A new season of Utopia is coming Wednesday 7 June 8pm to ABC TV + iview! 📅

@kparker2430

Жыл бұрын

OK you got me, what? Fantastic Vid. Nailed it.

@sarcasmo57

Жыл бұрын

25/03/2023. I was ere.

@theselector4733

Жыл бұрын

That's putting undue pressure on the viewers and potential commentators. Is there a YT complaints dept I can report you??

@AnotherDoug

Жыл бұрын

@@kparker2430 Beverley asks the date every time she starts to write something. It's a metaphor for a metaphor: saying HR doesn't know what day it is.

@kparker2430

Жыл бұрын

@@AnotherDoug onya got it :)

"Oh my God, have I let HR in the building again?" 😂 The question that begins every bad day in the office.

@brettbroadbere2614

Жыл бұрын

😅😅

@J-P88

Жыл бұрын

10-15 for manslaughter 😂

@skillmeup53

Жыл бұрын

Try working in training, you regularly get dumped in with these fucktards.

@aussiepressconferences.4755

Жыл бұрын

I laughed out loud at that line but I was on thr bus to work.

@TheMusicalElitist

4 ай бұрын

Oh deal with it.

After 15 years with a global corporate I heard every single one of these cliches on a ridiculously regular basis.

@michaelscott1060

Жыл бұрын

I spent 30 years 😢😢

@gibbo3783

Жыл бұрын

Yep, almost every day……

@lmlmd2714

Жыл бұрын

#Relatable

@captainpoppleton

Жыл бұрын

DING - defeatism

@mwallace2922

Жыл бұрын

Your not alone. Stay strong

"I hesitate to use the term 'toxic workplace environment'." "you just did" "But she hesitated." XD

@spacecadetmcgee7349

3 ай бұрын

She hesitated.

The great thing about the last scene is that in the show, he'd actually sent her off to be promoted and be given a raise. But by the time HR was finished with her she was doubting herself and ready for mental health leave. Tony hadn't asked for HR's opinion, just to do the paperwork. But they just had to fuck it up.

@Ch50304

11 ай бұрын

Yes, i saw this episode, Tony respected the hell out of her, and HR women gave me the creeps.

@socalledchaos8139

4 ай бұрын

Yeah...Nat is the most competent member of that team

@Sujad

4 ай бұрын

Early in my IT career, I did six months of IT support for a HR department. Let me tell you, it completely changed my views on women. I was absolutely floored at how vicious and petty they could be to each other and how rapidly cliques would form, dissolve or exist simultaneously. I was so happy that they just saw me as a piece of furniture and ignored me.

@TheBonzol

4 ай бұрын

@@Sujad I had something similar. Except the female cliques, would attack everyone, and eventually even came after me, when all I did was sit there in the same room and program.

@roadwarrior144

3 ай бұрын

Thats HR, they exist to fuck people over to create problems so HR people can generate reports and reprimands to justify their existence on the payroll. “Look how important I am, solving all sorts of employee problems (that I am busy creating).

"Maybe 10-to-15 for manslaughter" ah man, this show

@Prosper661

Ай бұрын

I was snorting with uncontrollable laughter for about 5 min....😂

@AlbertoRestuccia

Ай бұрын

What was the show??????

@jacdimond

Ай бұрын

In all fairness, every HR department is exactly the same! They make up issues to keep their jobs

@AllenAuman1

14 күн бұрын

BEST!! 😂😂😂😂😂❤

Brilliantly written and that HR person is superbly acted. Don't you just hate her.

@jortaro

4 ай бұрын

Great signs of a perfectly executed performance

@TheMusicalElitist

4 ай бұрын

Yawn

@amiralavi5585

Ай бұрын

Yeah, she's a great actress

@JunWongs

Ай бұрын

Even has a Karen haircut 😅

@jakobbauz

24 күн бұрын

I do indeed, yes. Passionately.

People in HR are just hammers looking for a nail.

@petemarfatia8725

Жыл бұрын

That's a gracious analogy as I'd suggest a hammer is actually useful and a worthy investment.

@hoilst265

10 ай бұрын

Hey, did YOU peak in high school? Consider yourself a "people person" even though no one who knows you, even your family, can name one person you're actually friends with, and if they did, you'd point out that you don't actually consider that person a friend? Did you ever throw parties just so you could very pointedly not invite certain people? Do you judge other people relentlessly? When you see someone who's more more attractive than yourself, do you immediately categorise them as a threat? Do you hate when you're not the most important person in the room and not getting all the attention, but don't actually want to do anything with your life that would make you the most important person in the room? Do you think Buzzfeed personality quizzes are better than actual psychology or social skills? If you answered "Yes!" to any of these questions, then consider a career in HR!

@thethirdman225

2 ай бұрын

*_"People in HR are just hammers looking for a nail."_* That depends. The _worst_ HR person I have ever dealt with was a rubber stamp for the company.

My buddy (brilliant and popular with customers) conducted an IT training for the HR group. He made them go through ice-breakers, slides, games and all such nonsense that he could think of without actually training them on the real stuff. He wanted them to "suffer the IQ level that they force us to go through" in his words. Not surprisingly he was not asked to conduct any more trainings afterwards.

@davecollins6122

3 ай бұрын

I work in IT, can I get the slide pack ? .... please

@govurma

3 ай бұрын

That's... unwise on his part. Super funny, but unwise

@Sujad

Ай бұрын

@@govurma I can agree to that. Once the wrong sort get into HR, it can kill companies. I've experienced it first hand where it gutted a great company and forced me to jump ship.

@eyecatcheramit

29 күн бұрын

Ah evil genius 🤩🤩

One of the few shows that are so good they're nearly unwatchable.

@timconnors

Жыл бұрын

I still have the last season on my dusk still waiting to be watched. I was federal public service at the time and it would take me 3 weeks to watch an episode: every scene that resembled something at work (we even had a wifi access point with password "a1b2c3d4e5f6g7") had me pressing the pause button and burying my head in my hands and then rushing off to do something more fun than relive work.

@AleksPTA

Жыл бұрын

I struggled to watch these snippets, too painful, too close to home

@awf6554

Жыл бұрын

@@timconnors Ex-Victorian Public Service here.

@TatharNuar

5 ай бұрын

I had to pause at least 10 times through the video, yeah.

@realruppert351

5 ай бұрын

Yeah i had it with the original version of The office, the british one. It was just too real to be fun.

So we HAD an HR person just like this, who completely just destroyed the best workers in our company because they refused to follow her suggestions on productivity. She loaded them up with unless online workshops and unless seminars to try to brainwash them into doing things her way...she ended up getting let go for wasting company resources... Lets just say there was a company wide happy hour that evening.

@TheMusicalElitist

4 ай бұрын

No. Your best workers were just weak.

@datnoob4394

3 ай бұрын

@@TheMusicalElitist Weak for not Capitulating?

@DuelyusSeazer

3 ай бұрын

​@@TheMusicalElitist You work in HR?

@Sujad

Ай бұрын

We had a similar guy at one of my prior jobs. Completely destroyed the company by pushing out good, solid workers and replaced them with useless people who caused several contracts to be revoked.

@hoilst265

Ай бұрын

You know those girls in high school who held parties just so they good pointedly not invite people? They end up in HR. They mistake needing to dominate and control others for "being good with people".

In this show, only the two bosses are human, the rest are bureaucrat automatons who behave the way they are programmed. That is *highly inaccurate* I worked in a large bureaucracy for seven long years and discovered that only a few mid ranked people had souls, the senior people were almost as bad as HR. I finally left when I was reprimanded for working (unpaid) outside public service "flexi-time" hours, because I had promised that I would finish a project by a particular date. That's when I realised I couldn't cope with their culture any more. I asked for reprimand for working too hard to be put in writing and used it as a reference to get a job in the real world.

@comealongcomealong4480

Жыл бұрын

@Dave Sisson Glad you left that one while you still had your soul intact. Perhaps you could offer your services as an expert consultant for the next series!😀 /Being serious for a moment - did you find that anything from that seven years actually DID help with your new job in "the real world"?

@stoopidapples1596

Жыл бұрын

Yeah it is probably one of my chief dislikes of the show. Bosses are usually far more incompetent than their employees.

@HotChook

Жыл бұрын

I’ve worked in various jobs over three different departments, my experience is it depends on the department. Some are run by tyrants who only want to maintain power for economic reasons (hiring relatives, centralising recruitment decisions, etc); or who want power for the sake of control and bullying. Others are ran professionally in a way I would consider consistent with public expectations (from my observation I think the more dispersed power is laterally and vertically within a department is what determines this) From what I hear from my friends in the private sector, they deal with the similar BS but different flavours.

@aluisious

Жыл бұрын

There is no real world anymore. Okay sorry I lied, there never was a real world. We're just monkeys with lasers.

@BarryMaskell

Жыл бұрын

I always use the “danger close” movie as an example of tick box autonomic managers - these tick box managers would get you killed in a war as they don’t think and are not creative

ok but whoever invented “staff outings” should probably face prosecution

@lefthandofpower1476

Жыл бұрын

Let's schedule a walking meeting to discuss

@tb7667

Жыл бұрын

I am not sure there is anything worse than when some dropkick suggests in a meeting 'we go out for lunch as a team'.

@smedleyfarnsworth263

Жыл бұрын

I remember having to go to a team meeting in a coffee shop and we had to buy our own coffee. Then the team leader lectured us on sustainabilty, then told us how she drove her car in every day instead of using the train like the rest of us.

@nicholassmith7984

11 ай бұрын

@@tb7667 If you have a good work environment, teams will do that themselves as a matter of course.

@leeweesquee

11 ай бұрын

Forced Xmas parties

"Oh my god, have I let HR in the building again" is the cherry on the cake

@hoilst265

Ай бұрын

Notice how he said "10 to 15 for *manslaughter*", because no one would considered the killing of HR as murder.

The brilliance of this show is the frighteningly accurate circle-of-inanity so much of public service promulgates.

@bobbrian6526

Жыл бұрын

having worked in both public and private sectors for quite a while i can say that this kind of HR bullshit is ubiquitous

@kaiberberich1

Жыл бұрын

@@bobbrian6526 1000% - this crap happens in all medium to large orgs..

@jainra

2 ай бұрын

"Divide & Conquer" Of course.

@paulw5039

Ай бұрын

The scary thing is how much of the world is run by the HR (and DEI, the latest variant) Karens. We live in a Karenocracy.

That hr actress is bloody brilliant 😅

@thethirdman225

2 ай бұрын

It's that sinister smile.

Back in my day the department was called "personnel". I don't know how "Human Resources" ever stuck. It's super degrading, like employees are just objects to be used.

@jaimeb5550

3 ай бұрын

that's why it is not called Human Resources* anymore... It's called 'People & Culture'...

@marceelino

2 ай бұрын

But it's appropriate. HR is exactly what employees are.

@hoilst265

Ай бұрын

MBAs: "...but employees ARE just objects to be used...?"

@andygilbert1877

10 күн бұрын

Why use one word when 9 or 10 will easily do. 😂

@paradoxbound

8 күн бұрын

@@jaimeb5550 Yeah they twigged on the negative connotations of HR, Human Resources, they are now called PO, People Operations. This is uncomfortably close to our division P&O, Platform and Operations, we have been around for years and keeps the billion dollar e-commerce site running. Naturally we own all the PO namespaces in Slack and other internal tools. Occasionally new folk come to our channels asking about People Operations stuff. Our stock reply is "I don't think that runs on Kubernetes", and kindly direct them to right place.

I retired from public service a few years ago. This is so close to reality that it’s simultaneously scary and funny 😁

@stultuses

6 ай бұрын

It's not just public service Multinationals are just the same, probably worse because they have reputational branding to worry about

This is my favourite Aussie show. Every episode is as much genuinely hilarious as it is cringe-worthily realistic. Brilliant, brilliant writing.

My HR experience: I sat between two guys who were having regular arguments. I would put my headphones on and get on with the job. One day I got called into HR and was asked if could confirm that one guy called the others guy wife a tramp. I had truly no idea what they were talking about as I am also not all the time at my desk. Most of the time when they started arguing I walked away as I was sick and tired of it. They threatened me with dismissal if I did not tell the truth. Ok so now we turned in a pre-world war II German regime. Then they made me sit through a 1 hour video about bullying in the work place. Wtf did I do to deserve this. Eventually my request to be moved to another desk was granted. One of the guys was one morning met by HR and security, given a taxi voucher and send home forever.

I love how both micromanaging and lack of mentoring were mentioned in the same set of red flags for Tony to work on.

@WMDistraction

16 күн бұрын

Though to be fair, I’ve seen plenty of managers who regularly display both those red flags.

Rebecca Massey just owns that HR role! Her hand gestures and tone - perfect!

Every episode of utopia makes me feel like I am at work. The writers and actors are amazing

Very funny. One of the things I most liked about my time in the armed forces is that much of the 'HR' stuff is done by the line management rather than by an HR department.

@hoilst265

10 ай бұрын

I heard a mythical story where they actually fired HR, spent the saved salary on an external industrial relations law firm for retainer (ie, so you could shoot them an email asking stuff like "Are we required to give such-and-such time off for X?"), and just let the managers...do their job and handle hiring in exchange for a small payrise. I wish to work at that place.

@julianwalls1077

29 күн бұрын

Resend Paints NZ had no HR dept each manager in the divisions of the factory in Naenae Lower Hut New Zealandt made their own decisions about who they took on and mainly worked with Key Skills a recruitment agency in Lower Hutt to find people gor them!😂

The HR manager at my previous employer’s, almost caused one of the partner’s to get beaten up because an employee refused to do a task that wasn’t part of his job description. Apparently the HR manager told the employee that the partner had made threats to harm him because of his refusal. The employee was so angry that he reported it to the police and then confronted the man who allegedly made the threats it was so tense the whole office thought that they were going to witness an assault. The partner at the firm denied making any threats and promised to have a meeting between all three parties which never came about. The HR manager left the company not long after.

Spot on Working Dog....this is precisely what HR is....I am currently writing a thesis on HR to reflect my own experiences of 50 years in the workplace, and wonder if you would like an interim copy before my formal submission to dept of Industry

@deathsirwow

Жыл бұрын

Can you post a link in this comment when you are done. Thats sounds like a wild thesis

@mikahakinen6106

Жыл бұрын

Hey, I would LOVE to read that, for sure! Can you upload it somewhere and post a link? Thank you!

@hoilst265

10 ай бұрын

@@deathsirwow I assume it's just "F**K HR!" repeated 50,000 times.

Why 10-15 for Manslaughter? -Jury won't regard HR as fully human -He's going to make it look a bit like an accident -He'll plead it down because she clearly had it coming. (and if you'd been there, if you'd have seen it. I betcha you would have done the same!)

@JonNargodian

4 ай бұрын

Unexpected Chicago references are always welcome.

10 to 15 for man slaughter. What a line!

This show is up there with Yes, Minister and it needs to be worldwide.

@Hereford1642

4 ай бұрын

It is a mystery why no British or apparently American t.v. channel has bought the rights. It has been going since 2014. Can't even find European region dvd's.

When you have people whose job it is to police everyday interactions in the workplace, of course they're going to look for problems all day

What do yu mean "Have I let HR into the building again"? They interviewed you and I was with you.

@happivaras

Жыл бұрын

The m😱r🥺nic maj🤪rity are in charge. 😢🤑💀 Sooner The Extinction Means Other Worthwhile Lifeforms Survive 😊😁😂

Missed the Episode where Nat wanted to manage someone out. Tony: "But you will have to speak to HR"

@angusperson4222

Жыл бұрын

I said HR

@rolly4x4

10 ай бұрын

Just pay her out

@shelbynamels973

6 ай бұрын

"I managed, interacted and interfaced. I don't think I was challenged to my full potential".

HR, the scourge of many workplaces 😂😂

@sirt8684

Жыл бұрын

They are never about people, they are about control. I've met some awesome HR people, but fuck me dead if they haven't made work life worse.

@ossi3529

Жыл бұрын

Human remains

@advanceaustralia9026

Жыл бұрын

Glorified payroll.

@dribblesg2

Жыл бұрын

@@advanceaustralia9026 It started that way. Now its the point of access for government to control private business.

@michael57603

25 күн бұрын

“Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned” - Milton Friedman

Just love watching these types of Australian polictcal shows more relevant today than when first produced. To Rob and the crew need more like this.

@RJJFavorites

Жыл бұрын

There is new series of Utopia coming this year.

I am glad I am self-employed, I had one year of that bs. So started my own business.

Like others here, in a lifetime of working in corporate, I have heard all these clichés. It is how HR rolls.

After working for a state government for too many years, this gives me PTSD when I had to deal with HR. HR works with the managers to shaft the workers and make sure that they don't have enough staff to do their jobs who are then managed out because the worker can't do what the manager wants them to do...

@hoilst265

10 ай бұрын

I've met precisely 2 good HR workers. One was a line grunt who actually worked his way up. Another was someone who actually studied it and worked hard at it. 99% of the rest were, frankly, just the sorts of people whom everyone assumed must be "good with people" because they were physically attractive (and had no other skills), and they couldn't turn down hiring a hottie.

I'm 73yo, and I'm glad I'm on the way out

@stultuses

6 ай бұрын

Stick around for as long as you can please, we need people who remember what it was like before all this workplace BS as a guide to help us all get back to the fun office

“ I would like to take this off line for a few days” - I will have to use this jargon at my next meeting!

This show literally saved my life at one point.. I had to see the next season. Love you all so much.❤

10 - 15 for manslaughter always gets me

What makes me laugh is that I have had friends who work in corporate and government offices and this is almost exactly as they describe it when dealing with HR.

"10-15 for Manslaughter" HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA I was just thinking that .... heehee

You always know when your previously dynamic organisation is on the way down, when management/leadership decides it needs an HR department and you first hear those fateful words: 'Our people are our most valuable resource' and then goes about the business of completely destroying staff morale with the latest HR crap. One of the most common situations is when senior staff are given directions by HR and a quick examination of the organisations model reveals that the HR department has in fact no authority to give such directions. Time to check the leave balance, resign and go to work for the opposition.

tony just says the funniest stuff and then the show moves on im crying 😭😭😭i love this show

As a senior manager in the public service, this is all true.

@sidecarmisanthrope5927

Жыл бұрын

Public Service? Well, what do you expect?

@mtscott

Жыл бұрын

HR are too powerful and untouchable 🤨

@bobbrian6526

Жыл бұрын

@@sidecarmisanthrope5927 ive worked in the public sector and can say it is uncanny how accurate this show is in its portrayal. On the other hand ive also worked for many years in the privtae sector and it is pretty much the same

@hoilst265

10 ай бұрын

@@bobbrian6526 Anyone who says "the private sector is much more efficient than the public sector" has never worked in both.

@Sujad

4 ай бұрын

A company I worked for had a six month contractor policy for HR. the only full time employee in the HR department was a personal friend if the CEO and only worked there as an excuse to let people go. At the six month review, if there was a hunt of any kind of empire building, their contract wouldn't be renewed.

The first thing a top HR exec will do is ingratiate themselves with the senior management so they become untouchable. They'll create havoc then sell themselves to a higher bidder after 12mths to 2 years.

The sad thing is that there will be a whole lot of people watching this who are out in workplace doing or participating in this same stuff , and they will laugh at it and think how terrible it is, totally not realising that they are perpetrating and enabling this same shit.

Reminds me of the NSW Education Department. Thank God for retirement…

A show that grinds your gears but still can't not watch it cause of how good it is 🤣

Every HR manager I’ve ever met. Closed minded and totally oblivious.

In my job I deal with our clients' HR on a daily basis. When training our own staff to be client facing we always highlight that no-one dreams of being an HR assistant/manager/director when they're at school...

@kparker2430

5 күн бұрын

a humane society would intervene if a child showed tendencies.

Great show. I’ve seen so many scenes in the series that were so familiar

I have met that exact HR manager before. I swear she is a real, actual person I have met.

A true documentary of the public sector and people can’t see this is why Australia is suffering on the inside. Confused about what to cry about.

@bobbrian6526

Жыл бұрын

true in the private sector also, if not more so since in the private scetor HR people have that much more desperation and need to demonstrate their importance

I used to play bullshit bingo at my work with these sayings.

@billclan

Жыл бұрын

I have fun writing them down and reading them back later, awesome

What do you call 50 HR people chained to concrete blocks at the bottom of a lake? A good start.

Tony & Nat are the only sane ones in the place 😅 Absolutely love this show. Fabulous cast, great writing.

@thevikinghatgm235

Жыл бұрын

Most of the others are sane, they're just stupid. They just go with whatever the dominant person tells them - whether that's Tony & Nat, or Rhonda, or HR. Office drones.

geez , this brings back memories ..too real .

Ever notice how HR has an “open door policy” but you need an electric key card to get in? Or someone in HR needs to let you in?

So, so, so good!!

Spot on….in the natural world HR would be known as a Screw Worm…once it burrows through your skin, it begins to eat the organism from the inside out…

This is brilliant.

Bravo!! You got a subscriber!

UTOPIA is less a comedy, more a documentary. Management should be made to sit down and watch it, except the joke would be completely lost on most of them

That "Just doing my job, Rhon, just doing my job" with that slight forearm caress. BP: 160/120 Heart Rate: 118

"that's where all those 5 & 6 are coming from.... GOLD

So good. So true.

Tony used to have hair. Then he ran into HR.

3:04 😂Damn right, mate. Damn right. 👏

80% or more HR managers have never done a degree in HR. That's the reason HR department are not productive. I have a degree in HR and believe me 90% of my HR interviewers have been having diplomas in hospitality etc. when I see their academic competence like that on LinkedIn and I am going for an interview believe me I Am always thinking what I should say. Should I say technical HR stuff or not, would be a threat for her job as I am more qualified. I regret doing a degree in HR, it was a mistake. It's an industry dominated by people who have nothing to do with HR and getting jobs I don't know how.

God i miss that show absolutely love the dry wit and humour of the team

Maybe the funniest sketch I have heard in months 😂😂😂❤❤❤

New season coming. Yay

They even wardrobed HR as Karren😂

I’m American and I find this the best office show I have ever seen, thevwriting and the acting is sublime. I never liked “The Office” or any other office show, thought they were boring, badly done BUT this show is hysterical…especially the Fucksake episode and the council meeting! Excellent writing combined with the perfect actors

Brilliant- absobloodylutely!

This pained my soul.

And the corporations complaint that they can't find the right people 😅😅😅 The talent market is not the problem. The problem is HR.

SO Good!!! 👍👌✌

Just found out about the new season of Utopia. ....thank you!!!

Christmas in July? Absolutely bonkers! Now Halloween in January - that's something I can get behind.

lol fantastic loved it

i'm disappointed they didn't ring the bell when she said "action"

Nat. Best character in the show.

Love Utopia.

Oh the pain, the pain.

These clips are so funny!

LOVE it !!!!!

Oh mate, that is so accurate, even in the tertiary sector, but with more bulldust ideas. This should be mandatory viewing for anyone who works in HR, together with explanations on why this stuff is such shite!!!! Grüße aus Australien.

I work in HR. Pretty sure I use all these phrases. Man I am a flog.

so good

I hate how accurate this show is..

Feel the same way about DEI and therapist.

1:06 "oh for fuck sake ! " I was waiting for that one ! :)

Pure gold!😂

When she tells Buck by his nickname but rejects calling Naomi "Nat" is pure genius. I had one like that, not at the gov but at an educational institution. He was super nice to most of the guys but treated all those he didn't like we were rabid animals about to jump him on the tiniest familiarity and he flooded our emails with workshops and lists of rules about not talking of anything not subject-related to the kids and avoid the use of preferred names and nicknames because they were not the list. It got to the point many students believed we were giving them the cold shoulder because of sth they had done. We started quitting en mass but the head board never actually understood why

1:07 GO NAT!!!! "Oh for fuck's sake". Spat my tea out, eyes crying. 1:55 GO TONY!!! "You're the one hiring them".

Oh it's everywhere it's bloody everywhere

I really wished that the episode ended with Tony telling the HR woman, give her the raise I said or I'm firing you.