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South Korea Reverses Course on 69-Hour Work Week After Protests (ft. Tesh Rajan)

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0:00 I that's why I found out because a lot of my employees were like complaining to you about stealing their children yeah did you guys hear about the 69 Hour Work Week in South Korea 69 69 420. why'd you say that because it's it goes together they don't go together that's true I don't think so for four o'clock do they get off at four o'clock in 20 minutes hey dude we're a mature show over here okay we're trying to like Elevate we're trying to elevate okay how many that's old JFK JFK that's it yes that's a whole JFK that's eight minutes ago JK yeah okay we're not doing that ████ anymore watch it okay yeah we moved on sorry Steve what were you saying so the government um intended to raise the maximum weekly

0:50 working time to 69 hours and I'm not kidding about that they actually picked 69 hours which I guess is that like a good luck number in in Asian countries or something it should be why do they work six days a week or five the current cap is 50 52 hours how many days seven days a week or six that's ten hours that's a little over 10 hours so but then if it's 69 divided by that's 13.8 hours oh fact five if you work five days they include a lunch break oh because then they're just working normal hours 12 hour a day that's almost 14. I mean like that's 13 points true I mean I'm talking you know Asian standards yeah I wonder that they clock out the government announced that they're intending to raise the minimum weekly working time to 69 hours

1:40 and then protests all of a sudden sprang out from the country's Millennials in Generation Z which prompted the president uh to call them lazy um to order government agencies to reconsider the measure and communicate better with the public especially with generations and Millennials did the protests last longer than the work day would have yeah I'm surprised they just didn't call the aunties my point exactly whatever ladle my mom would have been like good so yeah they're saying that the core of their labor market policy is to try to protect the rights and interests of underprivileged workers um isn't it funny though that we're trying to reduce like uh we're trying to do like a four day work week or something yeah I saw that Congress Congress yeah and then they're doing the opposite way because they're trying to crush us they're trying to actually win that for

2:31 everyone they hire no they're trying well he's trying to say we're trying to protect the rights and interests of underprivileged workers right um but so he's saying all this while he's being super pro business and saying like we're going to raise the fight we're trying to protect you by giving you more hours you're gonna get paid more it's just your life expectancy is going to drop in a country where like uh they're having a population crisis is an answer to that to make people work more does that help that's probably what it is because then instead of finding more people to fill the hours you can use the same people just filling those days and make them meet at work yeah maybe they're just trying to maybe that extra hour of work is just socialized yeah it depends so like a big mixer everybody has a work boyfriend a work girlfriend or a boyfriend here's my workbook what about

3:21 part-time we are I don't think it says can there's no part time wait did you say part-time or apartheid apartheid you're welcome to come host it if you want yeah come host okay I hosted last week 69 hour part-time part-time employee we're looking for a 69 hour part-time skills require 69ing and the liquid 420 is so you got those two things you're in make sure you're free at 4 20 every day so there are there are other countries right like Britain where they um are trialing four-day work weeks and dozens of companies gave that a shot and said that it resulted in similar or better productivity and increased staff well-being interesting well yeah no ████ the guy right in that report's working less too

4:14 that makes no sense you saw that coming I don't know it's it's funny because I I'll see like these uh memes about how like Oh I'm a business owner and I changed working from my nine to five to now a five to nine so they're vampire now so basically they work yeah you work you end up working more I will say this working nights I mean as an actor it's completely different but it sucks when you work nights because your life is just ████ flipped upside I used to work graveyard in a in a in a restaurant so hard man because you make way ████ more when you take the graveyard shift of like like from like say like let's say from six to like four a.m right if you work where there's alcohol all that because you make the most in tips if your restaurant doesn't share tip and you just get to keep whatever they pay

5:04 you but then you don't see the Sun and then you get sick and all that stuff but yeah shouldn't they have to share tips everywhere don't you agree with that Joe no ████ no if I get if I get tipped because I did some extra favors you aren't taking any of that I had to suck dick for it yeah you know what's kind of weird um professionally I was there uncomfortable when you go to a restaurant and then uh the server straight up tells you before you tip he's like hey the tips don't it won't go to me so they do that yeah I heard that recently I went to an Indian restaurant hey give me cash at an Indian restaurant the guy was like Hey if you had the tip with your card I'll never get it he's like it'll just go to the all the difference nah dude what Indian restaurant let's go right now let's settle this I'm gonna go in I'm gonna say same thing and be like bring out your ████ mom okay let me tell you yeah you know what

5:55 you know why you didn't get that tip because your mom's in the back that's why a lot of businesses just like fine he's right he's not gonna get that tip his mom's gonna take it off yeah a lot of businesses steal tip yeah a lot of them yeah that's why I found out because a lot of my employees were like uh they're like complaining to you about stealing their children yeah people tip okay they're like wait like wait you gotta stop stealing our tips and I'm like but I'm hungry I need lunch now all the snacks you brought us today basically what I found out is that when at their other jobs or whatever if cash is short like they can't buy ████ ingredients they just win it to the tip jar and started buying stuff and they're like wait so we get to keep our tips they were so happy that they got breaks

6:46 they got tip money they got like I was like this s███'s just legal stuff that they're supposed to do isn't it amazing when you treat people with the bare minimum it's crazy when we like you a little bit everyone does it illegally so then when you just follow the rules bare minimum they're hella grateful right because but that blows my mind because in California if you did that you'd be so ████ screwed from all the lawsuits yeah dude I remember just showing up at my old job like my high-rise job and them thinking I'm some kind of All-Star because I showed up and like I would just do my job at time on time yeah yeah like I would just show up do my students that's true though what was everyone's first job you guys all grew up here right yeah yeah what was like your first real job as an adult I suppose I was an adult like out of school like not like past high school or college I was the manager

7:36 of Management Services for a company in downtown L.A where we we ran all the printers in defense contractors not kidding that's Lockheed Martin I would have techs that went to those buildings oh it's a good job that's a really good thing sounds good it sounds sick it was an office admin job okay but but that was my title but then I got paid ████ for it but it was cool that I was like sending people into these government buildings they all had to have classified yeah like what do they call it clear credentials right yeah that was a cartoon technician at Target shopping cart technician but that that was the top that you're like fixing that's all like yeah gave you some dignity baby cart technician you got the little thing with the remote thing that that you can push the cart with it oh that's pretty tight oh that is kind of

8:26 tight I don't see people using that anymore these days they're all doing an old school by hand manual yeah mine was a in 2001 I was the cell phone dude at the kiosk at the mall sick yeah you gotta like some covers yeah but by the no not conversely actual phones say you want MetroPCS were you that guy for your T-Mobile it was it was T-Mobile prior to um well it was it was actually Verizon prior to it it used to be called something else before it blew up Bell Atlantic it's called mobile Atlantic oh yeah but then by that time it was illegal to to Shark People you could go hey you got a phone like you couldn't yell oh really it was illegal to speak in public because they made it the public I don't know if you guys remember but in the late 90s that got so obnoxious it was so ████ people stopped going to the mall because they didn't want to be toxicity so they're like Ryan it's your fault

9:17 stop yelling at customer every initiate conversation someone had to initiate with you they had to go like hey what's is that when you learned how to spin on your head yeah you're like if I learned a spin on my head they'll just come up dude you're like how to become a better salesman I'll become an incredible breakdown but it was all commissioned back then so you could I went two straight weeks sometimes making zero dollars oh no nothing it was all commission so what'd you do if you can't talk to people just stand there you can't sit that's so against your personality literally just stand there yeah I just made paper airplanes all day and threw them in the winter did you make faces blinded 25 children in 1999 [Music]

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