Based on how much you guys loved the first one of these, you love seeing me absolutely mortified
by my own social awkwardness. So I guess we're doing it again.
First time meeting Linus was actually in the interview process for the job
because this is back when he was still doing that. It was pretty normal except for I had my YouTube
like home screen in the background. I hate that. I hate that.
It was pretty normal except that's how I know.
James really wanted to just keep the interview going and not waste time and Linus was like,
oh, what's on your YouTube home screen? So as I'm getting up to run over,
I can just hear James going like, no, it doesn't matter. That is such a personal thing to ask someone.
There's no way that I would do that today. I do still do some interviews, by the way.
He doesn't necessarily know that but I do still conduct some interviews
and I would never ask someone what's on their YouTube home screen, probably.
That's a normal thing to ask. No, I don't think that's normal, Sammy.
I don't think that's normal. For a YouTube company, I think. If I've got Linus telling me like asking a question,
I've got like, James wasn't my manager at that point. I'm gonna listen to Linus.
So I went over and like looked at my home screen and told him what was there.
But the first time I met him in person, I was supposed to start on the Monday
but I came in on the Saturday or Sunday because this was at the point
where they were doing a big clean of the studio. So we're getting rid of this giant secan
that was outside that had all these boxes in it and stuff. That was Ploove's first day.
That's wild. I forgot about that.
Yeah, we had a container that was just full of tech and boxes in the parking lot.
I don't think we filmed it. Did we film it? Was that?
Did we film the secret? No, that was a different B-roll. Dude, that was crazy.
If someone had come here during that time, there's like tens of thousands of dollars of stuff
just in the parking lot. That was crazy. Nope, we don't do that anymore.
Yeah, we don't do that anymore. So we're at all just like tearing down cardboard
while Linus was like scanning random box barcodes and stuff
and like we're just chatting and I can't remember. I did something stupid.
He's like, all right, well, you're fired. It's not gonna work out. And I figured he was joking, but you know, I wasn't on.
Okay, I have learned my lesson about that.
Back in those days, we had near 100% overall retention.
I hadn't really come around to the idea that people would quit sometimes
or we'd fire people sometimes. We kind of took pride in having extremely strong retention
and I would joke with people like, oh, you're fired, you're fired.
And I didn't kind of pick up until much later
that yeah, that's like not funny to anyone else.
Except Colton, I'm pretty sure he still thinks it's funny which is why it's not gonna work out with that guy.
He's in the video. Oh, is he in the video? Yeah, then Colton was right there
and he's like, don't worry, that means he likes you. So if there's anyone who I'm gonna believe
when they tell me that. Okay, there were stages of the your fire joke.
It was with everyone. And then it was with people that I really liked
and I knew that I wasn't gonna fire and now it's with nobody.
That's where we're at, except Colton. Fuck that guy.
He's a pretty normal guy. I don't know how to end this. That's not normal. Goodbye.
I'm Colton Potter. I'm head of the- Screw you, Sammy. What?
That's not normal. Oh no, not this one. What do you think his first time is?
I know what his first time was. I just hope he doesn't tell the story.
Open up YouTube. Go to a now defunct channel called Channel Super Fun.
Pull up indoor drone brackets destruction.
Oh good, he's not talking about the interview. This was pretty bad.
That video is the first time I'm in a video
and the first time I met Linus. So basically the way that it happened is-
He looks so young. He looks adorable. I was talking to Nick Light. I think I was supposed to hang out with him that day
because we're friends, we're buds, outside of work. Oh my God.
How have I not seen this picture? There's more pictures in that video.
Wow, Colton, you really glue up, hey? God damn that haircut though.
Not flattering. I was no better to be very clear, but like, damn.
Oh, you mute the audio. I what? You mute the audio.
How do I mute the audio? Can you hit M? Oh, does M mute? Yeah, that's on YouTube too.
They were moving things onto a U-Haul to come here and honestly I think Nick was just looking
for like free labor out of me because he was like, hey, let's hang out
but like you want to like help us move as well? That's not my fault, I didn't know that.
Wait, is this before he applied then?
Now I'm confused. I actually broke a drone
that Nick I believe in the video takes the fall for but I definitely broke it moving.
It was like the first box I grabbed. Look at the look on his face.
He's so guilty. Oh my God.
Mine is found out about this broken drone and he did his K, you know, like the shrug.
He still does it, right? He still does this and he goes K does one of those
and Nick covered for me. Otherwise maybe I wouldn't have gotten a job here
and I wouldn't have been fired so many times but if you want to hear my other like second interaction
with Linus, we did a video that was called what it's like to work for Linus.
I think Kim on like 2016. I talk about my first real sit down one-on-one with Linus
where he interviewed me. No! TLDR is I was one minute late for my interview with Linus
and I ran up to the Langley house and I was trying to open the door and the door was locked
and I thought Linus just ghosted me because I was one minute late.
I was like, man, this guy's hardcore. Then I was driving home and Linus calls me 30 minutes later
and it goes, hey man, I totally forgot about your interview and everything.
Can we reschedule? So we rescheduled. Nick had prepared him some questions to ask me
and I remember Linus having this bunch of pieces of paper and he was looking through.
He's like, this question's dumb. This question's dumb, whatever.
Just kind of throws away the piece of paper and then he asked me, are you into bestiality?
To which I said no. That wasn't the right answer. So he did get the right answer, which is great.
Which is why we hired him. It's just, it's one of those questions.
If you don't ask, you won't know. And then, then you would know if you should not hire someone.
But why do you, what was the point of that moment? That's not, that's not what I'm doing.
He just, you know, he had a look about him. I just had to make sure.
He had a look, what do you mean? How much longer is this?
There's so many this time. No, it's the same amount. It's the same amount.
Oh, it feels like it's so long. It's November, 2020.
It's peak COVID. We're all wearing masks. Most everyone is working from home,
but I'm at the office being onboarded for my very first day.
So we sit down in what's now a call room.
Nick and I to go take the Monday morning meeting. And as this is happening, Linus kind of walks into
the building finally. He's arriving a little bit late, later than usual.
I get the impression that he's in kind of hurried or whatever.
He pops in just to have a chat with Nick.
Which, mind you, there's enough space for Nick
to be visible to Linus, but I'm sitting behind
basically a pile of crap on this desk. So he doesn't even know I'm in the room at this point.
I don't remember this at all. Whatever he's about to say is a complete surprise to me.
At the last second, Nick goes, hey, do you want to meet our new person?
And at that point, I don't really know what to do because I'm pretty sure he hasn't seen me.
So I pop out like a meerkat from behind the desk,
from behind the pile of stuff on the desk. I just go, hi, I'm Adam.
I can't tell because he's wearing a mask. Can't tell if he's smiling.
I can't read him at all, but his eyes just look so tired.
And he goes, hey, so I don't know.
I have no idea what, I doubt he even remembers that story,
but I was actually kind of afraid to talk to him
after a little bit after that. So he's all brand. Yeah, Monday morning is not
my highest functioning time of the week. I'll say that much.
Hopefully Adam is not afraid to talk to me anymore. In fact, I'm very certain Adam's not afraid
to talk to me anymore. He's.
I applied to be a writer, so I interviewed with Linus.
And so my interview with him was like perfectly acceptable.
Hey, is that a first? Is that the first person to review
their first interaction with me as acceptable? Not acceptable, perfectly acceptable.
One of 10, let's go. But then I got hired here for my logistics position.
Oh, why is there always a but? On my first date Linus came down
and I absolutely scared the bejesus out of me. And just like gave me a fist bump and was like,
hey, I'll hope you have a great first day. That was it. Like all the other people who had a weird one,
I was like, I don't know. That seemed really strange to me.
Hey Jamie, were you there for the who the fuck is Dan Besser?
Oh yeah, okay. Dan was working here as a contractor before Alex Dick started.
Alex couldn't start until the end of the month, but Dan was free at the beginning of the month.
Dan was working on the old lab building,
but he needed Linus' master key. So we went up to Linus' office.
We grabbed the key and like as we were leaving,
all we hear is, what the fuck is Dan Besser? And Dan was like, was he talking to us?
Was he talking to me? Was he just saying something? And then we kind of went on with it the rest of our day,
but Dan was like, did I offend him or should I explain?
I was like, I don't know, probably not.
We just kind of went on with our day. I feel the need to explain that.
I was marveling that there are so many people in the company now that I can hand away a master key
to our buildings to someone whose name I have never heard before.
Without overthinking it, I was just like, sorry, Dan Besser, who I've never heard of before,
needs the master key.
Sure, you know, fuck is Dan Besser, but here he has the key now.
Go figure, right? We need name tags, was kind of what I was thinking. We never did name tags,
but we do have little signs on people's desks and they can be a lifesaver.
I started at Kiribati House and on the first day, the company had a softball event.
I just wanted to attend for exposure and just to know people because I didn't even know one.
I love the company softball night, but I can be a little bit intense.
So I hope, Sammy, you bold over Ariana, okay?
I got the point. Don't tell me about intense. You knocked her over.
Why do you think I yell at you? You're a menace to yourself and others, sir.
We got the point. I don't know what you're complaining about. You didn't get the point. You're at second base.
But that's halfway there. There's no points at second base. That's point five.
Trying to high five Linus, and I don't know if it's a thing,
but he's never impressed by high fives. He's always like, you can do better.
We tried three times, still nothing. And then we just moved on.
I thought he was interacting well because we were playing softball. He was teaching me how to play, how to pose,
and we had fun. And then he forgot about my existence
for the next four months. I really love softball night. I love softball night more than I love work.
So if you catch me on softball night, I'm usually in a pretty good mood,
except when I'm in Sammy's team. He was attending his fashion meeting
and I was caught up on my work. I was like, okay, I can just sneak in
and maybe take a selfie because I knew LMG before joining in.
So I was kind of a fan and the fan inside me still wanted to talk to him
or even take a selfie. And so I decided to do so.
I was down there. There was Linus and fashion people and Nick.
They would just talk in over there. Vance was over here just silently taking notes
and I was just creeped up to him. I was like, yo, what's up?
Just want to take a selfie. If it's okay, is it okay? He was like, yeah, let the conversation be over.
I was just waiting for three minutes and Linus noticed me and he stopped everyone.
I was like, how can I help you? It freaked me out, I'm just chilling.
Why do you do that? Why are you calling him out like that? Because I have the attention span of a goldfish
and I probably completely forgot he asked me.
No, he asked Vance. But then you just- Oh, he asked Vance. You pointed at him like,
how can I help you versus standing there? Well, because he's waiting.
Okay, but you can- There's nothing wrong with that. I don't know, I thought he said he asked me.
I don't remember this. So I thought he said he asked me, and so I said I forgot.
But yeah, if someone's standing waiting, it doesn't matter who they are.
They shouldn't have to wait. So you ask how you can help people.
But you put the attention on him, so it's more embarrassing. Well, then he shouldn't stand there
and wait for my attention if he doesn't want my attention.
Vance, the snitch, told me, oh no, he wants a selfie.
That was the most embarrassing day of my life.
He was like, who is he?
And I thought he knew me. Well, yeah, I just ran back to my desk
and never talked to him again. You didn't get the selfie? That is not true.
That is so not true. I talked to Sam at least once a week.
At least. Now. I got it six months later.
Let's go. Yeah, he wasn't seeing you. I think this is the day we took all of us to the-
This was our non-work-work day, where we went to the arcade.
And he still didn't remember me. Hey guys, I'm Yvonne.
You got called out right there. You got called out. Okay, yeah, but like much later.
Oh, you got Yvonne? Why would you get Yvonne?
Oh, at least her story is short. Do you remember?
No, wait. First time meeting me?
Yeah, I remember that, I remember that. She had a flower in her hair and she smelled nice.
I met him back in university, first year in university.
So we had just turned 18 and-
On loans were flying. School usually starts in September for us.
And then I think I met him in September, October. We had just finished one of our,
I guess midterms or exams or something like that. And we were standing outside and him and his friend
were discussing whether or not they got the answer rate. And I was standing there putting on my jacket,
getting my umbrella out. It's getting ready to head out. And I heard them talking.
And I was like, I think you guys might have gotten that wrong. So I jumped in, maybe I shouldn't have, but I did.
And then we started talking a little bit. And then I headed out. I didn't really think anything.
Later on that week, I noticed him again. I came in and I usually sit in the back
and I noticed he usually sat in the front. So the next- Keener, Keener who gets the answer wrong.
After that, I was like, oh, you know what? Maybe I'll just go sit somewhere near the front.
And he happened to come in and he walked into my row
and he sat probably like three chairs down for me. He was looking around, putting his stuff away.
And then he noticed me and then he started- I noticed her before I went in the row with her.
It was just, I was playing it cool. Talking to me. So then he came and he sat next to me
and then kind of headed off from there.
Oh. What class was that with you and Yvonne? Biology.
You know what I mean? No, no, just biology. I don't remember.
It was one of the courses that I passed, but did not excel at.
Hey, you had the greatest prize of all in there. These videos are so stressful.
Why you gotta stress me out like that? This is, it's too early. It's too early in the day.
It's too early in the week to do stuff like this.
Gigger, gigger, it gets your attention span up, you know? Oh, no, it gives me a headache.
Oh. All right. See you later.
Why am I awkward?