I got fired over TEA! [kEbj-hX8KpA]

No, I'm not talking about my current job.

I'm talking about this office job I had

about 7 years ago now. It was right after

I had my job at the kitchen, and my dad

managed to get me a job at the company

that he was working at. And the reason why

I got fired from that job was because of

tea.

British people, they drink so much tea.

They're drinking tea all day, and And at

this office, they would be making cups of

tea all the time. And if you went to make

a cup of tea, you couldn't just make a cup

of tea for yourself. You had to ask

everyone in the office if they also wanted

a cup of tea. So you had to go to the

kitchen and then you'd shout out to the

office, does anyone else want a cup of

tea? And then if anyone wanted one, you'd

have to make them a cup of tea. But

everyone had their own preferences when it

came to tea. Some people had sugar, some

people had no sugar, some people had milk,

some people had more milk, and you kind of

had to remember everyone's way

of making— how everyone likes to have

their tea. And I didn't really know about

this unspoken rule, this tea rule at the

office, and I would just go and make a cup

of tea for myself. And then this guy,

we'll just call him G because I

don't want to give you his real name. I

really didn't like this guy called G, and

he would say things to me like, Daniel,

if you're going to make tea, you have to

ask everyone else if they want a cup of

tea as well. And I was like, okay, this is

kind of stupid. So I ended up

just— I stopped making tea for myself

because it was such a pain in the ass

having to make everyone else a cup of tea.

When I went to make tea, so I ended up

just bringing a bottle of water to work to

drink, and I stopped making tea. Uh,

it wasn't a really large company, and a

lot of the time I didn't really have much

to do. Most of my job was just filing,

putting documents in order, and filling

out stuff. It was really boring. So when

there was no work for me to do, I would

just start studying Japanese, and G,

he didn't like this. He thought, you're

here to work, not to study Japanese. And

when he saw that I didn't have anything to

do and I was just studying Japanese, he

would ask me to go around the office

asking people if they wanted tea. And it

was so irritating. I felt like if people

want to drink tea, then they should just

go and make it themselves. It only takes

like 30 seconds. You boil the kettle and

you put some stuff in the cup and then you

stir it. Why do you need a person to go

around making tea for everyone? And then I

had to clean up, do all the washing up,

wash up all the cups and the mugs and the

spoons in the kitchen area. There was this

one time when they were having a meeting

with the company directors, the managers,

and the head of the company and my dad.

They were having this meeting, maybe 6 or

7 of them, and then G asked me to go and

make tea for them, and I had to go into

the meeting room with a tray of tea.

I didn't mind that. I just felt

embarrassed because my dad was there, and

I felt like a bit of a disappointment.

My dad was hoping that by me joining the

company, they were going to train me up

and make me like a, um,

part of the team, a part of the company.

Someone who can,

someone who can help out with work and

learn how to do things in the office. But

it was just like they were just getting me

to make tea the whole time and do washing

up. I felt a bit embarrassed. I would

never voluntarily ask people if they

wanted tea or not. So G didn't really like

this, and one day he just came up to me

and asked me, he said to me, Daniel, I

want you to Go around the office every day

at 9 AM and 4 PM and ask everyone if

they want a cup of tea. And go around the

whole office and go down to the workshop

and ask everyone there as well if they

want to have a cup of tea. And I was like,

oh my god, are you kidding me? Are you

joking? And I was just so fed up with the

job. I really wanted to focus on studying

Japanese, and I was really unhappy.

Working there. And I just,

I couldn't take it. I said no. I just

said, no, I don't want to do that. And he

wasn't really shocked. It was like he was

expecting it. It was like he planned to do

that expecting that I would refuse so he

could get me fired. I don't know if he had

like something against me or if he didn't

like me. After I said no to him, he said,

okay, let's go and have a chat with the

manager. So I had to go and have a chat

with the manager who was kind of like my

boss, and he asked

me, are you happy here? And I couldn't

lie. I said, no, I'm not happy.

And then he gave me like a lecture about

tea and how it forms relationships

and brings people together and creates

like a family atmosphere and how it

important it is to make tea and offer

people drinks, and I was just thinking the

whole time, this is a load of bullshit.

You must be joking. This is a load of

rubbish. What are you talking about? It's

just a cup of tea. If people want tea,

they should just get up and make it

themselves. You shouldn't have to get one

person to make everyone's tea. It's just

such a waste of time. Aren't there more

important things that we should be doing

than making tea. So I just sat there

listening to his stupid lecture about tea

making, and after that he said, if you're

not happy here, unfortunately we won't be

able to continue your contract here.

And I said, okay. I was about ready to

leave anyway, so it didn't— it wasn't

really a shock. I wasn't really surprised.

I was kind of expecting it, and Even if he

didn't say that, I would have said I want

to quit anyway because I was just so fed

up with that place. My dad was a bit

disappointed. He wasn't happy with the

situation either, and he kind of shares

the same views that I have about the whole

tea-making situation. He also said if

people want a cup of tea, they should just

get up and make it themselves. But now I

start— I'm starting to realize that this

is kind of like a British culture thing

that when you make a drink for yourself,

you don't just make it for yourself. You

have to ask everyone else, who else wants

a drink? They do this at my work now at

the petrol station. They'd always be

asking me, Daniel, do you want a drink?

Do you want a drink? Do you want a drink?

No, I don't want a drink. If I want a

drink, I go and make myself a drink. It

doesn't take more than 20 seconds to press

the hot water button on the machine and

and put a cup under there. It's not

difficult. I don't need people making

drinks for me. And most of the time,

people don't even know how I like my drink

to be made. They say, Daniel, do you want

a cup of tea? And I said, yes, please,

the first time. And then I had to explain

to them how I like my tea. I just have tea

with a tea bag and hot water. I don't have

milk, I don't have sugar. And they were

like, what? You don't have milk? You don't

have sugar? That's really weird. It's not

weird. You put milk and sugar into tea and

it ruins the tea. It stops tasting like

tea and it just tastes like sugary milk

with a bit of tea. I like to— I enjoy the

flavor of tea, so I just have the tea bag

with hot water. I don't like to have milk

and sugar and all that crap in it as well.

And one day my coworker, he just asked me,

he said, Daniel, how come when you make a

drink you don't ask anyone else if they

want a drink? Everyone else here,

whenever they make a drink, they ask if

other people want a drink. And I was like,

oh my god, are you kidding me? I had this

problem 6 to 7 years ago in my office job.

I even got fired because of tea, and now

you're going on about tea again? I just

said to him, I don't know, it doesn't take

long to make a drink. I don't really feel

like it's necessary to be asking everyone

if they want a drink or not. And I

actually told him the story about how I

got fired from my office job because I

didn't want to make tea for people. He

just laughed and he said, oh, that's okay,

and then he walked off. He's nice. Yeah,

that was my story about tea and I lost a

job because I didn't want to make tea for

people. Now that I think about it, it is a

bit of a stupid reason to get fired from a

job, but I just don't understand this

custom, this British custom of having to

make everyone else a drink when you're

going to make yourself a drink. It's such

a pain, such a waste of time.

Okay, so now we've finished the topic of

the video, I wanted to talk about my last

video a few days ago about growing up in

the UK as mixed race. That video has a lot

of views. More than I usually get. It has

over— it has nearly 300 views, which is a

lot for me. Usually my videos only get

about 100 views and maybe 200 if I

use clickbait, but I didn't even use

clickbait on that video, and for some

reason it got hundreds of views. So I

thought to myself, hey, this is a bit

fishy. Why does this video have so many

views? So I went on to analytics and I

checked, um, discovery, and 30%

of the traffic for that video is coming

from Reddit. And I was like, really?

Reddit? Why are all these people coming

from Reddit? So I searched on Google,

Reddit, and I typed in the video title,

and there was a post on this subreddit

for— about children who are— people

who are mixed race, half Asian, half

white. Someone posted my video on this

subreddit saying something like, hey guys,

I found this guy talking about growing up

as mixed race, and he posted my video on

Reddit. And there are about six replies.

Some people were saying he only got

bullied because he looks Asian. This other

guy says he doesn't look Asian at all; he

looks Caucasian apart from his eyes. So

it's completely contradictory. And then

another guy posted a link to my Instagram

of a picture of my family,

which is kind of creepy. I know I

made that photo public, so. Only have

myself to blame, but I found it really

creepy. Like, they're posting links of my

family on Reddit, and then someone replied

to that post, ew, yuck,

disgusting. He said

that about my family. I don't really see

what's disgusting about my family.

Anyway, I decided to delete that photo off

Instagram and all photos that, that have

photos showing my family because I'm

starting to realize that people are

watching my videos and they're clicking on

my Instagram and I have all these personal

photos that are kind of public. I really

don't mind revealing personal stuff about

me or showing my face to the public, but

I'm not so comfortable showing my family

because I didn't really ask for their

permission. Maybe they're not— maybe

they're not comfortable with it, so I

decided to take family photos down.

I should have done it a long time ago. I

didn't really feel like I was getting that

much exposure, but then when people start—

like random people, strangers— start

posting links from your Instagram onto

Reddit. I don't really like Reddit, to be

honest. I know there's a lot of good stuff

on it, but I feel like it's very seedy and

shady, and there's a lot of people on

Reddit who are I don't really feel like

it's a very friendly place, Reddit. You

need like Reddit points to be able to make

topics and create posts,

but in order to get points you need to

post a lot and make a lot of replies. And

Reddit seems to block you out if you've

made a post and then you try and make a

new post straight away. It will say

something like You've been doing that too

much. Please wait a few minutes. So you

need to post a lot to get points, but then

it restricts you from posting. So I just

get fed up. Like, what's the point?

You're not even gonna let me post a lot to

build up points. I'm not gonna be sitting

here waiting all day. It's like you can

make one post every hour. Like, one post

an hour. That's just stupid. I guess it's

to prevent spam, which kind of makes

sense, but it just really puts me off

using the site because, yeah, I do want to

make posts and reply to people's writings,

posts, comments, forums, stuff like that,

but it restricts me. And I'm not sitting

there waiting for a whole hour just so I

can reply to someone. After an hour's

passed, I've completely forgotten about it

and I've lost interest in replying. So

that's why I don't really like Reddit. So

that was just a little thing about that

video and Reddit. I don't mind if you want

to post my video or link my video— link my

video on other forums or Reddit, as long

as it's respectful and you're not saying

mean things. Although there's nothing I

can do really. If people post mean

comments, I can delete them on YouTube.

On my channel, but outside of YouTube, on

other websites and Reddit and stuff like

that, I can't really do anything because

I'm not a moderator. I don't have those

powers. I guess I need to be careful from

now on. I need to be careful making parts

of my life public and parts of it private

that should be private.

Because you never know when— like right

now I don't have that many viewers, a few

hundred, but you never know when you're

going to upload a video and it's going to

get a lot of exposure. And I guess

I need to be careful because it's like a

lottery. You upload a load of videos,

most of them aren't really going to get

any views, but then you might get lucky

with the YouTube algorithm and suddenly

one of those videos just gets thousands

and thousands of views because it gets

recommended to people, or it comes up high

on the search list. It's really random,

YouTube. It's kind of like gambling

in a way, but not really because I'm not

losing any money, or losing— I guess the

only thing I'm losing by making these

videos is time, and I have a

lot of time. If the person who

posted that video, linked to that video on

Reddit, is a regular viewer, regular

viewer, or a subscriber of my channel, I

don't— like I said, I don't mind it. I'm

not angry with you, or I'm not saying that

you should take it down or delete it. Um,

I was just a bit surprised, that was all.

And yeah, I felt a bit uncomfortable with

that other person who linked a photo of my

family. This is a bit creepy, to be

honest. I was a little bit creeped out.

Oh, and, um, you might have noticed that

recently my videos have been getting

shorter. It's just because I've been

finding it very difficult to find time to

make videos. I'm waking up very late in

the evening and my parents are here, so I

feel a bit restricted.

And, um, yeah, it's just very difficult to

find a time where I feel comfortable

to make a video. Before, I was waking up

in the afternoon and I had a lot of free

time where I was alone and I could make

videos easily, but my sleep schedule is

kind of changing. I'm staying up until

9 AM and then going to sleep and then

waking up really late. I'm just trying to

figure out this whole night shift thing,

trying to find out what suits me best.

What's the best way of— like, when should

I eat meals? When should I eat dinner?

When should I have a large meal? When

should I wake up? When should I go to

sleep? It's very confusing. It's not easy

doing night shifts. So yeah,

thanks for watching, and this is the end

of the video.