How Niko Confronts Employees When They Do Wrong

the story is about being a boss and how I try to be a boss in a unique way, in my own way, because I didn't go to business school, I went to art school, but here I am, running a company together with Sam Jake which employs five to six or seven more people at a minimum, if not more,

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we are very busy, if someone can make an oil painting of this with the text of our founders, that is the dream, you can search on Google, you just type sam and nico on google, let's ask the engravers in the dungeon if

they

can do that for us, but it has to be oil, man, what oil painting is this, I think this is it, I'm just pointing the knife away from everyone in the package request, fill out craig, what?

Do you do it Craig? You're going to make me cry, yeah, buddy, tell me this is an oil painting, tell me what our founders says on it, Ellie, it says our founders, oh my God, I can't handle it, I grabbed it yesterday On the shelf

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had a lots of fixtures on top, which I tried to avoid a lot of dirt on them, uh, like water had been dripping from the room above from the other unit, so hopefully I have to go clean them. They're not warped or rotted or anything like that, very sad if they were, this belonged to my father's uncle's heirloom and all that, I just bought this one on eBay, but it's expensive, this is my favorite shirt, okay, I say this every day. month a limited 10 day sale once again for this month I need it again this is one of my favorite t-shirts I was thinking hey you know what it's about time we got our cool like metal t-shirt or our digital chordo style d d t-shirts , it was actually designed by Dustin Peterson he's an amazing designer looking up he's really cool he's finally designed literally exactly I don't know what's going on here but we were talking about the origins of the digital runner and I was talking about how a

niko

and I were driving to through the mountain pass out into Los Angeles he saw the word corridor like in this corridor through the mountains and he said, "Oh, I have an idea: I'll draw like a cool rock corridor, except there'll be a skeleton dragon watching everything." and I thought, “Okay, you know what I think, I think you understand me, it really touched me, and I was like, yeah, that's exactly what I'm thinking.

The print is very resistant. I have these really trendy little manga prints here, digital, what's the other one?" thing, yeah, I know, apparently it's a trendy thing these days, yeah, kids, kids with their fidget spinners and they're playing , they also like the prints on the sleeves, but it's on sale right now for 10 days and if you think you'll ever do it, if you want to wear this in your life, it's probably worth buying it right now, you won't have many other opportunities. in the future and by many others I mean zero, no, I just know a dad joke and it's what happens

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the past, present and future on the way to a bar things get a little tense oh, I was visiting the my wife's family last week and they ask me what I do, I do something unique for a living, I have a YouTube channel and I'm lucky enough to have enough support from all of you, it's not just me here, but it's. a whole team of people who support our channel through things like watching, sharing our videos, buying our merchandise, supporting us on Patreon, for example, all of these things contribute. so we can run this channel, not only Sam and I make a living, but Jake Carmichael, Nick Christian Wren, Gabe, we can all eat and rent our apartments, buy video games because of you, so thank you, I digress and I was talking.

Honestly, it wasn't up to the quality I expected, at least initially, with delay and low quality telling me there are some issues so I need to fix it. I need to talk. to the team, but what I have discovered is that if you go up to people and yell at them like that, it could be better, you should do it better, you would say it nicer, but the message is still the same, that won't get results maybe for a or two days people work harder if you're looking over your shoulder that's not how I do things here I need people to be motivated I need people to want to do their best if you have people who want to do their thing The best thing is that you'll get good results, but you won't get people to want to give your best if you yell at them and tell them they are doing a bad job, so I need the vfx team to change their working style change their attitudes and be motivated and do that instead of yelling at them and telling them what they did

wrong

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I need them to tell me what they did

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because change comes from within. The person who wants to change can apply external pressure. someone and they can flex a little, but if I want them to do their best and make those things shine just like I'm trying to make these bows shine, they have to be the ones to discover, explain and change the errors that were causing let them fall behind schedule and fall behind the quality level that I set in the first place, man, tell me, this is an oil painting, tell me what our founders say, ellie, our founders say, oh my god, I can't stand it. touches, says our founders, oh wait, okay, says our founders, yes, we did it, exactly, it's not exactly how we imagined it, but Craig, thanks, it looks like you finished it and you're like in ancient times.

Egypt when the Christians came and wiped out all the faces of all the pharaohs Greg Craig, you motherfucker, you did it, you did it, Craig's request, come on, he was the first to do it, he was the first to do it, now I . I'm not going to lie, that's pretty good, it's pretty, it looks pretty similar, I mean, I almost said, I won't say it, I almost dare anyone to do better than that, man, I dare anyone to do better than that, ren teach peter, peter teach ren. jake don't merge the channels dear god keep them separate looks like you keep some awesome editing d take note brandon keep developing nick make sure no one dies spencer keep those servers running christian make the best deal you can make gabe keep that awesome concept art steve don't them you just stay and I'm drinking alcohol that the street meat guy sent us I don't even know if we can show you drinking probably come on that's why the cameraman can drink hey did you know that?

We are professional pubg players, we are going to a tournament this weekend and playing professionally with some unknown players. The battlegrounds aren't that great, the only way to win is with your support, we'll see how that works. It says that some of the best pubg players in the world will be there, we are going to a pubg tournament and that's why the best players in the world are going to a pubg tournament this weekend, it turns out that we are different people from us and the best players, but we will both be there. What is this tournament?

You will ask yourself. It's the 10-concert festival in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and we're going out to play in a pub with our boy Sean Doris against the best players in the entire world. I don't know how I feel about that. I feel like I'm a pretty good player. I won my first chicken dinner last night two nights ago last week, but it has given me the confidence to go there and compete from three to seven p.m. Eastern Time. Eastern Saturday too and apparently Saturday too, come join us if you're in the area or want to play at a pub if you're not, there's a live stream on Saturday and Sunday from three to seven p.m. m. eastern both days 10g festival.com go check it out yeah it's going to be great I'm really excited I've never played professionally in a tournament before I've never played competitively so let's see if we go pro maybe I can add that to the old pubg player professional resume i like the sound of that i play video games for a living i was explaining some of these frustrations to ivy's family how i was going to fix them and you know, the experience is like what are you going to do is good There are always things that play because I try to be understandable.

I try to be empathetic and I also try to hold people to certain expectations. A team needs a manager. If you have people working with you on something, they need something to guide them and how to do it. but what I don't want to spend my time on is watching them and making sure everything is happening. I want someone to put in the effort and have the desire to do the best job they can. She saw his family asking me like that. How did I learn that? Where did that come from? And that really gave me pause because I didn't learn it in any classes anywhere and it's something that I had an innate sense of when I started making these products coming from my father, who directed. some businesses and talking about the challenges that he faced, I guess those lessons stuck with me or at least those challenges that I was dealing with, people do things for a reason and if you can understand why they do things and address them in that level, it's so much easier to connect with someone, it leads to real change and at least for me not having to be there and then look over your shoulder every day like a teacher because that's not how people work and that It's really not respectful to the people around you and you have to do it. you just have to push them, you have to push them to tell you what's going on and you can't take it.

I think the only negative thing that would come out of this is if someone was working here and didn't want to be here and just had to be here to pay the salary and we're in a position where that's never been the case when someone works with us down the hall. They work with us because they want to be here everyone here wants to be here at any time someone can leave we don't I don't want them to, I like them, they're all here, they're amazing at what they do, but I'm not going to force anyone to stay and I'm not going to hang money on them to stay.

Money only goes so far as a motivator like at the end of the day people need to want to do what they're doing if you're going to be here you're here because you want to be if you're slacking off and you clearly don't want to be here and you should leave and just that attitude changes things so significantly. Oh, I should have been recording. This is all clean. I'm done cleaning it. Unfortunately, it looks like it has some water damage. Is there any water damage? somewhere you can bring it to fix it or clean it better, you probably see that cloudiness, yeah, you see like the scratch here or these bits here where it comes off, I can't tell if it's like scratched lacquer or it's like built up grime it's just an all-purpose cleaner no I can imagine these harmful, non-freezing soft vinyl varnishes starting the conversation by asking them how many shots you did in a day how many shots do you think you should be able to do one day that number lines up with the number you gave me?

Does it align with reality? Probably not. I don't know how many shots I had a day and I know how many shots I think can be done today, but that's not it, it's not for me to say, it's for them to say, so I'm going to ask them why they didn't get those shots, for what wasn't on the schedule, what needs to change and I'll let you find the answers.