As someone who works for the Government, it's funny that you think we can even get coffee. That's a no no.

@julienolke

2 ай бұрын

bahahaha

@TonyYarusso

2 ай бұрын

You MIGHT be able to get permission for it to be brought into the office, but obviously it would be out of your own pocket.

@darthdiculous6511

2 ай бұрын

​@@TonyYarusso but only after the beverage committee completes a 6 month risk assessment study, right?

@paulcatarino2209

2 ай бұрын

Well that explains a lot, no wonder it feels like all levels of government from the PMO to municipal puppets are "asleep at the wheel".

@TonyYarusso

2 ай бұрын

@@darthdiculous6511 Oh, no - that has to be done but it’s way beyond the purview of the beverage committee. That’s handled by the workplace safety committee, to set limits for the maximum beverage temperature, research the impacts of caffeine intake on employee health, and consult with the group health insurance carrier about any impacts to premiums. Meanwhile, building administration will need to approve the increased risk of spills staining office carpeting and review the building bathrooms’ capacity for increased use. Of course the management and union representatives’ Meet & Confer team will have to discuss policy regarding worker breaks, and whether the bathroom stops related to the coffee count as well or only the coffee consumption itself. HR will need to address whether any marginalized groups have a genetic predisposition to coffee intolerance, if this presents any concerns of discrimination, and what alternative beverages need to be available if requested as a reasonable accommodation. The union will also discuss whether the coffee being purchased is ethically sourced and if both the treatment of workers growing it and environmental impacts are consistent with their membership’s social responsibility statement. Finance will need to verify whether dedicating any workplace office space to the coffee station is compliant with the session law funding appropriation covering that building. Why yes, I do actually work for the government…why do you ask? ;)

To be fair, this sounds exactly like every corporate meeting I've ever been in.

@pvic6959

2 ай бұрын

i came here to get away from work, and yet :(

@jamesphillips2285

2 ай бұрын

She is making fun of bureaucracy, or governance in general.

@matthewcaldwell8100

2 ай бұрын

@@jamesphillips2285 I get that. She’s not wrong.

@dougsrepair1060

2 ай бұрын

Yawn. Glad I chose self employment.

@kunkudunk1133

2 ай бұрын

People say they want government run like a business, not realizing that this is how businesses are run

The Beverage committee has oversight only over items classified as a drink, e.g. tea,coffee,milk, and for senior executives, alcohol ; accessories such as cream,sugar and sweeteners are subject to separate consideration by the Approved Regulated Supplements Enhanced Standards committee.

@naomiarram5187

2 ай бұрын

Love the acronym!!!

@julienolke

2 ай бұрын

thank you for clarification on this issue

@jlvfr

2 ай бұрын

You forgot the Commitee to Reorganize Alternative Petitions.

@mochouinard

2 ай бұрын

What about diversity and the overuse of white product ? I suggest we also add chocolate milk and limit people usage of the white product, which would also apply to the sugar.

@michaelbishop.

2 ай бұрын

@@julienolke We apologise for any misunderstanding. It is not our purpose to bring clarity on this or any other issue.

This is pretty accurate for the corporate world as well. It's given me PTSD. I'm going to wake up tonight screaming "LOOP ME IN AND TAKE THIS OFFLINE!"

@michaeldebellis4202

2 ай бұрын

I was thinking the same thing. This was giving me flashbacks to clients who made me want to scream “just someone make a damn decision!”

@noahkilleen239

2 ай бұрын

Working as IT staff in higher ed.... same same.

@Linusrox123

2 ай бұрын

Yes this is my experience with every Provate sector company but it sure will make the MAGA crowd happy to see it labelled as government.

@michaeldebellis4202

2 ай бұрын

@@Linusrox123 But honestly it does tend to be worse in government. Because in business the motivation is to maximize profit. So that can motivate people to get stuff done. That's why startups can be so productive and can put huge existing corporations out of business. Because a small motivated team can out perform a much larger group that is restricted by bureaucracy and people who are incompetent. In government the motivation is (more often) to cover your ass. Although part of this is also a self fulfilling prophecy. Since Reagan the assumption is that "government is the problem" which means we don't pay people in government well and tend to not give them challenging hard problems. Which means the type of people attracted to government work are more likely to be the CYA people than the GSD (Get Shit Done) people.

@drodgyn

2 ай бұрын

The private sector is worse. People pointing fingers at everyone else as to why nothing gets done

As a postal worker we had someone bringing in shelled peanuts into the break room for quite awhile. It so happens that someone thought this could be a problem for anyone with a peanut allergy. Management got involved and went to the safety people to see what they thought. Putting up signs was considered but it actually got bumped up higher somewhere for some reason I wasn't privy to. In the end it was decided that peanuts would be banned because of liability issues. I truly from the bottom of my heart wish I was joking about this.

I want to see Julie’s take on the cutthroat world of HOA office politics now

@Beth-ju5hf

2 ай бұрын

If you want a funny one on HOA, Brian David Gilbert's welcome to the neighbourhood is definitely worth a watch

@GlenNewsome

2 ай бұрын

Brilliant!

@trappedkitty5335

2 ай бұрын

I always wanted to join an HOA so that I could propose every week to get rid of the HOA.

@mariab1429

2 ай бұрын

John Oliver's video on HOAs solidified my mindset on HOAs. I'll keep avoiding them like the plague! 😄

@vikki4now

2 ай бұрын

I thought of an HOA while watching this too.

"If you're gonna cream in your coffee..." Sometimes Julie is just an absolute menace 😂💀

It's scary how accurate this is. I don't know anything about Candian government but it sounds like American government. What is worse is that in France, where I am, you would need to file 3 additional forms on a website that doesn't work in order to "loop you in." - It once took me seriously 6 months to get my residency card after it was physically made, already approved for me to have it, with my photo on it, that was already issued and created, and literally 50 meters behind the counter.

The UK has 'Yes, Minister' for political satire Australia has 'Utopia' And Canada has Julie Nolke

@Neojhun

2 ай бұрын

"Utopia" skits in hindsight kind of hurt.

@julienolke

2 ай бұрын

that is too kind of you

@GrahamWKidd

2 ай бұрын

Where does Malcolm Tucker fit in then?

@solvseus

2 ай бұрын

The US has lots of them: the Daily Show, late night broadcast comedy, the Senate, the House, the Supreme Court, most of the state govs, my uncle...

@johnsouth3912

2 ай бұрын

USofA has Joe Biden😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂for a laugh

I'm a department head in a small municipality, as well as chair of our Historic Preservation Commission. I'm all but certain that I've actually been every one of these characters 🙈

I used to work for a regional development agency (arm of UK government) and no tea or coffee was provided since the department was tax-payer funded. It was suggested that we have a central fund where people pay a few quid each week and then communal tea and coffee are paid for out of that. It took 6 months and half a dozen meetings before that actually came to fruition. A fucking jar you put some money in took 6 months!

@MB-xe8bb

2 ай бұрын

Why wouldn't the over-paid manager pay $5 a week from her own pocket to super-charge her minions and make her look good?

I don't think the Budgetary Committee would approve the funds needed for looping and circling

@ninaasf-ck

2 ай бұрын

Especially if we're talking about this fiscal year. Forget it.

If you are going to cream in your coffee, do that in the parking lot. Somehow, the subtle change in phrasing there took a totally different twist!

@donjones4719

2 ай бұрын

I had to replay that bit to make sure I hadn't misheard. I love these lines Julia slips into a conversation with no indication that they're there.

@nurmr

2 ай бұрын

I'm convinced that the rest of the video was made just to support that line.

@razor3535

2 ай бұрын

I've never thought to do this before today

This is like, ANY LARGE ENTITY OF ANY TYPE - speak, not just government. Never worked in government. Have been in FAR TOO MANY meetings like this, lol

@julienolke

2 ай бұрын

oof. The worst ones are the "this should've been an email" meetings

@freighttrain7143

2 ай бұрын

@@julienolke My personal 'favorite' are the ones where 12 people are invited and join, but the ONE person who has any idea how any of this works didn't show, so we all sit around and guess and then leave. RIGHT AFTER scheduling to do it all AGAIN. 🤣

@solvseus

2 ай бұрын

Worked for a large corp that had mid-level managers making us work harder to justify their jobs. Spent hours making spreadsheets, updating Visio maps, physically following cables, etc. to prove that we needed to requisition another network switch to add more ports. Despite the fact that we were already physically at capacity, and they'd already added more desks on that floor to later add more people. So, you know... I could just do the math. When the guy above her realized I was costing more in hours than the switch itself so she could "supervise", he just went and bought one. Time AND $ wasted!

@donjones4719

2 ай бұрын

Not quite any. I know of a start-up that had a rule that no more than 8 people should be at a meeting. Also, if the stuff relevant to you had been handled you were expected to simply get up and leave. Most meetings were avoided because if a low-level engineer had a problem with how his widget interfaced with a widget from another department he could just walk over there and speak to his counterpart.

@freighttrain7143

2 ай бұрын

@@donjones4719 Fair enough. But you are describing a smart and well run company - at least in that regard. I am describing MOST companies. 🤣

Looking around the room and it's just her... "No, we don't have a quorum." Genius.

I am outraged! The syrup advocates were obviously silenced by the dairy lobbyists. Cream and milk require refrigeration, whereas syrups have a convenient pump dispenser and have a longer shelf life. And, just last week, I saw Julie drinking from the milk carton.

Checking for quorum *after* making big decisions...9 years into working with city boards as part of my job, that is too real, Julie.

1:53 - I am SO glad that that t-shirt did NOT get lost in the move or consciously given away before the move to lighten the packing-up work. I haven't seen it in awhile. She always wears the green-trimmed version when she's an employee on the Environmental Team.

Where was the government Wellness Authority Overseer? Who will study the impact on the additional calories from said creamer? Was the Financial Department looped in for the circle back? Don't you need to create a committee to design the study to investigate the impact of a decision such as this? Where was the Allergen Review Board member appointee?

Shockingly accurate. I once had to vehemently object when my department wanted to implement a rotating shedule for who would be in charge of opening and closing the windows on hot days. Another time I spent several months in a taskforce that was in charge of our new reception area. It included all department heads and several consultants from IT, legal and HR. In the end all that came from it was that two TV's that could run a rotating Power Point were installed.

@topherthe11th23

2 ай бұрын

@MadsFeierskov - "Vehemently object"? "Had to"? You need to "get on board" with the "team player" component of the firm's Core Values. (Do companies still do "core values"? Or did that fad finally die?) How would anyone know whose turn it was to open the windows if the name weren't displayed on the looping PowerPoint playing on the two new Visual Information Dissemination/Education Orifices ("VIDEO") screens at Reception?

@Dysiode

2 ай бұрын

Who did y'all make open and close the windows for you?

@MadsFeierskov

2 ай бұрын

​@@DysiodeSurprisingly they agreed that maybe the ones who wanted them open should just open them, and if someone else objected, they should say so. It was a rare moment of common sense.

I have been working in and around state and federal government for most of the last two decades, and oh my god, this could have been pulled directly from a transcript of any meeting I attend regularly. *Chef's kiss* Well done, Julie!

This is **ABSOLUTELY** 100% accurate!!! If you've never worked for or with a government agency, you now know *exactly* what it's like! 😂😂😂😂😂

Thanks for this. The Australian Government uses the scripts from "Yes Minister" (a BBC Comedy) as it's playbook. You nailed it.

That ad read made me miss the old days of Julie's cooking content. I still make the Cinnamon Toast Crunch creme brulee.

“The addition of crème for coffee at the snack bar is going to cost taxpayers 1.7 million and shan’t be available until the following calendar year”

@badger9156

2 ай бұрын

Yes, nobody discussed budget, so they probably didn’t invite Finance. I have previously removed almond milk from the drinks order for our company, so I can see why they’d be the last group invited 😂😅

@aaroncooper4237

2 ай бұрын

missed an opportunity to use the term "fiscal year" but lol yeah you can't just evaluate the cost of the cream now, it has to be amortized!

@jeskoumm

2 ай бұрын

@@aaroncooper4237 “Amortised every two weeks, but the spirit may fly sooner than sunrise.”

@jasonhaven7170

2 ай бұрын

At least it's democratic

@jeskoumm

2 ай бұрын

@@jasonhaven7170 “If it’s not Devon, it’s not worth waking up….it’s what it says on the poll.”

This.....was stressful. I can skip cardio now because this sent my heart rate through the roof.

Now we're cooking with gas! Well, I haven't heard that one for a while! 😂

@donjones4719

2 ай бұрын

Sshhh. That just slipped out. If you remind people then the Environment Impact Committee and Energy Use Committee will have to be looped in.

@leedanielson7452

2 ай бұрын

@@donjones4719 🤣

There’s a government project to restore a broken bridge near me. There are public reports on progress. The first report was the manager saying how proud he was of how well the workers set up the temporary site offices.

@julienolke

2 ай бұрын

stawp! that's nuts but also I'm not surprised

@simond.455

2 ай бұрын

Sounds like they _do_ have coffee already.

@Dysiode

2 ай бұрын

What did you expect the first report to be??

@sjzara

2 ай бұрын

@@Dysiode The result of research into a good local place to eat lunch.

this skit is mind blowing how you can play all those parts and do it so well.

"Slow down, everyone" THE BALLS !!! hahahahaha I love Julie

2:30 - Just loving sleeveless Diane's crestfallen act. This must be REALLY hard to do when you don't have other actors there in real time to bounce lines off of. Also Chambray Shirt's involuntary blurt of laughter. Again, must be hard to do without the words of a script going through the air in real time.

One of the best things about retirement from corporate senior management is NEVER having to be in one of those meetings again. Great portrayal of the sheer madness resulting from these types of get-togethers. Another genius video from Julie.

0:54 - I only just now remembered that "EOD" means "End Of Day". I remember a boss (in New York City) who'd be on the phone with London and either ask for things, or promise things, by "EOD". As if "EOD" doesn't mean two different things in New York and London. He also thought that a Windows computer's "GMT" clock was the same thing as its "London time" clock, and that caused no end of hour-long misses during the warm-weather months when GMT and London are an hour apart. But at least he wasn't the boss I'd known ten years earlier who told me that London was ALWAYS five hours ahead of New York City, ALWAYS, every day of the year.

@heather185

2 ай бұрын

Or “COB” (close of business). Ugh

"Please do that in the parking lot." I'm dead

Pretty darn accurate. I’ve worked a number of government jobs over the years. This video resembled one the best; working in a government research lab.

Yep, 100% true. I work for a state university. About 5 years ago we "discovered" that our class scheduling was in violation of state law. So, a ridiculous stop gap was put in place while a solution was looked for. It took a year to put together a committee, and two years for the committee to investigate solutions. A solution was finally found, one a a half years ago, and it has still not been put in practice. The last quote from our provost was that once all concerned parties have weighed in he would put the measure in practice two years later. Strangely, if I am in violation of state law I get a fine or put in prison. But if a state university is in violation of state law, they get no penalty, and as many decades as they want to stop the violation.

Like private industry in a large company: "move the needle", "action items", "circle back"

OAT MILK :DDDD OMG, What does she think where we are? Glad that got stopped before it could mess with efficiency.

Wasn’t expecting the origin story for powdered non-dairy creamer, but I take my government black

I love how she can portray so many individual emotions and personalities

The bureaucracy in government is definitely hellish but sometimes it is preferable to other situations when they act too quickly and you get things like thalidomide being approved for mass market without proper testing.

@ExpensivePizza

2 ай бұрын

In theory yes, in reality even with all those checks and balances you get things like thalidomide being approved for mass market without proper testing. Unfortunately.

@gamerdweebentertainment1616

2 ай бұрын

it do be like, important stuff fk it, we'll allow it. non-important stuff... we need to think this through, this might take months or even years.

@cherryjuice9946

2 ай бұрын

Luckily, thalidomide was not marketed in the USA. Some was sold for other purposes. It was held up in the US by Dr Frances Kelsey of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. She didn't prevent it from use because of birth defects, because that side effect wasn't yet know. She simply didn't like some other side effect it showed evidence of. Thus, the FDA (government), did indeed keep us safe, even if they saved us from the wrong side effect.

@Dysiode

2 ай бұрын

@@ExpensivePizza That assumes without all the checks and balances thalidomide would be the only thing approved for mass market without proper testing. The number of disasters quietly being prevented would astound

@ExpensivePizza

2 ай бұрын

@@Dysiode My point is that even with hellish government bureaucracy these problems still exist. I'm not saying we have a better solution, it's possible it's still the best way but there's no doubt there's room for improvement. The real question... which is much more difficult to answer... is there a better way? I'm a big believer that humanity hasn't yet achieved it's peak and the way we'll be doing things in 50 years will be very different to how we do things now. It's always worth questioning the status quo and asking these questions.

I love the "Beverage" character (the one with the barrette). Her mannerisms and costume really stand apart in the range of Julie characters.

I almost couldn't get through this because it resembles my life on committees in academia too closely. We're a little more efficient, but not by much. I snortled at the "strike motion form".

I'm gonna need an After Action Report on the Incident Response Plan for any requisitions post-quorum by EOD. Also get me some creamer.

You need a few more acronyms and this is spot on!

The landmark Creamer vs. Creamer decision looped me in and circled me back to drinking coffee from the recently installed coffee station.

“If you are going to cream in your coffee, we suggest you do that in the parking lot”

Problem is when they run out of The Request forms for Request forms. A request can be requested, only when requesting and only if requesting is the requested manner one must request with, at least that is what they're requesting.

As a government employee, can confirm this is 100% accurate. You would not believe the headache I go through just to get some new pens for my desk.

This is what progress looks like. Its the fine reason why we used to take a year to build a bridge but now we can knock it out in 2 decades.

@Dysiode

2 ай бұрын

The first Tacoma Narrows Bridge began it's planning and funding in 1923 and didn't start construction until Sept 1938 and finished construction in July 1940. That's a 17 year lead time with almost 2 years of construction time. The replacement took 2.5 years to build. But yeah, it used to take a year to build a bridge 🙄

the filming and acting is pretty good. not only is it accurate but she also portrays the different personalities well

Oh my god! I work at a hospital in the US and this is how all of our meetings go!

Love me some beverage bureaucracy. The parking lot compromise was mighty lenient of them.

How you come up with the perfect dialogue for your skids is beyond me! Hit the ball out of the park with this one!

"If you're going to cream in your coffee..." Pfffft.....wahahahahahahaha!!!!!

That response to Oatmilk though...

I’m so glad the beautiful dark hair was approved and implemented.

Having worked for the government for 41 years, in and out of uniform, I second this portrayal....

The Assistant Deputy Minister is missing from this meeting because they got called into something else, so the committee couldn't have made a decision anyway without the ADM asking why they weren't involved 🙃 Also, love the Honest Ed's rep in the background!

It's now May 10th and I haven't heard anything. I thought I'd be in the loop. So I'm just circling back to check on the items that we stuck a pin in, and see if any got green-lighted yet, or if Environmental could prioritize fast-tracking them for expediting.

I used to work at the municipality and i can concur.. this is everyday life for those people. Sometimes they couldn't get shit done, so they simply said "we'll figure this out on teams" before they dispersed within a second.

I thought her name was Beverage!! 🤦‍♀ Also, hella accurate!! But where was Finance?

@julienolke

2 ай бұрын

episode 2 when everything gets postponed to 2027 due to budgetary issues

@OmegaSparky

2 ай бұрын

Lack of Finance representation was why they didn't have a quorum.

That's a like and I'll loop you in and circle back to you.

@julienolke

2 ай бұрын

Thanks for the like loop and circle.

Because it didn't fit with this video's metrics, Corporate Communications ("C-COMs") cut the part where Julie explains something by saying this: "At the end of the day, the bottom line is what it is".

@nurmr

2 ай бұрын

Just be glad they didn't have to consult the Code Of Conduct ("CoC").

Oh god. As someone who works for Parliament . . . this is so on point that it hurts.

The oatmilk really would have started a whole new chain of meetings. And you also need a scrabble set for the names of different departments and/or agencies.

OMG, this actually hurt my head! You nailed government at it's finest.

2:28 - Oat milk, soy milk, and almond milk are SUCH a pain for me to cope with. Their ud'ders are so TINY!

@topherthe11th23

2 ай бұрын

TopherThe11th: I can't help you with soy or almond, but the Internet has a cool trick for OAT milk: just feed the oats (and nothing but oats) to a dairy-cow and get the oat-milk out of the cow's ud'der! That makes it as easy as normal milk.

Liked, subscribed, looped, circled, and reached consensus that this was a banger!

Government employees never talked at this fast pace tbh hahahaha 😂

These are the important conversations we need!

I work in government and that’s a pretty standard example of getting anything done. I remember when I first started I suggested doing something which I thought would be simple and got the oat milk response. Everyone was like yeah that’d be great but it’s never going to happen because of committee a, c, e and j

Years ago I worked for an R1 public university in the US during a time when that decision came down to remove employer provided coffee supplies.

This is scarily accurate!

To be fair, its a slippery slope. Today you're adding cream to the coffee station, next week its bagels and sweet cakes. In a couple mouths you're ordering a thousand dollars worth of complimentary snacks every month and wondering why your building's operating expenses have bankrupted the agency

Your good vibes know no bound Julie. Love it

I've never worked in government but after watching up to 1:22 I have to say this sounds more like Conference-Room Culture ("CRC") everywhere, not just government. Hugh Bonneville was in a wonderful TV-series, "W1A", portraying the BBC's newly-hired Head Of Values, with job-description "to clarify, define, or re-define the core purpose of the BBC across all its functions and to position it confidently for the future". And every word of dialogue in that series was as vacuous as the dialogue between the various Julies here. Of course, my argument isn't perfect because the case that BBC isn't part of "the government" isn't iron-clad. But I can well believe that what we see in this video is what goes on at companies with those nonsense names like "Enterprix".

Appreciate the good chopping form during the ad segment

Could not be more spot on and hilarious!!👏👏👏

Our Canadian tax dollars may not be hard at work, but luckily our comedic talent is. Well done 👍👍❤❤

SO SPOT ON!! Fantastic!! Hilarious- thank you for Videos , they always make me laugh!!

In ASTAR Singapore (the peak scientific research agency funded by the government) we have to email a hoard of upper management just to get air condition running so that we can work after working hours. There they argued about the negative environmental impacts against productivity etc. It is ridiculous how much effort it takes to flip a bloody switch.

My gosh this is so accurate it's actually painful

Thanks Julies, helps a lot.

I like how this says government, when to be honest it reminds me of most of my office jobs

This was spot on. You are a brilliant comedy writer.

As someone who works in the government, yes, accurate.

Have to add another comment - Julie is just fantastic, always love everything she puts out, so clever and sarcastic whilst pulling reality down, because that's how it works!! Awesome!

So many beautiful Julies all in one place!

This gives me flashbacks to so many useless meetings I've attended. Seldom did anything get accomplished. Endless rescheduling, then it would get dropped for the next big issue that came up.

I did a summer IS internship for a US government uniformed service at their HQ complex some 20 years ago. It was high stress and nothing to do. I mostly played The Realm on my PC and chatted with my friends on AIM. The two other tech guys would play Starcraft at insane volume after the boss lady left for the afternoon. I honestly felt like my position existed to fill some weird requirement, not to actually be useful.

Oscar Winner for Best Non-Fiction Documentary *chef's kiss* 🫶🏻

NAILED IT!

As someone who does not work for the government, that's also how it is in any big corporation

Love your Julie Nolke videos! 👍👍👍👍😎😎😎😎 The use of the time consuming corporate buzzwords and form numbers was spot on! 😂😂😂😂

Whatever ya do ya gotta circle back. -- Jen Psaki.

Fantastic! Supposed to be parody, but when it's this accurate and this realistic, it's not even parody. Fantastic.

They must have put in that request for a coffee station close to 20 years ago, if it takes this many bureaucratic hoops to add cream to it!

This skit was depressingly brilliant

Best visualization of what really happens (i.e. DOESN'T HAPPEN) in government!