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I don't think I can do a regular boring type Vlog. So I was bored at work today and so I did this.

If you're watching this because it's been forwarded to you (because you work at the UPS Store) then this video is dedicated to you. It was never meant to be a rebellious thing - just a funny one. But since it's been taken that way, and I've been treated that way, I really don't care anymore.

I hope everyone watches, and enjoys. Whether or not you feel the video I made was indefensible. I'm not a scapegoat, or an example of someone for whom "justice was served."

I'm someone who spoke his mind - and I'm glad I did. I just didn't know so many people were going to listen.
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  • dunno 1 year ago
    Good job... of not doing a job...

    You entertained me, so that has to count for something.
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  • 40 Watt Fantasies 1 year ago
    Nice back flip off the counter. Looking forward to the next ten weekly episodes...if you still have a job!
  • dalas verdugo 1 year ago
    Sweet flip for real.
  • bluedog 1 year ago
    Oh man, if you hit the displays on your way down. You're talkin' damage.
  • Ultimate 1 year ago
    seriously, sweet backflip

    can you do it on the ground too?
  • Adam Holwerda 1 year ago
    On the ground? Yes.
  • bk 1 year ago
    That totally puts my backflip to shame. Bravo.
  • David Marcus 11 months ago
    I'll flip ya, flip ya for real. - Fenster (Usual Suspects)
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  • simon frankson 1 year ago
    I love this video

    I hate that vimeo acts like I made it.
  • Blake Whitman 1 year ago
    me too.
  • Adam Holwerda 1 year ago
    Me too. Let's everyone make a video and tag The Lodwick in it so he finds out how annoying it is to not be able to find your own videos among those you're tagged in.
  • Pam Newman 1 year ago
    HAHAHAHAHAHAA

    You're clever... (?) kidding. It's actually a marginally good idea.

    You should make it legit by at least putting you taping one of his videos playing in the background or something.
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  • Meg 1 year ago
    Hey, I'm someone too! Although I work Friday Nights, and Saturday nights... and Sunday... and Monday... ...... And Tuesday ...
    Do you know how many people ~don't~ buy coffee at like 5 in the morning? It's around 6 billion.
  • Adam Holwerda 1 year ago
    Around there. But don't forget, it's always five in the morning somewhere!
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  • PEIKA 1 year ago
    I love this clip! so glad I found it...
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  • Scruff_E_Guy 1 year ago
    awesome......and it's a dirty job, but somebody has to do it... you're not just someone....you're somebody....
    nice back flip....last time I tried that, I hurt myself...
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  • Caroline Martin 1 year ago
    I like how the tag "adam is someone" has a zero next to it. haha.

    This was really good. You're very funny and if I could, I would visit you at work.
  • Adam Holwerda 1 year ago
    I know a hundred people that could but don't. And you would but can't. Sad.
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  • nshack 1 year ago
    You really did something at work! Damn good too! Keep it up. Maybe this is your creative think tank. What I wouldn't do for some dead time with a computer.
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  • Nick Douglas 1 year ago
    Holy backflip!

    The weird thing is, your UPS store looks just like one of my old employers, a Tim Hortons donut shop.
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  • Clintus McGintus 1 year ago
    I love these types of vlogs. Great job man.
  • Adam Holwerda 1 year ago
    Awesome, I conformed to a type! Wait, which type? Ha.
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  • Angie Torres 1 year ago
    You are a UPS Guy!!! Gasp* Do you ever wear the brown shorts and shirt uniform combo?

    Funny vid
  • Adam Holwerda 1 year ago
    UPS Store =/= UPS

    But we still know where you live.
  • Angie Torres 1 year ago
    Now that, slightly scares me.
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  • JoanPH 1 year ago
    I love the constant looking toward the door, in hopes! The flip was great, but equally amazing was the slo mo over the chair.
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  • Starflower Ranger 1 year ago
    Oh man, I know your pain. I work in a tiny little embroidery shop that no one comes into to. The only difference is, the computer there is so riddled with viruses, that the internet is too slow to even bother. Plus I can't do AMAZING back flips.
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  • Obar 1 year ago
    sometimes, theres a man...
  • 40 Watt Fantasies 1 year ago
    ...kinda lost my train o'thought there.
  • Adam Holwerda 1 year ago
    ...a DRAGON man!
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  • Ultimate 1 year ago
    someone...sometime...somewhere makes good clips
  • Adam Holwerda 1 year ago
    We should find him.
  • Ultimate 1 year ago
    now he's modest too...



    we really should find him :-P
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  • Dawkeye 1 year ago
    The minimum wage in England is £5.35 per hour (that's about $10.80), and medical and dental treatment is free (or very cheap in comparison with the US). I betcha wishing you hadn't rebelled now! Happy 4th July!!!!!!!!! ;)
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  • Adam Holwerda 1 year ago
    I totally would, except this video got me fired. Why not do one yourself?
  • simon frankson 1 year ago
    dude - really? lame.
  • Adam Holwerda 1 year ago
    The funny thing was, my boss hadn't even seen the video when she fired me.

    It's like the UPS Store people have taken this up as their own little story of how wrongs were righted, and a rebellion was quashed.

    I'm the UPS Store equivalent of a witch. Or something. Witchy.
  • 3d60 11 months ago
    a black cat with flippin skills like that..i hope the other traits of landing on there feet in to sweetness follows through as well....workin sucks, customers suck butt....helping people out is trhe only cool thing to do.

    They don't deserve a radical free thinking intelligent go getter such as you.....appear to be .....so .....fuck em.....oh they fucked you ...ho hum
  • victoria 11 months ago
    how did the video get you fired if your boss hadn't seen the video when she fired you?

    cool video. i wouldn't have the guts to do a backflip off the counter.

    have you found another job? good luck! you're better off without that job anyway. i was pretty happy when i got fired :)
  • Adam Holwerda 11 months ago
    The regional manager called my boss and told her I had to be fired or she was in trouble.

    Did I say she told me that I'd "publically humiliated her?" She was almost crying. I secretly laughed.
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  • Shawna 1 year ago
    Ha ha, i work at a UPS Store... that's funny..did you really get fired for that?? we got an e-mail forward saying "justice has been served, he's been fired"
  • Adam Holwerda 1 year ago
    Justice would have been getting paid minimum wage.

    Or, you know. Not having to work there.
  • Scruff_E_Guy 1 year ago
    "Justice has been served?" You're kidding.... what century do these people live in?
  • 3d60 11 months ago
    status quo baby
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  • Jake Farmer 1 year ago
    Man I work at a UPS Store... they are sending out emails to all the stores in my region... the email said "the little leech has been fired!" leech what does that even mean in this context...? Either way my whole staff got a laugh out of it and thought it was hilarious.. good work bro!
  • Adam Holwerda 1 year ago
    This video is for you, brother.

    And they probably mean the way I suck blood out of perfectly innocent franchises.
  • dalas verdugo 1 year ago
    WHAT???? Can we get rid of corporations, please?
  • charliesteadman 1 year ago
    Get a copy of that email and give it some crazy lawyer who likes to leech blood out of corporations.
  • Erick C. 11 months ago
    yeah we need a picture or video of that email! must be hilarious.
  • victoria 11 months ago
    lame. well you probably have a thousand or more UPS employees who WISH they had the guts to do what you did.

    i agree with dalas. DOWN WITH CORPORATIONS! don't support them by buying their products or (even worse) working for them.

    arcata, california doesn't allow any corporations to set up shop there... everything is locally owned and operated. why aren't there more places like that?
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  • Starline Hodge 1 year ago
    Dude. Awesome backflip.
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  • Amanda 1 year ago
    I'm job hunting right now. Looks like I won't be applying at the UPS store. Even if I do like them way better than FedEx.
  • Adam Holwerda 1 year ago
    Yeah. Handing out flyers on the street would be a better use of your time.
  • victoria 11 months ago
    i'm creating my own job along with my favorite friends: activelymoving.org

    and with that job i hope to inspire others to create their own jobs, lives, worlds in which they don't have to work for corporations or follow the status quo. we don't have to do what has been done before or what everyone tells us we should do.
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  • Shrew 1 year ago
    Hope your drinking problem doesn't get out of hand :]
  • Adam Holwerda 1 year ago
    Way way way too late.
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  • staeria 1 year ago
    I can't BELIEVE they sent out a mass e-mail! You're famous! Your viewership probably quadrupled thanks to UPS Store Corporate! Wow, and to call you a 'little leech.' I think you've officially topped me for infamy.
  • Adam Holwerda 1 year ago
    Mmmm...leechy.
  • Caroline Martin 1 year ago
    I want to see this email!
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  • Scruff_E_Guy 1 year ago
    Agreed....I wish I could get fired in a scandalous email.... wait...I need a new job first....
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  • staeria 1 year ago
    P.S. I really really REALLY want to read it.
  • LCF 1 year ago
    It's kind of amusing they don't want people to see it and make UPS look bad - yet they send it to EVERY UPS store it seems - There is another video out there about a guy who was fired by Apple for this sort of thing (link at bottom)
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  • JENNA! 1 year ago
    Dude, if someone in your office found this.. you'll get fired.
  • Adam Holwerda 1 year ago
    You're tellin' me!!!!
  • JENNA! 1 year ago
    I made that comment before even watching the video. Now after seeing it, good stuff. I guess it would be okay to get fired... heheh
  • Adam Holwerda 11 months ago
    P.S. - I did get fired.
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  • SectionJake 1 year ago
    I'm suprised you haven't gotten fired yet... hahaha..seriously now I think you were just misinterpreted.
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  • Angie Torres 1 year ago
    Upon reading your story on an unfortunate event which occurred about a week ago, I have revisited this video and wow, what an exaggeration this has blown into. I noticed that I hadn't pressed that little heart button on top, but now I definitely will.

    Sorry about your job Adam :(
  • Adam Holwerda 1 year ago
    I'm really not sorry anymore. It just seems kind of weird that these people tried to get me to be ashamed of something I'm proud of. Which is lame.
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  • David Barr 1 year ago
    Dude you’re a hero! You should sue UPS for sending out that email, isn’t that slander or some form of bullying, t**ts!

    Very good video, even without the whole 'I got fired' stuff, I would still have loved it, well done!

    Im sure UPS staff all over the place love this, the management might not but for the little people you’ll be a legend :)
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  • Radthanael 1 year ago
    What kind of dork says "further bulletins as events warrant" at the end of a video?
  • Adam Holwerda 1 year ago
    Oh, no, that's not me. I was just copying some random freak.
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  • Gus 1 year ago
    Wow, isn't UPS like a biggish company? That's so freakin weird they would send out emails, etc. about you. Is it because you make it look like the crappy place to work at that it is?

    Isn't that called free speech?

    ... nice backflip, though. and loved the commentary as a whole. and nathaniel may impression.
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  • charliesteadman 1 year ago
    Holwerrrrdaaaahhhhh! Nice backflip.

    I never make videos at work. I work "at will" which means my employer can fire me whenever it wants for whatever reason. Most of the time I get canned because the employer can't figure out how to make any money or can't con(vince) someone else to invest money into the business.
  • Adam Holwerda 1 year ago
    Is Vince a good con-man or a bad one? Are you Vince? Is Vince trying to get you fired?

    Can we con Vince into conning me some free dollars?
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  • Jimi Heffernan 1 year ago
    thats incredible that this got you fired.

    incredible in a bad way.

    congratulations though dude, you've caused some very stupid execs with a lot of power to be very angry with you. that's kind of cool.
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  • eric cwiertny 1 year ago
    Wow, so I finally saw the video that got you fired. For some reason I've been reading all the comments on the activity pages but never made it over till tonight. Wow..you really caused quite a stir for the "brown" company and it's chain of stores...go get a better, more fun and rewarding job...anything other than working there will do!
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  • Andrew Love 1 year ago
    Adam,

    Seriously, don't even worry about it. This reminds me so much of me when I worked at FedEx Kinko's for almost two years. I started looking for a new job from day one. Myself and the other employees would sit on the computers browsing for real jobs when there were no customers.

    Finally, when I quit, I wrote a letter to my boss, his direct superior, his direct superior, and so on all the way up to Ken May (CEO, FedEx Kinko's). I hear that changes have been made since then, but I don't really care. I am so much better off being out of that place.

    You are, too.
  • Adam Holwerda 1 year ago
    I tried replying earlier, Dr. Love, but Vimeo I guess didn't want me to.

    Thanks for the kind words. I AM glad to be out of there. I don't care what they think of me, they're a greedy corporation who are *constantly* losing money. So that makes me happy.

    At least now I can get paid minimum wage + somewhere.
  • pierrelourens 1 year ago
    Check out if your town has a summer youth employment program, or something. That's what I do during the summer, as an office job. They have nothing for me to do (in an IT department) except fix the occassional computer. Other than that? I bring my Macbook and use someone else's wifi all day.
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  • Texas Gentleman 1 year ago
    ditto, I would say that back flip was tight!
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  • islebehere 1 year ago
    glad you brought this back. you're a star!
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  • cameron 1 year ago
    You somehow managed to make a backflip funny!

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  • Khamis Hammoudeh 1 year ago
    I can hang out on Vimeo at work, that job must have been hella lame. Good thing they gave you the opportunity to look at your different options.
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  • el gabito 1 year ago
    Crazy thing is that UPS will probably use some video like this as a commercial at some point.. you know, laugh at oneself; e.g., guys kicking back at the UPS store because they are THAT efficient (in the marketing of themselves, of course ;)
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  • Ian Lucero 1 year ago
    At least you will be a someone.

    "I wanna help, I wanna help.."

    that was good.
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  • LCF 1 year ago
    someone else had a video like this - she worked in a framing store - and then you heard the boss come in 'can i see you in my office' - and she was fired :O

    Same deal happened with a guy at Apple (Canadian FedEx Lady Skit)
    youtube.com/watch?v=QFS0xl4_LAA
  • victoria 11 months ago
    teehee! that was me. i put the video back up: vimeo.com/151596

    never been happier to be fired. things are going great now :) i'm working for myself: activelymoving.org and it's great!
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  • Tamma Strongbear 1 year ago
    dude great video and sorry to hear about you getting fired. With a little luck maybe you can find a better job. or at least one where you are not some guy some where doing nothing on a sat.
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  • Anthony J Wells 11 months ago
    They were just jealous of your counter flip.
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  • Jakob Lodwick 11 months ago
    I can't think of many uses for Vimeo that make me happier than this.

    I don't think it was smart of UPS to call their employees' attention to this video.

    I love how a kid who they suck the life blood out of is a "leech".
  • victoria 11 months ago
    ironic
    and how incredibly unprofessional of them
    i won't be using UPS that's for sure
    gosh they remind me of Michael's
    YUCK
  • Adam Holwerda 11 months ago
    Weird, but really awesome. I never intended any of this to happen, but I'm glad it did and I'm glad it happened the way it did. And now there's a contest! WEE!
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  • 11 months ago
    Interesting video, hope you got a better job that you enjoy more. I know how jobs can be with videos and other stuff they dont like ya doin
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  • chriskalani 11 months ago
    ahahahah this is so funny dude.
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  • Elemeno Pee 11 months ago
    There's always the post office.
  • Adam Holwerda 11 months ago
    F that noise.
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  • Aled Parry 11 months ago
    Awesome video. I would say shame you lost your job but you don't seem all to bothered. Keep up the good work.
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  • Georgie Hammerton 11 months ago
    This is absolutely awesome! Fantastic video! :D
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  • jchap (Jeremy Chapman) 11 months ago
    haha, awesome, i love the styrofoam chugging.
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