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(got fired for) Just UPSin' It
1 year ago
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42. (got fired for) Just UPSin' It
1 year ago
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.
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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You entertained me, so that has to count for something.
can you do it on the ground too?
I hate that vimeo acts like I made it.
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.
Do you know how many people ~don't~ buy coffee at like 5 in the morning? It's around 6 billion.
nice back flip....last time I tried that, I hurt myself...
This was really good. You're very funny and if I could, I would visit you at work.
The weird thing is, your UPS store looks just like one of my old employers, a Tim Hortons donut shop.
Funny vid
But we still know where you live.
we really should find him :-P
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.
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
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 :)
Did I say she told me that I'd "publically humiliated her?" She was almost crying. I secretly laughed.
Or, you know. Not having to work there.
And they probably mean the way I suck blood out of perfectly innocent franchises.
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?
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.
Sorry about your job Adam :(
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 :)
Isn't that called free speech?
... nice backflip, though. and loved the commentary as a whole. and nathaniel may impression.
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.
Can we con Vince into conning me some free dollars?
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.
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.
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.
"I wanna help, I wanna help.."
that was good.
Same deal happened with a guy at Apple (Canadian FedEx Lady Skit)
youtube.com/watch?v=QFS0xl4_LAA
never been happier to be fired. things are going great now :) i'm working for myself: activelymoving.org and it's great!
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".
and how incredibly unprofessional of them
i won't be using UPS that's for sure
gosh they remind me of Michael's
YUCK