The Expert: Progress Meeting (Short Comedy Sketch)

2018 ж. 30 Қаң.
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Subscribe for more short comedy sketches & films: bit.ly/laurisb Buy Expert shirts & hoodies at laurisb.myshopify.com/ Square Project Ep3. Funny business meeting illustrating how hard it is for an engineer to fit into the corporate world! Another day of Anderson navigating the nuances of office life and his cubicle. Check out the previous episodes of The Expert: Square Project!
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Have you been in such business meetings? Is your business English up to the same standard? Any other interesting nuances of your business life? Let us know in the comments!
Starring: Orion Leem, Alex Wadham, Abdiel LeRoy, Amir El Masry, Ben Kernow, Eleanor Byrne, Seán Burke & Ayanna Coleman-Potempa
Directed by Lauris Beinerts
Screenplay by Lauris Beinerts
Story by Orion Lee & Lauris Beinerts
Based on characters created by Alexey Berezin
Producers: Michael Bel Gil & Damien Beaton
Executive Producers: Orion Lee & Lauris Beinerts
Director of Photography: Matt Riley
Production Designer: Catiana Becker
Costume Designer: Sabina Piccini
Editor: Connor Snedecor
1st Assistant Director: Archie Hollway
1st Assistant Camera: Matt Tregoning
2nd Assistant Camera: Joanne Smith
Sound Recordist: Xan Márquez Caneda
Gaffer: Pete Carrier
Make-up Artist: Sabrina Garside
Sound Designer: James Bryant
Colourist: James Willett
Equipment provided by Picture Canning & CARRIER-media.
Shot on location at Runway East.
Special Thanks to Natasha Larkin, Spike O'Connell & Edgars Jēkabsons.
A Constellation Creatives, FILM 0.1 & Meshes production.
(c) 2018.
The original short story "The Meeting" (in Russian): alex-aka-jj.livejournal.com/6...
The original short comedy sketch "The Expert": • The Expert (Short Come...
We made this video using:
- Arri Alexa Mini camera: www.arri.com/camera/alexa_mini/
- Cooke S4/i Prime lenses: www.cookeoptics.com/l/s4i.html
- Chapman Cobra dolly (a life saver!): www.chapmanleonard.com/dollies...
- A pint glass (for the wide shot)
- Printed handouts (all 375 pages if you ask)
- Sound Devices 633 recorder and 2 boom mics: www.sounddevices.com/products...
- A very illustrative graph
- Adobe Premiere Pro (for offline edit): www.adobe.com/products/premier...
- DaVinci Resolve (for colouring): www.blackmagicdesign.com/prod...
- Final Cut Pro X (for online - I know, I know...): www.apple.com/final-cut-pro/
- A bit of Buzz
- Pixelmator: www.pixelmator.com/pro/
- Dropbox: www.dropbox.com/
- TextEdit (for all sort of things...): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TextEdit
- Fountain & 'afterwriting: fountain.io/ and afterwriting.com/ (for the script, all 13 versions of it)
- A meeting room at Runway East: runwayea.st/
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  • You can now buy Expert shirts & hoodies at laurisb.myshopify.com/ For all the experts out there who can do absolutely anything they're asked to, this is the ideal garment for your office battles.

    @LaurisB@LaurisB9 ай бұрын
    • How can I submit an idea for your next short?

      @timothypham2509@timothypham25096 ай бұрын
    • @@timothypham2509, in general I am not commisionaing ideas, but I am open to collaborations (though am not planning to work on anything at the moment). You can just drop me a line on the e-mail that is on my channel.

      @LaurisB@LaurisB5 ай бұрын
  • A project manager is the sort of person that thinks, 3 women can produce one baby in 3 months

    @jackbotman@jackbotman6 жыл бұрын
    • Plus, you can also save on C-sections!

      @LaurisB@LaurisB6 жыл бұрын
    • A shit one... yes

      @lawrencecampbell933@lawrencecampbell9335 жыл бұрын
    • they would raise the salary to get another sap in the seat ... rinse and repeat

      @azae00Vids@azae00Vids5 жыл бұрын
    • or produce body in 7 months, and head in other 2 months

      @nursultanmarat7010@nursultanmarat70105 жыл бұрын
    • The original joke was 9 women 1 month..

      @didndido3638@didndido36385 жыл бұрын
  • 75% is also 75 / 100 which means they can produce 75 prototypes and when he's done we can ship the other 25. Its much more efficient than shipping only 3!

    @DrandelSheep@DrandelSheep6 жыл бұрын
    • Flawless maths!

      @LaurisB@LaurisB6 жыл бұрын
    • Uhm, both?

      @DrandelSheep@DrandelSheep6 жыл бұрын
    • Good joke

      @Leveler93@Leveler936 жыл бұрын
    • Could we reasonably take a risk here and say that 75% is 750/1000? In that case we can scale the production even further.

      @GetenGeten@GetenGeten5 жыл бұрын
    • Even better, 75% is also 75,000,000/100,000,000. That's an increase of nearly 100,000%! This has been very productive.

      @lewiszim@lewiszim5 жыл бұрын
  • To anyone wondering, the company is called Electronic Arts.

    @mihaitha@mihaitha4 жыл бұрын
    • I think this is Bethesda with Fallout 76. The "it just works" attitude is there. But yeah. The 25 percent as DLC is a nice observation on your side. Truth be told my first thought was Electronic Arts too. Then again. That conversation should end with someone saying 75 percent ready and out, if it is finished the other 10 percent ls sold as DLC, the remaining 15 is lootbox.

      @madmanarrivednow@madmanarrivednow4 жыл бұрын
    • 😭😭😭😭

      @brikimbran@brikimbran4 жыл бұрын
    • 🔥🔥🔥🔥

      @nathand256@nathand2563 жыл бұрын
    • Bruh i was about to comment that then i saw this.... 😂✋

      @Zekr0_@Zekr0_3 жыл бұрын
    • No, I'm certain I work there.

      @geekworthy7938@geekworthy79383 жыл бұрын
  • I wonder what would happen to this company if this guy quits

    @nicholaslau3194@nicholaslau31946 жыл бұрын
    • Don't give him ideas!

      @LaurisB@LaurisB6 жыл бұрын
    • It would clearly result in a better workflow now that he isn't there to block all of the ideas of his colleges.

      @gruntmaster1@gruntmaster16 жыл бұрын
    • Bankruptcy

      @Leveler93@Leveler936 жыл бұрын
    • gruntmaster1 That would make total sense. They would be at 1000% productivity without him

      @nicholaslau3194@nicholaslau31946 жыл бұрын
    • Nicholas Lau Just look at how researching the size of the right angle has dragged on. Clearly Anderson didn't do a thorough enough job. Probably because he keep insisting on these left angles when he was clearly asked to use right ones.

      @gruntmaster1@gruntmaster16 жыл бұрын
  • I feel for Anderson, as a developer I've been in similar non-sensical meetings.

    @inkysplat@inkysplat6 жыл бұрын
    • Did you have handouts with you?

      @LaurisB@LaurisB6 жыл бұрын
    • I love this series of sketch. I can so relate to this. :-)

      @olivierprevost1@olivierprevost16 жыл бұрын
    • The thing about handouts, if you make them really short and easy to read, people will say it lacks details. And if you make it long and detailed, they won't glance over it and sort of "go blank" and ignore all the details. You can't win in the game of handout reports.

      @Grumpy_old_Boot@Grumpy_old_Boot6 жыл бұрын
    • In the game of handout reports you win or you get a nasty paper cut.

      @LaurisB@LaurisB6 жыл бұрын
    • Grumpy ol' Boot I feel with you! Damn I hate to create hand outs!! One fucking typo and 15 Minutes in the meeting is lost because everybody likes to procrastinate on that typo. They are too lazy, dumb or ignorante to focus on the content in the first place!

      @thearchibaldtuttle@thearchibaldtuttle6 жыл бұрын
  • This is painful to watch. Especially if you're a real life Anderson.

    @nambeyejkatebe6241@nambeyejkatebe62416 жыл бұрын
    • if you're a real life anderson, you should quit your job or find better working conditions

      @Thunar7@Thunar75 жыл бұрын
    • @@Thunar7 Will send you my cv... you are probably with management.

      @orlanino@orlanino5 жыл бұрын
    • I was

      @semeionsho@semeionsho5 жыл бұрын
    • I was

      @semeionsho@semeionsho5 жыл бұрын
    • Agent Smith walk in: 'Well, well, we meet again.... Mr Anderson.'

      @Xylarxcode@Xylarxcode5 жыл бұрын
  • This scenario happened exactly 3 hours ago in our project meeting

    @kapitanblue5066@kapitanblue50666 жыл бұрын
    • Have you finished the revised schedule?

      @LaurisB@LaurisB6 жыл бұрын
    • Kapitan Blue is life in this world so Bizarre? So sorry.

      @MISJPEREZ@MISJPEREZ5 жыл бұрын
    • @@MISJPEREZ stranger than fiction

      @kaushalsuvarna5156@kaushalsuvarna51563 жыл бұрын
    • This is my daily life

      @timesmash@timesmash3 жыл бұрын
    • my condolences

      @ZoeeXiao@ZoeeXiao2 жыл бұрын
  • What I don't understand is why 90 degrees was the bottom value tested for right angles. I believe an 81 degree right angle would be better. It is 10% more efficient than a 90 degree right angle, and so we could expect it to work perfectly 9 out of 10 times. Alternatively, the right angle problem would have been resolved using a straight angle. R&D should look into developing straight angles. As we all know, in theory, straight angles are ambidextrous, so using them would allow them to be used for both right angle and left angle applications.

    @jcarlosquebrado6716@jcarlosquebrado67166 жыл бұрын
    • Are you looking for a new job, by any chance? We have an opening.

      @LaurisB@LaurisB6 жыл бұрын
    • JCarlos Quebrado My head hurts already.. stop!

      @Bleagle@Bleagle6 жыл бұрын
    • Haha 😅you have big imagination I can see

      @Leveler93@Leveler936 жыл бұрын
    • I lost at ambidextrous lol

      @rizkiyoist@rizkiyoist6 жыл бұрын
    • Your genius but people like me who r little dumb cloud understand this that's why they made it easy way

      @shridhar1286@shridhar12866 жыл бұрын
  • The last piece of the puzzle that is missing - is the Project manager asking for an additional customer requirement: the square will need to be capable to roll with 0 friction. "Just a minor addition".

    @gereonhuppertz@gereonhuppertz6 жыл бұрын
    • 0 friction, haha :)

      @LaurisB@LaurisB6 жыл бұрын
  • As a 40 year old engineer I finally understand what getting triggered means. I go through this entirely too often. Art is imitating life in the most brutal and honest way possible.

    @JW-be8wf@JW-be8wf3 жыл бұрын
    • Yeah these clips are so true and well observed, they are PAINFUL to watch.

      @blubb9004@blubb90043 ай бұрын
    • That is why I retired!;) Ex 'lectronics Tech/ IT 42 years...

      @flemingchrisjohn@flemingchrisjohnАй бұрын
  • I feel like I missed the "Design me a pie chart to show 114%" episode. I can just see how it would have gone down. "Anderson, you seem fixated on circles with this pie-chart problem. You're the expert, I shouldn't have to be creative for you, but maybe you should try a square. Think outside the box a bit." Then, someone else, "Clearly if he can't show 114% with his circle, then he needs a bigger circle. I'm not saying I understand everything Anderson does, but this is obvious. If you need more, make it bigger."

    @eltimbalino@eltimbalino6 жыл бұрын
    • Check out the previous episode:) bit.ly/SquareProjectEp2 But I like the way you're thinking!

      @LaurisB@LaurisB6 жыл бұрын
    • Hire this man!

      @Silver_o@Silver_o6 жыл бұрын
    • I'm not even an office worker but I legitimately FEEL this level of annoyance.

      @refusingtoconform@refusingtoconform5 жыл бұрын
    • There was an episode of Disney's show Dinosaurs where one of the characters was trying to explain extinction, and what they got was "what do you mean there isn't more? There's always more, that's what 'more' means!"

      @sirdeadlock@sirdeadlock3 жыл бұрын
    • sirdeadlock Go to 11.

      @clayz1@clayz13 жыл бұрын
  • 10 Rules for being a Project Manager: 1. Always tell the Program Director what they want to hear. Directors do not want to hear the word "No" or "Can't". Strike these words from your vocabulary entirely. 2. Never do anything yourself. Delegate absolutely every task, including the delegation of tasks. That way, you'll always have someone else to blame when things go wrong. 3. If the project is delayed for any reason, fire someone immediately. It doesn't matter who. Do not refill the vacant position. Leave the rest of the work for the other team members to absorb since they don't have enough to do anyway. This will give the Director the impression that you are taking charge and that the delay was not your fault. 4. Do not concern yourself with staying up to date on industry standards and practices. After all, if your company isn't already doing it that way, it must be completely irrelevant. 5. Be sure to take credit for everything your team accomplishes. If they complain, remind them that there is no "I" in "Team" and that the new solution wouldn't have been taken seriously otherwise. (See the movie Working Girl) 6. Make sure you have at least one hour-long, mandatory team meeting every week where you require each team member to produce a PowerPoint slideshow presentation about what they've accomplished so far and outline their "Strategic Work Plan" going forward. This way, team members will be forced to constantly justify their position and prove that they are essential to the project, thereby shielding them from elimination. (See rule #3.) This will also cause them to compete with each other for your favor and approval. 7. Never answer emails from team members. Doing so makes it difficult to gaslight them. Also, do not answer your phone, ever, and do not, under any circumstances, reply to voice mail messages or even listen to them. In fact, it's best to just let them build up until your voicemail box is full and can't accept any more messages. Being inaccessible to your team ensures they will have to figure out any problems on their own without dragging you into the tepid shallows of the piss-filled swimming pool we call "work". 8. Contracting expensive consultants when your own in-house team members are perfectly capable of providing the solutions needed demonstrates how seriously you are taking this project while diminishing the self-confidence of your team and increasing their self-doubt. This way, even if the team comes up with their own solution, you will be able to take credit for having the foresight to bring in an "expert" and makes it easier to require a larger budget for the next project. 9. Be sure to switch to a completely new software program halfway through the project and demand that everyone uses it while refusing to learn anything about it yourself and you continue to use the old program. 10. Your number one priority is to complete the project with as little work possible (by you) and just enough mediocrity to meet all the metrics and justify getting paid while handing it over with enough polish and shine to get praise. To do this, you must learn to exploit and capitalize on the talent and hard work of your team while making sure none of them is a threat to your job. By sharpening and fine-tuning this skill, with each new project, you will quickly rise to a level of ass-kissing and brown-nosing that will perfectly position you to become the next Program Director, where you will get to rub shoulders with executives and board members, travel to flashy trade shows and conventions in exotic locations, take months-long vacations, and sabbaticals, receive large bonuses, stock options, and obtain an enormous corner office, and a parking space. Who knows, you might even become a lobbyist!

    @BobbyLandiaPDX@BobbyLandiaPDX3 жыл бұрын
    • F

      @bait5257@bait52573 жыл бұрын
    • F

      @bait5257@bait52573 жыл бұрын
    • best comment

      @samgee500@samgee5007 ай бұрын
    • *capitaliSe

      @notgadot@notgadot7 ай бұрын
    • Preach!

      @GoodToGo1@GoodToGo14 ай бұрын
  • I do technical stuff that are hard to explain to laypeople in any kind of comprehensive way without explaining like 10 different technologies. Sometimes I have similarly frustrating meetings and interactions at work. I often show these skits to friends and family to explain what those are like for me. I'd gladly support a patreon or whatever to keep these coming!

    @keeflookeem@keeflookeem6 жыл бұрын
    • Glad you liked it! Patreon is something I've considered, but didn't think it would have been appropriate... Perhaps need to rethink.

      @LaurisB@LaurisB6 жыл бұрын
    • You would be surprised as to how many people would actually donate. A lot of people would look forward to small skits like this that they can relate since they also experience something similar at their workplace.

      @slayerbllade@slayerbllade6 жыл бұрын
    • Because too many "managers" and "supervisors" don't pay enough attention to hiring (or don't participate). Then they don't trust the hired guy... If you hire an expert, you have to make sure he is actual expert and then trust him. Because he knows stuff you hired him for. Otherwise you would be able do to that yourself. Which actually you should to some extent... But this is impossible.

      @infirmux@infirmux5 жыл бұрын
    • @@LaurisB this is gold stuff btw, i would pay $ to watch a few of these vids per month

      @michaelmaghi464@michaelmaghi4645 жыл бұрын
    • @@infirmux Too many managers hire experts, then don't respect their expertise anyway.

      @stan.rarick8556@stan.rarick85564 жыл бұрын
  • Get blamed for non-existent problems whilst being ignored when pointing out existent problems. Realism 1000%. These videos make me cry whilst rocking back and forth and laugh like a lunatic at the same time. It is a good thing the Andersons of the world don't resort to violence whilst they're still sane. Wait, is it a good thing?...

    @NLTops@NLTops5 жыл бұрын
    • I wonder the same question all the time

      @kartikeyb8542@kartikeyb85423 жыл бұрын
    • In the sense that all of you Andersons of the world don't end up in jail for assault - or murder? Yes. It IS a good thing that you all manage to curb your instincts towards resorting to violence! :p

      @dmf1301@dmf13019 ай бұрын
    • 😂😂

      @brandonlee5254@brandonlee52549 ай бұрын
    • Honestly, the attention given to somethings as appose to others. Asymetrical responses, one questions their sanity.

      @MubashirullahD@MubashirullahD8 ай бұрын
  • This is painfully accurate.

    @tipetu@tipetu6 жыл бұрын
    • I swear to God I work for these people....

      @bobthompson8053@bobthompson80535 жыл бұрын
    • Oh YES!

      @flemingchrisjohn@flemingchrisjohnАй бұрын
  • As part of a project that had a promised ship date for a product that wasn't even designed yet, this is all too familiar. One of the funnier/sadder lines came from a "marketing" person in the meeting, when "engineering" said that one of the prototype components was failing in testing, and they couldn't figure out why. "Is this going to affect the ship date?"

    @o2boutdoors@o2boutdoors5 жыл бұрын
    • Haha, you make a ridiculous sketch, but still there will be people that say: "Nah, this happened to me!" I guess, that is a challenge?

      @LaurisB@LaurisB5 жыл бұрын
    • I'm sure it's happened to more than just me; 'tis the nature of corporate life.

      @o2boutdoors@o2boutdoors5 жыл бұрын
    • The reply should be "No, not at all. You're an experienced marketing executive, so I'm sure you're capable of selling the customer a product that doesn't work".

      @ceejay0137@ceejay01379 ай бұрын
  • Brilliant writing, brilliant acting. He has the perfect WTF face, someone should make a meme out of it. LoL

    @lestersys@lestersys6 жыл бұрын
    • Take any frame around 1:33 and you have it

      @velkoivanov9155@velkoivanov91556 жыл бұрын
    • When the manager starts to explain the 3/4 like to a 6 year old, and everyone just keeps nodding... priceless

      5 жыл бұрын
  • I sat on a phone call and listened to our CTO tell a client that their project would take three weeks. The rest of us exchanged shocked looks, but waited until after the call to remind him we were swamped for at least 2 months, how could he promise them 3 weeks? "I said it would take 3 weeks, I didn't say when we would start."

    @DrewKime@DrewKime2 жыл бұрын
    • No, no! He's got a point!

      @Ancapistola@Ancapistola Жыл бұрын
    • Gotta admit, it's not the worst argument possible

      @a.h.s.3006@a.h.s.3006 Жыл бұрын
    • I'm sure that ended up working with no issues whatsoever!

      @geopolitix7770@geopolitix7770 Жыл бұрын
  • I think the most infuriating part of these sketches is slowly realizing that in some situations I'm Anderson and in other situations I'm Anderson's colleagues.

    @AlexanderMoen@AlexanderMoen3 жыл бұрын
    • That's great that you're willing to admit you see yoruself on both sides! I never saw it that way and only thought of it as "Thank goodness I'm not much of an Anderson in these scenarios".

      @wildgurgs3614@wildgurgs36148 ай бұрын
  • The Chinese guy is good actor, really. His face can tell the whole story. Lol.

    @hotaryuzaki@hotaryuzaki3 жыл бұрын
    • In my company he would have been fired because he dared to undermine the certain position of his colleague: he shows no solidarity.

      @dragonmartijn@dragonmartijn3 жыл бұрын
    • he's not chinese

      @DA-bm2mj@DA-bm2mj3 жыл бұрын
    • @@DA-bm2mj looks chinese to me, someone's who's also chinese. either way he looks asian

      @user-jd3gf5xw1x@user-jd3gf5xw1x3 жыл бұрын
    • ​@@DA-bm2mj Orion Lee from Hongkong. He is a professional actor, in fact he had a couple of awards and he is certainly chinese.

      @blacktigershearthstoneadve6905@blacktigershearthstoneadve69053 жыл бұрын
  • After watching all The Expert sketches i just want to hug Anderson and tell him it's all going to be fine.

    @DaLoler1@DaLoler15 жыл бұрын
    • But you know it isn't...

      @LaurisB@LaurisB5 жыл бұрын
  • 1:47 - His utterly confused/stunned face kills me every time.

    @hungv4375@hungv43756 жыл бұрын
  • Scary thought : there are people out there who thought this was a perfectly ordinary meeting

    @sohangchopra6478@sohangchopra64783 жыл бұрын
    • There wasn't nearly enough backstabbbing and rivalry between the team leads to call this meeting "ordinary". Even though Anderson's boss made the rookie mistake of letting the engineer sit at the table as though they were people.

      @davidwuhrer6704@davidwuhrer67042 жыл бұрын
    • @@davidwuhrer6704 as an engineer, can confirm we aren't people.

      @RhombonianKnight@RhombonianKnight2 жыл бұрын
    • It seems quite ordinary to me.

      @martinhenzl@martinhenzl Жыл бұрын
  • I had a similar "meeting" with one of the managers at work. Guy can't even spell the word software and he was lecturing me (i am a software developer )about how to develop code. I was trying to explain to him how the functions he is using cannot take all the arguments he wants. Programming languages have rules just like every other language out there! It was pointless. He kept telling me to go find some tutorials online to study. 🙄 Business people are the most useless in the industry. Zero actual skills. They are overgrown toddlers that learn a new word everyday and then just repeat it.

    @vivianscircle@vivianscircle3 жыл бұрын
  • What Anderson is missing is a good team lead. As a developer, Anderson should never have been in that meeting. He should have been working on the 'Linear Solutions' project. A good team lead knows how to placate an aggressive project manager while still looking out for the best interest of his/her team.

    @aklosterboer@aklosterboer5 жыл бұрын
    • Exactly this. Making Devs or techs jump to answer random emails and meetings and stuff instead of doing their job...smh my head

      @faithful451@faithful4513 жыл бұрын
  • This is the 4th or 5th time I've come back to this series to watch it. It never ceases to be funny.

    @audaciousfalcon7981@audaciousfalcon79814 жыл бұрын
  • "That's 9 out of 10" I love how he raised his finger, about to say "actually, no. That's 9 more for every 10." but didn't have time to say anything XD

    @SuperHansburger93@SuperHansburger933 жыл бұрын
  • As much as I love these videos, they make me really angry :D keep it up!

    @PatrisDev@PatrisDev6 жыл бұрын
  • He's decided to use the right angle for the square project, and he's getting Anderson to remove any pesky left angles, but he forget to tell Anderson to make sure the lines in the right angle run parallel to each other. ^_^

    @fuzzylumpkin49@fuzzylumpkin496 жыл бұрын
    • fuzzylumpkin49 it's ok. 50% of the lines are parallel so we can ship the first 2 of 3 of 4. Remotely fix the 3rd. While completing the design for the fourth. Dont worry. I'll adjust the project schedule, showing you working on those tasks in parallel. Please don't thank me, that's what my executive bonus is for. Your bonus? Well this is the middle of an economic dowterm, that would just be sending the wrong message to our shareholders.

      @voltairespuppet@voltairespuppet6 жыл бұрын
    • ...in a shape of a kitten.

      @Neolisk@Neolisk5 жыл бұрын
    • But Not Too Thick Lines! But Make the Red Lines with a Blue, Green, Invisible, and Black Pen!

      @robertweekley5926@robertweekley59264 жыл бұрын
    • 😆

      @Lucky10279@Lucky102793 жыл бұрын
  • Before getting my degree: _I can do most things, but not in a professional way._ After I got my degree: _I can somewhat do most things kind of professional, still a lot to learn._ At my first workplace: _Who cares about professionalism, as fast and as cheap as possible is our norm!_ In other words: The employer requires his workforce to have a college or university degree, but then forces them to work the same way they did before getting that degree...

    @TlMDV@TlMDV3 жыл бұрын
    • Who told you your degree was training? It's a pre-employment competence test administered at your expense for your employer's benefit.

      @jamespfitz@jamespfitz3 жыл бұрын
    • @@jamespfitz You actually got a good point there. That sadly doesn't make the 'rushed work' problem less annoying... I understand that in running a company sometimes things have to be rushed, but if this happens regularly there is a bigger issue at play. I want to be proud of my work, not ashamed and embarrassed...

      @TlMDV@TlMDV3 жыл бұрын
    • @@TlMDV Same. Still want to be able to pay rent though.

      @davidwuhrer6704@davidwuhrer67042 жыл бұрын
  • why on earth do I keep clicking these? they are very upsetting. I feel for poor anderson.

    @axlslak@axlslak5 жыл бұрын
    • it's called addiction

      @LaurisB@LaurisB5 жыл бұрын
  • This is so good, and it is also following a story from each sketch to the next, brilliant! The diabolical thing is how Anderson is called for every meeting only to be never listened to or always contradicted

    @Ardjano234@Ardjano2344 жыл бұрын
  • Just like in real life then. 10 office crawlers in suits bragging away with the results left for one single worker to sort out months in advance of the regular predetermined schedule.

    @peterliljebladh@peterliljebladh6 жыл бұрын
    • I guess, everyone should hope they are not that one worker?

      @LaurisB@LaurisB6 жыл бұрын
    • 90%

      @YourNickIsTaken@YourNickIsTaken6 жыл бұрын
  • I stumbled unto these videos and was totally impressed as they captured the ignorance of the PM and the frustration of the developer.

    @AnnaVelvet@AnnaVelvet5 жыл бұрын
    • Now you’ve stumbled all over my videos!

      @LaurisB@LaurisB5 жыл бұрын
  • Every once in a while, I come back to this video. I don't know why. It hurts the same everytime.

    @kanadetenshi4311@kanadetenshi43113 жыл бұрын
  • We are 75% done, this means 3 out of every 4 ... I died :D :D

    @jazko@jazko5 жыл бұрын
  • These clips are hysterical! The whole team have great comedy instincts. I love Anderson! 😛

    @dmf1301@dmf13014 жыл бұрын
  • Lauris and team, Thank you so much for this series! Absolutely brilliant!

    @KingKhong811@KingKhong8116 жыл бұрын
    • Thanks, glad you enjoyed it!

      @LaurisB@LaurisB6 жыл бұрын
  • Thank you so much for providing us with more insight into the life of a true expert.

    @Thiesi@Thiesi6 жыл бұрын
  • I feel so much places and reaction in common with Anderson, especially thinking and working in Asia way. Cannot help watch for dozen times, Good job, Lauris. Please keep making such good works!

    @bigekai@bigekai6 жыл бұрын
    • Glad you enjoyed it!

      @LaurisB@LaurisB6 жыл бұрын
  • Before it was funny. Now I'm just conflicted on whether I should give Anderson a hug or just punch everyone else.

    @josephdouglas5242@josephdouglas52426 жыл бұрын
    • Joseph Douglas easy conflict solution. Why not both?

      @gavinmay6949@gavinmay69496 жыл бұрын
    • Same.I was just angry at my phone screen watching Anderson suffer ...this is deja vu...

      @sadia2395@sadia23955 жыл бұрын
    • To do both I have been in meetings where one guy does his absolute best to make everyone else on the project team feeling like absolute crap and after the meeting is over this same individual is brown nosing the rest of the team trying to get the objective met and take the credit yet again

      @arnoldsherrill6305@arnoldsherrill63055 жыл бұрын
    • Everyone else is just doing their best to make the right noises to not get fired.

      @davidwuhrer6704@davidwuhrer67042 жыл бұрын
  • Very well done. A paragon of a progress meeting. We actually train our middle management using your videos in order to streamline our projects. The turnout has increased by 132 percent during the last quarter.

    @u.v.s.5583@u.v.s.55834 жыл бұрын
    • 132% over 4 quarters is a 528% increase! Enjoy your promotion

      @theastuteangler@theastuteangler2 жыл бұрын
    • @@theastuteangler so true king

      @axerity9212@axerity921210 ай бұрын
    • I have literally attended a meeting about meetings. I was working on a project as one of the SMEs and OMG.... People were talking about what we should and shouldn't cover in our regular catch ups, does anyone have any ideas for "meeting hygiene" 🙄, should we take turns chairing the meetings - no thanks. The project manager should be driving this. What shall we do to encourage better attendance at our meetings? I dunno, don't make them so painful, useless or long and drawn out like this one? I scream and curse internally hoping one day I don't say the quiet part out loud.

      @jena.alexia@jena.alexia9 ай бұрын
  • I'm 175% happy watching your short films. Gratitude!

    @addriannodj1990@addriannodj1990 Жыл бұрын
  • Love this series

    @masonhock6442@masonhock64426 жыл бұрын
  • I love how everyone has got so accustomed to the exaggerations of completing "135% of the project!" that they are yawning at it.

    @fenrisulven5324@fenrisulven53242 жыл бұрын
  • these skits absolutely infuriate me, i love them

    @karimajouz8745@karimajouz87453 жыл бұрын
  • I don't know whether I should laugh or cry. These comedy series remind me of my job.

    @hueshangdangergeld@hueshangdangergeld5 жыл бұрын
  • Please keep these coming!

    @blackhat2005@blackhat20056 жыл бұрын
  • Squares on wall paper, squares on shirts, on ties, on drinking glasses, out in the hall there are squares everywhere in this video! are you trying to brainwash us? lol Seriously love this series!!

    @MovingForwardAdventures@MovingForwardAdventures6 жыл бұрын
    • There were a few squares under the table, as well!

      @LaurisB@LaurisB6 жыл бұрын
    • Why not on the pencil box? is that any different that it doesn't get the square treatment?

      @xja85mac@xja85mac6 жыл бұрын
    • This is the Square project ;)

      @misticalinteractive@misticalinteractive6 жыл бұрын
    • Are those squares using right angles or left angles? 90 or 100 degrees? I am confident you cannot make squares with 90 degree right angles.

      @treviskelley1149@treviskelley11496 жыл бұрын
  • I did one of those ridiculous on line interviews yesterday and had to describe a challenging incident. I said that trying to explain engineering to salesmen and accountants was as tough as it got. The rejection email arrived within hours!

    @greenpedal370@greenpedal370 Жыл бұрын
  • Love these! The Expert is still my favorite video of all time :)

    @joceton@joceton6 жыл бұрын
  • This is a fantastic example of how you can allow yourself to get taken advantage of if you let fear prevent you from disagreeing or being assertive.

    @ltnlabs@ltnlabs4 жыл бұрын
  • Hope these videos reach every offices

    @vyshak4492@vyshak44925 жыл бұрын
  • This is partially why I switched from engineering to sales. One time I got called into a big meeting with the CEO and he asked, "How many mg can our pump hold?" "Well... it depends on the concentration sir." "AGH! That's exactly what Brian said. Why won't you just tell me how many milligrams are in our pump?"

    @somequasiparticles@somequasiparticles5 жыл бұрын
  • The expert after the meeting. Pure gold!

    @DLBeatty@DLBeatty2 ай бұрын
  • This series is gold!

    @charlescote3989@charlescote39896 жыл бұрын
  • This is an accurate representation of how most game companies publish games?

    @Madbronine@Madbronine6 жыл бұрын
    • Is that a question.

      @LaurisB@LaurisB6 жыл бұрын
    • @@doko3000 thanks for the link, it was too damned accurate

      @halfondarr3951@halfondarr39514 жыл бұрын
    • @@halfondarr3951 I thought so too!

      @doko3000@doko30004 жыл бұрын
    • its painfully true

      @reptilianhuntress9968@reptilianhuntress99684 жыл бұрын
  • Lauris, I hope these videos have provided an income to help you escape whatever situation that inspired these videos! This is all too spot on to my current experience and it helps to not feel alone! lol.

    @jmfs3497@jmfs34972 жыл бұрын
  • That 114% pie chart killed me...

    @MrUbikkk@MrUbikkk Жыл бұрын
  • Best short comedies ever! Please do more! I've seen them all ~5x times.

    @raduku4all@raduku4all4 жыл бұрын
  • All the department heads trying to outdo eachother by completing 114% of their objectives 90% ahead of schedule is spot on

    @brendantracey699@brendantracey6994 жыл бұрын
  • This is so true

    @prandtlmayer@prandtlmayer5 жыл бұрын
  • I can watch this over and over again and it never stops being true

    @RobinHagg@RobinHagg3 жыл бұрын
  • Thanks so much for the comedy! lots of laughs

    @couragef8450@couragef84506 жыл бұрын
  • This is how developers like Bethesda develop their games.

    @ChadeGB@ChadeGB4 жыл бұрын
  • This is one of the best Sketch ever, maybe also because he's relatable with nowadays world with all the technology we have.

    @Leotique@Leotique5 жыл бұрын
    • Glad you liked it!

      @LaurisB@LaurisB5 жыл бұрын
  • I love these. It's like a documentary of my life.

    @cjhickspe1399@cjhickspe1399 Жыл бұрын
  • I cannot believe I just stumbled upon these. My new favorite youtube channel

    @coffeedrinker88@coffeedrinker882 ай бұрын
  • As a computer programmer, I have been in situations exactly like this one ..

    @nomad4k@nomad4k4 жыл бұрын
  • Marvelous videos guys, really made me laugh (and glad that I recently quit this environment so now it hurts a loss less! More PTSD than an open wound haha) You should put them in a playlist on your channel :)

    @Muzikman127@Muzikman1276 жыл бұрын
    • Here you go! bit.ly/TheExpert_Series

      @LaurisB@LaurisB6 жыл бұрын
  • Please make more of these!

    @justinreusnow@justinreusnow3 жыл бұрын
  • I love this videos... They give little strokes every time

    @eduardodimperio@eduardodimperio2 жыл бұрын
  • I feel so sorry for Anderson. Cant he get a break just once? maybe meeting someone that isn't a complete tool at the office? (Like a soulmate or another expert from another company?) It just seems like hes ready to jump the building soon xD

    @jinxatron@jinxatron6 жыл бұрын
  • I love when I heard a manager said, we will hire 2 or 3 more person therefore we can finish the project earlier...

    @ElGroggy@ElGroggy4 жыл бұрын
    • Never works like that....Also providing training on the job needs to be accounted for. Pretending like it doesn't exist is an awful disservice to the poor sod who does it.

      @oniongingertomato2216@oniongingertomato22163 жыл бұрын
  • My goodness Keep 'em coming Subscribed!!!!! Wow

    @mylifemychoice2727@mylifemychoice27273 жыл бұрын
  • Awesome work!

    @darthvader1494@darthvader14946 жыл бұрын
  • After 4 years without news, I hope Anderson quit and is living a happier life

    @richarddeananderson82@richarddeananderson822 жыл бұрын
  • This is why my local park was closed for 15 months to do 3 days work.

    @StickmanA@StickmanA4 жыл бұрын
  • Guys I love your work.

    @ConstructiveMinds100@ConstructiveMinds1003 жыл бұрын
  • This is awesome. I can feel the frustration.

    @cattocs@cattocs3 жыл бұрын
  • Wow, that's exactly how my company operates...

    @Andrew0you0tube@Andrew0you0tube6 жыл бұрын
  • More of The expert and Anderson please...

    @IvyI2639@IvyI26395 жыл бұрын
  • I'd say this video is just on the borderline of funny and painfully accurate... :D

    @michalstary9920@michalstary99203 жыл бұрын
  • I can relate. I deal with it almost every day.

    @temptemp1600@temptemp16005 жыл бұрын
  • Why did you stop making these skits? They're amazing.

    @knightenchanter7908@knightenchanter79082 жыл бұрын
    • Better to stop before they become stale.

      @Hannodb1961@Hannodb1961 Жыл бұрын
  • I am IT guy and this shit is so true.

    @nishantaadi@nishantaadi3 жыл бұрын
    • Me too. I can confirm this is absolutely true although the manager should have asked only single words. As everyone knows IT guys can read your mind. :-)

      @WhereIsTheSpartan@WhereIsTheSpartan3 жыл бұрын
  • Your videos are absolutely hilarious.

    @saketmulge9003@saketmulge90032 жыл бұрын
  • I cry of laughter every video. Also cry of pain.

    @RobinHagg@RobinHagg4 жыл бұрын
  • Meeting was too short. Never that quick.

    @icmull@icmull4 жыл бұрын
  • This video makes me aware of the astronomical salary difference between engineers and managers. P.S engineers are way underpaid.

    @ashismandal7776@ashismandal77765 жыл бұрын
    • I once worked on a project where everyone was hoping the manager would not show up, because whenever he did, he would loudly explain things to himself everyone else already knew, and nothing would get done. That manager made as much as the rest of the team combined. (And I was assured that that had been a bargain, because he had been head-hunted from a different company, and been reputed as a genius in hus field (corporate management).)

      @davidwuhrer6704@davidwuhrer67042 жыл бұрын
    • And to be fair, he kind of was. He made sure that none of the workers got paid a minute too much, that as little tax as possible was actually paid, and that marketing was generously funded for annually rewriting the unchanging company guidlines on colour schemes and occasionally posting to a Twitter feed that nobody was following, while the homepage redesign was outsourced to the relative of an acquaintance who needed to buff their CV.

      @davidwuhrer6704@davidwuhrer67042 жыл бұрын
  • I wish you made more od these. They are so great and accurate it pains me :D

    @Pawelandbajer@Pawelandbajer3 жыл бұрын
  • please more of those !!!

    @uhateulame9092@uhateulame90926 жыл бұрын
  • Hahaha very accurate

    @crimson4595@crimson45956 жыл бұрын
    • A round number!

      @LaurisB@LaurisB6 жыл бұрын
  • This is the footage of Mr. Anderson before the Matrix. Now I know the real reason why Anderson took a red pill

    @cry2love@cry2love4 жыл бұрын
  • Wow...this captures the story of my working life perfectly...

    @sribandi6496@sribandi64965 жыл бұрын
    • I'm still waiting for an updated delivery schedule...

      @LaurisB@LaurisB5 жыл бұрын
  • I love this film documentations.

    @Fotos3000@Fotos30005 жыл бұрын
  • Just like most startup.. let the users be the tester 😂

    @cuteoliv@cuteoliv6 жыл бұрын
    • Septian Ahmad Fujianto Most corporates too. And not only in IT...

      @Mzansi74@Mzansi745 жыл бұрын
  • I have a variation of this: I call it the "Do It Like We've Always Done It, Just Better". This scenario happens when "The Business" wants something "enterprisey" and "innovative", but the whole process is driven by risk-adverse, non-technical managers who have no idea how such solutions are actually implemented. When the Expert in this case proposes a particular solution, the Business people cherry-pick bits and pieces of the solution to fit their limited understanding of the problem and they crazy glue them onto the prior solution. As meetings continue, it becomes painfully apparent that no true innovation can take place because the Business is not willing to take any real risks. All the Business really wants is a solution similar to what it's always done, just "better".

    @2199SPUDMAN@2199SPUDMAN4 жыл бұрын
  • This is even more funny after watching all of the episodes one after another

    @chaellExE@chaellExE3 жыл бұрын
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