
do might be there'd be specific issues
but that maybe that this is bad just
because
just because it's absurd I agree with
that as well but but LTD last respect
the ad blockers piracy take but this
takes the cake I'm surprisingly what's
important honestly like it's only the
only thing I disagree with here is the
wage ship because it is very very easy
for you to say uh it's very very easy
for you to say that everybody needs to
stay clocked in but if you tell your
manager we're losing money we're [ __ ]
right now and the manager is like acting
all stress and uh now you get this you
get to essentially Outsource it so this
this is something that can be easily
done like I could look like the good guy
whereas somebody else winds up making
shaming everybody into not using
overtime
and then I still get to say I care about
people clocking in while simultaneously
having my lieutenant not actually punch
people in for their overtime so it's
very easy for that type of dynamic to be
created even while not
the answer can be just while working
they're not leaving I think it's
Justified we're giving that proprietary
info from companies what type of
proprietary info are we talking about
here I honestly wouldn't even mind if
that thing happened here like again when
Steve clocks out of his job if he wants
to go to cover [ __ ] if he wants to go to
cover you know something for like you
know we recoverdata.com or something
like again I'm not paying you while
you're off the clock I don't get to say
what you do when you're not here
now if I want to say what you do when
you're not here then
I should pay you for that like if
instead of you working from 11 to 7 I
want you to only be thinking about this
job from 11 let's say 11 and 10 instead
of 11 to 7. I feel like I gotta pay you
for those extra three hours
video with with the the wage thing like
it's very easy to create that and not
even realize you're creating it like
I'll give you one story on my behalf I'm
a piece of [ __ ] for this so a few years
ago I gave uh my one of my employees how
many of you are familiar with Chris so I
gave Chris a sizable Christmas bonus uh
where's Chris let's get a video with
Chris here we go this is Chris he's the
best border pair person I've ever met
I'll be honest he kicks the [ __ ] he's
he's way better than me at border pair
he makes me look horrible at border bear
he's just he's way better than me at
everything I like there's no other way
to say it but he's very smart way
smarter than me but anyway back to the
point so I gave him a Christmas bonus
and then he told me like a few weeks
later like his wife was complaining or
something about the fact that he worked
all through Christmas and I'm like what
the [ __ ] are you talking why are you
reading those and he showed me there was
this Russell book that he was reading he
read through the pc3000 manual he was
reading all this [ __ ] online like what
the [ __ ] are you doing this is your time
off you're supposed to be off at
Christmas what are you doing and he he
actually took the Christmas bonus that I
gave him he divided it by his hourly pay
at the time and said I thought I was
supposed to work for that time so I had
to find something to do because store
was closed
[ __ ] work that's that's a bonus
okay maybe they don't have my first job
on Long Island was 37 000 in 2018 I'm
outside Nashville to try 50K
yeah it probably goes a lot further in
Nashville than it does in Long Island
doesn't it
anyway my point being here my point
being again I don't know maybe they
don't have [ __ ] Christmas bonuses in
Poland maybe they don't I don't know
I've never been to Poland but the point
is you can you can create a culture
where people make these types of
assumptions if you don't if you're not
very clear so like I probably should
have been clear and walked over and said
by the way this extra money in your
paycheck this week that is not overtime
that I'm gonna claw back from you if you
don't show me that you spent your
Christmas break doing work that is
called a bonus that's called like a like
a you know thank you for not quitting
thank you for working here like it I
appreciate that you haven't quit and
gone to open your own business or go to
work for the competition so it's it's a
holiday so here if you're not very clear
about these things
in ways that you may not imagine people
may get the wrong idea and like you're
not going to understand this until it
finally clicks oh I'm not working with
my friends anymore I'm an employer I'm a
boss like you know back in 2009 and 11 I
remember you know my one of my best
friends Jake he used to help me with my
business we were good friends at the
time I was completely broke I couldn't
afford better and he was also broke
working at the [ __ ] job he had at the
time where the boss half the time wasn't
able to actually pay him on payday
because he was broke he was a cocaine
addict so he would constantly not pay
his employees but that's a totally other
story you know I would ask Jake for help
and I would say like I said I need some
help packing the stuff FedEx is you know
the pickup is four o'clock it's 3 30.
I'm screwed these people are gonna be
mad at me and he would help me pack [ __ ]
and I'd buy him a trick and roll and I'm
a day it's like that was our deal like I
get you a chicken roll you know you help
me ship and that was camaraderie I was a
friend we were on the same level but
like eventually your business grows out
of this thing where you're just hiring
people that are your friends and you're
actually hiring people that are uh you
know that have less money than you or
have less education or have less say or
power to be able to do [ __ ] like you're
the owner of the company you're the boss
and it's just [ __ ] changes and if you
still have that feeling in your head
that I'm just quote working with my
friends then you may create these types
of work environments without even having
any idea that you did it and you know
again that's something that happened to
me as I said once I'm never gonna forget
Chris saying like I spent I spent entire
Christmas break reading through PC 3000
and Russell love manual and I think I
really again like Chris why the [ __ ] are
you spending time with your wife on on
Christmas and he's like oh the money you
gave me I'm like that's a [ __ ]
Christmas bonus bruh and it's like I've
learned you got to be very very clear
with this [ __ ] because as time goes on
it sucks balls man it sucks balls
Kristoff so you wind up having to buy
donor boards that cost two or three
hundred dollars see this is the part
that sucks go to archive.org I used to
charge 250 for motherboard repair back
in the day border pair was 250 now I
have to give people a range on the newer
models of 325 to 625 and people say why
is it such a wide range because your
model may require I buy a 300 donor
board that I half of the parts don't
even work on it really sucks it really
sucks uh this business is again honestly
Apple's kind of winning when it comes to
the right to repair [ __ ]
they're kind of winning they're actually
doing really well at like making it more
difficult for people like us to to
survive and do well at what we do and
the thing is they're doing it in a
manner where it's actually going to make
us look bad thank you Clifford like
people are going to think that we are
just raising our prices to be rip-offs
and evil and [ __ ] rather than the
fact that they've made it almost
impossible to get stuff anymore
okay
where's the end of this yeah anyway my
point being here you got to be really
careful with this [ __ ] like I think if
you're an employer that doesn't have a
punch clock you kind of have to be
active and like tap everybody on the
shoulder hey to do any overtime hey to
do any overtime and then you got to look
at them again and like
I saw you stay an extra 10 minutes the
other day what was that
and like you really got to beat it out
of them and here's the thing you can't
shame people for doing overtime you can
Again by all means you can tell people
like
this you you can go how about this try
to figure out the way I'm going to
phrase this
if somebody is not able to do a job and
in particular a lot of time period what
I used to do is I used to actually try
and do their job and see if it was
something that was doable so for
instance there was this one uh shipping
clerk I had like five or seven years ago
that was saying like I it's just
impossible to get all this stuff done
inside of eight hours so I came to the
store one day and I tried and it took
that day it took an hour and 10 minutes
and I'm like okay you said you can't do
this in eight hours I did an hour and
ten minutes no there's another time that
I tried to do some of these jobs this is
about right after the covet period about
two and a half years ago and it took me
like 10 hours to do their job and it's
like I don't know how I've been
expecting you to fit this into an
eight-hour day this is a mess so if you
see somebody's constantly doing overtime
and you don't want them to do overtime
what I would suggest is you try actually
doing their job and figuring out is your
system as a company screwed up or is
this person simply not living up to the
task but you cannot have people there
and have them not get paid to do work
and I want to grow from pole in the 80s
and 90s pretty much grew up in poverty
the Polish are insanely hard working bra
I'm aware yeah Chris is insanely hard
working it's
also Paul was polish as well but Chris
came here actually from Poland uh he
moved here I think in 2019 and came to
work here immediately
yeah he's a very hard-working dude he
used to use a scothel IR 6000 to do BGA
rework that's how hard working he is I
have one of those you know many
successful board repairs I have with the
skoda liar 6000. zero none because I
think it's a piece of [ __ ]
so anyway it's it's very easy for you to
inadvertently create a type of culture
where people are afraid to do that and
you can't do that you can't if you're
mad that somebody works too slow you
have a conversation with them and if
that doesn't work out then eventually
you let them go but you can't just do
this [ __ ] where you guilt people and are
working for free like that just doesn't
work
it's it's shitty and I don't think you
get to say well I I encourage people to
click you really have to kind of check
out what your managers are doing have an
idea of what your managers are doing
when you're not there to see what
they're doing to see if they're actually
trying to talk people out of working the
I don't know yeah
so yeah I mean honestly I think a lot of
this again like people are complaining
that they're expected to put out videos
on a schedule
they're complaining that he takes
pictures of cars in his parking lot and
saying this belongs to my employee again
a lot of this is lame the one part of
this that I think has some actual meat
to it is the keeping track of hours
thing like it's not enough to tell
people make sure you clock in for that
as the boss if you know that a lower
level manager is giving them the deaths
there right after they do it
okay what have I got in the comments
I'll read some of your comments and
we'll go over that
40K USD for high school entry-level job
and you have a good in the states I
graduated in electronics engineer two
years ago and here in Sweden I make 32k
a year
I don't know what Swedish money is
though I don't know how good it is
if the tool Works use it post-soviet
polls
dude Chris made boards work with the
skeletal IR 6000 V4 that thing is the
biggest piece of [ __ ] I've ever used in
my life
the non-competed is only for when
they're there and then after they leave
still I'm just ah oh I'm really not for
the non-competes
I can't if I can't look
if you're able to make more money
working somewhere else other than me go
for it and if it's on your free time I
don't get to say what you do in your
free time
are the salary numbers recent or for
them years ago see that's the thing we
also don't have that here
that's not here I don't know if this is
a modern salary
yeah that we actually don't know
non-compete literally means we're going
to pay you less than what you're worth
but what you can do
I would only sign a non-compete if I was
making a stupid amount of money
like if narav Patel hired me to work at
framework and he said I want you to put
together our repair program
there's going to be a non-compete and
you're going to be making 400 000 bucks
a year I'd say hey my friend you know
what but like if I was making normal
average if I was getting 40 to 60k or
even 100K you're like [ __ ] that
only if I was making this if I was
making a stupid amount of money like
fine non-compete where's audio
probably upstairs bothering people he's
probably
nuzzling down and Patrick's ankle
it's not an ironclad anti-compete Clause
it just depends on the content
I just I don't like non-competes
28 bucks an hour is a bad deal if you're
doing 90 of the work and your boss gets
280 an hour I had some communistic [ __ ]
right there linuses explained that not
to be before while they are working
there he doesn't want them to use ltt's
image to build their own brand while
there at least that's the explanation
might just be his excuse I don't know I
never give a [ __ ] about this let's see
if I can find it
so like this guy
um where's my old technician's Channel
God Rest the soul
this is a guy who used to work here
he used to work for my business he did a
great job
he was a great technician in my opinion
he did really good work
he was very fast he was very methodical
he was very clean
he was very disciplined and that's him
using my camera on my workbench
showing how to do work on a machine and
promoting his own company
and he even and he checked his does not
check out rosmangroup.com let's check
out his website I just I don't know I
just never
like I never thought oh my God I'm gonna
go under because this one employee like
if I spend seven years building a
business
because I think the business like ever
existed for seven years and like one
dude with five subscribers is able to
take my business away from me then [ __ ]
I like I I haven't done anything
worthwhile LTT lost my respect when it
came clear that I never care about
addressing the misinformation they're
frequently spending the challenge to
generate some sort of drama controversy
I don't know what you mean by
misinformation
but if you give an example you don't
have to pay to you could just leave it
in the normal chat and I'll eventually
get to it
yeah I mean I just I mean if he's able
to earn money on the side then by all
means like you know he got you like I
can pay you this much money I feel bad
that I can't pay you more like I'd like
to be able to pay you 50 or 100 bucks an
hour but I can't so if you're able to
use you know this stuff to be able to
help you make more money on the side
then that's fine by me like I want you
to make more money if you make more
money you'll you know you'll be happy uh
your family will be happy if your family
is happier then you're probably going to
be happier when you come to work which
means that you'll do a better job like
really I just
I don't mind 28 bucks an hour is about
if you're doing 90 of the work no like
yeah your boss is the one paying the
rent utilities Insurance CPA when New
York state city and state tries to [ __ ]
you with a two and a half year long
audit there's a lot that you get when
you when you get a job that you don't
people don't appreciate like the work is
just there for you it just shows up and
then somebody else handles your customer
service and somebody else handles your
chargeback like there's so much that
goes into just creating the basic
fundamental structure for you to
actually do work
this attitude is why you're a good
person in line that says 100 employees
and drives a Porsche don't assume that
I'm a good person that's actually
uh this is actually a video that I did a
while ago
and this is I should link this in the
comments actually before people start
getting the wrong idea
here we go
I never assume I am the good guy and
here is why here we'll link this year
don't want you people getting the wrong
idea about me
nice click bait title
you're just triggered you know it
triggers a little snowflake the title
is 100 correlated to what I'm discussing
in the video NZ fade we call that cope
I don't know if that's cap or cope I'm
not up on the on the stuff that kids use
these days thanks for keeping it real
and being reasonable respect thank you
Joshua flu I recognize you I recognize
that guy he's a cool guy you should
check out his channel
yeah
he has a bunch of funny stuff on it
I don't know if we'd always agree with
each other
it's I'm the evil business owner
and he is I guess coming at things from
the opposite of the evil business
owner's side but much so appreciated
hilarious with a line of stock against
Paris here actually no now that's
bouncer block
true Streisand effect bro
you know what's funny like he says that
Adblock is piracy all of you get [ __ ]
YouTube Vents and never see ads again I
tell people use new pipe to view YouTube
you should use new pipe to view YouTube
and then in the same video people are
bitching about getting ads in my content
so it truly strides that effect here CAT
tax also didn't let us literally go
through something like this with a
non-competi got lucky with
are you talking about the original
company NZ the and whatever the hell I
think it starts with an N the place that
he worked at before he started working
uh before he started his own channel
damn I'm behind by 20 minutes in chat
welcome to employment I've worked for a
number of CEOs making 20 times more than
me yet I've been treated fairly and fine
with the salary and working conditions
yeah again like okay you get 60 000 a
year like I get it you want to make more
I get it
you know the boss with 10 million
subscribers is
gets more money than the person that got
hired as a writer
but like
that that's just that's normal average
stuff
that's a normal average stuff
doesn't clickbait title nope accurate
title is a question of your answering
accurate title that's it that is cope
I believe the cope is the right word not
cap cope is when you lie to yourself cap
is when you lie to others
I think that's how it is
it stops people using a lineup now let's
see
are you accepting invite the LTX 2023
yes I'll get to meet the evil man in
person
feels like cancel coach are going on
opinion honestly it just seems like a
bad glass door review like there's
nothing about this that I'm pissed off
about like okay this one over here is
like one of the things I'd poke them and
say hey man you may want to take a look
at that or like the right like this is
I'm surprised it's got 9 000 upvotes in
his own subreddit this isn't that bad
like you know my boss okay my manager
drives a Tesla
boohoo
like I get sixty thousand dollars a year
in my first year of employment as a
writer for a YouTube channel
boo hoo
again the only thing here that is oh I
can't work from home okay fine whatever
it's not the again this is this is not
like he's beating people you know my
biggest issue with this post is every
single piece of information provided
seems to be public info and verifiable
it could have written it theoretically
and I haven't been in BC in 15 years
yeah there's that too
when a tech tips Channel starts making
and selling underwear they've lost the
plot
note to self start selling underwear
Linus Rancho explained it due to their
industry multimedia the tax code is
stupid they have to amortize salaries
over the years and royalties are a part
of salaries too it's a crap show
I'm glad I have not hired anybody on the
YouTube side thank God
employers actually have a carrot and not
just a stick yes carrot works way better
than the stick
let's see I wouldn't be surprised if
Linus gets added because of this
oh I'm sure that the government in there
is better than the government in New
York
do you do bonuses every year or you do a
really great job this year
it's not it's not based on the job that
people do it's based on whether I make
good money this year
so there were two years where instead of
giving people bonuses I gave them ious
on a piece of Post-It note and okay to
be clear I've always made good on those
so if a year we lost money and I gave
people ious I made good on them in the
Years where we do just but but yeah it's
usually not based on performance and
based on money that's earned
Destiny's crack dealer says Linus milks
his workers for every ounce of Labor
probably so do I
so do I
go visit Poland your president's already
there it says Amelia
Maybe
I think Chris lying to you maybe didn't
really want to spend time with his wife
on Christmas so he pretends he needed to
do work to justify the bush
we don't talk about that
sounds like maybe polish marriages are
similar to Italian ones then
um I'm kidding I'm kidding
what's the status of my trip advocate in
Texas
there is none
I have seven states I'm juggling already
if Linus is a bad employer why have so
many of his staff had such a long tenure
there's a lot of script review involved
for each script published you might have
yes you might have hired a competent
writer I work for a small company I've
never been SSI in Indiana work in
Industry we have very few competitors
I've never been a fan of the non-compete
it's just yeah I've just it's something
about it just feels weird to me so yeah
that's the other ques okay you know what
I'm gonna do the I'm gonna do this Steel
Man of the employee side as the evil
employer side here
so you could have let's say a core staff
that you like which is like The In Crowd
and then the new people which are the
outcrowd and The In Crowd which are the
newer which are the old-timers get
treated differently than the new people
but again you're right like if people
have been there for a long period of
time then it probably speaks to you
being a good employer
you can shame them into not collecting
money that they worked hard for and be
vigilant about it and yes that's way
easier said than done
it's doable it's doable without even
realizing you're doing it too if you're
constantly telling people work faster
work faster work faster we have to get
this done the company's losing money by
the way reporter you'll overtime [ __ ]
why aren't you working Faster by the way
the company's losing money by the way
reporting overtime you know
it's very easy to inadvertently create
that type of environment where people
feel shame for actually getting the
money that they're [ __ ] legally
entitled to
this happens when people do actions
without a root purpose in life huh
Chris is a guy who cherishes the job
very much so also hello Julie how are
you what are you doing on the F train
Julie what are you nuts
are you ready
you got to live by a train that makes
sense live by the end train Julie live
by the end
might be a thing in the anglo-sphere in
the UK every company I've ever worked
for is maybe sign an NDA might be the
same for a cuck and uh
well hello thank you for the five pounds
there's a guy need to be deceptic
pumping and he does the same as you the
boss can beat you and he has numerous
health issues then maybe you shouldn't
be there his words
you can tell this whoever wrote this
Reddit post is almost no work experience
maybe mid 20 is basically describing an
average job yeah again like this post is
essentially describing like okay there
are things expected of me
I get paid only 20 or 30 percent over
minimum wage and I my boss posts things
on social media that I think May portray
him to be nicer or more generous than he
actually is like welcome to work my
friends I know I'm sorry like welcome
the [ __ ] work that's reality
yeah I get there's only one thing in
this entire thread that I would say
again uh
this like that's the only thing the only
thing
okay Where'd I leave off damn it I lost
all the chat from 7 40 to 748 oh well
hello I asked repairs and thank you for
contributing lots of really good
graphics card stuff
to the wiki
I nearly screwed you guys by going to
hospital for injuring myself in a
do-it-yourself repair giving
do-it-yourself a bad name my apologies I
will not accept your apology if you go
to the hospital you better lie about
what it is that got you there if you say
it was the iPhone screen that cut your
veg oh well
no you're not doing that
I heard Linus one saying if anyone gets
official with him and corresponds
they're Don people have to address them
informally no email
I've never heard that before I don't
know where you're getting that from
he separated basically hates him now
probably kind of like my old Discord
we do it to ourselves
we do it to ourselves fob fob 9-1-1
I'll buy your underwear okay we have an
idea for merchandise
he gets 5K a month for writing on a
YouTube channel
yes
I hear a cat oh yeah that's Barry she
wants attention if she wanted attention
she could come over here and be on the
chair like Clinton or you know Clinton's
hey stop scratching my couch you
she's not getting attention so she's
scratching my couch
what
most of your boohoo comments are just
now the same reaction I have interesting
Josh okay
don't forget line of stuff instead of
employees of an issue they can go to his
wife
to resolve it who he sleeps with
hmm
I mean does it really make a difference
if the manager is like if you have an
issue
okay I guess I can see that
if I was having sex with Steve I could
see how that would make things much more
Awkward for people if I told them to go
to Steve to resolve their issues with me
this is why I don't have sex with Steve
don't forget linuses often said if
employees have an issue with them yeah
will you say hi to the cat Maybe
the job of the boss is way more relevant
for smaller businesses and large ones
see if a big Corp is basically just an
idea guy and so the pay is an excusable
same with the board investors see how I
almost actually disagree with you there
your job at that level is to make
decisions and you're in
those decisions matter a lot more let's
just take the Walmart CEO right let's
say he missed like you know 10 or 20
million bucks a year let's say we just
slice them up right we just take him you
know do the French Revolution guillotine
and distribute a salary amongst the
workers
what are they getting like 10 bucks a
year really
like what does he get like 10 or 20
million bucks a year you have two or 2.5
million employees
everybody gets 10 bucks a year
like at that point you're getting paid
for decisions because you making one
wrong or one right decision can lead to
the company making an extra two or three
billion dollars or losing two or three
billion dollars and you have an idiot
making a decision there
the problem is like with every other job
you don't really know whether somebody's
going to do it well or not until they
already have it and you're paying them
the entire time so that that's another
conversation and of itself whether or
not that specific CEO is worth that
specific salary
but in theory in theory if you're
dealing with the ability to you know
swing a company's Revenue six billion
this way or 5 billion into the negative
or do something stupid that winds up
getting them sued or brought between you
know before a congressional committee uh
then you're or an oversight hearing
then you know it it's as paying them
0.0001 percent of your profit is a drop
in the bucket
I do have a framework laptop and I do
like my framework laptop
if you like the comments in the post
had the gist of it from my point of view
too little information provided by the
ex-employee to make a real opinion
LTT misinformation equals molecular
scanner by Co that ended up being a scam
not if I call that Linus and his
response was interesting what's a
molecular scanner Co thing
I thought Linus talks about like PC
cases and CPUs and graphics cards and
[ __ ]
what's a molecular scan or Co
CK I'll be honest with you I'm not
trying to sim for Linus but I don't go
to that channel to learn about molecular
scanners I would assume that if Linus is
talking about a molecular scanner that
is probably wrong because I think of him
as a guy that talks about PC Hardware in
cases and like TeamViewer trying to [ __ ]
him you know
but I'll check it out
hi Lois I finally recommend your stream
while it's live hello Mr biomed sorry I
haven't responded to your other email
I've been [ __ ] at responding to email
recently
what did Linux say or do out of
curiosity
it send dependency missing
dependency missing
okay we're going to get close to the end
you know one thing I forgot since I
haven't live stream in a really long
time is I forgot that it's almost
impossible to get to the end of the chat
the post comes across as a salty X
employee to be honest the only complaint
that comes across is valid is the time
keeping the rest seem like someone I
understand the job
yeah I agree again like if you want to
say that you know 60 000 bucks a year to
be a writer in that part of the country
is not an amount of money that will make
you they'll buy you a house
fine
okay
okay your employer said he'd like
everybody that works there to be able to
buy a house
and your first year of working for the
company you can't buy a house
as a writer
okay
I don't know
I used to as I said in my Matrix chat
you know I used the card around I used
to build and card Around furniture for
the Staten Island Mall for nine dollars
an hour
that that's some [ __ ] shitty work man
dragging 80 to 250 pound boxes
everywhere when it is only
when a dolly is like this small and you
have to balance the [ __ ] on there and
sometimes you just wind up pushing it
and that [ __ ] sucked
back in my day
respect and non-compete take I think his
version only applies to competing on
YouTube you can still do anything else
just not on YouTube because of some
reputation issues again like if nirav
Patel came up to me from framework and
said we want you to head up our repair
division here's four hundred thousand
dollars a year
I'll sign a non-compete
If somebody walks up to me and says hey
I'll give you you know 50 or a hundred
thousand dollars get the [ __ ] out of
here again you have to be paying me a
massive amount of money to be able to
get me to sign a non-compete you have
insurance help for me from YouTube IDs
just want to say thanks because I know
some family is investable thank you I
have no way to see what that is because
I can't click that unfortunately and
copy and paste it and I'm never going to
remember it but if you send me an email
I'll take a look at those two videos so
that I can see what it is that you found
useful so maybe I can figure out what
made it a good video
and make more of it
thank you
I feel like this would be a
non-discussion if wages weren't
discussing the WAN show and made the
Tesla's tweet
possibly
yeah like I've said I feel I pay better
than other repair shops but I feel
guilty that I can't pay more I think
that it's in the same vein of
like what he was doing except it's
self-deprecating rather than you know so
um
building yourself up so it's less likely
to be criticized but I think it's coming
from the same place I currently do time
keeping with an Excel spreadsheet for
full-time I'd rather punch it honestly
it depends on the person
the problem with pensions is that nobody
uses them
you can have a biometric you can have a
pin pad you can have an app
good luck good luck I end up shooting
people with an airsoft gun
trying to
and still being driven insane
how are you enjoying not New York it's
all right it's all right
where am I
where did I scroll in here
sounds like Lewis once for indicated to
the laptop job I'm just saying I
wouldn't say no
but but in all seriousness this whole
idea of like you're going to get you
you're going to get close to minimum
wage and you have to sign a non-compete
it's just [ __ ] insulting
Lewis refused to fix my emac damn
[ __ ] straight man
the videos I don't use the f word and
are you investable oh thank you
also thank you again
it really seems like a disgrunted
employee that may have problems himself
it just didn't fit in or something weird
yeah
I wish I made 60k a year says Josh Hall
yeah a conclusion this just sounds like
somebody who's salty
who probably has never had to
make nine dollars an hour carrying
thousands of pounds a day of furniture
across the Staten Island [ __ ] mall
in a store that didn't have working HVAC
system
even then I can understand the reason
behind it but it still just makes me
skeeve a little bit
like my employees have a list of
suppliers and vendors that I get stuff
like back when I was buying MacBook Air
screens for 72 dollars everybody else is
paying 200 to screen I was paying 72.
I mean like Steve could have just
scalped that he could have literally
scalped that and doubled it you know he
could have said I will sell you that
screen for 150. pay me in advance and
use my vendor I just I never did it just
it felt it feels weird to do that it's
like what you're doing here's here's the
way it feels when I have a non-compete
I'm essentially telling my employee I do
not I not it sends this weird message
that like I don't trust you and I don't
value you at the same time so I don't
value you to pay you better because that
obviously somebody else out there may be
able to pay you better than I can pay
you but but I don't value you enough to
pay you that and I'm also not going to
let anybody else do it but I also don't
trust you and it's just
I think it creates a [ __ ] up work
environment
I don't know again
I'm the dude who moved across the
country to save money on his
semi-failing business so take everything
I say with a grain of salt
take what I say with a very a large
entire salt shaker of salt
finish your tracking employee time is
necessary by law in Canada 100 equals 40
hours or whatever
10 hour day one sure then do a six hour
day to compensate what's the problem I
don't think that's what I said I don't
think that was what I was talking about
exactly
any thoughts on new Youtube CEO from
what I read it seems like that was the
person that was responsible for double
clicking ads and optimization
so I kind of wonder if that's why I'm
getting all these [ __ ] up ass ads on
YouTube now
like I'm getting all this ridiculous
[ __ ] that's telling me to go date Slavic
women import Slavic women
that you want to chat with this type of
it's you know it really pisses me off
about YouTube you know what really
[ __ ] gets me is
that's
I'll show you my first job had a
non-compete but I never saw on sword
enforce essentially when you wanted to
leave you just had to ask for an
exception they would Grant it
I personally assume the worst of
anything that's put on paper
so I was talking about anti-repair
advertising discrimination that Google
put on right after they had an interest
in cell phone Hardware repair and here's
the thing
you have literal human trafficking ads
on YouTube but I can't use AdWords to
advertise that I fix a smartphone
so like me replacing a screen and a cell
phone that's dangerous but all these ads
on YouTube saying like you know find the
wife and Dubai or whatever the for the
Philippines and all this [ __ ] that's
been showing up a lot more lately
because I usually use new pipes so I
don't have to see any of these [ __ ]
ads on YouTube but I tried the YouTube
app a few days ago and it's like Jesus
Christ it's like find a Slavic wife find
a Dubai wife find a Filipino wife you
know come over here
and I can't use Google to keep in mind I
can't use Google AdWords I have 1500
plus five star reviews on their [ __ ]
Maps review platform I can't use Google
AdWords to advertise my own repair
business like we're gonna take PP by
Street three hot that's 8.1 volts and
turn it into 8.5 volts that's too risque
but yeah
I took a picture of one of them
it shows I I wish I took a picture of
the Slavic woman one
it was so funny because you're like
listen some of these ads are just like
like what the [ __ ]
what the [ __ ] again it's not that bad
it's just this is the platform that's
telling me I'm not allowed to post ads
on repair services
anyway
invalid account engages in what aboutism
uh
if you're open to it I'd be down to have
a chat and then I think we could have
more laughs and disagreements I can 100
understand from purely watching my
videos how you'd see me it's their best
email yeah Lewis Rossman group.com they
just have to you have to spell my lame
right you have to spell my name right
I'm happy to do a podcast with you I
think it'd be a very fun show I think
it'd be a cool crossover you have to
spell my name right Lewis Rossman
group.com two s's two ends my name has
my first name is three vowels but you
have to it has to be the right set of
vowels
anyway it'll be fun
let's let's do it let's do it it'll be
fun we'll do a live show
Lewis down bad brah Lewis down bad these
are the ads I'm getting on YouTube even
[ __ ] YouTube knows I'm down bad
uh Joe Rogan went uh never yeah how
about never did you brat it's gonna be
never
are you calling getting a Slavic woman
is even dude you got to see the ad man
you just you gotta see you know what
these ads are doing like when these ads
are like you know you know come to Dubai
there's amazing women here are like or
like some of these ads what they do is
they start explaining how American women
are horrible so you should come to our
country or like import one of our women
because they don't have those horrible
attitudes it's like okay again even if
you agree with that stuff
fine but why can't I advertise my repair
services on YouTube
why can't I advertise on YouTube
it's because
you said PB bus Maybe
you said a pie hole to block more ads
yeah I gotta make time for that
Clinton come back down boy clinty
clinty
all right see y'all later
bye now