Lmao. Ikea masturbation is the top searched phrase on the hub of pronz right now. I'm sure @Xerobull had a part to play in this.
Since most of you have no idea about the supr sekret unsweated thread, this had to be shared. First time it was dumb. By the two-dozenth time, this guy's pr0n stache rulez and it's pure genius of love... posted for the masses...cred to @NewRoxFan for opening our eyez...
You know some of these type of workers are sick of all the coupon scams, pricing errors, and cheat-the-discount posts on forums, etc. that cause a rush of people to show up at retail stores looking for crazy discounts. lol.
Watching for couples arguing in Ikea is a fine drinking game. Double if one of them cries. Ok, triple if the man cries.
how many arguments through the history of IKEA have happened during the assembly of their products. It has to be in the thousands.
https://the.ink/p/scottseiss Sometimes a viral video is more than that — it speaks to something so widely felt in a moment. And I think yours about working at Ikea landed at this moment of a real crisis of people's feelings and relationships to work. As a professional observer of the culture, why do you think the Ikea series caught the way it did? SCOTT: I just think that people are sick and tired of being treated like **** at work. I mean, people are underpaid, they're overworked, and especially within the pandemic, they're realizing that they're being asked too much of by their jobs. And the video is depicting a minimum-wage worker at the breaking point, making the switch, turning on the customer, turning on the job, and I never expected it to take off the way that it did. I never in a million years thought it would get to this level. It's absolutely blowing my mind. I'm just so, so grateful for all of that. And the fact that people that work absolutely thankless, thankless jobs are enjoying them or getting some sort of catharsis from them means the world to me. Tell us your history with Ikea. SCOTT: I worked customer service at Ikea for three years, from 2016 to 2019. I was in the call center and I was mainly taking complaints over Facebook and Twitter, and sometimes I would talk to customers via email or over the phone. But my wife actually — at the same time that I was working at Ikea — was working retail at the Disney Store in the mall. So I have a lot of experience with customer-service stuff, and I'm writing the jokes for the videos. I showed them to my wife to make sure that they feel true, that they're funny enough. She's a big part of the process helping me with that. She's not a comedian herself, she's just a very, very funny person who doesn't need validation from strangers — unlike me. Did working at Ikea make you more or less likely to shop at Ikea afterward? SCOTT: I think it made me less likely to order online. Most of the complaints we had came from online orders. But I still like Ikea; I still go to Ikea. A lot of the furniture in my apartment is Ikea. No hard feelings towards Ikea whatsoever. I love the people that I worked with. I loved the environment, but there's just something about retail and customer-facing jobs. Here's my theory on it: People are so powerless within the economy that when they get face to face with a retail employee or over the phone, that's the only time people have power over someone else in the economy. That's the only time that people get to exercise some sort of control or are made to feel like they have power, because of the “customer's always right” thing. People abuse that all the time. Most don't, but some do. And that's why retail is a thankless job. It's the same thing with people who are mean to waiters. It's only because they are so powerless in the economy. This is their only situation where they can be mean to someone else, where they're allowed to be mean to someone else. But love Ikea, love them. […] So there's this real uprising that seems to be happening against work as we know it, against our same-old-same-old jobs, as the light at the end of the tunnel of the pandemic shows itself. People are vowing to change their lives, abandon jobs that were slowly killing their souls, and it's happening at various levels of income and privilege, etc. What do you make of the work revolt, such as it is? SCOTT: I love it. Let's go further. I'm a big fan of the workers' revolt. Labor policies, workers' rights, that stuff is huge for me. I'm very, very interested in all of that. I think that people work far too much. I think people are paid far too little, and I think all of the stuff within the past year is showing that the work-life balance needs to shift completely in the other direction. People do not want to spend 80 percent of their lives on their job, sending emails or being on their feet in stores or waiting tables or whatever it is. People need more time to focus on their own lives, their own wellbeing. So, yeah, work revolt? Big fan. Big, big fan. What do you think the minimum wage should be? SCOTT: I say $30 an hour. Let's make it $30. Whatever lawmakers are willing to set it at, let's double that, just to be safe. That's what I say. I say, whatever it is, let's double it. We've tried underpaying people. That doesn't work. Let's try overpaying for a little bit. I think that's the best strategy right now. What's really in the Ikea meatballs? SCOTT: I think it's balsa wood. No, I don't even want to — I'm so dangerously close to getting sued by Ikea, I feel like that I don't even want to make a fake answer to this question. I appreciate Ikea's reasonable prices on many things. But there are some things where you're like: That is TOO cheap. Dangerously cheap. Why is some of that stuff SO cheap? SCOTT: Same thing as the meatballs — it's all made out of balsa wood. I mean, it's like particle board. It's little bits of wood that are, like, glued together. And then they put like a nice finish on top. I don't even know if this is trade secrets. Again, I'm sitting over here checking the mail every day for a cease-and-desist order from Ikea. I feel like this is just going to fan the flames. Why is it so cheap? Because Ikea cares about the customer. That's the one they would want me to say, maybe. Oh, man. It's just not stuff that's built to last. OK, I think that's good enough. […] If Ikea wants you to do social media for them, will you accept? What if they paid in unlimited meatballs? SCOTT: Been there, done that. I started taking complaints over Facebook and Twitter through their social media. So when you tweeted that, a friend of mine texted me and said, "Wow! It really has come full circle." I moved away from Ikea social media to do comedy, and then my comedy gets recognized and then I go back to doing social media for Ikea. That would be the funniest way that this all resolves itself. What if they pay me in unlimited meatballs? I don't really like the meatballs. I know people love the meatballs. I never really understood the meatball sensation. I liked the salmon that they had in the restaurant. The meatballs are OK. Pay me in salmon, maybe I'll come back. Maybe I'll pick up another shift just to get some more material, actually. That's not a bad idea…
The Angry Ikea Guy would like a word -- as long as that word is not "Malm" https://the.ink/p/scottseiss
For the sake of my marriage, I build Ikea furniture by myself. I refuse to have my wife help. It never ends well.
