Hilariously Weird Training Videos

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is this an return or an extange? YES

Drew's eyebrow raises at the Wendy's "revisionist history" part give me life

“Selling is service, and service is selling”

Love this video I am a little stinker.

12:30 As someone who works with food, Why is she back there without a hair net? And why aren't they wearing the appropriate gloves? Seems like she needs to be sucked into a training video about food safety.

8:53 the biness lol

I closest thing we had at Red Lobster was online tests we had to do at work

I worked at Wendy's where you can get simultaneously get burned by grease, cheated on, yelled at by coworker and costomer and receive payment.

Hey Drew, my name is Andrew, not Drew. I get it.

no one will see this but when i worked at Justice (a US store for tween girls) i had to watch a vhs tape (keep in mind, it's 2019) about how to stop someone from shop lifting except it was 5 episodes long, each ranging from 15 to 30 minutes and there were 3 shop lifters, Mr. Lift, Mr. Steal, and Mama. it was very weird and in about episode 3, they did sing a song. it overall taught me nothing because it was from the 90s and shoplifting has since gotten new strategies, but watching 2 greasy men in all leather pretend to steal children's jeans was pretty entertaining.

og my gosh i just realized he looks kinda like eddie redmayne lol

What, that’s not Chuck E. Cheese?🥺😣😖

The Wendy's grill video was so groovy.

My mom used to work at Wendy's, she used to open. She actually had a story when someone forgot to add the patty, and the woman came running back in, waving it around and screeching "WHERE'S THE BEEF?" While laughing.

the Wendys training video is the best thing in the entire universe

Did they really just insert the intro to "Welcome to the Machine" @ 9:40 thinking we wouldn't notice??

At 9:42, is that the beginning of Welcome To The Machine by Pink Floyd?

my training videos have always been terribly boring. at dunkin’ you have to create an account with dunkin’ university i think it’s called? and watch 12 hours of videos broken into 30+ courses and take tests after every one to make sure you were paying attention. quizzing on the heat of coffee and bacon and how to clean the milk machines. i wanted to blow my brains out honestly. you get paid hourly for watching them but it was truly the most grueling part of my time there even when i worked a few 3am-3pm shifts. at jimmy john’s my manager just “forgot” to show me them

The videos i had to watch at fedex freight were pretty epic. Lots of mannequins driving or being runover by forklifts

9:08 as a Wendy’s worker currently I’m cackling

5pm + 10 hours = 3am. You worked at wendy's until 3 am ?

Damn Wendy’s sampled welcome to the machine by Pink Floyd

hey i have that blockbuster shirt too

wow that hair look really good on you. I think it's the sideburns

mmm primark. not a vhs but..... there was such a long video we basically spent the first two days just watching powerpoints and these hordible videos

I just realized this, but in the Wendy's one their idea was to make employees watch a training tape of a guy... watching a training tape..?

I worked at Wendy’s, too. What a time

I had a friend that worked at Chuck E. Cheese and to be honest with you the costume is very dirty and smells bad

5:39 sounds like five nights at freddy’s

I worked at chuckecheese in 2011, I watched that exact outdated training video. I was the pizza guy but everyone had to take turns wearing the costume. So yeah......I've been in the rat suit. You're not allowed to speak while in the costume and the first time I wore the costume I walked out of the training room/costume closet a kid got scared of me and started crying. I apologized to the mom and walked away. My manager pulled me aside immediately and said these exact words "I don't care if that kid was crying, don't fucking talk in the suit." That place was a literal shit show. I ended up quitting because they wanted me to clean shit and vomit out of the tubes lining the ceiling that kids crawl through. I got that job thinking I was going to be making food. I barely made any food.

I used to work at a CVS, and I had to do this onboarding thing when I first started. Our store had this shitty, greasy ass little iPad that I had to keep at my register so I could do the trainings. It was basically a little powerpoint thing you had to click through while a robot lady read them out loud to you, but sometimes it made you go do stuff. For one of them I remember I had to go over to the fridge, check a thing of milk, and make sure it wasn't expired. My personal favorite "units" were money laundering prevention and teen drug abuse prevention, which I did not get paid enough to deal with. there werent any songs tho, so 0/10 from me

Sorry hi Danny

I am pretty sure I worked at a kitchen for a physical rehab place and under their shitty union we had to watch a vhs about work safety.

as a furry who frequented conventions in the before times, the chuck E cheese time out thing doesn't even faze me, though it shows how cheap the suit must be bc there are ways to install fans in the head and stuff to make the heat more bearable. and those eyes are so small, how can you see ANYTHING in that thing? most fursuiters have a friend as a handler to check on them and make sure they're safe, and cons have dedicated rooms with the AC cranked. not to mention water stations everywhere! not like furry conventions were big in the 80s though, lmao

Old Navy definitely had a weird ass training DVD. I vividly remember the fashion montage of what to wear to work which was basically just telling employees to also shop at old navy and only wear capris

Lmao just the thought of them not actually caring if they have to faint, just that they don’t want it to happen in front of the children is very believable that it’s not even funny yet im also laughing haha

The place I work at, when I first started the computer based training was outdated. They had these guys who couldn't act and the did a rip off mythbusters theme. It was so lame. It was hard not to fall asleep. So glad they updated it and got rid of the videos. We do have a CBT for active shooters. Omg was the acting hilarious. You couldn't help but laugh at the guy getting beat with a fire extinguisher.

They turned Chuck E Cheese into Poochie

Who's idea was it to make a mascot a rat for a pizza joint..?

I like how they pretend the beginning of the Wendy's song wasn't the into the welcome to the machine

Shut up, Julie!

Did you add "Welcome To The Machine"?

the wendy’s music smacks

What if there are sprinlocks so don't sweat😰😰😰😰 oh no aghhhhhhhhhh

Rats are actually one of the cleanest animals

I get that Drew. People always call me Abigail even though that's not my name.

Too bad I'm vegetarian. I'd love to eat the best burger inabiness

Aren't all basketball games "blacked-out"?

the first 30 seconds or so is just him talking ab`out his 2021 self

11:28

That new Chuck E looks like he's on meth

The training video calls him Chucky, but that's not his name, it's Chuck. Chuck E. Cheese. Fun fact: The E stands for Entertainment.

Why is the billionaire founder of Wendy’s filming his add in a dark closet? 😄

I lost it at the time out signal 😂😂

I just found you and honestly havent had this good of laughs in a while.. thank you!

they showed us at Shopko

I worked at TJmaxx when I was 17. I actually was forced to sit and watch VHS training videos and two of them were awful 90s raps. This was in 2014 but at least I got paid to do it!

You did better videos but at the end, at the begging of advertissement, you remind me to cut my hair, thanks! I m serious.. 🙂🤣 really🙃🏅

Hi Andrew

I never comment on youtube but i literaly logged in just because i HAVE TO share this lab safety video we watched for a course isslows.info/life/ar2UnIHDoq21ksg/v-deo.html i've seen plenty of safety instruction videos and they're usually incredibly boring but this production was probably the single continuously funny 40 minutes i've ever watched

YES the Nintendo one was my immediate thought when you talked about the rabbit hole

That insert of "human meat" made me laugh a bit

I know my profile picture is a pink floyd album so I may seem a bit biased, but at the beginning of the wendy's training tape at around 9:45, a clip of the Song "Welcome to the Machine" by Pink Floyd plays before being cut out by the wendy's song

I don't like that drew says rats are disgusting... I love them 🥺

At Warby Parker we watched training videos and powerpoints to teach us how to use the POS system, read Rx, and interact with customers. It was just as corny as the VHS trainings in this video. 🤣🤣

That was my experience working at Wendy’s. Short changed on wages.

"Turns out they were beautiful women this whole time" the plot of every anime ever

5:39 by "in trouble" they likely mean overheating in costume

The wendy's bit where the camera is in the screen used the beginning sound from welcome to the machine by pink floyd. Just wanted to share that

is this greg?

I was so scared of chucky cheese, I would always get to the other side of the room when he came out.

I remember in high school I opened my school email one day and I found that my friend had emailed me the Chuck E. Cheese training video with no context. I watched the whole thing and laughed my ass off the whole time. I miss that guy.

Is that Owen Wilson in a chefs hat?

I found my way back to this video, just to hear the intro, after watching the sad boy podcast, I feel sorry for you. You make me laugh but I never knew what’s behind the joy that I always get from you. We love you Drew, stay well x

I watched this video so long ago and I’m STILL so mad at your Wendy’s manager. You deserved better.

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lol ive seen plenty of corny training videos in my day. The worst though was Wal-mart, I had two brief stints there during college. However one of the times they had a whole video on the dangers of unionization. During orientation. An orientation video about the dangers of joining a union. If you can ever find that I think it'd make great content.

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I worked at a Wendy's in a college dorm for 6 months. Some of my favorite management moments (all involving the same manager): -Her telling me I was opening a trash bag the wrong way -Her telling me I was opening a paper bag wrong -Her telling me there was no point in putting a sign out to let the customers know we were out of spicy nuggets because "They'll find out when they get to the counter" (so, after they'd already waited 15-30 minutes) -Me asking her about the pay schedule and her telling me, "Oh, it's complicated. Go clean the lobby." -Going through a 2 hour rush (where we had at least 10 people in line the whole time) with me on the register and the her on the make line. Once we finally got a chance to catch up, she immediately started asking me rapid fire questions about whether I had cleaned the lobby/condiment stand -We hit a rush right as I was supposed to get off. Finally, 1.5 hours after I was supposed to leave, we finally got a chance to catch up and everything calmed down. I told her, "I'm supposed to leave now" because I was trying to be polite about it. To which she replied, "Are you supposed to leave now or are you supposed to ask me if you can leave now if I'm done with you?" -Her routinely scheduling me for 36-38 hours/week (not including the amount of time I worked past when I was scheduled) and then would give me shit about not wanting to come in on my one day off during the week because "I'm only a part time worker" TLDR: Fuck Wendy's

the entire intro sent me

I worked for a gas stations and i had to watch a video about not selling booze to drunk people and how to handle it and they had a guy pretending to be drunk in the video

I actually did watch a training video like these back in 1999 when I got a job for Michael's Arts & Crafts. It was just as awkward & badly acted &ridiculous as these. My favorite part was when they were explaining what not to do when bagging glass items customers purchased, & the actor playing the cashier literally throws a vase in a bag, bangs it on the counter, then hands a bag of shattered glass to the customer like nothing's wrong

Bill grew as a person, lived a whole life, made a best friend (or fell in love, i bet their wedding was beautiful), and then came back to reality. I feel

The patties are square to maximize storage volume

Uh, hello hello! Uhm, for today's lesson we will be continuing our training on proper suit handeling technique. When using an animatronic as a suit, please ensure that the animatronic parts are tightly compressed and fastened, by the spring lock located around inside of the suit. It may take a few moments, position your head and torso between these parts, in a manner where you can move and speak. Try not to nudge or press against ANY of the spring locks inside the suit. Do not touch the spring lock at any time. Do not breathe on a spring lock, as mouisture may loosen them, and cause them to break loose. Incase that the spring lock comes loose while wearing the suit, please try to maneuver away from populated areas, before bleeding out, as to not ruin the customer experience. As always, if there is ever an emergency, please go to the designated safe room. Every location is filled with 1 extra room, that is not included in the digital map layout programmed for the animatronics or (security systems?). This room is hidden to customers and animatronics, and is always off camera. As always, remember to smile, as you are the face of Freddy Fazbear's Pizza

Look up best buys tag TV songs they are corny as hell

So when you question the time out signal at 5:52, yes, fainting from overheating is a very real danger when wearing a fursuit or mascot costume. All furry cons that I've been to (since 2012 when I started at least) have a panel for people's first con where they'll explain that if a fursuiter is fanning their face (or making the "out of air" throat chopping gesture that divers use, it varies), don't interrupt them and let them pass, or help guide them to the headless lounge or elevators, because they're overheating and may even need help. And yes fursuiters have definitely fainted in suit at conventions and staff are trained to recognise and respond to this.

I like this hair cut

10:23 when did this turn into parappa

The more I watch this channel the madder I get that drew doesn't have a series of videos on how to do clever videos, especially covering comic editing. I would love to learn how to do this

Andrew Gooden

They really stole Pink Floyd’s Welcome to the Machine intro

Why is the intro for the wendy's training video the same intro for Pink Floyd's "Welcome to the Machine"

used to work at a panera. one of the training videos was about how you should call in sick instead of trying to tough it out. they chose to highlight this by walking us through a "what if" scenario where a panera employee came to work sick, got a customer sick, and that customer just so happened to work for NASA and was too sick to save the earth from an incoming meteor. it is my fondest memory of working there

I work in customer service. Your skit of returning the Xbox... On point

I used to work at the zoo and for special events I volunteered to do the mascot suiting. Yes, the time out signal is ominous, and yes, that's basically why. Haha. You have very limited vision (worse in some suits than others) and the costume is super hot with poor ventilation and you're expected to be physically active. We had to have a spotter at all times because of the poor visibility. One time my spotter wandered off while I was Rudolph, and some children ran up and tackle-hugged me around the knees -- I couldn't see anything and it came out of nowhere. I almost went down and would've squashed some children, it was actually scary. Haha. You also can't talk because it would "break the magic" so hand signals are used for "I need fluids and to take this head off, please guide me out of here". And I was working outside, in fall and winter, mostly, and it was still so easy to overheat.

The general manager at the Papa John's I used to work for, on numerous occasions, would omit pay. Finally, he got fired because he straight up didn't pay someone for 3 weeks. It's pretty annoying because it took something as absurd as not paying someone for 3 weeks before the district manager found out. It's predatory bullshit. Omitting pay is super illegal and not openly commended by corporate; however, the practice is still encouraged systemically. Factors like inconsistent customer volume can often lead to staffing miscalculations. In the eyes of many corporations, labor is the most expendable resource - this is especially true in fast food.

Tbh I’ve always though Chuck E. Cheese’s always had bomb ass pizza, and their ranch was always good asf. Maybe it’s just me 🤷🏻‍♂️

I can't think of any other channel that makes ad-reads as enjoyable as this guy. Despite having absolutely zero interest in any products he's trying to promote, I actually look forward to them and never skip them. Keep up the great content, Andrew!