wearing a hat. Do you see this hat? It's

a cool hat, isn't it? I'll be taking no

further questions. Do you see this right

here? Does this look like fun to you? Do

are you having some sort of hopes of

being able to go to this place? Well,

guess what? Don't have that because this

is actually a horrible, horrible place.

And no fun was had at all. Or apparently

I'm lying to you and it was super

awesome. What you just saw there was

some video from the Plex Offsite. If you

have not heard about the Plex Offsite,

this one is legendary. has gone down as

single-handedly the worst offsite ever.

And if you've been a part of tech,

you've been on some pretty weird

offsites. I know you have because I

have. Uh just on a little side note, one

time on a offsite, our team got together

and said, "Hey, let's go play

paintball." Now, here's the deal. The

two teams that went and played

paintball, we were kind of at odds with

each other, okay? We spent months being

like, "Those sons of always do

this." And then they're like, "Hey,

let's go play paintball." So, of course,

we show up to paintball. I can't wait to

shoot him. And then one person, you

know, this happens every single time.

Everybody gets like the default rifle

from the paintball place that kind of

just, you know, just doesn't really

shoot straight at all. And then one son

of a in that area always comes in.

He's like, "Yo, bro, I brought my own

paintball gun. Hopefully nobody minds."

It's just like, "What the hell is this

gameplay?" Anyways, that same guy shot

him right in the hand. Okay, he was

giving somebody some sort of Seal Team

Six signs. shot him right in the hand.

Got him out. So, I've had my fair share

of kind of these rowdy tech adventures.

You know, in my later life, most of them

just ended at a winery where I had one

too many grape drinks. But anyh who,

we're going to be talking about the most

legendary of all work trips of all time.

This has to be number one. But before we

begin, I got to get the bag.

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Sorry I called you the Diffler.

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So, Merge Cop, I would say it's a little

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yourself.

>> Huh? Would you like some cake?

>> Oh, sure. Thanks.

>> Welcome back. So, this is how the Daily

Beast describes this trip. Survivor

style corporate retreat descends into

hellish nightmare. Of course, the

corporation we're talking about is Plex.

This little uh little uh vacation, this

little retreat's called Plexcon. if

you're not familiar with them. It I I

guess it just kind of looks like

Netflix. I don't I have no idea. Maybe

Amazon Prime is supposed to be the thing

here. I'm not really sure. But honestly,

this this whole story, there's so many

just you just wait. There's so many

funny things. Okay, to start it off, my

favorite part is that they themed this

thing thematically the survivor like

getaway. It's Plexon Survivor style. So

Keith Valerie, the CEO, arrives a day

early and he just goes into like an

inner planning session. I'm going to

become Jeff Prost. He is so excited. Guy

has been watching hundred episodes of

Survivor just really trying to learn the

sass.

>> We're voted out seconds into the game.

You're now on a tribe of people who've

played before. You've never played. Do

you belong out here?

>> You know, he was preparing that specific

line for some employee. The bro was

stoked. And what happens? I got E. coli,

which is maybe the worst thing you could

get possibly ever. Just as people were

arriving on the buses, I was like,

"Uhoh, I lost eight or 10 pounds." They

had a doctor come to me, which

apparently is pretty standard. They

nailed an IV bag to the bed post. You

just got to love it. Dude, the guy was

training so hard. He was so stoked,

spent hundreds of thousands of dollars

on a retreat. So, if you actually go and

watch the corporate video, you will see

that yes, they actually did these

survivor-l like challenges like serving

a a spider or eating a scorpion. Look at

this man. Look at him. He just eat a

scorpion. The best part is Sean

Eldridge, 55 at the time, Plex's head of

business development and content,

volunteered to eat the tarantula. He

said, "I just grabbed it and did it.

Pretty horrible. Not going to lie, those

hairs.

It's so ridiculous." is just like, "All

right, hey, we're we're on we're on team

vacation survivor style. I'm eating a

tarantula." That just cannot that I

don't know about that. I mean, I want to

work with that guy, though. To be fair,

being able to have a teammate that when

something horrible happens, they're just

like, "Yeah, I'll take care, dude. I'll

take care of it. Business development a

little BD, I'll go BD on this spider's

ass." I love you, Sean. So, this next

part's where things kind of get a bit

more funny because if you jump onto the

actual work video, what you're going to

see is a bunch of people on the beach

just kind of getting sandy, kind of

getting yelled at. Now, you can tell

this is where the CEO just was way, way

too much into the survivor concept,

okay? Because he decided that a bunch of

people who work at a tech company, who

probably work in aironditioned office

for 40 plus hours a week, you know what

they need to do? They need to go down to

little Honduras and be able to go on a

beach in 100 degree weather and have an

actual Navy Seal kind of give them a

bunch of drills. I love how the

co-founder Olakowski kind of stated it.

Olowsky acknowledged that this is not a

super fit group in general.

Damn. Damn. Getting just wrecked by the

co-founder and the 100 degree heat and

humidity quickly overwhelmed the

ensemble. to tech workers. The ex-Navy

Seal is like, "We could don it down, no

problems. We get up there and it's hot

and humid and people are passing out." I

don't think he'd ever seen quite such an

unfit group. Just imagine getting

wrecked. Like, you have to go through

this entire process and then after going

through everything, you see the

co-founder, the host, the the new Jeff

props of the trip being like, "Yeah, yo,

uh, Navy Seal, these are the most unfit

people. I don't think they can do

whatever this is. They're p they're

literally passing out on a beach. But

this, of course, is where it gets

better. So they they leave the beach,

right? They got to get off the beach.

Okay. Hey, we're gonna go to somewhere

nice. So they went to this nice little

golf course where hey, the you know, the

Navy Seal did what Navy Seals do best.

All right, everybody drop and get me 40.

Right. They everyone hits the ground.

They got to go and do some sort of, you

know, crawling on the ground or whatever

they're doing. and a girl named Greta

Schlendler, 41, hit the ground on

command and landed directly on a hill of

fire ants. I'm like, "Oh my god, what's

happening?"

Such a sweet What? Why am I on fire? She

recalled. I was wearing shorts, okay? I

jumped up and I had hives and bumps from

bites and it was horrifying and it was

so itchy and the medical area didn't

have any regular antihistamines. They're

like, "Oh, we can shoot some into your

butt cheek." That was a first for me. I

mean, honestly, what a trooper, Greta.

Again, like I actually like as you read

this story, you start to be like, you

know who I really like? I actually kind

of like the Plex employees. Like these

Plex employees, like every single time

someone, you know, this article is like

a hit piece, like, oh yeah, man, this

trip was absolutely hellish. And every

time they write about one, it's just

like, yeah, dude, I ate the tr I just

did it. I just ate the tarantula. The

next guy, oh yeah, I got bit by a bunch

of fire ants. And they're like, "Hey, we

got to put like a needle in your butt."

And they're like, "Oh, okay. That sounds

pretty good. First one for me." Like,

"Who are these people? These people

sound awesome. I want to work with these

people." But the fire ant story actually

gets better. The group's day trip to the

nearby island provided little relief.

Several staff members were left stranded

there after planes failed to return.

Meanwhile, Schlender's antihistamines

had worn off. "They're looking for a

doctor on the island to hook me up with

another shot. I am writhing," she

recalled. A woman in a hot pink shirt

appeared. She put a line into a vein on

the top of my hand so she could

administer it. I'm like, I hope she's a

doctor.

What? What is happening?

I just love the fact that like I recall

it was a hot pink t-shirt and due to the

fact that it was a hot pink t-shirt, I

just did not believe in her being a

medical doctor.

So, you probably also caught the

beginning about people being stranded on

an island. Well, it turns out a lot of

the people got on little airplanes to go

visit a little island. And that little

island, it turns out they ran out of

time and a group of people just had to

go and spend the night on the random

island. Now, all of this that I'm

telling you just sounds pretty bad,

right? Like, it doesn't sound that good,

but here's the funny part. If you go

over to r/linus tech tips, you will see

that Plex took its 120 employees to

Honduras and it turned out into the

Firefest 2.0. But the funny part is is

that the actual employees apparently if

Vansinator can be believed uh they're

saying actually this was an awesome

trip. So I was on this trip and worked

at Plex for eight years. The negatives

are massively overblown. Most of us had

a blast and would go again in a

heartbeat. See, the thing is is that

Plex, all the employees, they're all

remote. And so, every single year, they

just get together for some wild time.

And everything apparently is themed

every single year around some sort of

concept. And this was just the survivor

theme style. And yeah, there's a couple

oopsy daisies. Someone landed on a

little fire antill, but it seems like

everybody had a pretty good time. And

you know the part where some employees

got stuck on an island? Apparently,

those who got stuck on Utilla, which is

the name of the island, had the best

stories the next day and were sharing

photos on Slack the whole night they

were there. Like, they were just having

a blast. Apparently, they're taking one

too many adult beverages and just

enjoying their time. Anyh who, I just

had to talk about this cuz I find it so

funny. I love this idea that the CEO was

just like, I am going to be Survivor. I

am Survivor. and then just immediately

gets demolished. I love the fact that

just some random girl in a hot pink

shirt just comes in and just starts

putting needles in poor Shelender Greta.

Poor Greta's the hand and apparently

that just makes everything go away. And

maybe the best part is that the the

title the survivor style corporate

retreat descends into hellish nightmare

ends with Schlender despite the fire

ants and mystery injection. the and the

island ordeal calls it one of the most

fun trips ever. The 2010s, those years,

they just had such epic work trips. Oh

my gosh. One of one of the times I went,

I had to do a whole entire mountain

biking thing. And here's the deal. You

know, everyone thinks that they can

like, oh, mountain biking, even if you

go on some easy ones, it's not going to

be all that bad. Now, me, I wasn't a

biker. I wasn't much of a biker. And I

discovered something that day. I could

always turn to the left pretty easily. I

couldn't turn right. I was not an ambi

turner. I I didn't even know that was a

thing. I didn't even know that was

possible. And I'm over there taking

these right-hand turns like, "Oh gosh,

I'm going to fall off the bike." Left

hand, I felt so good. It was such a

disaster. I'm like, "Why am I mount? I'm

not a bike. I don't like biking." Okay,

my crotch hurts. My grundle's on fire

and I'm out here in Arizona in like

110°ree biking. What the hell am I doing

with my life? And honestly, one of the

funnest times I've ever had. They just

don't make work trips like they used to.

I swear corporate culture, they're all

they're way too afraid that somebody's

going to get offended or something bad's

going to happen or whatever is going to

happen. So, they just don't plan them

like they used to. This dude, this

survivor style trip, I want to go on the

hellish descent survivor style trip.

That's what I want. That's what I want

to be a part of. All right, that's it. I

just wanted to yap about this for a

little bit because this is honestly the

funniest thing ever. Nobody ever shared

this with me ever during my entire life.

And now I'm just discovering this little

gem. So I figured maybe you might not

know about it either. And this little

gem is pretty funny. I know this is a

little bit outside of my normal work

stuff. Even though you know tech these

tech trips, I mean I did a couple of

these so I felt like it was close

enough. But hey, if you like this kind

of content, let me know. Or if you hate

it also, you can let me know. Hey, the

name is the primogen.