>> Hey Jonathan,
you're talking to the wrong guy right now. >> No, Lawrence. I'm not being disrespectful,
but you're being disrespectful. You guys gotta relax. You got well now if you're talking to me
like that, I'm not one of the other people who can't be talking to people like that.
>> You're gonna stop talking like I'm your goddamn girlfriend.
>> Well or you can stop talking to me like I'm your child.
No mutual respect, horns, mutual respect,
age do not matter matter in this conversation. >> Boy stop talking.
>> So Lawrence. >> Stop talking.
>> I'm not gonna deal with that type of disrespect.
So you gotta, calm down if you wanna have a conversation with me, we should have that one on
one with Zara here. It's just you and me. >> You are fired.
>> Okay. >> So that of course is
a zoom meeting where CEO is disrespecting a worker and then immediately firing.
Saying boy, stop talking over and over again. I understand that employee was a former unpaid
intern. And wait until you find out what led to the CEO being willing to do that. So in the fall
video, the intern who posted that TikTok and thank God that they did so that we know about this.
Claims that he was slammed with work When the CEO asked him to meet on a Friday.
The TikToker said he wasn't able to respond until the weekend arrives.
So he decided instead of bothering his boss during the weekend. He would wait
until Monday to talk with him at a meeting which was already scheduled.
There's a meeting by the way with Tech CEO Lawrence Griffith of Digital Factory.
In another follow-up video, the TikToker claims the majority of people working at
Digital Factor unpaid interns expected to be available 24/7 despite having other paid jobs.
And so he just waited until the next meeting to talk to him
and the CEO lost it on Viviana implying that he doesn't understand anything.
He's talking him like he's his girlfriend, he's disrespectful. And
he's doing that on zoom knowing he could be recorded, he feels totally comfortable to do it.
>> You know what john, I am so proud of the younger generation standing up for themselves.
And because I came up in a time where you couldn't do that.
Because it was socially unacceptable to challenge your boss in that way. And so in that realm,
his boss though very wrong, was socialized to believe
that sort of abuse is okay. So I'm really proud of people like this saying, no,
we're gonna keep it calm and we're gonna keep it respectful and if I'm fired I'm fired.
But we cannot continue to abuse the employees like this. And I applaud everybody who stands up
for what they need to make salary wise, whatever hourly wages, stuff like this. Protecting your
time off this guy's not even paid, supposed to work at the end of the day on a weekend.
That doesn't even make any sense. And we have other countries have rules of
when bosses can call you after hours, etcetera
is not allowed. Perhaps we're leaning towards that. But as long as everybody starts doing
what this young man did and saying we're not gonna be tolerating being spoken to like this.
Hopefully the tide will start changing and we can have a more respectful fair workplace for people.
>> I hope so. Yeah, and by the way in the comments to that video, some people
were like no it doesn't matter what the CEO does. You are supposed to be as deferential.
>> And this is what I'm saying. I came up in that world too but guess what?
Nothing should make it okay for someone to be disrespectful.
He could be mad that he didn't get back to him on Friday, that's fine.
And people can argue whether or not he should have answered him on Friday, that's fine.
But what he did was belittled or attempt to because that man did not
allowed to be himself to be belittled. So you can have a problem with somebody
and you can say, hey, I do expect you to be available all the time.
And that unpaid intern can say look that's not gonna work for me and they can leave.
But I don't think it should be that way but you don't respond to it in this way
you can have a problem with somebody but you don't talk to them like that.
That's where this guy really went wrong. >> And by the way he responded to those
comments saying he was cussing me out.
I am free labor and I accepted that I was okay with that. But I'm not going
to be treated as scum as the dirt underneath your heel because he wants to pump his chest.
So I'm gonna tell him to calm down, I'm gonna talk to him as
the professional I wanna be one day and the professional, he's not showing me.
>> And he did keep his calm, I think it was fine. >> Yeah, he said by the way that he was
disappointed that someone, he looked up to. One of the few black executives he
knew of in the field spoke to him in a disrespectful way. He says he
wants to change the narrative around workplace abuse, which by the way.
In 2021, over 43% of people working remotely reported verbal mistreatment on the job.
Over 65% of the perpetrators were bosses. So this is not just a thing that he's experiencing,
this has become quite common. >> If that man
of digital enterprise was it the digital playground or something factory.
If that man was a true leader,
he would have said, let's really impact, he could have approached it in a different way.
This guy lost his head, you just want to be say jump and people jump how high that's
all you want. What kind of, that's not building a business, you're not gonna have success like that.